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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🌍 #WorldMicrobiomeDay 2025 At @halllab.bsky.social we’re uncovering how microbes - right from day one - help shape the gut, strengthen immunity, and protect against infection. We're exploring how, when, and which microbes colonise - in order to develop interventions for a healthier start to life.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

An excellent rapid response from Katharine Cheston to this awful BMJ opinion piece.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I remain completely unaware of most of the causes that other people are trying to raise my awareness about. So why should I expect them to become aware of the things I want them to be aware of.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Raising awareness of things is difficult now because people are trying to raise awareness of all sorts of things every day and week. It's just a constant cacophony of appeals to our awareness and there is only so much awareness to go around.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Such good weather and sunny evenings lately.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It could be if it is gut microbiome research. Then the toilet is the source of all knowledge.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Is this strike in a Paris library the first to improve indoor air quality? Most interesting because no one in Britain seems to have hear about indoor air quality yet. Screenshot of the google translated article in English. www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Maux-de-tete...

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Blaming Ukraine for starting the war is the "She shouldn't have dressed provocatively" of international politics.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I've never liked noisy environments like loud pubs because I simply cannot distinguish anything anybody says. I just hear everything at once. Even though I have very good hearing as I can hear very faint distant sounds very well. I have never used anything like noise cancelling headphones though.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"But, for some, those background noises can become so overwhelming that they distract them from recognising voices or alerts." This is interesting about auditory processing disorder. I've always experienced something like this in noisy environments. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people

More young people are presenting to audiology teams in England with difficulty processing sound.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Key findings: More advanced liver cirrhosis and acute liver failure = higher Enterococcus in the gut. In order of severity: Healthy = Healthy controls. Stable= Stable cirrhosis. Decomp = Decompensated cirrhosis. ACLF = Acute-on-chronic liver failure.

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

💡 Targeting gut microbiota may restore gut-liver axis homeostasis in CLD! Strategies like prebiotics, probiotics, FMT & tailored antibiotics could prevent Enterococcus dominance & slow disease progression. Huge thanks to everyone involved - this was a massive team effort!

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

📊 Key findings: ✅ Advanced cirrhosis = higher Enterococcus, lower beneficial anaerobes (Roseburia, Ruminococcus, Faecalibacterium) ✅ Microbial shifts correlate with systemic inflammation & gut barrier dysfunction ✅ Lower urinary hippurate & TMAO suggest microbial metabolic changes 📉 #ACLF

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Really excited that @matthewjdalby.bsky.social is able to share this exciting collaborative study with @drvishalcpatel.bsky.social - its been a long-time coming! We explore how gut #microbiome alterations drive systemic inflammation & immune dysfunction in chronic liver disease (CLD) #LiverDisease

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Potato the cat keeping me company while I'm resting.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Not sure about the patient confidentiality though. All your deepest thoughts belong to the Chinese Communist Party now.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

""DeepSeek has been such an amazing counsellor. It has helped me look at things from different perspectives and does a better job than the paid counselling services I have tried," says Holly..." Will AI be replacing therapists? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

'DeepSeek brought me to tears': How young Chinese find therapy in AI

Some young people in China are finding that AI can offer the unexpected - emotional support

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Nuking climate change with a truly massive nuclear bomb under the ocean is certainly an inventive idea. youtu.be/aGPKpx6pMko?...

youtu.be

A Big Nuclear Bomb Could Fix Climate Change, Physicist Says

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

One of my sansevieria plants is growing flower buds. Drops of nectar form under the flower buds before they open.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

People campaigning for more low-carbon energy seems like a good thing.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The Science Media Centre continues their malignant influence on journalists promoting some really bad people.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I think it's normal for society to be more willing to make accommodations for larger majorities of people. I don't see this as a personal victimisation of myself.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Not enough of a fan of naturalness to walk.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"Air pollution and brain damage: what the science says Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine how pollutants do their damage, and how much harm they cause." Seems worth reducing it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Air pollution and brain damage: what the science says

Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine how pollutants do their damage, and how much harm they cause.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Experts: "Public health is political." *politicization of public health* Politicians: "I can do public health now?" Experts:

A cartoon in which the character says "oh no".

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Cochrane is continuing to protect bad science on this topic. But unfortunately their authority still carries weight.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Experts: "Public health is political." *politicization of public health* Politicians: "I can do public health now?" Experts:

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

On social media a misunderstanding can make it around the world before the correction has gotten its boots on.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

More cringe than can be contained within a single relationship.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"They were minted between 22 and 79 CE" Time for the Bank of England to release some 2000 year anniversary commemorative coins?

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The viruses need to be removed from the air without the staff even knowing about it.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We need high levels of automated air filtration and ventilation in medical facilities because a lot of medical staff just aren't going to understand or care about infection control.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It's a good quote from Richard Horton but it would have been better if he'd tried to do something about it since then.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"From 2005 to 2020, the share of households that didn’t purchase any meat at the grocery store increased from 4.1 to 4.6 percent ... The share of households purchasing no animal products... doubled, from a tiny 0.5 percent to a still-tiny 1 percent." New diet data. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

vox.com

Americans are eating less meat. And more meat. How?

The growing chasm in American meat consumption, explained.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Science as a field can endeavour to be impartial though. But if you make science a partisan activity those who disagree with you politically will stop trusting scientific evidence because they won't trust you to be impartial. Probably with some justification.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It's a difficult question to explore without more large good quality randomised placebo controlled trials. There just haven't been enough trials large enough to identify responder groups and we need to know how many people would appear to be responders in the placebo groups.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Somebody had to beat the Mongols.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Undersea cables drama going on in the Baltic.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

First snow of the winter falling this evening.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"Trump and the triumph of illiberal democracy How Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic establishment sealed the fate of the progressive regime they sought to renew." Interesting read. I'm not quite so pessimistic as the future seems quite unstable. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

newstatesman.com

Trump and the triumph of illiberal democracy

How Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic establishment sealed the fate of the progressive regime they sought to renew.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I was inspired to search for some more unusual orchids online this year after visiting the flower market in Taiwan. For some reason we rarely see any orchids except the regular Phalaenopsis orchids in the shops in Britain.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A new fragrant orchid. Oncidium Katrin Zoch. Fragrance is difficult to describe but the flowers smell something a bit like sweets or chocolate.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Triggering dysautonomia seems like a good way to trigger PEM/PENE too.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This Pilea peperomioides keeps getting taller. Now relying on a bamboo cane to hold it up.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This year I thinned them out when they tiny and removed all but one olive on each twig. I think that allowed more energy to be put in each olive instead of getting many pea sized ones.

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Matthew Dalby @matthewjdalby.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is the first year that my little olive tree in the back yard has actually produced some olives. I don't know whether there is much flesh on these olives as they are quite small. Perhaps enough to make a teaspoon of olive oil.

A photo of some olives growing on an olive tree branch.

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