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Andreea Steriu MD

@asteriu-epi.bsky.social
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Public Health doctor - Lecturer

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/10/2026
‘We swept a lot under the carpet’: Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026
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‘We swept a lot under the carpet’: Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026
Movie about Nazi-collaborating administration strikes chord during what director calls ‘time of great uncertainty’
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Both parents feed & protect the chicks. “One of my all time favorite loon clips. This was the first time that I got 2 chicks on the parent’s back at the same time several years ago.” Canon R5 and 100-500mm lens IG: @harrycollinsphotography www.instagram.com/harrycollins...
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵
Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’ | Medical research | The Guardian share.google/fuq2OobLl2Vm...
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Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’
Men with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global analysis finds
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Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health, LSHTM @lshtm-planet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🌍The UK drought is a warning: Climate change is a food & public health emergency In @bmj.com, @lshtm.bsky.social's Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi warns UK drought is hitting food production, prices and health inequalities, calling for joined-up action across food, water & health. 👉 www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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The UK drought is a warning: Climate change is a food and public health emergency
The UK has entered a new era of climate volatility, in which record breaking temperatures and droughts are expected rather than exceptional events.1 On 14 August, 71.3% of England was declared to be ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/09/2026
The place that never freezes: the Arctic habitat where global heating threatens more ice, not less
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The place that never freezes: the Arctic habitat where global heating threatens more ice, not less
The race to study the North Water between Canada and Greenland before it changes has led to a bold plan for an Inuit-run protected area
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Romania to lose €770mn in EU funds due to government crisis 'loss making state companies' needs an erratum #ettubrutus @data.ft.com
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Romania to lose €770mn in EU funds due to government crisis
Bucharest will miss a Monday deadline for passing laws required by Brussels to approve recovery funding
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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” Ernest Hemingway Maybe we’re not meant to have it all figured out, maybe we’re simply meant to keep learning as we go. 🧡 #learning #SelfCompassion Picture by Positively Present
A white illustrated graphic with colourful rainbow curves in purple, blue, turquoise, yellow, orange and pink around the top right and bottom left corners. Multicoloured stars and small black sparkles are scattered around the image. In the centre, black text reads: “WE’RE ALL JUST FIGURING IT OUT AS WE GO. ANYTHING YOU’RE ‘SUPPOSED’ TO DO HAS BEEN MADE UP BY YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE.” The credit @POSITIVELYPRESENT appears underneath.
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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How many nutrition meta-analyses pool estimates for incomparable research questions, due to different energy adjustment strategies? We looked at an illustrative sample. The answer was all of them! Delighted to share our new meta-scientific review, led by @nataliaortega.bsky.social 👇
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Meta-analyses of dietary exposures must consider energy adjustment: recommendations from a meta-scientific review
Abstract. In observational studies of dietary exposures, the energy adjustment strategy directly alters the effect being estimated. Adjusting for total ene
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
University Palace's eagle and two griffins to be relocated to its pediment - AGERPRES share.google/tDpamB4jlQu8...
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University Palace's eagle and two griffins to be relocated to its pediment - AGERPRES
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/08/2026
Global food prices at three-year high as heatwaves and wars push up crop costs
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Global food prices at three-year high as heatwaves and wars push up crop costs
UN index says weather is affecting wheat yields while conflicts in Ukraine and Iran hit exports and drive up prices * Business live – latest updates Global food prices have hit their highest level in three and a half years, as summer heatwaves and conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East push up crop costs. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) index of food commodity prices rose last month to its highest level since January 2023, after a jump in prices for cereals, sugar and vegetable oil. Continue reading...
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Have not imagined this until it happened again after decades. Going back to this kind of fears is not for the faint hearted #energy
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/07/2026
If this is what happens to a scientific field as a whole when LLMs dominate the workflows of researchers, I can only imagine that the outlook is even worse for any individual researcher who is soldiering on without using them. 😞
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 31/07/2026
New from me: Until recently, the gap between comfortably-off and just-getting-started could plausibly be crossed in a decade or two of hard work. Growth in asset prices means that’s no longer true: even a lifetime of striving doesn’t offer a realistic prospect of feeling you’ve “made it”.
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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Descriptive” is a property of the research question, not the perceived quality of the results. I often see people state a study limitation and then say “therefore the results are descriptive”. You can’t do an analysis first and then use the results to define what type of study you wanted.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/07/2026
Rudeness! Manners! Whatever happened to being polite?! | First Dog on the Moon
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Rudeness! Manners! Whatever happened to being polite?! | First Dog on the Moon
Back in the day you had to be rude in person – now you can do it anonymously from home
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/05/2026
Alan Milburn is right, a young generation has been betrayed. Forget Tony Blair: we must attend to this | Polly Toynbee
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Alan Milburn is right, a young generation has been betrayed. Forget Tony Blair: we must attend to this | Polly Toynbee
The new and excoriating account of the dire prospects for UK young people is a call to action. It could be the Beveridge report for our time, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Outside academia, people aren’t well informed about PhD research – and that’s a problem Inside academia there's also a DSc vs PhD debate. Explaining the difference is difficult. The difference makes the debate fascinating. Inequity in promotions is rife. Just observing.
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Outside academia, people aren’t well informed about PhD research – and that’s a problem
There’s low public awareness of how research is funded.
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
There was once a good descriptive research question & a great research protocol which I proudly implemented with a super team. Cross-sectional data collection was flawless. And 18 years later that database was still in use. A paper was published. Now my name has been taken off it. Why? #research
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not my monkey, not my circus... @notmymonkeymon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
speculative insight from a physician who investigated the novel/emergent hantavirus in the SW US in 1993.
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I’ve investigated a hantavirus outbreak. Here’s what I can tell you about the cruise ship cluster
Is hantavirus being transmitted from person to person? Here’s what investigators need to consider before making that call.
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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Political Economy of Wellness: Commercial Determinants of a Burgeoning Industry Nancy Karreman, Marco Zenone, Nason Maani, Benjamin Hawkins doi.org/10.1111/1468... #CDoH #COI
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The Political Economy of Wellness: Commercial Determinants of a Burgeoning Industry
Policy Points Wellness has grown into a multi-trillion-dollar industry encompassing a multitude of products and practices that affect health and well-being. Applying a lens of commercial determin...
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
There is a 🇷🇴 vote of no confidence tomorrow
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Too good not to mention, I quote "if your CV shows that your age starts with 5 or 6, then it would be automatically not considered in a first step of a selection process; the employer wants age of (given range)" That's some culture. I get confused easily about discriminating criteria these days
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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Yet another spurious non-linear Mendelian randomization paper has been retracted by a journal academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a... Kudos to the editors of the Journal of Public Health for following through and retracting spurious publications. What is shocking is that many other journals /cont
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Retraction of: Association between Vitamin D and mortality risk in gout patients
This is a retraction of: Xinyu Fang, Jie Zhang, Zixing Zhang, Dongqing Ye. Association between Vitamin D and mortality risk in gout patients, Journal of Pu
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/04/2026
José Pizarro’s recipe for nettle (or wild garlic) and goat’s cheese tortilla
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José Pizarro’s recipe for nettle (or wild garlic) and goat’s cheese tortilla
Have a forage for buttery and tender young nettles (or wild garlic), and turn them into a cheesy, Spanish-style omelette
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Just realised what a seventeen percent pay cut means. Many times over. However, compensating in many other ways. Aiming for a win-win Happy Easter 🪺
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/04/2026
How to use procrastination to your advantage
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How to use procrastination to your advantage
As medieval sages understood, putting things off – done well – can open the doors to creativity and purpose
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Guest post: Should universities investigate questionable papers students and faculty wrote elsewhere? – Retraction Watch share.google/fhDW4zFrGsJA...
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Guest post: Should universities investigate questionable papers students and faculty wrote elsewhere?
Be-Art/iStock I am a research ethicist and often get asked by my university to investigate when potential concerns are raised about our staff or students. One example involved the recent case of th…
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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Stephen R. Covey There’s so much around us we don’t get to control. What we do have is ourselves. How we show up, the care we bring, the effort we give. 🧡 #kindness #focus Art by robertoferraro.art

A hand drawn illustration of a grey video game controller titled “Things you can control.” Arrows point to different parts of the controller labelled with personal elements such as how you show up, your beliefs, how kind you are, your effort, your actions, your attitude, your thoughts, how reflective you are, how thoughtful you are, trying to be present, and your integrity. The message highlights focusing on what is within personal control rather than external factors. Picture by robertoferraro.art
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
"Research should not only be independent of vested interests but must also be seen to be so" My @bmj.com piece with @fphuk.bsky.social president Tracy Daszkiewicz argues we need a public health approach to study the impact of digital technology on health. #CDOH www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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A comprehensive public health approach is needed to study the impact of digital technology on health
Barely a day goes by without media and political concern about the impact of digital technology on health, particularly among young people. The publication of a recent government report, “Understandin...
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Managed 30min or so of pure bliss of epi CPD. Work called again. Admin issues flooded my timeline. Admin issues always and always will overshadow the joy of following an expert thread. Thank you @georgiatomova.bsky.social I hope to be able to quietly watch Richard's presentation at the weekend
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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” Amy Poehler The people who see the good in us, the ones who remind us of our worth when doubt creeps in. They are gems. Keep them close. 🧡 #kindness Art by @joyfulsmolthings

Illustration by @joyfulsmolthings showing a person with curly brown hair wearing an orange shirt, holding up a large handwritten sign. The sign reads: “Keep close to people who never make you doubt your worth. Those who care for you will never let you question it.” The background is warm yellow with orange flowers and small dots, creating a bright, encouraging, and supportive feel. Picture by @joyfulsmolthings.
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 04/03/2026
Microplastics have emerged as a serious environmental and public health concern in recent years. Policy action lags behind growing evidence of harms www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 03/03/2026
"About a third of children are now growing up in poverty." Michael Marmot, the UK’s leading expert on health equity, urges Prime Minister Keir Starmer to take bold action to tackle child poverty in this interview with The BMJ bit.ly/40rQ5Ip
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Michael Marmot: Labour has reneged on its child poverty promises
Lifting the two child benefit cap is an important step but will still leave 4.15 million children in poverty, Marmot tells Elisabeth Mahase Michael Marmot, the UK’s leading expert on health equity, ...
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Professional milestone reached. A fine winter day to remember. I am grateful for everything I have achieved. I thank everyone who's helped all along with my humble achievements. We made 'that small difference'. To all who trusted my career plans, thank you for celebrating today's timeline with me 🥳
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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Administrative data are commonly used in research but they often have limited information on confounders, making analyses prone to residual confounding. Join us to hear from @rjsilverwood.bsky.social about a multiple imputation-based approach to address this using linked cohort data. Link below👇
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
So imo most of the problems we have in planning experiments are much more sociological than statistical, and the crux is always answering "what effects matter?", whether planing for precision or power, which are just two ways to asking the same question.
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Best gym session is snow shovelling
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/02/2026
Facing meltdown? Over 75% of people suffer from burnout - here’s what you need to know
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Facing meltdown? Over 75% of people suffer from burnout - here’s what you need to know
Does it only affect weak people? Is work always the cause? Burnout myths, busted by the experts
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/02/2026
‘You think: Do I really need anyone?’ – the hidden burden of being a hyper-independent person
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‘You think: Do I really need anyone?’ – the hidden burden of being a hyper-independent person
Self-reliance is often encouraged over asking others for help in the modern world. But doing everything yourself can be a sign that you are scared of intimacy
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I have achieved a milestone: fifteen years in academic public health. I spent ten of these years by giving, no matter the hardship. The other five were those from which I learnt. As for the happy rest I quote "it cost me many thousand hours of unpaid labour, four lawsuits, the near miss of a medical
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Great article. Having paid attention to quality, accessibility and integrity in research publication throughout my entire career I also learnt about the price of these three qualities when inequity can imbalance all three. A great lesson and I gained such an enriched work experience
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Happy new year! Fresh start, careful choices, fewer resolutions, but hopefully fulfilling those remaining humble dreams in 2026🎉🎊🎉🎆🎇
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I’ve long argued that we medics need better ways to communicate -see my podcasts. open.spotify.com/show/0I1q3cs... Kudos to @bmj.com for enlisting the outstanding @michaelspicer.bsky.social
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The Doctor Podcast | Trailer
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Thanks to Ian Barr and crew for this tidbit... "A phylogeographic analysis showed that Australian/New Zealand A(H3N2) K viruses may have been imported/originated from the United States (US), as the first K virus sequence on GISAID" www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
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Extended influenza seasons in Australia and New Zealand in 2025 due to the emergence of influenza A(H3N2) subclade K viruses
In Australia and New Zealand, late outbreaks of an A(H3N2) variant virus termed subclade K extended the 2025 influenza season. Subclade K viruses were genetically and antigenically distinct from the 2025 vaccine A(H3N2) strain A/Croatia/10136RV/2023 (H3N2)-like virus and previously circulating subclade J viruses. Subclade K viruses have since been detected in over 34 countries and appear to have spread globally, except in South America. It is thus likely that they will further expand during the northern hemisphere winter 2025/26 season.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Your weekly reminder not to approach dead or sick birds.
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I took a whole week to read and write about this paper because I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t just rubber-stamping some results I liked. And now I can confidently say, this paper is very well-done and very well-written. And I believe their results. open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
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Finally, a well-done study about autism and Tylenol!
We have read a LOT of bad research over the past few weeks, as we explore what RFK Jr thinks about the causes of autism. Finally, we get to read some good research!
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Andreea Steriu MD @asteriu-epi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This week I have been mostly teaching on a 'basic management' module. All in my specific area of PH practice. Learning outcomes were aimed at better JDs in the AI era. Next week I am starting a health services research module. #CATWOE and the rest are happy memories. So grateful
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May van Schalkwyk @maizie333.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Thank you @theguardian.com for covering this important initiative requesting that the government acts on the concerning issue of industry influence on youth education. Children deserve high quality, trustworthy education free of conflicts of interest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Health experts urge ban on school materials backed by food, drink and gambling firms
Exclusive: Education secretary told sponsored resources misrepresent evidence about diets, alcohol and betting
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