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Klaus von Pressentin

@klausvonp.bsky.social
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Clinician-scholar #familymedicine #primarycare Head: Family Medicine, University of Cape Town. Editor: South African Family Practice safpj.co.za #AcademicSky #HigherEd #PhDchat #SciComm #FMsky #medsky ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5965-9721

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Koki Kato @kokikatokk.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"Maybe we can't cure people or entirely remove symptoms, but we can give people the sense that they're being listened to and that their opinions and needs are being, taken seriously.” by Havi Carel
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Epistemic injustice in healthcare | Wellcome
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Koki Kato @kokikatokk.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
And this is a byproduct. Kato K. (2024). Creating an international community of practices to support newly qualified GPs. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 75(750), 12. bjgp.org/content/75/7...
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Creating an international community of practices to support newly qualified GPs
Bennett’s account that GP registrars focus on passing the qualification assessment, and the nuance of applying knowledge in practice as an expert generalist is at stake, resonated with me.1 The situat...
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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I have long said the role of a professor isn’t to introduce knowledge; every student has access to the world’s information online. Our role is to facilitate opportunities for practice engaging w information & developing wisdom re: the application of knowledge & methodologies. #AcademicSky
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Loving this new paper on complexity in medicine, using pediatrics as the worked example. Too many medical authors (and the MRC) run fast and loose with the terms 'complexity' and 'complex interventions'. They should read this paper. #medsky #academicsky #philsci 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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If things were simple, word would have gotten around. Can complexity science help us improve pediatric research? - Pediatric Research
Pediatric Research - If things were simple, word would have gotten around. Can complexity science help us improve pediatric research?
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Carlile Vernon @markgray.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
#AcademicSky, researchers have to face this: research writing needs to persuade more than other researchers. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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The readability of scientific texts is decreasing over time
Clarity and accuracy of reporting are fundamental to the scientific process. Readability formulas can estimate how difficult a text is to read. Here, in a corpus consisting of 709,577 abstracts publis...
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Klaus von Pressentin @klausvonp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Celebrating a Successful 5-Day Workshop! ✍️ Our workshop, "Writing for Different Audiences: Journals, Funders, and Community Stakeholders", funded by the NIHR, brought together participants from nine countries. A heartfelt thank you to our facilitators! #AcademicWriting #WritingForImpact
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Christy J.W. Ledford @christyjwl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In new pub with @lndanderson.bsky.social , we give practical recommendations for explaining difficult concepts to patients #FMSky #medsky #healthcommunication
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Meagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is a handy tip! But, having just gone to find my ORCID, I can now only think of this... bsky.app/profile/andy...
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The Research Whisperer @therealrw.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Another account all researchers can benefit from following is @dorassessment.bsky.social Championing research quality and striving to vanquish our sector's insufferable, unsustainable hypermetricisation. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #postdoc
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Meagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Seeing lots of fascinating #ShutUpAndWrite content coming out of the Community in Writing symposium over in the UK. And it's definitely got me thinking about "Why I hate Shut Up And Write" again! #SUAW redalert.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/2024/04/why-...
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Why I hate Shut Up and Write (SUAW)
Photo by Photo by Prateek Katyal on Unsplash Spoiler alert: I don’t actually hate Shut Up and Write (SUAW). Well, not anymore. But, for a lo...
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Meagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Ooooooh, and that time I saw you can out-horse your email. Thanks Iceland! I do plan on trying it over the holiday break this year www.visiticeland.com/outhorse-you...
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OutHorse Your Email
Disconnect from work and let the horses of Iceland reply to your emails while you are on vacation. (Seriously)
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Meagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
That time I stumbled across this really lovely thing about thesis acknowledgements: science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
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The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.
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The Research Whisperer @therealrw.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Unexpected joys of collaborative writing (by @drmeagantyler.bsky.social) "it’s not always the publications that stay with me...it’s the enduring & very human connections that come from collaborating on writing & research." - Tyler researchwhisperer.org/2022/11/01/t... #AcademicSky #AcWri #PhDSky
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The unexpected joys of collaborative writing
There are solid lists and words of advice out there on what makes a collaboration successful or how to be a co-author. I’m not seeking to recreate or evaluate that sort of guidance here. Rather, I’…
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Anna Clemens, PhD @annaclemens.com · 16/11/2024
Ensure that you can clearly talk about the most important aspects of your research in terms that a wide range of readers can understand 👇 My 4 top tips to improve your writing: buff.ly/4fv6kK8 #AcademicSky #NewPI #PhDchat
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4 Ways to Improve Your Scientific Writing
Would you like to write better papers in less time but don’t know where to start? I’m sharing four strategies that will help you to improve your scientific writing today.
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Klaus von Pressentin @klausvonp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A too short visit to Dar, but a wonderful introduction to Tanzanian hospitality. Snapshots from last weekend's visit to Aga Khan University as an external examiner. My sincere appreciation to the team. #familymedicine #primarycare #academicexcellence #collaboration
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