Greg Bryson
Anesthesia | Perioperative Medicine | Running
Professor, uOttawa Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Lots of opinions. All of them mine.
#AnSky
- But I can't see a place on this list where a bro could grift.
- Nice walk to work today.
- Cyclists of a certain age can’t see a Mondrian without thinking of bikes. www.theproscloset.com/blogs/news/w...
- "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." My approach to anesthesia as described by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- My socials are full of influencers trying to raise the ceiling of health and fitness for the worried well. We need to figure out how to raise the floor for the everyone else.
- "We will all falter at some point in our professional lives. What matters most is how we meet one another in those moments—whether with judgment and isolation, or with honesty, empathy, and the measured grace that underpins truly ethical leadership."
- Reposted by Greg BrysonI haven’t seen this kind of comparison before, but that’s just shocking. #ClimateCrisis
- Imagine how much deeper the NO2 reductions would be if we ban gas powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/top...
- This thread makes me think I did not make the best use of my post-secondary education.
- Yourself, but as a cartoon.
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- Reposted by Greg BrysonAlex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
- Reposted by Greg BrysonMinneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
- Reposted by Greg BrysonJust imagine being the parent of a soldier from Canada or Denmark or Great Britain or France who was killed in Afghanistan in the one and only time Article 5 was invoked and the entire alliance came to America's aid, and hearing President Bone Spurs say this.
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- My grandparents were dairy farmers and my teens and twenties were saturated in the Far Side. I can't tell you how contented this research makes me.
- Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social
- Great post on improving the discussion at Journal Club. The Comments have added “seagull-ing” to my vocabulary. scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/h...
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- And I heard the Dead Kennedys’ Nazi Punks F*** Off earlier this afternoon. Good times.
- Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...
- Retirement plans.
- "Patients should normally take their antihypertensive therapy, including angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers, on the day of surgery" associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Canadian climate strategy.
- Western Canada glaciers suffered 2nd-greatest ice loss on record in 2025 #Canada B.C. researcher estimates some 30 gigatonnes of ice melted last year, warns "glaciers are going to disappear" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- The red pen was always uncapped and ready for Table 1. That’s Item 25 in CONSORT 2025, if you’re keeping track.
- Came across this a few months ago. In-patient had d-dimer ordered on a Saturday round by on-call staff. Positive result not followed up. Monday morning the patient appears in the OR for a 6-hr thoracolumbar decompression-fusion. GREAT.
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- Data collected 2016 - 2024. Anesthesia publications on GLP-1 RAs and delayed gastric emptying started to appear mid-2023. These findings likely reflect the continued use of GLP-1 RAs into the perioperative period.
- What is the association between preoperative #GLP-1 receptor agonist use and periop #respiratory complications in #T2DM patients? Read the full article here: bjanaesthesia.org.uk/article/S0007-0912(…
- Reposted by Greg BrysonIt’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
- Reposted by Greg BrysonA picture is worth 1000 words... This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK. Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect. Chapeau!
- No cheating, repost with the most recent photo of your pet.
- First book of the year finished. A thoughtful exploration of hunkering fown in the winter seasons of our lives. Hit a bit close to home. Find grace for yourself, and others, in 2026. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
- Vaccines are one of humankind’s most effective technologies.
- My blogpost on the success of universal chickenpox vaccination in the US, and why the UK should have made the move sooner: www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/13-the-suc... Chickenpox vaccines are really effective!
- From Wintering by Katherine May
- New SRMA combining HEMOTION, TRAIN, and SAHARA trials. “Liberal transfusion reduces the risk of unfavourable neurological outcome (risk ratio (RR)=0.89, 95% CI 0.84 to 0.95, high certainty)…no difference in the risk of most adverse events, including death.” bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
- Calvin and Hobbes was one of three comics that shaped my sense of humour and self. The Far Side covered absurdism and science; Bloom County covered politics; and Calvin reconnected me to my imagination and foretold my role as father.
- Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man is just a really elaborate Rick Roll.
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- Reposted by Greg BrysonPainted cycle lanes are the non-smoking sections of today's urban landscape. Both recognize a problem and the harms it causes, but are designed without the will or imagination required to implement a real solution.
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- This sounds lovely.
- Reposted by Greg BrysonYear 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.
- Reposted by Greg BrysonInsane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
- Always thought of us as more Dudley than Snidely, but with the tariffs and 51st state nonsense I can twirl my moustache.
- The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery." 🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
- Stumbled upon this thoughtful post on performance while reading themorningshakeout.com. While this piece from Adam Grant is rooted in teaching, it applies equally well to work and sport. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...
- Reposted by Greg BrysonWriting Genres: First draft: Horror Abstract: Action thriller Hypothesis section: Fantasy Results section: Tragedy Limitations section: True crime Implications section: Satire Grant application: Science fiction
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- Reposted by Greg BrysonWhat does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc). Mobility in cities is about space. Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
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- To Whamhalla! Undone by the radio in our out-of-hospital cataract shop. #Whamageddon
- Love a properly done stepped wedge. If you're into implementation science this design and its successors should be front of mind.
- The stepped wedge design came up in the #CCRDownUnder meeting last week so it seemed a good time to revisit the pros and cons of this design 1/6 #MethodologyMonday #128
- Throw in the mockumentary This is Spinal Tap (1984) and that's quite a string. What a tragedy.
- Reposted by Greg BrysonFour White Boats: Canadian Gothic Christopher Pratt 2003
- “The universe does not offer financing … We are conditioned to enjoy the benefit today and pay the cost tomorrow … Achievement reverses the transaction. It requires full payment in advance” @farnamstreet.bsky.social
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- On a guided bike tour in France this summer. Our British guide saw Americans and Canadians turning right on red and screamed at us to wait for the light. When we explained NA rules of the road she said, “What’s the f***ing point of the light then?” She’s not wrong.
