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/...

Met Terry White in 2011, at the OPF on the last day of the last space shuttle mission. A joy to catch up with him again for this episode of #16Sunsets, to ask him about the difficult road to the launch of the first mission, Columbia, on STS-1. Have a listen podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

Also, for my UK friends:

Until end of tomorrow! 👇

Behold. The era of the mouse anaesthetist.

Let’s get BlueSky newbie @drasifqasim.bsky.social over 1000 followers. And if you’re eligible to vote in the Royal College of Physicians of London Presidential election, take a look at his website here asifqasim.co.uk/prcp. He will have my vote.

Measles cases continue to surge globally, putting millions of children at risk. More than 10 million people globally were infected with measles in 2023, a 20% increase from the previous year. bit.ly/48SAtkf

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris

What do you do if something goes wrong on your way to outer space? #16Sunsets Ep 6: Abort Abort Abort. Masterful work from @andrewl-b.bsky.social, @Richardcourtice.bsky.social and the rest of the Sunsets team. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

In 1978 NASA selected a new class of astronauts, the most diverse in the agency’s history. This is their story. #16Sunsets podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

Wondering what’s up with Trump and Big Tech? Check out what the ADA Lovelace Institute’s Andrew Strait & Nobel Prize Winner @dacemoglumit.bsky.social have to say about it on #TheArtificialHuman www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Another great episode is out on 16 Sunsets @drkevinfong.bsky.social amazing history of the space shuttle. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

An astonishing exploration of the reality of ‘DEI’ in this excellent @drkevinfong.bsky.social podcast about 1970s NASA. The testimony from older male astronauts on how female excellence changed their minds is memorable. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

Episode 5 has landed wherever you get your pods ! Do not miss Anatomy of a Firecracker #16Sunsets @drkevinfong.bsky.social pod.link/1771470820