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#neotwitter...Our new work on area deprivation index (ADI) and neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) in preterm infants: nature.com/articles/s41372-0…

Some good news: uab.edu/medicine/news/pediat…

RT @daniyal_jafree: Physician-scientist training is under strain. To understand why, we followed up all MB-PhD graduates from @ucl: 131 gr…

Back when my lab did a lot of ChIP-seq, we spent a lot of time validating our antibodies. Roughly half were bad. Now we know why.

son microtubos Eppendorf de uso científico o escolar, que en este caso contienen semillas en agua (probablemente chía, alpiste, lentejas o plantas acuáticas) para germinación. muy comunes en experimentos escolares de biología, proyectos de ciencias o talleres de laboratorio.

When you intubate a 23-weeker in the delivery room, and the baby sits comfortably on 21 percent, do you still give surfactant? In the episode we released on Monday, Roger Soll flips his own script. He has spent his career talking about intubating to administer surfactant. Here he argues the reverse. If you intubated that baby because they needed respiratory support, then that baby needs surfactant, and the FiO2 is not what decides it. The mode of ventilation trumps the oxygen requirement. If the tube is in, the surfactant should follow. He knows this is contested and says so plainly. But it puts pressure on the small habits many of us default to: confirm the tube, get up to the unit, settle the baby, wait and see whether the oxygen climbs. Soll calls that delay a mistake. Worth asking what actually happens in your unit at 3am. 🎧 Listen to Monday's full episode on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… #nicu #neonatal #babies #medicine #newborn #innovation #podcast #neonate #surfactant

This is indeed a big problem in Pediatric Residency Education. Only 13% & 44% making competency on flow-inflating bag and T-piece respectively. Ventilation skill is critical to neonatal resuscitation. But I'm sure the board that gutted resident time in the NICU and then gutted Neonatal fellowship time will fix it. @EBNEO @AmerAcadPeds @ab_peds nature.com/articles/s41390-0…

Our urgent call in BMJ is out: >3400 signed letter calling on Word Medical Associations to STOP THEIR SILENCE. Dr. Abu Safiya is imprisoned by Israel >18 months with no charges. Solitary confinement. Beatings. His life threatened. This must End. 🧵 bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? For @nature, I spent a month digging into leaked docs. We've published a list of 235 words being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

難波の依頼コメンタリーがPediatric Research にアクセプトされました✌️ 『Prenatal Cannabinoid and Nicotine Exposure: Senescence as a Developmental Origin of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia?』

Scientific meetings should be places where people can engage in difficult conversations and know that their voices will not be censored. Appreciate this statement from @atscommunity. Looking forward to #ATS2027 in New Orleans. (link to statement in reply)

The neonatology community’s response to the @ABPeds announcement for 2 year fellowship option: rdcu.be/fmiJU

Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the 2025–2026 Department of Pediatrics Faculty Achievement Awards! Recognized by their peers for excellence and outstanding contributions to the department, these individuals are helping shape the future of child health!👏 🥳

🚨HOLY SHIT: I was just listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene and she confirmed Donald Trump pushed the government shutdown HIMSELF so they couldn’t vote to release the Epstein files. This should be a major scandal.

Protected time for early-career investigators matters more when external funding is scarce, not less. If we only invest in people who already have grants, we've confused output with potential. 2/4

Trump, after having a 90 min phone call with Putin, puts out a truth social that he is considering withdrawing all troops from Germany. Something sinister is going on between them. It’s time for “concerned” Republicans to speak out

People outside of academia sometimes find the concept of a department chair confusing. They are not your boss, manager, or CEO. They are more like an elected representative who negotiates with terrorists on your behalf.

Updated review on enteral nutrition in neonates #neonatalnutritionresearch @uabpeds

NIH slowdown hit women hardest. Five years of gain erased in ~1.5 cycles. Female PI-led R01 grants ⇣938 with $444M gone. This chart is the cleanest capture of this loss. Cuts landed where women lead: breast, ovarian, and gynecologic cancers. Dig deeper & the gap keeps widening: ▫️ women start small: $0.94M vs $1.4M for men ▫️ larger losses: 57.9% vs 48.2% for men ▪️ early-career hit hardest: 59.8% of affected assistant professor grants are women led This is how you reset a generation: ↳ cut funding → fewer labs ↳ fewer labs → fewer leaders ↳ fewer leaders → fewer women at the top Pipelines don't bounce back, they just thin out silently. If you are a woman in science, now is the time to pay attention Read more about this in first comment below = = = = = Source: NIH RePORTER via Jori (@jori_health) Method: PI gender-inference is non-trivial. Jori classified 91% algorithmically, then we manually reviewed profiles to classify another 6% (ie, ~ 3% remain unclassified). This chart reflects the 97% classified names with high confidence. = = = = =