BBC News - Fame lowers life expectancy for musicians, study finds www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC News - Cambridge 'swimming cap' brings hope for brain-injured babies - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News - How the simmering freedom of speech row reached boiling point - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh blimey! I'll add the paper to next months Journals Club. Politicians saying the experts are wrong is always an interesting discussion - brace yourselves! BBC News - Trump will reportedly link pain reliever Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical www.bbc.com/news/article....

Looking forward to running the national critical appraisal course tomorrow. An interesting RCT and a lot of number crunching.

BBC News - Breakthrough cancer drug doubles survival in trial www.bbc.com/news/article...

Enjoyable day in London with @rigsbyhatstand.bsky.social visiting the Wallace Collection to see the Grayson Perry exhibition and then on to Balham for an interesting evening of thought provoking writing

BBC News - New pill can slow progression of incurable breast cancer www.bbc.com/news/article...

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Explore the essentials of ethical research! Dive into key insights for critical appraisal here: 👉 buff.ly/4biyAyR #EthicalConsiderations #ResearchEthics #CriticalAppraisal #ResponsibleResearch #HealthcareEthics

A thread about coin flips and what they can tell us about changing minds... Imagine you’re holding a coin you believe is biased, so heads comes up about a quarter of the time - though you’re not sure. It could be bit higher or lower. Your belief about heads follows this probability distribution: 1/

Sounds like a plan

Very impressive and moving tribute.

Just finished the first of two critical appraisal sessions for groups in the Wye Valley this week. Lovely lot who worked really hard on predictive values and confidence intervals. So good to have such a motivated group working together!

Something to upset the Librarians here. The Anaesthetics library - shelved according to colour???

Last minute preparations for our 6th annual Critical Appraisal Day for the editors of the BNF at the Royal Society of Pharmaceuticals in London on Wednesday. Hopefully this fellow will still be waiting for me in reception at their museum.

Looking forward to a full house for today's national Critical Appraisal Day! We've got representatives from all over the country learning about RCT, Meta Analysis, Diagnostic data and how we can use statistics in health care. Then off to our Christmas party. ☺️

#RiverTees #Photography #Waterfall #LowForce #HighForce #Tees - High & Low Force waterfalls, river Tees 85 miles long starts in North Pennines & reaches the North Sea at industrial Teesside.

In our eighth special report on the Lucy Letby case, published online today, MD points out the danger of publishing a book about a killer nurse before her appeals’ process is completed is that you may end up being sued if she wins! ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

Painted wall of the anti-fascist Golden Smog pub in Stockton-on-Tees, NE England, painted in Spanish Republican colours and the three-point star of the International Brigades. I'd love a pint in the @thegoldensmog.bsky.social this afternoon.