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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Progress is uncertain. Funding is unlikely. But we keep turning up because when you win, it is the best feeling in the world!📚

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Like padwork, every round is “constructive.” You adjust your stance, reframe your aims, and pretend you’re enjoying it. Eventually, even Reviewer 2 starts sounding almost supportive.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Grant writing involves months of training, repeated blows to morale, and somehow you still thank your opponents in the acknowledgements. 🥊

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Academic research and Muay Thai have more in common than you’d think. 🧵 #academicsky #muaythaisky #kickboxingsky

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

It was a great pleasure to chat to BBC radio Leicester about the work our group has been doing focused on respiratory virus research! #NIHR #AcademicSky #Infectionsky

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Breathe: Speak Out @breathespeakout.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

What an incredible two days! A huge thank you to everyone who came along - your enthusiasm made this event truly special. We loved every moment of sharing science, sparking conversations, and creating memories together. Until next time! @dp440.bsky.social @leicestersresearch.bsky.social

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Breathe: Speak Out @breathespeakout.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We’ve been reflecting on all the feedback from day 1 of Breathe: Speak Out - and it’s meant a lot to us. Thank you to everyone who took part and shared their thoughts. Your responses are exactly why we’re here. We’re looking forward to welcoming more of you today for day 2! @dp440.bsky.social

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Breathe: Speak Out @breathespeakout.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

📣 DAY 1 – We’re live! Breathe: Speak Out kicks off today at the King Power Stadium! Come explore how viruses spread in the home of LCFC. 🎟️ It’s FREE, fun, and open to all 📍 King Power Stadium, Leicester 🕙 We’re here till 3pm — don’t miss it! @leicestersresearch.bsky.social @dp440.bsky.social

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Breathe: Speak Out @breathespeakout.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

What an incredible first day! Thank you to everyone who joined us! ✨ Missed it? Don’t worry, we’re back tomorrow! 🕙 10am-3pm 📍 King Power Stadium, Leicester 🎟️ Free entry – register here for day two: www.tickettailor.com/events/nihrl... @dp440.bsky.social @leicestersresearch.bsky.social

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MUSICC @musiccproject.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

MUSICC will be at Breathe: Speak Out showcasing our beautiful vignette by @72kilos.bsky.social, along with some of our other engagement pieces. Thanks to @dp440.bsky.social from MUSICC partner @uniofleicester.bsky.social for making this happen! Register for a free ticket via the link below ⬇️

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Breathe: Speak Out @breathespeakout.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Less than a week to go, don’t forget to register for Breathe: Speak Out! Step inside the story of how viruses spread, hear real-life experiences, and get hands-on with science. 👉 Book now: www.tickettailor.com/events/nihrl... @leicestersresearch.bsky.social @dp440.bsky.social

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Breathe: Speak Out @breathespeakout.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

From an ethnic minority or culturally diverse background? Your voice matters in shaping the future of health research. Join us at BREATHE: SPEAK OUT — a free event at Leicester City FC’s King Power Stadium! 📆 Thursday July 31 and Friday August 1 🎟️ Book your free tickets here: tinyurl.com/tje9hs2r

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Book tickets for Breath In Speak Out 2025 Exhibition – FREE Breathe Speak Out Exhibition 2025 – LCFC King Power Stadium

Step into a day of discovery with hands-on science activities, interactive stations, and a chance to win exciting giveaways or ...

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

9/10 Our findings highlight strategies for better migrant inclusion: provide multilingual materials, leverage community trust, minimize participant costs, and offer clear communication about research benefits.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

8/10 Incentives help! Monetary incentives motivated participation, but many valued information gained and opportunities to enhance language skills or community connections more.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

7/10 Altruism drove many migrants. They valued contributing to community health improvements and appreciated opportunities to voice their experiences.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

7/10 Context and perceived risk influenced willingness: less invasive research (surveys, interviews) preferred over clinical trials involving new drugs or vaccines.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

6/10 See Figure/ Percentages in the middle represent neutral answers (neither agree nor disagree); percentages on the right-hand side represent positive answers (agree or strongly agree); percentages on the left-hand side represent negative answers (disagree or strongly disagree).

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

5/10 TRUST was a central motivation. Trust in research processes, institutions, and individuals approaching migrants greatly impacted their willingness to participate.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

4/10 OPPORTUNITIES also crucially shape participation. Costs (travel, childcare), competing needs (work, legal issues), healthcare experiences, and socio-cultural norms influenced migrants' research involvement.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

3/10 CAPABILITY matters. Many migrants were unaware of health research, lacked proficiency in English, or struggled with technology. creating barriers to participation.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

2/10 We used a mixed-methods approach: 119 migrants completed surveys, and 35 participated in focus groups/interviews. We applied the COM-B model to understand factors influencing their participation.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

🧵1/10 Migrants' voices are essential for inclusive health research, yet participation is often low. Our latest study explores what factors influence decision making around participation in research for migrants in Leicester, UK. #MigrantHealth #ResearchInclusion

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

It was a great honour to kick off the #NIHRLeicesterBRCHalfTime earliar this week. I always get anxious before speaking. How do I deal with this? Turn up early and pace around the stage and go through slides. That way when I give my talk, it feels like others are entering my space. #Academicsky

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 19/06/2025

🦟🍄 Can fungi STDs kill mosquitos A new study shows transgenic mosquito-killing fungi can spread during mating – turning mosquitoes into agents of their own destruction. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #Malaria #VectorControl 🧪

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Transmission of transgenic mosquito-killing fungi during copulation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Transmission of transgenic mosquito-killing fungi during copulation

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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

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Sébastien Simoncelli @ssimoncellimwtc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🧵6/6 To recap, 2025 is your year on Bluesky if you: ✔ Post weekly with purpose ✔ Share research as a story, not a headline ✔ Ask questions ✔ Show the messy side of science Tag a labmate. Bookmark this. We’re just getting started. #BlueskyScience #AcademicChatter #SciComm

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 12/06/2025

🧪 The NIH has terminated 1,450 grants, totaling over $750 million. This unprecedented move, justified by the administration as curbing 'wasteful spending,' impacts critical research in areas like pandemic preparedness, dementia, and HIV prevention. #AcademicSky #MedSky

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Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding

The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🗣️ Takeaway message: Addressing pay and promotion inequities is critical to sustain workforce morale and quality healthcare delivery. NHS needs to collect info on migrant status recording of ethnicity alone does not tell the whole story. #HealthcareEquity #DiversityInMedicine #UKREACH

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

✅ Our recommendation: NHS needs to systematically record and address migration status alongside ethnicity in workforce data. This is crucial for developing fairer career progression policies.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🔑 Why does this matter? The NHS heavily relies on an ethnically diverse and migrant workforce. Inequalities in pay progression can affect retention, workplace diversity, morale, and quality of patient care.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

📌 Finding 3: Even among White workers, those born overseas experienced barriers, with lower odds of higher pay band placement compared to UK-born counterparts.

Forest plot showing adjusted odds ratios (aORs), 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) and p-value across different cut points for ethnicity, migration status and years qualified. aORs were consistent across cut points for each ethnicity and migration status, except for Asian UK, where they varied across three different cut points as above.

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

📌 Finding 2: The impact of migration status was clear—regardless of ethnicity, overseas-born workers had consistently lower odds of progressing into higher pay bands.

Average marginal effects over years qualified for Overseas and UK-born HCWs

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

📌 Finding 1: Overseas-born Asian & Black healthcare workers were significantly less likely to be in higher NHS pay bands compared to White UK-born colleagues. This highlights concerning disparities linked to migration status.

Average marginal effects over the years qualified for each ethnic group: Asian (top left), Black (top right), mixed (bottom left), and White (bottom right).

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🚨 New study alert from UK-REACH, led by @profmanishpareek.bsky.social, Chris Martin and Ji Soo Choi We looked at how ethnicity and migration status impact NHS healthcare workers' placement within pay bands (Agenda for Change). Key findings👇 #HealthcareEquitysky #UKREACH #academicsky #ethnicitysky

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 31/05/2025

🧠📉 The 'pivot penalty' in science A new study in @nature.com finds scientists get cited less after switching research fields – the bigger the shift, the steeper the drop. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/d415... #SciComm #AcademicSky 🧪

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The ‘pivot penalty’: scientists get cited less after switching fields, analysis finds

Massive study of nearly 26 million research papers measures the consequences of striking out in another research area.

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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Tomorrow (29th May) I will be giving my inaugural lecture @lshtm.bsky.social Open to people who are in London & online for those who are not. Hugely grateful to a wonderful array of collaborators & colleagues around the world whose work really underpins the research I will be talking about.

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What exactly is it that you do anyway, Michael? with Professor Michael Marks |

Professor Michael Marks’ inaugural lecture will explore his portfolio of research in global health, starting from his time as a clinical fellow at LSHTM living and working in the Pacific to his

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 27/05/2025

A genome-wide study by the Long COVID Host Genetics Initiative identifies an association between the FOXP4 locus and long COVID, implicating altered lung function in its pathophysiology, according to a paper in Nature Genetics. go.nature.com/3Fw1aku #medsky 🧬 🧪

This is figure 5, which shows genetic correlations and Mendelian randomization causal estimates between long COVID and potential risk factors, biomarkers and diseases.

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Ankur Gupta-Wright @ankurgw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Despite molecular diagnostics for TB, 40% of patients are still diagnosed clinically. We also found a 50% higher mortality in this group, suggesting overtreatment/missing conditions other than TB. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @imperialinfect.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

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Clinically diagnosed tuberculosis and mortality in high burden settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Clinical diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB), referring to diagnosis without bacteriological confirmation, is common and may affect an individuals’ outcome…

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Children vaccinated early with the MMR before 8.5 months of age, instead of at 12 months of age, had a rapid decline in measles antibodies, with >70% losing protection by 6 years, even with a 2nd MMR dose at 14 months. buff.ly/tm6fqXe #medsky #IDsky

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Long-term Dynamics of Measles Virus–Specific Neutralizing Antibodies in Children Vaccinated Before 12 Months of Age

Children vaccinated before 8.5 months of age lose their protective neutralizing antibody levels within 6 years. Early measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccina

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Pleased to present my PhD work supported by #NIHR at #ESCMIDGlobal2025, where I was awarded an #ESCMIDTravelGrant. Met some interesting delegates!

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hiking picture attached. Epic!

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Daniel Pan @dp440.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Presented my PhD work to @HKU faculty, supported by @nihr.bsky.social and Sino-British Travel Fellowship. What an amazing presentation venue! Thank you so much to Prof Cowling and group for hosting me for this month. Epic hiking too (see final photo)! #respiratoryviruses #IDSky #Academicsky

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 25/02/2025

How much training do you need to do to run a 5K? 🏃 The NEJM Evidence team aims to find out in this Stats, STAT! animated video on linear regression. Watch the full video: youtu.be/qUfVrYKetfA  #MedSky #ScienceSky #Statistics

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Marion Koopmans @marionkoopmans.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Day 1. withdrawal from the WHO. All personnel and contractors will be stopped. Withdraw from the pandemic treaty negotiations. Anyone cheering this has no idea of global health. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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