Prolactin modulation of thermoregulatory circuits provides resilience to thermal challenge of pregnancy: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/f…

A sad day for all the right-wing wellness weirdos that can only eat grass-fed beef and dairy on their carnivore diets. It's only grain-fed American beef for you now! You'd better edit your grifter-diet books.

2 things RE Marsden announcement. You gotta think about research like a pyramid. The top pointy but is the applied stuff, the stuff that produces a product or a system change that directly causes benefit. 1 of 3

Govt subsidised planet destruction.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/02/a...

Dr Oz and RFK Jr heading health in US? They may as well throw in Jordan Bellend Peterson in too for the complete insane trifecta. US people can finally get back to the kind of health status not seen since paleolithic times with added bonus of making burden of old age dissappear. Brain worms for all!

Highlight for October is having Claire's Diabetologia paper finally published. It's been a journey, but this and other forthcoming papers are a testament to her leadership of this project. This is a super investing genetic variant. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Yesterday, I was in chilly Vancouver following a great conference #KSObesity24. Today, I'm at the beach watching dolphins leaping in the surf while i enjoy an evening swim. It's a small world and so good to be able to travel and chat to people breaking the boundaries.

Two weeks later, arm is still pretty munted. 6yo a bit gutted to find out she'll be going on a beach holiday with a full and rather hefty plaster cast.

My colleague has basically done an entire year's worth of extra work at a significant cost to get a paper (hopefully) accepted at a well-respected journal. I'm not feeling this is sustainable with the state of research funding in NZ. We are really swimming against the current and it's exhausting!

I'm back to work tomorrow. Not sure I had the right sort of Christmas BREAK this year. Certainly wasnt restful. 6YO broke three bones in her arm on Christmas eve.

We appear to have a disconnect when it comes to COVID-19.

Year / COVID deaths / Road accident deaths
2020 / 25 / 254
2021 / 26 / 261
2022 / 2280 / 298
2023 to date / 1045 / 275

ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths
www.transport.govt.nz/statistics-a... #DyingInNewZealand #kiwi