There’s a lot written about leadership & teamwork but the HEMS crews are one of the best examples, anywhere, of how to operate at the sharp end of practice. Made this for BBC Radio 4 about the people who make it happen. 11am GMT today or find it here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Samir Zitouni, 48, remains in critical condition after the LNER rail employee heroically risked his life to save others from the attempts at murder on the Peterborough/Huntingdon train news.sky.com/story/train-...

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Cause for hope.

“Science is never settled” sounds reasonable—but it’s often a rhetorical trick to undermine consensus on issues like vaccines or climate change. Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence. My latest for Live Science www.livescience.com/... 1/10

A timely book from @tomlevenson.bsky.social

Good morning, News from the UK is you are an award winner. 16 Sunsets won best Science And Technology Podcast last night 😀🎉

The good governor is right. For more information, sadly not immediately available, I have a book on the history of vaccine rejection coming out next spring. Early details here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113...

NEW EPISODE: Are we prepared for the next pandemic? Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about COVID-19 and whether we're ready for the next pandemic. Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSPandemic...

This week's guests are Tess Lambe‬, Wendy Barclay‬, @dremmacbw.bsky.social and @drkevinfong.bsky.social.

A really important episode on today's Artificial Human: Why is AI erasing people? Answer: it ain't just accidental bias. Find out what's happening and what we can do about it, with me and @drkevinfong.bsky.social by listening again on @bbcsounds.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“If you lived in a world that wasn’t built for you, you’d feel disabled too.” Ever been erased by AI? Powerful stuff from Paralympic swimmer @JessSmith27 and @abran in this week’s #ArtificialHuman. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Did you just miss the first episode of the new #ArtificialHuman series from BBC Radio 4 with me and @drkevinfong.bsky.social - CAN AI MAKE ME FITTER? Go on, listen again on @bbcsounds.bsky.social : www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Statement from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency "MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children" www.gov.uk/government/n...

James Lovell & NASA’s Apollo 13 team: a masterclass in bearing the odds. I always try to bring the best lessons I learn back to my career in medicine. Wrote the last lines of script for #13minutestothemoon S2 in Spring 2020, after the UK’s 1st Covid wave. A kernel of hope. Thank you Jim. #AdAstra

Farewell & thanks for everything Captain James Lovell. Apollo 8 Command Module Pilot - arguably NASA’s boldest mission - Commander & survivor of the ill fated Apollo 13. I’ve met few people more inspiring or more generous with their legacy. God Speed, safe flight. #AdAstra #NASA

Stop this. Just… Stop it. Stop using "generative AI" for anything that might actually matter, and especially things that, if it gets them wrong, *Might Fucking Kill You.* Why does this need to be said? Why is this not obvious??? Why is this not the default way of fucking operating?! What the FUCK.

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

What a moment! What an achievement. Wonderful way to watch them bring it home. Chloe Kelly & the indomitable #Lionesses #England #LatitudeFestival

I grew up reading everything I could about Project Apollo. But I lived through the Shuttle program. #16Sunsets by the original #13MinutestotheMoon team: @andrewl-b.bsky.social, @scirad.bsky.social + @davejgiles.bsky.social & @richardcourtice.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

Last one from the #16Sunsets team for a while. Great fun chatting to the incredible @Cmdr_Hadfield about space shuttle, life, the universe & intercepting Russian nuclear bombers. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

Massive congratulations on this Mark!

50 years have passed since “Jaws” the movie was first released. Which scares me way more than any giant shark ever could.

On the complexities of Covid. And why there’s more to it than whether lockdowns were bad or good. Really great piece from @adamjkucharski.bsky.social

The remarkable number and range of attempts to improve primary care access laid out here through a great collaboration between @healthfoundation.bsky.social and @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk. This catalogue will be useful for for years to come for those seeking ways to do better at access.

From Major Incidents to Life on Mars. The final episode in this series of #TheLifeScientific with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and - uh - me 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Honoured (though a little surprised) to be last lab coat up in the current series of #LifeScientific. Lovely to chat with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social for this. Tune in tomorrow Radio 4 9am. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Well this is terrifying. Thanks, team. Watch here, there are lots of skulls: youtu.be/dzahheunCro?...

Is China getting AI right? Been a couple of months since the cheaper, leaner LLM Deepseek rocked the AI world. How? What does it mean for Silicon Valley’s closed “all you need is scale” approach. And who will win the title fight? #ArtificialHuman www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

These days AI knows & says lots of things about us. But what do you do if it accuses you of murder? And not just *any* murder … join me & @alekskrotoski.bsky.social to find out. #TheArtificialHuman www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We’re back! @aleksk & me take on your burning questions about AI. S5 E1 of #TheArtificialHuman - Why Is AI Stealing Books? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Wait, what? Another series of @BBCRadio4's #ArtificialHuman with me and @drkevinfong.bsky.social starts TODAY?! Yes indeedy! It's a corker: Why is AI Stealing Books, with author @katemossewriter.bsky.social You can listen live at 3:30pm GMT or catch up on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The medical students I teach hate the way they’re allocated to their 1st job after graduation: it’s a kind of lottery system. This study shows just how much they dislike it & how much damage it does to the way they view their future career. Hope someone’s listening. academic.oup.com/pmj/advance-...

How cool is this. Voyager 1 is coasting in interstellar space, more than 48 years & 25 billion miles from Earth. Its back-up manoeuvring thrusters failed more than 2 decades ago. But @NASAJPL have GOT THEM WORKING AGAIN!!!! www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...

My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight

In operating theatres at UCLH this morning, with our wonderful theatre teams. Many people from many places, all of them helping us deliver the care. Couldn’t do it without them.

One of the universe’s great unanswered questions: How come there’s gonna be no #Andor Season 3?

On the prevention of measles and its frequent complications gift link www.wsj.com/health/healt...

My thanks!

Honoured to have been part of #ASM25CNS Fantastic meeting. Caught up with friends old & new. Learned many things. Inexplicably went for an early morning run. Congrats to the new #ANZCA fellows. Thanks for the hospitality!

It’s important to push back boundaries & in many ways this week’s #BlueOrigin flight did that. But if you want to know about the first American women in space & the story of NASA’s remarkable 1978 astronaut class, have a listen to this episode of #16Sunsets podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

Kangeroos in space 🦘🚀 One of the stories in the latest bonus episode of the #16Sunsets space shuttle podcast. @drkevinfong.bsky.social in conversation with shuttle flight director and raconteur Rob Kelso. Mission control high jinks and serious spaceflight insights too #nasa apple.co/4i8Xi6s

Update on measles in the US, cases and deaths, in context of vaccine introduction

First sighting in the wild! So Very Small at the Oxford Literary Festival: If you’re not in Oxford today and would like a copy, you’ll have to pre-order, as the official UK pub date is May 1. Gotta say—it’s great to see it in the flesh.

Doesn’t feel like 5 years already since we had to learn to don PPE, to work in it all day & make it last because there wasn’t enough of it. People have different opinions about what did & didn’t happen. I can only say that in 27 years of practice it was the worst thing I’ve ever seen, every day.

Yep. Every word of all of this.

This’ll be worth a read!

Jan 1981. Ronald Reagan is President elect, Blondie’s ‘The Tide is High’ is in the top ten, Dynasty is on TV and at Kennedy Space Center space shuttle Columbia is finally on the launch pad. #16Sunsets podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

Module 5 of the Coivd Inquiry kicks off today. Looking at procurement & VIP lanes. Should be interesting … www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As doctors, researchers, and other academics flee X (formerly Twitter), @munkeatlooi.bsky.social looks at what the social network Bluesky is and why #MedSky might be worth trying www.bmj.com/content/388/...