Merve Tepe, PhD

Several Psychiatric Disorders Share The Same Root Cause, Study Shows Researchers recently discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis.

www.sciencealert.com/several-psyc...

Increased risk of some neurological and psychiatric disorders remains New diagnoses of disorders including psychosis, dementia, seizures and ‘brain fog’ remain commoner two years after COVID-19 than after other respiratory infections, whereas the increased risks of

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-08...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social Please can you question Streeting on the research showing that Covid causes mental health problems. There is not over diagnosis of conditions like Autism, we now have experts who can identify it. So many are struggling and Labour are ignoring children suffering neurological

Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia - Nature Medicine Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.

A new Nature Medicine study analyzing health records from >100 million people in the US offers compelling evidence that reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ,the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles may contribute to dementia risk.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From ancient Egypt, more than 3,000 years ago ~ this wooden cosmetic spoon with handle in the shape of a biting, running jackal (ca 1539-1292 BC)
opencollection.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/4065

DecodeME: the biggest ME/CFS study ever - ME/CFS Science The first results of DecodeME are in, the largest research project ever undertaken on myalgicContinue readingDecodeME: the biggest ME/CFS study ever

If #MECFS were a war, it seems that the brain would be its main battlefield. mecfsscience.org/decodeme-the...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

We, globally, are using ever-more electricity and renewables are supporting the rise, adding to rather than replacing use of fossil fuels (overall there's barely a decline, and there was an increase in the US and EU)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Strategies for engineering domesticated and undomesticated human microbes Human-associated microbes hold immense therapeutic potential, yet most species remain undomesticated due to cultivation barriers and limited genetic t…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Behold the turtle 🐢 He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. " J. Conant

Yeah, me too.

Duh 🙄🤐

A platter of chicken street tacos and vegetables with one on a plate, and a bottle of orange soda

I'm celebrating Flag Day and the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary with the most perfect meal for today: Chicken tacos and orange soda with no ice. 😃

Omg, this is so cool..hope we can make a trip to Eastern Turkey with you..i believe that part of Turkey is the best..

And thanks for the story about the İbrahim Tatlises song and glad you liked the Gates of Istanbul 😊

Omg, this is so cool..hope we can make a trip to Eastern Turkey with you..i believe that part of Turkey is the best..

And thanks for the story about the İbrahim Tatlises song and glad you liked the Gates of Istanbul 😊

"Behold the turtle 🐢 He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. " J. Conant

Grief is proof of ove . Anger is proof of care. Fatigue is proof of effort. You are not broken-you are alive. @yourbeautifullife Michell C. Clark

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YouTube video by Loreena McKennitt - Topic The Gates of Istanbul

Oh and before i forget, I love this one and wanna share with you.

It's the song " The Gates of Istanbul" by Loreena McKennitt
(Canadian singer-songwriter)

Here you go 👇 and hope you enjoy it ☺️🫡

youtu.be/QXbQbzzVs0A?...

Omg, you really know Turkish people or culture ☺️

I'd rather listen to a song by Ceylan Ertem or Müzeyyen Senar, tho 😅

But, thnx again and you did what you did twice a day (lets say mutliple times) 😅🤭

Hope your day is going very well, too ☺️🫡

It is, indeed! 🥹🇹🇷🙏

Ne mutlu Türküm Diyene 🙏🇹🇷🥹🫡

Aww, you made my day. I appreciate that. Thank you Dr. Daszak ☺️🫡

CDC Sounds Alarm over ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ That Resist Last-Resort Antibiotics The infection rate of one type of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bacteria has risen by more than 460 percent in recent years. Scientists say people receiving treatment in hospitals are at highe...

www.scientificamerican.com/article/nigh...

Flagging this for my students as a perfect example counterfactual reasoning 😊

Bee Microbiomes Harbor Diverse Antimicrobial Resistance Genes on Plasmids Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an emerging public health threat. In North America, tetracycline and macrolide antibiotics are often used to prevent or treat bacterial infections in honey bees. Prev...

New Preprint out!

In this short and sweet article, we showcase how management practices (antibiotic treatment) has impacted the AMR profiles associated with bee microbiomes.

The take home? More management = more plasmid-borne resistance!

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#microbiome
🧪 🐝

YouTube video by Scott Santens Poverty is not a moral failure of the individual—it's an ethical failure of society itself

By teaching us to view poverty as a moral failure of the individual, society keeps us from realizing that poverty is actually an ethical failure of society itself. We can choose with UBI to prevent everyone from ever experiencing the poverty that 60% of us will experience in life, and we just don't.

Just wow, but tbh, it's not unfamiliar to me, as well. 🙄🤐😬👋

Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid $150K to give evidence against drug maker The Harvard academic Andrea Baccarelli gave an ‘unreliable’ testimony on the links between autism and paracetamol, and produced research that raises ‘serious concerns about bias’

The evidence that Trump et al. used to claim that Tylenol causes autism was a paper by Harvard’s Andrea Baccarelli.

The paper did not show a causal relationship, but Dr. Baccarelli was paid $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in court.

RFK Jr. says conflicts are bad tho.

and THAT’s what’s being cited as “proof” by the Trump administration?

…just asking!

If you want the whole juicy story, read the article I wrote today:

🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/the-tyleno...

Will @hsph.harvard.edu take action

given they hired Andrea Bacarrelli in 2024 AFTER he falsified links between Tylenol use in pregnancy & autism in federal court (& was paid $150,000)

and THEN published the same claims in a journal with a history of fake peer review & falsified data

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In fact, it’s often used as an appeal to authority to enable them to spread MORE misinformation.

That’s why media headlines like “study out of Harvard” go viral, even if it’s absolute trash data.

People associate names of institutions with belief they are inherently reputable.

Well-said Dr. Love. Very well-said 😮‍💨👋🫡

Same same and ugh, sigh 😮‍💨😔

Who’s harmed by this disinformation?

• Pregnant patients who are scared, confused, and at risk.

• Children who will be subjected to treatments with no evidence to support them.

• Parents who are being told it’s their fault their child is neurodivergent.

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