Tom Williams

@[email protected]
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London based critical care consultant.
Dipping my toes into Mastodon.
Stereotypical; bikes, coffee, technology, and family.
LocationLondon based
SpecialityICM
SpecialityAnaesthetics
NameTom Williams
Tom WilliamsJun 22, 2024
Romain BarthélémyJun 18, 2024

Registration for the #EuroNeuro2024 conference is now open. I'll be there. Who else is planning to go?

https://www.euroneuro2024.eu

EuroNeuro 2024

Tom WilliamsJun 21, 2024
Show threadKenneth BaillieJun 21, 2024

@Watergypsy @lennie @hauschildt Thanks for your feedback everyone. The admin team held a vote on this and agreed that we should close the critcare.social server down. We’ll close it on 1st July. Thanks again for some great discussions, and I’ll see you all wherever we ultimately coalesce.

(In my case that’s probably going to be a conference to be honest, I’m increasingly scunnered with social media!)

Tom WilliamsJun 16, 2024
Lars Mølgaard SaxhaugJun 16, 2024

Sad to see this end, but this is obviously not sustainable. I’m not sure how much I’ll be active on mastodon when this server closes but otherwise I’m available on load.dependent.bsky.social on Bluesky and load_dependent.42 on Signal.

I hope the community I miss from Twitter and was trying to build here can be found somewhere else some day.

From: @kennethbaillie
https://critcare.social/@kennethbaillie/112626813755519806

Kenneth Baillie (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The critcare.social server was great, and I still love the concept of community ownership of social media, but @Watergypsy and I both agree that our little server is not sustainable. We have never quite managed to generate critical mass here, and it's very quiet now. It takes a lot of @Watergypsy's time to maintain the server, has a carbon cost, and despite very generous donations from the community, we aren't covering the financial cost. Our view is that we should bring it to a graceful end.

Mastodon
Tom WilliamsJun 16, 2024
Show threadKenneth BaillieJun 16, 2024
I know a few of you agree, including @Watergypsy, @lennie, and @hauschildt. If anyone wants to take this on we would of course be delighted, but my view is that we've tested this model and we have a clear answer.
Tom WilliamsJun 16, 2024
Kenneth BaillieJun 16, 2024
The critcare.social server was great, and I still love the concept of community ownership of social media, but @Watergypsy and I both agree that our little server is not sustainable. We have never quite managed to generate critical mass here, and it's very quiet now. It takes a lot of @Watergypsy's time to maintain the server, has a carbon cost, and despite very generous donations from the community, we aren't covering the financial cost. Our view is that we should bring it to a graceful end.
Show threadTom WilliamsJun 14, 2024
@load_dependent if there was activity like today regularly it could probably grow, but unfortunately today was an exception rather than the norm.
Some of the quirks have improved as they have introduced things like the improved search, but even a little friction is often too much.
Tom WilliamsJun 14, 2024
Carl T. BergstromJun 14, 2024

Deliberately undermining one of the most powerful tools against the threat of global pandemics from novel emerging infectious diseases is not only evil — it’s stunningly shortsighted zero-sum thinking that puts the US population at risk as well.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

Show threadTom WilliamsJun 14, 2024
@load_dependent far too much discussion going on in here!
Realistically I fear that despite our best efforts this has remained a very exclusive group. Possibly too exclusive.
Tom WilliamsJun 14, 2024

How to move an account to a new server.

https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/

Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Show threadTom WilliamsJun 14, 2024
@load_dependent @matdesgro so you have many centres that only did the intervention. A few that only did the control. A massive mismatch between number in the intervention group and the control group. Then you have a very complicated analysis involving borrowing between groups to improve the statistical value. Finally there is a result that is in the opposite direction to recent similar studies.
Overall for me this is going into the bin for clinical validity, but trial design is interesting.