If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it! That’s just me though.

Lots of fun starting into the weekend with an educational quiz on #CPB and myocardial protection in cardiac surgery. Many thanks to the #DGTHG, Timur Kyashif and PD Münch for hosting and teaching. Looking forward to CABG Qs in two weeks! #CTSky #MedSky #Quizliga

The Autumn edition of the Barts ECMO course is happening now! Many thanks to Medtronic for supplying us with some lovely simulator kit. Look out for more pics over the weekend!

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women. Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children. Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

Superficial vein thrombosis (SuVT) is characterized by thrombus in the superficial veins, typically in the lower or upper extremities. This Review summarizes the diagnosis and treatment of SuVT. ja.ma/4gtRzc6

Chatbots can reinforce delusional beliefs, and, in rare cases, some users have experienced psychotic episodes go.nature.com/3VnA6sc

Israelis protesting the genocide - photos I took a few days ago in Tel Aviv

Yay it's a new guideline!! Association of Anaesthetists guidelines: safe vascular access 2025 Get reading! #AnSky #MedSky doi.org/10.1111/anae...

Es ist und bleibt absurd, dass den Sozialversicherungen und dem Staat zusammengenommen jedes Jahr rund 65 Milliarden Euro allein durch Lohndumping und Tarifflucht entgehen, während die Bundesregierung achselzuckend daneben steht und dem tatenlos zusieht. 3/3

Pay attention to the media organisations who will report on Trump declaring antifa - which does not exist - as a terrorist organisation without explicitly saying what antifa stands for every time. They’d have to report that Trump is effectively declaring anti-fascism as an enemy ideology.

Repair of Postinfarction VSD youtu.be/6qSa62U6Wvc?... #medSky #CTSky #CardSky

Exercises in anatomy: The normal heart - Robert H. Anderson #medSky #cardSky #CTSky mmcts.org/tutorial/61

Aortic Surveillance for the Non-Radiologist—Understanding Imaging and Measurement Techniques www.ctsnet.org/article/aort... #medsky #CTsky #cardiosky

Furthermore: There will be much less incentive to post large raw datasets publicly in the future free to use for all - since they will just be siphoned off by the AI companies...

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it. Commentary in @natnano.nature.com #nanotechnology

SGEM Xtra discusses the article by Lenzer & Brownlee "FDA Approved - And Ineffective" It is good to be skeptical... thesgem.com/2025/09/sgem... #MemeMonday #MedSky

public sentiment in favor of an effective vaccine to prevent group a streptoccocal infections (and consequent rheumatic heart disease) seems to be on the rise

The use of genAI violates the basic principles for sound research that we teach our students in intro methodology classes. That it’s been so widely accepted by so many researchers and university administrators is nothing less than a dereliction of basic duties to the profession.

This is my impression too. The poorer our critical thinking skills, the less opposition there can be to fascist and autocratic power.

The average working person is just a few months without income away from becoming homeless.

The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.

An incredible paper - a must read for all academics right now. Let's resist the bullshit machines that nobody asked for. cc @parismarx.com

Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay. Worried someone might be struggling with suicidal thoughts? Your presence can be powerful. A simple check-in could be the lifeline they need. 💙 Learn more about #SuicidePrevention 👉 bit.ly/4phPYKi

I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States* I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been. Boosterism == fascism, literally

Yes, that’s a piece of brocolli. No, it doesn’t belong in the lung. #medsky #PCCM

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.

Hyperkalemia can be sneaky. Even at a K level of 9-10 meq/l, the ECG may be surprisingly unimpressive (American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Vol VII, No 6, 1986: 461-5) #foamed #foamcc #meded #Medsky #emimcc #Medstudent

Prediction: similar moves will be made in Europe in the name of neoliberal „cost-efficiency“. This will harm patients.

Es ist und bleibt ein Skandal, dass das Fahren ohne Ticket im Gegensatz zu Parken ohne Ticket eine Straftat ist.

"Deutschland lebt über seine Verhältnisse" oder "Sozialausgaben explodieren" sind glatte Lügen, um neoliberale Reformen gegen die arbeitende Bevölkerung weiter voran zu treiben. Garniert wird das ganz mit Fremden- und Armutsfeindlichkeit, so dass Lohnarbeitende den Köder besser schlucken.

From the latest 2025 #ESCGuidelines for the management of #CVdisease in pregnancy: 💊Choices of medications use during Pregnancy & during lactation+breastfeeding 🔗 #EHJ: doi.org/10.1093/eurhea… @escardio.bsky.socia#ESCCongressss @cardioobdoc.bsky.social @cardioob.bsky.socia#CardioObstetricscs

#TaxTheRich #Vermögensteuer

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

An alle #YoungDGK und #YoungestDGK, die beim Kongress der @escardio.bsky.social in Madrid sind - nutzt diese tolle Möglichkeit zur Vernetzung mit den Präsidenten der @dgk-org.bsky.social und anderen #Youngs auf dem Kongress💬🫀 📅 Heute und morgen jeweils ab 12 Uhr!

Cardiac imaging comic nearly complete for @radiopaedia.org . Posting this 4-chamber cine of a pedunculated left atrial myxoma.

NEW Joint #ESCGuidelines with EACTS on #ValvularHeartDisease: bit.ly/47jE8cd #VHD

Wichtiger Schritt der @dgk-org.bsky.social, die Social-Media-Präsenz auszubauen - freue mich sehr auf die neue #Cardio-Bubble #Cardiosky 💪🏻🫀

Really wish a certain subset of Biden dead-ender would get this into their head: Israel could not have conducted this war for more than a few weeks without US resupply and support. They would run out of bombs, their planes would be grounded, their tanks break down, their guns run out of bullets

The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.

Die US-Regierung stoppt 22 #mRNA-Impfstoffprojekte im Wert von 500 Mio. Dollar. Ein „riesiger Fehler“, sagt Nobelpreisträgerin Katalin Karikó – und sie hat recht. (1/6)

Self-promotional language may attract readers but is discouraged in Communications Psychology. Because style matters in fostering credibility. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Fantastic case in @journal_CHEST of an 18 yo who sustained a 40-ft fall leading to traumatic hemorrhagic pneumatoceles and respiratory arrest. Patient was treated with REBOA, parallel-circuit VV-ECMO, and systemic isoflurane sedation; orthopedic fixation was performed on VV-ECMO

The greenhouse of the old university botanical garden #photography #ricohgr #griii #göttingen

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

So, let's unpack the whole mess of human hubris surrounding everything #AI and why this is so dangerous. The hubris demonstrated by GenAI companies is of course well documented. But it's also very evident in the criticism, and in a way that is distorting the real issues here. 1/7