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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Looks like it's that time of year where I re-learn how to use the heaping pile of garbage that is ExamSoft once again. No rush, I'm sure everyone is tagging questions on Friday afternoon and it's just a usage bottleneck. #AcademicSky

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hey now, let's be fair and say that we live long enough to die from those diseases due to improved efforts against infectious diseases, ie. vaccination, antibiotics, and sanitation.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This part I can agree with - the need for improved medical record systems. But sharing that information with the government or researchers should be opt-in. Also, how can can we have someone in charge of HHS who doesn't know how terrible our medical information systems are? 😳

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Around me are all these more-important-than-me people with high positions in the university. Right before I'm introduced, I look down at my notes and see- this blue duck walking across the screen. 2/

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Hey, she's in that crucial 5th author position - don't knock it.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

My extra-credit "Show me an error that you caught AI making" idea is either a smashing success at illuminating the weaknesses in LLMs or instead illuminated that students are good at prompting AI to say stupid things. I'm going to hope for the first. #IDSky #academiclife

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Talk about a timely highlight of the importance of NIH #idweek @idweek.bsky.social

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

As long as I get this done, I am!

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I think of serum vs tissue concentrations like the Rockies vs. the Appalachians 4/

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Same- I think of this all the time. The most common reaction I get to this graphic is "wow, heart disease and cancer have gotten really bad." No- thanks to sanitation, vaccines, and antibiotics, we live long enough to die from chronic diseases.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Nice! If you can, take this kind of photo with a telephoto lens - it will compress the viewpoint and make them standout more. Here's a harshly lit example (mine).

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

"Today I’m joined by the IDSA- they fight bacteria harder than I fight medical consensus!" @idsainfo.bsky.social (Yes, this is what I saw) #IDSky "Tell us, IDSA- why is antibiotic stewardship is so important when I have a probiotic smoothie that cures literally everything and tastes like mango?”

"Alt text" is right. We are in a different universe.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I’m circling any session presented by Dr G-B from now on. He may be talking about CAP, but he’d fit right in with a showing of Hamlet #escmidglobal #idsky

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

It is 2025, and Examsoft still makes the most confusing piece of software I've ever encountered. Avoid if possible. At least I'm not alone?

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Even ChatGPT can't believe this timeline.

ChatGPT - "There's no way Trump and Elon Musk got in front of the White House with a Tesla"

"Ooops, that actually happened. Sorry, thought I was hallucinating for a second."

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This reminds me of this comic truism.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I had to leave it to appreciate it. NJ rocks.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Just gonna say, you need to know what you're doing if you accept ChatGPT's analysis of an article on face value. I'm no expert in immortal time bias, but its initial suggestion of it as a critique didn't make sense to me. "Oh, my bad! I was entirely wrong." 1/

Description of output from ChatGPT about a journal article. It bombed.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I thought about looking up how a beta-lactam can affect an organism that doesn't have a cell wall, but I'm too busy so I'll assume it's wrong. Ditto Legionella. Also, while I get that there are plenty of antibiotic-sensitive C. difficile strains, please don't think that your CDI patient has one. 2/

Wrongness includes mycoplasma, legionella, and clinical CDI.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I tried to get ChatGPT to help me prove the case that switching from meropenem to ertapenem is barely narrowing therapy, since the effects on gut flora are likely the same and the differences on medically important aerobes are minimal. It did worse than I expected. 1/

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Now is the time of year where my Word dictionary changes languages, just to mess with me. This is an effective way to stress someone who is upset by the misuse of adjectives as adverbs.

I swear I spelled 'purchased' correctly.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I’m all in for that. My wife said “it’s easy for me to picture you doing that.” Right now we have Zuzu, and tranquil is not her best descriptor.

A black-capped conure who likes to eat my wife’s hand

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

And, many of these people were 'Facebook friends', who I kept in touch with via that service I haven't used in years. Maybe that's how it got me as I Irish-exited long ago. (I also don't know their actual birthdays, except for my wife's cousin AP) 2/

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

"Day of notifications" is arriving soon for me. I'm not sure what exactly fell out of sync years ago, but it did, and the ramification is that I receive about 100 notifications about fictitious birthdays on New Year's Day. Also, it thinks that everyone was born on January 1, 1601. 1/

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

You got my attention. But, of all books for it to be listed next to!

The 48 Laws of Power takes a very bleak look at humanity

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Meropenem is that third pie. You felt like you didn’t have enough already, but you actually did.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Well, using that logic, I’ll be careful today

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Future versions of ChatGPT will not put diving bells on minnows.

A minnow on a bicycle. You know, minnow-cycling.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A Canadian will probably chuckle at the 2nd, but I've been waiting 47 years to see the Aurora so I was thrilled to see them at my latitude. The first is more recent.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Today, in 'signs my employer is trying to get me to leave', my computer's Word dictionary has randomly changed languages again. They know how much time I've spent staring at 'collection', a correctly spelled English word. They know.

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Jason Gallagher @jgpharmd.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Peak Americanness- Black Friday specials for lab tests

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