Drew

Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains - Nature Medicine Pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry reveals the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in human kidney, liver and brain tissue samples from 2016 and 2024, with higher proportions found ...

Something, something—neuroplasticity (I stole that joke): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Examining the Emotional and Physical Health Impact in Users of Open-Source Automated Insulin Delivery and Sources of Support: Qualitative Analysis of Patient Narratives Background: Although commercially developed automated insulin delivery (AID) systems have recently been approved and become available in a limited number of countries, they are not universally availab...

In more positive news: new (old) paper is finally published! Another one with the OPEN diabetes team on automated insulin delivery, examining patient narratives on the emotional and physical impacts of these devices.
Read it here: doi.org/10.2196/48406

Deleted both TikTok and Twitter yesterday; the former because the algorithm has clearly shifted to something different, and the latter because I refuse to use a platform led by Elon Musk. Hoping that more scientists continue move to Bluesky and develop a community here.

Gonna set the tone for my profile here and link my all time favourite paper by Bressloff et al.—an investigation into the mathematics and neural architecture that underpin visual hallucinations: www.math.utah.edu/~bresslof/pu...