A female kakapo being held during daytime. Credit: Andrew Digby
Yesterday we started #kakapo artificial insemination for the season. We do this to help maintain genetic diversity, with a potential additional benefit of improving fertility. We inseminated Esperance, who mated naturally a few nights ago. #conservation #parrots #birds
Public buildings will be increasingly important as cool, safe gathering places during heatwaves and other extreme weather events, which people (mostly the global rich) are making more frequent and severe through climate change, largely by burning fossil fuels.
h/t @chrisbaraniuk.com
Global Health Bioethics Network Webinar: Bioethics and Conflict. Dec 9, 2025 09:00 AM GMT.
Speakers: my colleague Ms Napat Khirikoekkong ,@moru-mip.bsky.social, and Prof Dr Thalia Arawi (AUB-AUBMC).
Register here:
medsci.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This is absolutely four-alarm-fire climate news. Astonishing, that this is the first time I've seen it.
now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see
One time I felt bad for a wheelchair-using colleague who had to navigate a poster session where the boards were "accordioned" making the aisle less than 2m wide...
Photo taken at the Neues Museum in Berlin (which luckily has elevators!). It shows lots of stairs both left and right and several floors with people walking up. Some windows at the top.
Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences?
When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
/
Have yourself a Hieronymus Bosch Christmas.
This is an insightful discussion about using LLM AI for science communication (please don't). Among the *many* problems, it can't distinguish correlation from causation. By @em-underwood.bsky.social with Abigail Eisenstadt
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
Went trick or treating as myself last night. Because nothing seems to terrify some of the locals as much as an immigrant.
The National Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Summit 2025 marks the beginning of a collective national voice advocating for patients, their families and members of the public in health research.
Karachi, 1st Nov, 8-10.30 am GMT, join online.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/national-p...
How do you see AI fitting into the future of PPI storytelling? And what safeguards or opportunities do you think matter most?
Read the latest IPPIN blog post from Patrick Toland - 'Patient Voices in the Age of AI: Opportunity or Visibility Theft?'
intppinetwork.wixsite.com/ippin/post/p...
The need for better genAI literacy is incredibly urgent jfc. Also sea safety, apparently. (I check several sites before relying on them for tide times to account for discrepancies and errors!).
This is also a disability justice issue.
Are you a researcher working in infectious diseases or #AMR, from a social science discipline (broadly interpreted?). INAMRSS has 3 great opportunities for you!
www.globalstrategylab.org/events/open-...
Abstract submission open now - move fast!
One in six bacterial infections worldwide are now resistant to antibiotics, WHO warns www.bmj.com/content/391/...
‘Knitting had been a safe way to soften the search for new friends each time I took up residence in a new city.’ Susan M. Strawn
🧶
Every morning waking up to news about how migration is Bad, Very Bad, Very Bad for the UK. That it's ruining this country. Picture it like water from the roof of a cave, falling on the head of every migrant who's made their home here: drip, drip, drip, every second, for years, making a hole...
I was just wondering how you’re doing, having seen the news updates! That’s a shame.
This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today.
What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up.
There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.
We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long.
His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..
When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
This thread has some excellent book suggestions! Everything I wanted to suggest was already there, so I now have a massive new list of fun distracting sounding books to listen to/read. Thanks!
PEM warrants recognition as a neurological pathology resulting from metabolic and immune dysregulation (3). Approximately 48 hr after a triggering event—physical, cognitive, or emotional—patients experience what is colloquially termed a “crash.” This involves a surge in neurological symptoms that may render them unable to function: profound fatigue, cognitive slowing, hypersomnia, photophobia, phonophobia, tinnitus, nausea, headaches, migraines, executive dysfunction, word-finding difficulties, working memory impairment, pain, and worsening dysautonomia with orthostatic intolerance, mood disorders. Although these symptoms may be present at baseline, they rapidly escalate in the disabling cacophony of the “crash”. Many patients report diurnal variation, with symptoms peaking midday and easing somewhat towards night, repeating daily until resolution, suggesting a neuroimmune process with a circadian rhythm. Patients often experience disablement until the episode resolves over days or weeks.
Great to see a UK GP writing a BMJ e-letter like this:
"Research must consider Post Exertional Malaise as a neurological event underpinning fluctuating cognitive dysfunction in Long Covid"
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
#PEM #LongCovid
