Mike Pizanias

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Instead of the oDEIssey by Nolan, you can watch Iphigenia (Euripides), by the Greek Michael Cacoyannis, and witness how a 1977 movie can mog modern Wokewood. Made by Greeks, in the Greek language, with Greek actors and passion for our culture and history

[David Nott Foundation @NottFoundation]

Join Trainees of David Nott Foundation's free webinar series focusing on the realities of surgical care in conflict settings. Their next talk will be delivered by Dr Victoria Rose, a Consultant Plastic Surgeon with over 25 years of experience in reconstructive surgery.

⏰ Wednesday 24 June, 7pm BST
➡️ Register for free here: https://t.co/C1XRSnXmdl

Beyond her NHS and private work, Dr Rose has been involved in humanitarian surgical missions in Gaza since 2018. Her work includes treating complex blast injuries, burns and limb trauma under severely resource-limited conditions.

#medicaleducation #medicalwebinar #wardoctor

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Iliad (Troy) trailer made by Grok Imagine 1.5, which was just released

[David Nott Foundation @NottFoundation]

There's still time to secure your place on the Hostile Environment Surgical Training (HEST®-UK) Course, 7-11 December 2026.

Applications close at 12:00 BST on Friday 15 May 2026 so don't miss out.

This intensive five-day cadaveric course prepares surgeons to deliver emergency trauma care in conflict zones and austere environments.

Apply now ➡️ https://t.co/9uw1R2ZmXP
Course info ➡️ https://t.co/AAyxeQpvpZ

#humanitariansurgery #traumasurgery #hostileenvironmenttraining

[Zhi Ven Fong, MD MPH DrPH @ZhiVenFongMD]

🧵1/
Your partner sees a pt who has remnant cholecystitis s/p a subtotal CCY last year, and laments that this is an epidemic of the push for more subtotals as a bailout.

We explore this question in our article in @acsJACS & 🧵below.

https://t.co/4O3nj4cWz9

[Marc Besselink @MarcBesselink]

🔥8th @e_mips Hands-on Course Advanced Minimally Invasive (Robot/Lap) Amsterdam Skills Centre (ASC)🇳🇱:

✅4 Robot Whipple wetlab stations
✅3 Robot SimNow simulators
✅2 Robot PJ/HJ drylab stations
✅4 Lap suturing/hemost/pancreatoscopy stations
✅2 Lap left pancreat wetlab stations
✅20 particpants from 11 countries
🇮🇳🇲🇽🇩🇪🇬🇷🇬🇧🇮🇹🇲🇹🇷🇴🇵🇱🇷🇸🇳🇱
✅6 experienced proctors
✅Online lectures evening (Tuesday)

[Mike Pizanias @mikepzns]

@zoecabina In ancient Greece, wine was stored in amphorae that weren’t airtight. Pine resin was used to:
-Seal vessels
-Act as a natural preservative
-Impart some antimicrobial properties
Over time, the flavour of resin became culturally embedded, even after better storage methods existed.

[Prof. Somaiah Aroori @somaiaharoori]

We are delighted to announce the dates for our next hands-on major cadaveric liver resection course. Due to limited availability, we encourage early booking to secure your place.
@IHPBA
@EAHPBA
@ASiTofficial
@ALSGBI_podcast
@Medtronic
@TheGriffinInst
@roux_group

[Based Serbia @SerbiaBased]

🚨 This is an absolute disgrace and a scandal!

#UEFA has fined Crvena Zvezda €95,500 over this choreography!

The largest portion €40,000 was issued for allegedly "displaying a message deemed inappropriate for a sporting event and for supposedly undermining the reputation and integrity of both football and UEFA itself". The message was: "May our faith lead you to victory".

This is unacceptable!
UEFA=👹

[Olympiacos Piraeus @OlympiacosSFP]

10 Μαρτίου 1925 – 10 Μαρτίου 2026

101 χρόνια ιστορίας, τίτλων και στιγμών που ένωσαν εκατομμύρια φιλάθλους.
Ο ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΚΟΣ, ο κορυφαίος πολυαθλητικός σύλλογος της Ελλάδας, συνεχίζει να γράφει τη δική του λαμπρή πορεία.
Ιδέα. Πάθος. Τρόπος ζωής.

Χρόνια πολλά Θρύλε! 🔴⚪

[Shay Gal שי גל @ShayGal84]

A Turkish F-16 presence in the occupied north of Cyprus would not be defence.
It would be combat air power laundered through occupation.

Ankara is repeating the Somalia model.
A crisis becomes a pretext.
The pretext becomes a permanent military position.

The Turkish occupation of Cyprus is also a matter of Israeli national security.¹

Cyprus lies within the same strategic theatre: air corridors, sea lanes, energy routes, intelligence geometry, and British bases already under fire.
Jerusalem understands the map and is already acting to prevent such a deployment.

If Ankara chooses to militarise the occupied north, it should not assume the map will remain frozen.
Israel could stand with Greece and Cyprus in a future move to liberate the north - Poseidon's Wrath.

The Iskenderun episode proved nothing.
It was framed as proof that Turkey too was under Iranian attack.
Then officials briefed that the missile had likely been heading towards Cyprus.
The story shifted because the purpose was never clarity.
It was strategic positioning.

The strategic reality did not move: Turkey is not part of the pressure on Iran. It is part of the system that keeps Iran viable.²

Ankara gives Tehran what matters most in war: political cover, operational space, and time.
Iran remains the urgent threat.
Turkey remains the tolerated one.
Ankara does not need Iran to win. It needs the regime to endure.
Iran is useful to Ankara precisely because it is never resolved.
This is not alliance discipline.
It is strategic parasitism from within the alliance.³

The guarantor fiction has collapsed - for both Ankara and London.⁴

A guarantor does not occupy the state it claims to protect.
Turkey destroyed the constitutional order it pledged to defend and converted invasion into permanent leverage.
Britain had authority, capacity, and duty in 1974. It chose inaction.

London retained sovereign bases on Cypriot soil. Sovereignty without resolve is not a guarantee.
When those bases draw fire and hesitation follows, the question answers itself: what purpose do they still serve beyond exposing Cyprus and advertising British drift?

The F-16 issue is clearer still.
American aircraft were not supplied to entrench occupation or project coercive air power from seized territory.
If Turkish F-16s operate from the north of Cyprus, this crosses from alliance friction into breach.⁵

The answer is not reopening the F-35 programme. The answer is enforcement.

Sustainment.
Upgrades.
Munitions.
Mission software.
Operational permissions.

Occupied Cyprus cannot become another platform from which Ankara launders force under NATO cover. Not after Somalia. Not while Turkey helps shield Iran. Not while British bases already attract fire.

And not while Ankara keeps testing whether the West still has red lines - or only habits of surrender.

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¹ “Northern Cyprus is also an Israeli problem”, Israel Hayom, 29 July 2025
https://t.co/DZfBUo1qwa

² “The Turkish Corridor to Tehran”, Israel Hayom, 3 March 2026
https://t.co/uV0ijosWZW

³ “Why Turkey and Qatar need the Iranian regime to survive”, Kathimerini, 25 January 2026
https://t.co/JTuOdRvDpX

⁴ “Europe now holds Cyprus’ guarantee, not Turkey, not Britain”, Kathimerini, 6 December 2025
https://t.co/2yymsXJ4HM

⁵ “Turkey's F-16: Alliance paradox bordering on self-sabotage”, Israel Hayom, 1 February 2026
https://t.co/WTVbbJfd66

[Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery (JSES) @jses_eng]

JSES IllustCon 93
📌Safe approach for RAMPS
📝Approach from the most dorsal part of the jejunal origin
🖊Karasudani Ryo
#JSESイラストコンテスト　#JSES_illustration_contest

[HPD (HPB and Liver Transplant Surgery Padova) @HPDsurgery]

Check out our last publication in @AnnSurgOncol on peritoneal patch reconstruction during pancreatoduodenectomy !!!

🆓 video 📹 included

[Mike Pizanias @mikepzns]

https://t.co/tmQXfWDQqw

[Manos Giorgakis @ManosGiorgakis]

“The mortality from the failed early trials and that which occurred later did not mean that liver transplantation was causing deaths. These patients were under a death sentence already because of the diseases that had brought them to us. Even now, I continue to receive letters from parents or family members. These always start by saying that they know I won't remember Jimmie or whatever was the patient's name. Then they express thanks for the fact that we had made an effort instead of letting their children die, off in a back room without hope. Those opposed to trying always claimed that these little creatures had been denied the dignity of dying. Their parents believed that they had been given the glory of striving.
They were wrong about one thing. That I would not remember.”

The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon

Thomas E Starzl

[The Roger Williams Institute of Liver Studies @Inst_of_Liver]

We’re delighted to launch the new RW-ILS Grants, Funding & Fellowships!

Funded by @f4liverresearch, @KingsCollegeLon & @KingsCollegeNHS, these schemes are designed to offer exciting new clinical and non-clinical research opportunities, with two programmes already live and taking applications!

Emerging Leader Scheme applications - https://t.co/JuPJP0qMea

4 Year PhD Studentship Pathway applications - https://t.co/lmeBe28sOL

Download the full brochure - https://t.co/aAGanFiTiY

[Evan Fournier @EvanFourmizz]

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny”.
Thanks for the support❤️🤍 #WeMove

[Michail Ignatiou @mignatiou]

H ομιλία του Αμερικανού Προέδρου Ντόναλντ Τραμπ στον Λευκό Οίκο για την 25η Μαρτίου ενώπιον ενθουσιώδους κοινού: Ύμνοι για την ελληνοαμερικανική κοινότητα στις ΗΠΑ [videos] https://t.co/xNKPQEWHdF

[NikosChristodoulides @Christodulides]

Η σημαία των Κυπρίων αγωνιστών στην Επανάσταση του 1821. Χρόνια Πολλά στους απανταχού Έλληνες, 🇬🇷🇨🇾

[Ἑλληνικὴ Ἀγωγή @EllinikiAgogi]

🇬🇷 Μία Επέτειος μνήμης, πίστης και Ελευθερίας 🇬🇷
Στα μαθήματα αυτών των ημερών τιμούμε τους ήρωες του 1821 που ύψωσαν το λάβαρο της Ελευθερίας με θάρρος, πίστη και αγάπη για την πατρίδα και πολέμησαν με την ψυχή τους και με την ελληνική τους συνείδηση βαθιά ριζωμένη στην Ιστορία, στη Γλώσσα και στην Παράδοση.
Στην Ελληνική Αγωγή τα εκπαιδευτικά αφιερώματα στις Εθνικές Επετείους αποτελούν μία γέφυρα με την Ιστορία. Μαθαίνουμε τη γλώσσα των προγόνων μας και «συνομιλούμε» με τον Όμηρο, τον Ηρόδοτο και τον Θουκυδίδη, για να καταλάβουμε βαθύτερα και τον Κολοκοτρώνη, τον Υψηλάντη και την Μπουμπουλίνα.
Μέσω των κειμένων, οι μαθητές μας διδάσκονται τις αξίες που διαχρονικά κράτησαν όρθιο το γένος των Ελλήνων: Φιλοπατρία, Ανδρεία, Αρετή. Στην Ελληνική Αγωγή η Ιστορία ζωντανεύει βιωματικά, μέσα από τη γλώσσα, το τραγούδι, το θέατρο και την ποίηση.
«Ὦ παῖδες Ἑλλήνων ἴτε! Νῦν, ὑπέρ πάντων, ἀγών.»
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