Dr M
@ivalaine.bsky.social
Cat Lover. Equalist. Ex-respiratory, microbiology and cancer researcher now in clinical trials. Opinions are my own
I have listened to the kpop demon hunters soundtrack like 100 times. I was never a fan of soda pop as catchy as it was. But my husband recently pointed out it is referencing the demons want to drink the humans souls. Mind blown!
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I have listened to the kpop demon hunters soundtrack like 100 times. I was never a fan of soda pop as catchy as it was. But my husband recently pointed out it is referencing the demons want to drink the humans souls. Mind blown!
Scientists should be saying “it’s time to look at the psychological impact on people of using these things” these people arent on to anything. They’re lonely and desperate.
November 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Scientists should be saying “it’s time to look at the psychological impact on people of using these things” these people arent on to anything. They’re lonely and desperate.
Hmm Telstra no longer allows access to their secret starter plan (cheaper than cheapest online) without a concession. But if you have a health card or pensioner card on top they will knock $19 off. Im kinda stuck with Telstra as my folks wont change and i manage the account so have to be in it
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hmm Telstra no longer allows access to their secret starter plan (cheaper than cheapest online) without a concession. But if you have a health card or pensioner card on top they will knock $19 off. Im kinda stuck with Telstra as my folks wont change and i manage the account so have to be in it
Well that unexpectedly blew up overnight. Love the love for medicine/science getting a major win
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Well that unexpectedly blew up overnight. Love the love for medicine/science getting a major win
If we are rebooting never ending story, can we not kill Artax and NOT scar a generation of kids. Settle for scarring them via a terrifying expensive CGI nothing instead that literally sucks the light into itself.
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
If we are rebooting never ending story, can we not kill Artax and NOT scar a generation of kids. Settle for scarring them via a terrifying expensive CGI nothing instead that literally sucks the light into itself.
Here is a rare example of women being the focus of science and medicine and men missing out: males can get HPV. They can pass it on to females who can get cervical cancer. Or the males can develop reproductive cancers too. But whilst there is a test now for HPV itself (papsmear doesnt look for HPV)
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Here is a rare example of women being the focus of science and medicine and men missing out: males can get HPV. They can pass it on to females who can get cervical cancer. Or the males can develop reproductive cancers too. But whilst there is a test now for HPV itself (papsmear doesnt look for HPV)
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
Not. Cool. Vic
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in move criticised by human rights groups
Victoria police will have the power to conduct warrant-less pat-downs, search cars and move people on in Melbourne’s CBD for six months, in a move human rights and legal groups have described as a “vast overreach”.
Police on Tuesday declared the CBD, Docklands, Southbank, the sporting and entertainment precinct and parts of East Melbourne and South Melbourne as a “designated area” from Sunday, until 29 May 2026. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Not. Cool. Vic
This is acing public health. This is how it’s done. Would like to see this from every gov. Just honest transparency.
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This is acing public health. This is how it’s done. Would like to see this from every gov. Just honest transparency.
My grumpy old girl just jumped up into the second scoop of the cat tree in my office WHILST LITTLE KIT WAS IN THE FIRST SCOOP. This is so huge. Course little one then skippity bapped her and when i interjected she jumped down. But this is massive progress
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
My grumpy old girl just jumped up into the second scoop of the cat tree in my office WHILST LITTLE KIT WAS IN THE FIRST SCOOP. This is so huge. Course little one then skippity bapped her and when i interjected she jumped down. But this is massive progress
Remember when we did this with wikipedia to show that it needed fact checking?
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Remember when we did this with wikipedia to show that it needed fact checking?
Want trials for long covid. Not sure how i feel about it being GLP-1 based.
Founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, @erictopol.bsky.social, and Julia Moore Vogel, co–principal investigator of the Long COVID Treatment Trial, were featured in @wired.com, sharing insights on a nationwide study testing GLP-1s for long COVID.
Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound Is Being Tested as a Treatment for Long Covid
GLP-1s are being studied for a wide range of conditions. Now, scientists will test whether their anti-inflammatory properties can help alleviate symptoms of long Covid.
ow.ly
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Want trials for long covid. Not sure how i feel about it being GLP-1 based.
Reposted by Dr M
When I was 4, Mum's best friend lived next door. I played with her kids. She died in an iron lung at 26. My aunt was in a leg brace from age 3. My best friend wore a back brace for years. My guy's aunt died at 28. She had 3 kids.
All from polio.
It's horrific.
Vaccines are life savers. USE THEM.
All from polio.
It's horrific.
Vaccines are life savers. USE THEM.
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
When I was 4, Mum's best friend lived next door. I played with her kids. She died in an iron lung at 26. My aunt was in a leg brace from age 3. My best friend wore a back brace for years. My guy's aunt died at 28. She had 3 kids.
All from polio.
It's horrific.
Vaccines are life savers. USE THEM.
All from polio.
It's horrific.
Vaccines are life savers. USE THEM.
How does a website design cost $75m like surely even a website like the BoM doesnt cost more than a million to overhaul? Its now so appallingly bad ive stopped using it
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
How does a website design cost $75m like surely even a website like the BoM doesnt cost more than a million to overhaul? Its now so appallingly bad ive stopped using it
And Thanksgiving was a raging success. A lot of skepticism about the sweet potato mash and marshmallow topper but once they tasted it… the Turducken was a beast so we will be having turducken tacos tomorrow though
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
And Thanksgiving was a raging success. A lot of skepticism about the sweet potato mash and marshmallow topper but once they tasted it… the Turducken was a beast so we will be having turducken tacos tomorrow though
So ive seen the musical 5 times, but watching the movie ending today i realised that the ending is that the coloured girl with all the actual talent and morals couldnt get anyone to listen to her so the pretty white talentless girl had to do it because everyone trusted her. At least she got the man?
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
So ive seen the musical 5 times, but watching the movie ending today i realised that the ending is that the coloured girl with all the actual talent and morals couldnt get anyone to listen to her so the pretty white talentless girl had to do it because everyone trusted her. At least she got the man?
Wonder it any previous years vax might offer even a little protection against subclade k
New Flu Mutation Causes Severe Illness: See Latest MA Data.
patch.com/massachusett...
patch.com/massachusett...
New Flu Mutation Causes Severe Illness: See Latest MA Data
Massachusetts emergency rooms typically see an increase in COVID-19, influenza and RSV rates during the holidays.
patch.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Wonder it any previous years vax might offer even a little protection against subclade k
I hope it includes not calling things vaccines which arent. Vaccine hesitant parents might be more open to protective antibodies, similar to what you get in breast milk/colustrum from mum.
Public health experts call for action on Respiratory Syncytial Virus – globally and locally www.croakey.org/public-healt...
Public health experts call for action on Respiratory Syncytial Virus – globally and locally
www.croakey.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I hope it includes not calling things vaccines which arent. Vaccine hesitant parents might be more open to protective antibodies, similar to what you get in breast milk/colustrum from mum.
Reposted by Dr M
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
A calculator is trained on a set of agreed apon rules. The times tables, bodmas etc. you enter the commands it will always follow those rules. Imagine if every calculator was programmed by a different person and their memory of those rules. Not all of them passed highschool maths. Thats ChatGPT.
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A calculator is trained on a set of agreed apon rules. The times tables, bodmas etc. you enter the commands it will always follow those rules. Imagine if every calculator was programmed by a different person and their memory of those rules. Not all of them passed highschool maths. Thats ChatGPT.
Nope. It is like asking 1000 people to do the calculation. 980 know how to do it properly. 10 of them make a mistake using the calculator. 20 have no clue at all. ChatGPT is like rolling the dice on which answer you get each time.
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Nope. It is like asking 1000 people to do the calculation. 980 know how to do it properly. 10 of them make a mistake using the calculator. 20 have no clue at all. ChatGPT is like rolling the dice on which answer you get each time.
Reposted by Dr M
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Does it have a ponytail? I swear headrests safety is stuffed the moment you have a ponytail that pushes your head away from the headrest. I would very much like to see this tested
After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast. n.pr/48r84mJ
The female crash test dummy has been a long time coming — but she isn't here yet
After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast.
n.pr
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Does it have a ponytail? I swear headrests safety is stuffed the moment you have a ponytail that pushes your head away from the headrest. I would very much like to see this tested
Reposted by Dr M
After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast. n.pr/48r84mJ
The female crash test dummy has been a long time coming — but she isn't here yet
After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast.
n.pr
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast. n.pr/48r84mJ
Reposted by Dr M
No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.
Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.