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The Lancet
6 days ago
On the cover, our latest Editorial—'Childhood cancer: progress, but not enough' Read this & more in our latest issue ▶️
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Until the Sky Falls Quiet - Documentary
Dr Siraj Sira and Dr Sanjay Adusumilli, two Australian doctors from Western Sydney, volunteer to go on a medical mission to Gaza. Filmed in real time with much of the footage captured by the doctors t...
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
A little shameless self promotion here. Was honoured to be asked to write the environmental health chapter for the MedSci 101 textbook Core Concepts in Health (5th Ed). It came out last week. Definitely a stretch for me, something I've never done. 1/
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
It was an excellent experience, relearning and reviewing all the important issues of our time. In particular, trying to tease out which bits of information was important enough for budding learners to absorb. here's hoping this makes for solid fundamental for future leaders/doctors. fin/
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
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Trish Greenhalgh
about 1 month ago
My response to those who view AI in qualitative research in polarised terms. I argue for the AI enthusiasts and the conscientious objectors to meet in the middle and deliberate.
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SNHUCGQAY6QNWU5BWYYW/full
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Ian Tattum
2 months ago
A poem about suicidal empathy
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John Launer
3 months ago
Just out: a fascinating collection of autobiographical essays by psychiatrists about how their personal struggles have intersected with their professional identity. Editor Glenn Roberts is one of the pioneers of narrative-based approaches to psychiatry and psychotherapy.
personally-speaking.com
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Personally Speaking – Personally Speaking
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Lexie Henning
3 months ago
Home from SCS. Got free books. Missed my bed. Time to sleep 😴
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The New York Times
3 months ago
After a convocation speech he gave about practicing kindness went viral, the writer George Saunders earned a public reputation for goodness — a narrative that he resists. On “The Interview,” Saunders explains how he’s just as flawed as anyone else. Read, watch or listen.
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Nature
3 months ago
Researchers are investigating whether GLP-1 drugs can help blunt cravings for nicotine, alcohol and opioids.
go.nature.com/496UaW0
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Audio long read: Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?
Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.
https://go.nature.com/496UaW0
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Iceland Cricket
3 months ago
To all our fans, all the best for 2026! Looking forward to more cricketing fun the world over in the next twelve months.
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Omar Sakr
3 months ago
Resolutions.
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The Guardian
3 months ago
‘Even in the most unlikely places there is beauty’: stories of hope from newsrooms around the world
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‘Even in the most unlikely places there is beauty’: stories of hope from newsrooms around the world
From the construction worker who won a place at medical school to an art exhibition in a country with no galleries, we asked journalists for their most optimistic tales of the year
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/31/stories-hope-2025-world-art-women-education-africa-somalia-guinea-bissau-afghanistan-india?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1767190187
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George Monbiot
4 months ago
Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by
@peterhutchison.bsky.social
and
@lucas-sabean.bsky.social
, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours!
youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0
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The secret history of Neoliberalism | The Invisible Doctrine | Full Film
YouTube video by Journeyman Pictures
https://youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0
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Dr. Jen Gunter
4 months ago
Medical misinformation and social media go hand in hand now. After a rousing chat with
@caulfieldtim.bsky.social
about his new book, I wrote my thoughts on a five-steop guide to recognizing and resisting medical misinformation.
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A Five-Step Guide to Combating Misinformation on Social Media
How fear, profit, and cherry-picked data shape your feed—and what to do about it.
https://vajenda.substack.com/p/a-five-step-guide-to-combating-misinformation
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Norma
4 months ago
"A Five-Step Guide to Combating Misinformation on Social Media #1: The Road to Misinformation is Paved with Supplements #2 Read Before You Share #3 Be Extra Mindful with Health Halos #4 Check the Scientific Consensus #5 Did the Post Make You Feel Like You Scored a Touchdown?"
#Misinformation
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Rhea Liang
5 months ago
'*Little* words, *little* statements make such a huge impact'. 👏 Fabulous podcast from
@collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
Miss Maria Satchi, Miss Tharani Nitkunan and Miss Tina Rashid with advice for everyone (not just women).
#MedSky
#GenderEquity
#ILookLikeASurgeon
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Leadership, Surgery & Motherhood
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Adam Christopher
5 months ago
When you got a good blurb and you want to show it off. cc
@nickharkaway.com
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William Dalrymple
5 months ago
As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our
@empirepoduk.bsky.social
special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad!
share.google/RS4MWp65kxNy...
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Nola Bob
6 months ago
#KillerTunes
#MusicChallenge
Day 17: Sadako (The Ring) The Moody Blues - Watching And Waiting
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Watching And Waiting (Remastered 2022)
YouTube video by The Moody Blues - Topic
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The Lancet
6 months ago
“These papers lay out for the first time a comprehensive description of health in the post-pandemic world.” 📄 A Lancet Editorial provides an overview of 3 new articles, presented at the
@worldhealthsummit.bsky.social
:
tinyurl.com/yke8vh56
#WHS2025
#GDBStudy
@ihmeuw.bsky.social
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Health progress in a post-COVID-19 world
The COVID-19 pandemic upended global mortality and morbidity. COVID-19 was ranked as the number one age-standardised cause of death globally in 2021 but by 2023 had dropped to the 20th cause of death ...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01947-6/fulltext?dgcid=twitter_organic_eds25_lancet
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The Lancet
6 months ago
“Opportunity depends on our health […] This Commission identifies adverse foods and adverse food environments as the often unacknowledged barrier to health, opportunity, and justice.” - Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, opens the 2025 EAT–Lancet launch. Livestream here ➡️
bit.ly/3VKhnaz
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Eric Topol
6 months ago
A long-awaited consensus statement on inflammation and heart disease "We have thus entered an era when the evidence linking inflammation with ASCVD is no longer exploratory but is compelling and clinically actionable."
@jaccjournals.bsky.social
open-access
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Tessa Dekker
6 months ago
We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults
@ucl.ac.uk
using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct!
t.ly/q3aYe
#neurojobs
#NeuroSkyence
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Research Assistant at UCL
Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Melissa Sweet
7 months ago
A passion for prevention – meet Denise Lyons, President of the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association.
www.croakey.org/a-passion-fo...
#PHCmatters
#HealthReform
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A passion for prevention
Introduction by Croakey: With decades of experience as a nurse, working in diverse settings across the United States and Australia,
https://croakey.org/a-passion-for-prevention/
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The Madrid Review
7 months ago
Today we pay a visit to Freya Stark, the woman who made travel writing intimate rather than imperial. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town,” she wrote, “is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
themadridreview.com/f/a-visit-to...
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#travelling
#travelwriter
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A Visit To Freya Stark, Travel Writer.
“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?” Freya Stark, A Winter in Arabia
https://themadridreview.com/f/a-visit-to-freya-stark-travel-writer
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Barbara Prainsack
8 months ago
everyone who believes that AI will fix democracy: Read this piece by
@himself.bsky.social
@hahrie.bsky.social
knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...
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AI and Democratic Publics
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-and-democratic-publics
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Trish Greenhalgh
7 months ago
A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.
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Nature
7 months ago
This week's audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI Scientists are searching for awareness in all its possible forms — insights from human brains could inform that quest.
go.nature.com/4n2Jk8T
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Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI
Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.
https://go.nature.com/4n2Jk8T
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Croakey Health Media
8 months ago
Raising questions about governance of Primary Health Networks, and the balancing acts involved
www.croakey.org/raising-ques...
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Raising questions about governance of Primary Health Networks, and the balancing acts involved
https://www.croakey.org/raising-questions-about-governance-of-primary-health-networks-and-the-balancing-acts-involved
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The Madrid Review
8 months ago
Read the brilliant Jack London short story 'To Build A Fire' on the blog today
#nature
#thewild
#wilderness
#jacklondon
#shortstory
#fiction
#klondike
#history
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To Build A Fire - a brilliant short story by Jack London
First published in 1908, To Build a Fire has been called the finest expression of naturalism in American short fiction. A stark and unforgiving tale of survival, it tells the story of a solitary man w...
https://themadridreview.com/f/to-build-a-fire---a-brilliant-short-story-by-jack-london
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Koki Kato
9 months ago
One of the things that the UK, a country that has led the world in general practice and family medicine, can do in collaboration with doctors in the red-list countries
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#GPworkforce
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An international primary care workforce: addressing the ethics beyond the red list
In March 2025, the Nuffield Trust published a report1 that examined ‘Health in the UK after Brexit’. This highlighted the instability of the UK healthcare workforce following the end of free movement ...
https://bjgp.org/content/75/756/295/tab-e-letters#noblesse-oblige
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Lady Bibliophage
9 months ago
A lot of people dismiss those whose beliefs are rooted in misinformation as uneducated. As Uyi Omoregie and I discovered researching our book, Misinformation Matters, even a PhD is no protection against conspiracy theories: you're convinced your intellect makes you better able to see what is 'true'
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy
9 months ago
Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report – 16 June to 29 June 2025 "In the last fortnight there was a +12.7% increase in COVID cases, a +55.4% increase in influenza cases, and a +7.3% increase in RSV cases" 🔹COVID: 16,137 🔹Influenza: 32,485 🔹RSV: 12,990
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EdDesigner
10 months ago
Jo, have you met the amazing surgeon Dr
@liangrhea.bsky.social
? I think you'd have much to chat about. Not only is she a kickass surgeon she's also a tiny petite ballerina sized person who educates on gender in medicine.
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Great book as one would expect from Prof McIntyre
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Read it and agree- compelling
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The Lancet
10 months ago
Whether by choice or by force, 1 billion people are on the move today 🗺️ Our latest Editorial explores uncertainties in migrant and refugee health, including the impacts of hostile framing:
hubs.li/Q03r_pHS0
#WorldRefugeeDay
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Juliet Johnson
10 months ago
Solnit - « Behind these stories [blaming sexual assault victims, blaming Ukraine for Russia’s invasion, blaming liberals for the misdeeds of the Trump regime] is the assumption that some people matter more than other people, and that we who matter less have to pander to those who matter more. »
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Trish Greenhalgh
10 months ago
Our new paper ⬇️⬇️
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Irish Doctors for the Environment
10 months ago
Alongside our sister organisations across the Nordic countries, we put together this short video calling for health action through climate action. Please watch it and share it!
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The Patient Earth is Sick: A Call to Action from Healthcare Professionals
YouTube video by Irish Doctor For the Environment
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek
10 months ago
Nigel Keale's 1965 version of '1984' is now on YouTube! I'd assumed it was wiped.
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1984 by George Orwell & Nigel Kneale - starring David Buck and Jane Merrow (1965)
YouTube video by Classic British Telly
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And also the grief of Hamlet Prince of Denmark for his father King Hamlet
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William Dalrymple
10 months ago
There will be a brilliant team LIVE BROADCASTING our event at St James's Church Piccadilly, London this Friday May 30th, 2025 at 7.30 pm 'A Golden String: William Blake in Words and Song' is a fundraiser for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) Link here:
www.youtube.com/live/4Ft0NGJ...
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A Golden String: WILLIAM BLAKE IN WORDS AND SONG - Fundraiser for MAP
YouTube video by Susheela Raman
https://www.youtube.com/live/4Ft0NGJ-hro
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Eric Topol
10 months ago
In
@science.org
today my essay on predicting and preventing Alzheimer's disease (open-access)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Predicting and preventing Alzheimer’s disease
With all the advances in both the science of aging and artificial intelligence (AI), we are in a propitious position to accurately and precisely determine who is at high risk of developing Alzheimer’s...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady3217
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K M Flett
11 months ago
Alexei Sayle has attempted to explain the basics of Marxism through a Tik Tok dance, but has he got the correct line on dancing? Engels had specific views on the dance question 👇
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Alexei Sayle explains Marxism thru a Tik Tok dance,has he got the right Marxist dance line?
Alexei Sayle’s latest podcast has a crack at explaining basic Marxist theory through a Tik Tok dance. Its an innovative way to address the issue but has Sayle got the right Marxist dance line…
https://wp.me/p15p2Q-ege
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Mariam Tokhi
11 months ago
We cannot stay silent. 1000 of my Australian colleagues are calling for government action to end the loss of life in Palestine.
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John Springford
11 months ago
Fascinating discussion between David Runciman and
@drodrik.bsky.social
www.ppfideas.com/episodes/ide...
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Ideas of Globalisation: What’s Gone Wrong? w/Dani Rodrik
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