Eric
@truth2_eric
Physician-Researcher in Medical Microbiology|Genetics|Genomics|Bioinformatics.
Your posts often generalize Ugandans negatively, ignoring evidence. Scientific thinking requires data, not just opinions. Ever heard of measures of association? They’d help you test your claims properly.
Dear @grok, we've done tests across a range of subjects. I rate you higher than 99% of Ugandan university graduates. Today, let's turn to legal matters. I've got a Namasagali College friend called Tom Nkurungira, nicknamed "Tonku". He's in Luzira Upper Prison. Can I start?
Many things are alien to us as a country, but one major thing that we lack is a recognition that there is absolute truth. I have been grappling with the reality that we are so different from western civilizations be it in our private or public affairs and my conclusion is that…
Applications are open for the 2025 Introduction to Bioinformatics Course now hosted by AfriGen-D (previously hosted by @H3ABioNet), see: tinyurl.com/mszn6se4. The deadline for applications 17 March 2025.
Could it be that we should be looking at genes involved in neutrophil function in children living with HIV to diagnose those with active TB? Shared some of the work we have done to help improve diagnosis of TB in HIV infected children at ASHG annual meeting. #ASHG24
I will be sharing some of our findings on host transcriptome changes in pediatric HIV-TB coinfection in individuals from Uganda, Eswatini and Botswana. #ASHG2024 #CAfGEN #H3Africa
I’m not crying, you are! Put an end to this! Let’s #March2Parliament
Official launch of the DSpace Research Project. The Utilising Data Science to Predict and Improve Health Outcomes in Paediatric HIV (DSpace) aims to use data science approaches to predict and improve health outcomes in HIV infected children in Botswana and Uganda.
"In one study, published last year in Molecular Psychiatry, Tebartz van Elst and his colleagues identified 91 psychiatric patients with suspected autoimmune diseases, and reported that immunotherapies benefited the majority of them." washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/…
Thank you, @KCCAUG. You have successfully facilitated us to build one big beautiful slum called Kampala.
Amazing!
🥰 WHY WE LOVE RUGBY 🥰 Madagascar 7s could only take one kit with them to their inaugural #RWC7s due to self-funding, the same kit for both training and matches. After seeing this, the #Aussie7s women donated their alternate jersey to Madagacsar to use as a training kit 👏
To the Rugby World Cup we go. 📢📢📢 #RugbyAfrica7sUG
Video: @Davisthedoc's story – An ordinary Ugandan who revolutionized Tele-Medicine with @RocketHealthUG. Are you using Tech to create positive impact in society? Submit your story at 📲 airtel.co.ug/ugneedsmoreofu #UGNeedsMoreOfU | @Airtel_Ug
"People don't really repress the things they don't want to face, they just fail to unpack them." @jordanbpeterson
The mess on K'la roads needs urgent intervention. Those among us who have been exposed to better or seek better need to come up and help the authorities. We need a PTA (like in sch) approach. @PoliceUg & @KCCAUG are overwhelmed. Able men & women should take over. We can do it.
A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control.
"And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of." @jordanbpeterson