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@Variola3

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Scientist, former lecturer. Sarcastic individual, into silliness, medicine, anatomy, & forensics. Death positive 💀 #ME #CFS NB: often inappropriate.

East Sussex. UK.
Joined March 2012
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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A perfectly fitted description of me.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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When you have ME, there is no such thing as ‘gentle exercise’, everything is an effort, and I mean everything. Just sayin’ 🤷‍♀️
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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Pride-getting your bin out early Greed-keeping misplaced bins Lust-doing it over a wheelie bin Envy-your neighbour’s new bin Gluttony-your bin over Christmas Wrath-missing the bin day Sloth-sod it they will come next week #Sevenbins #sevendeadlybins
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@xandvt It’s more the fact that rich people are inherently worried about what poor people spend their money on. They assume people in poverty are a subclass do not have intelligence or ability and poverty is entirely of their own making.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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I can’t believe it’s been 8 years 😞 @Remembering_Rik
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@davemacladd Why do you keep a tin of beans in your pants?
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@BadMedicalTakes “Women can detect men who masturbate regularly and often avoid them” No that’s not what we meant when we said we avoid wankers.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
2 years
@MartinSLewis Absolutely do not apologise or hold anything back, this affects lives and we are all grateful for your efforts to get this to us asap.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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😳 ⁦ @chubbyemu
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@mikelinny @richardosman 😂 it was that extra picture she put in, Word moved everything around and set off a small war in a far away country.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@drkeithsiau Ooh I have another, the liver is the best organ of the body. People say the heart, but one little blockage and it gets all ischemic and stroppy. The brain is marvellous but a whack on the head and it sulks. The liver just keeps going and going, putting your needs first.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@MackayIM I saw this and thought of you ☺️
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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Happy towel day hoopy froods! #TowelDay
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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Happy Ed Balls day to all those who celebrate. I hope this level of silliness never disappears, and 20 years from now we will all still be celebrating #edballsday without knowing why.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@RoboticoEl Once I was painting my bedroom ceiling, while listening to music. As I moved my earphones fell out, they are white, the paint was white, they had fallen in the tray and put them back in my ears. It took a while to get all paint traces out of my ears. I have a BSc and MSc… 🤦‍♀️
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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My leg was partially amputated by a squirrel with chainsaw. No problem a bit of Sudocrem will sort that
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I was decapitated by a guillotine but used some Sudocrem and my head grew back within days. Please buy Sudocrem if you are in a similar situation, I am a doctor and this is an official recommendation approved by Sudocrem Inc.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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Yup, morning Twitter!
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@drkeithsiau That’s the ‘dessert’ stomach, an accessory organ to the stomach. It activated when the main stomach is full, but your brain knows there is dessert in the kitchen.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@Lucysal @galahadlake Ugh I just vomited for you! What do they think your reply will be? “Oh hang on, let me remove my mask so you can kiss me your your coffee and cigarette stinking breath” 🤢
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@sketchscience Everyone who has ever worked in a lab has vortexed their finger, I have also vortexed my nose, I am not the brightest scientist.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@UKCovid19Stats Thank you for still posting these, it is apprciated.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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And so it starts, the time of year I start introducing my new students to @chubbyemu , starting with one of my favourites, the soy sauce colon cleanse.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@qikipedia Ah inspiration to all cats everywhere
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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‘it is wrong to call what happened an “unthinkable tragedy” when a woman is murdered by a man every three days in England and Wales. Women being murdered by men is not unthinkable, it is desperately, horribly, normal’ Blaming Dead Women’ – Byline Times
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Presenting to the emergency room.. @chubbyemu
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@MackayIM I am so done with this mask thing now 🙄and I’m not even an expert. To mask,or not to mask, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the nose to suffer The coughs and sneezes of gross people, Or to take masks against a spray of droplets.
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I can’t stop watching this
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@davemacladd I wonder if any of them are married to journalists.... 🤔🙄
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@K_G_Andersen The strategies that had been discussed for years, based on years of experience from epidemics and pandemics, and plans formulated. We have been ready with plans for a pandemic for years, but they have been ignored and still being ignored 😒.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@chubbyemu “Minor” ? 😳. I cannot even imagine being able to drink and keep that amount of police lol down, let alone the bathroom repercussions!
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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Is anyone else watching 24 Hours in Police Custody? Just bloody hell. #24hoursinpolicecustody
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@MrMichaelSpicer I’m sat here by myself peeing my pants at hopeless moth!! 😂 personality of a bag of toenails is pretty special too.
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“where the RNA is packaged within an outer fatty or lipid membrane and are mostly spherical.” I share physical similarities with SARS-CoV-19.
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#COVID19 is an enveloped virus, where the RNA is packaged within an outer fatty or lipid membrane and are mostly spherical. The fatty membrane of SARS-CoV-2 contains virus proteins and acts like a bag that holds and protects the RNA. Share the facts:
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It worries me when professional scientists and medical folk follow me, I am concerned they will anticipate professional content and behaviour from me. I am a scientist, I do have an MSc & PGCE, but there the resemblance to professionalism ends. You may experience some disbelief.
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@stefinitely85 @DrJenGunter I live with chronic pain, I have a vagina, and I am a scientist. Dismissing ‘alternative’ treatments with medical fact is not anti-feminist, and it is ridiculous to suggest otherwise. It’s not my choice to not fit into my ‘narrative’, it is my choice not to fit yours.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@BadMedicalTakes Tell me you don’t understand gametogenesis without telling me you don’t understand gametogenesis
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@LostVoiceGuy And now I have disabled my nose by snorting coffee out of it!!!! 😂😂😂😂
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@BadMedicalTakes I guess DKA and death might be beneficial if you want to cut your food bill down
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@drkeithsiau Extract it and pay them £200 for passing go
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@drkeithsiau I’d remove the large yellow pokey things that is making a hole…am I right? Did I win? Am I a GI surgeon now?
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@jtrebach If you really want to show commitment it’s “please don’t stick that up your butt”
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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This one is especially good!!!
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NEW VIDEO A Woman Drank "35% Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide." This Is What Happened To Her Brain -RT!
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@PhilNWang ....is something everyone should try
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@bendymarsh It was the stress of work, or not working enough, being too fat, too thin, eating junk, eating too healthily, not practicing mindfulness, being too ‘woke’, not vaccinating, too many vaccinations, past trauma, and no resilience after cushy childhood. Definitely our fault 🙄.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@fitterhappierAJ > Don't annoy me with people in denial about T cell death signatures This really needs to be on a T shirt. Aside from which, why do you think people are in denial about it? I mean other professionals, it can’t just be the usual disagreements we get between researchers?
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@WhoresofYore Oh well I will have to leave, I only follow accounts that will ensure I am morally bankrupt ☺️
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@davemacladd Depends on what part of the country, down in London they only accept M&S or Waitrose pies. And nothing common, it has to be the finest artichoke and octopus arsehole pie.
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@chubbyemu “A man ate pet food while watching pornography, this is what happened to his lungs...”
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@drkeithsiau Deep, so deep 🥹
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After seeing the re-emergence of crackpot SARS-CoV-2 cures, I think it sensible to share this @chubbyemu video from March. A Man Drank 1 Bottle Rubbing Alcohol For COVID-19. This Is What Happened... via @YouTube
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@brian_bilston I’m still that kid ☺️
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@theIDPharmD @morgueages Shhhh don’t tell him! Grab some popcorn and sit back 🍿☺️
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@davemacladd 367 families grieving, 367 families that won’t have their loved one there at Christmas. But apparently that is less important than being able to go to the pub without a mask.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@angie_rasmussen In a slightly similar vein, I am seeing a lot of non-educators claiming they know how 'damaged' children will be from missing school.
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I have just eaten Nutella out of the jar with a spoon. I have no shame.
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@PaulTonge15 @NHSMillion Yep I noticed that bit, science is science, the only thing that changes it is more science, not a self-publicising ego wank on stage.
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@drkeithsiau It’s a private hospital, maybe they are including the recovery time that most patients would have at home. That said, she will also be off work for a few months. If I had to guess I would say a hysterectomy.
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This may need to go as my pinned tweet! 😂 @theawkwardyeti
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@DGlaucomflecken @Caulimovirus Nah this is the guy to trust with your life. The hair just reeks of authority.
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It finally arrived! @MackayIM it’s so cute! @GIANTmicrobes
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Excellent video! No spoilers, but this was one of my favourite topics to teach, especially the final treatment ☺️☺️ @chubbyemu A Mom Ate Chicken Burrito From A Suspicious Restaurant. This Is What Hap... via @YouTube
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@davemacladd Difficult punching yourself in the face when you have your head up your bottom.
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Someone threw a bottle of Omega 3 pills at me in the supermarket last night Fortunately my injuries are only super fish oil
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Brain it’s 1.30am...
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Just had a heated argument with a guy from the Council asking me to remove my electric fence, all because the neighbours are dead against it…
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Found new helium suppliers. Can’t speak highly enough of them.
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If there is going to be any “good” come from this pandemic, it might be a better understanding/acceptance of M.E/CFS/Fibromyalgia. I hope.
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@DShadowgazer The Krebs cycle (sorry if anyone is triggered)
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@FakeHeadteacher A shared spreadsheet tracker for everything, even if we are all doing it anyway. And then they get forgotten and a new one is created, even if we are all using the old one. I am waiting for a tracker to list all the trackers.
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I do love chasing a sparrow round the house first thing in the morning 🙄 #dickheadcat
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Brain fog strikes again, I was on the phone earlier and couldn’t remember the term ‘slices of bread’ so I called them loaf leaves 🤦‍♀️
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@drkeithsiau Toxic mega colon! Probably not but as that would be my superhero name, I took the opportunity to say it.
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Hello my name is Heather I am 46 and I have a masters in science. Today I forgot the words experimental protocol and called it a ‘science recipe’ 🤦‍♀️.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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I’d like to announce that I have just put my washing on the line for the first time this year. I am quite excited by that.
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One for the nerds ☺️ ⁦ @chubbyemu
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@davemacladd I look like the Churchill dog and I still don’t feel safe....ohhhhh yes!
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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I bumped into one of my previous students in tesco, we had a good chat and she went off to do her shopping. 10 mins later she appeared with these ☺️❤️❤️.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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Vaccine booked for tomorrow, I’ve never felt so grateful.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@davemacladd I grew a turnip! It’s not exactly impressive, but I grew it all by myself!
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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If you have insomnia, I recommend listening to birdsong on YouTube. However, I do not recommend doing it when there is a cat in the room, my stupid animal thinks it is coming from under the bed 🙄.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@k8_lister I wonder if they had compulsory ‘well being’ sessions they had to attend? Where they talk about the difficulties of work like balance with the very people piling the workload on
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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Merry Xmas to my Twitter folk, you have been kind, funny, and tolerant of my lunacy on here, and I want you to know it is very much appreciated ❤️. And a special merry Xmas to anyone here going through the motions and putting on a front for today, I feel you xx 🤗
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@MedCrisis Why can’t doctors tell us it’s a slight decrease in flow to the heart rather than doom laden stories of heart attacks? My uncle’s hairdresser’s daughter’s cousin went to med school in 1976 and said heart attacks were not an issue then, it’s snowflakes requiring adequate perfusion
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@anon_opin They are the best thing ever, I would like to be buried in mine.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@BadMedicalTakes I want to know what the ‘uncommon’ ones are…..
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Yep 🗡😆
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@Kit_Yates_Maths Every single person with ME/CFS or long Covid feels like this too. Massively frustrating and saddening.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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For anyone else my age ☺️
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Welcome to the Metaverse
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When your student knows you love medical history, and this is the layout they choose for their creating a textbook assignment ❤️😄🩺
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
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@NTDs_Maja Meanwhile cancer affects 17 million people each year, research is comparatively well funded and the range of treatments increases each year. 1.5 billion people whose lives are affected by stigma and disability, for the sake of a bed net or eye ointment 😞.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
2 years
Birthday book haul ☺️☺️❤️❤️
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
5 years
@aetiology Every woman should be able to isolate mature mRNA, column purify it, reverse transcriptase into DNA, clone into plasmid and transform into E.coli. It’s part of being an incredible nurturer and caregiver. @DrJenGunter @choo_ek
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
4 years
@Markgsparrow @GeoffNorcott I think Twitter should take it more seriously, and root out people who put the milk in first.
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Heather Collins 🦋📚🎓🧬🩺⚰️
1 year
@BadMedicalTakes The crucially important pathogens won’t die either. Faecal transplants are screened for pathogens before being given to already immune-compromised folk. Also 🤢.
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