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👩🏻‍🔬Irish PhD,👩🏻‍⚕️Swedish MD, former cancer biologist now psychiatry resident, mother & wife in a neurodivergent family, dog & tech-lover, friendly introvert, same @jillykid elsewhere
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The guy who just a few years ago, by his own admission, was identified "as an extremist" by his own unit over one of his tattoos and was barred from working at President Biden's inauguration is now…Defense Secretary of the United Stated and sixth in line to the presidency.

Not surprised and very happy to see #Bluesky becoming a safe, thriving hub for researchers! Fewer trolls, more science and meaningful connections, it’s what we’ve needed. Here’s to more civil, informed conversations and continued growth! Long may it continue! #ScienceMatters 🧪 go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

Stephen Miller and Homan’s goal is to shock and awe blue cities to terrify whole communities. They’ll deliberately targeting businesses, schools, hospitals churches and other places of worship. They want Americans to be afraid. Mayors and governors must stand up to them. Lawyers get on standby.

Firing independent watchdogs is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Removes another obstacle to corruption and abuse of power www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The FDA has scrubbed from its website guidance on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men/women and racial/ethnic minorities. these aren't symbolic issues. Drugs affect men/men, people with different genetic backgrounds differently. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medic...

BREAKING: Friday Night Massacre: Trump fires 12 inspectors general, including State, Veterans Affairs, HUD, Interior, Energy, Transportation, and Dept of Defense. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Countries who aren’t part of the World Health Organization: - Liechtenstein - The United States Countries who are part of the World Health Organization: Literally everyone else

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Hero.

How wearable sensors were used to detect subclinical inflammation up to 7 weeks before a flare of inflammatory bowel disease www.gastrojournal.org/article/S001...

Really? That's the name? Was this workshopped?!

Them, an intellectual: Threatening tariffs on Denmark lol, how much blue cheese does the US eat? Me, a medical writer: Have you heard of Ozempic? Them: ...

Trump is going to make Ozempic more expensive for Americans because Denmark won’t give him Greenland. (I can’t believe I just typed that sentence out.)

A New Year's rant, for 2025 😊:

For #30DayChartChallenge - day 26 - ai I wanted to make a chart that showed generative AI generates expected seeming results consistent with the kind of corpus associated with the prompt, with no understanding of truth, facts, logic, or causality. So I had chatGPT supply the data for the graph.

Why does this guy always look like CGI?!? I cannot explain it.

The n's justify the means

Well, that's unfortunate www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

I’m with Denmark.

Silly psy cartoon for Christmas!

Christmas books!

Yeah

Stress has been suggested to increase the risk of type 1 diabetes. We assessed the association of loss-of-1st-degree-relative on risk of type 1 diabetes in 3.5 million Swedish children with >86k losses and >18k diabetes events and found no evidence of such impact.

Hey corporate media, Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.

Open now at the Freud Museum London: ‘Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists’ An exhibition that highlights the women who helped Freud invent psychoanalysis and their legacy in its practice. Open until 5th May 2025. Book tickets: www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/... #psychotherapy #counselling

Please tell me who first posted this so I can properly credit, bc it made me laugh hard this morning

A few weeks before the election I posted about my concerns about RFK Jr getting rid of vaccines and was yelled at by a ton of accounts on Twitter saying he’d never do that, he was against vaccine mandates, not vaccines. Oh how I wish they’d been right.

BREAKING: CEO shooter Luigi Mangione once participated in a ritual game where participants slowly hanged a man by guessing the letters of a secret word

I’m available for short-term dictator gigs if anyone has a hard-to-fill locum position

😂 'among us' assassin

A 96yr old patient told me he lied about his age to get into the air force at 15 and was flying a spitfire by 17. He and his friend, he thinks, were the first humans to test a new gunpowder-powered ejector seat. He recalls getting a free breakfast as payment! Talk to this gen any chance you get 🫡🙏

BREAKING: NYPD has located the tunnel the assassin used to escape the city but found it to be merely a painting on a brick wall and smashed up several squad cars upon trying to enter it

As the internet’s current 4th most famous ophthalmologist, behind sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rand Paul, and Bashar Al-Assad, I’d like to request an updated ranking please.

Need sound on.

Harri has also kindly gifted the internet a new WTF reaction image…

We have the local Men’s Shed Group on site today. Their fellowship and industry are something to behold.

The @nejm.org have arrived…