Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

Noted. We are building maps of cancer mortality rates across Scotland. Wonder what we will find in Helensburgh, Dunoon, Port Glasgow, Gourock, Greenock, Dumbarton....
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Members of the International Student Support team at the University of Glasgow.

Please nominate our amazing International Student Support team for the #WeAreInternational Awards at UKCISA!

They go above and beyond to support our international students. Please vote for the University of Glasgow by 6 Aug 👉 ukcisa.org.uk/our-work/weareinternational-awards

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Only 29% would back Brexit now

BBC Radio Ulster - Assume Nothing, Killer Dust, 1. A Very Strange Event A hush-hush factory opening. No photographs allowed. Oaths of secrecy. What's going on?

A timely reminder of the continued danger posed by Asbestos
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Adoptively transferred Th17 cells cooperate with host B cells to achieve durable tumor immunity Cole et al. report that adoptively transferred, tumor-specific Th17 cells engage host B cells and drive B cell proliferation and differentiation. These Th17 cells require B cells for sustained immunit...

🧵1/ New in @Cancer_Cell: Our lab discovered that Th17 cells must team up with B cells to eliminate tumors, and prevent it from coming back.
🔗 Read: www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...
🧬This unexpected immune duo sparks tumor immunity.
🖼️Image: See schematic Th17/B cell antitumor action!

How Trump Killed Cancer Research Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.

Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research

www.wired.com/story/how-tr...

UK worst in G7 for MMR jab rates, as 30m children worldwide not fully immunised More than 14m children globally have not had single routine jab as figures show less than 90% of those eligible in UK had first MMR last year

The simplest, safest and easiest way to ensure your child does not die from Measles. I very much hope we are not going down the road of MAGA-land www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘Too arrogant to listen’: how welfare bill soured Starmer’s relations with rebel MPs MPs describe receiving veiled deselection threats as No 10 sought to quash revolt before finally backing down

🧵This story on Starmer’s welfare u-turn summarises one of the biggest problems with British politics - whichever party is in power. Ministers simply don’t engage with those affected by their decisions.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Opinion: Stop defending Brexit fantasy and start telling the truth - Farmers Weekly In the years since Brexit, British agriculture has become caught in a peculiar double bind. We’re told to look forward, not back. To embrace change. To

Stop 🛑 defending Brexit fantasy and start telling the truth!!!

The damage began with Brexit — but hasn’t ended there.

Labour doesn’t need to say it’s anti-farming. Its fiscal plans speak for themselves.

Agriculture is being “managed down” — as economists warned.
www.fwi.co.uk/news/opinion...

HPV vaccines linked to drop in cervical cancer deaths From 2013-2015 to 2019-2021, mortality decreased 15% per year.

We have seen a marked decline in cervical cancer deaths in young women in the past decade.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

Everyday painkiller made from plastic — by E. coli Study highlights potential for sustainable synthesis of paracetamol.

Wow! Scientists engineered E. coli to convert plastic waste (PET) into pain medicine paracetamol (acetaminophen or Tylenol) in under 24 hours with up to 92% yield.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#medsky #pharmsky 🧪

‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals Subtle DNA changes in trees demonstrate Charles Darwin’s natural selection – although human help may be needed

Amazing hopeful story - new generations of ash trees are evolving resistance to ash dieback fungus. Evolution at work, at speed
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No, I don't think you're sexy.

Delighted to share our methods collaboration with Sophie Rovers & Evelien Smits on intrapleural injection to model pleural disease in mice:
www.mdpi.com/3332150

BREAKING: The House of Commons has passed the assisted dying bill.

314 MPs voted in favour, while 291 against - a majority of 23

Once there were only 22 condors left on Earth: The LA Zoo just hatched 10 chicks Earlier in June, wildlife enthusiasts were excited over a pair of young bald eagles that flew out of their nest for the first time, hovering high above Big Bear Lake.

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Unbelievable

America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain Other countries may benefit. Science will suffer

and the UK isn't particularly well placed to benefit....
www.economist.com/science-and-...

Please cast your vote!

Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.

A fellow scientist cries for help from an American gulag:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

Had dinner with a French colleague in Lyon last night. He like many of our EU friends wants us back in the EU. He said that the obvious disaster of Brexit at least turned the French rightwing off the idea of Frexit.

This International Nurses Day and every day, we celebrate our amazing nurses 💙

Their dedication and commitment is pivotal to our mission of bringing about a world where everybody can lead longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer. Thank you for all that you do!

Love the graphic

Seems my post made the point

We need to push back against anti vaccine nonsense!

Mark Carney is asked how the lessons of Brexit apply to Trump's tariff policy.

"When you break off or substantially rupture trade relations with major trading partners... you end up with slower growth, higher inflation, higher interest rates, volatility, a lower currency, a weaker economy." ~AA

I’ll be on BBC Panorama tonight speaking to our damning new research on sugar levels in baby pouches.

Parents are being hoodwinked into thinking they’re buying healthy options.

Government needs to step in.

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.

Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.

HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.

99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.

Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

So proud of my compatriot Prof Johanna Joyce - an inspiration to her peers and to future generations of Irish scientists

Duh!!!!

Less red tape and lower costs: How the UK-EU political reset can support cancer research progress worldwide - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News We reflect on how the UK and EU could grasp opportunities for scientific cooperation to promote health and wealth across the continent

Cancer is a global issue and we need to work together to beat it.

This week we published a report outlining how the UK and EU can better support scientific collaboration. We urge policymakers to take our recommendations on board at next month’s UK-EU political summit.

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Why do tumors tend to metastasize to lymph nodes? Super interesting insights into that question, published online in Cancer Discovery today. One of those papers that grabs you at the title.