Creative, smart and charming: @apropostheatre’s #TheTruthAboutTrees inspired our kids’ leaf drawings. Strong impressions from a gentle and beguiling show. Go see it! The Crate, Assembly George Sq, 11.50. #EdFringe #EdinburghFringe #FringeForFamilies #EcoTheatre #FamilyTheatre

Kids, parents, and grandma all very much enjoyed @ofalafel.bsky.social stupidest show. Wanna see a poo on a pogo stick, embellished by a bum-faced snail and a sausage bird? Course you do:

Ciao and indeed ciao #Euroserpin2025, so sorry not to get longer in Brescia drawing insights and inspiration from you all, but had a great 24 hours even so!

#MIRA is up and running! Prof Louise Wain kicks us off outlining a streamlined entry system for patients who want to participate in research, actively or by allowing linkage of the information we collect clinically in any case. #LeicRespCohort

We only abandoned our #GlenfieldRespTalks briefly during the initial phases of the COVID crisis, but only now really getting back to consistent in-person meetings. So it’s just so lovely to be back in our traditional venue. People homing back to their previous seats like swallows in summer…

@ofalafel.bsky.social for #WorldBookDay

And we’re underway: now enrolled/randomised as first case! Congratulations to Amanda Charalambou and @nihr.bsky.social Leicester BRC team for making it happen, as well as the Leicester Rheum-Resp ecosystem.

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Happy 30th to the Alpha-1 Foundation! An exemplary patient-led research charity. Has enabled a lot of great science - keeping faith in bench<=>bedside ethos.

V happy to help screen first UK case for Scleroderma Research Foundation’s platform trial, assessing treatments for SSc-ILD, today #CurePF Plenty of Rheum in the ILD house (and vice versa), amiright @drpujamehta1.bsky.social?

And the NHS actually spends less on things we consider “waste”, like admin and managers, than many other nations. The NHS may indeed be inefficient — but it is not “bloated”. Rather, it is inefficient because it is run too lean. More in my column 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/1130...

Comin’ atcha #BTSWinter24! 2 presentations in first session Moore, Moore I hear you cry - well yes, that’s quite right: 4th floor, from 8.45. But I’m not on till midway through, so even laggards like me could make them.

Ever wondered if steroids do more harm than good in Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis? Don’t worry, the trial that is needed is on the way! rdn.nihr.ac.uk/news/south-w...

For the MedSky archives: Pretty much the most popular talk at #ACR23 last year @drpujamehta1.bsky.social's Daltroy Lecture on Redefining #ImposterSyndrome www.acrconvergencetoday.org/daltroy-lect...

For the new BlueSky members who have left #ILDTwitter I’ve updated this starter-pack to help you find key ILD and ILD-adjacent community members here. Pls comment if I’ve missed you and I’ll add you 🫁😊 #CurePF #CureIPF #ILD go.bsky.app/8u4KcNo

Looking at the replies on an app and not seeing porn bots or people calling me DEI

Powerful perspective but also reminder of how insurance-based healthcare seems like a nightmare from my UK pov, despite current challenges.

Go-to music for finalising research proposals as deadlines approach? It’s The Vaccines for me.

Bad-Enoch: I done a schematic Everyone else: ??? !!! Lung docs: Looks fine.

Congratulations to my #LISCB PhD student Geander Pessoa (pic - and I believe pizza - credit to Ingrid Pessoa), seen here celebrating after winning the Kornberg Prize for best seminar at the LISCB student symposium.

A proud day as a supervisor! Charlie Hitchman coming through his PhD viva w flying colours. A suitably probing discussion that sounds like it was great fun, & a worthy seal on a ‘tour de force’ (examiners’ assessment) PhD. Co-supe’d by Pietro Roversi, now in Milan, and Andrew Quigley at Harwell.

Extraordinary achievements. As a med student on his firm I found him humane with patients, kind to students and outrageously storied. Wouldn’t presume this captures all that he was about, just sourcing my fond memories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...