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Dr. Alice Seywright @ASeywright

Forensic Toxicologist, reformed SCRAnalyst, cat-botherer, picker upper of toys. @aliceseywright.bsky.social

Joined September 2018
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When you have the album launch at 5pm but a crime scene to attend at 6pm
Hip Hop Hub
@HipHopHubOG
28 May 2025
Drake’s next album ‘ICEMAN’ will solidify the fact that he is better than Michael Jackson
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Drugs Research Network Scotland@DRNScot
6 Mar 2025
📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨 The call for abstracts for our 2025 Annual Conference will now close on Friday 21 March 2025 📥 Email mcalnan@ed.ac.uk your submission by 21 March 2025 📅 Details below⬇️ buff.ly/f2gscfQ Register for conference: buff.ly/8oC6ZPU
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Might not be long for this place (Twitter, not life). I'm also @aliceseywright.bsky.social if you're there.
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WEDINOS Project@WEDINOSProject
13 Dec 2024
Unfortunately our primary analytical tool, UPLC-QToF, is currently undergoing repair work. This is unplanned downtime for the system. We are working to get this issue resolved as quickly as possible.
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The potential for degradation of nitazenes in unpreserved blood. Should we be testing in preserved? doi.org/10.1093/jat/bkae076

Identification of 5-aminometonitazene and 5-acetamidometonitazene in a postmortem case: are...

Abstract. In recent years, the use of 2-benzylbenzimidazole opioids (‘nitazenes’) has increased with them becoming one of the most prominent synthetic opio

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Toxicology people who are still on here and also on Bluesky: who is good to follow there?
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Brigitte Desharnais@ToxBrigitte
14 Nov 2024
Using qualitative (positive/negative, above/below threshold) methods? Join the upcoming #SOFT webinar on the topic! I will be discussing the consequential upcoming changes to the ASB 036. Validating qualitative methods will look quite different when this 2nd Edition is out!
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theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

Death in UK immigration removal centre is the first believed to be linked to the drug spice

Staff at Brook House had warned it was ‘only a matter of time’ before someone died as a result of taking the drug

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Other scientists working in the drug-related death field might have some feelings on this (especially from UK countries that aren't England). bigissue.com/news/social-jus…

Meet the only scientist who knows just how bad the UK's drug deaths crisis truly is

Caroline Copeland and her student team keep track of every drug-related death in the country. Can they help stop a wave of synthetic opioids?

bigissue.com
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Mushrooms of Arran, October 2024.
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
9 Oct 2024
What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N
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A great day at @EdinburghUni King's Buildings for @DoorsOpenDays. Getting the little ones into Science 🔬
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The proteins that drive drug addiction: chemistryworld.com/features/…

The proteins that drive drug addiction

Jamie Durrani speaks to researchers exploring how epigenetic changes in the brain affect drug-seeking behaviours

chemistryworld.com
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Dr Oliver Sutcliffe@sutcliffeob
11 Sep 2024
💥NEW RESEARCH PAPER💥 Our collaborative work w/ @UniofBath, led by Sam Craft (@Bath_AIM), on the detection and quantification of synthetic cannabinoids in vapes submitted to a UK drug/alcohol service has been published (open access) in @AddictionJrnl 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Detection and quantification of synthetic cannabinoids in seven illicitly sourced disposable vapes...

Background and aims In the United Kingdom and internationally, synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) are a common adulterant in illicitly sourced vaping products. Recently, their use is increasingly being...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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4 countries, 5 days, dozens of social media posts, too many coffees, and not enough sleep. That's #TIAFT2024 over. It was great. Now I'm going home to sleep 😵‍💫
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Brigitte Desharnais@ToxBrigitte
4 Sep 2024
I find myself in the enviable position of encouraging everyone to attend my #TIAFT2024 talk about *maths* at 17h18 on the penultimate conference day. 😅 What can I say. It's going to make your method of standard addition (#MSA) much better (1/2)
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Tox on tour
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿➡️🇨🇭 for #TIAFT2024
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Poorly prepared toxicologists all over the world (me) rush to Amazon
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There were 1172 Drug-Related Deaths in Scotland in 2023. • 121 on 2022 •80% implicated opioid(s) •58% implicated benzos (426/678 were bromazolam) •41% implicated cocaine •38% implicated gaba/pregab nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics…
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