Module 3 of the UK Covid Inquiry takes time to read but the lessons are clear: we avoided system collapse but only just & at great cost to our patients & the people who delivered the care. @charlottesummers.bsky.social, Tim Cook, Ganesh Suntharalingam & I wrote this www.bmj.com/content/393/... #BMJ

I am so grateful for this review of my novel Wash in @financialtimes.com "Readers enter her fiction almost physically, as it is so solid and majestic, rather like the great bridge itself." Amazing to feel seen. So many thanks @saltpublishing.com my ace publisher... www.ft.com/content/40b9...

This was so much fun! Happy Birthday @ucl.ac.uk !

FREE event on maths & society to celebrate UCL's 200th birthday! **11th June** look at all the great speakers (*ahem*) :-D sign up at the link below www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

Welcome home #ArtemisII. Wanna know how we developed the tech that got us back to the moon? Listen to our award-winning podcast #16Sunsets from @andrewl-b.bsky.social @davejgiles.bsky.social @richardcourtice.bsky.social @radiokate.com @scirad.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

All the feels. Welcome home #ArtemisII. Flawless entry, spectacular mission. #Artemis

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There is no better sight than this. Welcome home #ArtemisII. Massive, massive congratulations to all. What a team. What a mission. #Artemis #Splashdown

Here we go Entry Interface. 13 Minutes to Splashdown. Here comes the blackout. 6 minutes fo silence to follow. #Artemis #ArtemisII

#ArtemisII travelling at 22,000 mph and still climbing fast. Less than 6 mins to entry interface now. #Artemis

Wiseman “We can see the moon out of window 2. Looks a lot smaller than it did yesterday.” #ArtemisII #Artemis 🤣

Refreshed gift link www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Excited to see the #ArtemisII crew home. But starting & stopping are the hardest feats in all of human space exploration. (Take a look at the Artemis I heat shield post flight). I held my breath for the launch and I’ll do so again for entry tonight. Safe flight #Artemis. Everything crossed for you.

How very beautiful are these? Victor Glover was right. Together on that fragile blue globe we are but one thing. Let’s act accordingly. #Artemis2 #Artemis

What a wonderful night. Worth staying up for all the way to AOS. Massive congrats to the whole #ArtemisII team. Safe journey home. #NASA #Artemis

Want to go to bed. But am glued to this lunar fly-by! Promised myself I wouldn’t stick around for LOS and reacquisition but suspect I’m gonna break that. So, so cool. #NASA #ArtemisII #AmazeAmazeAmaze

And there it is. #ArtemisII breaks Apollo 13’s distance record! 👏👏👏

"Watching the Artemis crew on their way around the moon now is emotional. I am – still – filled with longing that it was me in that capsule and sadness that it never will be. But more than that, I marvel at it" Some personal reflections... open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Little piece from me about #Artemis for @theobserveruk.bsky.social and a comedy photo of me as an aerospace medicine intern at Kennedy Space Center on my first visit to The Cape in 1998. #nasa #Artemis2

Flight day 4. Well over halfway now. I’ve spent so long interviewing NASA’s people, past and present, from Apollo to Shuttle and now Artemis, trying to understand how they do what they do. I’ve always found them to be an impressive team. But this, this is just mesmerising! #Artemis #Artemis2 #NASA

More than 100,000 miles from Earth. Slowing down but still travelling at around 3600mph now. This is the view from the office window. #Artemis #Artemis2

Ok. Who’s staying up for TLI? #Artemis2 #Artemis

If you’re loving the #Artemis2 coverage then you’ll *love* this. Think of it as the #Artemis program’s prequel. #16Sunsets podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/1...

Glorious to see #Artemis2 safely aloft. What an achievement. Wish I’d been there to see it. This was my last trip out, waiting to watch my buddy Mike Barratt to go with Crew 8 in 2024. I miss The Cape! Congrats to all at #NASA. Wonderful day.

Beautiful. Beautiful. #Artemis #Artemis2

Go for launch!! #Artemis #Artemis2

Here comes the poll at LCC Kennedy

Terminal count. #Artemis2 #NASA

We are so nearly there. All in the green. C’mon team. SEND IT!!! #Artemis2 #NASA

Deep into the countdown now. Artemis looking good. Vehicle, launcher, weather & crew. Keeping it all crossed for my buddies at #NASA. #artemis2 #GoArtemis2

Didn’t want to get affected like this giving evidence. Caught me by surprise. We all lost so much. We have to act on the inquiry’s recommendations. We have to be better now, so that we can be better next time.

🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating. Much of that devastation was avoidable. This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19

Doctors waiting on asylum decisions can work in NHS as Home Office lifts ban

I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more. And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share! www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...

🔊 Prof @drkevinfong.bsky.social @uclengineering.bsky.social presents The Artificial Human in front of a live audience at @ucl.ac.uk. As UCL marks 200 years, they ask whether AI is the future of learning and how we can make the most of what it has to offer. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

LLMs: Useful tools or dead ends? Professor Mike Wooldridge weighs in on this episode of the BBC Radio 4 show The Artificial Human. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @alekskrotoski.bsky.social @drkevinfong.bsky.social

Net migration in 2025 was about 160,000. That headline 2025 net migration figure will come out in May: it will clearly be significantly below the 205k for the year to June 2025 (est range: 130-180k) as 2025 visa data is now published. But the 2026 figure is likely to show negative net migration.

Kung Hei Fat Choy 🧧 !! Happy Year of the Fire Horse.

Please let this be true.

Hello, parents with young kids! I’m doing a very fun half-term event on Tuesday afternoon about Roman Britain, along with my book’s fab illustrator @rikinparekh.bsky.social Tickets affordable, @southbankcentre.bsky.social is great London venue near Waterloo station, and it’ll be great fun!

Viral posts paint the city as a hotbed of violence and, above all, knife crime. But the data tell a different story

The ‘AI bubble‘ under discussion in this excellent three-part series @alekskrotoski.bsky.social @drkevinfong.bsky.social

Everything you ever wanted to know about anaesthesia but were too afraid to ask. Presented by the always amazing @claudiahammond.bsky.social feat. @brucebiccard.bsky.social @estamatakis.bsky.social, Jennifer Hunter & me! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A pleasure to join a BBC world service The Evidence panel at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on anaesthesia & consciousness. Great discussion with @drkevinfong.bsky.social @brucebiccard.bsky.social & Jennifer Hunter, expertly chaired by @claudiahammond.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In tricky times, I hope this news will make at least some of you smile. www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/bl...

So glad!

🚨Fully funded PhD with me at UCL CORU on our new SPROCKET project to improve services for children with complex needs. The PhD will be building System Dynamics models to improve services - and hopefully pushing the methodology further too! Deadline: Jan 31st www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Great job opportunity!

New YouGov research for ippr finds that civic conceptions of being British are held by most people, with a third prioritising birthplace. Reform voters are outliers, against the general public view, weighting ancestry and ethnicity more highly www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...