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Nigel Curtis

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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.

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AI is transforming peer review — and many scientists are worried Artificial intelligence software is increasingly involved in reviewing papers, provoking interest and unease.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

11.09.2025 05:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint servers.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

11.09.2025 05:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions A Spanish foundation using an artificial-intelligence tool to screen grant applications says it makes the peer-review process more efficient, but other researchers say it’s a breakdown in trust.

When AI rejects your grant proposal

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#academic #IDSky

11.09.2025 05:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#MedSky #IDSky #PedIDSky #ImmunoSky

31.08.2025 09:32 — 👍 20    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Distribution of population between different poverty lines This data is adjusted for inflation and for differences in living costs between countries.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/dist...

14.08.2025 00:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Podium view at #ESPID2025 🇷🇴

28.05.2025 11:36 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Lies, bloody lies, and those bastard statistics.

24.05.2025 08:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bad news

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Good news

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stand down comedian
nonsense of humour
barely laugh
chuck-out-le

01.05.2025 23:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Superb illustration highlighting the effectiveness and safety of measles vaccines

ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

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

01.05.2025 23:27 — 👍 70    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 2
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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

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#IDSky #PedSky #microbiome

15.04.2025 09:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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…

www.voronoiapp.com/technology/T...

#dataviz

14.04.2025 10:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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?

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

#Academic #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter

10.04.2025 04:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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09.04.2025 03:52 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines

#IDSky #MedSky #PedSky #Vaccine

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

09.04.2025 03:52 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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

07.04.2025 23:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

#IDSky #vaccination

04.04.2025 04:18 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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LLMs still hallucinate citations ...

#LLM #ChatGPT

18.03.2025 01:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

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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...

15.03.2025 02:31 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 1
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.

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.

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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.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#ChatGPT #LLM

14.03.2025 02:35 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

12.03.2025 08:48 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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.

09.03.2025 13:11 — 👍 33053    🔁 8377    💬 445    📌 418

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