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Royal College of Anaesthetists @rcoanews.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The Case Registry for NAP8 launches today! #NAP8 will study major complications of regional anaesthesia (peripheral nerve and central neuraxial blocks) as well as perioperative spinal cord and peripheral nerve injury. Find out more 👉 ow.ly/8GkJ50Z12n9

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Gavi @gavi.org · 20/11/2025

Pakistan has launched its first nationwide HPV vaccination campaign, a historic step to protect nearly 13 million girls from cervical cancer. At the heart of the campaign are doctors like Dr Saima Zubair, whose advocacy in twelve languages has helped build trust where it matters most. 🧵

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Royal College of Anaesthetists @rcoanews.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Happy Diplomates Day 🎉 Today, we celebrate our members who passed the Final FRCA exam in the year to May 2025 🙌 Congratulations on your success and achievements. We hope you have a lovely day at the ceremony and are feeling proud! 👨‍🎓🎓👩‍🎓 #MedSky #AnSky

Image of 2 anaesthetists getting their gowns and caps fitted ahead of the Ceremony of Diplomates presentation.

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Dr Mary-Ann Fox BMBS FANZCA GChPOM @maffygirl.medsky.social · 05/09/2025

Tomorrow we continue with Pete Hart’s @intensiveperson.bsky.social suggestions. He just proposes the debate so back off, no need to send the cops around. His debate is…. “Awareness without recall is a perfectly acceptable outcome of general anaesthesia” #MedSkyDebate

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a man says " look deep into my eyes you 're under arrest " in front of a woman

ALT: a man says " look deep into my eyes you 're under arrest " in front of a woman

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Science HR @sciencehr.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

New position: Stochastic Systems Modeling postdoc. #science #career #jobs #sciencejobs #job #jobsearch #postdoc #postdocposition www.science.hr/jobs/208438/...

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

If you’re unfamiliar with his history, start with this article I wrote last year: news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-as-... Please stop endangering the lives of all of us—and not just Americans, but the world. 🧵

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RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary will be catastrophic for science & public health.

If this man who has spent forty years eroding trust in science and public health is installed in this role, there may truly be no turning back.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Reminder: RFK Jr has made MILLIONS demonizing a vaccine that blocks viral infections AND prevents CANCERS Cervical cancer Penile cancer Oropharyngeal cancer (throat) Vaginal cancer Anal cancer Vulvar cancer I guess he DOESN’T care about reducing chronic illness after all… 1/

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I hope you’re all enjoying this descent into madness. The important thing to remember is what while I can’t sing, neither can eels, so this little jingle is very scientifically accurate. So please. Get an eel facts advent calendar. You don’t have to wait until Christmas for eels. EelFacts.Net

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Alex Page @apage1.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Feels terrifyingly correct

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Alex Page @apage1.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Super interesting study. I find that communicating uncertainty in a confident/helpful manner was one of the most important skills I learnt in ICU. This is not often explicitly discussed by communication teaching but clearly is essential given these findings.

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Aimee Witteman @aimeewitteman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Took a break from the news, cleaned up grandma’s antique 1958 Schwinn Chicago Deluxe Twinn Tandem Bike and took it for a spin #bikesky

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

After the shooting at CDC, Sen. Blumenthal is calling for HHS Secretary Kennedy to fire Dr. Robert Malone — whose Substack posts and other writings are objectively unhinged and tinged with violence — from ACIP and restore the expert panel Kennedy gutted. www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Secretary Kennedy:
On August 8, 2025, a gunman opened fire on the headquarters of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), killing DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose and leaving
public health workers at the CDC and around the nation fearing for their safety after years of
increasing threats following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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While the investigation is ongoing, early
reports suggest that the gunman, who fired nearly 500 rounds during the attack, was motivated
by his misinformation-fueled belief that his depression and suicidality were caused by the
COVID-19 vaccine.2
Just hours before a police officer was brutally murdered and CDC headquarters would be
scarred with bullets, forcing hundreds employees into lockdown, Dr. Robert Malone, whom you
recently appointed to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), uploaded a
post to his personal blog that included an image of a revolver loaded with a single bullet and the
words “Five out of six scientists have proven that Russian roulette is harmless.”3
Less than 48
hours after the attack, Dr. Malone issued a meme-filled post that included violent and threatening
images that appeared to be directed at government officials, writing, “if you need a disarmed
society to govern, you suck at governing.”4

Dr. Malone has displayed an unfathomable failure of judgment and heartlessness for the
family of slain Officer Rose, and for the thousands of CDC staff on whom the work of ACIP
depends. Dr. Malone’s escalating and violent rhetoric—including in the aftermath of this tragic
incident—has no place on a panel responsible for determining immunization recommendations
for children and adults throughout our country. I therefore call on you to immediately fire Dr.
Malone from his role on ACIP.
The shooting of a police officer in the line of duty is not only a criminal act—it is an
assault on the stability and safety of our communities. Law enforcement officers and public
health officials already face serious risks in their work protecting the public. Those risks are
heightened by ideologically motivated attacks, which send a chilling message about the
normalization of violence in public discourse. A federal agency must absolutely avoid even the
appearance of legitimating such statements by keeping in a position of power someone who
makes them.
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Last week’s profound tragedy shows the harms that result from replacing science with
zealotry – not only the increased risk of disease, but also ideologically motivated violence.
Appointing Dr. Malone and retaining him in this role would seem to legitimate incendiary
rhetoric and dangerous misinformation.
Your response must begin with the immediate firing of Dr. Malone, but should rightly
include restoring the entire ACIP panel that existed before it was decimated last June. At that
time, you replaced 17 sitting members, whose qualifications and expertise were unchallengeable,
with conspiracy theorists and purveyors of misinformation. In an op-ed in the Wall Street
Journal about these firings, you lamented that, without your actions, “the current Trump
administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until 2028.”6
Your comment shows how thoroughly the Trump Administration has confused independent
scientif…

I sincerely hope that last week’s attack will demonstrate to you what should have been
obvious from the beginning: Dr. Malone has no business being on ACIP, and the firings you
ordered to put him there should never have occurred.
Sincerely,

Richard Blumenthal
Ranking Member
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

hard to not interpret this as a casual threat of more violence

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

"At no other time in modern history has a country so throughly turned its back on its core national strengths."— @vermontgmg.bsky.social Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 08/08/2025

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back. The damage is generational.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

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Alex Page @apage1.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

How many times a week do you think about the sirens? #askingforafriend

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Alex Page @apage1.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Yaaaaas adaptive clinical trials for the win!

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 06/08/2025

Great thread from @wired.com about longevity grift. 👇🏻 It sells really well. Nobody asks about trials, any data, just push the idea that people can live longer or even forever.

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Alex Page @apage1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I find it wild that smart people I know with often science/engineering backgrounds aren't applying their reasoning for this when buying this.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Generational public health sabotage

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Cher in CLUELESS saying "and may I remind you it does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty" is officially left of the Democratic Party

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randy @deimachy.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

if only doctors had warned us it was dangerous

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

RFK Jr. has just cancelled all HHS research projects on mRNA vaccines, announcing that HHS has ended $500 million in funding for them. This is a man who just demanded randomized clinical trials for COVID19 vaccines, and now he’s refusing to fund them.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

In our episode on the #NIH , @analog-ashley.bsky.social shared examples of the life-changing scientific careers kickstarted by federal funding for diversity in science programs. Don't let them rewrite this narrative; these programs benefit all of us www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

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Alex Page @apage1.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Bringing this paper over from the other place- who would have thought that this might be the challenge forcing change in academic publishing? The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The antidote for despair is action ❤️ * Dial (202) 224-3121 * Enter zip code * Leave voicemail * Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so) “The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.” Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅

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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Pulmonologist, ATS leader Mary Rice, MD, MPH was ousted from Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee for political reasons. She is concerned EPA won't ensure the margin of safety is met for children, people with heart or lung disease, and older adults. #medsky #cleanair www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...

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Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go

Acting EPA Administrator James Payne sent an email to members of the agency's Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee informing them that both are being "reset."

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Alex Page @apage1.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Yess! How do we make the incredibly progress in major common diseases a more captivating narrative?

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 04/08/2025

One major area of progress has been the development of drugs: - Statins, which lower LDL cholesterol levels and stabilize plaque that can clog blood vessels - Blood pressure lowering medications - Clot-busting medicines to improve survival of heart attack and stroke patients

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 03/08/2025

Look it's @jacobtref.bsky.social dropping three of the best blogposts of 2025. “What does AI progress mean for medical progress?” gives a great overview. Then it turns into a choose-your-own adventure to read about the bottlenecks AI won't solve *and* where it can still help.

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What does AI progress mean for medical progress?

Rapid AI progress does not automatically mean rapid medical progress. If the point of AI progress is human flourishing, we must make other complementary investments too. Even with extremely powerful A...

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

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Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)

The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own p...

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Alex Page @apage1.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Love this exploration/visual

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Nicholas Chrimes @chrimesy.com · 01/08/2025

The long awaited sequel editorial to 2017’s ‘The illusion of informed consent’ is now available free in @anaesjournal.bsky.social Critics are calling ‘The paradox of informed consent’ a “mindblowing expansion of the CMCU (Chrimes-Marshall Consent Universe)” & praising @maryannturner.bsky.social

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The paradox of informed consent

Click on the article title to read more.

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Alex Page @apage1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I think we underestimate how difficult people find risk is as a concept. I don't think there's an easy answer here by any means.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

can’t wait for the NYT write off: “In mayoral race led by Mamdani, corruption persists”

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Alex Page @apage1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

'there's a replication Crisis in science' has now been replicated in clinical practice

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Maxwell Baker, MSc @mc250.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

1 in 5. That’s how many anesthesiology chairs are women — despite matching men in research output (citations and H-index). We analyzed 133 departments to study this gap. It’s time to rethink how leadership is built. journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a... #Anesthesiology #LeadershipGap #MedSky #MedEd

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The Academic Impediment: Why Are Women Chairs in... : Anesthesia & Analgesia

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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My rapid response at BMJ is online now. I joined the chorus of protest about an opinion piece claiming people with severe ME/CFS can recover by "reframing their beliefs" &c. People with ME/CFS deserve so much better than that: www.bmj.com/content/389/... #MECFS

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Patients with severe ME/CFS deserve better than unproven theories

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

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Which Kind of Science Reform

What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

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Gustav Gnahler @gustavgnahler.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

lead poisoning is back baby and this time it smells like blueberries!!

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Andrew J. McGovern @mcgovernaj.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

📢 PhD opening at @uoft.bsky.social in the @liisagalea.bsky.social Lab! Work on women’s brain health & Alzheimer’s risk prediction as part of the global CARE initiative. 🧠 🧪 Apply: forms.gle/Lxf5Li5d6wcm...

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Neal Parikh @nparikh.org · 09/06/2025

Brutal interview with a public health professor on how close medical research is to collapse.

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