Ashar Asif
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Radiology @OUHospitals|@IRadResearch committee|@cirsesociety AI subcommittee|Cohort 5 Clinical AI Fellow|#rstats #python gadgets & gizmos|Aspiring🫀🫁🧠🦴#IRad
Oxford
Joined January 2023
Are we producing too many research papers? The global research system produces an extraordinary volume of publications. Estimates suggest that well over three million papers (and that is probably on the low side as an estimate) are now published every year, and the number
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"Currently, in radiology, doctors are struggling with unsustainable increases in demand for our services and, consequently, an unsupportable workload. But this is nothing new." Giles Maskell looks at what we fail to learn from NHS history https://t.co/QgI8z3nzxi
bmj.com
One of the recurring frustrations of older people is our inability—individually and collectively—to learn the lessons of the past, as if every problem we face is being encountered for the first time....
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Dear Publishers - We are getting increasingly frustrated. We often spend years on a single(!) study. It includes a lot of planning, expensive experiments, discussions, complex data analysis and writing the final masterpiece. Our students spend their most precious time on it.
I currently have three papers in review at "high impact" journals. One of them has been sitting there for two years. In that time my daughter was born and learned how to walk, but apparently publishing a PDF was still not possible for me. For another one, after four months in
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Last year, the British Society of Interventional Radiology Research Bursaries supported a project that is now growing into an exciting international collaboration. The MAGIC EMBO study is a multi-centre observational project examining outcomes following emergency embolisation
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The result of algorithmic practice, which, if you do not have the appropriate appreciation of global physiol., anatomy, pathophys etc, you will ultimately resign to.
@theveindoc eg I previously worked in service where SpR/SAS stroke physicians removed to cut costs; replaced by stroke CNS only (prev support). No of CT/Angio quintupled over 3 yrs. +ve rate tanked for no net benefit. Instead picking up shoulder# & pancoast Tu on CTA 😳= sys cost + delays 📈
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🩺 MAGIC-Embo: Join UNITE's latest multicentre IR study The UNITE Collaborative is recruiting UK centres for a retrospective study of emergency embolisation for acute non-variceal lower GI bleeding (adults ≥16; procedures 01/01/2023–01/06/2025). ✅ Why join: •
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Looking forward to take part in the NHS Clinical AI Fellowship from August!
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Scientific output is doubling exponentially at an unprecedented rate. Equally, the quality of outputs are tanking. Who suffers? Everyone!
The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think. We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science. Read more and sign here: https://t.co/Y40sYkLEjb
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I graduated medical school in 2021 with £80k in student debt. Despite working as an NHS doctor for almost 5 years & repaying thousands each year, I now owe £10k more than when I started. This isn’t a loan — it’s a punitive graduate tax my generation will never be able to repay.
The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?
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Brain imaging is essential to exclude hemorrhage in adult and pediatric patients eligible for AIS reperfusion therapies. Although CT-based protocols are more efficient and generalizable, MRI-based protocols may be appropriate in high-resource settings and in pediatric
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Your regular friendly reminder: These four datasets all have the same mean, median, and variance. Moral of the story: Always visualize your data! [Link below.]
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1/The hardest thread yet! Are you up for the challenge? How stroke perfusion imaging works! Ever wonder why it’s Tmax & not Tmin? Here’s what to know from @theAJNR SCANtastic! https://t.co/YUevIHP7WC
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Happy to share our new editorial for the @BJSM_BMJ on the interpretation of statistical estimates and P-values! https://t.co/ygZDfywZak
@Mohamma70696197 @StevenStovitz @Lester_Domes
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RCTs are a powerful tool, but in a very specific scenario. Don't be bowled over by "RCT" in the paper title and take it's results as gospel- design, transparency, and ethics play an integral part in paper appraisal and result interpretation
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Research isn't always flashy or sexy, but (some of) the red tape is necessary. Obviously a lot of confounders in play, but it can be easy to massage the conduct of a study to get desired outcomes if there's no transparency
Remember this banger of a figure? It shows the results of clinical trials before and after the preregistration of scholars' study design became a requirement. What do you notice?
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Thanks! Research is now a shallow business-like tick-the-box process. Methodology paradox: methods are the backbone of science, yet few care. Doug Altman in 1994: "we need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons". We've gotten the exact opposite.
Two business school professors from the University of Technology in Sydney have sounded the alarm on the declining quality of academic literature in a new publication titled “The junkification of research”. Drawing parallels to the “enshittification” of online platforms, they
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🧠 What is your choice for aspiration during stroke? Experimental evidence from @marcriboj demonstrates that cyclic aspiration with a superbore catheter 0.088" achieves the best first pass recanalization rate. This is likely mediated by prevention of vessel collapse with cyclic
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