Nigel Curtis

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Lies, bloody lies, and those bastard statistics.

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Superb illustration highlighting the effectiveness and safety of measles vaccines

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#IDSky #PedIDSky #PaedIDSky #Vaccine #Measles #MMR

Science, faith and belief in pediatric animal models - Pediatric Research Pediatric Research - Science, faith and belief in pediatric animal models

Science, faith and belief in pediatric animal models

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#IDSky #PedSky #microbiome

The daily scroll of the average social media user visualized From a recent paper on social media extremism and perception titled " Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms" b…

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#dataviz

Zed or Zee? How pervasive are Americanisms in Britons' use of English? | YouGov Younger Britons are the most likely to use Americanisms

Lost in Transatlanticlation 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Recognise the Problem? Or Are You Too Americanised to Care?

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#Academic #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter

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154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines

#IDSky #MedSky #PedSky #Vaccine

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Doctors’ lack of sleep is affecting patient care, defence body warns Patients’ safety is being compromised because a growing number of doctors are feeling severely tired at work, medical defence experts have warned. The Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that longer hou...

My latest rant about reporting survey results.

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#Survey #MedSky #AcademicResearch #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #PeerReview #PeerReview #AcademicIntegrity #BMJ @bmj.com

Off-target beneficial effect of live-attenuated herpes zoster (shingles) vaccine (Zostavax).

#IDSky #vaccination

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LLMs still hallucinate citations ...

#LLM #ChatGPT

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Fear spreads that NIH will terminate grants involving South Africa Trump has promised to cut off funding, claiming nation discriminates against white citizens

This will be devastating for scientists and research teams, participants of trials, including those who receive TB or HIV care and treatment and will impact gains made world-wide in controlling infections diseases. And all for a completely BS reason. www.science.org/content/arti...

Chart showing lives saved by US foreign aid by sector, lives potentially lost per day during aid freeze, cost per life saved, annual US aid amount.

Estimates by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social:

US foreign aid likely prevents 2.3 to 5.6 million deaths annually, largely in Africa.

And that a complete disruption would result in over 4000 lives lost per day.

How much energy will AI really consume? The good, the bad and the unknown Researchers want firms to be more transparent about the electricity demands of artificial intelligence.

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#ChatGPT #LLM

How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.

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#IDSky #TBSky #HIV #malaria #Infections #PedIDSky #USAID #NIH #Health #Medicine

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Predatory Journals - Journals The Predatory Journals List

Now we have the complete list of all predatory journals on a single page.

Share with everyone! 😉

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Our recent systematic review shows that the composition of the intestinal microbiological can impact oral and parenteral vaccine responses.

Great to see @pidjournal.bsky.social on this platform.

#PedsIDSky #PaedsIDSky #PedsSky #PaedsSky #PedSky #PaedSky #ESPID #IDSky #ImmunoSky #MedSky #Infection #Children

<em>Clinical & Translational Immunology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG), the vaccine for tuberculosis, has immunomodulatory effects that may underpin its off-target effects on infectious disease risk and vaccine responses. This study used bl....

I’m excited to share our new study of the off-target effects of #BCGVaccine on response to #SARSCoV2 & #COVID-19 vaccines. We analysed immune responses before & after COVID-19 vaccination in healthcare workers in the #BRACE RCT. 💉🦠 #Immunology #IDsky #Immunosky doi.org/10.1002/cti2...