THREE TWEETS: 1. The situation in India is very bad and worsening. theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…… It is frankly insane that Bangladesh and Pakistan are on the UK travel red list countries but India is not. gov.uk/guidance/trans…

2. Globally we are back in a pandemic that is as bad as it has been and no sign of peaking yet. Deaths are trailing cases by a few weeks as expected but they are also rising steeply - this isn't just more testing or ok because we have vaccines & better treatments.

3. Out of control covid anywhere is a danger everywhere. We need to address vaccine inequality ASAP. This is urgent - morally for global fairness & self-interestedly to stop future UK waves. We'll be covering this in Friday's Independent SAGE briefing - join us!

Heartbreaking scenes from India 🇮🇳 A reminder of the devastation this virus can wreak. And that we must end this pandemic now. We cannot accept situations like India still happening. Vaccines can do it. Vaccines for all..quickly

Italians 🤝 Portuguese Defeating Fascism on April 25 #25Aprile #25Abril

Utrecht University's new vision for academic recognition and rewards is amazing. My favorite two points are "openness in all domains" and "quality over quantity" under a team approach. No impact factors. We could do this. uu.nl/en/research/op…

Types of HIV papers because I couldn't resist (h/t Benjamin Mazer XKCD Comic)

Clotting events related to the Astra Zeneca vaccine in 280,000 people in Denmark & Norway, just published The BMJ Excess rate (still rare): venous thrombosis (11/1000,000 vaccinations; cerebral venous (CVST) (2.5/100,000 vaccinations) Benefit >> risk bmj.com/content/373/bm…

LONG THREAD on B.1.617.2 & latest PHE data covering: 1) latest tech report on B.1.617.2 (aka "India" variant) 2) vaccine efficacy against B.1.617.2 3) consequences for roadmap 4) avoidability... or not.

Not gonna lie - today’s @PHE_uk update made for pretty depressing reading. Let’s see how this develops with more data and analysis. Importantly, this table shows the huge effect two doses has against this variant, and we mustn’t lose sight of that. The vaccines are working well.

THREAD on England short term Covid outlook: Thread on some of the implications of latest SAGE SPI-M models about English roadmap, step 4 & Delta. TLDR: medium term v uncertain but in short term expect hospital admissions to keep rising.

"#Nanotechnology-based #healthproducts are providing innovative solutions in health technologies and the #pharmaceutical field, responding to unmet clinical needs. However.." #GapAnalysis #Regulatory #Method #Physicochemicalcharacterisation #Immunotoxicity

It's been a week since the Lateral Flow Test, the 'cornerstone' of the rapid testing programme in the UK, was comprehensively trashed by the US Government's regulator U.S. FDA. "Stop Using Innova" was the message. Little has happened in the UK - but plenty in Ireland. 1/8

A comparison of case rates and hospitalizations at the beginning of the second and the current wave. (We can't do this for cases in the first wave as mass testing didn't exist.) A short thread.

Congratulations to Hannah Kinvig who passed her PhD viva with minor corrections this afternoon. Innovative work to integrate experimental and computational approaches for the prediction of drug-drug interactions. HIV, TB, Hep C and leprosy drugs including RIF, DTG, ATV/r and more.

Keen to share your research about the clinical #pharmacology of antiviral therapy? The abstract submission deadline for the International #ANTIVIRALPK Workshop is extended until 1 July 2021. View the topics below and submit here >> bit.ly/3xQ1scE #HIV #ViralHepatitis

I am one of a number of external examiners at the University of Liverpool University of Liverpool who have written this Open Letter to members of the University Senate, expressing our concerns about actions taken by senior management, likely to imperil academic standards at the university.

New blog post: Some problems in the dataset of a large study of Ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19 steamtraen.blogspot.com/2021/07/Some-p… Ties in with theguardian.com/science/2021/j… by @MelissaLDavey and grftr.news/why-was-a-majo… by Jack Lawrence

We have a postdoc position open in polymers and biomaterials science! We are looking for folks with experience with polymer synthesis and soft matter characterization. Please reach out to me directly by email.