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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈

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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Crickets
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
What happens if you give sloths adrenaline? Apparently it causes a rapid increase in their heart rate and blood pressure, and intense physiological stress. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2893682/
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Responses of the three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, to some commonly used pharmacologic agents. I. Autonomic drugs - PubMed
1. Sloths are very responsive to epinephrine and norepinephrine; i.v. injection of 1 microgram/kg elevates systolic pressure 80 and 90% respectively. 2. Doses as low as 0.01 microgram/kg of epinephrine as well as norepinephrine raise diastolic pressure. 3. Similarity of effects of these catecholamin …
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Happy Easter!
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The FDA recently said it plans to make more drugs available OTC this year: "One drug being evaluated for possible approval under the program is a gene therapy known as DB-OTO for a congenital form of deafness." www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Speeding Up Approvals, Getting More Drugs OTC Among FDA's Top Priorities
'We can do better,' commissioner says
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Is AI an anti-rivalous good (or technically, a non-rivalrous good with network effects)? Arguably, yes. Its value increases for everyone as more people share and use it, rather than being depleted by consumption. It's not "used up" like a physical product. Also posted on X: x.com/ChristofferB...
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Mechanisms of LDL-C/ApoB-lowering therapies. Also posted this on X/Twitter: x.com/ChristofferB...
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Hegel was on to something when he wrote about dialectical idealism. Two opposites (thesis and antithesis) can be united and merge into a higher unity (symbiosis). Also known as a PB&J.
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Reverse sunk cost bias: The tendency to end a project prematurely, when it is half-finished or almost finished, after we have invested significant amount of time/effort/resources in it.
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Hvorfor drikker Jeppe? Vel, kanskje han bare er høy på Åpenhet og lav på Ekstroversjon. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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From Personality to Pour: How Consumer Traits Shape Wine Preferences and Alcohol Choices
Objective This study aims to examine how personality traits influence consumer preferences for wine alcohol content (ABV), an area that remains underexplored in wine marketing research. Method Dra...
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
På tide å gjøre et kvantesprang!
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Vaksiner er svært bra og viktig for barn. Vil du bidra til at flere barn blir vaksinert? Dette tar 10 sekunder med Vipps, men bidrar potensielt til å redde et helt liv. gieffektivt.no/innsamling/e...
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En stor gave til et lite liv
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
#BlackFriday These kind of purchases makes us happy: 1. Experiences: Trips, travel and activities. 2. Time-saving: Services like grocery delivery or cleaning services free up time. 3. Altruism: “Pro-social” spending, like gifts and donations to charities. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We just published a critical review of the KETO-CTA study — the first study to examine coronary plaque progression in Lean Mass Hyper-Responders (LMHRs) on a ketogenic diet. Here’s why we believe the study’s results have been seriously misrepresented. 1/14
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Mendelian randomization study: "Concordantly, we observed that genetic variation in ABCG5/8 that associated with a 5.9% reduction in LDL cholesterol was also associated with an odds ratio for MI of 0.83 (i.e., a 17% lower risk)." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The ABCG5/8 Cholesterol Transporter and Myocardial Infarction Versus Gallstone Disease
The study sought to test the hypothesis that genetic variation in ABCG5/8, the transporter responsible for intestinal and hepatobiliary cholesterol ef…
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Christoffer Baustad Nilsen 🐈 @christofferbn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
print('Hello, world!')
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