Forensic Toxicologist, reformed SCRAnalyst, cat-botherer, picker upper of toys. @aliceseywright.bsky.social
Scotland
Joined September 2018
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Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
📣 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⬇️
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Register for conference: buff.ly/8oC6ZPU
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
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!
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
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
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
💥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/…
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
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) – at Saint Gallen, Switzerland
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
Laboratory tests have now confirmed that the substance in question linked with concern this week was clobromazolam – a synthetic benzodiazepine that has never been identified in Ireland before. thejournal.ie/what-caused-th…
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
The new @unodc_lab Current NPS Threats Volume VII report will be out soon! #NPS #UNODC #EarlyWarning #toxicology #SMARTForensics #opioids #benzodiapezines @UN_OPIOIDS @TIAFT_Tweets
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
It is extraordinary that the USA gets treated to a dismantling of the Tory party orders of magnitude better than the tame efforts anyone dares attempt here.
(And no, it's not the swearing that makes the difference - it's the accuracy of the attacks.)
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
'..actually, "doctor" has been an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, preceding its use by medical professionals,' I explain to the choking victim.
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
ALERT: There’s xylazine in the heroin. Today, Public Health Scotland (@P_H_S_Official) released an alert on the non-opioid tranquiliser, xylazine, after it has been increasingly detected in overdoses and deaths.
Please share: publichealthscotland.scot/pu…
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
The @RCPath Death Investigation Committee is running a new series of free webinars on autopsy topics.
19th June 1-2pm
Drug related deaths
Dr Julie McAdam, forensic pathologist, Glasgow University
rcpath.org/event/autopsy-web…
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
🚨 If you're not registered to vote, make sure you register before 11.59pm on 16 April 🚨
If you don't, you will not be eligible to vote in the 2 May elections.
Get registered and then you're sorted for the general election too.
🗳️
gov.uk/register-to-vote?utm_…
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
Here's a little thought experiment for ya'll cis folks willing to give it a go:
Imagine that you wake up tomorrow and you go to school or work or wherever you go, and everyone in your life refers to you as "the opposite" gender, no matter where you go or what you do or say...
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
This is a thread of my all-time favourite literal translations, starting with this one…
In Hungarian, the word for a shark, hiszékeny, translates literally to “sea bastard”
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
Today #bromazolam was internationally controlled by the United Nations #CND67
In Scotland, bromazolam was detected in 24% of drug-positive post mortem toxicology samples in quarter 3, 2023.
Bromazolam emerged after etizolam was controlled. What will replace it?
#radar #benzos
#CND67 day 4 THREAD🧵
I'm in Vienna this week for the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs - and it's the annual circus of scheduling day - when a bunch of drugs (& some precursors) get banned, & the world drug problem is solved (or infact unchanged/made worse
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Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
roses are red
please say this louder
fentanyl is not present
in every single white powder
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Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
Here are recent examples of xylazine found by @WEDINOSProject. Increasingly found in"heroin" samples across the UK. It is not an opioid. It is an anaesthetic used by vets on large animals. It also causes vaso-constriction so soft tissue wounds around the body take longer to heal.
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
Love this photo from our collection of one of the laboratories at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (c.1900). Just look at all those bottles!
ALT Black and white photo of an old laboratory. Shelves filled with bottles line the walls with sets of drawers underneath. On the right hand side of the picture there is a work bench covered in bottles.
Dr. Alice Seywright retweeted
We have on-going concern for N-Pyrrolidino protonitazene being sold on the Dublin and Cork markets to those who use heroin. There is a high risk for people who use heroin at this time. These substances may appear sporadically and unexpectedly.
drugs.ie/synthetic_opioid_pr…
