#Variability

Samantha Wang

DrSamanthaWang

1/15 #MedTwitter: You're admitting a 64YO male with ESRD on HD for hyperkalemia after missing dialysis. A troponin was checked & returned at 0.78 (nl

Liz Gross (she/her)

lizgross144

Over on Instagram, I shared some of my salsa making process yesterday, with a disclaimer that it's the riskiest water bath canned product to make and you need to make

Nicolas VdL

nivdlind

In a recent narrative review, Scott & Scott concluded that on-site pill testing lacks evidence of efficacy and proposed a cut on public funding until efficacy is properly demonstrated. Here's

Danielle Navarro

djnavarro

I often hear it asserted that there is very little opportunity for nuance when discussing transgender topics online. I think that is true, in the sense that there are a

Jamie Willows

jamiekwillows

Thread/Do you look after patients with HHS?UK guidelines use calculated osmolality = 2Na + Glucose + Urea“What’s the problem?”Including urea lowers the diagnostic threshold in patients with CKD- a group

Basim Ali MD

BasimAlee

I had a chance to present on an important topic today at the Breast Tumor Board at @AKUGlobal. The topic was: Screening for distant metastasis in newly diagnosed #breastcancer patients.

Zeke Hausfather

hausfath

How much warming is committed, "locked in", or "in the pipeline" has long been a source of confusion. In a new @CarbonBrief explainer we take a deep dive into what

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

Are you confused about the role of type I interferons (IFN) in #SARS_CoV_2 infection? Here is my speculation on what makes IFN-I helpful vs. harmful in #COVID19 patients - it

Lwam Ghebrehariat

LwamG

I am seeking an end to mandatory 24 hour call shifts periods for residents, and the adoption of reasonable maximum duty hours, on the grounds that the current model of

Harry 😷😷 Seldon

fractalharry

Sur le sujet pourquoi moins de femmes dans les STIM, quelques liens dans le thread ci-dessous. #Feminisme2018 @pierre_jacquel @42born2code @nadia_armogathe @win_france "The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEMA

Atticus Stovall

StovallAtticus

NEW PAPER OUT TODAY!!!Does taxonomy explain height-mortality trend during drought?We test this in 10types and...Mortality risk consistentlyin ALL 10types with tree height!A THREAD 1/n#OpenScience #OpenData #WhatKillsTrees https://go.nature.

Tony Breu

tony_breu

1/14Why is secondary dengue infection more likely to cause hemorrhagic fever than primary infection?Not all infections confer immunity, but why would prior exposure lead to WORSE outcomes?To answer these questions,

Chris Sanders 🍯

chrissanders88

My @RuralTechFund work focuses on poverty. No matter where you live, impoverished people live close to you, but you may not know a lot about it. Consider this fundamental question

Emily Deans MD 👻

evolutionarypsy

Really interesting (follows up on the case of two sets of brothers with severe COVID-19)https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/hidden-immune-weakness-found-14-gravely-ill-covid-19-patients We produce interferons in response to infections.

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

A common criticism of population-based epidemic models is that they don't account for individual-level variation in transmission (i.e. superspreading events). But how much of a problem is this? 1/ For

HBES

HumBehEvoSoc

We're LIVE! Come join or follow our live tweet thread here! Today we're talking about #BeyondWEIRD and increasing diversity in cross-cultural research. First topic of discussion: The WEIRDest People