MedSchlr

https://geyser.fund/project/medschlr

Changing how medical and health sciences knowledge is communicated

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2026-03-06 21:35:51 UTC

📢 Calling health sciences, medicine & public health researchers!
A student-led research project (ethics approved) is looking for your expertise.
🔬 Study: Trust & Centralization in Health Sciences — Professional Perspectives on the Publishing Landscape
You qualify if you:
✅ Are active in health sciences, medicine, or public health research
✅ Have authored or co-authored 2+ peer-reviewed publications
✅ Are proficient in English
Your insights on academic publishing matter. See the flier for details on how to participate!
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2026-01-23 02:40:50 UTC

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This is a brilliant paper that highlights some major downfalls of empirical research today. Building on the discussion of this paper what is also needed is wider discourse of the meaning of the findings of studies. For example, how can peer-view happen in a more transparent way? How can various stakeholder groups, researchers and the public etc. discuss research findings more objectively?

2026-01-23 00:12:37 UTC

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Right, the scientific method is a tool used to examine truth in a way that can be replicated. Findings may or may not be generalizable to a particular group or individual. It’s an approximation of truth where probabilities weight in certain direction of association but there are often many contextual and confounding variables that need to be considered when interpreting the outcomes of a scientific study.

2026-01-22 17:00:15 UTC

Student projects are are in full swing this semester among the MedSchlr team!
1. Undergraduate health aging and society thesis examining researchers’ perceptions of MedSchlr and the peer -reviewed landscape. (Ethics proposal with the local university is in review).
2. Undergraduate nursing student set to examine local bitcoin merchant on financial and overall well-being (Ethics proposal with the local university is in review).
3. Master global health student drafting ideas for a scholarly paper examining bitcoin, Nostr, MedSchlr.
4. Students working on new ideas for Dream Grad Academy website refresh.
5. Drafting abstracts for consideration at academic presentations.

2026-01-19 05:05:14 UTC

Management of blood pressure is vital for overall health and well-being. Lifestyle changes can positively or negatively impact blood pressure. Previous literature indicates, diet, exercise, stress management, sleep, fasting, vitamins etc can help prevent and maintain blood pressure as noted in paper below. In persistent and life threatening cases of elevated blood pressure, medication and prompt medical attention may be needed.
What can we learn from previous evidence and past experience in the management of blood pressure or high blood pressure?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10713007/

2025-12-16 13:08:42 UTC

James Boyle, "Mertonianism Unbound? Imagining Free, Decentralized Access to Most Cultural and Scientific Material
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/1664/
Excellent read for understanding how to build a new knowledge commons in the medical and health sciences.
#note1pvd…83nt

2025-12-15 19:00:28 UTC

Latest Update from the MedSchlr team:
https://geyser.fund/project/medschlr/posts/view/5381?mtm_campaign=project-share&mtm_keyword=medschlr-post-5381&mtm_source=visitor&mtm_medium=geyser&mtm_content=post-share-button

2025-11-28 04:32:15 UTC

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True. There are inherent limitations and job functions that would dissuade certain providers to accept Bitcoin payments over others. The fact that this topic is being researched is interesting for those who are keen on understanding adoption trends.

2025-11-27 19:14:54 UTC

Dentists are leading the charge in bitcoin payments!🦷₿
New research reveals a trend in healthcare: more dentists are embracing bitcoin than any other medical professionals, with doctors, and alternative medicine following behind.
🤔 Is this just the beginning of a bitcoin revolution in healthcare?
The study used geospatial data from BTC Map to track medium of exchange trends.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-025-00871-z

2025-11-23 16:24:55 UTC

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@npub1nkn…3chw your point is well made. Doing a quick search of the literature, it is evident that numerous studies that appear publicly look at vaccine safety/efficacy and vaccine hesitancy among persons with Multiple Sclerosis with less evidence exploring the direct link between MS and vaccines.
Furthermore, from the quick search using Google Scholar from 2020-present, one review, Principi and Esposito (2020) state “some vaccines may induce an autoimmune neurological disease, no definitive demonstration of a potential role of vaccines in causing autoimmune neurological syndromes is presently available.” Additionally, Stefanou et al. (2023) systematic review and meta-analysis on COVID-19 vaccines and patients with MS, shows “no risk of relapse or serious adverse events” among the data analyzed in the study.
To your point about the need for cohort studies over time and the gap in the literature, Sefanou et al’s study does not focus on previous vaccination and onset of MS overtime. Rather Stefanou et al, makes the conclusion, “these safety data provide compelling pro-vaccination arguments for MS patients.”
The underlying thesis to Stefanou et al, possibly comes from a germ theory premise. Instead of asking could there be a way to prevent risk of the infectious disease by strengthening the terrain, a persons condition, before advising a vaccine?
This type of thinking is not weighted enough in medical and public health science. Also, this might be why the true causes of many disease are not identified in the scientific literature lending to an endless hamster wheel of ongoing research calling for more study. When we could be advancing the science more from a root cause perspective.
Note: These thoughts come from a preliminary search. Maybe there is more robust data out there on these topics?
Principi and Esposito (2020)
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00361
Stefanou et al. (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1177/13524585221150881

2025-11-20 19:39:10 UTC

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@npub1nkn…3chw possibly similar to what you have found, here is a meta-analysis showing no association across 140+ studies. Like you mention there are a number of shortcomings. For example, the review doesn’t examine experimental or genetic vaccines. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9080821

2025-11-20 14:04:12 UTC

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Totally. It’s great to have Nostr as a place where multiple ideas and evidence can flow so individuals can grasp information, knowledge, and truth to inform their health journeys.

2025-11-19 17:40:19 UTC

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Looking at Humes work plublished in 1923, we can see that there might be more to terrain theory and Bechamp’s work than we have historically made to believe. @npub1ltz…k4fh has been discussing this.
Terrain theory points to the importance of keeping the internal body healthy to prevent disease. This means that lifestyle factors and environment are very important. Health like our money should be something that we each individually own and work with healthcare and wellness professionals when needed.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175004177021&seq=11

2025-11-19 14:15:42 UTC

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What are the potential implications of this when it comes to treatment and diagnosis?

2025-11-18 02:33:11 UTC

Completely agree. This brilliant piece explores how ideas flow and connect, as well as the exciting possibility of new knowledge commons built on Nostr.
The potential to 'treat your own thoughts as compost for collective intelligence rather than private property to be protected' really resonates with what we need moving forward in medical and health sciences publishing.
#note1tjp…58j2

2025-11-11 16:24:39 UTC

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@npub1m3x…a5sf would be cool to have a student do a narrative synthesis of this evidence as a knowledge translation exercise on MedSchlr.

2025-11-11 15:02:03 UTC

Vitamin D is critical to human health. Many people turn to supplements (capsules, cold liver oil etc.) to increase intake especially during winter months or while living in places with less sun.
Supplementation may provide benefits but oxidation and shelf-life is an consideration👇
#note16j8…x905

2025-11-11 14:05:04 UTC

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What about cod liver oil? Also, what are some of the best studies you have seen on vitamin D or sunshine and health?

2025-11-11 00:20:22 UTC

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@npub1sh2…ct5g do you have any educational materials on CJD and prion diseases that could raise people’s understanding on the topic?

2025-10-31 19:15:02 UTC

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@npub180c…agc0 that’s a great option too.

2025-10-31 18:47:14 UTC

This is an alarming upward trend. How might this be solved? Could @npub17kw…jl36 help families in the US better cover their healthcare costs? @npub1t8p…gkvf @npub1gvn…cquk @npub12wu…82kk ?
#note13dl…ttuz

2025-10-29 22:23:38 UTC

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Awesome, you’re welcome!

2025-10-29 22:02:40 UTC

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Hi @npub1mcn…vmxm you can look at it here for now:
https://primal.net/e/naddr1qq245u2jta3h532yxymng7zwf43j64jvf5ej6q3ql40cx7mc8cr23qamy6xhjx4gng9wmuczj2d8ertvw98w0aak9x3qxpqqqp65wzv727c

2025-10-27 22:49:11 UTC

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We’ll put. Additionally a health sciences knowledge commons where people can discuss ideas and evidence without censorship is needed. Further discussing population data to clinical practice could be more transparent. Where on the internet do such open commons exist?

2025-10-22 20:57:50 UTC

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https://www.medschlr.org/publication/naddr/naddr1qvzqqqr4tqpzphzv6zrv6l89kxpj4h60m5fpz2ycsrfv0c54hjcwdpxqrt8wwlqxqyvhwumn8ghj7mt9v3ekx6rvwghxummnw3erztnrdaksqvmnda3kjctv94jx2ar9wfkkjmnpde68xtt0vckksetpd36xsttpdejz6argv5kk6mmwv4uj6urjda3xcetdaa3nuy

2025-10-22 20:56:46 UTC

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Social determinants of health—where we live, work, and play—are just as important, and in many ways even more critical, than clinical care when it comes to overall health outcomes. This doesn't diminish the vital role of acute care, but rather underscores that fostering healthy environments, including our financial systems and economic well-being, is fundamental to long-term health. @npub15m9…q643's paper illustrates this concept brilliantly. This is an excellent resource to share with colleagues in healthcare or social services.
#health #medschlr #bitcoin
Available on Nostr and MedSchlr
#naddr1qp…ag4y

2025-10-20 18:13:49 UTC

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@npub1gc6…uyek @npub1q3p…3my9 @npub1t8p…gkvf

2025-10-20 18:12:51 UTC

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Thanks Jon! Yes, we would like to understand how clinicians can use MedSchlr for publishing purposes. We just launched the landing page (optimized for desktop only right now). Would love feedback on functionality/features etc. Clinical databases and integration of AI for evidence synthesis are things we’d like to explore.

2025-10-19 13:15:52 UTC

MedSchlr’s landing page (in beta) is now live!
The page is optimized for desktop use only right now and can be found at:
www.medschlr.org
You can explore existing publications including the MedSchlr charter, compose, format, and publish scholarly articles. Check it out today!
In the coming months and into the new year, we aim to: 1) gather user feedback to improve experience; 2) support student research that will explore how clinicians and researchers can best use MedSchlr for scientific peer review publishing and collaboration.
If you want to support MedSchlr’s development consider donating to our geyser page (link in bio).🙏🧡
#health #medschlr #alexandria #docchain
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2025-10-18 01:13:06 UTC

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@npub1zvu…w2ya

2025-10-15 17:27:00 UTC

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Thank you for your thoughtful feedback and input. MedSchlr strives to be a place where experience and information can flow for learning purposes around chronic diseases and other health and medical sciences topics.
Based on your feedback, we are currently drafting and contemplating use of a content/publishing guideline for general content, personal experience reports, and self-documented case studies. Potentially if interest increases there could be additional guidelines for other major content types that aim to be ‘peer-reviewed’ literature etc.
What you describe for your particular use case sounds like a self-documented case study. We’ll appreciate your feedback once the guideline is published and see how it can work for your needs and more broadly for others interested in this type of content publication.
Additional thoughts are always welcome in this early development phase of MedSchlr.

2025-10-01 04:10:35 UTC

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What you’ve said about zaps makes sense. It could be a negative incentive in some cases but signal for blog style and emergent pieces of scholarship possibly.
Organic growth will be critical to help identify use cases among different stakeholder groups.

2025-09-29 22:35:35 UTC

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@npub1m3x…a5sf great discussion here by @npub1tkf…wnl5

2025-09-29 22:34:40 UTC

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Excellent point re: citations.

2025-09-29 22:33:00 UTC

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Totally @npub1tkf…wnl5. Many issues to ponder especially while building a decentralized censorship resistant publishing platform like MedSchlr.
Thinking about the point around the limited ability to interact with pre-print content of such kind, a gap that MedSchlr could fill since it is a Nostr native social networking knowledge commons that integrates @npub1s3h…75wz Alexandria library is infrastructure for engagement and learning that traditional platforms are without. It could be a viable tool that: 1) encourages individual learning in a novel way. In a user’s MedSchlr instance they could create lists, publish new content, remix other content with attribution, reference external links to articles using doi’s; 2) allows users to follow, comment, and synthesize related content of people they follow; 3) be a network of discovery and organic community formation not just for healthcare professionals and researchers but other users interested in medicine and health. The features and health related content are somewhat starting to take shape now, and that’s why we are building a landing page to help guide interested users.
There are many things to consider like relays and quality standards. If users aren’t using the same relay how would they be able to see others content and discover new? And also how is quality determined of academic works, web-of-trust? For ‘academic’ quality publication is it enough to have a charter that notes the rules of the community and for different study publication types ensure publication guidelines with checklists like CONSORT for randomized controlled trials as an example? There may need to be a degree of centralization for certain user groups but the decentralization could help to further reach and transparency.
Another aspect where MedSchlr could shine is content types. There could be transcriptions of videos, podcasts, etc. of medical and heath sciences information. This is already possible using #Alexandria. This would greatly expand what pre-print sites allow.
On the note of the publishing inertia, zaps, might potentially be a way to incentivize people to publish papers on Nostr and could be indexed in MedSchlr. Professional communities could form and could create new peer-review processes using the new value incentive structure.
These are all preliminary ideas to see how to leverage the MedSchlr-Alexandria-nostr ecosystem to better medical and health sciences publishing. Additional thoughts are always welcome.

2025-08-21 19:01:14 UTC

Heartfelt and thoughtful story from @npub1sh2…ct5g about doctor-patient care, highlighting an important question:
How can healthcare professionals better serve their patients?
While private care offers physicians more time for one-on-one patient interaction (as shown in Brian's case), how might patient-centered approaches be implemented within centralized healthcare systems where organizational metrics and incentives often take precedence? 🤔This is an especially important question for centrally funded health care systems.
Does change start with physician-led change to more private or home care models?
These questions arises from the tension between institutional goals and personalized care. Many practitioners feel constrained by administrative burdens in traditional settings, while patients increasingly seek more meaningful healthcare relationships as noted in Brian’s story.
Could alternative payment systems and communication networks like bitcoin and nostr facilitate a more direct patient-provider economic relationship, potentially creating an environment that supports truly personalized healthcare?
Check out the
Video:
https://youtu.be/L3rWMWvBH6Y
Or Nostr article below.
#note1x56…m40r

2025-08-15 15:29:05 UTC

🧠 Ever noticed how we create labels for complex phenomena like "seizures" or "money," then treat these labels as if they're the actual thing? That's reification—mistaking our descriptions for reality.
When we say someone "has epilepsy," we're using a concept we created to describe a pattern of brain activity. But the brain doesn't know it's having "epilepsy"—it's just doing what brains do.
This mental shortcut limits our understanding in medicine, health sciences, economics, and beyond. How might breaking free from rigid definitions lead to breakthroughs in treatment and prevention approaches?
📚 As we're building MedSchlr, we're particularly interested in content that challenges conventional thinking and supporting individual and community learning. Questioning established frameworks like this can open new pathways to understanding complex medical conditions and health related problems.
What other concepts do you think we've reified that might be holding back progress?
🔎 To learn more, check out: @npub1sh2…ct5g's video, ‘Reification: The Invisible Spectra Our Words Ignore’: https://youtu.be/ll5rM3k5o4w?si=zXnHQVlazZCpiMXK
#docchain #bitcoin #asknostr

2025-08-12 02:03:18 UTC

Check out our latest progress update:
https://geyser.fund/project/medschlr/posts/view/4900?hero=dreamgradaca

2025-06-26 21:46:01 UTC

🎙️MedSchlr June 2025 Project Update: Student Recruitment & Educational Progress
https://geyser.fund/project/medschlr/posts/view/4696?hero=dreamgradaca

2025-06-14 18:31:26 UTC

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@npub19ma…axkl , thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are currently working with Alby and Geyser to resolve the technical issue. In the meantime, you can send sats directly to our Lightning address, @npub1l40…mh7n which can be found on our profile. We greatly appreciate your support.

2025-06-10 23:37:59 UTC

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You can also zap our npub 🙂

2025-06-10 14:40:52 UTC

🎉 The MedSchlr Geyser page is now live! Grateful for the donations that made this possible.
Looking forward to our upcoming meeting with undergraduate students and devs from @nprofile…wr46 this Thursday to plan summer activities and continue development of our nostr client built using #Alexandria.
For those interested in following our journey:
- 🔗 Connect with MedSchlr on #nostr.
- 💝 Support our summer development work and help strengthen future grant applications by contributing via our donation page: https://geyser.fund/project/medschlr
@nprofile…l5sd

2025-06-08 14:47:44 UTC

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🎧 Fresh off the mic: Dive into our newest podcast interview on @nprofile…c2lz to learn about the development team, ideas around MedSchlr and more. A huge thank you to @nprofile…97tp and @nprofile…d97e for having us on and the @nprofile…fzd2 team for helping us grow MedSchlr's vision through the SALUD #nostr health app challenge! 🙏 #DocChain #MedNostr #Alexandria
#nevent1q…n2kx

2025-06-07 02:02:27 UTC

We have 7 days to raise $210 to go live on Geyser!
This will fund students, developers, and healthcare professionals working with us to change medical knowledge incentives and enable transparency. The future of medical knowledge is decentralized, accessible, and community-driven.
We're partnering with @nprofile…were to make this vision reality.
https://geyser.fund/project/medschlr

2025-06-06 15:50:55 UTC

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🎉 Thrilled to announce we tied for third place alongside the awesome Wellness Ally team ( @nprofile…dsd0 @nprofile…gnrf ) in the @nprofile…pnlv nostr healthcare app challenge! Kudos to the other top winners! Looking forward to advancing healthcare innovation through our collaboration with @nprofile…3mnf on health and medical evidence/knowledge publishing. Onward and upward! 💪🏥 #HealthTech #Innovation
#nevent1q…6ptj

2025-05-24 22:37:36 UTC

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Hey thank you for responding. Emailed support to explain the issue in more detail to see which email can be verified.

2025-05-24 00:49:57 UTC

Hi @nprofile…yr67, we've been trying to go through the Geyser setup process but have been encountering a problem with email verification
cc @nprofile…qmwj

2025-05-21 21:46:38 UTC

We are excited to present MedSchlr, a medical and health literature knowledge base for the #Nosfabrica challenge! Built on top of #Alexandria by @nprofile…xkmf, our platform aims to create a collaborative environment, where healthcare professionals and individuals can learn and share medical knowledge together.