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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If you wait long enough it finally happens.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Quite the neon fungus on pine stump.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It’s the details that cheer when the big stuff is too much.

Bright green fronds of moss growing into a circular tree stump

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This letter has been on my mind for a long time. So many people reaching out and so many stories from different health boards. Something has to change. It’s not just about the QEUH and infections. That’s been just one symptom of a deeper malaise.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

1852 and a lot of interest in air quality. Pity scientific interest in clean air waned over last 100 years @kprather.bsky.social

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

It’s good to take a breather before a tough week. Deep breaths of fresh air in Bonny Ayrshire

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

If only true reflection always generated such beauty

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Intrigued by this lung protector amongst the medical items on display in #InvararyJail - 1800s Looks like a respirator mask idea Never fails to surprise how the airborne infection concept regresses and even disappeared so comprehensively over the last few decades.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Still familiar - just an electric bulb in place of a mirror, and two eye pieces for binocular vision - but the counting chamber looks similar On a daily basis we still rely on basic Gram stain microscopy to help choose antibiotics #IveraryJail

Old microscope with mirror for light reflection to shine light into the lens through the slide. and glass slides

Old fashion stethoscope - basically just a tube with an ear piece at one end and a flat end at the other for pressing onto patient

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The wonderful attention to ventilation by prison improvement efforts of the Victorian era are inspiring. Inverary “new” prison focussed on plenty fresh air through natural ventilation. Over 150 years ago. Mind you watch out where the exhaust is placed - wouldn’t like to walk past this

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I would urge NHS staff to be very very careful when they speak up. Process exists but its safety and efficacy to deliver what it should is very much in the lacking evidence domain. Indeed we are awash with evidence that it’s a dangerous enterprise for the speaker upper. We need better.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Comparing apples with apples from my tree. It’s an undervalued skill set. Oranges don’t enter into it.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Certainly have yet to experience a glut problem in the veggie growing department.

4 big butter beans and 8 small beans on a pink rose table cloth. The sum total of the harvest.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

From up there, flying back home the world seemed serene. Like maybe humans are the issue.

Red sun in an orange glow over sea and land from an aeroplane

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

History is a strange thing. A mere 85 years ago - stout hearts from the UK endured “the worst journey ever” to assist Russia. Astonishing hardships.

An information boards about the Ww2 Arctic Convoys setting off for north west Scotland

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The aphid plague is upon us. But, against the odds we have some roses and I have to say it counts as one of my best achievements in life

Collection of yellow, deep pink and pale peach roses in multiple little glass jars on a kitchen table

Peach roses in a green glass with sunshine through

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A wee bee keeping company with the gardening. Mostly it’s aphids, snails, Lilly beetles, slugs and moulds of all sorts so this and the butterfly brought encouragement.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Green pastures in the Dales It’s a lush garden out there

Scene of dales farms with shee and lambs behind a mossy stone wall , a river and the far side of the dale bright green pastures and a blue blue sky

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The azelia has just burst out to cheer us up

Lilac coloured azelia blooms with acres of rust and gold in background

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I think we’ve got to the stage where all learning and investigative processes within toxic NHS settings need to be fully externalised with oversight from patients and staff advocacy groups. In scotland political toxicity excludes reasonable discourse when things go wrong. We need reason back.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Distracted from mums spring cleaning by Women’s magazine ads through the ages - from the sublime scientific advancement of diphtheria #vaccine in 1946 to some ropey claims about “pleasant” weight loss. 🤔

Advert I. Black and white with a drawing of a babies face with a hood and title “Diptheria costs lives”

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Spring is in full flow . Hallelujah. Been a long dreich winter.

Yellow daffodils with orange trumpet centres against maroon euphorbia with yellow / orange flowers appearing

Fritillaria flower - purple snake skin pattern - single bloom

Magnolia blooms - white multi petals in evening sunshine dry branches in background

Clump of pale vanilla fritillaries at various stages of bloom against a cherry tree trunck

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

There is a time for everything under heaven.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Heard of the sad passing of a friend today. She cared so deeply about patient safety and better NHS culture. Dr Sarah Jenkins your light shone in a dark place. Your story will be told. Miss you. Deepest condolences to those who loved her.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Gloopy but yummy . Have a lovely chocolate filled weekend

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Not panic buying because the world’s gone belly up, but dimly thought 25 kg of cake flour may fit in a jar on a shelf. That’s us sorted for cakes during Armageddon. Thanks internet shopping. Again.

Large plastic sack of cake flour that will need a massive plastic crate to house

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

When the world is bugging you, go to the hills

View of river bed from a hill with a kestrel hovering and dead bracken in the foreground . Far away hills in mist

Wallace monument in Stirling seen from Ochils with sunbeams breaking through dark clouds

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

There never is a bad time for a fresh batch, and somehow the world is less bleak.

Pile of freshly baked golden scones on an orange wire rack

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Apparently the river Aln changed its bed overnight in a storm. co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/alnmouth/his... Hoping that the #IPC comprehension of aerosol transmission switches course without the need for a ferocious tempest of infections.

Cross on a hill glowing orange in setting sun with Alnmouth village in background to right and river Aln to left

Sun setting over the bend in the River Aln with a small channel heading off into the old river bed while the larger channel goes to the new river bed

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

It is my firm belief that most days are improved by a tin of pakoras What I had never realised before is that a glass of limoncello tops it off perfectly - though I may be a barbarian. (Likely)

A tin filled with pakoras on a tablecloth of leaves. The pakoras are fresh and yummy looking

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Bacteria are the stars of Microbiology Viruses don’t do visual art with such panache Helminths, while endlessly fascinating, are unruly Fungi are just unfathomable #ScienceFirstLoves

6 pronged star yellow colony of bacteria on agar plate

Thin yellow line star shaped bacterial colony

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

“A little knowledge of statistics is not an excuse to reject all of modern science” Starting again.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Nasturtiums somehow hold the key to a rambling rambunctious happiness in the face of cold and wind even in Glasgow.

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

What do you do when your train is cancelled ? Excellent Nepali fare

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