Nick Semenkovich MD PhD
@nick.semenkovich.com
Dad⁴. Physician Scientist & Infosec Enthusiast. Via @MIT @BrighamWomens @WUSTL
Reposted by Nick Semenkovich MD PhD
Finally a show about Boolean logic operators
June 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Finally a show about Boolean logic operators
Clever medical reversal study today on the use of albumin-corrected calcium finds that it's *worse* than just using the uncorrected calcium. Wild we've wasted our time with this (all based on an old unvalidated study of ~200 people!) 😭 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Use of Albumin-Adjusted Calcium Measurements in Clinical Practice
This cross-sectional study investigates the correlation between measurements of total calcium (with or without adjustment) and ionized calcium level as a reference standard to examine the potential as...
jamanetwork.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Clever medical reversal study today on the use of albumin-corrected calcium finds that it's *worse* than just using the uncorrected calcium. Wild we've wasted our time with this (all based on an old unvalidated study of ~200 people!) 😭 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Reposted by Nick Semenkovich MD PhD
From the same OH Supreme Court that ruled that consumers of products advertised as “boneless” should reasonably expect bones, comes “being killed by a gas doesn’t count as ‘gas toxicity’”
May 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
From the same OH Supreme Court that ruled that consumers of products advertised as “boneless” should reasonably expect bones, comes “being killed by a gas doesn’t count as ‘gas toxicity’”
The NIH budget cuts are both tragic and completely absurd. Among the justifications shared by the White House, they imply a NIH-funded study in NEJM caused suicide but ... it was just an observational study! They gave participants surveys! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
May 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The NIH budget cuts are both tragic and completely absurd. Among the justifications shared by the White House, they imply a NIH-funded study in NEJM caused suicide but ... it was just an observational study! They gave participants surveys! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Did the Federal DOT just accidentally file a letter containing legal advice from the DOJ, instead of a letter addressed to the Judge, in the MTA v Duffy case?
April 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Lmao these folks sent a threatening letter to CHEST of all journals?
1. This is so poorly written that the sentence that is -- I think -- supposed to convey a semi-veiled legal threat is incomprehensible.
2. I'm jealous of whichever lawyer gets to write the response.
2. I'm jealous of whichever lawyer gets to write the response.
April 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Lmao these folks sent a threatening letter to CHEST of all journals?
Reposted by Nick Semenkovich MD PhD
Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now
April 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now
Was there a Signal group chat for today? 👊🇺🇸🔥📉
April 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Was there a Signal group chat for today? 👊🇺🇸🔥📉
Reposted by Nick Semenkovich MD PhD
On the tariffs @strangeloopcanon.com over at the other place has pretty convincing evidence that the White House may have used LLMs to come up with its tariff model and that that evidence may have come from LLM scraping of a Peter Navarro book. We are in the dumbest AI timeline.
April 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
On the tariffs @strangeloopcanon.com over at the other place has pretty convincing evidence that the White House may have used LLMs to come up with its tariff model and that that evidence may have come from LLM scraping of a Peter Navarro book. We are in the dumbest AI timeline.
Reposted by Nick Semenkovich MD PhD
Like most of the DOGE cuts, this is a good idea if:
a) you have no idea how anything works, you're so profoundly ignorant you're not even aware of what to consider when deciding if an idea is good or bad but you like firing people; or
b) you simply hate America and do not want it to succeed.
a) you have no idea how anything works, you're so profoundly ignorant you're not even aware of what to consider when deciding if an idea is good or bad but you like firing people; or
b) you simply hate America and do not want it to succeed.
NEW: Trump cuts are threatening a standards laboratory who's work on atomic spectra undergirds the entire modern economy.
The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973.
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973.
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
Trump cuts threaten measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices
The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.
www.npr.org
March 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Like most of the DOGE cuts, this is a good idea if:
a) you have no idea how anything works, you're so profoundly ignorant you're not even aware of what to consider when deciding if an idea is good or bad but you like firing people; or
b) you simply hate America and do not want it to succeed.
a) you have no idea how anything works, you're so profoundly ignorant you're not even aware of what to consider when deciding if an idea is good or bad but you like firing people; or
b) you simply hate America and do not want it to succeed.
NASA hasn't made the 1.1 million names from the Parker Solar Probe searchable. Has anyone FOIA'd these data? www.nasa.gov/science-rese... #FOIA
More Than 1.1 Million Names Installed on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe - NASA
Throughout its seven-year mission, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop through the Sun’s atmosphere 24 times, getting closer to our star than any spacecraft
www.nasa.gov
December 17, 2024 at 9:05 PM
NASA hasn't made the 1.1 million names from the Parker Solar Probe searchable. Has anyone FOIA'd these data? www.nasa.gov/science-rese... #FOIA
Understated here: The folks that make TikTok are also exploring protein folding 🤷
Protenix, another third wave AF3-like model goes Apache license github.com/bytedance/Pr...
GitHub - bytedance/Protenix: A trainable PyTorch reproduction of AlphaFold 3.
A trainable PyTorch reproduction of AlphaFold 3. Contribute to bytedance/Protenix development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Understated here: The folks that make TikTok are also exploring protein folding 🤷
Reposted by Nick Semenkovich MD PhD
After safety signal in Moderna's trial forced vaccinemaker to end study
FDA disclosed today that enrollment of young children is now
"on hold for all clinical studies of RSV vaccine candidates under U.S. IND"
www.fda.gov/media/184301...
FDA disclosed today that enrollment of young children is now
"on hold for all clinical studies of RSV vaccine candidates under U.S. IND"
www.fda.gov/media/184301...
December 10, 2024 at 6:36 PM
After safety signal in Moderna's trial forced vaccinemaker to end study
FDA disclosed today that enrollment of young children is now
"on hold for all clinical studies of RSV vaccine candidates under U.S. IND"
www.fda.gov/media/184301...
FDA disclosed today that enrollment of young children is now
"on hold for all clinical studies of RSV vaccine candidates under U.S. IND"
www.fda.gov/media/184301...
Facebook's oomd user-space OOM agent has totally improved my alternate life as a sysadmin https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd
GitHub - facebookincubator/oomd: A userspace out-of-memory killer
A userspace out-of-memory killer. Contribute to facebookincubator/oomd development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 5, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Facebook's oomd user-space OOM agent has totally improved my alternate life as a sysadmin https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd
Oh hey, I got my first invite code - welcome @talkopan.bsky.social 🎆 🎉🤗🤗
May 12, 2023 at 10:47 PM
Oh hey, I got my first invite code - welcome @talkopan.bsky.social 🎆 🎉🤗🤗
Ok Bluesky — I recently pre-ordered a sleek-looking home AED from a startup (https://avive.life/). It's a little sketchy so far, but 🤞 they have FDA approval so hopefully things work out? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
May 2, 2023 at 5:03 PM
Ok Bluesky — I recently pre-ordered a sleek-looking home AED from a startup (https://avive.life/). It's a little sketchy so far, but 🤞 they have FDA approval so hopefully things work out? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯