Eva
eva-lymb.bsky.social
Eva
@eva-lymb.bsky.social
Neuroscience, microbiome, and AI. 🧠🦠💻
PhD student in AI-enabled healthcare @UCL. Microbiome Data Scientist at BioCorteX.
(she/her)
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The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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An important graph and caption on the impact of Covid www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Very honoured to have written a little something for @aeon.co about zero, absence, and consciousness. It was a real pleasure to write, and very curious to know what people think!

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#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #consci
March 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Supply chain destruction - deforestation, treating the planet as a mine and a dumping ground. It has to stop

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Richest nations ‘exporting extinction’ with demand for beef, palm oil and timber
Consumption in wealthy countries including US and UK is responsible for 13% of global forest loss beyond their borders, study finds
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Nearly half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture.

Of this global agricultural land, 80% is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
February 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM