Set your reminders for the 2024 #XmasLectures, supported by @CGI_global! 🗓️ 29, 30 and 31 December 📺 BBC Four and iPlayer ⏰ 9pm In the series, Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 will explore the surprising science of food – from production to digestion. Find out more: rigb.org/christmas-lect…

Can genetics affect our iron levels and what impact can this have on our health? Elias Allara and colleagues explored how the body controls iron and highlight how having too much or too little can negatively impact health Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/h5yk3sfb

🙌A fantastic postdoc opportunity with George Davey Smith and Gibran Hemani in the MRC IEU‼️ I've thoroughly enjoyed working with George and Gib over the past few years and highly recommend this position to anyone interested in genetic epidemiology/MR!

1. What are the benefits and risks of GLP1? Our new study in @naturemedicine comprehensively maps all the benefits and risks of GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1) (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound). By Yan Xie, Taeyoung Choi and me 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4159…

"These are our patients, and we need to give them the best care possible.” Medics are taught about rare diseases, but not something as important as how to care for trans patients. This needs to change, says Luke Flower, who received the Association of Anaesthetists Kathleen Ferguson Award for

Speculation about disability benefits can be deeply hard on your mental health. If you’re struggling, please consider talking to a trusted person or Samaritans. You can call them for free 24/7 on 116 123 or email [email protected] You are not alone. samaritans.org/how-we-can-hel…

I just asked my love to be my Valentine forever and ever after letting him know he just completed me by both equipping me with the p-adic (non-Archimedean) ultrametric and extending my domain to \mathbb{Q}_p. What do you think he said?

this is why i dont trust people in STEM

The DWP have responded to my FoI request. Their figures indicate that 87% of clamants currently receiving PIP daily living component at the standard rate, and 13% of claimants receiving the enhanced rate, are likely to lose their entitlement if the "score 4" changes go ahead.

On 25th April 2025 Liz Kendall 's Department for Work and Pensions published the new guide on Access to Work funding. In multiple categories of support the govt is proposing to pay below minimum wage. Not just not covering the extra 31% cost of NIC / pension / leave, but a gross total of £12 phr

🧵 Main takeaways Part 2 Work & Pensions Committee on "Pathways to work..." proposals: Headlines ➡️ Health of Working Age pop. has genuinely declined ➡️ Similar welfare cuts/reforms failed to increase employment & worsened claimants health ➡️ Multi-discipline approach needed

New pre-print: "Mendelian Randomization with longitudinal exposure data: simulation study and real data application" led by Janne Pott is online: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…. Brief thread:

Are you a community nurse in the UK? Our researchers are seeking to understand how much of your work supports people in their last year of life and how often care is deferred or cancelled. Share your input below: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9X… #CommunityNursing #EndOfLifeCare

David Lammy furiously confronts Priti Patel as the Conservatives refuse to condemn Netanyahu for his war crimes - including the starvation of children in Gaza. Grim scenes in the House of Commons. Just when you think the Tories can’t get any lower… along comes Priti Patel.

Join us! We are recruiting for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics, on a fixed-term basis for ten months. PI: Professor Gesine Reinert Area: Characterising models for networks ➡️ Find out more about the role and how to apply: tinyurl.com/mhbhwfcb

These fossilized sea lilies (crinoids) were found in the Moroccan desert, preserved in stunning detail. Photo: Crimeteo Mbakri

i love you. i love you. i’ll write it in waves. in skies. in my heart. you’ll never see, but you will know. i’ll be all the poets, i’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you.

i brought ~300 books and basically no home furnishings to my relationship. i assumed whomever i ended up with would surely have home furnishings and fewer books, but fiancé also came with ~300 books and no home furnishings. assortative mating is so cursed sometimes.

🎉 Huge congratulations to Amy Mason – voted Most Popular Mathematician in I’m a Mathematician 2025! 🏆 She’s taken part in 28+ live Chats, sharing her work, challenges, and passion for maths with students across the UK. 💬 Read more about it here: tinyurl.com/mezbkhdk

Entomologist here 🙋‍♂️🤓🐜 Great question! It may seem surprising that the scientific community could miss an entire bug species after all this time, especially when it’s THIS big. The answer might surprise you more 👀 Let’s dive in 👇🧵 (1/?)