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Niall Harrison

@teranesian.bsky.social
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Scientific Services Development Director, OPEN Health, co-chair for the ACCORD reporting guideline, and general medcomms person.

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 11/08/2026
OSF will continue to support study planning and preregistration, as well as community-run preprint services. Our overview explains what's changing, what will continue, key dates, & where to find detailed guidance. We've also shared why these changes are necessary. (🧵2/2)
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shift, the OSF Projects workflow – the part of the OSF used for project collaboration, file management, and storage – is being phased out as an active workspace. This change does not affect persistence and accessibility of existing public projects. We are very sorry for the disruption that this will cause for OSF users.
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
You know your disease rebrand has been successful when the key term sees as much of an uptick in use as tell-tale words from LLM content (see alt text): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fig 1A from Kobak et al 2025, showing words that have increased in use in biomedical abstracts in the last few years and thus may be indicators of LLM useZoomed in part of the previous figure, highlighting "steatotic", which does not seem like it would naturally come up much in LLM output, which may instead be due to the new disease nomenclature from 2023.
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
NEW: Bluesky is becoming place to discuss scientific research - it gets more proper engagement & attention, new study finds. For all the talk of decline - borne out by several metrics - the science community seems to have adopted Bluesky more than others. Story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds
Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform
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WHO @who.int · 28/07/2025
Today is World #Hepatitis Day. Did you know❓ Hepatitis is the second leading infectious cause of death globally, with hepatitis B and C claiming 3 500 lives every day. Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones 👉 bit.ly/hepatitis2025
Text reads: “Deaths from viral hepatitis-related causes are increasing.
2019: 1.1 million deaths
2022: 1.3 million death
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Journal of Hepatology @jhepatology.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
🆕CPG in press❕ EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management of hepatitis B virus infection Find it here👉https://bit.ly/4deZHf1 #LiverSky @easlnews.bsky.social
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Gary Collins @gscollins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
NEW PAPER: Updated CONSORT-2025 for reporting randomised trials is now available in the @bmj.com @jama.com , @thelancet.bsky.social, @plos.org and @naturemedicine.bsky.social —> www.bmj.com/content/389/... #openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
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ACCORD @accordguideline.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Members of the ACCORD group are debating data visualisation options for their upcoming @ismpp.bsky.social poster.
A pie chart with three segments. The largest segment, over half the chart, is labelled "authors who have not ventured an opinion". The next largest, about a third of the chart, is labelled "authors who have stated they opposed lie charts". The smallest segment, about one-eighth of the chart, is labelled "authors who are well aware that other actors dislike pie charts, but committed pie chart crimes anyway." The composer of this alt text notes that if pie charts habitually came with alt text they would be *marginally* less opposed to them.
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European Medicines Agency @ema.europa.eu · 03/04/2025
The Clinical Trials Information System #CTIS has been designated as primary registry by the @who.int ! This designation represents a significant step forward in promoting transparency and trust in clinical research in the EU. #clinicaltrials #clinicalresearch www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/clin...
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Clinical Trials Information System designated as WHO primary registry | European Medicines Agency (EMA)
Designation facilitates data sharing, promotes transparency and trust in clinical research
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Paul Sax @paulsaxmd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Anyone who attended this year's #CROI2025 will tell you it was a very strange experience given the current political climate. Still, plenty of interesting studies -- here's a Really Rapid Review of selected highlights. #IDSky #HIVSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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Really Rapid Review: CROI 2025 San Francisco
Wow, that was an interesting conference — in ways both good and bad. The good part was the content, as the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is our leading HIV research co...
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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Two new cases of HIV remission after stem cell transplant for cancer reported at #CROI2025. These have become so routine that they're posters instead of oral presentations. We know an HIV cure is possible -- now we need to use clues from these rare cases to develop widely applicable approaches.
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Current PubMed issues appear to be (fingers crossed) more technical than political, but good to remind yourself of the alternatives.
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This afternoon! Or this morning for those in the US. Or this evening for those in AP, I guess. Either way: not many hours from now.
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ACCORD @accordguideline.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Read our editorial on the need for communication and collaboration when developing reporting guidelines @equatornetwork.bsky.social
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Always powerful to see the graph showing the impact of PEPFAR blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...
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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Fascinating comment in passing there about ASCO having been spammed with AI submissions -- does anyone know anything more about that? #ISMPPeurope
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The balloon debate on publication formats made for an interesting session, and clever choice of format #ISMPPeurope
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Enjoying the "maintaining quality in a fast-paced world" session. I think I might actually quite enjoy a 48-hour "all the authors in a room writing the draft" challenge... #ISMPPeurope
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Important update: found a stand offering Venchi. I approve even more. #ISMPPeurope
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Key takeaway from the exhibition: lindor are the giveaway of choice. I approve. #ISMPPeurope
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The lunch labels may have needed a proofread! #ISMPPeurope
Picture of a food label that says "garlic lemon boneless chicken tights with roosted sweet potatoes"; presumably meant to be chicken thighs and roasted sweet potatoes
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In mice is on Bluesky as well! #ISMPPeurope
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The @ismpp.bsky.social EU meeting is underway! #ismppeu2025
A photo of a plenary meeting room full of people, listening to Rob Matheis deliver the Chair's Welcome at the ISMPP EU 2025 meeting
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Some clinical trial results to look forward to this year:
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Clinical Trial Readouts Are A-Comin'
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Peter Bloomfield @psbloom.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Interesting piece in @mitpress.bsky.social Tech Review about #AI paternalism in healthcare. i.e. "the doctor knows best" being replaced by AI knows best, both dismissing patient experience: www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/21/1...
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Artificial intelligence is infiltrating health care. We shouldn’t let it make all the decisions.
AI paternalism could put patient autonomy at risk—if we let it.
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Ah yes, that early January "suddenly it's only three weeks to @ismpp.bsky.social why didn't I do more prep in December" feeling
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POZ Magazine @pozmagazine.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
On December 1, and during the surrounding weeks, individuals and organizations across the globe take a moment to reflect on those lost to HIV, those currently living with the virus and efforts and advancements to end the epidemic. #WorldAIDSDay #WAD2024 www.poz.com/article/worl...
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World AIDS Day 2024
Sunday, December 1, marks the 37th World AIDS Day. Here’s a quick guide to activities, memorials, statistics, social media posts and more.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thanks to so many science & health experts for describing why they're here on Bluesky, and what the moves could mean for science communication and public health messaging: www.statnews.com/2024/11/21/b...
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Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here's why
#MedTwitter is migrating en masse from X to Bluesky, suddenly making it an essential hub for scientific discourse. Here's why.
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ACCORD @accordguideline.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Members of the ACCORD steering committee on Bluesky (so far): @chriswinchester.bsky.social @davidit.bsky.social @amyprice.bsky.social @teranesian.bsky.social. We're working on the rest of them.
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In the meantime if anyone stumbles across this account and is writing up a consensus study, I encourage you to check out ACCORD journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
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ACCORD (ACcurate COnsensus Reporting Document): A reporting guideline for consensus methods in biomedicine developed via a modified Delphi
Gattrell and colleagues developed the ACCORD reporting guideline to guide the reporting of biomedical studies using consensus methods.
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Niall Harrison @teranesian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If medical professionals are making the jump over here, can #medcomms be far behind?
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