NeillFriedman

Bioenergetics PhD Candidate | Mitochondria, fasting, & life’s energy code | Founder @TheBERGF | Research meets real life 🌍⚡

[Jacob Bard-Rosenberg @Prolapsarian]

THREAD: The collapse of higher education in the UK is misunderstood by almost everyone involved. We are told it is because of volatile international student markets. The truth is more to do with real estate and capital investment. Here is what is going on: in places like the US

[Prof Graeme L. Close @close_nutrition]

So the Enhanced Games are over & remarkably unremarkable. 1 world record, helped by banned suits. Meanwhile most performances barely touched existing marks.
What does this tell us? Have we overestimated the impact of PED or were these not truly world class athletes to begin with?

[NeillFriedman @NeillFriedman]

I have always had a thing about poppie fields, no idea why. Walker through this one this morning.

[NeillFriedman @NeillFriedman]

I have always had a thing about poppie fields, no idea why. Walked through this one this morning.

[NeillFriedman @NeillFriedman]

I would like to report a murder in my back yard!

[NeillFriedman @NeillFriedman]

Fantastic to be nominated by some of my peers at the @UniNorthants for a "People Award". These awards are made in recognition of outstanding contributions to the university and associated community.

[NeillFriedman @NeillFriedman]

As Starmer is talking you can hear him sinking the Labour party. He ether just refuses to understand the will of the majority or is completely at the mercy of the parties hard left.

[Simone Rodan-Benzaquen @srodan]

There is a claim that keeps circulating, presented as sophisticated analysis: antisemitic violence is caused by Israel’s actions. If Israel behaved differently, Jewish communities around the world would somehow be safer. This argument is not analysis. It is a moral inversion. And it collapses the moment you apply it consistently.
When China imprisons Uyghurs, does anyone warn Muslim communities in Paris to expect attacks? When Russia invaded Ukraine, did anyone tell Russian restaurants to brace for violence? No. Never. The causal chain between a government’s actions and violence against a diaspora is only ever constructed for Jews. Every other minority is extended the basic moral courtesy of being treated as individuals rather than proxies.
Now look at what the data actually shows. The SPCJ, which tracks antisemitic incidents in France in coordination with the Interior Ministry, has documented a consistent and damning pattern: it is antisemitic violence that inspires more antisemitic violence, not Israeli policy. After Mohamed Merah murdered Jewish children at point-blank range at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2012, antisemitic acts surged by 200%. There was no Gaza operation. No Israeli military action. The massacre of Jews in France produced more attacks on Jews in France.
The same logic held after the Hypercacher attack in January 2015: antisemitic acts increased by nearly 300%. Massacres of Jews do not shock antisemites into restraint. They embolden them. They signal impunity. They normalize hatred. And everyone in a position of responsibility knows it.
Which brings us to October 7. From the day of the Hamas attack, antisemitic acts in France increased by over 1,000%. A daily average of approximately 25 antisemitic acts was recorded in the 30 days that followed, reaching nearly 40 on some days. In the three months after the attack, the number of antisemitic acts equaled those recorded over the previous three years combined.
And here is another detail that makes the “Israel causes antisemitism” argument impossible to sustain: the spike began on October 7 itself, the very day of the attack. Israel had not yet responded. Not a single soldier had entered Gaza. Interior Minister Darmanin sent an urgent message to prefects that same day asking them to immediately reinforce protection of Jewish community sites. Synagogues. Schools. Community centers. By October 10, 10,000 police officers had been deployed to protect 500 Jewish sites across the country.
Before any Israeli response existed, the French government already knew that Jewish communities needed protecting. Not because of what Israel was about to do. Because of what had just been done to Jews.
Antisemitic violence has one cause. Antisemitism.

[Ben Brittain @BenABrittain]

Profound and moving monologue from Trevor Phillips - one of Sky’s greatest assets and the country’s increasingly bravest journalist.

[Rich Toronto @rich_toronto]

Have you ever been to Israel? Do you know anything about it? As you attempt to delegitimize it and call for its destruction, are you speaking from personal learned experience, or from what you’ve seen on social media?

I was there once. Just over 20 years ago.

I visited Tel Aviv and Haifa and Jerusalem and other places I don’t remember.

I celebrated Rosh Hashana in the home of friends of the friend I was travelling with. They invited a complete stranger into their home to celebrate the new year with them.

I saw the road signs there, in Hebrew and Arabic and English. Not just in neighbourhoods with a large Arab population. Everywhere.

I saw soldiers walking around with machine guns. My bags were searched when I entered malls. The trunk of my car was opened when I drove into a parking lot. And I felt safe.

I met Jews. And Muslims. And Christians.

I visited old Jerusalem, and saw the four quarters, where Jews, Muslims, Christians and Armenians coexist side by side.

I visited the Bahai gardens, a beautiful site built and maintained by another religion, existing peacefully in Israel.

And as I was there, I realized I was in one of the few places in the world, that everyone agrees has existed for thousands of years.

I was standing in a land that had meaning for billions of people of many religions.

And I realized something else.

The Jews were the caretakers of this wonderful place.

The historical monuments and places that meant so much to other religions were protected. They were preserved. They were taken care of.

They were respected.

They were treated with the same reverence regardless of which religion they had meaning for.

Where else in the Middle East do you see this?

Where else in the world?

There’s a lot of talk about what Israel is like and what it’s all about. Israel isn’t perfect. No nation is. Mistakes are made, governments make bad decisions, politicians say awful things. It happens everywhere.

But Israel is unique.

There’s no other place like it in the world.

Just ask anyone who’s been there.

[Jason Locasale @LocasaleLab]

If the science is truly novel, expect resistance not applause.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Pass it on if you feel the same.

[Joo @JoosyJew]

We can't win this fight on our own.

As Jews, we don't have the numbers. But we're British Jews. It's instilled in us from an early age that the 'British' part always comes first. It's why Jews are considered a success story of assimilation and integration within British society.

Please understand, this isn't a war only against Jews.

We're just at the front of the queue.

It's a war against British values and British way of life.

We need all your help.

[NeillFriedman @NeillFriedman]

@doctorinigo Almost like there is some form of supply and demand adjustment happening at a mitochondrial level. https://t.co/cKrfOzulHE

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

One of the most brilliant moments of diplomacy in recent history let alone memory. You're going to want to see this.

[Alistair Brownlee @AliBrownleetri]

Yesterday in London, two men ran under the two-hour marathon. Sawe in 1:59:30, Kejelcha in 1:59:41. A barrier that has stood for decades, gone.

None of their watch data is on Terra. But 571 other runners on the same streets are, and their data turned up something I wasn't expecting.

The spread of the field alone is fascinating. Finish times ranged from sub-2:12 to nearly 7 hours. Heart rates told a counterintuitive story too: sub-3 runners averaged 167 bpm for the entire race, while six-hour finishers averaged 154.

But the calorie data is what really jumped out. Garmin and Coros watches agreed on heart rate. They agreed on distance. They disagreed on calories by 12% at the median, and the gap got much worse for slower runners.

Here's the part that I think matters: kcal/km should be roughly flat across finish-time bands on the same course on the same day. The fact that one device produces a flat line and the other produces a steep one is a self-contained plausibility check on the calorie algorithm.

Calories from a watch are a model output, not a measurement, and the slower you run, the further the model can drift from physiology.

This is exactly the kind of question we're tackling at the Terra Research Run Club this Thursday, built to advance our understanding of wearable data in the real world, and ask how well our watches actually capture what's happening.

Link for the Research and Run club below

@TerraAPI

[Professor Azeem Majeed @Azeem_Majeed]

I've always told my PhD students that a PhD is a marathon and not a sprint. Now that Sabastian Sawe has run the London Marathon in under 2 hours, I'll need to think of something else to tell them.

[Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 @HanShawnity]

The Israeli embassy in the US posted this to their social media for their independence day 😂😂😂

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

A BBC documentary about Jew hate in the UK that fails to mention the BBC and Islam is like a US documentary on the Vietnam war omitting America and communism.

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

So let me get this straight.

The country’s wobbling like a dodgy scaffold in a gale—bills through the roof, services stretched, people grafting harder for less—and Parliament’s latest bright idea is… bringing sex toys into the chamber.

You’ve got Samantha Niblett saying it’s about “openness” and education.

Openness? We’re wide open already, love—our wallets, our patience, our tolerance—picked clean on a weekly basis.

And then Kemi Badenoch steps in, basically asking what the hell we’re doing… and for once you can’t blame her.

Because here’s the thing—this isn’t edgy, it’s embarrassing.

This isn’t bold, it’s tone deaf.

No one sat at home thinking, “Do you know what would really fix Britain? A demonstration kit in the House of Commons.”

We don’t need props to explain how things work—we’ve had years of hands-on experience being shafted by policy, promises, and priorities that make absolutely no sense to the people paying for them.

And that’s the real punchline, isn’t it?

They’ll stand there talking about education and progress while the basics—actual, boring, unsexy basics—are left to rot.

Roads, hospitals, policing, cost of living… all the stuff that actually matters? Bit too difficult, that.

But this? Oh this they’ve got time for.

It’s like watching the band play on while the ship’s taking on water—only now someone’s wheeled in a disco light and called it “forward thinking.”

Sort the country out first.

Then, and only then, you can start worrying about the extras.

Until then, spare us the theatre.

We’re not laughing with you… we’re laughing at you.