Rob Calvert

How the 2026 run rates of the top AI labs and pharmaceuticals compare 1. Tirzepatide (~$51 B) 2. Anthropic (~$45 B) 3. Semaglutide (~$33 B) 4. Pembrolizumab (~$32 B) 5. Apixaban (~$25 B) 6. OpenAI (~$25 B) 7. Dupilumab (~$20 B) 8. Risankizumab (~$18 B) 9. Daratumumab (~$16 B) 10. Biktarvy (~$14 B) Tech people, come to bio: there are lots of diseases left to solve

🚨 ST3 Urology Bootcamp returns! 📅 12–16 Oct 2026 | 📍 Leeds 🎓 30 CPD points Hands-on training to build essential ST3 skills. 👉 Register your interest: forms.office.com/Pages/Response… 📩 alester@baus.org.uk @UrologyBootCamp @vishhanchanale #Urology #MedEd #SurgicalTraining

Good morning. Dolphin lampposts and Liverpool at dawn at St George's Plateau.

Final @BAUSurology trustees meeting for outgoing president @IPearce82 Many thanks for your considerable contributions to the specialty. (in front of Frère Jacques, 17th c lithotomist)

The Urology Foundation funds research, education and raises public awareness into urological diseases from UTIs to prostate cancer. About half of the population experience a urological condition at some point their lives.

Please considering supporting me as I take part in the Bike4TUF Challenge which will see us cycle from Newcastle to Glasgow via Edinburgh in 3 days. ~400km with 3,400m of climb. justgiving.com/page/robert-ca…

An excellent response from UK urologists to our @BAUSurology National BOO surgery audit with 1294 submissions from 98 units, almost equalling our 2019/20 return 👏 We are extending submissions until May 15th. Any remaining units please get your data in asap.

An AI that detects occult pancreatic cancer better than radiologists (73 vs 39%) via CT with external validation gut.bmj.com/content/early/…

WORLD RECORD Sebastian Sawe becomes the first-ever person to run a sub-two hour marathon in a race as he wins the 2026 London Marathon ‼️ The Kenyan runs a phenomenal time of 1:59:30, smashing his previous personal best of 2:02.05 🇰🇪

In healthcare, no amount of personal wellness practices can substitute for appropriate staffing, humane scheduling, efficient clinical workflows, adequate administrative support, or a culture of psychological safety.

UK urologists: 1 week to go for the @BAUSurology National BOO audit. We have had 474 submissions from 47 units. Have you submitted your data? Top submitting units so far:

Four million physician hours are spent on mandatory modules each year. They represent not just clinical time lost but “evenings reclaimed and cognitive load reduced.” Redundant training and low-value modules should be a thing of the past. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Contrasting different professional support options for surgeons

Preventing and treating burnout in surgeons

Recognising and understanding burnout in surgeons

@NickRukin That’s pretty good, Nick!

I asked the new GPT Image 2 to create a scientific diagram demonstrating how the various pharmaceutical treatments for erectile dysfunction work. This is what it came up with first try. Not bad!

I will share many examples of ChatGPT Images 2.0 that I generated during early access testing. It is truly incredible what it can create! The image below is almost a replica of the first page of a Nature article, but what is actually unbelievable is that the content actually makes biological sense! In fact, I generated the full 8 pages of this paper, and I will share those as well. The prompt was simply: “Create a Nature paper front page on Klingon biology and diseases, by Derya Unutmaz, Starfleet, USS Enterprise, Mars” or my dream paper 😅

The Beijing Humanoid Half Marathon (21.1 km) just concluded! The humanoid winner was significantly faster than the top human finisher. - 1st place: Monkey King Team – Honor Lightning robot, 50 min 26 seconds - 2nd place: Mixue Ice City Team – same Honor Lightning robot, 50m 56s - 3rd place: Spark Team – same Honor Lightning robot, 53m 01s Another Honor Lightning robot finished the fastest, in 48m 19s, but was penalized (1.2x the finish time) for being teleoperated and missed the podium. The human winner finished in 1h 07m 47s.