Worst air quality and pollution city ranking:

1. 🇬🇧 Birmingham
2. 🇮🇩 Jakarta
3. 🇶🇦 Doha
4. 🇵🇰 Lahore
5. 🇨🇳 Beijing
6. 🇦🇪 Dubai
7. 🇮🇳 Delhi
8. 🇺🇿 Tashkent
9. 🇰🇼 Kuwait City
10. 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur
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11. 🇿🇦 Johannesburg
13. 🇸🇦 Riyadh
14. 🇺🇸 Detroit
15. 🇮🇶 Baghdad
16. 🇵🇰 Karachi…

Dear colleagues, friends, and all fans of thromboinflammation and platelets, please see our paper on the topic, that came out today: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

It looks like I have all the chances to succeed in profession…
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/12…

No reward - no duties.  75% of respondents have reduced the hours spent on academic duties since 2020 (Nature polls).

Mostly due to burnout and unwillingness to work for free.

This included attending conferences, peer reviewing manuscripts and grant proposals, committees,…

As a professor, pursue the careers of your PhD students and postdocs instead of pursuing your own.

I know it may sound strange and even provocative. But in fact it is how it’s supposed to be.

Unfortunately, a personal gain is the biggest motivation for many professors. More…

Glad to see our paper about the use of “vessels-on-a-chip” in DVT research finally published: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Please take a look at the preprint of our paper on the role of NLRP3 inflammasome in megakaryocyte/platelet lineage in erythropoiesis and inflammation: researchsquare.com/article/rs-261…

These are the headache numbers reported to the MHRA in the report released today. People should be aware that if you are woken up from sleep with a severe headache or if you have a headache with vomiting 5-28 days post AZ vaccination you should seek medical attention urgently.

Norwegian study of 492 persons vaccinated with AZ vaccine and 110 controls. Anti-PF4 positive in 6 vaccinated persons (2 with OD over 1.0) and thrombocytopenia in 8. Nobody with anti-PF4 was thrombocytopenic. tinyurl.com/ev2x9cm4

Our preprint in now online Abdullah Khan : Stimulation of vascular organoids with SARS-CoV-2 antigens increases endothelial permeability and regulates vasculopathy
In collaboration with Jasmeet Singh Dr Zania Stamataki Professor Alex Richter Adam Cunningham medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Dear friends, please see our “fresh” paper on NETs and inflammasomes: ashpublications.org/bloodadvances/…

Israeli company soon to begin trial on stroke-risk reduction device m.jpost.com/health-science…

Our latest work on deep vein thrombosis and the influence of valve flexibility on thrombus formation is finally out Communications Materials!

nature.com/articles/s4324…

Well done Dr ZohScho, Hosam Alden Baksamawi, Alessio Alexiadis, Alexander Brill!
Thanks to Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, The National Centre for the 3Rs, BHF, Wellcome

Thank you Mary Cushman 🫀🧠🩸 Cihan Ay RPTH for supporting the career development of early career researchers. Josh Bourne Alexander Brill Bham Platelet Group always there to help!!

«1.5 million person‐hours each year just reformatting papers for resubmission» - that’s a whole lot of time better well spent! JTH 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Hopefully other journals follow your example soon!