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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's the season of mandatory article submissions for The Conference, and I have fully metamorphosized into reviewer number two.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Anyone else start hearing the Outer Wilds theme in their head?

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For reference, the EPA found that 70dB averaged over 24 hours was likely to cause sensorineural loss. The EPA used to be able to regulate noise, but the Office of Noise Abatement and Control in the EPA was unfunded by executive order in 1982.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You guys. I performed a 69420 procedure in clinic today.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've been locked out of my account because I didn't want to do the Texas age verification thing... and now it just works again?

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

We all have tiny labyrinths and snails in our ears. Only the truest among us know their secrets.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/07/2026

senior academics to junior ones:

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Hearing Health Foundation @hearinghealthfn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"These cells, termed transdifferentiating Deiters' cells (tDCs), are capable of making the transition from supporting cells to hair cells—a step that is essential for hair cell regeneration." << coauthors incl. Litao Tao, part of our Hearing Restoration Project hearingreview.com/hearing-loss...

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Researchers Uncover Biological Mechanism That Could Reverse Permanent Hearing Loss

Researchers have identified a biological mechanism that prompts supporting cells in the inner ear to regenerate into sensory hair cells.

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Ali Christy, MD, PhD @oligoclonalband.medsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's July 1st, the day residency programs start. The day we should bestow advice and love to all new residents. So tell me: which board game most captures your experience of residency? 1/🧩

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's amazing how much better my brain works when I've taken care of my body just a little bit

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Some will say I should have prepared better. To them I ask: prepared how? By memorizing things? By practicing drawing pathways by hand like some kind of monk illuminating a manuscript? The whole point of AI tools is that I no longer need to retain information in my biological memory."

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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 30/06/2026

Not sure anyone else has mentioned it yet - but Elsevier owned editorial manager has an option available which checks references, and it seems to be reasonable (says ‘validated’ with a link to the paper, and ‘not validated’ if it can’t find anything)

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

shout out to my trans homies i love you and I am sorry

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Um... has anyone checked vital signs on the 13th amendment?

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 30/06/2026

You will probably already know this but there's a very excellent paper by @gcabanac.cpesr.fr and his colleagues that noted that people are sneaking references into Crossref even when they're not even in the original paper. asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library

We report evidence of an undocumented method to manipulate citation counts involving “sneaked” references. Sneaked references are registered as metadata for published scientific articles in which the...

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The thing about treating younger, healthier patients is that if your provider isn't not exposed to pathology, they miss early signs when it does show up. A two-tiered system is worse for everyone.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Plea to #skystorians & other academics who read pedagogical research - what's your favourite _undergrad accessible_ article or chapter on "writing is thinking"? (NB please feel free to recc any real bangers on writing skills/reading skills/essay skills generally especially for STEM students!)

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Academics: is there an easy way to confirm that all citations on a manuscript actually exist? This seems solvable, and I really don't want to individually check all 20-50 on each article I review when they have an AI disclosure.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/06/2026

Quick 🧪 and law note. The SCOTUS decision in Slaughter today has *profound* implications for US science, cancer cures and the economy. Sotomayor dissent: “Put simply, today the majority reshapes our Government… shifting tremendous power over broad swaths of American life into the President’s hands”

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Swearing an oath to the Constitution is a wild ride when there's a new Constitution every June

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I got Sanna Marin. I guess I deserved that for my sin of taking the quiz.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"The green Reflecting Pool, despite actually being about water, is Teapot Dome" will be bouncing around in my head for a stretch

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My phone wound up on a robocall list, and now it's unusable. This shit should be illegal.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'd like to think it's Wemby's fault

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 04/06/2026

If you’re between 14-45 years old and experience heavy menstrual bleeding, this is an exciting new trial investigating transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation. Early results are promising with ~50% decrease in blood loss. QR code below. Please repost/share!

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Pace picante sauce wouldn't trust the Knicks. Just sayin'

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Congrats to the Spurs. I haven't seen a city this excited since DC in '08.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Absolutely agree that Mid-century psychoanalysis needs the @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social treatment, @moiradonegan.bsky.social.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I love it when academics stir it up on a Sunday. They *know* we're scrolling

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

One of my favorite reasons to track down sources is to find out which prominent bro is full of shit. Thanks to AI, now they just out themselves.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Re-upping because of today's discourse

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Academic medicine peeps--go for it!

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Maria Geffen @geffenlab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Tune it at 1 pm EDT to EARS early career panel! pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/96672201477

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Counterpoint: Every year, "means-testing" across Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, etc entails a multi-billion dollar transfer of state and federal tax dollars to third party consultants who build and maintain these systems of administrative burden

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

ok using your last words before you go around the far side of the moon to remind humanity to love your neighbors is goated

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

So the moon only has a dark side? Don't tell Pink Floyd.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

To be autistic for a minute: there actually are Earth rocks on the Moon already. Sufficiently big impacts launch ejecta right into space, and some of that will have landed on the Moon. Some fraction of the material mixed up in lunar soil started out on Earth.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Some discussion on Artemis II broadcast about how dark the Moon is compared to Earth. Here's a really nice look at the two together from the same camera -- the Moon isn't white, it's dark brown www.planetary.org/space-images...