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@scullingmonkey

drΒ² | stuff&science | vascular surgery | surgeon:scientist | German in Exile |πŸ“Έ| yeastwaterfloursalt | coffee | always dark blue | mostly involuntarily retired rower | private rants&typos | wondered in here a while back,stayed | she/her |πŸ“(un)settled in UK

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09.03.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is the tip β€œwhen in hell, keep walking”

09.03.2026 08:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you all remember that brief moment where we dared to dream that Germany might have a green government?

Maybe we’ll get back to
That one day

08.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I do overall like oezdemir.

08.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Staying on Twitter is a choice

Everyone has their own red line that they wouldn’t cross. What’s yours?

08.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Green!

08.03.2026 17:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Manchester - looks clean and pretty. Maybe we should let the guy who runs this, run the country?

08.03.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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13:35 Sit down in Canadian pancake place

14:00 eat Canadian pancakes

14:08 sent pancake photo to <redacted>

14:32 my ads on guardian look like this

08.03.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Not bad, Manchester

08.03.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Listening to alles gesagt mit Gabriel (who I haven’t heard until 48min ago) and man, it’s good to hear someone else had a similarly weird childhood and time in school.

08.03.2026 12:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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08.03.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s international women’s day today.

How do we feel about women’s rights today? Or the rights of minorities? Or the rights of those who don’t fit into the standard tickboxes?

08.03.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s standard for any English city these days

08.03.2026 09:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Off to Manchester today.

Tips?

08.03.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

About real meaning of influence and economic migrants.

06.03.2026 08:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 β€œAI” added in. And awful fake photos

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art...

05.03.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 β€˜sentinels of climate change’ are being forced into unknown territory

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What are we doing to our planet

05.03.2026 11:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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04.03.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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."

03.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 180 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œYou’re not good enough at suffering”

02.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#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

02.03.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Oof

02.03.2026 07:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did anyone try GoFundMe for #openAccess fees ?

01.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

β€œHelsinki 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.”

01.03.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 2439 πŸ” 835 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 100

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)

01.03.2026 10:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Our cat is referred to as Maus

01.03.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Remember when β€œinternational law” still meant something

28.02.2026 23:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

28.02.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Grifters gonna grift

28.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A national UK-wide survey of tranexamic acid use in vascular surgery – Journal of Vascular Societies Great Britain and Ireland JVSGBI

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

πŸ“– Out now: jvsgbi.com/a-national-u...

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27.02.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0