Kasia

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About real meaning of influence and economic migrants.

10 amazing careers in healthcare using AI & Technology - BBC Bitesize Emma-Louise Amanshia tries to guess the job of someone who works in healthcare technology.

Is this nonsense created by AI?

It’s just jobs with “AI” added in. And awful fake photos

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Tiny, lost and constipated: what a baby turtle told Australian scientists about warming seas The arrival of loggerheads in New South Wales shows these ‘sentinels of climate change’ are being forced into unknown territory

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What are we doing to our planet

If you define "research" as, say, producing scatter plots or sorting quantitative data faster than a human could, well...is that really research? Or is it processing? "Using google maps" is different than "taking a vacation."

“You’re not good enough at suffering”

#phdlife #academiclife #highereducation | Jonas Heller | 40 comments Leaving academia is apparently still a taboo subject. Nature just published a career podcast piece on it, and I think it is worth talking about openly. Researchers who leave for industry often descri...

"Framing people who leave as not committed enough is incredibly convenient for the system. It puts the blame on individuals and keeps attention away from the actual problems: underpaid postdocs, broken publication incentives, grant treadmills." #IchBinHanna

Oof

Did anyone try GoFundMe for #openAccess fees ?

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

If I ordered torte and got pie I’d be so upset

As a west German I have never used the word Eierkuchen btw (lived in NRW, BaWu and BY)

Our cat is referred to as Maus

Remember when “international law” still meant something

One of my favourite places to spend some time talking about the world #UpInArms - it’s all about your neighbourhood pubs. Supporting local business always feels good, and keeps our streets and pubs looking colourful

Grifters gonna grift

TXA and vascular surgery - it’s a complicated story. Despite national recommendations, #vascular #surgery has the lowest use of TXA.

We undertook a national survey of practice asking surgeons and anaesthetists about use, perceptions, equipoise for a trial

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Every day I marvel at the design of human flow through the tube stations and what TfL and Khan have achieved

Something to admire

If Starmer wasn’t scared of burnham…

When did it become acceptable to vape some fruit or other scented stuff into people’s faces.

Scrubs was one of the reasons I ends up in medicine (though how did I become Turk?)

Now realising I have reached Dr Cox levels of frustration as a teacher

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Truly the most realistic tv medical show

Oh greens 👏

The whole thing makes me incredibly sad. I remember working so extra hard to make sure I can teach students and check on them whilst working through Covid (pre vaccine) where we faced an unknown virus every day and saw so many die.

No it wasn’t the “experience” any of us wanted either

It really makes you want to live in Mamdani’s NYC doesn’t it

For almost every surgeon in the nhs this is what theatre days look like

Full theatre teams spent most of day waiting around or walking up and down to try and find beds.

The Great Olympic lie: untold story of Winter Games’ huge environmental impact Rivers drained dry to create artificial snow, a forest cut down for the bobsleigh track – IOC’s claims to prioritise sustainability at Milano Cortina exposed

As much as everyone is enjoying the Games, we need to be talking and thinking about the environment (and climate) - in winter games more so. Everyone loves the snow covered views - but we should at least be honest of the impact this has had

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Please submit your contributions #academia 🧪

Collect comments. Combine to themes (if needed). Create bingo card. Contributors are co authors.

Highlight the dire situation with some fun.

That sounds like a good approach, and good collaborative authorship

(Plus fantastic way to turn something depressing into a bit of fun)