🚨 Prevention and systems-thinking klaxon 🚨 "The Bradford zone was followed by a reduction of about 25% in GP visits for heart and breathing problems and survey data shows that the central London zone was followed by a reduction in the likelihood of a person taking sick leave."

It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister. It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage. Others seem to be met with silence.

Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control https://aje.news/ke1p75

Climbed Pen Y Fan with the husb yesterday 🥳🌲

BREAKING - Parliamentary Standards Commissioner will launch an investigation into Farage's £5m donation.

Sign the @compassoffice.bsky.social open letter urging progressive leaders to cooperate at the next election: actionnetwork.org/forms/unite-...

What is PCOS, what are the symptoms and treatment, and why is it being renamed PMOS?

Reform UK Resigned, lost seat, sacked. Since the local elections 2026 Lost Seat Mike Morris Clarence Mitchell Resigned Daniel Devaney Stuart Prior Jay Cooper Suspended Ashley Monk Jo Monk Ben Rowe #ReformShitshow

Reform UK councillor quits days after winning seat at Essex County Council over alleged racist posts

Since genes encode proteins, let's spend a few years talking about whether outcomes are "proteomic" instead of "genetic", and see whether this fosters humility and nuance when talking about such things 🧐

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

My first first-author paper is part of a special edition of Brain, Behavior and Immunity - Health. Editorial available now! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Zack Polanski will use a major speech on his economic policy to describe the UK as a country where successive governments have turned it from a manufacturing economy to one where the basics of life have been privatised and are rented back at crushing cost. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks, Ecosia 🥰

"if a party is offering to tackle the cost of living crisis and is showing moral consistency in international human law, that's probably a party worth voting for" 💚

Britain loses more than £75bn every year to poverty. Lost output. NHS strain. Lower productivity. The Nicolson Report asks: why is prevention still framed as unaffordable? Tom Burgess reports eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/welfare...

Just spent a couple of minutes ordering some things from *not Amazon* that I could have bought from Amazon, and it feels good

A very worthwhile read 💚 www.saasuk.org/articles/gre...

Does hair cortisol mediate the effects of sexual and gender minority stress on depression and anxiety? A structural equation modelling approach: https://osf.io/anzey

"It is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food”... “conflict and military escalation will become more likely... as groups compete for arable land and food and water resources”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

👉NEW -- Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders by John McEvoy Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain. www.declassifieduk.org/israel-pays-...

Zack Polanski: Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake up call for Britain

Rachel Shabi bringing some vital common sense and perspective to the increasingly absurd and hysterical Maccabi furore

Multi-millionaire Tory Nadhim Zahawi, who supported Liz Truss' disastrous mini-Budget and once charged taxpayers £5k to heat his stables, has just joined Reform.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

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I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.

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❤️🎄🇵🇸 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊: Buy “Lullaby” by Together for Palestine for £1.98 *right now* to make it the UK Christmas # 1. All profits go to Palestinian-led aid orgs. Together for Palestine are: Nai Barghouti, Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Mabel & more. Please buy it & repost this! xx linktr.ee/T4Plive

Actual Good News: Labour has launched its fair funding formula for local councils. The aim is to push more cash towards deprived communities like Middlesbrough and Birmingham. And less for wealthier areas such as Kensington and the Home Counties. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Stop scrolling and look at my cats

Do consider buying and/or repeatedly streaming Lullaby by Together for Palestine to make it number 1 this Christmas, and to raise money for charity 💔 togetherforpalestine.org

FYI for UK disabled people… If you are in hospital for over 28 days, PIP usually stops until discharge. But there are circumstances which mean some can still receive the benefit payments. These include terminal illnesses or life limiting conditions. Under DWP guidance… 1/2

I just found out that this exists! A visualisation tool to see whereabouts specific trait-associated genetic variants are expressed in the body in fine detail (mouse embryo) and it's incredible! yanglab.westlake.edu.cn/gsmap/visual... e.g. sensitivity to environmental stress

I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

Thank you Zack Polanski for saying what needs to be said ‘This is extreme. This is inhumane. This is government of cowards. ‘I am furious - so many people are furious’ 👏

There's a new documentary today called "Hitler's DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator" - but DNA is not a blueprint! See below.

A reminder that there are things we can do. I give to War Child / Save the Children / etc near my late Mum's birthday, because it's what she would have done 💔❤️‍🩹 Donate here: www.warchild.org.uk/donate-today...

Farage: epic grifter

As MSP sang: "prejudice burns brighter when it's all we have to burn"

Stop calling it a "war" when one side is committing genocide against the other (who doesn't have a military) #FFS

Can we all just shout about how despicable it is to scapegoat migrants for everything? Can we just stop being too polite or shy about it? Can we condemn it at work, with friends, family, on SM, everywhere? Can we just not keep calm & carry on until it’s too late? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...