Caroline Gauthier

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Pretty Obvious 973 Salmon-Hat Kelp Massage 359 Man Rescued Twice 781 Tortoise Mile/Month 489 Leaked Memo on Leaks 914 Grass Butt Chimp Fashion 407 18000 waters 470 Flood Museum Flooded 835 Police Are Scrambling 773 Long Meetings 486 Cat Buttholes Touch All 437 Louvre Password: Louvre 825 Emerges With Girlfriend 821 Pregnant/Not pregnant 412 Drunk Raccoon Passes Out 578 Resolved and Unresolved 770

Welcome to the thrilling Quarterfinal round of the 2025 Headline of the Year contest! (🎆🎆)

Mostly proceeded according to seeds, but second seed Resolved and Unresolved had a close scare with the Drunk Raccoon.

Let's review the results so far:

Le grand Jacques (RIP), son cancer, et la gestion de soi - www.monvoisin.xyz Jacques Van Rillaer était mon ami. Je l’avais ren­con­tré il y a vingt ans, autour du Livre noir de la psy­cha­na­lyse (aux Arènes, 2004), et depuis lors, nous entre­te­nions des rap­ports très agréab...

En prime, un échantillon de la sagesse de Jacques, recueilli par Richard Monvoisin:
www.monvoisin.xyz/le-grand-jac...

A black and white photo of me at 17. I’m wearing a baggy grey jumper and for some reason a leather cap.

A 🧵 on #AIDS in the 80s/90s:
I was 15 when I first had sex with a man.
I’d snuck off to London’s Heaven nightclub with the express intent of ridding myself of my ‘gay virginity’, a goal I achieved easily with a visiting American photographer.
1/13

Gift a New Year's Eve meal to a homeless person for €5

Cet hiver, on peut tous faire une vraie différence.
L’Ancienne Belgique permet d’offrir un repas à quelqu’un qui en a besoin.

Un petit geste pour nous, un grand soutien pour eux.
👉 Participez, partagez, amplifiez.
#Solidarité #Bruxelles #HelpEachOther
www.abconcerts.be/en/news/gift...

UK and Belgium both have Budgets this week with comparable fiscal challenges.

Interesting to compare and contrast the process and durability of the outcomes under FPTP and proportional (plus compulsory voting) electoral systems.

Mouse 'midwives' help their pregnant companions give birth Scientists have observed mice helping each other when they encounter difficulties during birth, prompting a rethink of caregiving among rodents and other animals

"Mice seem to assist pregnant females when they get into difficulty giving birth, with experienced mothers being the most helpful. This is thought to be the first official sighting of such assistance in non-primates, and so expands our knowledge of caregiving behaviours across the animal kingdom."

Report for: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (PREVENT-TAHA8) In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

You may have seen reports about a paper claiming that "Stem cell therapy prevents heart attacks": bmj.altmetric.com/details/1830...

If so, you might want to grab some popcorn: pubpeer.com/publications...

Kindness as a public health action - Communications Medicine Nguyen and Lee discuss how universal practice of kindness is a public health action. Using empirical evidence of randomised controlled trials combined with Rose’s theoretical framework of preventive medicine authors propose how acts of kindness, specifically self-kindness and self-compassion, can improve mental health outcomes.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

"Kindness is immediately available to, for and within every one of us, in the present moment."

9) People are, all things considered, pretty good.

I see twenty thousand people a day, and maybe two of them are assholes. Even on a stressful day, even in an unfamiliar environment, even hungry and tired and on a timer.

That's a *much* better ratio than folks realize.

Quel français régional parlez-vous ? 21e éd.📍Soutenez-vous une équipe ou vous la tenez pour? Un coin paumé, c’est Birebie-les-Oies, Perpette-les-Olivettes ou Trifouillis-les-Herbes-Sèches ? 👉 Participez : neuchatel.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Graph of maternal mortality rate against year for the UK. Rate bounces until and down around 500 deaths per 100,000 births until about 1940, when it falls sharply. It’s been very low (~1–3 per 100,000) ever since.

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/3IhpoQF

YouTube video by BRUZZ Michael De Cock schrijft brief aan politici: 'Hoeveel incompetentie kan er in één pak?' | BRUZZ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jS6... Spirit of Brussels

Et donc désormais, il faudra s’habituer à voir le Premier ministre du Royaume de Belgique s’afficher avec la crème de l’extrême-droite européenne lors de chaque sommet européen…

An illustration of the APAChE study results

What is the impact of microplastics on human health? The latest episode of Beyond Journal Club, a collaboration between @coreimpodcast.bsky.social and NEJM Group, takes a deep dive into the APAChE study on microplastics and cardiovascular disease. 🎧 Listen here: nej.md/4igpJQy

#MedSky

A nationwide approach to reduction in anaesthetic gas use: the Dutch Approach to decarbonising anaesthesia Anaesthetic gases account for ∼3% of the carbon footprint of the entire healthcare sector and up to 63% of the emissions originating from surgical care. Transitioning to predominant use of total intra...

New Special Article - The 'Dutch approach' to decarbonising anaesthesia #sustainability #environment #anaesthesia

www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S000...

IDSA and HIVMA are deeply concerned by the abrupt cancellation of 92% of USAID foreign assistance awards and the impact the action will have on many. Our statement: buff.ly/b2czy4r

He skis like shit.