Paracetamol is one of the few painkillers pregnant people can take. This is further proof that the GOP (and world in general I think) hates women & wants us to suffer

The Hove Promenade parkrun actually started on time this morning, and I was late! Spent entire time chasing 30min pacer 😭

"The Nazi regime quickly targeted German universities for restructuring according to Nazi principles.." United States Holocaust Museum perspectives.ushmm.org/collection/h...

Right-wingers are calling for my arrest. You know why? Because they know I’m the only candidate in my race who will actually stand up to ICE and Trump. And they’re right.

And that, folks, is why I don't own any Dyson products.

So the ppl at Stephen Yaxley Lennon’s march who spoke to camera on wanting to “protect women & girls” are going to be really vocal about dangers of white young men now? & Mr Farage & his supporters too? & campaigning to hold owners of Snapchat to account? No? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Any more GPs who had to reduce their hours or stop working due to Long Covid who want to tell the Guardian about it?? #LongCovid #GeneralPractice www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

For those who pay attention to UK politics, the Liberal Democrats and #LDConf A bunch of TERFs tried first thing this morning to impose a transphobic policy on our internal elections (they wanted to exclude trans women from the gender balance criteria) They failed, spectacularly.

One systematic review found evidence that Covid vaccination can help to improve symptoms of Long Covid, though the authors noted that all of the studies were observational and further research is needed pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I’m worried we may have hit peak stupid

The briefing draws on research by @jhorwood.bsky.social & colleagues showing that pharmacy-based PrEP awareness & delivery is both feasible & acceptable. "To realise its full potential, we need comprehensive training for pharmacy staff & targeted co-produced campaigns to raise awareness." J Horwood

Pharmacies should be at the heart of #HIV prevention by raising awareness of and offering #PrEP - a pill that stops HIV transmission. 💊 Recommendations have been published in a new @policybristol.bsky.social briefing. 📰News: tinyurl.com/ywu9xre5 📄Policy briefing: tinyurl.com/5n6bhzj3

I am REALLY appreciating how transformative LLMs eg MS co-pilot and Chat GPT, can be for academic work. One instruction to critique a manuscript in the style of reviewer 2 throws up so many blind spots I failed to see after staring at same words for weeks.👀 #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AISky

Useful abbreviations for the time-pressed on-line reader. #PhDchat #ECRchat #PhDForum #academicchatter @tomgauld

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

Diploma in Child Health of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

When I say "science is not value free," this is one example.

You know what, yeah, people have concerns. They're concerned about paying bills, renting or buying a house, buying food, getting an NHS appointment etc. None of that's down to migrants. If you attend a rally organised by Tommy Robinson, don't play the "legitimate concerns" card. You're a racist. 1/

Anti-science movements (e.g., anti-vaccine, anti-psychiatry) reflect failed and harmful ideologies: They’re not about any one person. But, for example, if you feel offended by being labeled an anti-vaxxer, then perhaps try not regularly parroting anti-vaccine propaganda.

Ed Davey has written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join him in condemning Elon Musk's remarks yesterday

If Graham Linehan were an equation ...

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

GB News asked me on to discuss the views of Arthur Laffer. We ended up discussing the role of GB News in spreading misinformation and inciting anti-immigrant sentiment. youtu.be/44kozl7GZp0?...

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

This you? Just two hours later?

The man, who did not give his name, identified himself as a former criminal from Kent who has spent 26 years in prison. “Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated,” he said. “Someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer.”

So how awful do fellows have to be before they are expelled from The Royal Society? If the Royal Society expels Musk, it could harm trust in science www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary . Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.

Remember how scary it was for the 36 hours where it felt like the Right could explode into violence as a repercussion of an assassination? That's what our trans brothers & sisters feel like every fucking day We have to protect them at all costs. They are our line in the sand; not a bargaining chip.

Every year without fail, I cry 🇪🇺🇬🇧❤️😭

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

The silence is deafening. A lot of people are feeling anxious and scared tonight. For their loved ones. For themselves. For their community. For their country. For our country. Those who lead us must use their voices, unequivocally, now.

Have the Labour Party front bench been kidnapped or do they not care

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

#BoycottX #DestroyX Xitter is only the 'go-to' place for anything, because so many people/pols/orgs/co's still choose, of their own free will, knowing it is a fascist platform owned by elon musk, to give X that much status and power by continuing to engage there. WALK AWAY.

Elon Musk has gone completely out of his mind. He's ranting and raving violently by the hour now. I believe this is what is called stochastic terrorism. It is a direct attempt to incite mass violence. He even reposted a *hit list*. As dangerous a man as America has ever seen.

So someone can get arrested for saying genocide of Palestinians has to stop. But Elon Musk, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and their followers like that person in the clip can incite violence but they get away scot-free? Here is the government's own criteria for terrorism www.gov.uk/government/p...

Looks like free-speech absolutism is relative.

🧪 I often think of Albert Einstein leaving Germany.

Less than one percent of seats in Parliament. But featured in a quarter of news bulletins. That's some impartiality right there BBC 👀 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/12/bbc-under-fresh-pressure-over-extent-of-reform-uk-nigel-farage-coverage

Left: "Mass immigration.. We're losing our identity, our culture and our safety" Right: "My mum's Yemeni-Israeli, my dad's Russian-Polish, they met in America, my dad grew up in Australia, and my children are half Chinese" Man a product of mass immigration is complaining about mass immigration 🤷‍♂️

Reform is setting the "political weather" because the BBC is giving it a platform for setting the "political weather".🤷 BBC under pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage - featured in more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

Wakefield did that with MMR and the Lancet published it. A case series of 12 children. It took 12 years for the Lancet to retract it. That's how all this mess started.

Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal are now all considering boycotting Eurovision unless Israel are removed. Like if they should. RT if Israel should be kicked out

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did