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Lucilla Piccari
@lucillapiccari.bsky.social
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MD, PhD, Pulmonologist, #PulmonaryHypertension specialist @researchmar.bsky.social, registries&data, environmental activist. She/Her. I claim my opinions 😊
Also @LucillaPiccari@med-mastodon.com
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A very silly and non-exhaustive depiction on the vicious circle, which I have been including in my slides lately, to get this message across
(Please don't nitpick at it, it's just to give folks an idea)
Feel free to reproduce if useful!
A diagram: on the left the word "pollution" and on the right the words "climate change", linked to each other by 2 bent arrows In the middle of the circle thus formed is "Fossil fuels" with some icons of oil well rigs and industry. On top of these icons the words Co2, No2, methane. Below the icons the words wildfires, floods and extreme heat. On top of the circle some grey clouds (representing pollution) in a blue sky with the sun on he left, to signify greenhouse gases and global warming.
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Wasn't this very obviously going to happen?
The publishing system is broken
Stop rewarding publication quantity over quality!!
@kaminskimed.bsky.social @kerrijohannson.bsky.social
@ipfdoc.bsky.social

archive.ph/2025.11.04-1...
Headline from the New York Times "The editor got a letter from Dr B.S. So did a lot of other editors"
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Submission day! 😀
@pedromics.bsky.social
A cartoon titled "Submitting' in four panels First panel: a creature is sitting on a brown stone throne, with firepits burning at each side. The creature is grey, imposing and ominous. It has papers scattered at its feet. In front of it, kneeling, is a bespectacled man in a lab coat, holding a bunch of papers on his head. He says: "Oh, magnificent Publishing House, please accept this manuscript, the fruit of my labour, as a kind gift..." The creature replies: "Yes, I see... but the formatting is not the way I like it" Researcher (scared): "But Your Highness, can you see if you like it first and later I can ch..." Creature: "SILENCE! Put it the way I like it now!"
October 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Hey RFK Jr
October 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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w/o downloading anything new - where are you mentally?
October 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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I had the honour to talk about how #SocialInequality, environmental #pollution and #ClimateChange affect patients with PH
My heartfelt thanks to Assembly 13 of the @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social for allowing us to discuss such important topics!
Catch it on live.ersnet.org!
#ERS2025 2/2
A figure from a review article on environmental pollution, climate change and pulmonary hypertension in the shape of a tree where the branches correspond to evidence of the impact of these factors on PH
October 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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A week ago I took part in a symposium on the global challenge of #PulmonaryHyoertension where Dr @sandeepsahaymd.bsky.social spoke of epidemiology, Dr Kulkarni of diagnosis & treatment in LMIC, Dr @albertaphdoc.bsky.social of research & Nina Kobler of her perspective as a patient. 1/2
#ERSCongress
A stage at the European Respieatory Congress with a big screen behind it showing the first slide of my presentation "How do social inequality, environmental pollution and climate change affect patients with pulmonary hypertension?"
October 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Today at 12 the metro in #Barcelona will stop for 2 mins as a show of solidarity from the metro workers to the Palestinian people
Well done! 💪💪
#StopGenocide
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
An empty metro platform with a yellow digital sign in Catalan notifying passengers that today the line will stop for 2 minutes at 12 as a sign of solidarity between the workers and the Palestinian people An empty metro platform with a yellow digital sign in Catalan notifying passengers that today the line will stop for 2 minutes at 12 as a sign of solidarity between the workers and the Palestinian people An empty metro platform with a yellow digital sign in Catalan notifying passengers that today the line will stop for 2 minutes at 12 as a sign of solidarity between the workers and the Palestinian people
October 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Honoured to have been invited to participate in this State of the Art session on #PulmonaryHypertension in #LungDisease at #ERSCongress #ERS2025
Wonderful welcome from Amsterdam and looking forward to today's sessions from Assembly 13 - Pulmonary Vascular Diseases!
The stage in the auditorium and a research physician (me!!) talking at the lectern with a slide on the background screen on conclusions to the presentation about treatment in pulmonary hypertension associated with lung disease. Another view of the stage and the crowd in the auditorium
September 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Fun fact: Monopoly was initially called "The Landlord's Game" & created to illustrate the difference bween living under the monopoly of the few vs a system where tax redistributed wealth. It had 2 set of rules, with tax & without, as an educational tool
👇😊
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopol...
September 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Linus from the Peanuts (by Shulz) shouting "If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth"
September 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Seriously, @theguardian.com?
So called "artificial intelligence" is a bunch of predictive algorithms
It doesn't think, feel, suffer

Please worry about the suffering caused to humans by #AI
Communities robbed of their water & clean air
Artists robbed of their work
Ppl reading captchas for a pittance
August 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Here's a teaser for those who don't have access (get in touch!)
August 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Reading up on the #Hebrides I stumble upon the fact that the etimology for the small archipelago St Kilda (which incidentally is one of my favourite spots in #Melbourne) is likely Norse ("sweet wellwater") or a tautologic name from Gaelic Norse ("well-well").
There is no saint named Kilda 😀
From the wikipedia page on the Hebrides: "The etymology of the name "St Kilda", a small archipelago west of the Outer Hebrides, and the name of its main island, "Hirta," is very complex. No saint is known by the name of Kilda, so various other theories have been proposed for the word's origin, which dates from the late 16th century.[81] Haswell-Smith (2004) notes that the full name "St Kilda" first appears on a Dutch map dated 1666, and that it may derive from the Norse phrase sunt kelda ("sweet wellwater") or from a mistaken Dutch assumption that the spring Tobar Childa was dedicated to a saint. (Tobar Childa is a tautological placename, consisting of the Gaelic and Norse words for well, i.e., "well well").[82]"
August 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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I'm sorry, what?

I guess Simon Jenkins has got has much good taste as the xurrent US president...
A golden-columned dining room with fake ancient chairs and long table, fake chandeliers and an expensive-looking rug A cream-coloured living room with fake frescoes on the ceiling and an off-white round sofa A golden-plated portion of the living room with fake corynthian columns and chandeliers in the art nouveau style
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I'll repost @unpied.bsky.social every time someone says that #ExtremeWeather is "weather, not politics"

This is what #FossilFuel companies have been manufacturing since the '50s btw.
Industrial propaganda as intended, they spent billions in it, from primary school to the media, to achieve this.
A cartoon by Marc Dubuisson for Les Echos, two people sitting on a bench in the scorching heat. One says "it's hot for this season..." and the other replies indignantly "oh, you know... I don't do politics..."
July 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Mesdames et messieurs, @unpied.bsky.social

Chapeau!
July 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Well, he's only some 367 years behind on the science

Maybe now he's head of the HHS, he might actually read some news about infectious diseases?

Oh no wait, his friends have some supplements to sell, miasma it is then

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_th...
An excerpt from the wikipedia article on germ theory: "Kircher was the first to attribute infectious disease to a microscopic pathogen, inventing the germ theory of disease, which he outlined in his Scrutinium Physico-Medicum, published in Rome in 1658.[15] Kircher's conclusion that disease was caused by microorganisms was correct, although it is likely that what he saw under the microscope were in fact red or white blood cells and not the plague agent itself. Kircher also proposed hygienic measures to prevent the spread of disease, such as isolation, quarantine, burning clothes worn by the infected, and wearing facemasks to prevent the inhalation of germs. It was Kircher who first proposed that living beings enter and exist in the blood."
June 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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My favourite thing about today's #conclave was this seagull vomiting food for its chick in worldvision just before white smoke came out from the sixtine chapel's chimney
Three seagulls (one of the a very young one) next to a small chimney emitting white smoke on a roof, in Rome
May 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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What: Webinar for #patients with #PulmonaryHypertension and their families, to talk about #ClimateChange and PH

When: 🗓Wednesday 7th May at ⏰6 pm CET for #WorldPHDay

Who: Mona Lichtblau, Hall Skaara (PHA Europe), @simonoxfphys.com & yours truly

Where: Register @ belaircenter.info

Please share!
A flyer for the event described in the post!
May 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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A reminder that we're discussing #ClimateChange and #PulmonaryHypertension on #WorldPHDay in a webinar hosted by Hall Skaara from phaeurope.org, Dr Mona Lichtblau from Zurich and @simonoxfphys.com
Go to belaircenter.info or scan the QR code in the image to join and connect!

🗓 6 May 2025
⏰ 6 PM CET
A flyer for the event described in the post, with a QR code to join
April 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Ferris Bueller coming around the corner of the corridor at home in his dressing gown, asking "you're still here?"
February 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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In Barcelona, the municipality gives away 3L opaque plastic bottles where you can easily trash your used oil
When it's full you go to the "green-point" (there is one 10 mins away in every area), they empty it out for you and give you back the bottle
Nice and simple!
February 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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From @kidneyboy.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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The very famous "pear review" (t-shirt design by the inimitable @pedromics.bsky.social )
A laughing woman (me!) pointing with her thumb to her t-shirt where an angry pear with glasses yells to another pear holding a paper "This paper is horrendous!" with the subtitle "Pear Review". The other paper is baffled. The laughing woman is posing with her good friend Agustín, smartly dressed. We were at a congress, and I loved wearing that t-shirt!
January 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM