OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

I quote the work of @drjengunter.bsky.social who has used her Substack and social platforms to expose the doctors in the sex offender’s network

Two things are being overlooked in the #EpsteinFiles The complicity of doctors The extent of violence My new piece @bmj.com #IWD #Epstein #Healthwashing #VAW

It’s heartbreaking that this case implies the students have no sense of what their teachers went through to deliver their courses, or perhaps don’t care. People worked in their bedrooms with toddlers climbing round them, after bereavements where they could not attend funerals, while sick with

This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

Regular readers will already know how much I love country dancing and I am very into this article in today’s Cherwell (Oxford Student Newspaper) “Unlike so much at Oxford, this is a place where mediocrity can flourish”

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

In one email exchange, Jeffrey Epstein and Olivier Colom, former aide to French President Sarkozy, compared girls to marine life. Epstein: “some are like shrimp, you throw away the head and keep the body” “I can;t even think of the smell of black shrimp. ugh” (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

and concerning that this alone would undermine the rest of the review. As this paper describes, though, this is far from its only problem. 4/4 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

p.s. I had not seen that the review recommends gagging ethics committees on these matters. As the ex-Chair of an ethics committee, the idea that a random person with an axe to grind could demand that my committee ignore certain ethical questions is so bizarre 3/4

It's disappointing that academics spend time debunking neo-fascist rubbish seeping into the public consciousness, but here we are. Once again: "Biological sex" is not a simple binary, and it is not scientific or 'clarifying' to assert that it is. 2/4

Here's a great, and short, paper on the problems with the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data. 1/4 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Here's a great, and short, paper on the problems with the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data. 1/4 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

❌ Turning Point Gets Abortion Talk Cancelled Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk’s “anti-cancel culture” frat whose main gig was screaming “free speech on campus!” has successfully pressured Texas Tech to CANCEL a talk by a retired physician who provided third-trimester abortions. bit.ly/3M7Ehaz

Lest anyone think that not directly abusing children somehow absolves any of Epstein’s associates

This is good news. Now can the media please stop amplifying this obvious hate group. Imagine campaigning to *keep* conversion practices 🤢

After many false starts I’ve written p.1 of my book 🎉 The rest of it should be straightforward, right?

The most important public health story in America right now is that the Trump administration is kidnapping 2-year olds

🧵 In Health Affairs Forefront, I wrote about why fertility tracking must be grounded in evidence and reproductive justice - not co-opted by agendas that strip away other reproductive health care. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... Sharing a few key points in thread below 🤓

did a The Concept Of Sexual Harassment Itself write this article

Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The logical endpoint of the “censorship” moral panic

“She hurt his ego so he killed her”. All this, all of it, spirals back to a moment years ago when a woman said “no, don’t” to a man. All of this is about male entitlement and weakness. All of it is on men who got radicalised, who twiddled their thumbs and both sides-ed, who never called out a friend

In Musk's latest masterful gambit, instead of putting a stop to the wave of sexual abuse imagery generated by Grok, he's attempting to monetize it instead by only letting paying subscribers generate images in replies. This isn't curbing abuse, it's profiting off it www.404media.co/x-premium-gr...

For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...

Anyone posting on X now that it is documented as being a site for serious image based abuse, including CSAM risks being seen as complicit in that abuse. Everyone should be off the platform as a matter of urgency

And that's even aside from the CSAM side of things, which in a sane world would have shut the entire website down immediately and sent a whole lot of people to jail

Non-consensual image creation / "deep-fake porn" has been a problem for a while that the legal system has only just begun to grapple with but part of what makes the Grok thing much worse is that it's delivered instantly & directly into replies to punish women for publicly speaking or even existing.

I would very much like someone to ask someone in the government what the consequences would be for someone (unwittingly or otherwise) viewing CSAM on Twitter/X, because I'm not aware of any legislation passed recently that makes doing so legal.

This is great. Sound on for best effect.

The word abortion is really hard to write on my iphone because apparently the default is to treat it as if it’s a swear word. Any suggestions of how to fix? It’s very annoying #reprosky #abortionishealthcare

Russian billionaire Alex Gerko is amongst the funders of the Cambridge Union TERF society, reports The Times.

We are witnessing the horror of years of the slaughter of innocents in Palestine. And now the U.K. Government require us to witness - equally helpless - their decision to allow the deaths of protesters on remand who are innocent until proven guilty in our judicial system.

Ambulance has finally taken her to hospital

🧵1/ The Christmas @bmj.com is always an opportunity to use satire as a vehicle for serious health messaging. Borrowing from Jonathan Swift, I ask, if public health is to “work with industry,” why stop at alcohol and gambling? Why not go all the way… and collaborate with organised crime?

So did the BBC force out a science presenter because he holds views compatible with science and a belief in human rights?

I'm a big fan of @oxfordmutualaid.bsky.social and this is a wonderful, and moving read about why they're so special.

Also on linked in: people who want to drum trans people out of the girl guides happy to work with a very well known anti abortion lawyer #feminism

Men stop insulting women online challenge

This article about threats to charities and charity workers came out the same day that I’ve been insulted on linked in for daring to express my sadness at the girl guides excluding trans girls. The article doesn’t mention legal threats but it should have done www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.

Did you know the Aids Memorial Quilt has been fully digitised. You can click on a panel and find out more about the person behind it www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-... #WorldAidsDay

NHS directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via charity

Yikes. Quite a lot of questions raised here about processes in economics research, to say the least

This is appalling, and why reproductive justice is so important to fight for #reprosky ‘Our babies were taken after “biased” parenting test – now we're fighting to get them back’ - BBC News

A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!