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.

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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.

“Each child was holding a water bucket, lying dead in place, covered in their own blood” There is no justification for the continued Israeli genocide in Gaza. How can our government continue to arm these Zionist thugs? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Throwback to cool (published 2024) control human infection model study that shows very durable immunity when inoculated using the (likely) same SARS-CoV-2 variant as that caused earlier infection. Turns out they couldn't get an infection going because of immunity! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“The potential health impacts of these cuts are at the magnitude of the health impacts of the pandemic — and even higher, potentially, in mortality.” www.ft.com/content/79f2...

On the same weekend a child dies of measles in the UK, with 16 others hospitalised in recent weeks, the Telegraph decide to profile someone who has repeatedly made misleading and debunked claims about vaccines...

A quick update from me on the REACT study which continues to follow the health impacts of the pandemic. @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @imperialperc.bsky.social @imperialsph.bsky.social

A real pleasure to meet @chrischirp.bsky.social in person, to catch up with Clare @profbambra.bsky.social and to hear about the amazing range of work of the new fellows!

Excellent, evidence-based advice on how to talk to people who are hesitant about vaccination.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in partnership with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust is seeking volunteers for a COVID-19 Challenge Study. Volunteers will be exposed to COVID-19 under controlled conditions and receive approx £4,935 for their time. Full details- shorturl.at/Y3W8B

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The scale of this this is quite appalling Over the last 21 years, USAID funding has saved an estimated 91M lives worldwide. The projections based on the Trump/MAGA destruction of USAID is 14M preventable deaths in the next 5yrs.

Eviler? Really?!! @nytimes.com

The Guardian published a deeply reported feature about what life was like for Gazans before Israel bombed out their schools, hospitals, and homes. It will break your heart. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

When she was a teenager, in the early 90s, @kindracrick.com asked her grandfather what he did all day in his officer at the @salkinstitute.bsky.social. "I think" was his answer. We need more of this.

Matthew Cobb gave a lecture on Francis Crick and his times after he was awarded the Bernal Prize by the Royal Society. It's on YouTube below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkXc...

Who are the people who make these decisions and send out the letters? Unbelievable that there appears to be no safeguarding or consideration of duty of care to children www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

And relax. I love the Lake District. First view from Muncaster Fell, second across Ennerdale Water

Event 🚨 Title: NIHR Research Inclusion Training Event Date: 25 June Time: 12:00-16:00 Venue: Hybrid To register or know more- imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @imperialmed.bsky.social @imperialnhli.bsky.social @imperialsci.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

This post introduces a new blog about a produced project to improve maternity care for Black families. This is part of a PhD study by one of my fantastic students. Have a read and subscribe to the blog!

Amazing evening watching the passionately anti-Trump Bruce Springsteen at Anfield, joined by Paul McCartney as a special guest!

Wow! Profs Clare Bambra, Christina Pagel, Roz Shafran, Melanie Calvert & me. All elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences this year! Good news for #longcovid, #equity, #patientvoices #womeninscience? @profbambra.bsky.social, @chrischirp.bsky.social acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/ac...

Thanks Al!

No one has more motivation to advance clinical discovery than patients, which is why Oxford Open #Immunology is launching a special issue spotlighting original patient-led research. Submit a paper—or tag a colleague who should! https://oxford.ly/3F6MWX4#Immunology #Immunosky @daltmann.bsky.social

Let’s address the superiority complex elephant in the room. Immigrants are not beggars. They are not lesser humans. They are people equal to the people whose votes are expected to be gained by all this hostile anti-immigrant rhetoric. If politicians won’t say that, then we’ll have to keep saying it.

A brilliant piece of poetry from Michael Rosen, clearly directed at Starmer and the current Labour Government.

See our letter to Keir Starmer on the hugely damaging cuts to overseas aid.

Wow. The FT laying it down there.