NEW PAPER I was challenged by Chris Morley, PhD to write a 1000-word paper about a tweet. It was fun to do, and hopefully useful to some of you Open acces 👉 journals.stfm.org/primer/2022/va…

Dr. Edward Jaeger, born on the 4th of July 1931, poses with his portrait which was unveiled 15 years ago today! Dr. Jaeger was a gentle soul, & a gift to education. Erik Massenzio @_Nellie_Shields Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson Alumni AAO

⁦UM Neurology Residency Program⁩ resident Dan Mannion shows off the functional eye movement educational tool he invented and 3-D printed! Seriously, check this out! #neurotwitter

We are so excited to have Emily Duffner and Martin Calotti on board. Check out their first video!

#3: Descriptive epidemiology may the most undervalued field of epidemiology. This paper explains nicely how to do it well Open access 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aje/kw…

Refreshingly Thomistic ice cream shop Elly Long

Navigating the Ophthalmology & Urology Match with a Significant Other by Massenzio et al.: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #residencyapplication #residencymatch #CouplesMatch #significantother #residentwellness #GME #SurgEd #sfmatch

High IOP in a young myope? Look carefully for a k spindle, TIDs, and pigment in the TM! How are you approaching treatment for this secondary open angle glaucoma? Via Erik Massenzio

Cherry red spot and retinal whitening in acute CRAO. Don't forget to keep GCA on your differential! What are some immediate steps in managing this patient who presented with 4 hours of symptoms? Via Erik Massenzio

Loved working on this paper with my incredible mentors Jason Hsu, David Xu, MD.

Patients & #obgyn doctors often ask if #pregnant women need c-sections for a history of, or high risk for, #retinaldetachment. This never made sense. Here's a Retina study showing no difference btw vaginal vs cesarean deliveries: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37607406 #Ophthalmology

Fascinating The three heroes gearing up to save Europe from nuclear fallout: Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, Boris Baranov, 1986. 10 days after the Chernobyl accident, engineers learned of impending nuclear steam explosions. The plant's water-cooling system had failed, and a pool of water

If only there was a career where you could shoot high intensity laser beams from your head to solve other people's problems

A lot going on here, and it's all connected! Patient with glaucoma -> risk factor for CRVO -> causing NV -> causing preretinal hemorrhage You may not be able to tell the patient had a CRVO unless you knew the patient's history; however, you can see the tortuous vessels and

This is funny + frustrating. We wrote a paper denouncing predatory journals. A predatory journal's algorithm then picked it up, and emailed us that our article was "enlightening." And asks us to write a paper for them (and pay them $1670 to do so). #medtwitter #Ophthalmology

This could be an incredible revolution in Cosmology. The Dark Energy model of the universe, which won a Nobel Prize in 2011, may be completely wrong. The accelerating expansion instead is simply because time runs faster in the voids between galaxies. Let me explain:

This is the philosophy subject for the 2025 entrance exam of France's École Normale Supérieure: just two words in quotation marks, "Tu dois" ("You must"). The candidates had 6 hours to write their essay around this 😅 For those who aren't familiar with it, École Normale