K. D. Winkel

Physician naturalist, biomedical scientist, author, educator and explorer. Watch this space for connections between nature, medicine, history and humanity

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

Biomimicry = learning from nature.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The first principle…

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

@ChrisPalmerMD @davidasinclair Indeed! I will take the actionable data on improving health span via 150 minutes/weekly of high intensity exercise, intermittent fasting and high fat (Mediterranean) diet over a Sinclair clickbait any time...

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

It's another day on planet Earth, folks ! Go outside, take a walk and enjoy what we have...
#nature

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

Now also a Melbourne Biodiversity Institute funded PhD student on connecting biodiversity and health !
#biodiversity

[Climate and Health Alliance @healthy_climate]

Dr. Mark de Souza & Aunty Dr Bilawara Lee from Royal Darwin Hospital will share exciting progress of their campus greening project in 'Session 6: Where are they now? Stories of progress from previous presenters' at the #GreenHealthForum24🌱
🗓️ 12-21 Nov
🎟️ https://t.co/vEcLAGjqUy

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

The Matrix as history ? Not looking good for those interested in reality over technotopian hallucinations...
#ClimateEmergency

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

Yet another reason AI is bad for the climate: it's syphoning off critical investments.

AI startups have raised more than $21 B in the 3rd quarter, more than double climate tech companies, whose funding is on track to fall about 50% this year overall.

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

We are already wading across this tipping point...reefs, kelp forests and mangroves already dying off globally....starving penguins and whales...
#OneHealth now !

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

This one takes me back to med school and intern days. In 1992, as an intern at Royal Brisbane Hospital, I trained for the Kokoda Trail walk with the Royal Society of Queensland - up and down those Block E stairs. That walk was cancelled so I went to Borneo & [rice] food poisoned!

[Michael Seebeck Photographer @MSPhotographyG]

Rainforest Mountain Stream; high altitude rainforest in wet tropics. Available as a high resolution limited edition print.
https://t.co/m2OJXu9eut

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

More from Dr Mike - a simply stunning view of dawn on this living planet...Totally Awesome Nature !

[Michael Seebeck Photographer @MSPhotographyG]

Twisted Tarns at Dawn | MICHAEL SEEBECK PHOTOGRAPHY As dawn breaks over Cradle Mountain, Twisted Tarns reflect the stunning colors of the sunrise, creating a picturesque scene that enchants the soul. Embrace the tranquility of this natural wonder.
https://t.co/m2OJXu9eut

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

#OneHealth an idea for now [or never]...

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Today is One Health Day.

The health of humans, animals and ecosystems are closely interlinked. Changes in these relationships can increase the risk of new human and animal diseases developing and spreading.

#OneHealth is an approach to optimize the health of humans, animals and ecosystems by integrating these fields, rather than keeping them separate https://t.co/hqaOeeiBvV

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

What a [Orwellian] way to 'prioritise' Natural History !
#biodiversity #OneHealth

[Kathleen Pryer @KathleenPryer]

Harvard vs Duke: A study in contrasting views on biodiversity research

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

Not just for corals and sea slugs...

[Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc @SynBio1]

My pubmed alert for "photosynthetic mammals" has been quiet for a while but it paid off big today
https://t.co/c6d5eDTnA7

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

Res ipsa loquitur ++++ The NACC should be reconstituted entirely as it has rendered itself morally bankrupt !

[Kylea Tink @KyleaTink]

16 months after the NACC started its work, the first public figure found to have engaged in misconduct under the #NACC legislation is the Comissioner of the NACC.

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

To paraphrase Steve Jobs, "what's wrong with the planet cannot be fixed by technology". Its starts and finishes with culture: Is it generative or extractive ? Does it heal country or destroy it ? Is it eco-centric or human-centric ?

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

I do like to point out that kiln fired clay Sumerian tablets are more enduring that today's technology...
#History

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

ergo...the state of the environment is not good !
#OneHealth

[Marina Romanello @MarinaRomanello]

The 2024 Global Report of the @LancetCountdown is out!
With the outstanding contribution of 122 leading researchers, who have worked tirelessly to produce the most comprehensive assessment yet on the state of health and climate change.

Read it here: https://t.co/qJ5arxOebf

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

Awesome nature - but not quite what I expected from this "big" cat !
#biodiversity

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

This is how a puma sounds

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

The power of nature - fungi !
#biodiversity #OneHealth

[Yale Environment 360 @YaleE360]

From our archives: Toxicologist Danielle Stevenson is cleaning up brownfields using fungi.

"In three months we saw a more than 50 percent reduction in all pollutants," she says of a site in L.A. "By 12 months, they were pretty much not detectable.”
https://t.co/CVGyL8LLBP

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

Looks fascinating and what a location for a medically themed 'natural history' seminar - Uppsala !
I recommend also visiting the magnificent greenhouse adjacent to the university psychology department - it brings the tropics to the temperate zone...
#NaturalHistory #biodiversity

[MATTHEW DANIEL EDDY 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social @BookScribbler]

Come here me speak online for Uppsala University's Instructing Natural History seminar in December! #histsci #histmed #hps #sts #hstm

https://t.co/FdWSZf59ny

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

Alas, as predicted and foretold, again and again...we are practically at +1.5oC already with multiple ecological tipping points in view...
Not to forget the doomsday clock is 30 seconds to midnight and we are one nuclear exchange away from mass human suicide via nuclear winter...

[K. D. Winkel @kenwinkel]

A vampire spider ! That is a new one ! NB But it is not how to we expect vampires to behave -> this one drains the blood suckers as a kind of vampire on vampires. Could be a new one for the genre !
#biodiversity

[𝒯𝓇𝑜𝒷𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉 𓆙 @roseromaunt]

Not a parasite, but I wanted to shed light on Evarcha culicivora, a species of jumping spider that is the only spider to feed on vertebrate blood, and does so by feeding on mosquitoes and draining them not of their tissues but the blood they’ve picked up.