Ruth Collier

Head of Research Communications @BlavatnikSchool, but views all my own. Often sharing silliness.

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

“We’ve always had hot summers!..what about 76?”

1976 now looks like a freak event on a very cold planet in comparison.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

This was a famous French weather forecast in 2014 trying to alert people to what France would be like in 2050 because of climate change

Only 12 years on and most of us are already hotter - my town 43 today and not the 34 predicted👇

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@FergusCraig They can rotate their heads 360 degrees, which eliminates the blind spot when driving.

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@bryan_johnson This makes no sense given you’ve been open about the fact that your own reversal of ageing by many biometric markers didn’t show (or show fully) in your face and that you needed to do other, non-longevity-related, stuff to it. It can’t be the “most honest biomarker we have”.

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@FergusCraig Absolute tip of the Spelling Bee travesties iceberg

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@ReubenRunacres @RichardHanania The relevant data is absolute suicide numbers per 1,000 compare to other countries, not where they rank. They might just rank high because other causes are so low.

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@FergusCraig @BooksSphere @BerkleyPub Audiobook narrated by you? Holding out for it

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

Interesting thread on the importance of bright light, and how little most of us get.

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

Archbishopy McArchbishopface? https://t.co/JRWQeYakY7

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@FergusCraig Can’t get myself out of youself’s head’s self

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@FergusCraig Fry some bay leaves in plenty of olive oil, discard leaves, drizzle over pasta. Blind taste text against pasta with plain heated olive oil drizzled on it.

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@cjsnowdon @BeeDela Agree with the article, but got to take issue with this specific point. If you were going to be born female and could choose any decade to be born, would you choose the 1950s…?

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@FergusCraig Please post one. I don’t care if you have to spend hours blurring out your son’s face to protect his privacy; I want to see the montage.

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@fromOliver Yes. Major current narrative: “In order to save democracies from certain appalling outcomes and unite with fellow citizens, progressives must abandon their beliefs [and in doing so cave to other appalling outcomes].” This may be correct. But it’s unbelievably depressing.

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@KlintSugi @anon_opin I believe the two opposite meanings crop up in American English but not British English. In British English it tends to only mean unimportant.

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

This should be on the psychology syllabus as a standout example of attribution bias

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

This is from the middle of a great thread

[Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti]

Therefore, when the Tories won power in 2010, they - consciously or otherwise - misdiagnosed the problems the country faced. They acted as if Britain had an overregulated statist economy with profligate public spending, hardline unions and welfare dependency

None of it was true

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

This is basic stock rotation.

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

I often have compassion for inanimate objects. For example, if I'm about to refill the teabag tin & there's one in there, I'll put the lone teabag on the top of the pile to make sure it's used next, as it's that teabag's turn.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

This week in key Covid publications:
—Young, healthy individuals with mild cases had objective cognitive deficits at 1-year that they did not perceive
—Older, hospitalized adults with severe Covid had an equivalent of 20 years of decline in cognitive performance at 1-year follow-up
—A nasal vaccine (2 doses) blocked infections for at least 3 months and was effective across 10 different variants
—Reinfections increase the risk of #LongCovid
—mRNA shots don't induce long-lived plasma cells, but we don't know if this is true with other vaccine platforms
Reviewed in the new, updated edition of Ground Truths (link in my profile)

[Ruth Collier @RHCollier]

@bbchealth @bbchealth Really really important to update your article to make clear that a lumpectomy IS conventional treatment, and it’s that surgery that removed the cancer, not her alternative medicine. Lethally misleading (literally) otherwise.