Every year more information accrues around the complexities of the human immune system. This proposed schema for classifying T-cells being a casing point!

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

I was able to publish numerous pieces in the AMA Journal of Ethics during my time in the Ethics Group at AMA. They've always had a dedicated team of editors interested in advancing important discussions in medical ethics and public health ethics. What an unfortunate, wrong-headed decision.

Dr Clare McNaught is set to officially take office as RCSEd's new President tomorrow (14 November) at the College's AGM. Dr McNaught succeeds Professor Rowan Parks, who has served as the College's President for the last three years. Read more: https://bit.ly/3XxrhwN #OperatingAsOne

DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

If you live anywhere north the 35th parallel and have clear skies, go outside and look north right now! #aurora

NEW: 1 in 8 men undergo scrotal surgery 20 years after kidney donation, underscoring the need for increased patient education about the risks and symptoms to monitor after donation. https://f.mtr.cool/xpxelntcyw

#TLM25: Laura Kulik, MD, transplant hepatologist at @nuintmed.bsky.social, in Chicago, speaking on systemic therapy for #HCC at @aasldnews.bsky.social#TLM25#HCC025 in Washington, D.C. Image & quote taken by Senior Correspondent, Larry Luxner. #RareDisease #Hepatology #HepatocellularCarcinoma #MedSky

👇This accurate piece on James Watson

Beware the ads that are being posted via Meta social media sites (and also let your trusted contacts know about this)

“I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity.” - Eugene V. Debs

#aurora #auroraaustralis #astrophotography #longexposure #brunyisland #tasmania #nikonz142428

Moving beyond N of 1 case reports! The first clinical trial of 🐷 kidneys begins N = 6, poss or expansion to 50 United Therapeutics (NYU, UAB have used this model) ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/first-c...

When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.

When you discover that a serious manuscript which was previously published in the New England Journal of Medicine @NEJM.org for which you are one of the coauthors, has been turned into a comic via an #AI tool #academicsky

This thread makes for interesting reading. Hint it was the bacteria ..... #IDSky

GMC restrictions placed on surgeon suspended from Addenbrooke’s after concerns over operations www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/gmc-res...

Psst #neuro program directors…this (and the tie in the subsequent post) made a great gift for our graduating #neurosurgery residents! 😊 🧠

The fragile intelligence of #GPT5 in #medicine | @nature.com #Medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MedTwitter #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #AIinHealthcare #MedTech

If you have recently migrated here from X / #Twitter and are unsure as to how to get started, it is useful to check out the myriad of starter packs/groups which can be searched for via this link. Just type in your interests into the tool bar blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs

👇#MedSky

I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making. In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence. arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894

👀I think it is fair to say that the previous activities in the East Wing are now consigned to history

Interesting data. One of the limitations of such a scoring system is that it is context dependent, hence it would need to also be validated in other regions of the world.

"Sheila Irvine, 70, who is registered blind, told the BBC it was "out of this world" to be able to read and do crosswords again. "It's beautiful, wonderful. It gives me such pleasure." BBC News - Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hiking in Heathcote National Park marvelling at some of the vegetation including the flowers on these Gymea lilies

Well, this is an interesting development here on BlueSky

Plastic is everywhere. On today’s dive, the E/V Nautilus/ ROV Hercules encountered a crushed plastic bottle on the abyssal plain- in the remote Pacific (Cook Islands @ 5,198 meters). ♻️ I challenge everyone to swap at least one single-use plastic item. Small steps for more eco habits. 🌊🧪🌎

New pro/con perspective piece by @drneilstone.bsky.social & yours truly Joining the X-odus: Contrasting perspectives on whether infection specialists should leave X (formerly Twitter) That I'm sharing it here belies where I stand on the issue www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295... #IDSky

👇When a politician steps into the limelight wrt who should be vaccinated prior to a solid organ transplant in Texas

No remaining vascular access

I think that some organizations will now be stepping into the breach in light of the latest news about the CDC in the United States #publichealth

Banksia coccinea - Scarlet Banksia Known by the local Noongar peoples as Waddib, this stunning banksia is endemic to the southwest coast around Denmark/Albany to the Stirling Ranges. It is a stunning flower to see growing in the wild! #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #banksia #Proteaceae

The scientific report of this particular axillary liver transplant procedure utilizing a genetically engineered porcine liver can be found in the EASL associated Journal of Hepatology along with the following succinct editorial #LiverSky www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S016...

It led to a number of collaborative type projects some of which resulted in publications journals.lww.com/journalacs/a...

👇This important work wrt how surgeons deal with microaggressions in the workplace #MedSky #SurgSky

Big congratulations to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi on their Nobel Prize win. Their research relates to regulatory T cells and immune responses in the body. #medicine #NobelPrize #science #womeninSTEM #womeninscience 🧪

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku. www.science.org/content/arti...

Dr. Antonia Coello Novelo, Puerto Rican, was the first woman & first Hispanic to serve as the US Surgeon General. Specializing in #pediatrics and #nephrology, she played a large role in the Organ Transplantation Procurement Act. #womeninmedicine #HispanicHeritageMonth www.scheq.org/antonia-coel...

Rest in light to an amazing scientist Jane Goodall. She tirelessly worked for conservation and helped open up pathways and inspiration for many women scientists #janegoodall #womeninSTEM #RIP

RBC-based kidney normothermic machine perfusion triggers problems that may negate its potential benefits. #nephrology #nephsky #kidneytransplant #perfusion docwirenews.com/post/molecul...

This manuscript contains really useful information with respect to the underlying medical scenarios leading to this - “If there is a doctor on this flight can they make themselves known to the cabin crew”

Learned a bunch at the Alaska Writers Guild conference. My memoir, Lessons from Chaos: Notes of a “Simple” Surgeon is a story only I can tell. It matters now b/c few have seen what it’s like when health systems barely exist, and survival depends on the people already there. #GlobalHealth #Memoir

Donor-derived infections with Rickettsia typhi (agent of murine typhus) in 2 kidney transplant recipients (1 fatal) Teaching points - 🐭 typhus transmitted by fleas (& transplant) - Cases 📈 in Texas - Death of diffuse 🫁 , 🧠 edema w/o dx=👎 tx - cfDNA MGS (Karius) can dx wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

The amazing team at @sciencevs.bsky.social dropped a #Tylenol podcast a few days ago, giving explanation of why the link has been made and how it's not quite as it seems A great example of bias and confounding, and how meta-analysis isn't always the pinnacle of evidence #EpiSky #MedSky

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

👀 #SurgSky

If you want some Friday night comedy, just go compare the reactions to this on BlueSky vs LinkedIn.

The US Federal government has commenced the shake up of the OPOs who are the agencies who are tasked with overseeing the recovery of solid organs for the purposes of transplantation. This will have all sorts of flow on effects. #Nephsky #Medsky