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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 8h

Tbf mass lead poisoning of young men might explain *quite a lot* of what’s been happening in recent years.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 11h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 6h

One of the most important things I teach when I teach about the history of the FDA is how supplements are not monitored and tested like drugs are. They rely on self or 3rd party regulation, which often fails in so many ways.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 11h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 9h

Suddenly Joe Rogan makes a lot more sense.

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone for protein powder laced with lead? 😳

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 11h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11h

Why the maths on screening often doesn’t add up
www.thetimes.com/article/1cc6...

The US National Cancer Institute estimates that if you screened 1,000 men aged 55-69 for 13 years, 240 men would have a positive result. Of those, 100 would end up diagnosed with prostate cancer, often after a biopsy.
Eighty would receive some intervention, whether radiation treatment or surgery. Of those, 50 would experience some erectile dysfunction, and 15 incontinence. Between one and two deaths would be prevented.
This is why many doctors argue that the risks - in terms of unnecessary surgery and unnecessary worry - outweigh the benefits.

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Jared Bernstein @jaredb-econ.bsky.social · 16h

It looks like a bubble to us:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

Opinion | A.I. Sure Looks Like a Bubble. Watch Out When It Pops.

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 18h

I like books as objects but I also really don't see how anyone not liking books as objects affects me at all. And shouting at people on the internet is pointless anyway. Social media makes people weird huh 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 20h

Post you from a different era

2481 or thereabouts.

#MementoMori

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

everyone on here is old and none of the selfies are thirst traps so people are having to find thinly-veiled workarounds

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 1d

Inexplicably, my son’s very standard state school - in a mixed area, not a particularly affluent one - arranged a £4K trip to Kenya last year. I keep meaning to do a story on the astonishing escalation of the school trip.

Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1d

I know they just do this to wind people up, but Christ on a bike.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow: DEAD ENDS comes out in the US! Aimed at kids aged 8-12, @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I think everyone will love this grisly romp through medical history. Please consider ordering a copy, and enjoy the weird stories we've uncovered that prove failure is essential to scientific progress.

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 5d

When does death begin?

In the 18th century, no one could agree—some said when the pulse stopped, others when the body began to rot. Out of that debate came a century of strange experiments on severed heads.

Learn more in our kids’ book DEAD ENDS (w/ @tealcartoons.bsky.social): shorturl.at/FS3nd

A cartoon by Adrian Teal that depicts a guillotine and a severed head, with a modern-looking doctor holding a stethoscope to the head.

The cover of DEAD ENDS featuring a cartoon man being electrocuted back to life

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Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!!

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

New blog post!

Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis?

(I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler)

www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model

Sometimes, researchers worry about multicollinearity in situations where it’s actually a non-issue. Here’s one such scenario. Imagine a situation where you are interested in the effect of X on Y (X...

www.the100.ci

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 1d

This may be the worst nutrition trial I've ever seen.

Subjects got a minimally processed diet or an ultra-processed diet, ostensibly to test the effect of processing.

But the UPF diet was higher in sat fat, sugar, refined grains, & lower in fiber.

What happened?
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 1d

Free t-tests until 17:15 in the parking lot of this Lidl, if anyone is interested.

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Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit @hscwru.bsky.social · 4d

📢 Evidence & Policy journal SPECIAL ISSUE Call for Abstracts:
"Strengthening research practice partnerships in social care: Evidence, impact and policy learning"
Guest Editors: @annetteboaz.bsky.social & @a-mtowers.bsky.social
Abstracts deadline 3 November.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/strengt...

Evidence & Policy: Call for Abstracts | King's College London

Strengthening research practice partnerships in social care

www.kcl.ac.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Sharp global rise in antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, WHO finds

Experts describe findings as deeply concerning and predict 70% increase in related deaths by 2050 Hospitals across the world have recorded an alarming rise in common infections that are resistant to antibiotics, with doctors saying the number of deaths driven by drug resistance will increase sharply in the years ahead. One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections were resistant to antibiotic treatments in 2023, with more than 40% of antibiotics losing potency against common blood, gut, urinary tract and sexually-transmitted infections between 2018 and 2023, records show. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

good morning from this agent of chaos

A small tabby kitten on a pink striped blanket

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 3d

Just in case you need it. We have a new kitten.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Wheat Field Near Fridaythorpe, painting by David Hockney, 2005. #NorthernArt

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Idly wondering what a public health campaign on this would look like, and why stuff we tried for, eg, drink driving, isn't being used.

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Bros. Don't die of ignorance.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Kev. Won't miss the M62 over the Misty Mountains into Mordor every week.

Joking, obvs. I love my friends in the North West, who are definitely not orcs, regardless what you might have heard.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Martin. I've got away with it for this long! Just need to keep up the facade for another 20 years or so then I can retire.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

It's the ones who don't have it that you have to keep an eye on.

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