AI can accelerate scientific discovery, but only if we maintain rigor through open data, simplicity, and human understanding. Don't delegate ethics.
Read this article in full via @ox.ac.ukย https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/ #AI #science #research #physics #astrophysics
Could molecular profiling of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) improve clinical management of #ProstateCancer?
Progress on this topic is reviewed by a team including Prostate Cancer UK funded Professor Yong-Jie Lu @qmbci.bsky.social in @natrevurol.nature.com.
Grab a โ and read: bit.ly/46ti2CJ
Research suggests that more consultation about cycle lanes would bring more support for them.
Urology departments in England and Wales have seen an increase in users admitted for bladder inflammation caused by ketamine use.
Ever applied to UK Core Surgical Training? I'd love to discuss it with you for my PhD. I've analysed all applications ever(!) & now it's time to speak to real people! All help gratefully received.
Please RT! Register interest here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/yj89m1HBJz
Explore the KPMP Kidney Tissue Atlas today
๐ Search markers
๐งฌDownload raw gene data
๐บ๏ธExplore spatial data
Openly accessible and designed to support discovery
๐ atlas.kpmp.org
#KPMP #KidneyResearch #OpenScience #KidneyTissueAtlas
Are you a 3rd or 4th yr medical student interested in pursuing a DPhil in the fields of musculoskeletal disease, inflammation and immunology?
Join the OxKen Open Day on Tue 28 Oct to learn about the @NDORMS OxKen programme.
Read about programme โก๏ธ
The trendy Taiwanese drink has become a high-street staple, but recent findings on lead levels and choking risks suggest it warrants closer scrutiny.
Removing genetic effects from plasma proteins is an effective strategy to increase power for biomarker discovery and clinical trial design, consistent with the largely non-causal role of most plasma proteins in disease risk.
๐ Lead by Daniela Fusco and Zhiyu Yang
Aerial view of the University of Glasgowโs iconic Gilbert Scott Building at golden hour
Glasgow crowned the friendliest city in the UK: 2025 Readersโ Choice Awards
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โฐMaybe, if #DollyParton is anything to go by, working 9-5 is a risk factor to investigateโฆ.!
๐ฎHopefully her treatments are smooth and her fame raises awareness of a common disease with a high burden on patients and health systems that we need to understand better.
With colleagues at @uofglasgow.bsky.social & @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social I aim to understand more about factors affecting the Lithogenic Triad.
๐กMore information will let us:
๐ฉบTreat people with stones better
๐Identify which patients are at high risk of more stones
๐Prevent new stones forming
We know common genetic changes in calcium, phosphate, & vitamin D pathways increase risk of stones doi.org/10.1172/JCI1.... This can change urine composition.
We know obesity causes stones but are not yet sure why doi.org/10.1681/asn..... Obesity might affect any part of the Lithogenic Triad.
I believe that three kinds of changes can increase the risk of stones forming:
A *Lithogenic Triad* of:
1. Changes in urine composition
2. Changes in urine flow
3. Changes in kidney tubule wall composition
๐This is the topic of my research.
๐Stones affect ~20% people and half will get another within 5-10 years.
๐งฌSome risk is from common genetic changes.
๐ฆSome risk is lifestyle (hydration, diet, obesity).
๐ฌIf we can understand more about causes of stones, we can make treatments to prevent them.
#KidneyStones in the news!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
โWhat are they?
๐ Stones that form in kidneys & can fall into the ureter (drainpipe from kidneys to bladder)
โSo what?
๐ Theyโre linked to pain, infections, lower quality of life, & can need surgery.
โWhat causes them?
๐ค Good question!
At #ST3bootcamp for urology in Leeds this week. First-class teaching, simulation, and interactions across all new ST3s.
Stones, non technical skills, functional, uroradiology done so far, bladder cancer and recon today.
Really enjoying a late-summer/early autumn read, courtesy of @rcsed.bsky.social. Brilliantly curated and edited @otolaryngolofox.bsky.social
Rebecca Morris, Vision Zero Communications Director and road safety campaigner, addresses the 2025 Cycling Scotland Conference in Dundee.
"Six times more people are killed on the roads in the UK each year than through knife crime. If this was any other area of our lives, we would never tolerate this level of harm."
Rebecca Morrisโ impassioned speech calls for more immediate action for safer streets. #CyclingScotlandConf
Four PhD projects advertised for October 2026 @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Find info and apply here:
www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study/botnar...
๐ Congrats to Katherine Cory & Phil Noble - joint Cycling Champions of the Year in Scotland 2025!
True champions of cycling for all ๐
More and more patients on GLP1RAs so, as surgeons, itโs important to consider the perioperative effects as well as disease/comorbidity- specific effects.
Data to suggest no change in surgical complications, which is reassuring.
Behind every door is a discovery...
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On 13 Sept, weโre opening ours at the Old Road Campus Research Building for #OxfordOpenDoors. @cmd.ox.ac.uk, @idrm.ox.ac.uk, @ludwigcancer.bsky.social, @oncology.ox.ac.uk and more will be there, will you?
Find out more ๐ buff.ly/WV8TAXt
Looking for a PhD/Md-PhD candidate for a fully funded project at University Hospital Bern Switzerland to work at the intersection of kidney and bone biology. Please share, DM or comment. #NephSky #AskRenal
Even this late in the summer, the ornamental flower beds in Victoria Park in Glasgow are still looking very colourful.
#glasgow #victoriapark #flowers #glasgowparks
@jengreitz.bsky.social l & my lab want to co-hire a computational biologist/biostatistician with project management expertise to help map the regulatory code of the human genome and discover genetic mechanisms of disease.
Details below
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/computa...
Plz RT
'If we want more people to cycle, we need to build for the bikes - and riders - we have now and want in the future.'
@tsuoxford.bsky.social's Dr Zakiyya Adam outlines recommendations for the implementation of cycling-promoting initiatives in mid-sized European cities ๐ฒ
#CycleToWorkDay
Our latest with editorial. Genetic susceptibility to kidney stone disease: unveiling pathogenesis and potential therapeutic targets @jclinicalinvest @drsarahhowles
jci.org/articles/view/โฆ
jci.org/articles/view/๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ @celovegrove.bsky.social @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social
