This is the only time anyone comments their code... ...right?

Only just downloaded the latest version of Zotero. Some nice tweaks in the app (if you have a reference open innit and go to cite it suggests it). But I absolutely love the Android app. Welcome new addition. @zotero.org

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

The breaking news is presumably that 70% of trusts made up their answer ...

Exclusive: Data analysis by #ThePJ has revealed that more than one-quarter (28%) of trusts and health boards do not offer formalised protected learning time in job plans for hospital pharmacists #protectedlearningtime #pharmacytraining #ukhealthcare #NHS #hospitalpharmacy buff.ly/sYgbbDO

Oh this could be my new favourite from @ellecordova.bsky.social (aka the font lady in this house)... The final line is 💯 perfection... youtube.com/shorts/CkNRm...

Concomitant Comedications and Survival With First-Line Pembrolizumab in NSCLC jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... As interesting as these studies are, not sure what #OncoPharm do with result! 1️⃣ [Some] Antibiotics have impact on survival in NSCLC with Pembro 2️⃣ So does >20mg pred 3️⃣ So does PPI

The government of ironic resignations ➡️ Watch the latest episode of Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=euHn...

Have you ever wondered how new medicines are developed? This explainer, commissioned by ABPI, outlines the long journey from the discovery of a new drug to when it becomes available on the NHS. Find out more 🔽 https://bit.ly/3JR1Seh

@nhsengland.bsky.social have published a patient safety alert on Rasburicase. 1️⃣ All haem patients to be risk assessed on change of Tx 2️⃣ Treatment dose within 1 hour @bopa.org.uk please tell me 120 hospitals are not about to develop 120 different SOPs.. www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...

The NHS Secure Data Environment (SDE) Network is inviting members of the public to help shape how decisions are made on who can be approved to request access to data for research. Find out more and register your interest:

Wondering if anyone has ever been made to take a poster down for not complying with a conference organiser's "rules"... ...I realise it might mean it's excluded from a prize... But if I don't put the author name at the top? (But it's at the bottom)

From the new Private Eye, out now.

obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Always useful to have this guidance, as much as you may hope not to need it.

Drug pricing may be the most opaque black magic taking place... First we have a list price Then a special NICE price (possibly with a 'secret' central rebate for specific uses as well as the discount) Then we have the clawback. Does NICE account for the clawback?

Yet the press would have us believe there are too many administrators in the NHS...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

Interesting article suggesting we turn all of what we are taught in academia about how to write stuff on its head... I think this is exactly the sort of thing @mikemorrison.bsky.social et al have been saying with posters. While there is "logic" to how we learn to do it, if your audience hasn't...

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The #HouseofLords Public Services Select Committee has launched an inquiry into the UK’s ability to predict and prevent medicines supply issues #medicinessupply #drugsupply buff.ly/cZt3fzw

This new collection of cancer content, brought to you in partnership with BeOne Medicines, provides access to educational resources that support professional development for improved patient #cancercare #BeOneMedicines #cancermedication

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

At #ExtremeRobots Newcastle @extremerobots.bsky.social where my sun is rather keen to win a CO2YOU machine to making him fizzy water... (I can't stand the stuff...)

👇💯 If someone invented an AI that could clean bathrooms, I’d be all over it. I don’t need AI to do my thinking, or writing, for me

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

I realise I don't understand politics. But it always strikes me that the whole party whip thing is utter madness. If I was a constituent in one of these wards, I'd be MORE likely to vote for them on the principle they aren't a 🐑 doing what the pack told them to do. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Curiologists/emoji experts: @jeremyburge.bsky.social @broni.bsky.social @jenniferdaniel.bsky.social Quick q! Anyone remember the convo about designing the cheese emoji? Why was Emmental the one? 🧀 Sidenote: World Emoji Day's 7/17 📅 and we got an ep about it: www.alieward.com/ologies/curi...

New on CRAN: NHSRwaitinglist (0.1.2). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=NHSRwaitinglist

INAVO120 phase 3 trial: In PIK3CA-mutated advanced breast cancer, adding inavolisib to therapy with palbociclib and fulvestrant was previously shown to improve progression-free survival. Research findings on overall survival are summarized in a short video. nej.md/44TesRZ #MedSky #Oncology

Here's what it gets you

If you think you're 20% faster but you're actually 19% slower, you're 32.5% slower than you think.

OMG @glaucomflecken.bsky.social has gone animated youtu.be/QjPfN9-eT7E?...

Interesting I bank with a sub-divison. I like them. They are a good bank. Their customer service is excellent etc. Anyone want to tell me where to go...

Maybe if the rest of the world hadn't waste carbon on AC we wouldn't be so warm

Confessions of a former naturopath.

Fruquintinib- Fruquintinib for patients with either metastatic or locally advanced and inoperable colorectal cancer who have received 2 or mo... https://updates.chemo.org.uk/CDF_Forms/FRU1.html 🚨 Recommended for routine commissioning, rec...

I've come to symptom control session, running at same time as proffered papers session at #esmogi25. I'm hoping someone will skeet if something dramatic happens at that session! I'm wondering what message @myesmo.bsky.social were sending running symptom control alongside a proffered papers session

I've come to symptom control session, running at same time as proffered papers session at #esmogi25. I'm hoping someone will skeet if something dramatic happens at that session! I'm wondering what message @myesmo.bsky.social were sending running symptom control alongside a proffered papers session

#ESMOGI25 If we get to Cancer Vaccines in clinical practice... ...who is going to prescribe and administer these? Surgery? Oncology? ...how will they prescribe them? Are the EPRs and SACT prescribing systems looking at how they are prescribed? #OncoPharm

#OncoPharm If you were in the room... You'd be loosing your 💩 as this 🇫🇷 doctor is saying "don't listen to your pharmacist" To be fair he is saying about maximum dose of loperamide with NalIRIFox. And I agree, keep taking it. but the actual words are making me 🤬

I'm in the most bizarre discussion at #ESMOGI25 where the speakers have suddenly become obsessed by the fact that FOLFIRINOX is not actually licensed in pancreatic cancer. No way did anyone care about this until the drug company for NalIRI told them it matters.

#ESMOGI25 OMG. Total neo-adjuvant Therapy for Gastric/OES surely doesn't mean giving all 8 FLOT up front? Surely we should be working out if people who have excellent response pre-surgery (4 FLOT) will get any benefit from further another 4... And for those with sub-optimal response..

#ESMOGI25 Zanidatamab+chemo even with regular loperamide = ¼ patients Grade 3 diarrhoea Brace yourselves #OncoPharm

I was a bit worried when Prof Sinicrope started out saying he had CoI with one of the companies in the game. But actually his conclusions are very sensible.

Impressive review of the use of blood based assays for screening in Colorectal Cancer at #ESMOGI25 by Prof Sinicrope Take a closer look at the takeaway points!! @myesmo.bsky.social #ESMOAmbassadors

Some great tips on making better #dataviz 👇 In my experience, the final point—feedback—is invaluable Funny how another person might focus on something completely different to what you intended 🙃 Adjusting from this feedback always makes for a clearer visual message📊🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their spread, a discovery that could lead to new treatments. www.newscientist.com/article/2485...