Lewis 🦠🧬🌈

Senior Lecturer in Public Health | PhD Microbiology Researcher

[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

Reasons why you should throw away plastic chopping boards like this:

> shed microplastics during cutting
> older / damaged boards shed more
> microplastics enter ecosystems
> pollute environment
> microplastics absorbed when eaten
> now found in every tissue: brain, lung, GI, placenta, breast milk
> found in 100% of testicles when tested
> trigger for inflammation + oxidative stress
> act as endocrine disruptors
> found in atheromas and carotid plaques
> driver for cardiovascular risk
> possible link to IBD and cancer
> damaged boards also trap bacteria

Wooden boards produce no microplastics and are easier to clean 💡

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We often talk of saving the planet. But the truth is, we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return.”

— David Attenborough

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

🚨3 people on a cruise dead of Hanta Virus. Three dead and multiple suspected cases after a hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship sailing from Argentina to Cape Verde. WHO confirms 1 case and 5 suspected; a UK passenger is in ICU in Johannesburg. Hantavirus spreads from rodent exposure and can cause severe respiratory illness which is why this is so unusual. Usually seen in the Western US and NOT spread person to person but rodent to person. Here's a MedCram we did on it when Gene Hackman and his wife died recently (wife died of Hanta Virus) - They lived in New Mexico.

🚨🚨🚨Important exception: Andes virus (found in parts of Argentina and Chile) is the only hantavirus known to spread person-to-person in rare cases—like between close household contacts or healthcare workers and patients

https://t.co/y3KG47GZZ7

https://t.co/NkdlZNE6c8

[Nick Desnoyer @NickDesnoyer]

Life evolves slowly through tiny mutations, but sometimes a single mutation creates something that feels like a glitch in the matrix.

Here are four of nature’s most beautiful accidents 🧵

[Matt Cowgill @MattCowgill]

my 8 year old son made me a tiny cushion with a line graph on it for Christmas. I love it

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

Yorkshire's equivalent to the Coca-Cola truck 🎅

[Meh @Spilling_The_T]

RIP Dame Patricia Routledge.

Your portrayal of Hyacinth Bucket (boo-kay) will always be iconic!

[James @JMesh92]

RIP to the Queen of Clean and the People’s Princess #KimWoodburn

[Lewis 🦠🧬🌈 @LewisWaterfield]

@Weekademia No just my phone! We have a new scanner?!

[Lewis 🦠🧬🌈 @LewisWaterfield]

Sadly these aren't telescopic images of the moon 🌝 they are in fact, my stained streptococcal biofilms 🦠🧫

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Told someone on Tinder I was a PhD student and they unmatched me.

[Lewis 🦠🧬🌈 @LewisWaterfield]

@Dr_No_H I'm guessing they're really old ones Noel ☺️

[Lewis 🦠🧬🌈 @LewisWaterfield]

Wisteria hysteria 😍

[Lewis 🦠🧬🌈 @LewisWaterfield]

@GingerLiesl I've always said the car is cheeper than trains and you get your own Aircon and music 😊

[Lewis 🦠🧬🌈 @LewisWaterfield]

Cornwall 🌊

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

Some cells "break" these size constraints.

Case in point: a bacterium called Thiomargarita magnifica can exceed one centimeter in diameter (visible to the eye)...

[Lewis 🦠🧬🌈 @LewisWaterfield]

My local church looking AMAZING again ☺️

[Radio Times @RadioTimes]

Without the women of #ToxicTown, Corby's shocking true scandal would have remained buried

https://t.co/kWngBXCr6t

[Collins Solicitors @Collins_Law]

Collins Solicitors is to feature in BBC Horizon documentary made by @rawtvltd about the Landmark Corby Toxic Waste and Birth Defects Case.

"Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings” will be aired on @BBCTwo at 9 pm on Monday, 23rd March 2020.

https://t.co/av2uvsITi8

#corbytoxicwaste

[Lewis 🦠🧬🌈 @LewisWaterfield]

Yet to watch, but very mixed emotions towards this series as one of the #toxictown children ☢️#Corby #CorbyToxicWaste

[David Opie @DavidOpie]

#ToxicTown is a pretty decent 3 star look at one of the biggest environmental scandals in history. With just 4 eps, the show never outstays its welcome. Jodie Whittaker is phenomenal, reminding us just how talented she is and Aimee Lou Wood is reliably great too. Worth seeing!