Very exciting new project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - Medicine without doctors, co-led by an incredible team at Edinburgh’s Usher, @engelmal.bsky.social www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org

The solution to having a new kitten and a child starting Gaelic medium education

Delighted to be reviewing this for @thelancet.com and that there is an appreciation for how feminist economics has a profound influence on health and medicine

This is not the way you ask a question in a research study.

More women in cardiovascular trials still needed (and CVD trials are pretty good compared to other medical specialties...) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Happy ginger cat appreciation day! 🐈

Important and overdue. Most parents I know who can afford to have been opting in to Chicken pox vaccination for their kids. This will remove significant socioeconomic inequality.

Maternity scandals, physical and psychological birth trauma, limited and costly childcare, inflexible workplaces, rising costs in every domain. The UK isn’t making parenthood exactly appealing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Physicians assistants upset that their work opportunities/over-reaching have been curtailed by the Leng review; but PA union was all too dismissive of these same impacts when they affected doctors due to PAs being rolled out across the NHS.

All Folks Had To Do Was Vote For The Super Qualified Black Lady… With A Degree In Economics

“When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.”

This ought to be entirely uncontentious

You are, in the next few months, going to see a few pro-AI people who start trying to morph into "thoughtful cynics" on the issue, and I can't wait, because I've been taking such detailed notes

“I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)”

In Germany kids are given a schultüte on their first day at school - essentially a Christmas stocking of goodies. My Scotland-born daughter was counting her lucky stars for those Köln roots this morning.

Excellent to see this commitment to include older adults in research. Cries of ‘wokery’ will be fewer & quieter for the protected characteristic of age, yet the principles of equity and inclusion are the same as with sex, gender, ethnicity & pregnancy status. All matter www.ukri.org/news/committ...

It’s a Tuesday mood

The occupational hazard of being a woman and the greater risk of needing a restraining order to stay safe from a stalker is a risk to heart health 💔

AI replicates, magnifies and perpetuates the biases already active in our health system and society www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

HUGE wife. Absolutely MASSIVE Scottish wife.

Scottish Water warned of the driest start to the year in Edinburgh since 1964. Arthur's Seat tonight.

Back to work present to myself

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

A Senate investigation has so far found 510 human rights abuses in ICE detention centers since Jan 20, including deaths, physical & sexual abuse, inadequate medical care, overcrowding & unsanitary conditions, inadequate food & water, extreme temperatures, denial of legal access, & child separation

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

I already had a pretty high opinion of the human placenta, but I’ve just found out it’s used in a cream to help severe burns to heal. 🙏

Working with a colleague to start a Balint-style group for obstetrics & gynae trainees to discuss the significant challenges and emotions in their line of work. Anyone part of such a group who could share reflections on what works well? How to make space in busy surgical rotas? Opening up the room?

One reason to have friends of different ages and interests and backgrounds is so you can assemble a killer trivia team

Working with a colleague to start a Balint-style group for obstetrics & gynae trainees to discuss the significant challenges and emotions in their line of work. Anyone part of such a group who could share reflections on what works well? How to make space in busy surgical rotas? Opening up the room?

Henry Marsh lays out what he thinks are the paths for the NHS to survive, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social: A) A dedicated health tax B) A hybrid insurance system C) Making wealthier people pay to use the NHS observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

The cowardice of this Congress knows no bounds. Funding is already set for the vaccine research. The “stop the steal” goons are presently stealing the future of American health.

Good news from Gates. Would have been even better if there were recognition of the conditions that affect women differently and disproportionately when compared to men (from autoimmunity to mental illness) as well as distinct women's health areas.

Good news from Gates. Would have been even better if there were recognition of the conditions that affect women differently and disproportionately when compared to men (from autoimmunity to mental illness) as well as distinct women's health areas.

On the train in Spain. Not a single pre-packaged sandwich or sad plastic-boxed salad in sight. People breaking baguettes, passing round jars of marinated olives, unwrapping sliced cured meats. Glorious.

something I find interesting is that I get pushback specifically from the left whenever I post this piece, when I would argue that "being so in favour of people choosing to do whatever they want that you entirely disregard material conditions" is, to me, quite inherently (right) libertarian coded

Our group is delighted to have 2 pieces addressing women's healthcare and women's health research in @bmj.com Editor's choice this week @jocalynclark.bsky.social. Globally, we may be going backwards, but many of us are determinedly working against the current. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

"Even more concerning is that the purported benefits of estrogen for the heart are used to dissuade women from taking statins." HRT is oversold as primary prevention for CVD - the data do not support this @drjengunter.bsky.social vajenda.substack.com/p/estrogen-t...

When you read as a break from work and research, and then the novel you’re reading includes a graph like this:

When you read as a break from work and research, and then the novel you’re reading includes a graph like this:

Calling it: the best sparkling water of all time

This is why billionaires love AI

Hannah Hampton: - was born with a squint, needed 3 surgeries before the age of 3 - At age 12 was diagnosed with a depth-perception issue (still can't pour a drink without holding the cup) - has 1 long-sighted eye and 1 short-sighted, wears contact lenses www.thetimes.com/article/09c1...

Meirion Thomas is a media favourite because he’s unashamedly misogynistic and makes his point as if “it’s what everyone is thinking.” Can we retire him from public opinion pls.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

YouGov is good at disaggregating its data by gender and it makes for good stroytelling (as below). Biomedical research needs to do the same!

Here is my live posting on the FDA panel on SSRIs in pregnancy

Lately I keep having to choose between open access and paying my staff's salaries. It would be nice... not to have to do that.

That this is presented by the media as “policy” is why we are in this mess. These are not serious people. These are monkey tennis ideas, as divorced from the reality of criminal justice as you might expect from a company fronted by multi-millionaire simpletons.

Mifepristone has been used by millions of women for over two decades, with 25+ years of data supporting its safety and efficacy. www.statnews.com/2025/07/19/e...