Robert James

Infectious Diseases Registrar, scientist and recovering bartender.
MSc in Immunology and Global Health; BSc in Neuroscience.

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[CarlSaganDotCom @carlsagandotcom]

A lesson on the greenhouse effect with Carl Sagan.

🎥: Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

This is what privatized healthcare has gotten us.

[Robert James @RobbieShanz]

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[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Hibernating brown bears rarely suffer from blood clots despite 6 months of immobilization.

A new Science study has revealed a factor that appears to protect the animals against this immobility-associated thrombosis. Learn more: https://t.co/q4bMdxlPTU, https://t.co/z2dnQ2CAkD

[Huiluo Cao 曹慧荦 @hlcao]

The evolution and international spread of extensively drug resistant Shigella sonnei | Nature Communications https://t.co/B0tshYMZf4

[Dan Quintana @dsquintana]

Someone actually went ahead and called their journal “Nature Cell and Science” because they know people will submit their work there so that they can say they’ve published in Nature Cell and Science 🤦‍♂️

[c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance]

Let's talk about radiotrophic fungi.

I want to start with the most surprising fact about them: they don't just SURVIVE in high radiation environments, they grow at *FOUR TIMES* the rate they would in background radiation.

Our best guess is they're "eating" radiation.

[Nina Schwalbe, PhD @nschwalbe]

🇺🇸This month marks the end of a recent measles outbreak among children in central Ohio, USA.

❌ 85 cases (mostly under the age of 5)
🏥 36 children were hospitalized (thankfully, none died)

What was the common denominator?

The kids had not been vaccinated.

[Robert James @RobbieShanz]

Senior administrators in the @HSELive scared of being publicly outed as redundant, to no shock of those currently working in the HSE.

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

The HSE has “no vision” for the digitisation of the health service and efforts to change this are being impeded by “bad actors”, according to its recently-departed head of digital transformation (1/5)

[Stephen Ford @StephenSeanFord]

replace Justin Roiland with Michael Cusack and say nothing

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Engineering live tumor cells to secrete IFN-beta and GM-CSF, researchers present a #CancerVaccine that safely and directly targets tumors and stimulates antitumor immunity in mice with #glioblastoma. @ScienceTM https://t.co/ZcUkRMZTLK

[Mk2 BIG MAVERICK🍀 @Mk2Maverick]

SKILL at it's finest👍😱

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Exxon’s internal documents and research publications show that scientists working for the company between 1977 and 2003 accurately forecasted the rate at which global average temperatures would rise as a result of excess carbon emissions https://t.co/AK0fw9Mo91

[Wellcome @wellcometrust]

Earlier this year, @TheLancet published a report revealing the true impact of antimicrobial resistance around the world.

TL;DR — It's bad. But we know how to solve it. ⤵️🧵
[1/5] #WAAW2022

[Robert James @RobbieShanz]

This is better than anything I could ever aim to achieve as a doctor for humans.

[Cork City Fire Brigade @CorkCityFire]

Earlier today crews responded to a house fire in Dillons Cross 🚒

Crews extinguished the fire and searched the smoke-filled property and rescued an unresponsive dog 🐶

‘Max’ was given oxygen and was then brought to a local vet for treatment 🏥

Thankfully he’s now on the mend

[Happy. @HappySinger]

Keeping up with the Kardashians is exhausting tbh.

[Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @ABsteward]

🔥Breaking🔥
WHO releases first-ever list of health-threatening fungi
WHO fungal priority pathogens list to guide research, development and public health action #IDTwitter #MedEd #TwitteRx
https://t.co/9JmiOdXNMj

[Robert James @RobbieShanz]

Of course it's the day I'm on call in ED the entire radiology IT system goes down 💃.

*Patient wait time increases exponentially*

[Robert James @RobbieShanz]

@ImcompotentFool Found songsterr to be class 👌

[Robert James @RobbieShanz]

Back playing music regularly and jesus ultimate-guitar has just gotten terrible over the years. How can you ad/paywall user generated content? It's so cumbersome I'd rather do it by ear.

[Gareth Wild @GarethWild]

Liz Truss dressed as bins - A thread 🧵