Nigel Curtis
@nigelcurtis.bsky.social
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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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Podium view at #ESPID2025 🇷🇴
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Lies, bloody lies, and those bastard statistics.
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stand down comedian
nonsense of humour
barely laugh
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Superb illustration highlighting the effectiveness and safety of measles vaccines

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#IDSky #PedIDSky #PaedIDSky #Vaccine #Measles #MMR
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Lost in Transatlanticlation 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Recognise the Problem? Or Are You Too Americanised to Care?

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#Academic #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter
Zed or Zee? How pervasive are Americanisms in Britons' use of English? | YouGov
Younger Britons are the most likely to use Americanisms
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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...
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LLMs still hallucinate citations ...

#LLM #ChatGPT
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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...
Fear spreads that NIH will terminate grants involving South Africa
Trump has promised to cut off funding, claiming nation discriminates against white citizens
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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.
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.