Deb Verran
@debverran.medsky.social
Surgeon Interests include #equity #transplantation #SurgSky #PhysicianJustEquity #socialmedia #bookMedSky #hiking
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Deb Verran
@debverran.medsky.social
· Nov 19
Here are the surgeons starter packs with Round 2 now having kicked off. Please contact me if you wish to be added #SurgSky #MedSky #OBGyNSky
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 2
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We pride ourselves on our commitments to open science, integrity, and equity in research. If you want to learn more, this Editorial by Executive Editor Helen Lumbard & Editor-in-Chief Till Bärnighausen outlines our scope and vision, and reaffirms our drive for meaningful change 🧪
plos.io/3XFZfzg
plos.io/3XFZfzg
Charting the future of PLOS Medicine: Priorities for evidence, impact, and equity
As PLOS Medicine enters a new chapter, its leadership sets out a bold editorial vision grounded in evidence, impact and equity. In a rapidly evolving global health landscape, the journal reaffirms its...
plos.io
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We pride ourselves on our commitments to open science, integrity, and equity in research. If you want to learn more, this Editorial by Executive Editor Helen Lumbard & Editor-in-Chief Till Bärnighausen outlines our scope and vision, and reaffirms our drive for meaningful change 🧪
plos.io/3XFZfzg
plos.io/3XFZfzg
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I watched ER and when things were really bad they usually called a surgeon
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I watched ER and when things were really bad they usually called a surgeon
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
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Surgical procedures led to a 16% increase in financial hardship and an 8-fold rise in out-of-pocket spending for US working-age adults, especially the uninsured and those with private insurance. ja.ma/4i8rMHm
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Surgical procedures led to a 16% increase in financial hardship and an 8-fold rise in out-of-pocket spending for US working-age adults, especially the uninsured and those with private insurance. ja.ma/4i8rMHm
Every year more information accrues around the complexities of the human immune system. This proposed schema for classifying T-cells being a casing point!
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Every year more information accrues around the complexities of the human immune system. This proposed schema for classifying T-cells being a casing point!
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1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
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Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say.
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
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I was able to publish numerous pieces in the AMA Journal of Ethics during my time in the Ethics Group at AMA. They've always had a dedicated team of editors interested in advancing important discussions in medical ethics and public health ethics.
What an unfortunate, wrong-headed decision.
What an unfortunate, wrong-headed decision.
It’s a loss for our field. #Bioethics
The @ama-assn.org will cease publication of its ethics journal at the end of this year.
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I was able to publish numerous pieces in the AMA Journal of Ethics during my time in the Ethics Group at AMA. They've always had a dedicated team of editors interested in advancing important discussions in medical ethics and public health ethics.
What an unfortunate, wrong-headed decision.
What an unfortunate, wrong-headed decision.
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Dr Clare McNaught is set to officially take office as RCSEd's new President tomorrow (14 November) at the College's AGM.
Dr McNaught succeeds Professor Rowan Parks, who has served as the College's President for the last three years.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3XxrhwN #OperatingAsOne
Dr McNaught succeeds Professor Rowan Parks, who has served as the College's President for the last three years.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3XxrhwN #OperatingAsOne
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Dr Clare McNaught is set to officially take office as RCSEd's new President tomorrow (14 November) at the College's AGM.
Dr McNaught succeeds Professor Rowan Parks, who has served as the College's President for the last three years.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3XxrhwN #OperatingAsOne
Dr McNaught succeeds Professor Rowan Parks, who has served as the College's President for the last three years.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3XxrhwN #OperatingAsOne
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DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
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NEW: 1 in 8 men undergo scrotal surgery 20 years after kidney donation, underscoring the need for increased patient education about the risks and symptoms to monitor after donation. https://f.mtr.cool/xpxelntcyw
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
NEW: 1 in 8 men undergo scrotal surgery 20 years after kidney donation, underscoring the need for increased patient education about the risks and symptoms to monitor after donation. https://f.mtr.cool/xpxelntcyw
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#TLM25: Laura Kulik, MD, transplant hepatologist at @nuintmed.bsky.social, in Chicago, speaking on systemic therapy for #HCC at @aasldnews.bsky.social 2025 in Washington, D.C.
Image & quote taken by Senior Correspondent, Larry Luxner.
#RareDisease #Hepatology #HepatocellularCarcinoma #MedSky
Image & quote taken by Senior Correspondent, Larry Luxner.
#RareDisease #Hepatology #HepatocellularCarcinoma #MedSky
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#TLM25: Laura Kulik, MD, transplant hepatologist at @nuintmed.bsky.social, in Chicago, speaking on systemic therapy for #HCC at @aasldnews.bsky.social 2025 in Washington, D.C.
Image & quote taken by Senior Correspondent, Larry Luxner.
#RareDisease #Hepatology #HepatocellularCarcinoma #MedSky
Image & quote taken by Senior Correspondent, Larry Luxner.
#RareDisease #Hepatology #HepatocellularCarcinoma #MedSky
👇This accurate piece on James Watson
James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from monumental discoveries to sexism and cutthroat competition
James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from monumental discoveries to sexism and cutthroat competition
James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should be credited highlights the challenges of scientific collaboration.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
👇This accurate piece on James Watson
Beware the ads that are being posted via Meta social media sites (and also let your trusted contacts know about this)
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Beware the ads that are being posted via Meta social media sites (and also let your trusted contacts know about this)
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“I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity.” - Eugene V. Debs
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity.” - Eugene V. Debs
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Moving beyond N of 1 case reports!
The first clinical trial of 🐷 kidneys begins
N = 6, poss or expansion to 50
United Therapeutics (NYU, UAB have used this model)
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/first-c...
The first clinical trial of 🐷 kidneys begins
N = 6, poss or expansion to 50
United Therapeutics (NYU, UAB have used this model)
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/first-c...
First clinical trial of pig kidney transplants gets underway
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really save lives.
ca.finance.yahoo.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Moving beyond N of 1 case reports!
The first clinical trial of 🐷 kidneys begins
N = 6, poss or expansion to 50
United Therapeutics (NYU, UAB have used this model)
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/first-c...
The first clinical trial of 🐷 kidneys begins
N = 6, poss or expansion to 50
United Therapeutics (NYU, UAB have used this model)
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/first-c...
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When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
When you discover that a serious manuscript which was previously published in the New England Journal of Medicine @NEJM.org for which you are one of the coauthors, has been turned into a comic via an #AI tool #academicsky
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
When you discover that a serious manuscript which was previously published in the New England Journal of Medicine @NEJM.org for which you are one of the coauthors, has been turned into a comic via an #AI tool #academicsky
This thread makes for interesting reading. Hint it was the bacteria ..... #IDSky
What killed Napoleon's army in 1812? For 200+ years, history books have pointed to epidemic typhus. Turns out, they may have been completely wrong. A new study just rewrote one of military history's greatest mysteries. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This thread makes for interesting reading. Hint it was the bacteria ..... #IDSky
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GMC restrictions placed on surgeon suspended from Addenbrooke’s after concerns over operations www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/gmc-res...
GMC restrictions placed on surgeon suspended from Addenbrooke’s after concerns over operations
CUH is reviewing 800 cases.
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
GMC restrictions placed on surgeon suspended from Addenbrooke’s after concerns over operations www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/gmc-res...
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Psst #neuro program directors…this (and the tie in the subsequent post) made a great gift for our graduating #neurosurgery residents! 😊 🧠
If your walls are full, this would look great around your neck (and feel great - it's super soft) artologica.etsy.com/listing/7293... #sciart
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Psst #neuro program directors…this (and the tie in the subsequent post) made a great gift for our graduating #neurosurgery residents! 😊 🧠
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The fragile intelligence of #GPT5 in #medicine | @nature.com #Medicine
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#MedTwitter #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #AIinHealthcare #MedTech
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#MedTwitter #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #AIinHealthcare #MedTech
The fragile intelligence of GPT-5 in medicine - Nature Medicine
The latest large language model from OpenAI offers safety gains, persistent risks and the illusion of understanding.
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The fragile intelligence of #GPT5 in #medicine | @nature.com #Medicine
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#MedTwitter #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #AIinHealthcare #MedTech
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#MedTwitter #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #AIinHealthcare #MedTech
If you have recently migrated here from X / #Twitter and are unsure as to how to get started, it is useful to check out the myriad of starter packs/groups which can be searched for via this link. Just type in your interests into the tool bar blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs
Starter Pack - Bluesky Directory
Recommended custom feeds and users to help communities find each other.
blueskydirectory.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
If you have recently migrated here from X / #Twitter and are unsure as to how to get started, it is useful to check out the myriad of starter packs/groups which can be searched for via this link. Just type in your interests into the tool bar blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs