PhD student & IRC scholar @TCD | Studying Trained immunity and improving innate anti-viral responses via immunometabolism | LFC fan on the side

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CianHJohnston retweeted
This is one of the most beautiful thing that happened this season.

A moment you’d forever cherish?
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I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that. Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it. Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games. Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on. As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.
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CianHJohnston retweeted
Getting that Quadruple to game 38 of the league season is one of the best things a football team has ever managed.
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Insidious goblins somehow defending this drivel so they can finally justify laying into an Alltime great who’s just kinda old having given them a league title last year Not the fella who is getting us 61points The fella who’s now missing when he used to create magic
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CianHJohnston retweeted
To any young kid reading this… I’ve doubted myself in every league I’ve ever played in. Ryman Prem. Conference South. League Two. League One. Championship… And even right before my first Premier League start last night. That’s not weakness. That’s being human. That’s being alive. When I was growing up, I thought Premier League players were superhuman. Like they never felt doubt. Like they never felt nerves. The truth is…. it’s often the opposite. Social media won’t tell you that sometimes you step out there with no confidence. That’s normal. That’s ok! You now have to then step out there with courage. Confidence feels good. Courage doesn’t. But you do it anyway. Show courage enough times…. You build confidence. Here’s the mindset that’s carried me for 31 years. When it goes well: I worked for it. I earned it. Well done. Watch it back. Get better. When it doesn’t: I know I prepared the best I could. It didn’t go exactly to plan. That’s football. But Well done. Watch it back. Get better. That simple recipe gave me a special moment last night. Leading the team out. Playing alongside a group that fights for every ball. Celebrates tackles. Gives everything for the city of Sunderland. And sharing it with supporters who never gave up, even after four tough seasons in League One. So if you’re a young player feeling doubt… Low confidence… Or like you don’t believe in yourself… You’re not alone. Every player feels it. Confidence isn’t something you’re given. It’s something you build. Bit by bit. Day by day. With courage. With work. With learning. Anything worth building takes time. But that’s what makes it so worthwhile! Thank you @SunderlandAFC ❤️🤍
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CianHJohnston retweeted
This is so incredibly dangerous and will be seen by millions of people. I'm a cardiologist who opens the arteries of people with heart attacks. 1. Secondary vs primary prevention - Here, Malhotra is talking about someone taking a statin who has *already had a heart attack*. First of all, if you survive a heart attack without any major damage, you're lucky. A lot of people aren't as lucky. I know this because I do this work for a living. Primary prevention is for people who've never had any clinical event. If you've had a heart attack, you are NOT THE SAME as someone your same age, etc who has NOT had one. The game is changed and much riskier for you. You are at a HIGHER RISK of ANOTHER heart attack. You need to be MORE AGGRESSIVE to lower that risk. If your first one spared your life, the second one might not. That is secondary prevention. 2. "Benefit over 5 years" - This is such a classic, silly misinformation trick. OK sure - but that assumes you're only planning on living another 5 years and then are ok with just dying. That's obviously absurd and I don't believe anyone agrees with that. As your cardiologist, I'm not trying to keep you alive and well for just 5 years. I'm talking 10, 20, 30 years, decades. The real true benefit of statin therapy is over decades. As in, they help keep you alive longer. You can't just measure it at an arbitrary 5 year cut off. 3. Not magic bullet - Prevention is not just statins. It is changing your entire lifestyle, diet, exercise, etc, and meds. Statins are not magic either. People on statins have heart attacks too. But life is about risks and probabilities. You do what you can to reduce risk as much as possible. You cannot reduce risk to 0, but you can bring it pretty damn close to 0. It is so fascinating to me that there are so many highly intelligent and accomplished people who have an intimate understanding of risk and probabilities, and who make major decisions in their daily lives based on this understanding. But when it comes to statins and vaccines, they just abandon all logic.
Dr. Aseem Malhotra: "If you take a statin for 5 years after a heart attack... in that 5 year period, how much would you think or hope it would add to your life expectancy?" Joe Rogan: "25%? 30%?" Malhotra: "Just over 4 days."
Community note
More than 90 percent of people who have a heart attack don't die of a heart attack within the next 5 years. So if you ask "how much extra life will a statin give you in those 5 years?" the answer will be small. Published work shows overall benefit of multiple months to a year: doi.org/10.1371/journa…
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CianHJohnston retweeted
this was a generational reading like he ate him up so bad here i’m sorry LMFAOOO😭😭😭

what's the nastiest read you've ever seen someone give😭
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CianHJohnston retweeted
December 18, 2026. #AvengersDoomsday

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CianHJohnston retweeted
Make or break for my mum this year in the kitchen. Sister lowkey overtaking her this. Same energy:
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15 Dec 2025
THIS IS AURA. 🥶
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define “proved them wrong”.
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14 Sep 2025
Scott Parker welcome to the Arne Slot Penitentiary

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2 Sep 2025
this edit is a cinematic experience im not even exaggerating

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1 Sep 2025
Nah we cousins.

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CianHJohnston retweeted
Newcastle fans have been in denial all summer, but Alexander Isak is finally joining Liverpool. This calls for a special... #FanDenial. 18 GambleAware | #LFC | #NUFC
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CianHJohnston retweeted
31 Aug 2025
A brilliant free-kick from Szobo…

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A moment that Rio Ngumoha will never ever forget! 😍 #LFC

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21 Aug 2025
How is this my first time hearing this? This is a banger!
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