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Specialist Biomedical Scientist (Microbiology). Did someone say Pandemic? Mastadon: @Attervar@mastodon.social Countersocial: @Attervar Instagram adrianatterbury

South Coast, England
Joined August 2010
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Adrian Atterbury retweeted
Energy firms hold £8.1bn of customer money. Firms not required to ringfence the amount. Free cash. When a company goes bust, amounts owed to customers recovered through a levy included in the standing charge, about £70. You pay twice. Daylight Robbery. bbc.co.uk/news/business-6699…
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Quelle surprise. SHOCKED, I tell you. 🙄🙈🤬
#KayBurley - They told us all week that no decision had been made on HS2 & it was made... they totally lied to me... they lied to my face. Mhari Aurora - By being disingenuous with us, it looks like they've been disingenuous with the public as well.
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As Tom Baker is trending. (Beware of 🤬Language🤬) As you can see by the curlers, this was a practice run.
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Adrian Atterbury retweeted
You can’t believe how kind the British are. Every morning, a van pulls up outside your house in Coventry. A friendly man brings you a freshly-baked flatbread to eat. It’s just for you,not anyone else in your family. Every afternoon he comes back to make sure you’ve eaten it. 1/
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Forget the obvious ineptitude and incompetence - This is theft and embezzlement on an epic scale
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Under explicit pressure from Rishi Sunak, judges have closed the door on legal challenges to PPE procurement. They’ve said, remarkably, that there is no public interest in how public money gets spent. But we think there is. Agree? Support us here: goodlaw.social/kgb
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Adrian Atterbury retweeted
MEET BUBBA! This 7-foot alligator provided emotional support to kids at a Florida school. Details: bit.ly/3Pauu0P
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Adrian Atterbury retweeted
🚨BREAKING: We are reporting the UK government to the United Nations watchdog on workers' rights over their anti-strikes law.
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Adrian Atterbury retweeted
"I’ve never fell off a big chimney. You only fall off one of them once." #OnThisDay 1979: Extraordinary steeplejack Fred Dibnah was introduced to the nation.
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Covid testing to be scaled up in England as winter pressure on NHS draws near Seems we aren't "back to normal" after all. BA.2.86 has reminded @UKHSA that #COVID is not actually over Having barely any data doesn't help #LongCovid theguardian.com/world/2023/s…
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Adrian Atterbury retweeted
PMQs should occasionally feature members of the public asking the Qs. This PM trying to convince a load of eye rolling, idealistic, and bullshit detecting teenagers of anything would be a joy!
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A great presentation by Dr Avi Nath from the NINDS, NIH, at the 2nd day of #KSLongCoVID24. He showed significant endothelial damage, fibrinogen and platelet infiltration in autopsy brains in COVID-19.
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Adrian Atterbury retweeted
At the races, receiving an award, making a telephone call and committing an armed robbery.
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Adrian Atterbury retweeted
The monetization scheme on Twitter means that taking rage-bait with views/clicks/likes/shares etc can result in you helping to make someone you’re enraged by more money. Expect the rage-baiting to grow exponentially when it’s now a profitable thing to do.
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Kudzai (@nyamondo_kudzai) shares what you can expect with PhD fellowships. Listen to the rest of the episode to hear from Oumie (@popgen_oumie) as well 🎧: buff.ly/44nmTmc #BWiSPodcast
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Today Consultant doctors are on strike fighting for better pay and for the future of our NHS The Government will call striking doctors greedy and selfish as they continue the fight for our NHS Solidarity to all NHS workers who have been forced to strike. 👇
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Adrian Atterbury retweeted
If you only read one thing today, read this from the Royal Society. Long story short: NPI's work to reduce transmission and there is "every reason" to think they will be used in future pandemics. #COVID19 royalsociety.org/-/media/pol…
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Adrian Atterbury retweeted
I'm not sure humans working menial jobs while AI robots create art and write poetry is exactly how I expected the future to be? 🤔🤔
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Adrian Atterbury retweeted
I can assure everyone that it was already evident in 2020—2021 that Covid and #LongCovid had a massive toll on heart health. It was reported both in patient driven testimonials as well as in biomedical research. It was in the press. And, yes: SARS-CoV-2 was let to rip anyway
The profound toll COVID-19 has had on heart health is only now starting to emerge. Doctors are grappling with how to help. “We are seeing effects on the heart and the vascular system that really outnumber, unfortunately, effects on other organ systems.” apnews.com/article/covid19-l…
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The statement “only now” is misleading as the damage that SARS-CoV-2 does to the cardiovascular system has been heavily documented since as early as 2020, e.g. bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… This Nature Medicine article quotes in Feb 2022 “The cardiovascular complications of…COVID-19…are well described” nature.com/articles/s4159…
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Join us in giving a huge round of applause to our amazing volunteers. They've each got something to celebrate this week. 👏🧵 #RNLI #OneCrew
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