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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Showed the abstract to my wife, who rolled her eyes so hard at the idea we needed a trial to find out we should give more pain control when placing #IUDs. She was even more shocked to see this was only just published in #JAMA. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Intrauterine Mepivacaine Instillation vs Placebo for Pain During IUD Placement

This randomized clinical trial assesses whether intrauterine instillation of mepivacaine reduces pain and improved tolerability during intrauterine device placement in nulliparous individuals.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the fact that the NTSB is conducting a federal safety investigation of the helicopter crash, but nobody is going to do anything about the original deadly car crash, really shows just how few fucks our country gives about every day traffic violence that kills 40k people every year

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This land was make for you and me. Happy #IndependenceDay. Happy 250th.

A cloudy day on a sandy beach in California, with mountains in the background and the ocean to the side.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I often refer people to #hospice (normal in #geriatrics). If Oz wanted people on hospice to get palliative chemo or dialysis he could change the Medicare rules. He could make hospice facilities a thing so family caregivers aren't so overworked! What on earth is he wasting time on?

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Thank you, @uclahealth.org for sharing my work! It's exciting that potentially important data on health and immunity are hidden in a TB test we routinely order. I hope this opens up new ways to study the immune system at a population level. www.uclahealth.org/news/release...

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Data hidden in tuberculosis screening tests sheds light on patients’ overall mortality

Scientists have long known that the immune system plays a key role in aging. As people age, they have weaker responses to vaccination, greater risks of infection and higher levels of inflammation. A n...

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

omg, omg, omg, I just learned that a different donor wants to donate $10,000 to our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social! I just started to cry.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Dr. @thanh-neville.bsky.social and @3wishesprogram.bsky.social do much to help patients and families cope with the end of life. If you can, help them unlock a $10k gift by joining me and 98 others with a small donation (literally any amount)!

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Happily ditched cherry blossoms in Tokyo to take my niece to see her favorite cartoon character, but go on about how childless men don't care about kids.

A large audience of toddlers enthralled by Anpanman and friends performing in Japan.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I figure this is the place to celebrate: I finished reading my first novel in another language! #booksky #languagesky

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Lucky enough to get tickets to #LA28. The price gap between men's and women's Olympic #basketball events is a chasm. It's not much better for other sports.

Tickets to men's and women's Olympic basketball games. Prices for the women's bronze medal game start at $106, while men's bronze game starts at $508. The women's final starts at $636.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'm late to the party, but: Other than exercise, plant-based diets, and social engagement, there aren't individual-level interventions for #longevity with very strong evidence for the moment. #Geriatrics

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This is as clear a statement as can be written about being Jewish in America right now.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

What a perfect description of age, period, and cohort effects. #demography

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

What people don't understand about #Osaka compared to the rest of Japan is that they're much more outgoing and happy to show what proper plumbing looks like in a way that doesn't inconvenience you.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The people criticizing Grumbach don't know how to enjoy some D-in-D. Difference-in-Difference, obviously.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

ALL drugs are potentially unsafe. A rule of thumb in #geriatrics is that a new patient problem is likely from a new medication. It could be an interaction, it could be issues with drug metabolism. Many problems are better-address without medications at all. Prescribing is key to patient safety.

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California Center For Population Research @ccpratucla.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

CCPR is excited to host @mikegeruso.bsky.social to discuss his book, After the Spike, Wednesday, Jan 11 @6pm, in UCLA's 314 Royce Hall. Comments by CCPR Director @marthajbailey.bsky.social & @philipncohen.com. Reception to follow. RSVP here: eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/CCPRLecture2...

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California Center For Population Research @ccpratucla.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This week CCPR's seminar series will feature @philipncohen.com discussing his book, "Research is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar." Join us on January 14 @12pm in Public Affairs 337.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

COVID continues to exact heavy toll on older US adults, study suggests Roughly 1 in 100 adults aged 65 and older were hospitalized each year of the study period. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Let it not be lost on us that the flu season is real, real bad the year that the administration fucked around with the flu vaccine committee and decided not to cooperate with international disease experts. Stark cause and effect, and it's only going to get worse if we let RFK continue his work.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 05/01/2026

Just a couple shots protect you from having to bury your child. THIS ISN’T HARD. VACCINATE!

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High school student suddenly dies from bacterial meningitis: School district

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

With the changes to the #CDC child vaccine schedule, expect to see more older adults get seriously ill from preventable #flu, #RSV, and #COVID infections. Vaccines for children protect the people who look after them, too.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but replacing an asshole with another asshole is only progress if you're doing anus transplants.

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Oh, just get vaccinated (part 5,000) "Many shots seem to have “off-target” benefits, such as lowering the risk of dementia, studies have found." (gift article)

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Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"Ryleigh did not receive a #flu shot this year." Horrible. Preventable. Transmissible. I take care of older people and it's awful enough when they get seriously ill and disabled or die from severe flu. I never want to know the heartache when it's a child. Get #vaccinated.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I'm watching "M" for the first time and it's chilling, but is the amount of #beer at work normal for #Germany? Everyone seems drunk off their ass except for Beckert (which might have helped with some of his...issues?).

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Awful and potentially avoidable. Even if you think your kids will be fine, their grandparents might not be. Don't let your kids become viral vectors. #Vaccinate

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I just finished two weeks covering the #geriatrics service. Every time, I guide families about the #caregiving needs of their loved ones. All the options rely on #immigrants to do the hardest work. Know-nothing white supremacy will harm older adults and their families

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I may be preaching to the choir, but get your #flu shot! Scared of needles? There's an inhaled vaccine! Allergic to eggs? We've got recombinant and cell-based vaccines! Dislike the US #healthsystem? Any #vaccine at all will make you less likely to have to interact with it!

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tri-Sarah-tops @sarahndipity.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

we did not get a quiet day. go get your damn flu shots people.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

@rbreich.bsky.social's blog post today gives a clear example of #ageism. It's sadly persistent. This is mostly bias against older adults. For clinicians, this is also not knowing how to assess aging physiology. #Frailty provides some tools to help. Many are at efrailty.hsl.harvard.edu #medsky 1/8

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

B-. Love the attempt at inclusion, but it doesn't do what dreidel does. @metrolosangeles.bsky.social, can you show DC how a real Metro does it? I'm willing to just settle for heavy rail on the Sepulveda Corridor instead.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Fair enough, so a few things about #shingles #vaccine side effects below. Caveat: my patients have largely already received it, so I haven't administered it in some time. This is also, of course, not medical advice, just FYI.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The evidence is also good that the #shingles vaccine prevents #dementia. That means you're less likely to need to see me, which is definitely a win for you. Anyone telling you not to get vaccinated wants to off you and possibly take your stuff.

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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) @agsjournal.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Where Do Older Pedestrians Experience a Risk of Being Killed in a Motor Vehicle Crash? #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I trained during some of the awful flu seasons before COVID. It wrecked hospitals: not enough beds, not enough staff (2/2 influx of patients & staff getting sick). This hurt not just people with flu but everyone who came in for any kind of medical care. Vaccination saves lives in more ways than one.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"TV says you got that high-class blues Seems the caravan to Aruba is not the road that you would choose A barstool intellectual with a master's degree in small talk And going to the movies Catalina breeeeeeze" #BlueJeanCommittee #DocumentaryNow

Pope Leo XIV at a microphone looking like he's singing. Clearly he would be a fan of the two sausage boys from Chicago who fronted the Blue Jean Committee.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/11/2025

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I watch Japanese news to try to keep up my language skills. This was the latest tragedy to hit a school there, with 21 victims: A mass bee stinging. youtube.com/shorts/sPl6z...

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【速報】小学校で1年生の児童ら21人がハチに刺される東京・青梅市

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Yep mass #ageism and #eugenics (and many younger people died, but if they didn’t have the physique of a bodybuilder or supermodel, or had a #chronicdisease, they deserved to die according to these people. Exemplified by RFK Jr.)

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

You've been in medicine too long when first word you see is "embolize". #MedSky

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

This is awful science journalism, @mittechreviewbr.bsky.social. The tools in the article help assess pain in people who can't communicate (intra-op, ICU, dementia, neonates), but the author acts like it's for everyone. People then understandably treat this is dystopian rather than mundanely helpful.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Me to myself when I'm peeved by the results of my own analyses.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I did the Junior Reviewer Program at @agsjournal.bsky.social and learned a lot about the publication process and how to better-review papers. And you gey to hang out with @alexsmithmd.bsky.social! It's a great experience. #geronsky

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Intersex and other conditions affecting sexual development are taught early in medical school, in genetics or developmental biology. It's the experience of real people who deserve dignity like all of us. I don't know how Texas Tech medical students can learn medicine under this policy.

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Health care workers aren't on this list, so don't be surprised if seeing a physician is harder and ER wait times are longer than usual this winter (and perhaps for a long time after). www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

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F.D.A. Approves Covid Shots With New Restrictions

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Wait, so what does he put on his latkes? If he's using mayo instead of horseradish on his gefilte fish, oy gevalt...

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Benjamin Seligman @errorbars.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I know this is nit-picky, but it's "cojones". Having drawers in your home doesn't mean you're able to stand up for democracy. Also, this very much is a popularity contest. If people hold their nose to vote for you, you're probably not going to get them to rally or take risks when it matters.

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