Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Please retweet.

A new initiative in partnership with our REACT study to help speed up demential trials. www.itv.com/watch/news/u...

This painting, "Sidekicks II" by Michele Poirier-Mozzone, is an oil on canvas from her Massachusetts-based "Fractured Light" series, exploring water and sunlight's effects on humans. It depicts an underwater perspective looking up.

Finally!! www.thetimes.com/article/5e62...

So proud of the work of my PhD student, @sarindiary.bsky.social for her inspiring work addressing racism in maternity care, alongside community partners like Phayza Fudlalla, pictured with Sarindi in this report, who works with @imperialperc.bsky.social. www.imperial.ac.uk/stories/sari...

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

One of the more interesting headlines of the day www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

👇🏼 the reality for tens of thousands of people with Long COVID

Epstein and his male buddies unmasked. Christ, what a sordid lot they are. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Astounding words and performance. Take 2 mins to listen to it.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Absolutely needs to happen…why was Mandelson organising unminuted meetings with #Palantir & the PM

While we’re all distracted by ICE, Greenland & other Trump political theater, US quietly leaves WHO & in true Trump character reneges on $270 million debt, breaking the law.. abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/u...

Thank you, @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, for this public service; we have all wanted to see the protocol of this deeply unethical trial being funded by RFK Jr in Guinea-Bissau, I’m grateful you obtained it and have published it insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

I feel seen...

Our latest article in @thelancet.com looks at COVID vaccine hesitancy in a large population study in the UK. Most vaccine hesitant people go on to get vaccinated.... a useful summary here in Nature. Link to the original article in reply www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Anyone else feel like we are living through Roth's The Plot Against America?

Shutting down X is no longer a matter of free speech. It is a matter of child protection.

Would help if they allowed dogs on the pier… IMHO www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Congratulations Jeanne!

Jeanne has long been one of my heroes. Now even more!

Way to go, Dr. Marrazzo! Push back and hold these folks accountable for their actions!

Interesting - I've recently received several draft articles from my research group for my comment/edits. I'm assuming they were all on their "must do by Xmas" list... Now i've got to see if I can turn them all round by then as well....!

Nature: 'Long-COVID research just got a big funding boost: will it find new treatments?' 'The German government has committed half a billion euros for research on long COVID and other post-infection syndromes.' By Michael Marshall www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sec. Kennedy must appear before the HELP Committee to explain why his vaccine advisory committee, in strong disagreement with the medical & scientific community, voted to end a decades-long recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine. This vaccine saves lives.

As the COVID Enquiry reports now, some of use made these points at the time www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As the COVID Enquiry reports now, some of use made these points at the time www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

2 weeks to read this before meeting up with the author!! @matthewcobb.bsky.social

Fresh call, from @rcn.org.uk and @bma.org.uk, to recognise #LongCovid as occupational disease for #nurses www.nursinginpractice.com/clinical/res...

Excellent news. 🙏 Thank you to all who campaigned for the National Covid Memorial to be preserved.

This

This is the statue that the king has apparently removed from Kew Gardens and public view

OK, I have set up a Substack and posted an article there going into much more detail about Francis Crick and the poet Michael McClure. If the link between science and art is your thing, or you just like psychedelic poetry, have a read:

UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.

The opening paragraph to Crick’s thesis - about protein structure - from July 1953. Ok, he was 37, but even so the writing is so clear. Those last two sentences effectively set out a global research programme that would last decades.

Great review in Nature of new book on Crick by my friend @matthewcobb.bsky.social . www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New article exploring how Long COVID affects people at work, highlighting the need for adaptable work accommodations to support employment and well‐being. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @nikki-s.bsky.social @imperialperc.bsky.social @imperialbrc.bsky.social

Why do you call Israeli people held illegally in Gaza “hostages”, but call Palestinian people illegally held in Israel (without charge or trial) “detainees”? @c4news.bsky.social

And here we are. Another damn’d thick, square book. A real wrist-sprainer. UK edition (pictured) has endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard and colour plates. Both U.K. and US editions have sections heralded by a double page photo as here. Loads of illustrations. Out in November!

First pic of the moon tonight

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Yes, this is what Starmer should say, but he won't. Because Labour does not dare acknowledge what is obvious to everyone - Brexit was a disaster. Instead, it obediently follows the tramlines set out by May and Johnson, eyed from the sidelines by the Red Wall oldies, the Mail and the Telegraph.

Interesting critique of growing group-think that COVID policies did no good, only harm. Pandemic armchair epidemiologists seem to think public health is about certainty. In reality it's about managing uncertainty. All interventions do harm, some also do some good www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We set up the Imperial Patient Experience Research Centre (ERC) 14 years ago (!) to promote participatory approaches to improving healthcare and biomedical research. And we've finally got our own Linkedin page - give us a follow www.linkedin.com/company/impe...

Congratulations Jeremy!

Prof Lord Ara Darzi, writing in @observeruk.bsky.social, warns that axing the Fleming Fund, Britain’s landmark antimicrobial resistance initiative ( #AMR ), would be a deadly retreat. With 5 million annual global deaths, the stakes couldn’t be higher. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

1.5 million Gazans is 75% of the population, half of whom are children. This is *deliberate* starvation. Just one agency - UNRWA - has stated today it has enough food stockpiled outside the border to feed the population for months. The Israeli govt must let food and water in & stop the killing.

“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

This is how it looks when a Sea Anemone runs away from a Starfish.