@nigelcurtis.bsky.social
Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, The University of Melbourne, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. https://www.mcri.edu.au/researcher-details/nigel-curtis Views my own.
When AI rejects your grant proposal
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#academic #IDSky
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#MedSky #IDSky #PedIDSky #ImmunoSky
Podium view at #ESPID2025 🇷🇴
28.05.2025 11:36 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Lies, bloody lies, and those bastard statistics.
24.05.2025 08:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bad news
02.05.2025 23:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Good news
02.05.2025 23:58 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0stand down comedian
nonsense of humour
barely laugh
chuck-out-le
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
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#IDSky #PedSky #microbiome
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#dataviz
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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09.04.2025 03:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines
#IDSky #MedSky #PedSky #Vaccine
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My latest rant about reporting survey results.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
#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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18.03.2025 01:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
LLMs still hallucinate citations ...
#LLM #ChatGPT
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18.03.2025 01:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0bsky.app/profile/nige...
18.03.2025 01:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This 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...
15.03.2025 02:31 — 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 1Chart 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.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ChatGPT #LLM
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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.