High prevalence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria in faecal samples from UK passerine birds (2025)
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Dunn, J. C., & Clegg, S. R. (in press). High prevalence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria in faecal samples from UK passerine birds. Scientific Reports, 15(1), Article 28130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-13012-4

Wild birds are a near ubiquitous sight in gardens, offering pleasure to many people through supplementary feeding, song, or other interactions. However, they are also potential carriers of many bacteria, including Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp.,... Read More about High prevalence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria in faecal samples from UK passerine birds.

Carboniferous and Early Permian Magmatism in England (2025)
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Sheldrick, T. C., Hahn, G., Antoshechkina, P. M., Norry, M. J., Egan, S. S., Barry, T. L., Gan, C., Wilkinson, C. M., Gibson, S. A., & Ewan, C. A. (2025). Carboniferous and Early Permian Magmatism in England. Journal of Petrology, Article egaf063. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaf063

The cause of widespread Carboniferous and Early Permian magmatism that occurred across northern Europe and the United Kingdom remains enigmatic. New 40Ar-39Ar radiometric dating reveals that some of the earliest manifestations of alkaline to sub-alka... Read More about Carboniferous and Early Permian Magmatism in England.

The prognosis of pain and function in people with hand and thumb base osteoarthritis: a systematic review (2025)
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Jansen, V., Selby, A., Toft, S., Greenway, J., Marshall, M., Nicholls, E., & van der Windt, D. A. (2025). The prognosis of pain and function in people with hand and thumb base osteoarthritis: a systematic review. Annals of Medicine, 57(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/07853890.2025.2532113

Background
This systematic review has summarized evidence regarding the course of hand pain, hand function, and prognostic factors that predict changes in symptoms in people with hand and thumb base osteoarthritis .

Methods
A systematic search o... Read More about The prognosis of pain and function in people with hand and thumb base osteoarthritis: a systematic review.

Infrared spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in 2015 and 2022 (2025)
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Geballe, T. R., Kaminskiy, B. M., Banerjee, D. P. K., Evans, A., Pavlenko, Y., Rushton, M. T., Popescu, M., & Eyres, S. P. S. (2025). Infrared spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in 2015 and 2022. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541(4), 3331-3340. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1193

We report medium-resolution 0.85–2.45 m spectroscopy obtained in 2015 and 2022 and high-resolution 2.27–2.39 m and 4.59–4.77 m spectroscopy obtained in 2015 of V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon), along with modelling of the 0.85–2.45 m spectrum. V838 Mon un... Read More about Infrared spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in 2015 and 2022.

Socioeconomic inequalities in outcomes, experiences and treatment among adults consulting primary care for a musculoskeletal pain condition: a prospective cohort study (2025)
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Peat, G. M., Hill, J. C., Yu, D., Wathall, S., Parry, E., Bailey, J., Thompson, C., & Jordan, K. P. (2025). Socioeconomic inequalities in outcomes, experiences and treatment among adults consulting primary care for a musculoskeletal pain condition: a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 15(7), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-095132

Objectives To estimate the direction and magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in outcome, experience and care among adults consulting for a musculoskeletal pain condition. Design Multicentre, prospective observational cohort with repeated measures... Read More about Socioeconomic inequalities in outcomes, experiences and treatment among adults consulting primary care for a musculoskeletal pain condition: a prospective cohort study.

Coproducing COVID-19 health information resources: a participatory study with older adults from minoritised ethnic communities in the UK (2025)
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Paudyal, P., Wasim, A., Hajaj-Majid, S., Khapangi Magar, N., Sharp, R., Skinner, E., Sharma, A., Hughes, L., Keeling, D., Armes, J., Kulasabanathan, K., Canvin, K., Gaihre, S., & Cassell, J. (in press). Coproducing COVID-19 health information resources: a participatory study with older adults from minoritised ethnic communities in the UK. Health Expectations,

Background: Minoritised ethnic communities in the UK experience disproportionate levels of morbidity and mortality compared to their Caucasian counterparts. This disparity was magnified during the COVID-19 crisis, particularly amongst older adults. A... Read More about Coproducing COVID-19 health information resources: a participatory study with older adults from minoritised ethnic communities in the UK.

Understanding contexts and mechanisms through which video based benchmarking promotes alignment of examiners’ scoring in objective structured clinical exams (2025)
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Edwards, R. J., Yeates, P., Lefroy, J., & McKinley, R. (2025). Understanding contexts and mechanisms through which video based benchmarking promotes alignment of examiners’ scoring in objective structured clinical exams. Advances in Health Sciences Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-025-10454-3

Aligning examiners judgements to a shared standard is desirable within Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs) because it accords with OSCEs’ epistemic assumptions and purpose. Video-based benchmarking (VBB) involves examiners scoring station spe... Read More about Understanding contexts and mechanisms through which video based benchmarking promotes alignment of examiners’ scoring in objective structured clinical exams.

Challenges and Facilitators for Physicians and Medical Schools to Promote Social Accountability in Rural Communities: A Scoping Review and Thematic Analysis (2025)
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Wasim, A., Abud, A., Wang, Y., Tavakoli, E., Moreno-Gris, A., Joshi, S., Wang, A., Neasadurai, A., & Shaw, N. (2025). Challenges and Facilitators for Physicians and Medical Schools to Promote Social Accountability in Rural Communities: A Scoping Review and Thematic Analysis. Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, 12, https://doi.org/10.1177/23821205251348015

Background: Social accountability aligns the health demands and priorities of the community and the commitment of medical schools. Existing literature has proposed contextually distinctive interventions encompassing geographical initiatives, institut... Read More about Challenges and Facilitators for Physicians and Medical Schools to Promote Social Accountability in Rural Communities: A Scoping Review and Thematic Analysis.

Local variation in musculoskeletal pain consultation rates in primary care: findings from an ecologic study in Staffordshire (2025)
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Peat, G. M., Hill, J. C., Yu, D., Wathall, S., Parry, E., Bailey, J., Stevenson, K., Thompson, C., Wilkie, R., Dziedzic, K., & Jordan, K. P. (2025). Local variation in musculoskeletal pain consultation rates in primary care: findings from an ecologic study in Staffordshire. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 26, Article e52. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1463423625100133

Summary: Variation between general practices in the rate of consultations for musculoskeletal pain conditions may signal important differences in access to primary care, perceived usefulness, or available alternative sources of care; however, it migh... Read More about Local variation in musculoskeletal pain consultation rates in primary care: findings from an ecologic study in Staffordshire.

The orbit of WASP-4 b is in decay (2025)
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Baştürk, Ö., Kutluay, A. C., Barker, A., Yalçınkaya, S., Southworth, J., Barkaoui, K., Wünsche, A., Burgdorf, M. J., Timmermans, M., Jehin, E., Tregloan-Reed, J., Jaimes, R. F., Hinse, T. C., Duru, B., Hitchcock, J., Longa-Peña, P., Rahvar, S., Sajadian, S., Bretton, M., Selam, S. O., …Mancini, L. (2025). The orbit of WASP-4 b is in decay. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541(2), 714-730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1009

WASP-4 b is a hot Jupiter exhibiting a decreasing orbital period, prompting investigations into potential mechanisms driving its evolution. We analysed 173 transit light curves, including 37 new observations, and derived mid-transit timings with exof... Read More about The orbit of WASP-4 b is in decay.

From who we are to what we are willing to do for social change: The action‐bound role of efficacy perceptions (2025)
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Lucarini, A., Cocco, V. M., Vezzali, L., Mannarini, T., & Çakal, H. (2025). From who we are to what we are willing to do for social change: The action‐bound role of efficacy perceptions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12910

Two cross‐sectional studies conducted in Chile (Study 1, N = 587) and Italy (Study 2, N = 438) investigated the action‐bound role of perceived efficacy in explaining the association between politicized (Studies 1 and 2) and non‐politicized identity (... Read More about From who we are to what we are willing to do for social change: The action‐bound role of efficacy perceptions.

Corrosion behavior of Limnoperna fortunei on carbon steel in freshwater environments (2025)
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Liu, Y., He, X., Yang, Y., Yuan, X., Zhou, Z., Bai, X., & Yuan, C. (2025). Corrosion behavior of Limnoperna fortunei on carbon steel in freshwater environments. npj Materials Degradation, 9(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41529-025-00618-2

Limnoperna fortunei (L. fortunei), a representative macrofouling organism in freshwater environments, causes significant degradation to the surfaces of hydraulic engineering materials through prolonged adhesion. The corrosion behavior of L. fortunei... Read More about Corrosion behavior of Limnoperna fortunei on carbon steel in freshwater environments.

Shakespeare’s violence and the use of content warnings in UK secondary schools: what do students think? (2025)
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Yearling, R., & Fox, C. L. (in press). Shakespeare’s violence and the use of content warnings in UK secondary schools: what do students think?. Cambridge Journal of Education, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764x.2025.2512243

Extended time to maturity in Anopheles coluzzii: Implications of late egg hatch for vector control and transgene fitness (2025)
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Ottih, E. C., Roberts, J. M., Bruce, T. J. A., & Tripet, F. (2025). Extended time to maturity in Anopheles coluzzii: Implications of late egg hatch for vector control and transgene fitness. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12814

Maintaining fitness is an important consideration when mosquitoes are mass‐reared for the deployment of genetic interventions that are designed to suppress populations because released mosquitoes need to compete with wild‐type mosquitoes. Late‐hatchi... Read More about Extended time to maturity in Anopheles coluzzii: Implications of late egg hatch for vector control and transgene fitness.

Vitacrystallography: Appearance and Development of Cancer-Induced Structural Biomarkers in a Mouse Model (2025)
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Avdieiev, O., Denisov, S. A., Ajeer, A., Adams, L., Greenwood, C., Nesbitt, H., Thomas, K., Rogers, K., Solovyeva, O., Mourokh, L., & Lazarev, P. (2025). Vitacrystallography: Appearance and Development of Cancer-Induced Structural Biomarkers in a Mouse Model. Life, 15(6), Article 904. https://doi.org/10.3390/life15060904

Structural biomarkers determined by X-ray scattering of the tissues can complement conventional diagnostics and provide a pathway for early detection of diseases. In the present study, mouse models were utilized to observe the progression of prostate... Read More about Vitacrystallography: Appearance and Development of Cancer-Induced Structural Biomarkers in a Mouse Model.

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): Multiplicity properties of Oe and Be stars (2025)
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Bodensteiner, J., Shenar, T., Sana, H., Britavskiy, N., Crowther, P., Langer, N., Lennon, D., Mahy, L., Patrick, L., Villaseñor, J., Abdul-Masih, M., Bowman, D., de Koter, A., de Mink, S., Deshmukh, K., Fabry, M., Gilkis, A., Götberg, Y., Holgado, G., Izzard, R., …Xu, X.-T. (2025). Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): Multiplicity properties of Oe and Be stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452623

Context. Rapidly rotating classical OBe stars have been proposed as the products of binary interactions, and the fraction of Be stars with compact companions implies that at least some are. However, to constrain the interaction physics spinning up th... Read More about Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): Multiplicity properties of Oe and Be stars.

Understanding of Stroke Risk Among Smokers in Saudi Arabia (2025)
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Alqahtani, J. S., Aldhahir, A. M., Alqarni, A. A., Alghamdi, S. M., Oyelade, T., Alzaidi, F. N., Alamri, M. A., Kheder, A. M., Alsamdani, H. I., AlAyadi, A. Y., Siraj, R. A., Aldabayan, Y. S., & Al Rajeh, A. M. (2025). Understanding of Stroke Risk Among Smokers in Saudi Arabia. Medicina, 61(6), Article 1006. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina61061006

Background and Objectives: Stroke is a common and fatal condition impacting millions worldwide. Understanding the risk factors, symptoms, and consequences at an earlier stage, specifically in highly at-risk populations such as smokers, is crucial for... Read More about Understanding of Stroke Risk Among Smokers in Saudi Arabia.

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM):. Enhanced multiplicity of early B-type dwarfs and giants at Z=0.2 Zsun (2025)
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Villaseñor, J., Sana, H., Mahy, L., Shenar, T., Bodensteiner, J., Britavskiy, N., Lennon, D., Moe, M., Patrick, L., Pawlak, M., Bowman, D., Crowther, P., de Mink, S., Deshmukh, K., Evans, C., Fabry, M., Fouesneau, M., Holgado, G., Langer, N., Maíz Apellaniz, J., …Vink, J. (2025). Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM):. Enhanced multiplicity of early B-type dwarfs and giants at Z=0.2 Zsun. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 698, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202453166

Early B-type stars with initial masses between 8 and 15M are frequently found in multiple systems, as is evidenced by multi-epoch spectroscopic campaigns in the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Previous studies have shown no strong met... Read More about Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM):. Enhanced multiplicity of early B-type dwarfs and giants at Z=0.2 Zsun.

Burden of smoking-related stroke in Saudi Arabia: trends from 1990 to 2021 (2025)
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Alqahtani, J. S., AlDraiwiesh, I. A., Aldhahir, A. M., & Oyelade, T. (2025). Burden of smoking-related stroke in Saudi Arabia: trends from 1990 to 2021. PloS one, 20(5), Article e0324039. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324039

Background: Stroke ranks among the top causes of death and disability globally, with smoking being a significant risk factor for its development. This study aims to assess the impact of smoking-related strokes in Saudi Arabia from 1990 to 2021. Metho... Read More about Burden of smoking-related stroke in Saudi Arabia: trends from 1990 to 2021.

EBLM XV – Revised dynamical masses for the circumbinary planet host Kepler-16 AB, using the SOPHIE spectrograph (2025)
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Sebastian, D., Boisse, I., Santerne, A., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Baycroft, T. A., Davis, Y. T., Deleuil, M., Grouffal, S., Hébrard, G., Heidari, N., Martin, D. V., Maxted, P. F. L., Nelson, R. P., Lalitha, S., Scott, M. G., Scutt, O. J., & Standing, M. (in press). EBLM XV – Revised dynamical masses for the circumbinary planet host Kepler-16 AB, using the SOPHIE spectrograph. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf863

Eclipsing binaries are perfect laboratories to measure precise, accurate and model-independent stellar radii and stellar masses, so long as both components are spectroscopically resolved. Resolving both components is difficult in high-contrast binari... Read More about EBLM XV – Revised dynamical masses for the circumbinary planet host Kepler-16 AB, using the SOPHIE spectrograph.