Very impressed by letter in @theguardian.com from @jamescsanderson.bsky.social. We can’t talk about hospices without talking about inequalities in access to hospice care in less affluent areas and communities. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It looks like we're in for a dark and stormy weekend so why not stay in with a cosy drink and a Halloween playlist and make your entry for our Carve Your PhD contest! Carve the best representation of your thesis topic in pumpkin form and win the admiration of all, plus £25 book tokens! abdn.site/phD

Next week, we're launching our BMJ Medical Humanities Topic Collection on charity and children's hospitals. Thrilled to include authors from PhD to Prof, and studies from Finland & Mexico as well as the NHS. All the details are on the flyer and all the papers online now: mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference 2026 Submit your paper You are invited to submit a paper for the Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference 2026. The conference will be jointly hosted by Saïd Business School and the Nuffield Department of Primary Care…

“These waters should be the cleanest in the country, yet they are treated as open sewers by profit-driven water companies and poorly regulated industrial-scale agriculture” A new report has found that river pollution is twice as bad inside national parks as outside them: https://bit.ly/3K7l2wo

What kind of person doesn’t have a favourite shipping forecast area, I ask you?!

Join us at virtual @chawtonhouse.bsky.social for a Jane Austen Book Club event with @devoney.bsky.social to celebrate her new book, 'Wild for Austen'. You may have thought Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest. Tickets here: chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl... #booksky

Actors from The Archers shouldn’t be able to do other radio drama, it’s too confusing….why is David Archer on the run?!

Yet a new nuclear power station that will require huge quantities of water has been approved…

The government & NHS England to select 42 places to "lead the rollout of neighbourhood health & shape how it will be operationalised" www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r... @ewenspeed.bsky.social @kathcheckland.bsky.social @holmepaul.bsky.social @publichealthuom.bsky.social @drdon.bsky.social

If you're new to Bluesky: welcome! You made it! For any lovers of museums or the arts, we made a Starter Pack containing many museums, galleries and libraries that you can follow and enjoy in a single click. Have any suggestions of accounts we should include? Let us know! bsky.app/starter-pack...

How can the NHS look after its communities’ health while it’s polluting and trashing our environment…this should be a no brainer?!

📣Librarians working in a UK university library?📣 Want to help my research looking at the social backgrounds of UK academic librarians? Having a (maybe) final push for new participants in my questionnaire 👇 qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... #Skybrarians #LibrarySky #LISResearch