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@nickopotamus.co.uk

Recovered geophysicist. Amateur triathlete. Less amateur intensivist and anaesthetist. Health data scientist. Mostly here for the stats memes. Opinions own etc.

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Job vacancy: Senior Clinical Fellow - Adult Critical Care, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham | trac.jobs

Looking to gain neuro or trauma #icu experience? Post-stage 1 anaesthetics, looking for an OOP, or even post-CCT? Come and work with my colleagues as a SCF. We even have #research fellowships available if you want to work with me on survivorship, ICU data, or TBI

23.10.2025 08:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Building apps for #Tizen is the second most tedious thing in coding. The first is trying to then deploy said apps.

27.09.2025 10:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I couldn't get on with the ARC GPUs, but I'm told they're becoming more user friendly (if you're happy with Windows). What's your planned use case?

04.09.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The randomness of the workouts - and pseudo-religious devotion - meant Crossfit never appealed. Hyrox seems more structured so worth a go... But I'm not sure something that needs to throttle applicants like this is for me. I'm used to #Ironman waves selling out quickly but not like this.

25.04.2025 10:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is #Hyrox a cult? I get that endurance events are popular but to have 2.5k in a queue already for a "tickets released at noon" seems a bit much.

25.04.2025 10:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t see #TotoWolff on #DTS without my brain adding @dirtyair.bsky.social’s β€œand maybe some ham” at the end of every soundbite

11.03.2025 13:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The other website is pretty much done

19.02.2025 03:17 πŸ‘ 28654 πŸ” 3798 πŸ’¬ 679 πŸ“Œ 221
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Posting my goodbye monologue to the regional trainee WhatsApp group as one of the final old people left

05.02.2025 10:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A reminder that {modelsummary}, {tinytable}, and {marginaleffects} are Canadian so if you're an American researcher, you'll have to increase your citations of those #rstats packages by 25%, err, next month.

03.02.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Totally worth staying up* to see this on the website

*Only joking. Obviously I’m finishing on nights because lol training

04.02.2025 00:05 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I love it when my #Garmin suggests something silly like β€œ54 hours recovery”. Dude, you track me literally every minute of every day (except for showering). You *know* that isn’t going to happen.

02.02.2025 21:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Neuroaxial anaesthesia vs GA: A Bayesian take – nickopotamus.co.uk

I wrote something about #bayesian stats - is there anyone from the #rstats community who can check my working please?

19.01.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s finally happened: My wife has been home when I’ve received an #aliexpress delivery πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

Now trying to explain why we β€œneed” an Arduino controlled robot claw (in amongst all the other random gadgets that turned up)

13.01.2025 11:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A moment of post-flu emotional weakness. You’re bad influence on me @em-dr-jacklin.bsky.social

05.01.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s been there *years*. The main advantage of a placement there is sneaking things into the house without Mrs P seeing a delivery driver.

05.01.2025 18:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Brilliant analysis and worth looking at

From a UK perspective our lack of efficiency ironically stems from being too lean on the things that matter - beds, diagnostics, not enough admin/managers.

We apparently have the money but not the tools to leverage it.

30.12.2024 12:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Subscription failed for #bestbikesplit due to Apple Pay ballsup, and now their #Stripe integration won’t let me pay. Meanwhile #mywindsock less than 1/3 of the price, and let’s me pay in one click. So I guess I use that now πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

30.12.2024 12:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hoping the mini-Palmers are as satisfied with their gift selection as people are here 🀞 Happy Christmas to you all

25.12.2024 07:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Christmas morning, and my wife is reminding the kids prior to opening presents what they asked Santa for a month ago (rather than the completely different things they asked for yesterday evening)

25.12.2024 07:25 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

And related, Drinking White Wine in the Sun remains my number one Xmas song. Sums up my feelings on the matter nicely, and become increasingly more pointant since acquiring daughters of my own bsky.app/profile/timm...

23.12.2024 21:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Listening to a β€œchilled Christmas” #spotify playlist which is all instrumental versions of carols. @timminchin.bsky.social wasn’t wrong with β€œsome of the hymns that they sing have nice cords, but the lyrics are dodgy”

23.12.2024 21:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is smiling and making a funny face . ALT: a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is smiling and making a funny face .

My wife just made my check that the dog - who is less than 3 months old - was asleep. Why? Because I apparently now have to wrap the dog’s Christmas presents (why?) and we can’t have her knowing in advance what she’s getting

23.12.2024 20:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For any residual Elon Musk fans who were inspired by him back in 2013, and have turned a blind eye because you like Tesla or SpaceX (including several YouTubers), examine his overt support for far right parties, now in at least 3 major economies. Trumpism, Reform (UK), AfD (Germany). Please wake up.

21.12.2024 08:12 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1
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How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic - KFF Health News Exclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the sluggish pace of federal action, a deference to industry, and neglect for ...

The importance of strong vetinary and public health on controlling disease, especially when it runs counter to short-term economic incentives . With the new US administration coming in, what could possibly go wrong🀷https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/bird-flu-spread-cattle-poultry-pandemic-cdc/

20.12.2024 18:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

pro tip: by using a linux phone as your main, you can make sure you do Exciting things while in public transportation, such as debugging bluetooth audio, rather than boring, normie things, such as listening to music

20.12.2024 13:17 πŸ‘ 3727 πŸ” 264 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 12
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Here we go again

19.12.2024 04:42 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4
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It definitely is not

19.12.2024 18:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly I don’t think anything is going to be funnier than my wife watching #strictly on catch-up, having muted all social media so she doesn’t spoil the result, trying to skip the β€œyour highlights” time filler and accidentally skipping to Chris lifting the trophy

14.12.2024 21:36 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Day 6 of #adventofcode and I've resorted to brute forcing part 2. Glad I updated my laptop as my Intel MBP would have sounded like it was taking off by now.

14.12.2024 12:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Advent of Code 2024 - day 4 – nickopotamus.co.uk

Finally catching up on #adventofcode in #rstats. Slightly in awe of how good some of the solutions on here are (and how bad mine are)

13.12.2024 11:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0