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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 4h

All of a flutter: how butterflies avoid being a predator’s lunch. Their whirring wings and bright patterns help keep them safe from birds, study finds. 🧪🦋 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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All of a flutter: how butterflies avoid being a predator’s lunch

Their whirring wings and bright patterns help keep them safe from birds, British study finds

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 11h

Gold beetles to Darwin's finds - the 70 million museum artefacts going online. Researchers are using AI to create a vast digital museum of millions of specimens from collections across the UK that they say could "supercharge" our understanding of the natural world. 🧪🔬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Gold beetles to Darwin's finds - the 70 million museum artefacts going online

More than 70 million specimens from 100 UK collections will be put into an online digital museum

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

High screen time can hurt children’s learning & language skills, study suggests. Effect of elevated screen exposure could be as significant as parental behaviour & premature birth. Higher screen time also linked to poorer language development. 🧪💻📱 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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High screen time can hurt children’s learning and language skills, study suggests

Effect of elevated screen exposure could be as significant as parental behaviour and premature birth, report says

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Elephants use medicinal plants to treat themselves, researchers find. Accounts from local wildlife scouts & community elders described elephants selecting particular plants when they seemed unwell & mothers reportedly giving medicinal plant material to their calves. 🧪🐘 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say

African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Daniel Thomas, the far-right agitator & anti-migrant activist, has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage with intent to endanger life, two days after he filmed himself slashing the side of a dinghy in the middle of the Channel while a rescuer was on board. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel

Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bats originated in Europe, rewriting mammals’ family tree, study reveals. The earliest modern bat ancestors dispersed from Europe into Africa, then to Asia, the Americas & Australia. Echolocation, like flight, also evolved near the dawn of bat evolution. 🧪🦇🧬 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Bats originated in Europe, rewriting mammals’ family tree, study reveals

Biggest study of its kind provides insights into bats’ evolution – a potential gamechanger for research into human virus and cancer treatment

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Simon Cleary @simoncleary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

First preprint from the lab! We found that fluorescence imaging of fibrillar collagen with fast green FCF is useful for imaging pulmonary fibrosis: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Two images showing fast green FCF staining of fibrillar collagen in magenta. An image of a fibrotic sample on the right shows higher intensity and prevalence of staining compared to a healthy control sample on the left.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A spotted cat from the forests of Bolivia has been confirmed as a new species. It had been found in the forest by a local resident, who initially thought it was a domestic kitten. As it grew older it became clear that it did not behave like a house cat.... 🧪😾 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Spotted wildcat from Bolivian forest revealed as new species

A spotted wildcat long mistaken for relatives has been identified as a new species in Bolivia.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Patients in England with a specific type of incurable breast cancer can now access a life-extending drug on the NHS, 2 years after it was deemed too expensive. Enhertu can give patients almost 7 extra months to live - with some living up to 3 years longer. 🧪💊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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New hope for breast cancer patients as life-extending drug now on NHS in England

Enhertu, which can give patients an extra seven months to live on average, has been prescribed in Scotland for more than two years and is available.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AI will inevitably kill-off the human race as they can easily target our Achilles vagina. 🤖

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A Shire horse that has entered the record books as the world's tallest living horse could exceed his current height as he is still growing. Hugo, who lives in Towcester, England, has already reached an "abnormal" 199cm tall, about 6.5ft, or 19.2 hands. 🧪🐴 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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World's tallest living horse based in Towcester 'still growing'

Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Cruising on the Danube for the conference dinner at the 2026 International Alport Syndrome Workshop. 🤩

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A kidney transplanted from a pig has worked inside a patient for 271 days – the longest on record, say US doctors. The team at Mass General Brigham hospital say their work shows pig organs can be used as a "bridge" until a human transplant becomes available. 🧪🐷🫘 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Care is advised: GLP-1 agonists may turn you into a rat. 🧪🐭

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Staggering 90% of biomedical papers now show signs of AI help. The figure, which is much higher than previous estimates of large-language-model use, is for papers published in December 2025 & archived in PubMed. 🧪🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Staggering 90% of biomedical papers now show signs of AI help

The figure, which is much higher than previous estimates of large-language-model use, is for papers published in December and archived in PubMed.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A “superhuman” AI tool can spot heart disease in less than two seconds. The groundbreaking technology has been trained on millions of patients & works by extracting more information from a routine electrocardiogram (ECG) than the human eye can see. 🧪🫀📈🩺🤖 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds

Technology trained on millions of routine ECGs could fast-track high-risk patients for treatment

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

NHS to offer free high-street cholesterol tests in England. “By making it easier for people to get a quick & convenient cholesterol health check .. we can spot ticking timebombs .. & prevent heart attacks & strokes before they happen. 🧪🩸 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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NHS to offer free high-street cholesterol tests in England

Checks at pharmacies for people aged 40 to 84 are aimed at identifying those at risk of heart attack or stroke

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Cholesterol-lowering statins can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke for people aged over 70, with a low risk of serious side effects, a 10-year study has found. The risk of a first major cardiovascular event decreased by 30% for those aged >70. 🧪💊🫀 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Statins can safely cut risk of heart attacks or strokes in healthy people aged over 70, world-first clinical trial shows

Australian-led trial finds low risk of side effects from common cholesterol-lowering medication for otherwise healthy older people

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A fox cub is having swimming sessions in a hydrotherapy pool to help his recovery after he was hit by a car. Assisted swimming with his designated carer from the rescue centre will help rebuild his confidence & strength. 🧪🦊🤿 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Hydrotherapy pool helps fox cub to recover after he was injured in Huthwaite

Chance is rehabilitating and learning to use his legs again on assisted swims.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Life comes at you fast

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Canada is hiring dozens of researchers away from US universities, including top research institutions such as Harvard as its relationship with its neighbour continues to sour. >75%of professors moving to Canada from around the world will come from the US. 🧪🔬🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Canada poaches dozens of top US researchers for its universities

Researchers in fields like climate and medicine are being lured north by new research funding.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The US FDA has approved a treatment for pancreatic cancer that in clinical trials nearly doubled the overall survival time for patients. Those who took daily daraxonrasib had an average survival time of 13.2 months, compared to 6.6 months for those on chemotherapy. 🧪💊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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FDA approves breakthrough drug daraxonrasib to treat pancreatic cancer

Experts have hailed the drug, daraxonrasib, as a game changer for one of the world's deadliest cancers.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack & stroke, study finds. Researchers say benefits of two-dose Shingrix vaccine could be comparable to taking daily blood pressure medication. 🧪💉🦠❤️ #vaccines www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds

Researchers say benefits of two-dose Shingrix vaccine could be comparable to taking daily blood pressure medication

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New study says as many as 97.7% of #NFL players who died between 2016 & 2021 could have had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease related to repeated blows to the head. 🧪🧠🏈 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/americ...

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NFL: At least one in four dead players had brain disease, says study

A new study says at least one in four ex-NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had a degenerative brain disease but the true figure could be much higher.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The El Niño event developing over the Pacific Ocean is likely to be the strongest in living memory, the UK Met Office has warned. Added to the effects of human-induced climate change, they warn it is "very likely" that 2027 will be the hottest year on record. 🧪🌍🔥 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

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El Niño set to be 'strongest in living memory', says Met Office

Scientists say the growing El Niño weather pattern is an "unprecedented event" and means 2027 is likely to be the world's hottest year on record.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Vaccine breakthrough stops cancer returning in trial. Personalised vaccine given in combination with a drug has stopped skin cancer returning in patients during a trial, representing a potentially watershed moment in cancer treatment. 🧪💉💊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone (ULEZ). Researchers found that children in London whose lung growth had been stunted by pollution showed impressive improvements after the introduction of a ULEZ in 2019 reduced emissions. 🧪🚙🛻🚛🚚🫁 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone

Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Extreme heat more dangerous for people aged 60+ than previously thought. Study finds older adults could face harmful heat stress at just 1.5C of warming above preindustrial levels. 🧪🌡️👵👨‍🦳 #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Extreme heat more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought

Study finds older adults could face harmful heat stress at just 1.5C of warming above preindustrial levels

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Billy Caldwell has a severe form of epilepsy, which at one point had him suffering hundreds of "life-threatening" seizures a day. After a legal battle, Billy was prescribed a cannabis-based medicine which stopped his seizures. 🧪🧠 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Billy Caldwell: How the boy who changed medicinal cannabis laws is thriving

Billy Caldwell from Castlederg in County Tyrone has a severe form of epilepsy, which at one point had him suffering hundreds of "life-threatening" seizures a day.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The British Media Vs. Plagiarism

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
British Journalists are relaxing on lilos in the sea. Someone on the shore yells “Hey Guys! An academic got accused of plagiarism”

Panel 2:
One of the journalists sticks out their tongue and says “Pffft. Wake me when there’s a real story”

Panel 3:
Person on shore “He was black”

Panel 4:
The sea explodes as a tidal wave of British Journalists erupt into the air, manic and desperate to report on this now vital for some reason piece of news

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Men are turning to penis fillers, but are they safe? Jason says he wasn't motivated by swaggering alpha masculinity - "I don't subscribe to 'how big your dick is, is how big of a man you are'". Rather, he says expectations of male beauty have shifted. 🧪🍆😬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Men are turning to penis fillers, but are they safe?

Men who have had the procedure can expect 10-20% more girth for the next six to nine months - but it can go wrong.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What is The Telegraph going to write about now?

A vast list of Telegraph articles hounding Jason Arday

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Killer fungus: how a disease threatening bat species has spread to northern Canada. Bat experts were shocked at how fast white-nose syndrome had reached Canada’s northernmost colonies from the US. Now, the race is on to find a cure before species disappear. 🧪🦇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Killer fungus: how a disease threatening bat species has spread to northern Canada

Bat experts were shocked at how fast white-nose syndrome had reached Canada’s northernmost colonies from the US. Now, the race is on to find a cure before species disappear

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Checkmate, Nige.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Where are you ticklish? Researchers map the sensation across cultures. People from Chinese, Dutch & Greek cultural backgrounds have the same ‘tickle hotspots’ on the body. In support of Darwin's original theory, ticklishness is stronger in rarely touched areas. 🤭🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Where are you ticklish? Researchers map the sensation across cultures

People from Chinese, Dutch and Greek cultural backgrounds have the same ‘tickle hotspots’ on the body. And ticklishness is stronger in rarely touched areas.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Scientists invent 'world's greenest party balloon'. Researchers say standard balloons can take years to break down & can release harmful chemicals. But their new balloon biodegrades within nine months. 🧪🎈 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Scientists invent 'world's greenest balloon'

Imperial College London experts say standard party balloons can take years to break down.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

BTS K-pop star V reveals hearing loss battle during livestream. "If the hearing in my left ear is at 100, it's only about 30 in my right," said V, whose real name is Kim Tae-hyung. V said his hearing became worse when he was serving in the military. 🧪💥👂🏼🦻🏼 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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BTS: V reveals hearing loss battle during livestream

The K-pop star says he has suffered hearing issues for over two years before revealing it publicly this week.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

All the gear & no idea. Richmond Hill, SW London. #eclipse

Crowds gathered on Richmond Hill, SW London

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing. Organoids & tissues grown from human cells promise more accurate results, with £20m Cambridge project to create standardised models. 🧪🔬🐭 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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‘A mouse can’t tell us what works’: UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing

Organoids and tissues grown from human cells promise more accurate results, with £20m Cambridge project to create standardised models

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Aug 12 (Reuters) - Britain's health regulator on Wednesday reaffirmed the safety of childhood vaccination & endorsed it as an effective, safe way to safeguard against serious infectious diseases. 🧪💉🦠

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Scientists have worked out what is going on inside a dog's brain when it sees a human - even a complete stranger - smiling or scowling. Photos of happy, smiling human faces made an area of the brain that is associated with reward "light up" with activity. 🧪🐕 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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We should smile at our dogs - a new scientific study reveals why

Scientists have worked out what is going on inside a dog's brain when it sees a human smiling or scowling.

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