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Karaina @mumwhocares
@karaina.bsky.social
Shy, retiring and dog loving Northerner trying to stay sane, avoid COVID and smile everyday.
Unpolitical unless provoked.
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September 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The aspartame sweetener was found to promote atherosclerosis in animal models
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
Sweetener aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation
Wu et al. provide new insights into how aspartame consumption exacerbates atherosclerosis through an insulin-dependent mechanism. Aspartame-triggered high insulin levels upregulate the endothelial mem...
www.cell.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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As winter pressures affect the working of an already stretched to the limit NHS, Dr Tait shares some of her family's experiences with emergency departments | Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
@jaxtait.bsky.social
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
Winter pressures in the NHS
As winter pressures affect the working of an already stretched to the limit NHS, Dr Tait shares some of her family's experiences with emergency departments
northwestbylines.co.uk
January 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Alone or lonely at Christmas? New to social media? There’s a great tradition with the hashtag #joinin, you just search for it and see lots of friendly messages. Someone has also created a feed here:

bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 24, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Merry Christmas 🎄
December 24, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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The scientific discourse thus benefits from the inclusion of a wide set of stakeholders and points of view, and a cross-disciplinary discourse is a model of interaction for an effective use of scientific knowledge for the generation of policy recommendations.
#publicpolicy #academicsky #DEI
Independent SAGE as an example of effective public dialogue on scientific research - Nature Protocols
The members of Independent SAGE reflect on their experience in setting up, developing and running a science communication platform and service to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic
www.nature.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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We have made the article free to access for a month @natprot.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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I have just learned that the tea towel I authored for Cosmic Shambles is back in stock: cosmicshambles.myshopify.com/products/tea... Potential Christmas present for a friendly towel or physics enthusiast? Not only should everyone know where their towel is, they should also know what it's doing.
December 4, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Economic burden of Long Covid in the UK estimated to be >$20 billion per year from real cohort data
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...
November 14, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Reporting on inquest of Sir Bobby Charlton. He died 21 Oct following a fall at his care home. He had broken ribs. He also had had COVID in Sept. (this info is near the end of the article)

Sir Bobby Charlton died after fall, inquest hears www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
November 1, 2023 at 3:14 PM
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The BA.5 bivalent booster's effectiveness: by April 2023, "individuals previously vaccinated only with wild-type vaccines had little protection against Covid-19 hospital admission" restored by the booster (24K cases, 99K controls)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
October 26, 2023 at 12:06 AM
Is there ever a time that Derwentwater doesn’t look fabulous?
October 25, 2023 at 4:07 PM