Let's talk about LWBS = Left Without Being Seen Look at the graphs - anyone can immediately see the trend. Post pandemic it just keeps getting worse. Let's break this down as everyone should care as it will impact you or a loved one at some point 🧵 : 1/10

This picture of Jedi and a tiny female zebra jumping spider is one of my recent favourites. The spider did a little threat display - they stand tall and put their abdomen up - when Jedi moved, then settled and tried to hide under her leg.

Be skeptical of the news about acetaminophen & autism. Here is a structured critical review of a recent systematic review on the topic. thesgem.com/2025/09/sgem... @glaucomflecken.bsky.social @jakescottmd.bsky.social @kaymd.bsky.social @dennisrenmd.bsky.social @drjengunter.bsky.social @darakass.com

Canada Says, #ScienceMatters! www.cma.ca/about-us/wha... @kaymd.bsky.social @docmcohen.medsky.social @tchanmd.bsky.social @nilikm.bsky.social

Emergency medicine has been the light in the house of medicine that is always on for anyone, anytime for anything. @dennisrenmd.bsky.social @kaymd.bsky.social @acepnation.bsky.social

Gateway holds a session on the importance of rural emergency departments cknxnewstoday.ca/midwestern/n... @kaymd.bsky.social

In our three sisters garden, the beans have decided to tie everything together. Here is one of the purple pole beans that grew about 60cm over to gently grab one of the pumpkin leaves.

Rhys is doing the most little brother thing ever and chasing Charlie and Maisie around with a huge beetle he found in the garden.

It’s hot. Our heat pump (which does the A/C) is still pooched despite a second board being replaced. While complaining of being hot and sticky, we had to decide what to do with a bunch of lemons. Briefly considered pie, curd, bars. Nah. I put the kids to work juicing. Perfect lemonade.

I made a Tudor England strawbrrry tart from Tasting History. It is delicious. www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/stra...

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin. She captured an X-ray diffraction image of DNA and stated that a helical structure was probable. Watson and Crick then created a detailed model based on her results. They initially received credit for the discovery and were awarded the Nobel Prize after her death.🧪

Future lemon cucumbers. They’re just what they sound like - cucumbers that look like lemons. Maisie picked this variety and she’s very excited to eat them.

I love how baby crows sound like a person pretending to be a crow. It sounds like they are actually saying “caw”

Rhys asked me to come to the living room because he made “a talking place where all the people talk about important things like how to get better when you’re sick.” My kids are playing medical conference. He said Batman is next up to speak.

Productive day. Made a cherry almond buckle (recipe from one of my favourite sites,) sour cherry jam, and since fresh jam requires fresh bread, I made some french bread. “Tradwife” content, meet atheist divorcee content.

Jedi is helping me water the plants on the deck.

Found a sign at How Bazaar and I’m not sure if I want to hang it up in the staff room or above my bedroom door.

Found out my rapist - who is a repeat sex offender - is scheduled to be released from jail the day after my birthday and the crown appeal of his sentence (they appealed it as ‘demonstrably unfit’ as it is only around half of what it should be) may not be decided or even heard before he’s let out.

Used the last of the cherries from the one tree to make jam. Absolutely delicious. I would never make this if I had to buy them. Cherries are freaking expensive.

4 things to know about the vaccine ingredient thimerosal flip.it/10oiNo @kaymd.bsky.social @epiellie.bsky.social @casinoshiftmd.bsky.social

Made a cheesecake from scratch and topped it with a compote made of the cherries from my tree.

When your friends are also nerds but out of town when something comes up for sale you go pick up the life sized R2D2 cooler and bring it back to their apartment…

Sometimes interacting on social media can feel like this cartoon. @dennisrenmd.bsky.social @kaymd.bsky.social @epiellie.bsky.social @jakescottmd.bsky.social

I am not above climbing trees to harvest fruit. The tart Montmorency cherries should start being ready to pick next week. For now we’re enjoying the sweet rainier cherries.

Had to stop to take a picture on my way to swordfighting. I live in such a beautiful place.

Brief review of the C19 vax modelling study from the Lancet. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33516338/ #MedSky @kaymd.bsky.social

Itty bitty cherry thief.

Canada Day festivities in Charlottetown are always right on the water at Victoria Park. It’s nice to just get to cool off on the dock.

I appreciate that my older kids are old enough that I can come home from work to fresh baked goods. Charlie made Black Forest cupcakes yesterday.

When mom’s a doctor your play hospital has an MRI, a code team, and multiple point of care ultrasound machines.

So far, one perfect cherry. It was delicious. There are tons that are about 90% ripe and the birds are eating them since we didn’t get to the netting today, but will do that tomorrow.

The claim by RFK Jr that “nobody has any idea” how safe routine immunizations are seems to be a PRATT (point refuted a thousand times). Thank you, @kaymd.bsky.social, for introducing me to this term. rationalwiki.org/wiki/Point_r...

There’s a term used in online debate. PRATT. Point Refuted A Thousand Times. This particular item is RationalWiki’s very first example in the Science part of the article on PRATTs. At this point, to continue pretending this hasn’t been sufficiently researched it is simply intellectually dishonest.

www.reuters.com/business/fin... @kaymd.bsky.social

Great advice for the new interns starting July 1st. @kaymd.bsky.social @glaucomflecken.bsky.social

The study doesn’t exist AND thimerosal is effectively just not in vaccines in the United States, and has not been for 26 years now. It is only in multi-dose influenza vaccines, which are <5% of influenza vaccines.

“Why the hell does it smell like a bar in Canadian Tire?”

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My oldest is making ribs for supper tomorrow. The one upside of the general housing situation is that I’ve got a few extra years to teach my kids all my recipes before they move out.

Jedi pulled a Tim Hortons wrapper out of the garbage and was very sad it did not contain any treats for her so she just curled up beside it in her crate and gave me sad lab eyes.

“The greatest enemy of truth is not the lie —it is the lazy mind.” VOLTAIRE #MedSky @kaymd.bsky.social

Please appreciate my very large and pretty amanita mushrooms that we will not be eating.

Thank you, @jakescottmd.bsky.social & others, for putting this information together. "Vaccine RCT spreadsheet aims to show the data, dispel myths about vaccines." www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-fl... @dennisrenmd.bsky.social @kaymd.bsky.social @casinoshiftmd.bsky.social

The Skeptics' Guide to EM is #6 out of the top 35 skeptical podcasts in the world! podcast.feedspot.com/skeptic_podc... @kaymd.bsky.social @casinoshiftmd.bsky.social

Maisie (covered in dirt because she was drawing with some charcoal) wanted to go pick some daisies with her puppy. We have a ton of wildflowers so the house is never empty of them during the summer.

My eight year old is running around in her kilt (bought yesterday at the Highland Games) going “I’m Scottish today!” She has decided that she gets to pick which background she favours depending on the most recent festival.

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

Fought in a swordfighting tournament earlier today and came in 3rd in my division (novice.) My first ever sporting medal. Now the big kids, my mother, & I are seeing the 2025 opening night of Tell Tale Harbour! It’s a musical about a small town and a doctor. Playing at Mirvish in Toronto this fall!

The work of reform is necessary, he says, but “let’s make sure that it isn’t done in a way that inadvertently makes us useful idiots of an antiscience movement.” www.science.org/content/arti... @kaymd.bsky.social #MedSky

Jedi, immediately before tramping through my just-transplanted strawberry plants.