itsandysmith.bsky.social
Helping biopharma humanise their healthcare & corporate communication, with a side order of guitar (mostly musical theatre)
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Apparently the journalist contacted some of the supposed "authors" of the studies who said they had never heard of such studies (and certainly hadn't conducted them). www.notus.org/health-scien...
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The ghost of Georges Perec!
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Is that a gilled mage in the foreground?
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I enjoyed the opening monologue... the musical number not so much ;-)
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It takes time for DNS changes to flow through the system. (When we do it for clients, we say "up to 24 hours" for changes to reach everywhere, but usually way quicker.)
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From where I'm sitting (UK/Chrome), it's not just PubMed but the entire NIH website that's unavailable!
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Don't forget, Metro is owned by the Daily Mail parent company. Read this through that filter...
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Even better, more sleeper trains!
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I made tiramisu on Christmas Eve, to take to a family party tomorrow (don't worry - no eggs). The struggle not to eat it all myself is real!
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So, this showed up on my feed right next to the news of the Ambassador pick for Panama... and it totally made sense!
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No? Boo!
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Also the huge contrast in sampling between the ultra-low volatility average of MANY stocks & bonds vs just FOUR of the most volatile alternative assets!
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For the past six days, I've lived entirely on mince pies
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In November the Copyright Licensing Agency issued principles on how this could be done fairly, including consent and payment. There is a current government consultation on this, so write to your MP and get our voice heard! cla.co.uk/ai-and-copyr...
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If you're on iPhone, there seem to be some on Amazon, albeit surprisingly (to me) expensive! I have an ancient Sony set, which live in my laptop bag
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In adapting your template, I discovered that the Copyright Licensing Agency issued Principles for Copyright and Generative AI early in November. Reference to this would also be a powerful addition to any response: cla.co.uk/ai-and-copyr...
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Tirzepatide is a dual agonist, obvs, and the big players have all had dual or even triple agonists at various times
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Or even both: poly-modals addressing complementary targets
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This is exactly what I came here to say!
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This is exactly what I came here to say!
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The proposal is specifically to sell The Observer.
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Any movie would be improved when performed exclusively by stoats!
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There is some literature around "co-opetition" in pharma, but much of it relates to logistics and public affairs (I have some small experience here). But likely a "wicked" problem in R&D due to vastly asymmetric capabilities & potential gains.
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Academic/Industry consortia to agree "upstream" surrogates would minimize the blockage: validate once, use across programs... but the risk is that companies could get stuck if the consensus evolves during a program
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Better explanation around multiple dose groups in Phase 2 and OLEs in Phase 3 would definitely help. But how much of that is actually about explaining to site personnel how important it is to focus on those un-sexy parts of the study details?!
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Tbilisi now. Sorry, don’t have a picture credit yet.
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Yay Deanie, glad you're here! (And with a very nice espresso too)
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Band kid here! Turned into a community theatre adult, and then community theatre band!
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For me, the most telling phrase was hoping that his successor has confidence *that there is such a thing as expertise*
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Crackle crackle!