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Bradley van Paridon

@bvanparidon

Freelance science writer, journalist, podcaster. Producer and host of @TwoBradForYou. Get in touch with tips and story ideas.

 Leuven, Belgium
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Joined May 2013
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Sairam Jabba@SairamJabba11 Sep 2024
Thank you @bvanparidon for interviewing me for @sciam re: #NicotineAnalogues in e-cigs of unknown health risks & their regulatory implications. Along with Dr. Lauren Lempert of @UCSF & the awesome 'partner in crime' @hanno_ery of @YaleGreenChem @sejordt scientificamerican.com/artic…
Nicotine Analogs Pose Possible Health Risks Yet Evade Regulation

Nicotine Analogs Pose Possible Health Risks Yet Evade Regulation

Nicotine analogs allow e-cigarette makers to avoid traditional tobacco product regulations. But data on their safety in humans are lacking

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Tobacco companies are aware of menthol’s qualities and have used it since the 1920s. While smoking rates overall in the US have declined, the number of menthol smokers remains stable and has even increased in younger demographics. cen.acs.org/policy/global-he… .
How a cigarette maker quietly replaced menthol

How a cigarette maker quietly replaced menthol

A decades-old shaving product ingredient and a legal loophole helped R.J. Reynolds evade a state ban

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City-sized holes on Antarctica's ice shelves offer tantalizing 'window' into the frozen continent's underworld - @bvanparidon @LiveScience livescience.com/planet-earth…
City-sized holes on Antarctica's ice shelves offer tantalizing 'window' into the frozen continent's...

City-sized holes on Antarctica's ice shelves offer tantalizing 'window' into the frozen continent's...

Enormous holes on Antarctica's ice shelves appear to be linked with the formation of icebergs, study reveals.

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Chemistry World@ChemistryWorld4 Oct 2023
All day today @PatDWalter will be covering the #NobelPrize in chemistry beat on our live blog! You can follow live yourself here: chemistryworld.com/news/the-… or by following this thread, which will be updated with excerpts every time a new post is added!
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Theresa Kisko, PhD@TheresaKisko26 Jun 2023
Looking for an after lunch play date? Look no further than todays Sympoum 4 in Great room C! #reward #animalcommunication #primates #whales #rats #usv #socialplay #IBNSconnect #IBNS2023 - via #Whova event app
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Drug resistance in racing dogs has spread across the US. Find out how and what this means for your pets. scientificamerican.com/artic… Greyhound Racing Drove the Evolution of a Superparasite via @sciam

How Greyhound Racing Drove the Evolution of a Superparasite

The greyhound racing industry has been implicated in the rise of drug resistance in hookworms—which can infect dogs and humans

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Thrilled to see this in print and online. Writing for @sciam was a real thrill for me. It was the first science magazine I read as kid!
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Had a great time talking to @Cataranea about @bugsexthedoc, the wild world of #BlackWidow mating and how our biases influence the way we conduct #research. Check out the conversation on @TwoBradForYou #scicomm #podcasts #biology #insects #spiders #sex #nature
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Dr.Catherine Scott (@Cataranea) joins to talk about black widow mating and the upcoming @cbcdocs film Bug Sex: It's complicated (@bugsexthedoc) #scicomm #nature #biology #research
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Two Brad For You@TwoBradForYou22 Feb 2023
We've all seen #TheLastOfUs right? Did you know the real life zombie fungus doesn't actually take over the brain? Or that there is a more compelling example of zombie parasites? Resident #parasite expert and host @bvanparidon explains. open.spotify.com/episode/3F1… #scicomm #podcast

Episode 84 - The best example of The Last of Us

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Since 2012, @timesofindia could have run a daily headline: "130,000 Indians gained access to electricity today". Every *day*.
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99% of the Indian population has access to electricity. In 2000, this was just 59%. Even in 2010, just 76%. A massive achievement over the last few decades. ourworldindata.org/grapher/s…
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The patenting of #psychedelics and psychedelic therapies is a less talked about story but could dramatically influence the accessibility and cost of potential treatments.
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I had the pleasure of talking about this with patent attorney Graham Pechenik whose firm @calyxlaw specializes in psychedelic and cannabis patents. #scicomm #podcasts open.spotify.com/episode/4cy…

Episode 83 - Patent Law and Psychedelics

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Was great to learn about how the patent system works and ways in which it could work better.
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Yale Green Chemistry@YaleGreenChem9 Jan 2023
We're excited to see RSC @ChemistryWorld's story by @bvanparidon on our recent, open-access review on What to Expect When Expecting in Lab. chemistryworld.com/careers/d…
Documenting hazards in the lab for pregnant chemists

Documenting hazards in the lab for pregnant chemists

After failing to find the safety information they needed, two pregnant chemists began a project to review hazards in labs

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Two Brad For You@TwoBradForYou11 Dec 2022
Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer bbc.co.uk/news/health-638591…
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#abpoli seems to be heading to a #brexit style debacle. They invented so many scapegoats and threats that don't exist leading to inevitably shoot themselves in the foot in order to follow through on vanquishing them. At least the mountains are still awesome...
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Chemistry World@ChemistryWorld1 Dec 2022
Chemists have wanted to get to the bottom of cocaine's biosynthetic pathway, since it was first isolated in 1855, @bvanparidon reports chemistryworld.com/news/coca…
Coca plants’ production pathway for cocaine finally unravelled

Coca plants’ production pathway for cocaine finally unravelled

167-year-old biosynthetic mystery may be solved

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The fact we are hard wired to learn some things but not others was an amazing fact Iearnes having this conversation. Listen on @Spotify @Newsly13 or wherever you get #podcasts
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Play is not just for fun. It's also essential for proper brain development. What does this say about the evolution of behavioral traits? How can a behavior be passed on and selected for? #scicom #Science #neuroscience open.spotify.com/episode/6Yt…
Episode 81 - The Power of Play

Episode 81 - The Power of Play

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The level to which behavioral traits are hard wired but require refinement by experience and environment was a revelation to me. In hindsight it all makes sense from a evolutionary perspective though. #nature #nurture #research
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Our brains are wired to gravitate to certain things, but then it's up to our environment and experience to dictate the shape what we do with that information.
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