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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📰 "Scotland may have witnessed a landmark moment: for the first time in Edinburgh, cars were outnumbered by bicycles during morning rush hour on a key commuter route... a sign that, as a nation, we are beginning to embrace the health benefits of active travel." www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

People travel by bike on a protected cycle lane on Leith Walk in Edinburgh.

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Implications? - #PublicHealth initiatives re:socioeconomic disparities -Workforce & service planning -Identify effective preventive & strategies to improve efﬁciency, reduce inequalities & meet growing demand Thank you #TheUrologyFoundation and @publichealthscot.bsky.social for supporting this work

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If trends continue, care for kidney stone disease could cost NHS England ~£1.82Bn in the next decade. 😮

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Procedures for kidney stone disease are roughly equivalent to the COMBINED volume of uro-oncological resections and all bladder outflow obstruction procedures

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Increasing burden of disease on NHS, increasing use of ureteroscopy.

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Trends in #KidneyStones in the last 5Y in #England and #Scotland -⬆️ clinical burden -Persistent COVID effect ->50% interventions are URS -Interventions for stones≈uro-onc resections+BPO procedures combined -Socioeconomic gradient -May cost NHS England ~£1.82Bn in next 10Y doi.org/10.1111/bju....

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Trends in kidney stone disease: a 5‐year update of stone management in England and Scotland

Objectives To describe contemporary trends in kidney stone disease (KSD)-related inpatient episodes, procedures, and costs in England and Scotland, with emphasis on post-coronavirus disease 2019 (CO...

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You have all been brilliant! Thank you for the last five weeks but also the last year of hard work. Kept the Tour Flame burning 🔥

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Oxford Population Health @oxpop.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Social inequality remains a powerful predictor of premature death, even among people who neither smoke nor drink alcohol. 🚫 This study is the largest prospective study in South Asia, following half a million adults in Chennai, India. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/kuLNOIE

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 23/06/2026

New #BMJInvestigation finds NHS trusts have failed to account for over £400m to train future doctors, raising concerns that money is being used to prop up frontline care. Medical leaders have urged trusts to stop treating universities like a “cash cow”

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“Black hole” of medical student funding: NHS trusts have failed to account for over £400m meant for training future doctors

Lack of transparency in how funding from NHS England for undergraduate medical training is spent suggests trusts are treating universities like a “cash cow,” say medical leaders in response to The BMJ...

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 21/06/2026

BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data

Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 20/05/2026

This Analysis for The BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine proposes reforms to rebuild the clinical academic pipeline www.bmj.com/content/393/...

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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Challenges and future directions for Mendelian randomization www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) @geneticssociety.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In their recent @ajhgnews.bsky.social Review, @vkarhune.bsky.social, @stevesphd.bsky.social, & co discuss the key considerations and provide advice to produce a higher standard in planning, conducting, reviewing, and interpreting cis-Mendelian randomization studies: bit.ly/48DEz0H #ASHG

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Department of Physics at the University of Oxford @oxfordphysics.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

AI can accelerate scientific discovery, but only if we maintain rigor through open data, simplicity, and human understanding. Don't delegate ethics. Read this article in full via @ox.ac.uk www.ox.ac.uk/news #AI #science #research #physics #astrophysics

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Prostate Cancer UK Professionals @prostateukprofs.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Could molecular profiling of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) improve clinical management of #ProstateCancer? Progress on this topic is reviewed by a team including Prostate Cancer UK funded Professor Yong-Jie Lu @qmbci.bsky.social in @natrevurol.nature.com. Grab a ☕ and read: bit.ly/46ti2CJ

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Becky Fisher @beckybeckyfish.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Ever applied to UK Core Surgical Training? I'd love to discuss it with you for my PhD. I've analysed all applications ever(!) & now it's time to speak to real people! All help gratefully received. Please RT! Register interest here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/yj89m1HBJz

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Kidney Precision Medicine Project @kpmproject.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Explore the KPMP Kidney Tissue Atlas today 🔍 Search markers 🧬Download raw gene data 🗺️Explore spatial data Openly accessible and designed to support discovery 🔗 atlas.kpmp.org #KPMP #KidneyResearch #OpenScience #KidneyTissueAtlas

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Oxford Medical Sciences Division @medsci.ox.ac.uk · 21/10/2025

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 ➡️

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OxKen — Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

The Oxford Kennedy MB PhD (BM DPhil) Educational Training Program

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Andrea Ganna @andganna.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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

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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 17/10/2025

Glasgow crowned the friendliest city in the UK: 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards gla.ac/3WaOyUQ

Aerial view of the University of Glasgow’s iconic Gilbert Scott Building at golden hour

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

⏰Maybe, if #DollyParton is anything to go by, working 9-5 is a risk factor to investigate….! 🔮Hopefully her treatments are smooth and her fame raises awareness of a common disease with a high burden on patients and health systems that we need to understand better.

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dolly parton is singing into a microphone while holding a guitar ..

ALT: dolly parton is singing into a microphone while holding a guitar ..

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

With colleagues at @uofglasgow.bsky.social & @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social I aim to understand more about factors affecting the Lithogenic Triad. 💡More information will let us: 🩺Treat people with stones better 🔍Identify which patients are at high risk of more stones 🛑Prevent new stones forming

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

We know common genetic changes in calcium, phosphate, & vitamin D pathways increase risk of stones doi.org/10.1172/JCI1.... This can change urine composition. We know obesity causes stones but are not yet sure why doi.org/10.1681/asn..... Obesity might affect any part of the Lithogenic Triad.

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JCI - Genetic variants predisposing to an increased risk of kidney stone disease

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I believe that three kinds of changes can increase the risk of stones forming: A *Lithogenic Triad* of: 1. Changes in urine composition 2. Changes in urine flow 3. Changes in kidney tubule wall composition

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

📚This is the topic of my research. 💎Stones affect ~20% people and half will get another within 5-10 years. 🧬Some risk is from common genetic changes. 💦Some risk is lifestyle (hydration, diet, obesity). 🔬If we can understand more about causes of stones, we can make treatments to prevent them.

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#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!

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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.

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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.

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Really enjoying a late-summer/early autumn read, courtesy of @rcsed.bsky.social. Brilliantly curated and edited @otolaryngolofox.bsky.social

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"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, Vision Zero Communications Director and road safety campaigner, addresses the 2025 Cycling Scotland Conference in Dundee.

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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...

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Botnar projects

Applications will open in September.

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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

👏 Congrats to Katherine Cory & Phil Noble - joint Cycling Champions of the Year in Scotland 2025! True champions of cycling for all 💙

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Nuffield Department of Medicine @ndm.ox.ac.uk · 30/08/2025

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

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Matthias B. Moor, MD PhD @nephmoor.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Looking for a PhD/Md-PhD candidate for a fully funded project at University Hospital Bern Switzerland to work at the intersection of kidney and bone biology. Please share, DM or comment. #NephSky #AskRenal

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Even this late in the summer, the ornamental flower beds in Victoria Park in Glasgow are still looking very colourful. #glasgow #victoriapark #flowers #glasgowparks

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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

@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

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 07/08/2025

'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

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Cities for cycling: what is needed beyond good will and cycle paths?

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Sarah Howles @sarahhowles.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Our latest with editorial. Genetic susceptibility to kidney stone disease: unveiling pathogenesis and potential therapeutic targets @jclinicalinvest @drsarahhowles jci.org/articles/view/… jci.org/articles/view/�� @celovegrove.bsky.social @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social

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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 09/08/2025

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

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Likely not helped by initiatives such as paper mills which reward for churning out publications, targeting the people seeking authorship for job applications. The consequences of these targets are not insignificant and their purpose/relevance needs to be considered. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Questionable firms tempt young doctors with ‘easy’ publications

Foreign trainees seeking U.S. medical residencies pay hefty sums to build research resumes

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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...

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Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds

Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

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Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I agree. Was also taught not to “apologise for this busy slide”- pitch it at an appropriate level so that the audience are on board with the info rather than feeling they’re barely hanging on to the message by a thread.

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Nicky Whiffin @nickywhiffin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

📣 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

Image of an old building in Oxford with the heading 'postdoc opportunities' and the text 'computational approaches to improve rare disease diagnosis and treatment' and 'Big Data Institute, University of Oxford'

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