The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities - on.ft.com/3IuZ5qz via @FT

Just found my previous 4 lost phones.

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

typical corrupt science

Spent this week on X because there was not enough information here about the military escalations between India and Pakistan. This platform has huge info gaps it needs to address if it wants wider adoption.

Men are disproportionately affected by nany diseases, including bloodstream infections, and have shorter life expectancy than women. DHSC is looking for the views of the public and healthcare staff to inform a Men's Health Strategy for England. Have your say: www.gov.uk/government/c...

Do you like situational awareness of infectious diseases (who doesn't). Do you like thinking about modelling with this aim in mind? Do you feel like its a bit of a niche and hard to find people to talk to about it? We have a forum: community.epinowcast.org for you.

Didn't expect taking myself to the movies would be the balm that it was for my rapidly deteriorating attention span. Anyway, go watch Sinners.

In only a few months, we've rolled back the clock on measles eradication by more than three decades. The last time we hit this benchmark in 1990, 9 children died. It took ten more years and intensive vaccination efforts after that to declare it eliminated. That was 25 years ago.

🚨 We've just published new data showing the current state of health inequalities in England caused by infectious diseases & environmental health hazards. Our blog post explores how factors like location, job or ethnicity can damage people's health ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/02/h...

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Eight year old: Who is the pope? Me: Begins to explain… Eight year old, interrupting: “It turns out I don’t care about that.”

Happy Perfect Date to everyone!

How much of Conclave was based on the real process of picking a new pope?

Negative partisanship is a helluva drug: Up until a few months ago, liberal and conservative Americans held pretty much the same views on free trade. Now, not so much…

Subway Cadbury Creme Egg Submelt (2023-2023): A 6-inch sub roll, filled with Cadbury Creme Eggs and grill-pressed until toasty golden brown. Was available for free, for one day only, at 4 Subway locations in the UK, with only 500 subs available at each location.

Shelly-Ann racing in her kid's Parents Day race at the school is the funniest thing I've seen all week LMAO

Job Opportunity - Senior Epidemiology Scientist at UKHSA You'd get to work with some brilliant colleagues in the Evaluation and Epidemiological Sciences division, part of the Chief Scentific Officer's Group. @ukhsa.bsky.social @iddjobs.org www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

*Fantastic* use of polling

In a rare bit of good news for everyone, the number of new podcasts being created is going down. on.ft.com/4ihZp86 Presumably because everyone already has one

given a choice between a subscription and accepting cookies, i’ll just close the tab. i already have too much to read

Economic uncertainty update: The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.

you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"

As a millennial, this is obviously not going to be my first recession but this is going to be the first one where I had some tiny stock market investments 😭

Left my phone on the windowsill to Shazam the music someone in the neighbourhood was playing in their garden

Today is the big day for Notifiable Diseases in England. Eight (8) diseases today join the list of those that doctors in England are required to notify suspected cases of to @ukhsa.bsky.social. Following a long consultation and a lot of work across UKHSA and DHSC, these additions will: (1/4)

It's hard to voice this without sounding incredibly elitist, but it is a huge problem for politics if people just don't have an idea how complex things work.

Do you have excellent administration and organisational skills? We are looking for an Administration Assistant to join our Healthy Lives team, providing high-quality support to help the team achieve its strategic goals. Find out more and apply by 23.59 on 12 April ⬇️ buff.ly/Vfa7Obe

How do people walk into the airplane toilet barefoot????

Here’s some anecdata for you @fphuk.bsky.social I mentored 12 people thru the Public Health Speciality Training programme application process this year. • 4 medics: 100% got an offer • 8 non-medics (5-20yrs PH work experience): 25% got an offer The exam (assessment center) was the main barrier.

This is such a fucking shame. So many people worked so hard to make NaNoWriMo what it was, and it was all squandered to prop up a plagiarism machine, truly betraying everything NaNo represented: the limitless creativity of normal people.

Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic molecule that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria — even strains resistant to commercial drugs — and is not toxic to human cells 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'd like to tell you a story about a scientist you may not have heard of, but who shaped a lot of modern health research... 🧵

Early data suggests 30% fewer hospital admissions in 75 to 79-year-olds from the new RSV vaccine in England. This is off the back of 40% of eligible older people getting vaccinated this winter: In the Lancet: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Omg it's Match Day in the US. Going to spend the rest of the evening watching strangers match into residency programs and cheering for them 🥹

What does this mean!?

If London had this kind of weather all the time, we would be too powerful

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.

Happy Valentine's day! My gift to you a new image, showing 15 English words that are related to the name "Valentine". #etymology #valentines #english

PhD position (London, UK) Improving Infectious Disease Forecasts and Forecast Evaluation with @sbfnk.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social Edwin van Leeuwen at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @epiforecasts.io More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2262

PhD position (London, UK) Improving Estimation and Analysis of Epidemiological Delays for Infectious Disease Outbreaks with @sbfnk.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social @seabbs.bsky.social at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social... More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2261

PhD position (London, UK) Improving Estimation of Reproduction Numbers in Dynamic Outbreak Contexts with @anne-cori.bsky.social @sbfnk.bsky.social Edwin van Leeuwen at @imperial-jameel.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2263

PhD position (London, UK) Machine Learning for infectious disease forecasting during epidemics and pandemics with @sbfnk.bsky.social Daniela de Angelis at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @epiforecasts.io More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2264