Renshaw01 @Renshaw01@qoto.org

Happy International Women's Day!

Tag a woman who inspires you and tell us why 👇 #IWD2023
@Liz_ORiordan
Breast cancer survivor and role model.

Checking your breasts properly (3 of 3)
#stemwomen #breastcancer #thankscancer
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Checking your breasts properly (2 of 3)
#stemwomen #breastcancer #thankscancer
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Checking your breasts properly (1 of 2)
#stemwomen #breastcancer #thankscancer
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This captivating educational poem created by totally telling tales,
@EllamaeStatham
&
@Liz_ORiordan
empowering people to breast check. Original thread was on twitter: https://twitter.com/BreastCancerNow/st
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Checking your breasts properly (2 of 2)
#stemwomen #breastcancer #thankscancer

Second part of this captivating educational poem created by totally telling tales,
@EllamaeStatham
&
@Liz_ORiordan
empowering people to breast check.
'This Is The Way To Examine Your Chest’ is a captivating educational resource to help promote regular breast checking and ensure people understand the signs and symptoms of breast cancer to look out for." - Manveet Basra, Breast Cancer Now

Checking your breasts properly (1 of 2)
#stemwomen #breastcancer #thankscancer

This captivating educational poem created by totally telling tales,
@EllamaeStatham
&
@Liz_ORiordan
empowering people to breast check. Original thread was on twitter: https://twitter.com/BreastCancerNow/status/1633181005304545280

Space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock has just been honoured with her own Barbie doll 👏🏾
#stemwomen

How lovely. Saw this on the bird site and had to share it further. Here is the thread:
https://thefemalelead.com/post/space-scientist-dr-maggie-aderin-pocock-honoured-with-her-own-barbie-doll

Breast Cancer Screening in the UK
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Breast Cancer Screening in the UK (1)

Breast cancer screening can save your life. If you are eligible, make sure to get screened.

Here is a thread from Breast Cancer Now on Twitter.

Screening can pick up breast cancer before there’s any signs or symptoms. And the sooner breast cancer is diagnosed, the more effective treatment is likely to be. Here’s 5 things every woman needs to know about NHS breast screening.

https://twitter.com/BreastCancerNow/status/1633090239550959617

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How to REALLY examine your breasts
#breast cancer #stemwomen

Please see Dr Liz O'Riordan's video on how to properly examine your breasts.

https://twitter.com/Liz_ORiordan/status/1630865715082285056

Was Rosalind Franklin a victim of sexism in research?

28 February – 70th anniversary of the day Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Bene’t St, Cambridge, and announced: “We have found the secret of life!” Had he and James Watson discovered the chemical structure of DNA  by nicking Rosalind Franklin’s data, though?

#Stem #medicalwriters #stemwomen

See the whole of the tweet thread here:
https://twitter.com/OddThisDay/status/1630509585780883458

Dramatic fall in number of clinical trials in Britain between 2017 and 2021
#medicalwriters #STEM #pharmaceutical

The ABPI notes a 44% drop in the number of participants recruited to commercial clinical trials in the past 5 years.

The number of industry clinical trials started in the same period fell by 41%.

As a result The Office for Life Sciences has announced there will be an independent review into the UK commercial clinical trials landscape by Lord James O’Shaughnessy, Senior Partner at consultancy firm Newmarket Strategy, Board Member of Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), and former Health Minister

The Office for Life Sciences is supposed to champion research, innovation and the use of technology to transform health and care service

Thanks to Paul Agapow on Twitter for the information.

Worst fears about science in Britain confirmed

#medicalwriters #STEM #academicpublishing

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-governments-ps16-billion-horizon-clawback-breaks-rd-pledge

A summary of John Gill's (Times Higher Education) tweet on twitter today.

The rotten underbelly of academic publishing
#medicalwriters #STEM #academicpublishing

The link is to the article by Nick and Alexander Magazinov exposing authorship-for-sale networks, where someone submits a (usually plagiarised or fabricated) paper to a journal, and then sells the co-author positions on the internet.
Papers pass peer review, because that is organised by a crooked editor who is paid by the authors.

https://forbetterscience.com/2022/10/19/the-incredible-collaborations-of-renaissance-men-and-women/

Thanks to Nick Wise on Twitter for the original information.

Choosing the right outcome is key to a clinical trial.
#medicalwriters #stem

@MarionKCampbell has compiled a thread on composite clinical trial outcomes, drawing together key papers. Here is a link to the thread:
https://twitter.com/MarionKCampbell/status/1627571918613233664

Dangers and downsides of ChatGPT
#ChatGPT #LLM #medicalwriters #STEM

1. Danger of loss of meaning/cumulative 'blurriness' due to paraphrasing
2. loss of attributions/referencing

According to John Burns Murdoch: Outputs are rephrasings rather than direct quotes makes them seem game-changingly smart — even sentient — but they’re just very straightforwardly not.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

Here's to celebrating The International Day of Women and Girls in Science
#STEM #STEMWomen #womenSTEM #Afghanistanwomen

The theme of this year's day is:
Innovate. Demonstrate. Elevate. Advance.
I.D.E.A.: Bringing communities Forward for sustainable and equitable development

The 8th International Day of Women and Girls in Science looks at sustainable development goals (SDG): SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation), SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy), SDG 9 (industry, innovation, and infrastructure), SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities).

These SDG are some of the UN's 17 global goals, see: https://sdgs.un.org/goals International Day of Women and Girls in Science aims to link the knowledge and expertise of women to the wider International Community and its applications for the 2030 agenda and its 17 global goals.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science also demonstrates the power of women to develop communities for the better. Without education for women, communities for men as well as women are compromised. Thoughts are with the women and girls of Afghanistan.

Britain now has record-breaking cancer treatment waiting times.
#Thankscancer

"Without more treatment capacity, such as radiotherapy, this just leads to record long waiting lists. It is absolutely not okay."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/09/delays-cancer-patients-needing-urgent-treatment-worst-record/

See @RTherapy4Life on Twitter for further info. Article in Telegraph newspaper by Lizzie Roberts and Ben Butcher.

This week is kidney cancer awareness week 2023
6-10 February
The aim is to make as much noise, raise hot kidney cancer topics and bring awareness of kidney cancer to everyone, so that the first time someone hears about it is not when they're diagnosed.

Signs and symptoms of kidney cancer
- Blood in the urine
- Low back pain or pain in the side
- A lump or mass in the area of the kidneys
- Abnormal red blood cell counts
- High blood pressure or hypertension
- Thickening of the blood
- Tiredness
- Weight loss
- Temperature/night sweats

Kidney cancer can be symptomless or signs can be vague, so if you feel something's not right, see your doctor.