Well this is excellent.

Given El0n wants to know what federal employees did last week, what if we helped satiate his nosiness by filling his inbox with what we ALL did last week? [email protected] If there’s a good reason not to do this, please do let me know!

Some really scary driving practices from other vehicles on my drive South today - wish there was an easy and safe way to report them (please do share if there is, I swear it’s getting worse!)

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇 web.archive.org/web/20250131...

I am hugely privileged to be able to run away for a weekend and avoid the scariness of the world for a weekend. I don’t take it for granted. If in any small way, you are able to take some time to find some peace; do it. You aren’t letting us down. Rest is a Radical Act, and this is a marathon.

Hey Donald, Sorry to hear you don’t consider disabled people qualified for FAA employment. You’d of course know a lot about being underqualified, and yet you still manage to get this wrong. Love, Yet Another Ridiculously Highly Qualified Disabled Person.

✨Please Share! Call now! Goal of 200+ executive orders in 1 wk is to OVERWHELM, making us disoriented & unable to resist. ☎️Take 5 minutes NOW to CALL YOUR 2 SENATORS to tell them to NOT APPROVE RFK Jr tomorrow Jan 29. Senator phone number look up: www.senate.gov/senators/sen... #medsky 🛟😷🧪

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

Diversity in clinical trials is not performative. Diversity in clinical trials literally ensures that all humans benefit from therapeutics, interventions, and preventive medicine. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

One thing I haven’t yet seen anybody point out about the NIH thing: it seems rather transparent that their desired endgame is to hold all funding hostage until every NIH-funded institution dismantles its equity and diversity programs.

“The problem with you” muttered my girlfriend as I lay on the sofa, coughing up gunk whilst making a list of stuff I am totally going to achieve from my bed, “is that you may get sick, but your ADHD doesn’t.” I quietly ask her to fetch a pile of papers and my highlighters, and start reading.

I am, once again, riddled with another viral illness and having previously been incredibly smug about my hard-won immune system, forged in the fires of General Practice training, it transpires I just hadn’t met Scottish bugs yet. Send lemsip and nasal rinse.

Inspectors General are key public servants tasked with holding our government accountable. They’re independent, nonpartisan whose work is identifying fraud, waste, & importantly, abuse. Trump just fired them all. Make no mistake: he's purging those who will protect the rule of law.

In today’s #TinyWaysToSaveTheWorld I am making so many notes on prescribing hormones for trans patients that I feel like I’m back at med school. I promise, many of us are working hard to make things better.

The world is a big scary place at present, but my lord I love humans and their ability to outwit stupid systems.

Nobel Peace Prize for Gisele Pelicot this year, and Right Rev Mariann Edgar Budde next year please. Sorted.

We must keep spreading this info through all different means. If you have an email list, send this info out every few days/weeks. If you have a Substack, write about it. If you have a podcast, talk about it. Text the info to your group chats. Keep the info out there.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Random fb DM from a stranger, saying he’d like to help with my “cause” and will play ‘Devil’s Advocate’ for me if I want to message him. Lord give me the audacity of a white cishet man.

Dundee and surrounding area folks! Some events coming up you should know about! Tuesday February 11th 5:30pm: Informal Reading Group. No assigned text, just show up and chat about your current reads. Wednesday February 12th 5:30pm: Book Quiz! Special round on LGBTQ books. Both free & open to all.

We’re busy ending sexism in schools so the education system creates fewer of these awful men.

Let’s grow a community of resistance. Share with me your #TinyWaysToSaveTheWorld - yes, big stuff needs to happen, but we need to make it manageable for everyone, so let’s start here.

Request for my #GP and #GPtrainee colleagues - I’m doing an event with Scrub Survivors next week on Sexual Harassment and sexism in the workplace. If you have any examples or experiences I could share, I promise to anonymise and handle them respectfully and gently. Thank you.

I’m searching for tiny ways I can make the world a bit better. I just signed up to re-do my Level 1 BSL course at a local college, and I’m taking my partner so we can practice together. #TinyWaysToSaveTheWorld

It’s so hard to know what to do in the face of our world becoming a lot scarier today. So I’m going to start by being louder, more active and more visible. I’m going to keep reading, keep writing, and now I finally have WiFi in my house, reboot my podcast. We won’t go down without a fight. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️👩🏼‍🦽

There is one thing that makes today Blue &it isn’t the date the event is falling on,it isn’t some crappy pseudoscience out to make you feel bad because you’ve been told you should-it’s because today a sex offender is back in the White House &he’s already making things very awful for a lot of people.

You know what’s really exhausting? Every single time I mention being a Dr on social media, even when that’s a v incidental element of what I’m talking about, someone will pipe up moaning about their experiences with the NHS. And I get it, I do - but we’re working in a broken system, trying to make >

Khloe Kardashian is smack talking LA Mayor Karen Bass over the wildfires. In 2022, Khloe used roughly 101,000 gallons of water over the allotted limit during a drought. Her sister Kim Kardashian used 232,000 gallons over the limit. IN ONE MONTH. Bish needs to sit TF down.

So disappointed by David Lloyd Dundee tonight - went for a tour with my partner, having said specifically on the form that we would want to know about accessibility as a disabled person. Turned up, car park rammed, all 8 blue badge spaces full - only 2 had badges on display.>

I’ll forever be grateful to Sophie Ellis Bextor for letting girls with posh accents be cool when singing disco. Love an ex-choral scholar who really appreciates good enunciation.

New Years Honours? Fine. I demand a knighthood for whoever did the London Fireworks music mix. Excellent work.

Fareshare is an amazing charity that supports other charities, keeping people fed and surplus food out of landfill. If you’re looking to help fill empty bellies this Christmas, they have match funding available for your donations; donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Hey @accessorize.bsky.social - I hear that today, your staff declined my disabled friend a piercing without a Dr’s note because you don’t trust wheelchair users to understand how to manage them. As a doctor who also happens to be a wheelchair user - I think we should chat… >

Hey @lner.co.uk - we’ve been sat at the assistance desk at Kings X for 10 mins now and it’s totally deserted. Quite a queue is forming. Any chance you could find someone to help us please?!

Sharing the @americanheart.bsky.social scientific statement about asssessing & addressing CV health in individuals who are transgender and gender diverse. Transgender care is health care, and I support optimizing the lives & hearts of all persons. 🏳️‍🌈 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

V proud of this blog for The BMA for National Grief Week - please do read and share if you would like. Hopefully it helps someone out there.

I’m v happy to call hospital colleagues to refer in patients if that’s what they want - but someone needs to be holding the bleep, or I’m hanging around for over an hour whilst they get back from their break/handover. This doesn’t work for anyone.

Ah fabulous, after thinking how lovely and friendly Bluesky is, just got my first transphobic reply. Blocked and reported - hopefully they remain in the very tiny minority.

Yesterday, I had the privilege of chairing the final Conference of the Women’s Equality Party, and after the vote was taken, telling the membership that we had voted to dissolve the party. It was, as you’d expect, a very hard day at the office. >

This gave me goosebumps. “My 18-year-old daughter was at Starbucks, alone, the other night. A man came up to her and started talking to her. A barista handed her “an extra hot chocolate someone forgot to pick up.” How grateful I am for people who look out for other people!” We need each other.

Livingstone says goodnight, Bluesky. #Tortoise

I do love that I now have so many new amazing women in Medicine on here thanks to #MedSky - I’m already learning loads! Part of my job is setting up Gender Services in NHS Tayside - so anyone working in this area, please say hello! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

These appointments prove that insisting people achieve and be promoted based on “merit” was never really their real concern.

hello bluesky peeps, who should I follow, tell me your favourites...whilst we are on the topic here are my recommendations: 1. For unhinged chaotic comedic energy go to @robbotron.bsky.social 2. For social discourse on health, disability, LGBTQIA+, etc you want @drhannahbb.bsky.social

I realised today that I haven’t really written since my Dad died in July. I’m not sure that writing a blog post on Grief for the BMA was the most obvious way to get back into it, but it has been vaguely cathartic, and will hopefully help some people.

A reminder to people that independent bookshops that are coming to here from Twitter are taking a financial risk as that social media outlet is a major factor in marketing and getting sales.

#MedSky people, go follow Hannah for all things related to inclusive healthcare, accessibility, feminist politics and more. Also she’s just moved to Scotland, which makes her cool by default.

When it got to the point where people were taking the time to email me to ask me to join Bluesky, I figured I should give it a proper look. Hello! I’m a GP in Scotland with interests in LGBTQ+health, Neurodivergence, politics etc