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...

Final cruise home this Christmas Eve, with the crew aboard Helimed 60. Spotted Santa getting ready for this year’s run. Wishing you a Happy Christmas from all of us at Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex. Time for bed kids HE’S ON HIS WAY 🎅

Farewell Jerry Bostick: Apollo Flight Dynamics Officer, rescuer of stranded astronauts, manning “The Trench” in Mission Control (which he described to me as “the first line of defence in human space flight”). Thank you for everything. Safe flight. #AdAstra

Immigration salience has less to do with aggregate Immigration numbers than - visibility of boats & asylum > visas - general vibes about integration - elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising

If you love science and comedy and @robinince.bsky.social, now is a great time to discover @cosmicshambles.com and everything they have to offer. And if you're in the vicinity of London, UK, check out their amazing holiday event, "Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People"

To be fair it’s going to be very funny when these clowns invent AGI and the super intelligent machine tells everyone to get offline, avoid processed food, stroll in the woods, seek community, eschew racism, pay high marginal rates of tax and ignore the ravings of deranged billionaires.

On the mathematics of Covid-19 and excess mortality in Sweden, and why their pandemic response might not have been quite as successful as first billed. Great Substack post from @adamjkucharski.bsky.social

Wednesday is saved.

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...