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22 Jun 2019
If clinical academics were a species we would be on an endangered list, and very high up it.
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Matt Daniels MD PhD retweeted
Please read and feedback your opinions. The document made me despair.
dropbox.com/scl/fi/6nn8n8pdv…
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Nothing says village cricket quite like this⬇️
Ball 1 : Dropped a sitter at slip
Ball 2: Took a single handed blinder at slip
Instant redemption for the fielder 🔥
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Arriving in #FRA @Airport_FRA the non-EU queue to clear passport control has taken more than (& counting)
People are trapped in lines & are missing connections, including EU citizens
Don't know what has inspired this, but it's not going well from the customer perspective
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Could be worse, could be the UK - 5th in the table of probably the most important experimental platform for human disease developed this century
Still we've probably spent lots of money on mice instead
【ｉＰＳ細胞の論文数が示す日本の研究力の「伸び悩み」…国際共同研究が少ない「弱点」も : 読売新聞】 yomiuri.co.jp/science/202605…
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【ｉＰＳ論文の本数、日本は３位・米国や中国との差は拡大…読売新聞分析・「高い質」割合は１５か国中最下位 : 読売新聞】 yomiuri.co.jp/science/202605…
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Matt Daniels MD PhD retweeted
May 29
british understatement is unique and i love it. if you work with brits you absolutely have to understand the translation:
"this is probably not ideal" -> this is on fire
"it might be worth reconsidering" -> stop, do not ship this
"i have some minor concerns" -> i have been thinking about nothing else for four days
once you crack the code the feedback is actually some of the most precise communication you will encounter.
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Matt Daniels MD PhD retweeted
May 28
I’ve just received an extraordinarily generous anonymous donation to my GoFundMe appeal and, quite honestly, I’m rather overwhelmed by it.
To the donor - whoever you are - thank you so much for your remarkable kindness and support. It means a very great deal to me, far beyond the financial help itself.
More generally, I would also like to thank everyone who has donated, shared the appeal, sent encouraging messages, or simply wished me well. The goodwill and support people have shown has been genuinely touching and enormously appreciated.
Representing England in these events means a great deal to me, and your support is helping to make it possible.
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A few hundred years ago 21 was old enough to Captain a wooden gun ship in the most hostile seas on the planet (yes, it sank & they all died except Robinson Crusoe)
Cinque Ports (1703 ship) - Wikipedia share.google/czTeptC261FGPEl…
Is the modern career ladder now uninspiring?
May 24
Unemployment is now 5% and only half of under-25s are in paid employment.
Every Labour leadership contender should have a coherent answer to how we can reverse these trends and avoid creating a lost generation of young people.
Today's @thetimes column👇
thetimes.com/comment/columni…
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It feels like there should be a word for publishing research articles in the journal that you are the chief editor of
Any nominations?
The German language feels like it lends itself to this kind of thing?
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A lot written about trains right now
I think what we are seeing is the impact of institutional decay
🇬🇧 Invented the railway. We built so many, so well, that we had too many when the car came. We stopped building rails, the skills were lost
Now we want a high speed train
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May 20
These images show 2 High Speed Rail systems. Guess wich costed more to build? 😶
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Vastly more complicated, and no institutional know how because the last time we tried something similar was 100 years ago
Can't vet the contract
Don't understand where the cracks are
Learning by doing
Lesson: when know-how is lost, you can't just pick up where you left off
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I worry that we will be reading this script again for a pile of things where the old has been cast aside
Where new ideas have been brought in wholesale, with little supporting evidence
Where memories are erased and know how lost
You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
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Hey, at least the London section is looking good ⬇️
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Matt Daniels MD PhD retweeted
May 14
In Japan, children clean their own schools.
Every day. After lunch.
About twenty minutes.
Classrooms.
Hallways.
Toilets.
Not because the schools are too poor
to hire someone.
Because in 1947, this country decided
that cleaning your own space
is part of becoming a person.
The cleaning rag
is on the school supply list.
Right next to the pencils.
Egypt teaches it now.
So does Indonesia.
So does Mongolia.
Think about the last time
you watched a seven-year-old
mop a floor without complaining.
Japan does that
in every elementary school
in the country.
Not as punishment.
As education.
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Matt Daniels MD PhD retweeted
May 12
My lab at @Stanford is looking to hire postdocs for multiple projects on cancer biology and therapeutics. Our recent work has uncovered some truly remarkable mechanisms for cytotoxic small molecules and we're looking to build on this research. If interested, see below:
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An example of photo bleaching and cell contraction during live cell imaging
A beautiful one
May 10
This mesmerizing timelapse captures the nonstop motion inside an animal cell. Moving red/orange streaks are the growing ends of microtubules, tiny “highways” that move proteins & other molecules within the cell.
📸: Andy Moore, HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus
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Matt Daniels MD PhD retweeted
May 8
Ready to become a leader in Amyloidosis care?
CCF has been awarded funding by ARC for a 1 yr Amyloidosis clinical fellowship: 75% clinical, 25% research.
$123,600 in salary support.
Open to MD/DO trained, US license required.
Please DM me if you’re interested!
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The metrics of how nations Care for Health nationally could be split into lots of little buckets⬇️, or you could take the view that lifespan aggregates the various trade-offs between the buckets
The data tells the story of who is closer to figuring out that matrix
This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take.
No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare.
The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral.
Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year.
Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes.
Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment.
The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.”
America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be.
Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities.
Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis.
It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.
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Matt Daniels MD PhD retweeted
May 6
That is simple: a university should optimize around scholarship - not around liability protection, marketing, politics, and self-expansion.
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