Stefan Marciniak

After 7 days on the wards followed by a weekend of grant writing, it’s Manhattan o’clock🍸

#mincepie2026 after a week on the wards 6. Morrisons The Best 4 Brandy Butter Mince Pies Quite expensive at £3.50 for 4 🥧🥧 Unexciting pastry 🥧 Too sweet to taste anything 🥧 Will give these away to somebody with very sweet tooth 👎

If you want to learn about Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome, why not read our new review in Nature Reviews Disease Primers? The condition is the most common monogenic cause of pneumothorax (no, it's not Marfan syndrome). It also causes dermatological issues and renal cancers. rdcu.be/RNWB2o5k6SNa

I wonder if it will ever dawn on Johnson that he was a classic ‘useful idiot’. Brexit harmed the UK. Performatively patriotic brexiters were used to inflict this self-harm. Cui bono?

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Weekend #mincepie2026 after my daily ward round 5. Morrisons 6 shortcrust mince pies Excellent price £1.80 for 6 🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧 Generous good-quality pastry 🥧🥧🥧🥧 Just enough tangy filling 🥧🥧🥧🥧 Always a winner. Goes well this time of day with a Ceylon Orange Pekoe tea 🫖

The nicotine addiction industry is to blame www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Weekend #mincepie2026 4. Coop irresistible* all butter luxury mince pies * allegedly Reasonably priced £3.35 for 6 🥧🥧🥧 Pastry’s dry 🥧🥧 Sour filling 🥧 Not my favourite, but helped by a dollop of cream 😏

"As its work draws to a close, the covid-19 inquiry should use the term corruption where the evidence supports it." BMJ Editorial www.bmj.com/content/395/...

Early start to get to York for the annual @lifearc.bsky.social Rare Respiratory Diseases meeting. Hope the trains run to plan 🤞🚂🫁

Oh yes. Ian's performed that in college... (Really interesting play, can tell you a LOT about it sometime...) 'Stranger' is the usual early modern English word for immigrant.

#ProdigalPrince my new #SlowShakespeare blog, reading 1 Henry IV every day, around 10 lines at a time, starts TOMORROW, 1 October! Here's one of my favourite Hals (and actors): Geoffrey Streatfeild @the-rsc.bsky.social 2007-8, with David Warner as Falstaff.

Wow! This is powerful. Sir Thomas More addresses an angry, xenophobic mob that attacked foreign immigrants. "This is the strangers’ case, and this your mountainish inhumanity"

Feels like a long week! But fortunately it’s #mincepie2026 3. Tesco finest Rich & Decadent All Butter Pastry mince pies Reasonably priced £3 for 6 🥧🥧🥧 Pastry’s alittle dry 🥧🥧 🥧 Good filling 🥧🥧🥧 Goes well with port 🍷

Just got my ‘flu vaccination Got yours yet ? Thanks @cuh.nhs.uk

An outbreak of common sense Finally ! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Brexit has led to so much misery And it keeps on harming www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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September #wokeratibookclub This was recommended to me by a patient who’s a scientist herself ‘The Exceptions’ by Kate Zernike recounts the career-long battle of Nancy Hopkins & other MIT scientists against gender-based discrimination & marginalisation. It’s a thrilling read. Recommend 👍

Yay, Brexit !

From @theguardian.com

I hope it helps the recipient ❤️ #GiveBlood 🅾️🅰️🅱️🆎🩸

Thirteen and a half hour day in the lab so treated myself this evening It’s #mincepie2026 2. Morrisons ‘The Best’ all butter pastry, deep filled mince pies Not too expensive at £3 for 6 🥧🥧🥧 Excellent, soft, velvety pastry 🥧🥧 🥧🥧 Good filling 🥧🥧🥧 Lovely with a glass of port 🍷

That time of year again. Advent calendars are already in the shops even before Halloween 🤦‍♂️🎄 So it’s #mincepie2026 1. Coop baked in store shortcrust Inexpensive £1.65/4 🥧🥧🥧 Ok pastry 🥧🥧 Good filling 🥧🥧🥧 Not bad with tea 🫖

This is terrible. RFK & other antivaccine propagandists should be ashamed But before we Brits feel smug, please note that similar dangerous antivaccine untruths have also affected us, though they aren’t from the governing party (yet) www.gov.uk/government/s...

Popped in for my regular free drink and chocolate biscuits. If you can donate, please do consider it. #GiveBlood They now even provide social media speech bubbles. I asked for one saying « I’m only here for the free tea » but oddly it doesn’t exist 😁🩸🅰️🅾️🆎🅱️

Yep, this has left me stuck in 🇪🇸 after a conference. Never had to find a hotel room so fast. Getting home tomorrow will be complicated (but feasible) if the scheduled flights take off. Tomorrow’s clinic being covered by a colleague 🙏 #AirTrafficControl www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

A busy day. Spoke in a session chaired by @saraocana1.bsky.social who’s in my lab. Chatted to lots of poster presenters, listener to lots of short talks, and then enjoyed the speakers’ dinner in the spectacular national museum of Catalonian art. Caught up with old friends ❤️🫁 #ERS2026 .

Proud of Jess (medical student) and @veale-n.bsky.social (clinical lecturer) for their talks on behalf of the team @thecimr.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk

Day 1 #ERS2026 Tapas in Barcelona with my former PhD student @veale-n.bsky.social 🇪🇸

When someone is found to have done something wrong by an undercover reporter, I find the defense ”but it was entrapment" to be rather peculiar. It’s simultaneously a confession of _wanting_ to do that wrong thing, while also being stupid too dim to realise they were being played.

Off to #ERS2026 in Barcelona. Flying from STN, so chance to have breakfast at the reliably good Comptoir Libanais 🇱🇧

The UN has voted to adopt map standards that show Africa at its true scale. Interestingly, it’s very close to the West Wing subplot in S2E16, where cartographers argued for replacing Mercator with the Gall-Peters projection. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Transplanted pig kidney works in US man's body for record 271 days www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ward round fuel 🏥☕️💙 @cuh.nhs.uk

ApplePlans is working just fine👇 No need to use GoogleMaps now 👋

In NSCLC with 𝘌𝘎𝘍𝘙 exon 20 insertions, first-line sunvozertinib led to longer progression-free survival than chemotherapy. The most common adverse events of grade 3 or higher were elevated creatine kinase, diarrhea, and anemia. Full phase 3 WU-KONG28 trial results: https://nej.md/4fQWMwa