For anyone wondering if they should take vitamin K with your vitamin D, the answer is yes. www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Vitamin K2 and D3 Supplementation in Patients With Severe Coronary Artery Calcification: The DANCODE Trial | Circulation

BACKGROUND: Coronary artery calcification (CAC) progression is a strong predictor of cardiovascular events. We investigated whether supplementation with vitamin K2 and vitamin D3 reduces CAC progressi...

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Sodium ion battery tech finally looks like challenging lithium for mass market applications #renewables www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/08/sodi...

Sodium-ion batteries are ready for world domination

For much of the last decade, perovskites have been promised to be the future of solar panels, but commercialization has been slow, and only a few

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Another country looking at Agrivoltaics. Agriculture and solar proving again that they can work together grist.org/energy/why-e...

Why Egyptian farmers are growing crops under solar panels

The additional shade reduces evaporation and stress on the plants, all while generating clean electricity.

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Think your brain is declining with age? It doesn't have to. Participants experienced measurable gains in cognitive, emotional and social wellbeing across the entire age range, with those in their 70s and 80s seeing improvements equal to younger adults involved www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...

'Your cognitive peak isn't in your 20s': A landmark study just demolished everything we thought about brain ageing | BBC Science Focus Magazine

With age comes wisdom, we’re told. But retaining the ability to recall the whereabouts of your glasses? Forget it – or so we're told

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We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.

Superb #climate resources here

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · 2y ago

🧵 Looking for (polar) climate data visualizations? Start here! 📈📉🧪⚒️🌊 + Polar climate change: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... + Global climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan... + #Arctic sea ice extent: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... + #Antarctic sea ice: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...

Half the World’s Population Will Be Nearsighted by 2050. Nearly 5 billion people will be unable to see clearly at a distance by the year 2050. The reasons? 1. Too much screen time. 2. Too little time outside. Outdoor time is the single most protective factor. techfixated.com/half-the-wor...

Half the World’s Population Will Be Nearsighted by 2050.

Nearly 5 billion people will be unable to see clearly at a distance by the year 2050.

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A party of liars. Carbon Brief fact checks 45 false or misleading claims made by the Reform party’s leadership, and Tice in particular, relating to climate change, renewables and net-zero. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-re...

Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy - Carbon Brief

Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has emerged as a major force in UK politics in recent years – pushing…

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#Sleepmaxxing: Are Popular Sleep Hacks Evidence-Based? www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... - Mouth taping? Nope ❌ - Nasal strips? Nah ❌ - Good #sleep hygiene? Yep ✅ Reality: Most influencer ideas bunk and some "maxxing" practices "may even worsen sleep quality."

Sleepmaxxing: Are Popular Sleep Hacks Evidence-Based?

Sleepmaxxing practices vary in their evidence, with some routines supported by research, while others lack proven benefits or may worsen sleep problems.

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Haven't got time to get your 10 thousand steps in? Walk faster instead, brisk exercise is good for you www.medicalnewstoday.com/amp/articles...

Longevity: 30-minute brisk walk may be as effective as 7,500 steps

Walking at a faster pace under 5,000 steps daily cuts early death risk as much as walking 7,500 slower steps a day, researchers have found.

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Using an engineered virus to treat autoimmune diseases by reprogramming a patient's own immune cells directly inside the body. Apologies for the click through ads, it's not a site I like but the story is just too intriguing to miss medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09...

A single IV treatment retrains immune cells to fight autoimmune diseases in early trial

CAR T-cell therapy is an immune-reprogramming procedure that turns a patient's own immune cells into cancer-fighting specialists. The entire process is complex, but researchers have now found a faster...

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To follow up on the earlier post highlighting the similarities between the Dover 'patriots' and fascist private armies...

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 7d ago

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

If you've got a cold, vitamin C is the go to, right? Well, not really. zinc supplementation was observed to potentially reduce cold duration by 2.25 days pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32342851/

Zinc Supplementation Reduces Common Cold Duration among Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials with Micronutrients Supplementation - PubMed

The common cold had resulted in significant economic and social burden worldwide. The effect of vitamin C on preventing common cold in healthy adults has been investigated extensively, but not that of other micronutrients. Thus, we aim to assess the effects of providing micronutrients singly through …

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The Dover incident Uniformed, organized, far right paramilitary group, and the police and security services didn't seem to know their plans. Effectively a private army of thugs. Like Mosley's (and the Italian) fascist Blackshirts, or the Brownshirt paramilitary storm troopers of early N@zi Germany

Poor sleep is known to affect memory and concentration, exercise after poor sleep helps offset that and keep your mind sharp academic.oup.com/sleep/advanc...

Slow-Wave Sleep Mediates the Compensatory Effects of Acute Moderate-Intensity Exercise on Declarative Memory Deficits in Sleep Restriction

Here, we demonstrate that a single session of moderate-intensity evening exercise performed before a night of sleep restriction was associated with better

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Just had a climate denier on Threads crowing that Antarctica was gaining ice, and would not be convinced otherwise. The reality is, the mass gains were due to warmer moister air, which means more precipitation. A temporary slowdown of ice loss. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Multiyear tropical warm pool warming drives slowdown in Antarctic mass loss - Nature

Recent Antarctic ice mass gain was linked to a recurrent atmospheric teleconnection, but this recurs about once per decade in observations and historical simulations so does not yet reflect a global-w...

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The party of free speech, who protect our women and girls, assaulting a woman for speaking her mind. Hair pulled, hit with a walking stick and fists, hand over her mouth, all while Farage laughs and mocks her from the podium. Vile people

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · last wk.

Pro-Russia/Pro-Israel right-wing Reform sycophants in the UK assault multiple young women for speaking out against Donald Trump and the Tate brother's friend, the corrupt Nigel Farage. Farage laughed and joked about the assaults.

Ah, but the US probably rejected it because it shows the gulf of MEXICO, and Lake ONTARIO Trump wouldn't like that

Ken Caldeira@kencaldeira.com · last wk.

US is alone in voting to use a Mercator projection instead of an equal-area projection. (Trump loves that big Greenland.) Next thing is we are going to want to use inches, feet and miles, and degrees Farenheit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I heard someone moan about their energy bill, and they were parroting the reform line of blaming renewables. The reality is somewhat different. Every accepted generator gets paid the price of the most expensive bid needed to meet demand not their own bid, usually gas ukgridlive.info/pages/electr...

Everyone says there'll be a blue ocean event soon...

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · last wk.

"An image from NASA Worldview shows how brittle Arctic sea ice is becoming due to global warming, with large patches of open water visible near the North Pole on Aug. 29." via @livescience.com at www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

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Could it be that chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as ME), long Covid, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis (MS) may be driven by common underlying mechanisms? #medsky www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...

The climate agreement of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees is dead. Scientists are now talking about limiting overshoot. But what is overshoot? www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Overshoot explained: 5 things to understand about a world beyond 1.5°C

Exceeding 1.5°C must not mean abandoning the goal. UNEP explains five things to know about climate overshoot and the choices that will shape what happens next.

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I posted that I thought the new modelling was optimistic, and Zeke rightly pointed out that there is evidence that emissions aren't increasing as rapidly recently. It's easy to get drawn into thinking the worst - that's called climate doomerism and it's an easy trap. However...

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 2w ago

The high scenario assumes global emissions increase ~40% by 2100. In the past 15 years or so they have been relatively flat.

We know how to limit the damage, we have the technology to limit the damage, but do we have the political and social will to limit the damage? All the warming scenarios assume some limit or reduction to greenhouse gases, but what if our greed for energy and social apathy means it increases? #climate

Euronews@euronews.com · 2w ago

A major new UN report details the risks of overshooting 1.5°C of warming – and how we can limit them. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/W7Z5

I trust Zeke, and this is a very thorough explanation of the new climate models, but I fear it's hopelessly optimistic. I do NOT think there will be anywhere enough mitigation to meet even the high scenario. The way climate change is accelerating, we'll be lucky to avoid the 2100 estimates by 2050.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 2w ago

The emissions scenarios underlying the next generation of climate model runs that will be featured in the upcoming IPCC 7th Assessment Report are officially out! I have a big new explainer over at Carbon Brief taking an in-depth look at what they mean and whats changed: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Are we great again yet?

A history of how we know that co2 is a greenhouse gas. Just because I've seen a lot of recent climate denial posts say it's never been proved daily.jstor.org/how-19th-cen...

How 19th-Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming - JSTOR Daily

Today’s headlines make climate change seem like a recent discovery. But Eunice Newton Foote and others have been piecing it together for centuries.

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Talking of Vitamin D, in the UK a lot of people (especially the elderly and minority groups) are deficient without knowing it, even in summer from.ncl.ac.uk/do-we-really...

Do we really get enough vitamin D from the sun?

For years, it’s been believed that summer sunshine provides all the vitamin D we need. But new research suggests that this might not be the whole story.

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Studies like this annoy me. Pick an outcome you want (vit D improves cognition and sleep), screen the participants via questionnaire, don't even bother to check the baseline vit D levels, just reply on self reporting Correcting a deficiency improves health www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...