Science

Science

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If you have ever let dough rise, made a home brew, pickled, made kombucha, hell - if you’ve ever left something out too long, YOU are a microbiologist

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Fish!!😋 served with a fresh side of parasites?!😳 might not be so far from the truth when over 90% of freshwater fish in Southern California are estimated to have these flatworms!!🤯 They can give you gastrointestinal problems and worse case heart attacks!💀 Dw though all you gotta do is cook or freeze your 🐠 for a week, and you’ll be a-okay👌

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Girl, you might want to sit down for this one 👀 *sips tea*

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Sometimes a PhD isn’t necessary to see an experiment didn’t go to plan (yes I tape my devil ivy to the desk)

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@bombaymalayali

Many people don’t realise that it’s not the water that we drink that turns directly into pee but the water that gets absorbed into the bloodstream that ends up there. Had more asparagus last night so had to come back to this cast with a random fact that no one asked for.

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Google’s DeepMind Genie 3, real-time interactive world generation. https://youtu.be/PDKhUknuQDg

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Science in action

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Currently setting up my lab to be a ‘green lab’ - a requirement for grants from wellcome and cancer uk. Great that more attention is going towards sustainability but it costs 4+ figs so it’s just pay to play which I think is totally immoral.

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@polluterofminds

This is a great video. I’ve crashed a motorcycle before (low speed) and leather makes such a huge difference. https://youtu.be/xwuRUcAGIEU

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The amount of drama that occurs in a lab is actually wild: I am 90% sure my masters student is sleeping with another PhD in my lab… they arrive together and leave together and I even bumped into them together on the weekend. Tbh when ur in the lab 12 hours a day where else are you gonna meet someone. I will say it creates a weird dynamic where the masters student naturally goes to the PhD for advice rather than me so I’m kinda redundant now. Since so many Imperial students are Chinese, you could work a Mandarin plotline into the story too. So much could be done with this!!

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Love that we are bringing science back to Farcaster bit by bit, good work christin. Now the part that intrigued me was the new drug pair for the kidney cancer patients. (The kidney cancer combo pembrolizumab and axitinib that keeps patients alive longer than the old drug sunitinib). With all these scientific advancements with technology, how long do you think it takes before humans could actually cure cancer… totally? https://reframedaily.beehiiv.com/p/reframe-daily-longer-kidney-cancer-survival-year-round-hep-b-control-faster-covid-cure-spine-injury

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Reframe Daily is where I share truly newsworthy scientific breakthroughs that somehow don't really make it into the news or clickbaity tiktoks Today's briefing: - A new drug pair helps kidney-cancer patients live longer - A super-long-lasting shot could keep hepatitis B quiet for months - A revamped pill clears COVID faster - Scientists re-connected broken spine nerves so animals move better, and they spotted a chest nerve that tells the body to fight flu harder https://reframedaily.beehiiv.com/p/reframe-daily-longer-kidney-cancer-survival-year-round-hep-b-control-faster-covid-cure-spine-injury

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@eulerlagrange.eth

The foot fetish hypothesis I heard this theory that male foot fetishes might have been naturally selected for because feet are the body part most likely to pick up infections. Which is… insane, but also kind of makes sense? Like, you’re barefoot on the savannah, step in some primordial muck, and suddenly your tribe’s future depends on the guy who can visually diagnose trench foot from ten paces. So maybe somewhere in our evolutionary past, the dudes going “hm, those arches look healthy” were the ones keeping their bloodlines alive. Fast forward a few millennia, and now we’ve got entire industries built on OnlyFans pedicures. always innovating, never evolving.

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Here’s a short & sweet lil homage to the art of shaking in a laboratory x

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Bit of fun. https://arewetrekyet.com/

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