Such an honour ❤️

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Honoured to attend this year’s British Heart Foundation Scotland’s ‘Desmond Julian lecture’ by pioneering Prof John McMurray at Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow ❤️‍🩹 Lovely to catch up with cardiology friends, especially the fabulous Maggie Simpson ❤️ Thank you for the invite David McColgan.

My new book 'Beyond the Medical Gaze: Practicing Psychologically Informed Healthcare' is NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE from @oxunipress.bsky.social Available in print from 28 Nov 25. Download: academic.oup.com/book/61406 #booksky #medsky #psychsky #chronicillness #healthcare #livedexperience

My new book 'Beyond the Medical Gaze: Practicing Psychologically Informed Healthcare' is NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE from @oxunipress.bsky.social Available in print from 28 Nov 25. Download: academic.oup.com/book/61406 #booksky #medsky #psychsky #chronicillness #healthcare #livedexperience

ITV's drama #TheHack is a must-watch. A great series about the brilliant investigative journalist NickDavies' exposure of the phone hacking scandal. @sussexbylines.co.uk featured him in the first Defenders of Democracy series sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/dem...

Delighted to be invited back to where my psychology journey began nearly 30 years ago at Stirling University to present my work & new book to the Health Psychology Group. Thanks for the invite Dr Arran Reader. Ps. Stunning campus, especially in autumn, but parking remains a bit of a nightmare.

‘The NHS is dying before our eyes’ I talk to the head of the BMA in Scotland. He tells me patients “are dying” unnecessarily because of delays; doctors feel no “pride” any more in the NHS & there’s a “toxic culture” of cover-up In @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2550016...

Pre-order 📚 global.oup.com/academic/pro... 📚

#book #medsky #psychsky #dogsky #health #chronichealthcondition #medicaltrauma #coping #wellbeing #resilience

So, for Scottish viewers of a certain vintage, very sad news: Glen Michael has passed away. He was 99. He began Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade on STV in 1966, for a handsome £14 a week #RIP

TY @briandolan.bsky.social for the opportunity to share a sneak peak about my forthcoming book 📕 Pre order from @oxunipress 👇🏻 global.oup.com/academic/pro... #psychologicallyinformed #healthcare #medicaltrauma #wellbeing #traumainformed #livedexperience #healthcarepolicy #healthcareinnovation

So grateful to the esteemed healthcare professionals who took the time to provide advance reviews for my forthcoming book ‘Beyond the Medical Gaze: Practicing Psychologically Informed Healthcare’ Pre order here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Enjoyed sharing about ‘Scottish advocacy updates’ & my books at today’s annual @somervilleheart.bsky.social conference & catching up with old friends. ❤️

So looking forward to reading this from Dr Liza Morton. #TherapistSky #ChronicIllness

Delighted to share that my new book is now available to pre-order from Oxford University Press Beyond the Medical Gaze: Practicing Psychologically Informed Healthcare Foreword ‘Seeing Life from Both Sides Now’ Stephen Porges Please share widely ❤️ #medsky #psychsky global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Delighted to share that my new book is now available to pre-order from Oxford University Press Beyond the Medical Gaze: Practicing Psychologically Informed Healthcare Foreword ‘Seeing Life from Both Sides Now’ Stephen Porges Please share widely ❤️ #medsky #psychsky global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Our Dr Liza Morton @drlizamorton.bsky.social is featured in the @dailymail.co.uk discussing how hospital gowns may make people feel vulnerable and disempowered www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/heal...

Heartbreaking ❤️‍🩹

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

84% of the public wants the NHS to be primarily funded through taxation (source below). Meanwhile… Farage is saying this. We *must* build the movement to fight for the NHS now. I’m absolutely determined about it 💙💥 www.thenational.scot/news/2513023...

A face that’s very hard to say no to. #dogsky #scottie

Could have done with this nearly 50 years ago but good news for any wee babies with heart block now. 👏👏👏 #medsky newsroom.heart.org/news/tiny-pa...

I honestly don’t know how anyone who is immersed in the news cycle 24/7 as a part of their work isn’t losing their minds a little bit right now at the human cost of what’s happening. Some folks must just be really good at dissociating and compartmentalizing, and shutting down empathy to keep going.

Our latest open access publication: Barriers and Facilitators to Psychological Safety During Medical Procedures Among Individuals Diagnosed with Chronic Illness in Childhood #psychsky #medsky Full text: www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/13...

Our latest open access publication: Barriers and Facilitators to Psychological Safety During Medical Procedures Among Individuals Diagnosed with Chronic Illness in Childhood #psychsky #medsky Full text: www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/13...

The otter keeper gave this baby otter a sock to keep warm. She later turned it into a onesie with holes for the hands, feet, and tail

“I can’t sleep, I’m so scared.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Chocolate #ladybirds too cute to eat 🐞 🐞

“France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.” He had been traveling to a conference near Houston, TX. 3/19/25

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

If someone looks like a Nazi and quacks like a Nazi……and if you let them run your vetting for your party….what sort of party are you running?

Science, folks. Science. This is wonderful news.

Wee Lass is shook #dogsky #scottiedog #scottishterrier

We can never forget the children and teacher who lost their lives all those years ago in Dunblane ❤️ We can not forget why the community I grew up in came together to change our gun safety laws forever And we can not go back

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

Trump's attacks on the Department of Education should remind us never to elect to high office anyone without a stake in society. We suffered the same in the UK from 2010, when people who used private healthcare and private schools ripped up public services.

'Balancing the books' on the backs of poor and disabled people was wrong when the Tories did it, and it would be wrong now. It’s a political choice - one that could push 700,000 households into poverty. Our government should instead tax the ballooning wealth of the super-rich.

Binge watched this yesterday. Compelling, harrowing & all happened not so very long ago. Surprised more wasn’t made of the CSA, trauma & misogyny she allegedly endured. It was hinted at but could have been more explicit.

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

What a different world we could have.

Please follow up lung health in your #CHD patients #medsky

I’ve always been breathless often mentioning it at cardiology appointments. Recently, for 1st time, I underwent tests to find out I have restrictive ventilatory defect, apparently common after childhood heart surgery (I had 6 thorocotomies & OHS by 13 y/o). Why is this so neglected? ❤️‍🩹

We will never know— we will never have the faintest idea— how much money is getting made in insider trading windfalls from people in Trump's and Musk's circles who have an hour of notice about the daily swings in tariff policy or the occasional announced *expectations* of such swings.

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Toxic Town - the Netflix retelling of a real-life toxic pollution event which caused birth defects in the town of Corby (UK) - offers a stark warning on rollbacks of environmental regulations By @kirstypringle.bsky.social & @jimmcquaid.bsky.social: theconversation.com/netflixs-tox...

An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

We need to talk more about how it feels to be a woman amidst this sudden onslaught of “reclaiming masculinity,” celebrating male aggression and violence, and vanishing smart experienced women from positions of power.