👇These are my coauthors for this particular manuscript, talking about the findings from this research!

👇 #globalhealth followers

If an inaccuracy has made its way into your doctor's notes because they were using an AI scribe, please email me at [email protected]! I am a health AI reporter and would love to talk to you about this problem!

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

The humidity around Sydney is leading to a number of interesting fungi appearing. Which in the case of this Anemone stinkhorn ( Aseroe rubra), was only overnight #gardening

we’re rolling out the first phase of the Bluesky + standard.site integration today! now, when you share an article from writing platforms that support standard.site (like @leaflet.pub, @pckt.blog, @offprint.app), you’ll notice the link card has more to it than a typical link card.

Female doctors quit medicine at higher rates than men. Why? https://www.europesays.com/us/825423/ But the problems for female doctors aren’t confined to a few fields. A recent paper published in The…#us #news #usnews

The only reason I’m semi getting any studying done is because my kids go to bed at 7pm and I work like once a week How tf are people who work 9-5 able to study for a board exam?!?

#MountainMonday #Eryri 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Cymru #Wales #NorthWales #Snowdonia #hiking #mountains #Gebirge #meadow #sheep #sky #clouds #sheepofmastodon #nature #Natur #landscape #Landschaft #naturephotography #landscapephotography #photography #Fotografie #amateurphotography

Ramifications for research projects involving collaboration with US based teams - "One of those affected is Iain Drummond, who studies kidney development and regeneration at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Maine and directs its NIH-funded Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence" 👇

There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, his band, and his crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. This was the perfect full-circle goodbye!

Oh no ...... #hiking

‘Male professors ‘excuse’ gender disparities in academia by referring to women's preferences or ‘justify’ them by appealing to meritocratic standards.’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Yes, taking images without consent in the operating room environment is bound to attract the attention of the regulatory authorities!

Dr Heba Elsewedy from #Egypt🇪🇬 is honored with 2026 Director-General's Awards for Global Health at #WHA79 for her outstanding humanitarian contributions.

Eastern Spinebill, our backyard in Central Victoria, Australia. Photo Damian Kelly #Ausbirds #birds

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

Young people and women are particularly vulnerable to MetALD, a dangerous merging of metabolic disease and alcohol use. www.statnews.com/2026/05/13/l...

When you have a hobby and a kitten 😭

America is full of really good people. Dr. Steve Kornfeld, a retired oncologist from Oregon, stepped in to care for fellow passengers suspected of having hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship when the ship’s doctor became incapacitated.

Idk if y’all are following the Canvas hack story, but apparently whoever hacked it is holding each uni’s access to canvas for ransom. Grades are due for graduation and no one can log on. 😬

40. Sickle. Lupus. ESKD on HD. Avascular necrosis, multiple joint replacements, recurrent infections. Many patients have it tough. Life can be brutal. Count your blessings.

How (not) to organise a panel at a global health conference - The Lancet Global Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Tella, Aragonese Pyrenees, Spain #hiking #photography #nature #travel

JAMA Review of acute and chronic Hepatitis B infection. "All ...on immunosuppressive Rx should be tested for HBsAg, HBsAb, and HBc Ab. HBV DNA measured in HBsAg+ & those w/ isolated Ab HBcAg jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

OMG these statistics #IDSky

Access recent JACS articles, Operative Word episodes, and CME tests sharing insights into the unique challenges faced by surgeons, including patient mental health and wellbeing, as well as surgeon burnout, in the ‘Mental Health, Wellbeing, and Burnout’ collection: www.facs.org/for-medical-...

AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... #AIslop #publishing #research

Big news: The Minnesota legislature passed the nation's first ban on nudification apps, aka the generative AI apps behind the rise of nonconsensual deepfakes. The bill also allows survivors to sue for damages. Now the it heads to Gov. Tim Walz's desk. 19thnews.org/2026/04/minn...

This not for profit organization in the United States exists to provide invaluable support to #physicians who are dealing with workplace conflict. Its name is Physician Just Equity and if you have a few $$$ to spare you will be supporting their important work. www.paypal.com/donate?hoste...

If you need a chaperone because of your prior misdeeds, you should be allowed to treat patients at all.

Have a nice weekend everyone 😊

Journal goes dark after impersonating @erictopol.bsky.social and others

I have also reached out to one of the so called listed Editors. If anyone knows any of the others, please reach out to them because they might not be aware of this either #AI #MEDSky

"'If you can increase the diversity of the scientific workforce, there’s some evidence that you can increase the trust in scientists,' Druckman explained... [diversity] encompassing not just race and gender but also rurality, religiosity, and class background." cps.isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

"Hard work doesn't always lead to success. Good systems do" This is just one of many excellent points being made in the featured manuscript in the below post. This is really worth a read regardless of one's clinical interests

Emmets Garden #Bluebells #Kent

It's really striking if you have inactive accounts on other social media platforms just how much AI slop and algorithmic junk there is on the main timeline now.

A grand jury indicted Florida surgeon Thomas Shaknovsky, DO, on a second-degree manslaughter charge for allegedly removing a patient's liver instead of his spleen during a 2024 surgery. Read more at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/surgery/generalsurgery/120792

FYI this thread (& the accompanying comments), wrt sexual harassment in the workplace, which sums up the underlying dynamics well

FYI this survey which is aimed at members of the #globalsurgery and surgical outreach communities of practice

A national analysis linking US board-certified family physician survey responses with Medicare data found that self-reported #burnout was associated with significantly higher rates of physician turnover, including both changing practices & leaving practice. ja.ma/3QqNegM

It is really worth 10 minutes of ones time spent reading this article "In some cases peptides have been linked to harms" .......

Study findings: Candidemia is infrequent but deadly in organ transplant patients. The population-based study in Canada found that nearly half of the solid-organ transplant patients who had Candida bloodstream infections died within 3 months. Read more: ow.ly/3ePE50YFN68

A new image of the Mont Saint Michel… Captured during a beautiful sunrise. Yes, you can photograph both sunset & sunrise at the Mont depending on which side of the bay you position 😉. #photography

AMWA is proud to collaborate and support this important campaign highlighting the impact of women in healthcare and featuring our own AMWA 2025-2026 President, Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH. Read the piece here bit.ly/4tw9d47 @mediaplanetusa #WomenInMedicine #HealthcareLeadership

Sakura from Ogonzan in Hiroshima. Wonderful. Really such a privilege to be here this time of year. #japan #urbanlandscape

Just like on earth, if the toilet is not working then this creates problems....... (and other solutions have to be deployed as per the comments)!

#Artemis II - Dr Lori Glaze, who leads development & operations, reminds us this mission is still a test flight & that NASA "continues to get lots of new data every day" She adds that they are "not tracking anything"of concern right now and "intend to learn as much as we can" about the spacecraft.