Sue Hopkins
@suehopkins.bsky.social
MD PhD. Pulmonary, Altitude and
Exercise Physiologist. Potty-mouth Cat Lady. Artist. Climber of Rocks. 🇨🇦 Expat. Elbows up.
Exercise Physiologist. Potty-mouth Cat Lady. Artist. Climber of Rocks. 🇨🇦 Expat. Elbows up.
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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
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January 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.
A Place of Joy.
A Place of Joy.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
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THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
January 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
My latest chapter with @mkstickland.bsky.social on pulmonary gas exchange is out in a book edited by two of the best Mike Joyner and Jerry Dempsey. #PCCM #Physiology.
On Oxygen
On Oxygen: From Air to Tissues, the latest release in the Fundamentals of Physiology series, provides a fundamental overview of the entire oxygen path...
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:34 PM
My latest chapter with @mkstickland.bsky.social on pulmonary gas exchange is out in a book edited by two of the best Mike Joyner and Jerry Dempsey. #PCCM #Physiology.
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Oz making headlines globally- age social media ban, and crowning word of the year #enshittification . Interestingly incidentaloma made it to the shortlist for word of the year #medsky
Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.
Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary names ‘enshittification’ word of the year
Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary says term captures widespread sense that things are getting worse.
www.aljazeera.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Oz making headlines globally- age social media ban, and crowning word of the year #enshittification . Interestingly incidentaloma made it to the shortlist for word of the year #medsky
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The measles vaccine is given as a shot but it is surprisingly good at inducing protective immunity in the respiratory tract (mucosal IgA). Our new study provides some clues about why...a thread (1/8) #IDSky #MedSky #lungs #immunology #ImmunoSky academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...
Validate User
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November 25, 2024 at 3:05 PM
The measles vaccine is given as a shot but it is surprisingly good at inducing protective immunity in the respiratory tract (mucosal IgA). Our new study provides some clues about why...a thread (1/8) #IDSky #MedSky #lungs #immunology #ImmunoSky academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...
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November 13, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Yup Bluesky has exploded. While it’s great to see a bunch of new folks, it would be nice if y’all sat a while and absorbed some of the culture instead of trampling all over indiscriminately. I’m looking at you #MedTwitter. Also what took you so long? #MedSky #PCCM
Over the past week, the social media site Bluesky's growth has exploded, more than doubling to 15 million-plus users, as people seek alternatives to X, Facebook and Threads.
Bluesky Is Growing Up. Maybe Too Fast.
The fledgling social media site has been flooded by people seeking alternatives to Facebook, X and Threads. It hasn’t all been easy.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Yup Bluesky has exploded. While it’s great to see a bunch of new folks, it would be nice if y’all sat a while and absorbed some of the culture instead of trampling all over indiscriminately. I’m looking at you #MedTwitter. Also what took you so long? #MedSky #PCCM
I just want to point out that I have had cat lady in my bio since I joined BlueSky several months ago.
August 2, 2024 at 4:08 PM
I just want to point out that I have had cat lady in my bio since I joined BlueSky several months ago.
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Larry is the world’s most highly cited #cat (132 #citations vs Willard’s 107). These were entirely fabricated, by Reese Richardson and Nick Wise. The duo wanted to show how shady companies exploit #GoogleScholar to sell fake #metrics #scholarypublishing #academia reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/e...
Engineering the world’s highest cited cat, Larry
A citation manipulation scheme so easy, even a cat can do it.
reeserichardson.blog
July 25, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Larry is the world’s most highly cited #cat (132 #citations vs Willard’s 107). These were entirely fabricated, by Reese Richardson and Nick Wise. The duo wanted to show how shady companies exploit #GoogleScholar to sell fake #metrics #scholarypublishing #academia reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/e...
Wow. Just wow.
In 2017 I investigated the fake "California South University" which was created to support predatory journals. I only found out because they stole the history of the (real) University of Alberta. Today they could use ChatGPT to generate a unique fake history in seconds. @dereklowe.bsky.social 🧪
"The University of Alberta, Southern California"
I get about a dozen emails a day from predatory journals looking for editorial board members. I assume they’re predatory; any journal that thinks I’m an exp...
groverlab.org
May 17, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Wow. Just wow.
The WHO has completely failed here.
Egregious public health failure to acknowledge airborne transmission of viruses has been called out in many major research publications. This Lancet letter is an excellent summary. Thank you
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
@juliamwright.bsky.social
@mark-ungrin.bsky.social
#MedSky #NurseSky #EpiSky
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
@juliamwright.bsky.social
@mark-ungrin.bsky.social
#MedSky #NurseSky #EpiSky
Airborne pathogens: controlling words won’t control transmission
WHO has proposed new terminology for “pathogens that transmit through the air”.1 The
stated rationale is that “[d]uring the pandemic, the terms ‘airborne’, ‘airborne transmission’,
‘droplets’ and ‘aer...
www.thelancet.com
May 14, 2024 at 5:32 AM
The WHO has completely failed here.
At my “publicly funded” institution only 6-7% of budget comes from the state. My almost 40 years in research and >30 years at my current institution was supported entirely by research grants.
This is going to be interesting. #AcademicSky #MedSky #PCCM.
This is going to be interesting. #AcademicSky #MedSky #PCCM.
A university cut tenured faculty’s pay. They’re suing
“It’s created significant financial hardship,” one plaintiff in the Tufts University case says
www.science.org
April 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM
At my “publicly funded” institution only 6-7% of budget comes from the state. My almost 40 years in research and >30 years at my current institution was supported entirely by research grants.
This is going to be interesting. #AcademicSky #MedSky #PCCM.
This is going to be interesting. #AcademicSky #MedSky #PCCM.
#Medsky #PCCM. Our paper on quantifying hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction, the major determinant of pulmonary gas exchange efficiency, is out. I’m pretty proud we figured out this simple approach. You can use it with multiple imaging techniques and in patients. @ruicarsa.bsky.social
Assessing the Pulmonary Vascular Responsiveness to Oxygen with Proton MRI | Journal of Applied Physiology
Ventilation-perfusion matching occurs passively and is also actively regulated through hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV). The extent of HPV activity in humans, particularly normal subjects is u...
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February 29, 2024 at 7:52 AM
#Medsky #PCCM. Our paper on quantifying hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction, the major determinant of pulmonary gas exchange efficiency, is out. I’m pretty proud we figured out this simple approach. You can use it with multiple imaging techniques and in patients. @ruicarsa.bsky.social
I can’t love this enough
Cool study alert!
When male animals invest more in sexual weaponry (antlers, tusks, horns), females invest more in relative brain size.
Read more below:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧪🦊🌍 #AcademicSky
When male animals invest more in sexual weaponry (antlers, tusks, horns), females invest more in relative brain size.
Read more below:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧪🦊🌍 #AcademicSky
January 16, 2024 at 5:16 PM
I can’t love this enough
The bestest movie.
It's the final December Comfort Watch, and we finish with what is probably the ultimate in comfort watches: The Princess Bride. Would you like to know why I think this film, originally only a modest box-office success, became a generational classic? As you wish:
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December 31, 2023 at 6:26 PM
The bestest movie.
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Very interesting tool to determine whether your research has impacted policy. #academia #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #EpiSky #academicsky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Has your research influenced policy? Use this free tool to check
Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers where their papers have been cited. Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers ...
www.nature.com
December 21, 2023 at 11:57 AM
Very interesting tool to determine whether your research has impacted policy. #academia #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #EpiSky #academicsky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
While we are in the topic of peer review, I’d like to remind everyone that AEs see what you write to the office, so the next time you inclined to vent your spleen at some poor admin as below, you might want consider that. #MedSky #AcademicSky
December 8, 2023 at 6:58 PM
While we are in the topic of peer review, I’d like to remind everyone that AEs see what you write to the office, so the next time you inclined to vent your spleen at some poor admin as below, you might want consider that. #MedSky #AcademicSky
I’m going to rant as an Associate Editor: Some of the worst people are the ones who accept a review invitation and then go dark never to be heard from again. It’s so unfair and ensures that peer review takes weeks. If you are going to be late just ask for an extension. Otherwise you suck. #MedSky
December 8, 2023 at 2:44 AM
I’m going to rant as an Associate Editor: Some of the worst people are the ones who accept a review invitation and then go dark never to be heard from again. It’s so unfair and ensures that peer review takes weeks. If you are going to be late just ask for an extension. Otherwise you suck. #MedSky
Somehow I didn’t know about Neopalpa donaldtrumpi until today. 🤣. 🧪
Neopalpa donaldtrumpi - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 13, 2023 at 5:21 PM
Somehow I didn’t know about Neopalpa donaldtrumpi until today. 🤣. 🧪
Everyone in Canada: YES! Sweet Jesus YES! Build the wall!
November 9, 2023 at 7:29 AM
Everyone in Canada: YES! Sweet Jesus YES! Build the wall!
A fascinating read on airborne transmission and the fight to recognize it. The WHO fucked up majorly (they are still fucking up on masks and exercise but that is for another day)
#MedSky #EpiSky #PCCM
#MedSky #EpiSky #PCCM
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2023 at 5:01 PM
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Me reading a complex paper with a lot of equations 🧠🟦 🧠🤖 #academicsky
October 14, 2023 at 8:26 AM
Me reading a complex paper with a lot of equations 🧠🟦 🧠🤖 #academicsky
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Should you go preferentially for a Novavax booster?
The limited data that we have and what I wound up doing this week
www.science.org/content/arti...
The limited data that we have and what I wound up doing this week
www.science.org/content/arti...
October 7, 2023 at 2:14 PM
Should you go preferentially for a Novavax booster?
The limited data that we have and what I wound up doing this week
www.science.org/content/arti...
The limited data that we have and what I wound up doing this week
www.science.org/content/arti...
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The anti-science movement is "organized, it’s well-financed, and it’s politically motivated. It’s doing a lot of damage to the country and to American science and scientists. And now it’s reached a new level. It’s become a lethal force." --Peter Hotez with @tanyalewis.bsky.social
Vaccine Scientist Warns Antiscience Conspiracies Have Become a Deadly, Organized Movement
Vaccinologist Peter Hotez explains how the movement to oppose science and scientists has gained power
www.scientificamerican.com
October 5, 2023 at 4:48 PM
The anti-science movement is "organized, it’s well-financed, and it’s politically motivated. It’s doing a lot of damage to the country and to American science and scientists. And now it’s reached a new level. It’s become a lethal force." --Peter Hotez with @tanyalewis.bsky.social