A poem about suicidal empathy

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

Home from SCS. Got free books. Missed my bed. Time to sleep 😴

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. trib.al/ZWKt6Gc

Researchers are investigating whether GLP-1 drugs can help blunt cravings for nicotine, alcohol and opioids. go.nature.com/496UaW0

To all our fans, all the best for 2026! Looking forward to more cricketing fun the world over in the next twelve months.

Resolutions.

‘Even in the most unlikely places there is beauty’: stories of hope from newsrooms around the world

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

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. vajenda.substack.com/p/a-five-ste...

"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 ⬇️

'*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

When you got a good blurb and you want to show it off. cc @nickharkaway.com!

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...

#KillerTunes #MusicChallenge Day 17: Sadako (The Ring) The Moody Blues - Watching And Waiting

“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

“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

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 www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

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

A passion for prevention – meet Denise Lyons, President of the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association. www.croakey.org/a-passion-fo... #PHCmatters #HealthReform #ScopeOfPractice

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... #travel #travelling #travelwriter #travelblog

everyone who believes that AI will fix democracy: Read this piece by @himself.bsky.social‬ ‪@hahrie.bsky.social‬ knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

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.

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

Raising questions about governance of Primary Health Networks, and the balancing acts involved www.croakey.org/raising-ques... #publichealth

Read the brilliant Jack London short story 'To Build A Fire' on the blog today #nature #thewild #wilderness #jacklondon #shortstory #fiction #klondike #history themadridreview.com/f/to-build-a...

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 bjgp.org/content/75/7... #BJGP #GPworkforce #RedList

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'

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 www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

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.

Great book as one would expect from Prof McIntyre

Read it and agree- compelling #ProfRainaMcIntyre

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

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. »

Our new paper ⬇️⬇️

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!

Nigel Keale's 1965 version of '1984' is now on YouTube! I'd assumed it was wiped. youtu.be/vw8finsCwZ0?...

And also the grief of Hamlet Prince of Denmark for his father King Hamlet

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...

In @science.org today my essay on predicting and preventing Alzheimer's disease (open-access) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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 👇 wp.me/p15p2Q-ege

We cannot stay silent. 1000 of my Australian colleagues are calling for government action to end the loss of life in Palestine.

@kokikatokk.bsky.social Have you seen this ?

Fascinating discussion between David Runciman and @drodrik.bsky.social www.ppfideas.com/episodes/ide...

It is sad to see @bmj.com platforming quack therapies in 2025 The mind-over-matter approach to #MECFS has been debunked for years, but a cadre of psych devotees in the UK persist in peddling evidence-free miracle cures Pure and utter pseudoscience #pwME #LongCovid @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Peter Godwin Explores the Known and Unknown Sides of Those Closest To Him in EXIT WOUNDS on sale tomorrow! lithub.com/the-past-is-...

We live in an era in which there is too much information but not enough knowledge, and even less wisdom…For knowledge we need books, slow journalism, podcasts, in-depth analyses& cultural events.And for wisdom, among other things, we need the art of storytelling. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Hard hitting from @mark-ungrin.bsky.social on how a naive reliance on a cartoonish version of EBM killed public health. whn.global/trumps-croni...

How the Trump Administration’s funding cuts are harming people around the world www.croakey.org/how-the-trum... By Avril Benoît, CEO of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the United States.

Providing some medical history, on the importance of listening to patients www.croakey.org/providing-so...