@Variolator

Once a travelling immunologist. Now a sedentary author. Still a masker. Co-host of @ChalkScribes. https://xitter.cf/t.co/uwLOgaXVxm

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Joined November 2022
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How did a slave, a witchfinder, an aeronautical pioneer, a tanner's son and countless scientists save our lives? Answers between the covers: littlebrown.co.uk/titles/dav…
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Getting into practice to talk about whooping cough vaccines in Lincoln on Tuesday. Always nice to discuss the reason why millions of children haven't died. #vaccines lincolnartscentre.co.uk/even…
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Heading to Yorkshire to talk influenza with Beverley Cafe Sci tomorrow. If someone could distract the train gremlins, it would be much appreciated. #Science #influenza cafescientifique.org/uk/beve…
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Looking forward to heading back to Abingdon next week. Hope the ATOM crowd isn't too tired of my talks by now!
ATOM Society@AtomSociety14 Jan 2025
Just a week to go until our first talk of 2025! With the recent cold weather it's very timely that we'll be hearing from @Variolator about Influenza: from the Spanish Lady to the Winter Sniffle. We hope to see you there!
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How Vaccines Work is finally available in the USA and Canada. So far, paperback and kindle editions only. Audio version to come. It's the sort of book that RFK Jr really doesn't want you to read. amazon.com/dp/B0DS19PXHF

How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You've Wanted to Ask

Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not. Now more than ever, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the accusations and arguments that bloom across the news and internet. With a blend of...

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Finished last year by making fun of Del Bigtree on the Think This Through channel. What else can you do with his fantasy that Bill Gates is going to tell him he's a genius for not being vaccinated except point and laugh? youtube.com/watch?v=0mv9Q0Wv…

Anti Vaxxer Thinks "We're the Chosen Ones" (Del Bigtree's Fever Dream)

For anyone who thinks Del Bigtree might be a sane and reasonable pe...

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One week away from returning to the town I was born in. Hope I'll get a better view of it than I did then.
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How one popular movement gave us whooping cough vaccines and another gave us our whooping cough back. I’ll try to make sense of it at the Barbican Library @barbicanlib 12:30 Tue 8thOct. #vaccines Free tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/whooping-…

Whooping cough vaccines: a century of good science and bad

Join David Miles, author of the new book ‘How Vaccines Work’, for a lunch time talk.

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Many thanks to @plutopia for inviting me as a guest. It was a fun conversation!
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Thanks to @bastardspod for destroying one of my childhood idols. John Aspinall was living the dream by having his own zoo. Then found out how many of his keepers he got eaten. Then found out how he afforded it... did anyone have a healthy idol at 7?
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Congrats to @WeissmanLab and @kkariko. Must be one of the most deserved Nobel Prizes in Physiology and Medicine ever awarded. bbc.co.uk/news/health-669830…
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'Everyday people were then mobilized to fight for the rights of factory owners, logistics companies and other large corporations to murder their workers with a policy of “let ’er rip.”' Ouch. When good intentions meet bad information.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). Inside: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/03/p… #Pluralistic 1/
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What can writers learn from vampires? At 7pm next Wed, folklore expert Deborah Hyde @jourdemayne will meet a band of writers and we’ll find out together. Anyone care to join the fun? #WritingCommunity #writerslife #AuthorsOfTwitter #amwritingfiction eventbrite.co.uk/e/chalk-scr…

Chalk Scribblers meet Deborah Hyde

Let's explore the intersection between folklore, psychology and belief in the supernatural through a Cumbrian vampire.

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If every write up is as pleasant as the one, then this author thing is going to be a doddle. Thank you @wendyg!
Skeptical Inquirer@SkeptInquirer21 Mar 2023
Wendy Grossman chats with David Miles about his new book, "How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You’ve Wanted to Ask" for her new Skeptical Inquirer online column. skepticalinquirer.org/exclus…

David Miles: Origin Stories | Skeptical Inquirer

One of the biggest surprises in medical researcher David Miles’s new book, How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You’ve Wanted to ...

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Really looking forward to hosting this one!
Chalk Scribblers@ChalkScribes7 Mar 2023
Nine hours to go before Cory Doctorow @doctorow joins us online to talk about what Chokepoint Capitalism means for writers. Anyone care to join? #WritingCommunity #publishing #Capitalism #amwriting meetup.com/writetogether/eve…

Chalk Scribblers meet Cory Doctorow, Tue, Mar 7, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup

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Author copies of How Vaccines Work have been received, inspected and approved by the highest authority.
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Looking forward to welcoming this year's first speaker.
Chalk Scribblers@ChalkScribes12 Jan 2023
Would you like to hear the trade secrets of a New York-based literary agent? Hope so, because that’s what Amy Stapp @AmyStappNY of Wolfson @WolfsonLiterary will be regaling us with next Wed. All welcome. #writersoftwitter #WritingCommunity #publishing meetup.com/writetogether/eve…

Chalk Scribblers meet Amy Stapp, Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup

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God bless us every one.
Pam Ayres MBE@PamAyres20 Dec 2022
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Also hope the article is useful to non-UK public health people to understand what’s happening here & why Strep A has been making headlines (8 children have died from it recently in England & Wales) theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Strep A is circulating in the UK – and so are myths about what’s causing that | Devi Sridhar

We don’t know yet what’s behind the spate of strep A deaths, but we can do more to protect children, says Edinburgh University chair of global public health Prof Devi Sridhar

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Our final event of this year. Should be a fun one!
Chalk Scribblers@ChalkScribes30 Nov 2022
Want to know about children’s picture books? Or young adult books? Something in between? Join us at 7pm next Wed when Mattie Whitehead @Mattie2507 of Little Tiger @LittleTigerUK tells us what writers need to know. #writingcommunity #amwriting #AskEditor meetup.com/writetogether/eve…
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