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Professor Kevin Mills

@profkevinmills.bsky.social
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Professor, University College London based at Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health. Lover of cats and Welsh rugby. Views are my own, not my employer.

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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The world just keeps on being madder and madder. The media must take a huge responsibility for facilitating and then not holding these nutjob politicians to account.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is coolest of deers, a wild animal coming this close
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
'You boy, has Mr Farage explained how he paid for his house yet? '
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Mother of sausages
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Amazing how this is all over the right wing media, I can't stop seeing stories on it. (I'm lying)
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Congratulations to Dr Claire Leckey my PhD student. Using stable isotope labelled leucine we measured synthesis and turnover of neurofilament light in patients. The protein turns over very slowly showing brain trials need long timelines to reveal benefit. academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Stable isotope labelling kinetics of neurofilament light
Leckey et al. report novel measures of neurofilament light chain kinetics in the human central nervous system using stable isotope labelling. Translation o
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This is excellent news, well done Labour. The only way to combat extreme views and anti science is through education. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
theguardian.com
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Da iawn Caerphilly, da iawn Wales.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Great work by our research group demonstrating the devasting effect of small increases in these extremely low level lyso-lipids on the neurotoxicity of neuronal cells. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Glucosylsphingosine affects mitochondrial function in a neuronal cell model - Communications Biology
Exogenous addition of glucosylsphingosine affects cellular energy metabolism in SH-Sy5y cell line via changes in mitochondrial function and glycolysis. It also induces an increase in protein ubiquitin...
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Interloper spotted at the boardroom meeting of GSL
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
GSL is a private public partnership UCL spin out with the neurometabolic unit at the National Hospital. Dr Lam presented our model for the acceleration of our research tests into the NHS at the UCLH research open day. This will probably result in the accelerated translaton by at least 5 years.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Commiserations with Andrew Neil this morning as green and renewal energy supply most of the power to the uk and recent great trade deals with the EU and the US
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Quite a lot to unpack here but Professors are more Dumbledore than Moriaty in my experience. Clever and educated people tend to caring and nice. The review process kicks up a few Skeletors from He-Man but that's it..........
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Thoughts and prays with Andrew Neil this morning as renewables and wind powers the UK. And not fossil fuels. Again.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Very sad to hear the passing of George Foreman, a monstrous puncher and a truly great human being. We've lost a lovely, caring and exceptionally interesting man. A true great.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Your body makes 42.52g of formaldehyde a day?
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Very interesting use of graphics to demonstrate movement of front lines during ww1. The collapse at the end is remarkable. Shows statistics can be misleading, up until late 1918 you'd never have backed Germany to lose. ( @peterhart.bsky.social @garyba.bsky.social ) www.reddit.com/r/ww1/s/0ZP2...
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From the ww1 community on Reddit: WW1 Western Front progression ( 1914-1919 )
Explore this post and more from the ww1 community
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I have woken up to find that during charging overnight, one of of my earbuds has disappeared and the other was covered in cat gob. Money is on Willow as the culprit as Ichabod is generally asleep.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Can anyone tell me why the US cutting Alzheimer's research funding is good? The desire to pay no tax for personal gain instead of paying a little bit to defeat this awful disease is insane.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Thoughts and prays with Andrew Neil this morning as wind turbines send him into a twitter supernova this morning. (again)
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Thoughts and prays with Andrew Neil this morning news.sky.com/story/extra-...
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Extra two million NHS appointments in Labour's first five months, figures show
The extra NHS appointments, delivered in part by extra evening and weekend working, means Labour's manifesto commitment for two million a year was met seven months early.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I do love you taking the Michael out of Peter!
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
He's still raging this morning on Twitter
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Still cannot believe Peter actually had the foresight and privilege of meeting and interviewing so many of the soldiers who were involved in the stories and battles of ww1
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Big shout out to @peterhart.bsky.social and @garyba.bsky.social for their ww1 podcast that keeps me company on the tube to work. They make history so much more interesting as they include the personal experiences of the soldiers that fought.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Serious question here, if we want to provide clean(ish) affordable energy and more importantly energy security, why don't we build more nuclear power stations and make them state owned? (and put a clause in saying they can never be privatised or sold off if Margaret comes back from the other side)
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Thoughts and prays with Andrew Neil reading this after his marathon frothing at the mouth, 6 week twitterfest rant saying Rachel Reeves and the new government are fools.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
What an amazing journalist she is, makes me proud to be British.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Imagine having Victoria Derbyshire as your examiner for a Phd.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I just went on the hell hole next door and see Piers Morgan is advocating Elon Musk sort out the NHS. A man with private health insurance suggesting Musk could make the NHS better. Twitter opinions make as much sense as monkey tennis
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I hate cooking after working at a lab doing precision cooking for 20 years. This has not escaped my wife who said how can you not even boil an egg. So I did my own research, in my own kitchen, didn't tell her & worked out how to make the perfect boiled egg. These guys are amateurs, UCL Profs rock.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We are allowed to have fun and bring our skills to the masses in our own kitchens
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Crack an egg into a cup containing cling film Wrap up and tie into a little sack (it will look like a teardrop) Bring a big pan of water to a violent boil As egg in cling film for 4.5 min Remove cling film, perfect soft boiled egg Professor of Biochemistry out
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Statesman like, eloquent and in two languages. Very, very impressive.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
We have been lied to, and as such, obviously Wales now needs to become the major hub of commerce, science and House of Parliament in the UK. No time to waste. (I may be biased)
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Thoughts and prays with Andrew Neil this morning after his 3 week twitter tirade about Rachel Reeves destroying growth, the economy and all hope. news.sky.com/story/anothe...
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FTSE 100 reaches another record high as January is the best month in more than two years
Tech stock sell off over AI investment fears and the expectation of cheaper borrowing through more interest rate cuts are boosting the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The ref in the Wales versus French match was shocking. Surely the linesmen and TMO could have stepped in to say he was literally missing everything the French did and making up stuff to penalise Wales.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
GB News is lashing out because our campaign is working. Let's stop them bringing Trump's playbook to the UK: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news #StartSpreadingLove #StopFundingHate
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
How long do we have to wait before we can start asking for referendum on re-joining the EU? I would say 15 years is more than long enough to see if there is a benefit or not, so about 2030?
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Thoughts and prays with Andrew Neil as he goes through his marathon stint of tweeting 'Rachel Reeves is a fool'.
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Wales is massive!
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Cachu Hwch is a Welsh expression to describe how I felt at 6am this morning after catching my son's cold. However, the humble ibuprofen has subsequently changed my medical landscape this morning. What a remarkable drug. (apologies for the split infinitive)
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Battlefield 1
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
After a rubbish week of countless meetings and lectures, Darwin Nunez rescues it for me 💪
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Thoughts and prays with Andrew Neil today as inflation falls
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Professor Kevin Mills @profkevinmills.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
If you'd like to come, I am very happy to show you how we are translating our PD blood test that uses AI and explain how we have managed to get it into clinical practise. We think we have solved the translational conundrum, that valley of death for research tests that never get into clinical use.
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