Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times Confidential health data has been exposed online on dozens of occasions, a Guardian investigation can reveal, raising questions about the safeguarding of patient records by one of the UK’s flagship medical research projects. UK Biobank, which holds the medical records of 500,000 British volunteers, is one of the world’s most comprehensive stores of health information and is credited with driving breakthroughs in cancer, dementia and diabetes research. But scientists approved to access Biobank’s sensitive data appear to have sometimes been cavalier about its security. Continue reading...

Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online

Not purely about this - but it's a mind-boggling question

‘A paradigm change’: black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang — Guardian US Sighting by James Webb space telescope of black hole with sparse halo of material could upend theories of the universe

@hannahdevlin.bsky.social Brilliant article. One observation: We exist in a physics “light cone“ & are sequestered from other light-based information in the universe. Have you ever interviewed anyone as to how this detracts from our present understanding of the universe?

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Does the UK have a mental health overdiagnosis problem? Mental ill health has been cited as a factor in the welfare overhaul, and experts agree it has worsened since the pandemic

Good @hannahdevlin.bsky.social piece teasing apart different issues & perspectives below the surface of simplistic headline claims of mental health 'overdiagnosis'

Very few people with a serious stake in this debate suggesting benefit cuts will help anything www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Thanks and great to chat to you too! ESA sent me the paper :)

Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled on UK volunteers to tackle alcohol misuse Exclusive: Scientists at UCL hope one-off dose of powerful hallucinogenic could help drinkers reduce intake

A psychedelic drug, DMT, is being tested as a novel way to reduce problematic alcohol consumption, in an ongoing study led by Prof Ravi Das and Prof Jeremy Skipper @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social. Article by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Thanks! It was the second bit that I wondered about - as in is dead virus through pasteurisation very different from inactivated virus in a vaccine? I assume probably yes (and that in this case you're drinking it), but was curious.

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Question for virologists/immunologists: would drinking milk containing avian flu virus (as in the US public right now) inoculate you? Is anyone investigating this or is it obvious that it wouldn't have any effect?

I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily

More cosmological battles in my feed pls

There’s been quite an influx here overnight! The great @severincarrell.bsky.social has made a starter pack of Guardian journalists and columnists here go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX

I cover science for Guardian and would love to be added. Also just what I was looking for so thanks for making the list!

The appointment of Robert F Kennedy has horrified public health experts. Here are his three most dangerous ideas | Devi Sridhar He says his goal is to “Make America healthy again”. But behind the laudable slogan there’s a morass of conspiracy theories, says Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University

Characteristically evidence-based piece from @profdevisridhar.bsky.social on the most egregious of RFK Jr's views.

A dangerous anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist who promotes raw milk (E.coli or salmonella, anyone?) & has claimed "autism comes from vaccines" 😳

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Cop29 live: UN secretary general calls on G20 leaders to rescue stalled climate talks António Guterres says succesful outcome at Cop29 is still ‘within reach’ but only with ‘leadership’ from world’s most powerful countries

Today's #COP29 liveblog up and running ....

- UN secretary general calls on G20 leaders to rescue stalled climate talks

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‘First instinct is to swim’: my trip on a zero-gravity flight with an Esa astronaut The sensation of weightlessness is extraordinary as I join Rosemary Coogan for a breathtaking glimpse of life in space

I wrote about floating with astronauts on a zero gravity flight www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

📢The Guardian is now officially on Bluesky

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So you want more science journalism in your feed? Follow @hannahdevlin.bsky.social (Guardian) @whippletom.bsky.social / @rhysblakely.bsky.social (Times) and @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social (Nature).

‘First instinct is to swim’: my trip on a zero-gravity flight with an Esa astronaut The sensation of weightlessness is extraordinary as I join Rosemary Coogan for a breathtaking glimpse of life in space

I wrote about floating with astronauts on a zero gravity flight www.theguardian.com/science/2024...