Sam Conway

Cardiology fellow. Helmet-based sports enthusiast. History, art and politics nerd. Retweets of memes do not constitute medical advice.

[@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social @zoesqwilliams]

I mean, there's briefing and there's fucking briefing

[thomas 🍌 @perfectsweeties]

i’ve been taking some notes

[Incunabula @incunabula]

Descendents of the Latin word "coquina" (kitchen) in Europe and elsewhere.

[A. M. Gentile 🟡🔴 @GentileNJ]

I’ve found a a gem

[The Mirror @DailyMirror]

He couldn't believe it! 🤯

[NurseBrianRN @rn_murse]

art surrounds us

[frönk 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @fronkonymous]

Fun fact of the day: the reason why pregnant people get ultrasounds and not MRIs, is that in an MRI, this is what a fetus looks like.

[Brian Firenzi @mrbrianfirenzi]

They finally did it. They did a grindset of Mr Bean

[Alice Levine @Alicelevine]

A fever dream; parched, you reach for a glass of cool water in the most challenging part of an interview, instead what slides down your gullet is the unfamiliar viscosity of salted caramel Huel. It takes 7 secs to swallow. You go to answer, but, Huel. You go to scream…but…Huel.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

everybody born between 1985 and 1995 saw the Super Bowl halftime show lineup and was like “sweet, instead of doing a show for old people like the Rolling Stones or Paul McCartney or The Who they did one for us young people”

and then 10 seconds later it hit us

[Bjarke Jensen @BjarkeJensen4]

Now that a #Pighearttransplant has been done, you may wonder: is the pig heart like a human #heart? Crick and colleagues answered this in 1998 (https://t.co/jPVjbWzDxv). For a quick highlight of their findings 🧵👇 @MedCrisis @load_dependent @drbilalmunir @jonepstein1

[Olga Tuleninova 🦋 @olgatuleninova]

Carol Collette
A Clear Winter Night, 1945.

[Billie @_BillieBelieves]

Can’t believe they’re replacing PCRs with this rapid online test

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

Amazing to think that Boris Johnson spent £2.6 million on this room for daily televised press briefings and the only clip we'll ever see from them is when his Press Secretary joked about when they all broke the law.

[Incunabula @incunabula]

European civilization is built on ham and cheese, which allowed protein to be stored throughout the icy winters.

Without this, urban societies in most of central Europe would simply not have been possible.

This is also why we have hardback books. Here's why. 1/

[Kerria @Kerria]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.