LinkedIn's default permission for using your data for AI kicks in on November 3. Here's where to switch it off on your account: > Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement tuta.com/blog/linkedi...

A microsimulation model to estimate the impact of care disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer mortality using an administrative database. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... Via @jclinepi.bsky.social

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

New study links marijuana use during IVF to higher risk of abnormal embryos, potentially providing new insights into the link between cannabis use and female fertility. www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/m... Via @statnews.com #fertility #cannabis #marijuana #IVF #statnews

With social media site Bluesky growing in popularity among academics, a new study has revealed how it measures up against X when it comes to sharing and promoting scientific research.

Most Americans still don’t know that #alcohol can cause #cancer — and the alcohol industry and Trump are working hard to make sure it stays that way by discrediting and burying a new report that offers new evidence of the link between drinking alcohol and dying www.vox.com/health/46008... @vox.com

What's wrong with the obsession to consume high protein in your diet or via bars, supplements, or powders? A review of the data on efficacy and safety erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...

Let's all try not to get surgery immediately before the weekend... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @jamanetworkopen.com

Really thought provoking article on Canada's assisted dying law - and the fairly murky 'rules' that are supposed to guide clinician's on who is eligible for the procedure. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

NEW: In a likely first, security researchers have shown how generative AI agents can be hijacked to cause physical consequences. They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler. They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*

Scientists have mapped individual sugar molecules on the surface of cells at a resolution once thought to be impossible for light microscopes go.nature.com/40I9Ewv

The U.S. is paying $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of contraceptives - including IUDs, implants & pills - meant for low-income countries that don't expire until 2027 to 2031. This takes the Republican madness to boost the birth rate by any means to a new level... www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Great article from Nichola Ibe feat. some (hopefully helpful) insights from me on the need for professional indemnity insurance as a science writer. "Doing good quality work should be protection enough" - but it's always good to have some insurance - as well as indemnity clauses in your contract.

Starting to have this awful, sinking feeling that the 24h+ of "planned maintenance" on PubMed is just going to turn into the US government shutting down the site completely in pursuit of their silencing of evidence-based medicine. Here's hoping we're wrong...🤞🏻 #pubmed #research #evidence

At least since the mid-20th century, England has left mass hunger behind. How was this possible? How did English farmers prove Malthus wrong? My 'Data Insight' on @ourworldindata.org today is about rising yields and falling hunger. → ourworldindata.org/data-insights

Prospective registration was associated with a reduced risk of bias for randomised controlled trials: a meta-research study. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... Via @jclinepi.bsky.social #riskofbias #bias #reportingguidelines #trialregistration #clinicaltrials #research #evidence

More than half of the UK government’s nutrition advisers are paid by world’s largest food companies, including Nestlé, Unilever and Tate & Lyle, generating big conflicts of interest. www.bmj.com/content/386/... Via @bmj.com #OA #openaccess #conflictofinterest #nutrition #food #publichealth

New dental costs of $9.8 billion are expected if the rest of the USA follows Utah and Florida in banning the addition of fluoride to water, based on a new cost-effectiveness analysis. www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/f... @statnews.com #evidence #research #fluoride #dentalhealth #health #dentistry

Had enough of the Google AI overview search page nightmare? We’ve changed over to @startpage.com as a browser. Excellent so far! It uses Google’s search engine with super duper privacy protection. It also doesn’t throw up the annoying accept/reject cookies notice every time you open your homepage! 🎉

In the wake of several countries legalising #marijuana, questions remain about the drug's long-term #health effects. A new study has found that people who smoke weed or use edibles do worse on measures of vascular health that predict cardiovascular risk. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @jama.com

This critical work from @hsph.harvard.edu scientists continues to compile a list of the NIH & NSF grants that have been cut by the Trump administration in 2025. Over 2,100 grants have gone, many with a focus on minorities - women, LGBTQ, others. grant-watch.us #grantwatch #science #research

A scoping review of carbon emissions associated with clinical trials finds that several trial activities, including travel and meetings, trial facilities, and sample & lab activities, are consistently carbon heavy. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... @jclinepi.bsky.social #scopingreview #openaccess

Brand new SPIRIT and CONSORT #reporting #guidelines are out now! 🎯 CONSORT 2025 for reporting RCTs now has a 30-item checklist 🎯 SPIRIT 2025 for reporting trial protocols now has a 34-item checklist www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... @jclinepi.bsky.social #SPIRIT #CONSORT #RCTs #protocols

A new reporting guideline has just been published for the involvement of patients and caregivers in identifying and designing healthcare interventions: the IDEAS framework www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... HT @jclinepi.bsky.social #OA #openaccess #IDEAS #coproduction #patients #partners #research

Thank you #Bluesky for helping us reach 50,000 followers! We've been losing followers steadily on X, but we've appreciated the growing recognition here. But many people don’t know about us yet – if you think your followers would appreciate our links in their feed, please let them know about us. 😀

Out of the top 25 most-cited papers in the 21st century, the #PRISMA statement comes in at number 6 with a mind-boggling 133,965 citations according to Web of Science. www.nature.com/articles/d41... H/T @nature.com #systematicreviews #evidence #evidencesynthesis #statistics #data #citations

"Public health isn’t the sum of individual choices. It’s our collective agreement to protect the most vulnerable. When we treat public health as a menu of optional precautions, we stop being a society and start being a collection of disconnected risk profiles" www.statnews.com/2025/04/08/m...

Want to find out if Meta has used* your work as part of LibGen to train its AI models? @alexreisner.bsky.social has a super easy to use search tool for that: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... @theatlantic.com Then, get angry & sign this petition to stop it: www.change.org/p/protect-au... *stolen

DOGE preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, this is a wild finding. Source: buff.ly/2vBLXx2

The number of working satellites has soared in the past five years to around 11,000, mostly because of constellations of orbiters that provide Internet connectivity around the globe, but it comes with a series of problems. Nature explores the issues and how scientists are reacting. 🔭 🧪

Pregnancy’s true toll on the body: a huge birth study provides the most detailed picture yet using data from 300,000 births to reveal how essential biological processes could be permanently altered by carrying and delivering a baby. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Patient- and public-driven health research: a model of coleadership and partnership in research priority setting using a modified James Lind Alliance approach www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... H/T @jclinepi.bsky.social @sporalliance.bsky.social #coproduction #patients #coleadership #research #OA

Large language models for conducting systematic reviews: on the rise, but not yet ready for use—a scoping review. "Although LLMs show promise in supporting SR creation, fully established or validated applications are often lacking" www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... via @jclinepi.bsky.social #AI #LLM

Tally marks. Turns out people around the world count differently to five when taking notes. Source: buff.ly/jcjgrLX buff.ly/KhU4soR

Brain waves synchronise when people talk or interact or share an experience, like watching a film. www.scientificamerican.com/article/brai... Via @sciam.bsky.social

The proliferation of constructs and measures in psychology — many of which are introduced ad-hoc in new papers and then rarely seen again — is setting up “confusing redundancies” that “make the literature incomprehensible”, write six psychologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In the 1950s, researchers intrigued by the widespread use of Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) in traditional medicine discovered that the vinca alkaloids that it contained could treat cancer. Drugs derived from these compounds are still sold worldwide today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new economic analysis of weight loss drugs shows that in order for them to be cost-effective, the price of tirzepatide would need to go down by 30% from its current estimated annual net price while the price of semaglutide would need to drop by 82% jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #obesity

Top companies and drugs by sales in 2024 www.nature.com/articles/d41... Merck & Co’s cancer immunotherapy Keytruda solidified its top place, and GLP-1 receptor agonists for diabetes and obesity are shaking up the rankings. Read more in this new analysis by Paul Verdin @evaluatepharma.bsky.social

We got rid of acid rain. Now it’s time to deal with plastic rain. www.vox.com/climate/4016...

Four researchers are suing the big publishers of academic journals - Elsevier, Wiley, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wolters Kluwer - arguing that the system they operate is exploitative, overly expensive & relies on illegal & anticompetitive practices: www.statnews.com/2025/03/10/p...

PubMed down .... Here's my post on what to do

The Methane Hotspot Explorer app is now live! Visualise the location & origins of #methane plumes in close to real-time: including coal mining, oil, gas, and urban areas encompassing landfills, as well as unexpected sources: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/ghg-services... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

Massive “covidisation” of the scientific literature: 718,660 #COVID19 related publications received over 10 million citations as of August 2024, and 2 million authors published COVID-19-related papers, many making a career from it. Read more at www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... @jclinepi.bsky.social

Environmental factors have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes, finds new study using data from @ukbiobank.bsky.social participants. 🧬 Read more on our website 👉 https://buff.ly/437z60x @ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

In which I unpack what it means to keep calm & carry on, remember A.V. Hill's calls for science internationalism in the 1930s, & challenge the Cochrane Collaboration to return to its values as a matter of urgency.

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. Nature reports on the search to find out what they do. 🧪

Bats have a built-in anti-virus defence system! A new study of 20 bat genomes has revealed a broad range of immune adaptations that provide viral tolerance and resistance to infections: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #virus #infection #disease #immunity #bats #zoonosis #immunology #bat1k

Cancer cells can steal the batteries from immune cells that try to attack them by swapping mitochondria, the organelles that cells rely on to make energy🔋🪫 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #cancer #immunotherapy #immunecells #mitochondria #immunology #research #cellbiology