Prof Julian Burton 🌈

"I like Demis Roussos, Ange likes Demis Roussos, Tone likes Demis Roussos and Sue would like to hear Demis Roussos."

I'm here to chew gum and shitpost about science and I'm all out of gum. cartoon via @xkcd.com

WE DO THIS NOT BECAUSE IT IS EASY, BUT BECAUSE WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EASY

That’s it lads, 36 years five months and four days, and it’s my last day at the BBC.

People in the public eye are still people. In fact, we don't have the right to expect to be told that she is ill, or the nature of that illness. That we know she has been ill/had cancer means we already know more than we have a right to expect.

Sorry -strong disagree. The right to medical privacy means nothing if you are only going to apply it selectively. A person might choose to be a 'beacon of hope', but it is not right to expect them to. Why should she have to be a beacon of hope and not some other person with cancer?

It is wonderful here. It is also very hot. Like being air fried.

You don't need to memorise Krebs' cycle - only the substrates and enzymes.

I once upset my brother by using a bottle of Laphroaig that he gave me to make christmas cakes. They were tremendous, though. I WOULD DO IT AGAIN!

Yes! When we're celebrating we go and press our noses against the windows

As a Brit, I have seen a lot about this on Bluesky in the last 24 hours. But I have seen nothing from the President denouncing the violence at all. Has he not said anything, or am I in an echo chamber?

(It would be hard to imagine the UK prime minister )saying nothing if an MP were killed.)

Ah but D Dimer is an excellent way to find out if the haematology laboratory is open.

We have electricity AND indoor plumbing these days, you know!

#PathSky 53F with shortness of breath and “ground glass” pulmonary opacity. Not a hard dx, but a spectacular (if very unfortunate) case.

kidney. Oxalate crystals in tubules. Poisoned?

Tar Wars

I am deeply suspicious that all of the people in the leaflet look so happy. Still, it all looks very clean. I suppose that's a bonus - if you are going to get your colon out in front of strangers, you don't want it to get covered in cat hair.

Life has a way of keeping one down to earth. Yesterday I found out I am getting a medal. Today - well, it looks like I need a colonoscopy.

Delighted about the former. More than a little anxious about the latter.

Do raccoons get cryptosporidiosis? It looks as though this one has!

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Well, thanks for the spoiler.

In a sense he is right - if you have a 100% healthy population, prevention is better than cure.

But if you have a population with chronic diseases (and you always will!), then the best way to reduce medication expenditure is to reduce the cost of the medications.

Cadaverine

Russell Jones's Week Moment: My Cancerversary 15 years after the removal from his kidney of the biggest tumour in Stockport, Russell Jones commemorates the agony and reflects on the heroism of the NHS doctors and nurses who saw him through

I did a thing about being chopped in half that none of you will like, so you probably shouldn't read it. Especially not over lunch.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

Autopsies are still absolutely necessary to advance our understanding of disease, and better treat living patients. Full article available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now that's what I call a stock photo!

Color photo of a white lily blossom, overlaid with a black skull and cross bones and text that reads “no lilies for kitties”.

It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold

GO NORTH. You are in a forest.