Joshua Sharp @JoshuaSharp@qoto.org

Oh dear, it's Raoult.

https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/13/plos-flags-nearly-50-papers-by-controversial-french-covid-researcher-for-ethics-concerns/

Out today, my short piece in Nature Medicine about what scientists can do as authors to combat misinformation and disinformation about their own work.

https://rdcu.be/c1x7X

Notorious lickspittle Lindsey Graham doesn't seem to understand that we don't license expression in this country, and the reason for that is made plain by his suggestion: it would be used to punish expression that upsets the government.

📜 Our latest collaboration out in @embojournal!

In efforts led by Dr Ben Wang and Dr Julie Takagi, we identify Core 2 glycans as inhibitors of toxigenic conversion by a virulence-encoding phage in Vibrio cholerae.

#GlycoTime
💰 support: @snsf_ch & @UniBasel
https://embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2022111562

Big day for vaccines? HUGE day for vaccines. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-merck-vaccine-combo-cut-melanoma-recurrence-by-44-study-2022-12-13/

Okay. Migrated from masthead.social to mastodon.social. Meanwhile, here's the Substack on my decision to leave Twitter.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter

The toughest thing about proving white collar crime, as I've learned from @Popehat is proving intent. I'd imagine that suspects having a groupchat called "Wirefraud" must make prosecutors positively *giddy*. (ht: @annmlipton ) https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/ftx-s-inner-circle-had-a-secret-chat-group-called-wirefraud-20221213-p5c5sx

@richardsever

Richard, with the increasing migration of science Twitter to sites like Mastodon, what are the prospects for adding a Mastodon sharing option, and more importantly, adding Mastodon to Altmetric article metrics in bioRxiv and medrXiv? For obvious reasons, supporting science dissemination by sustainable, non-commercial social media sources seems more important than ever.

@radleybalko does more than any other journalist to debunk BS about crime and law enforcement. Here, he has the goods on the propagandists who deceitfully say a Vermont city is proof that police reforms aren't working: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/is-burlington-vermont-suffering-a

We have an exhaustive timeline exploring how $5 million in Temporary Assistance For Needy Families funds went to build the volleyball facilities at USM just as Brett Favre's daughter began a volleyball career there.

It includes dozens more text messages: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/27903/mississippi-welfare-scandal-timeline-brett-favre-and-the-volleyball-stadium

The Mississippi Ethics Commission moved a step closer today to declaring that the Mississippi Legislature is NOT a "public body" and therefore is not subject to the Open Meetings Act, a vital transparency law.

@NickJudin@twitter.com reports:
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29592/ethics-commission-to-affirm-mississippi-legislature-not-a-public-body

Today is Pearl Harbor Day in the U.S., a “day that will live in infamy” for the unprovoked attack by the Empire of Japan upon U.S. forces stationed in Hawaii. But it also marked a dark turning point for Japanese Americans, who overnight became the “enemy.” (1/4)

MDOC announced that Timothy Hudspeth (pictured) and James Talley died in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., on Jan. 21, 2020. An inmate at the time says that days before, gang members beat them for hours.

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29568/the-gangs-run-the-prison-witness-disputes-official-parchman-death-count