🚨 Job Alert in my lab!

Clinical PhD in Rare Respiratory Disease

Suitable for any resident doctor up to ST8

Birt-Hogg-Dubé models in @thecimr.bsky.social

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Back in the UK and enjoying the wisteria growing in the @stcatharines.bsky.social fellows’ car park

Just examined my first of 3 first-y r PhD vivas this week. As always, I learned lots. A nice way to see the excellent work being done in colleagues’ labs by terrific students.

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Great news!

#VaccinesWork
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two Englishman in Miami. One dressed appropriately; another wearing a three piece suit and tie, just because he always does.

After a day assessing research grants for the Alpha1 Foundation, chance for a quick early evening walk around Coral Gables, Miami, with my friend and colleague Tamir Rashid.

Sunrise on day 3 in Miami. Working hard for the Alpha1 Foundation so sadly no chance to get around the city (or to the beech) this time. Lots of fascinating discussions about how we’ll cure alpha1-antitryosin dificiency more than make up for that. Today committee-chairing and then off home tonight

Our latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social summarizes a trial evaluating the clinical efficacy of tecovirimat against human clade II mpox. Read the full study for free: nej.md/DrG38

I fear I’ve lost a lot of ground with my diet these past few days 😏

Heading back home to do a clinic then off on another trip (work this time) on Thursday !

Might weigh myself once I’m back home for a longer stay thereafter

Kraków day 4 dinner: restaurant Pod Nosem

Beef sirloin tartare followed by a duck & foie gras main

Wines 🇭🇺 Hungarian* Nadap and 🇫🇷 French Moulin-a-Vent

*to celebrate their good news

Rather good 👍🇵🇱❤️

Kraków day 3 supper: simple pierogi (these ones were duck-filled with apple chutney) then a nightcap of wiśniówka (cherry vodka liqueur) 🇵🇱❤️

Restoring measles-free status in the UK

Funding primary care sufficiently
Supporting community care via school nurses, midwives, & GPs
Robustly and consistently countering anti-vaccine lies

These are all needed to get us back to where we need to be

www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Kraków day 3: lunch at Pierogarnia Krakowiacy

Gałąbki - my favourite Polish comfort food 🇵🇱❤️

🤣

Not really. But this chef was clearly happy not to be restrained by the idea of typical Polish food. Several nods to 🇵🇱 with cavier, pierogi and, believe it or not, Polish grown wasabi 🤣

The Polish wines were a revelation to me

Excellent food. Some interesting ideas developed by the chef. Top notch professional and friendly service. Good discussions about the wines with the waiters. Strongly recommend 👍🇵🇱

Day 2 Kraków: Copernicus Restaurant

5 – course tasting menu

Tuna with baby ginger & Antonius caviar
Pierogi with wild garlic & Polish cheese Mr Wańczyk
Asparagus with morels & veal sweetbread
Lamb with eggplant & tomatoes
Raspberries with rose

A couple of terrific Polish wines & a Vin Santo

And a quick afternoon break at Nowa Prowincja, a historic café, popular with writers and artists over the years. Great recommandation by @mitogene.bsky.social

Day 2 Kraków: lunch at Pod Aniołami.

Bigos, like my dad used to make, only much fancier, and glass of a Polish white wine, Winnica Amelie. Excellent!
Recommend 👍🇵🇱

H/t to @avantgardening.pl for original restaurant suggestion on BlueSky quite a while ago

Day 1 Kraków, Poland: a well-hidden speakeasy cocktail bar, Mercy Brown. Excellent. You have to sneak through an actual restaurant cloakroom to find it.

Then traditional Polish food at Kawaleria restaurant

Pierogi z dzikiem (wild boar dumplings)
Policzki wołowe (beef cheeks)

With Zosia recovering well from her knee surgery, we’re walking in and around #PapworthWood again. Today, treated to the sight of an unexpected visitor at the pond.

Sound thesis advice

And ‘use’ is always better than ‘utilise’ 😏

Though ‘fatuous numbskull’ has its uses too

Sophistiqué ! 🎩

Wow! 😃

a purple and yellow easter egg with polka dots and a zig zag pattern ALT: a purple and yellow easter egg with polka dots and a zig zag pattern

How have the Easter eggs gone down today?

And more importantly, which were the best?

I’m easy to please for Mrs M:

Christmas = chocolate orange in the stocking

Easter = chocolate orange egg 🍊🍫🥚

Few people are aware of how much progress has been made against cancers.

Leukemia is probably the most striking example.

Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would soon die from it.

Now, most children in rich countries survive.
ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

April #WokeratiBookClub

Doc or Quack, by Sander Gilman

No, not my patient feedback (not all of it, anyway) but a look at medicine from the Enlightenment to today

'We'll reduce our reliance on resident doctors in response to strikes'

First get rid of doctors

Then nurses

Then all the AHPs

Then finally the patients

Without them the NHS will be far more efficient 🙃

Keir Starmer: UK will seek closer ties with EU in light of Iran war It comes as UK-US relations have been strained by the PM's refusal to be dragged further into the Iran war.

Every day in every way the decision to leave the EU looks more and more stupid

Those who advocated for brexit either did not have the UK’s best interests at heart or were fools or both

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The “unimaginable scale of deaths” that Professor Fong talks about in the clip were people - people who left behind devastated loved ones up and down the country.

There have been more than 200,000 Covid-related deaths in England to date; 140,000 of them were during the first two waves. 8/19

Gallop rhythm