Congratulations to our 5th year medical students in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen's University Belfast who received their degrees today! Warmest wishes for your career in medicine! Queen's University Belfast 🎓 Neil Kennedy

Birds flying high! US pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia. labiennale.org ⁦Krys Szpakowska⁩ ⁦Molly Smyth⁩

Great podcast by Jayesh Byatt on "time to breathe" about the damage done to our young people's lungs by the pernicious influence of "Big Vape"! channel.ersnet.org/media-108323-t… See also main paper on: breathe.ersjournals.com/content/breath…

Moving display in the Ukraine pavilion at #BiennaleArte2024 Venice. This installation highlights how Russia has forcibly transferred almost 20 thousand Ukrainian children to areas under its control since the war began. Molly Smyth Krys Szpakowska

Proud to be a European tonight at a fantastic production of Carmen in Verona! “The most Italian place on earth”! ⁦Krys Szpakowska⁩ ⁦Molly Smyth⁩

Thank you Eimear Darcy for the gift of this mug with a message that I so believe in. Primary care & GPs are central but I also agree: “Singular clinician benevolence isn’t enough”; we do need systems and structures and a new Primary Care strategy for NI before it is too late

“I’ve got the brains you’ve got the looks - let’s make lots of money…” Outstanding concert by the Pet Shop Boys at Covent Garden tonight! ⁦Krys Szpakowska⁩ ⁦Gisli Jenkins⁩ ⁦Prof. Nicholas Hart⁩

Walk this way for the Grayson Perry exhibition at the Pitzhanger: “The vanity of small differences”. pitzhanger.org.uk/whatson/grayso…

Grayson Perry’s thought provoking take on the subtle trappings of social class which we employ to make us separate from others. “The vanity of small differences” at the Pitzhanger.

The final scenes of “The vanity of small differences” at the Pitzhanger. Shades of “The rake’s progress”.

Are you a young person or parent who has gone to hospital to get emergency care? Are you a care professional involved in children's emergency care? Your ideas are needed to choose the top research questions! Click here to take part: redcap.link/PEMPSP-Survey2

Congratulations to the three educators from Queen's who have been awarded prestigious national teaching fellowships! In our school we are particularly proud of Dr Paul Hamilton for his exceptional teaching of chemical pathology! qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/f…

Mural of the month. Derry Girls mural in the great city of Derry/Londonderry!

One of the finest staircases in England at Harlaxton Hall. The upper layer is a “clerestory” - a fake upper level to make you think the house is taller than it really is.

How do we prevent cross infection in cystic fibrosis? Both cohort and individual segregation work but the evidence is still uncertain. These are tricky clinical studies to do! Too early to judge the effects of modulators. cysticfibrosisjournal.com/article/S1569-…

Gut Imaging for Function & Transit in Cystic Fibrosis (GIFT-CF 3) published today! CF patients experienced a dramatic improvement in transit of a meal through the gut after elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor. doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.…

Apologies for a dodgy link to our paper - DOI not yet up and running! This one works! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… As a bonus, a really cool infographic depicting all of the MRI outcomes we measured with elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI) in people with CF.

Terrific talk from Kamila Hawthorne at #clinicaleducationday2024 drilling down into the reasons for differential attainment in medical education.

36:10 Great win for Ireland’s women against Australia!

A very warm welcome to all our first year medical students at Queen's University Belfast who started today! Queen's University Belfast 🎓 Neil Kennedy derek brazil Kathy Cullen