Bernadette Moore
@themoorelab.bsky.social
Human, Nutritional Scientist. Professor & Chair in Nutritional Biochemistry, University of Liverpool. Steatotic liver disease. Systems biology. Nutraceuticals. Open research and social justice champion. Allotmenteer.
Pleased to see our paper on #preeclampsia and cell #senescence and seeming prevention by #ergothioneine is now published, with @resiapretorius.bsky.social @louiseckenny.bsky.social @lorenkell.bsky.social @themoorelab.bsky.social and others doi.org/10.1016/j.jr.... Hope we can get RCTs done now.
Redirecting
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Crikey. UK worse than US on MMR vaccination rates. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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
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Folddisco finds similar (dis)continuous 3D motifs in large protein structure databases. Its efficient index enables fast uncharacterized active site annotation, protein conformational state analysis and PPI interface comparison. 1/9🧶🧬 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/folddisco
A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”
Women end up doing the academic housework
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In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
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An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists
OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...
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- Invest in research culture and infrastructure - Better manage and protect research time - Develop and retain research support staff - Constantly fight for the social mission of a university which is to produce knowledge for the sake of knowledge.
✨️The application deadline has been extended to July 1st. ✨️ Open to all PhD students and junior researchers with an interest in nutritional epidemiology.
Christina Dahm@christinadahm.bsky.social · last yr.Do you want to learn about integrating modern methods like food substitution and target trial emulation in nutritional epidemiology studies? Then do I have the course for you! ✨ Nutritional Epidemiology, a residential course at Sandbjerg Estate, a beautiful historic manor in Southern Denmark. ✨
Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
Yes! I heard some people haven’t signed because they aren’t a scientist or academic. But this is about all of us. If you are against harming research participants, sign! If you want more life-saving treatments, sign! If you value free speech, sign!
NIH Vigils@nihvigils.bsky.social · last yr.Support science? Ever gotten sick? Know someone who has gotten sick? This is for you. 👇🏽👇🏽 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Today I asked AI to summarise an academic paper. The actual results were the opposite to what was hypothesised (and to what others had shown). The AI summary assumed the study had found what everyone else had found. Hot tip: don’t use a stochastic parrot to summarise an outlier paper. #academicsky 🧪
It's a phrase from the prescient paper that got its authors fired from google: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochas.... They make excellent follows on here
Stochastic parrot - Wikipedia
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😳🤦♀️ academic freedom
Mun-Keat Looi@munkeatlooi.bsky.social · last yr.New Trump Watch column, incl: NIH academic freedom policy to be reviewed Global covid vaccine safety study closes NSF director resigns Key FDA drug data missing World Trade Center health programme gutted Pentagon resumes transgender medical care www.bmj.com/content/389/...
How do you solve a problem like brand advertising...? Last year @emmaboyland.bsky.social & I had a discussion over breakfast* where we discussed our concerns about the rapidly emerging loophole of food brand ads and lack of a policy approach to address it... *Can confirm no crumpets were consumed
The Guardian view on owning the heavens: the perils of letting capitalism colonise the cosmos | Editorial
The Guardian view on owning the heavens: the perils of letting capitalism colonise the cosmos | Editorial
Editorial: Donald Trump ignited a scramble that is transforming space from shared frontier to private asset – raising questions about law, equity and ethics
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I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities
Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities
Research council launches 100m kroner fund as Norwegian government calls for the protection of academic freedom
theguardian.com
Less than one month to nominate for the British Nutrition Foundation Prize 2025! The British Nutrition Foundation Prize is awarded annually to a person for their outstanding achievement in an area of nutrition over a number of years.
From the biomedical informatics view, this is a five alarm fire and a nuclear air raid siren. Up until now the NIH has spent millions studying federated models and other techniques to enable research progress while explicitly avoiding doing exactly this because of how dangerous and unethical it is.
A powerful call has just gone up on the website of the @aacu.org : “A Call for Constructive Engagement” signed by almost 200 college & university presidents (more sure to join), from community colleges to R1s! #academicsky #edusky @academic-chatter.bsky.social www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
