Really pleased to see this work, looking at stability of the immune system after Long COVID, is published!
microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…
I'll write an explanation of our findings (and further scientific context) soon!
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Ben Krishna
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Ben Krishna
@BenjaminKrishn3
Wellcome ECA Fellow trying to understand metabolism and virology with @JamesNathanLab in @MedCambridge, University of Cambridge (he/him)
Cambridge, UK Beigetreten Temmuz 2019
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@RobLawrencium I wonder how much is people using LLM to write their abstracts for them vs using LLM to tidy up their language vs inception of these words and phrases because people read more text written by LLMs
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Have you heard our latest Session ? Dr Ben Krishna and the team at Cambridge University have identified a protein, elevated in the blood of #LongCovid patients. Available on all platforms, here is a link to one. @BenjaminKrishn3 @Cambridge_Uni available on all platforms.
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The journal were generous with revision extensions while I was on maternity leave, and @BenjaminKrishn3 did heroic extra experiments to get us over the line.
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Can't find any evidence here that this is actually happening though?
Biochemistry has gone back to closed book exams now that COVID restrictions are over (ie for the last two years).
Marcus Walker@WalkerMarcus
If @UniofOxford has decided to trash itself, it will deserve to crash down international league tables. But the dumbing down of education across the university sector is a disaster for the nation. The next gov’t should bring in a Royal Commission. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/2…
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At some point in the last ten years (it’s hard to tease out exactly when) we crossed a boundary that no one celebrated:
Most people diagnosed with cancer in the United States of America this year will not be killed by that cancer.
Yes, outcomes have improved.
Alex Earl, DC@Alex_Zander_11
@esjesjesj Have cancer outcomes improved since all this money was allocated to cancer research?
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@HarrietGroom Yeah I’m assuming the Telegraph are misrepresenting a recommendation in a report by one guy from one department. BMB is closed book exams entirely
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@BenjaminKrishn3 I'm not sure where this information is from but most cambridge courses have moved away from the open book format that came in during COVID for this reason and instead focus on personalised mitigation for learning differences etc
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I tried putting my biochemistry mock exam questions into ChatGPT. It does surprisingly well, but not brilliantly (high 2:2).
Right now the smoking gun is eloquent writing, vast information but poor knowledge synthesis. I’m sure it will cover that gap though
Sam Ashworth-Hayes@SAshworthHayes
Can we also just reflect on the insanity of doing this at precisely the point when ChatGPT and other AI tools have made traditional closed book exams by far the most reliable assessment method
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Our next KIER (Knowledge, Inclusion and Equity in Research) book club will be on the 28th February, where we'll be discussing Medical Apartheid, a book about the non-consensual use of African American people in medical research
You only get cake if you attend!
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@mhornig I’ve been complaining for a few years now that Long COVID studies often have the wrong control groups (or poorly defined criteria). It’s sort of a topic close to my heart!
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@BenjaminKrishn3 Thank you for your great work on this important issue!
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I hadn’t even realised the paper was out yet, thank you!
Mady Hornig, MA, MD@mhornig
More of this please! New from @BenjaminKrishn3, Nyarie Sithole w/relevance for #LongCOVID. Pertinent to 1st-wavers w/out timely access to appropriate diagnostics as well as those in the current don't-look-so-you-can't-find era.
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There's a concept called the "Gentlemen's Third" where you get the lowest pass mark possible and spend your time making friends and having fun (essentially networking) which was much more useful in the long term
VB Knives@Empty_America
One odd thing you see in older British books is that, for their upper classes, college wasn't *that* important. You were kind of supposed to go up to Oxford or Cambridge, but it wasn't very important if you actually graduated. It was common/fine to leave after a few terms.
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Research Culture committee for the win!
David A Posner@DavidPosner13
🚨 New article alert! 🚨 I wrote an article in @Nature about how anyone in a well-resourced lab can implement to democratise scientific resources and training worldwide. 🌍🧪 👉 nature.com/articles/d4158… @Cambridge_Uni @MedCambridge @CaiusCollege @MRC_LMB
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Teaching the students about Florida 2000 today because it happened BEFORE MOST OF THEM WERE BORN
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Been asked to review a paper on the protein BAK, which I’ve never worked on. I genuinely think I’ve been selected as BAK is my initials
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"Please use mm3 for cubic millimetres and not CUMM"
I'm just going to leave it at that and hope the authors figure out why.
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This year @MedCambridge hosted 4 EPLS students in our labs. It was a really fun and valuable experience for everyone involved. Looking forward to doing it again next year!
School of Biological Sciences@Cambridge_SBS
This year’s Experience Postgrad Life Sciences summer internship programme has come to a close and what an amazing journey! Thank you to all the talented participants for their hard work and enthusiasm!
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3. Increased risk of CVD after COVID-19 could be considered a symptom of Long COVID. Whether clotting or microclots links to Long Covid isn't yet clear. Data from clinical trials targeting clots will be very informative on this issue.
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2. How long this risk lasts isn't totally clear, and epidemiological research on this is really useful. Patients who have severe COVID-19 should have follow up checks to mitigate the chances of adverse cardiovascular events later on.
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sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Review written by us in collaboration with Alejandro Salinas-Botrán and colleagues (none of whom seem to be on twitter) thinking about cardiovascular disease and COVID-19. Essentially... (1/4)
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