David morrison
@dcmorr.bsky.social
vaccines please. Striving to drive forward progressive social change. We need diversity, equality and inclusion. Pronoun advocate. “Woke” just isn’t enough.
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"An old saying about such follies is that “six months in the lab can you save you an afternoon in the library”; here we may have wasted a trillion dollars and several years to rediscover what cognitive science already knew."
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.
garymarcus.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
"An old saying about such follies is that “six months in the lab can you save you an afternoon in the library”; here we may have wasted a trillion dollars and several years to rediscover what cognitive science already knew."
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
Wakley, the editor of the Lancet, hated John Snow www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
John Snow
Physician, epidemiologist, and anaesthetist. Born in York, UK, on March 15, 1813,
he died in London on June 16, 1858, aged 45 years.
www.thelancet.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Wakley, the editor of the Lancet, hated John Snow www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
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Centuries ahead of its time, Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624) depicts figures made from a range of objects, mostly abstract — cubes, rings, squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, and braided hair.
More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...
More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Centuries ahead of its time, Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624) depicts figures made from a range of objects, mostly abstract — cubes, rings, squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, and braided hair.
More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...
More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...
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#SundayReads: Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli, Montaigne, and W. E. B. Du Bois: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/machiavelli-and-the-emergence-of-the-private-study
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#SundayReads: Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli, Montaigne, and W. E. B. Du Bois: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/machiavelli-and-the-emergence-of-the-private-study
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Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
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Our starting point
SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor
The emerging SARS-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) threatens public health. Hoffmann and
coworkers show that SARS-CoV-2 infection depends on the host cell factors ACE2 and
TMPRSS2 and can be blocked by a cl...
www.cell.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Our starting point
SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@adamtooze.bsky.social have you been following the GISAID saga? A very important genetic database for virologists and epidemiologists tracking covid, data flow has been cut recently. www.science.org/content/arti...
The ‘invented persona’ behind a key pandemic database
GISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes. Peter Bogner, its perplexing creator and overseer, may be jeopardizing its future
www.science.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
@adamtooze.bsky.social have you been following the GISAID saga? A very important genetic database for virologists and epidemiologists tracking covid, data flow has been cut recently. www.science.org/content/arti...
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In case you missed it.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
The ‘invented persona’ behind a key pandemic database
GISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes. Peter Bogner, its perplexing creator and overseer, may be jeopardizing its future
www.science.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In case you missed it.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Can't emphasize how damaging this is. A single non-scientist—Peter Bogner—holds all power & makes all decisions at GISAID & provides no justifications for any of them, except blatantly false ones.
He has that power because he conned rich & powerful people into giving it to him. Enough.
He has that power because he conned rich & powerful people into giving it to him. Enough.
I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear:
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Can't emphasize how damaging this is. A single non-scientist—Peter Bogner—holds all power & makes all decisions at GISAID & provides no justifications for any of them, except blatantly false ones.
He has that power because he conned rich & powerful people into giving it to him. Enough.
He has that power because he conned rich & powerful people into giving it to him. Enough.
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
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Zone Fever Is Creating Future Victims Who Don't Know They're Victims Yet.
We are witnessing a national reconfiguration of UK critical infrastructure: a country carved up into corporate-governed patchworks of feudal territories and tax havens.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
We are witnessing a national reconfiguration of UK critical infrastructure: a country carved up into corporate-governed patchworks of feudal territories and tax havens.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Zone Fever Is Creating Future Victims Who Don't Know They're Victims Yet.
Zone Fever Is The Corporate Coup Britain Isn’t Talking About
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Zone Fever Is Creating Future Victims Who Don't Know They're Victims Yet.
We are witnessing a national reconfiguration of UK critical infrastructure: a country carved up into corporate-governed patchworks of feudal territories and tax havens.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
We are witnessing a national reconfiguration of UK critical infrastructure: a country carved up into corporate-governed patchworks of feudal territories and tax havens.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
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That chart is well worth studying. Share of daily transactions taking place in cash around the world. As an Australian, I’m very much used to cashless everything by now. I’m still totally against going fully cashless.
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
That chart is well worth studying. Share of daily transactions taking place in cash around the world. As an Australian, I’m very much used to cashless everything by now. I’m still totally against going fully cashless.
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The Fiji coral spawning video has dropped. Son says this is the best spawning in 8 years. Coral normally spawns in the dark of night but this happy reef is so fecund it carries on spawning in the daylight! Give it a like on YouTube if you back marine conservation!
youtu.be/t4RKai4e2h0?...
youtu.be/t4RKai4e2h0?...
Coral Spawning 2025
YouTube video by Drawaqa Marine Conservation Trust
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The Fiji coral spawning video has dropped. Son says this is the best spawning in 8 years. Coral normally spawns in the dark of night but this happy reef is so fecund it carries on spawning in the daylight! Give it a like on YouTube if you back marine conservation!
youtu.be/t4RKai4e2h0?...
youtu.be/t4RKai4e2h0?...
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I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear:
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear:
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
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📈Latest England data show 145 deaths involving COVID-19 in w/ending 24 Oct 2025:
📈Large increase since August (weekly deaths were 47).
🛑Stop treating COVID-19 as closed chapter.
🤷The virus hasn’t gone away.
🤦Neither has the responsibility to protect the vulnerable.
💉Improve COVID-19 vaccine access.
📈Large increase since August (weekly deaths were 47).
🛑Stop treating COVID-19 as closed chapter.
🤷The virus hasn’t gone away.
🤦Neither has the responsibility to protect the vulnerable.
💉Improve COVID-19 vaccine access.
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
📈Latest England data show 145 deaths involving COVID-19 in w/ending 24 Oct 2025:
📈Large increase since August (weekly deaths were 47).
🛑Stop treating COVID-19 as closed chapter.
🤷The virus hasn’t gone away.
🤦Neither has the responsibility to protect the vulnerable.
💉Improve COVID-19 vaccine access.
📈Large increase since August (weekly deaths were 47).
🛑Stop treating COVID-19 as closed chapter.
🤷The virus hasn’t gone away.
🤦Neither has the responsibility to protect the vulnerable.
💉Improve COVID-19 vaccine access.
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COVID-19 vaccines can protect against severe illness - but access policies vary widely across countries.
Global comparisons of vaccine eligibility criteria suggest that the UK is not doing as much as it could, as it should!
#Vaccine4All #LongCOVID
Please sign and share
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Global comparisons of vaccine eligibility criteria suggest that the UK is not doing as much as it could, as it should!
#Vaccine4All #LongCOVID
Please sign and share
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Sign the Petition
Make COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Available in the UK - Free of Charge
www.change.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
COVID-19 vaccines can protect against severe illness - but access policies vary widely across countries.
Global comparisons of vaccine eligibility criteria suggest that the UK is not doing as much as it could, as it should!
#Vaccine4All #LongCOVID
Please sign and share
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Global comparisons of vaccine eligibility criteria suggest that the UK is not doing as much as it could, as it should!
#Vaccine4All #LongCOVID
Please sign and share
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
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Many Canadians have no idea how high tuberculosis rates are in the Inuit population - hundreds of times the non-Indigenous Canadian-born rate.
Globally this remains an illness of poverty and marginalization and that's true in one of the richest countries on earth.
Globally this remains an illness of poverty and marginalization and that's true in one of the richest countries on earth.
"Screening clinics for #tuberculosis opening up in Inukjuak, Que., amid rising cases across Nunavik" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Screening clinics for tuberculosis opening up in Inukjuak, Que., amid rising cases across Nunavik | CBC News
The Inuulitsivik Health Centre, which provides services to Nunavimmiut on the Hudson Bay coast, said it will be setting up mobile clinics in Inukjuak from Nov. 3 to Nov. 28. After that, IHC said each ...
www.cbc.ca
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Many Canadians have no idea how high tuberculosis rates are in the Inuit population - hundreds of times the non-Indigenous Canadian-born rate.
Globally this remains an illness of poverty and marginalization and that's true in one of the richest countries on earth.
Globally this remains an illness of poverty and marginalization and that's true in one of the richest countries on earth.
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I can’t wait for the ADL to declare that Satmar Hasids are confused & don’t understand their Jewish identity.
But on a serious note: a significant number of Hasidic Jews are anti-Zionist and want a holy land where Jews Christians and Muslims live side by side in peace. And look who they chose.
But on a serious note: a significant number of Hasidic Jews are anti-Zionist and want a holy land where Jews Christians and Muslims live side by side in peace. And look who they chose.
🚨 BIG 🚨Satmar Ahronim sect is endorsing Mamdani for mayor, two sources familiar confirmed.
Mamdani is expected to meet with Satmar leaders in Williamsburg this afternoon.
Here is more background ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...
Mamdani is expected to meet with Satmar leaders in Williamsburg this afternoon.
Here is more background ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...
Why Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
The Satmar Hasidic community’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor shows the broad coalition built by the democratic socialist and Muslim.
forward.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I can’t wait for the ADL to declare that Satmar Hasids are confused & don’t understand their Jewish identity.
But on a serious note: a significant number of Hasidic Jews are anti-Zionist and want a holy land where Jews Christians and Muslims live side by side in peace. And look who they chose.
But on a serious note: a significant number of Hasidic Jews are anti-Zionist and want a holy land where Jews Christians and Muslims live side by side in peace. And look who they chose.
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Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
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'Vaccination continues to help protect against severe illness, hospitalisations and deaths arising from COVID-19,' according to @ukhsa.bsky.social, source: ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/26/w...
So, please support this petition and share on your social media networks.
👉 www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
So, please support this petition and share on your social media networks.
👉 www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
November 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
'Vaccination continues to help protect against severe illness, hospitalisations and deaths arising from COVID-19,' according to @ukhsa.bsky.social, source: ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/26/w...
So, please support this petition and share on your social media networks.
👉 www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
So, please support this petition and share on your social media networks.
👉 www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
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This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic
Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet.
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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We can’t pay air traffic controllers during the shutdown, making us less safe, but we can send $40 billion to bail out Argentina.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
October 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
We can’t pay air traffic controllers during the shutdown, making us less safe, but we can send $40 billion to bail out Argentina.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
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We've all just agreed to forget that Liz Truss was ever Prime Minister.
The biggest takeaway from this graph is that six of the seven most unpopular prime ministers since records began are *the last six prime ministers we've had*
Does this look like the politics of a functional democracy?
Does this look like the politics of a functional democracy?
October 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We've all just agreed to forget that Liz Truss was ever Prime Minister.