Catherine Lovegrove
@celovegrove.bsky.social
Investigating the genetic and metabolic basis of kidney stone disease and obesity. DPhil.
Happiest on a hill by foot or by pedal🏴🚵🏼 🏃🏼♀️ ✟
Happiest on a hill by foot or by pedal🏴🚵🏼 🏃🏼♀️ ✟
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Are you a 3rd or 4th yr medical student interested in pursuing a DPhil in the fields of musculoskeletal disease, inflammation and immunology?
Join the OxKen Open Day on Tue 28 Oct to learn about the @NDORMS OxKen programme.
Read about programme ➡️
Join the OxKen Open Day on Tue 28 Oct to learn about the @NDORMS OxKen programme.
Read about programme ➡️
OxKen — Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences
The Oxford Kennedy MB PhD (BM DPhil) Educational Training Program
www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Are you a 3rd or 4th yr medical student interested in pursuing a DPhil in the fields of musculoskeletal disease, inflammation and immunology?
Join the OxKen Open Day on Tue 28 Oct to learn about the @NDORMS OxKen programme.
Read about programme ➡️
Join the OxKen Open Day on Tue 28 Oct to learn about the @NDORMS OxKen programme.
Read about programme ➡️
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The trendy Taiwanese drink has become a high-street staple, but recent findings on lead levels and choking risks suggest it warrants closer scrutiny.
Bubble tea’s dark side: from lead contamination to kidney stones
The trendy Taiwanese drink has become a high-street staple, but recent findings on lead levels and choking risks suggest it warrants closer scrutiny.
tcnv.link
October 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The trendy Taiwanese drink has become a high-street staple, but recent findings on lead levels and choking risks suggest it warrants closer scrutiny.
Reposted by Catherine Lovegrove
Removing genetic effects from plasma proteins is an effective strategy to increase power for biomarker discovery and clinical trial design, consistent with the largely non-causal role of most plasma proteins in disease risk.
👏 Lead by Daniela Fusco and Zhiyu Yang
👏 Lead by Daniela Fusco and Zhiyu Yang
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Removing genetic effects from plasma proteins is an effective strategy to increase power for biomarker discovery and clinical trial design, consistent with the largely non-causal role of most plasma proteins in disease risk.
👏 Lead by Daniela Fusco and Zhiyu Yang
👏 Lead by Daniela Fusco and Zhiyu Yang
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Glasgow crowned the friendliest city in the UK: 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards
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gla.ac/3WaOyUQ
October 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Glasgow crowned the friendliest city in the UK: 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards
gla.ac/3WaOyUQ
gla.ac/3WaOyUQ
#KidneyStones in the news!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
❓What are they?
💎 Stones that form in kidneys & can fall into the ureter (drainpipe from kidneys to bladder)
❓So what?
😖 They’re linked to pain, infections, lower quality of life, & can need surgery.
❓What causes them?
🤔 Good question!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
❓What are they?
💎 Stones that form in kidneys & can fall into the ureter (drainpipe from kidneys to bladder)
❓So what?
😖 They’re linked to pain, infections, lower quality of life, & can need surgery.
❓What causes them?
🤔 Good question!
Dolly Parton posts 'I ain't dead yet' after sister sparks health concerns - BBC News
The singer's sister had asked fans to pray for her after the star postponed gigs due to health issues.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
#KidneyStones in the news!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
❓What are they?
💎 Stones that form in kidneys & can fall into the ureter (drainpipe from kidneys to bladder)
❓So what?
😖 They’re linked to pain, infections, lower quality of life, & can need surgery.
❓What causes them?
🤔 Good question!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
❓What are they?
💎 Stones that form in kidneys & can fall into the ureter (drainpipe from kidneys to bladder)
❓So what?
😖 They’re linked to pain, infections, lower quality of life, & can need surgery.
❓What causes them?
🤔 Good question!
At #ST3bootcamp for urology in Leeds this week. First-class teaching, simulation, and interactions across all new ST3s.
Stones, non technical skills, functional, uroradiology done so far, bladder cancer and recon today.
Stones, non technical skills, functional, uroradiology done so far, bladder cancer and recon today.
October 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
At #ST3bootcamp for urology in Leeds this week. First-class teaching, simulation, and interactions across all new ST3s.
Stones, non technical skills, functional, uroradiology done so far, bladder cancer and recon today.
Stones, non technical skills, functional, uroradiology done so far, bladder cancer and recon today.
Reposted by Catherine Lovegrove
Not every hospital serves the same demographic.
NHS league tables are back – but turning rankings into better care is harder than it looks
Not every hospital serves the same demographic.
tcnv.link
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Not every hospital serves the same demographic.
Really enjoying a late-summer/early autumn read, courtesy of @rcsed.bsky.social. Brilliantly curated and edited @otolaryngolofox.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Really enjoying a late-summer/early autumn read, courtesy of @rcsed.bsky.social. Brilliantly curated and edited @otolaryngolofox.bsky.social
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"Six times more people are killed on the roads in the UK each year than through knife crime. If this was any other area of our lives, we would never tolerate this level of harm."
Rebecca Morris’ impassioned speech calls for more immediate action for safer streets. #CyclingScotlandConf
Rebecca Morris’ impassioned speech calls for more immediate action for safer streets. #CyclingScotlandConf
September 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"Six times more people are killed on the roads in the UK each year than through knife crime. If this was any other area of our lives, we would never tolerate this level of harm."
Rebecca Morris’ impassioned speech calls for more immediate action for safer streets. #CyclingScotlandConf
Rebecca Morris’ impassioned speech calls for more immediate action for safer streets. #CyclingScotlandConf
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Four PhD projects advertised for October 2026 @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Find info and apply here:
www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study/botnar...
Find info and apply here:
www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study/botnar...
Botnar projects
Applications will open in September.
www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Four PhD projects advertised for October 2026 @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Find info and apply here:
www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study/botnar...
Find info and apply here:
www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study/botnar...
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👏 Congrats to Katherine Cory & Phil Noble - joint Cycling Champions of the Year in Scotland 2025!
True champions of cycling for all 💙
True champions of cycling for all 💙
🚲🏆 Katherine Cory and Phil Noble have been announced as Scotland's 2025 Cycling Champions of the Year, in recognition of their impact in helping more people of all ages to cycle. Congratulations Katherine and Phil! 🎉
cycling.scot/news/2025-cy...
cycling.scot/news/2025-cy...
2025 Cycling Champions are announced
Winners of the 2025 Cycling Champion of the Year Awards have been announced, with Katherine Cory and Phil Noble celebrated for their impact in helping to enable more people, of all ages, to cycle in S...
cycling.scot
September 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
👏 Congrats to Katherine Cory & Phil Noble - joint Cycling Champions of the Year in Scotland 2025!
True champions of cycling for all 💙
True champions of cycling for all 💙
More and more patients on GLP1RAs so, as surgeons, it’s important to consider the perioperative effects as well as disease/comorbidity- specific effects.
Data to suggest no change in surgical complications, which is reassuring.
Data to suggest no change in surgical complications, which is reassuring.
September 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
More and more patients on GLP1RAs so, as surgeons, it’s important to consider the perioperative effects as well as disease/comorbidity- specific effects.
Data to suggest no change in surgical complications, which is reassuring.
Data to suggest no change in surgical complications, which is reassuring.
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Behind every door is a discovery...
📅 On 13 Sept, we’re opening ours at the Old Road Campus Research Building for #OxfordOpenDoors. @cmd.ox.ac.uk, @idrm.ox.ac.uk, @ludwigcancer.bsky.social, @oncology.ox.ac.uk and more will be there, will you?
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/WV8TAXt
📅 On 13 Sept, we’re opening ours at the Old Road Campus Research Building for #OxfordOpenDoors. @cmd.ox.ac.uk, @idrm.ox.ac.uk, @ludwigcancer.bsky.social, @oncology.ox.ac.uk and more will be there, will you?
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/WV8TAXt
August 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Behind every door is a discovery...
📅 On 13 Sept, we’re opening ours at the Old Road Campus Research Building for #OxfordOpenDoors. @cmd.ox.ac.uk, @idrm.ox.ac.uk, @ludwigcancer.bsky.social, @oncology.ox.ac.uk and more will be there, will you?
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/WV8TAXt
📅 On 13 Sept, we’re opening ours at the Old Road Campus Research Building for #OxfordOpenDoors. @cmd.ox.ac.uk, @idrm.ox.ac.uk, @ludwigcancer.bsky.social, @oncology.ox.ac.uk and more will be there, will you?
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/WV8TAXt
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Even this late in the summer, the ornamental flower beds in Victoria Park in Glasgow are still looking very colourful.
#glasgow #victoriapark #flowers #glasgowparks
#glasgow #victoriapark #flowers #glasgowparks
August 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Even this late in the summer, the ornamental flower beds in Victoria Park in Glasgow are still looking very colourful.
#glasgow #victoriapark #flowers #glasgowparks
#glasgow #victoriapark #flowers #glasgowparks
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@jengreitz.bsky.social l & my lab want to co-hire a computational biologist/biostatistician with project management expertise to help map the regulatory code of the human genome and discover genetic mechanisms of disease.
Details below
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/computa...
Plz RT
Details below
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/computa...
Plz RT
August 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
@jengreitz.bsky.social l & my lab want to co-hire a computational biologist/biostatistician with project management expertise to help map the regulatory code of the human genome and discover genetic mechanisms of disease.
Details below
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/computa...
Plz RT
Details below
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/computa...
Plz RT
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'If we want more people to cycle, we need to build for the bikes - and riders - we have now and want in the future.'
@tsuoxford.bsky.social's Dr Zakiyya Adam outlines recommendations for the implementation of cycling-promoting initiatives in mid-sized European cities 🚲
#CycleToWorkDay
@tsuoxford.bsky.social's Dr Zakiyya Adam outlines recommendations for the implementation of cycling-promoting initiatives in mid-sized European cities 🚲
#CycleToWorkDay
Cities for cycling: what is needed beyond good will and cycle paths?
www.ox.ac.uk
August 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
'If we want more people to cycle, we need to build for the bikes - and riders - we have now and want in the future.'
@tsuoxford.bsky.social's Dr Zakiyya Adam outlines recommendations for the implementation of cycling-promoting initiatives in mid-sized European cities 🚲
#CycleToWorkDay
@tsuoxford.bsky.social's Dr Zakiyya Adam outlines recommendations for the implementation of cycling-promoting initiatives in mid-sized European cities 🚲
#CycleToWorkDay
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Our latest with editorial. Genetic susceptibility to kidney stone disease: unveiling pathogenesis and potential therapeutic targets @jclinicalinvest @drsarahhowles
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August 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Our latest with editorial. Genetic susceptibility to kidney stone disease: unveiling pathogenesis and potential therapeutic targets @jclinicalinvest @drsarahhowles
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No stone goes unturned in the search for risk-associated variants in kidney stone disease—
@celovegrove.bsky.social @sarahhowles.bsky.social & team identify three biologic pathways that underlie ~11-19% of common causes of stone formation: buff.ly/INjAjLy
@celovegrove.bsky.social @sarahhowles.bsky.social & team identify three biologic pathways that underlie ~11-19% of common causes of stone formation: buff.ly/INjAjLy
August 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
No stone goes unturned in the search for risk-associated variants in kidney stone disease—
@celovegrove.bsky.social @sarahhowles.bsky.social & team identify three biologic pathways that underlie ~11-19% of common causes of stone formation: buff.ly/INjAjLy
@celovegrove.bsky.social @sarahhowles.bsky.social & team identify three biologic pathways that underlie ~11-19% of common causes of stone formation: buff.ly/INjAjLy
Scientific fraud is an issue that needs to be tackled for stakeholders’ (including medical patients’) benefit.
“Unless publishers, funders, and people in charge of hiring and promotion pay attention and penalize this behaviour…it will continue. It’s growing fast.”
www.science.org/content/arti...
“Unless publishers, funders, and people in charge of hiring and promotion pay attention and penalize this behaviour…it will continue. It’s growing fast.”
www.science.org/content/arti...
Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds
Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers
www.science.org
August 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Scientific fraud is an issue that needs to be tackled for stakeholders’ (including medical patients’) benefit.
“Unless publishers, funders, and people in charge of hiring and promotion pay attention and penalize this behaviour…it will continue. It’s growing fast.”
www.science.org/content/arti...
“Unless publishers, funders, and people in charge of hiring and promotion pay attention and penalize this behaviour…it will continue. It’s growing fast.”
www.science.org/content/arti...
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📣 We are recruiting! Please share!!
Are you a bioinformatician / computational scientist who wants to apply your skills to understanding regulatory biology and improving rare disease diagnosis and treatment? 🧠 💻 🧬 🩺
We have two roles available 👇
🧵 1/4
Are you a bioinformatician / computational scientist who wants to apply your skills to understanding regulatory biology and improving rare disease diagnosis and treatment? 🧠 💻 🧬 🩺
We have two roles available 👇
🧵 1/4
July 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
📣 We are recruiting! Please share!!
Are you a bioinformatician / computational scientist who wants to apply your skills to understanding regulatory biology and improving rare disease diagnosis and treatment? 🧠 💻 🧬 🩺
We have two roles available 👇
🧵 1/4
Are you a bioinformatician / computational scientist who wants to apply your skills to understanding regulatory biology and improving rare disease diagnosis and treatment? 🧠 💻 🧬 🩺
We have two roles available 👇
🧵 1/4
Reposted by Catherine Lovegrove
Review by Michelle A. Baum, Mallory Mandel, and Michael J.G. Somers:
Understanding Rare Kidney Stone Diseases: A Review
bit.ly/Baum25REV (FREE)
Understanding Rare Kidney Stone Diseases: A Review
bit.ly/Baum25REV (FREE)
July 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Review by Michelle A. Baum, Mallory Mandel, and Michael J.G. Somers:
Understanding Rare Kidney Stone Diseases: A Review
bit.ly/Baum25REV (FREE)
Understanding Rare Kidney Stone Diseases: A Review
bit.ly/Baum25REV (FREE)
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"The great irony of vaccines is that populations become complacent about a disease and the need for immunisation largely because a successful vaccine made it feel as though the threat was consigned to the past" excellent stuff by Francis Ryan on the rise of measles across the globe
Look at the rise of measles in England and ask yourself: have we learned a single thing from Covid? | Frances Ryan
People grow complacent about vaccines precisely because they are so effective. What happened to collective responsibility, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"The great irony of vaccines is that populations become complacent about a disease and the need for immunisation largely because a successful vaccine made it feel as though the threat was consigned to the past" excellent stuff by Francis Ryan on the rise of measles across the globe
💎Kidney stones affect quality of life beyond the acute admission.
😰Acute symptoms & anxiety about recurrent episodes contribute to a desire for improved holistic care that includes:
1. ℹMore information
2. 👋🏼Better support
3. 💊Better preventive therapies
publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/10.1308/...
😰Acute symptoms & anxiety about recurrent episodes contribute to a desire for improved holistic care that includes:
1. ℹMore information
2. 👋🏼Better support
3. 💊Better preventive therapies
publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/10.1308/...
Patients’ priorities in kidney stone disease | The Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Introduction Engaging with patients and the public is essential to design and deliver impactful research. Enhancing the relevance of research and tailoring treatments to align with patients’ preferenc...
publishing.rcseng.ac.uk
July 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
💎Kidney stones affect quality of life beyond the acute admission.
😰Acute symptoms & anxiety about recurrent episodes contribute to a desire for improved holistic care that includes:
1. ℹMore information
2. 👋🏼Better support
3. 💊Better preventive therapies
publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/10.1308/...
😰Acute symptoms & anxiety about recurrent episodes contribute to a desire for improved holistic care that includes:
1. ℹMore information
2. 👋🏼Better support
3. 💊Better preventive therapies
publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/10.1308/...
Feedback to PI @dominicfurniss.bsky.social from group member:
“…incredibly grateful to have experienced the environment of your research group. It’s welcoming, collaborative & nurturing...Being exposed to that culture has been incredibly uplifting & motivating”
Proud to be a member of this group 💪🏼
“…incredibly grateful to have experienced the environment of your research group. It’s welcoming, collaborative & nurturing...Being exposed to that culture has been incredibly uplifting & motivating”
Proud to be a member of this group 💪🏼
July 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Feedback to PI @dominicfurniss.bsky.social from group member:
“…incredibly grateful to have experienced the environment of your research group. It’s welcoming, collaborative & nurturing...Being exposed to that culture has been incredibly uplifting & motivating”
Proud to be a member of this group 💪🏼
“…incredibly grateful to have experienced the environment of your research group. It’s welcoming, collaborative & nurturing...Being exposed to that culture has been incredibly uplifting & motivating”
Proud to be a member of this group 💪🏼