A new study by Rose Higgins and colleagues quantifies changes in opioid prescribing in people on orthopaedic waiting lists to understand the impact of longer elective wait times during the covid-19 pandemic. https://bit.ly/3YjUHyX #Opioids #Covid19

I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

🎵 AND I SAID WHAT ABOUT...

This article makes me happy. A rising tide lifts all boats. @igalia.com do good work, in multiple senses of the word good. www.igalia.com/2025/11/help...

This contains the best Surfshark sponsored segment I've ever seen

PyCon UK is in a couple of weeks, and it won't be the same without Michael. RIP.

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

🚨 Funded PhD opportunity 🚨 Work with large-scale electronic health record data from #OpenSAFELY to optimise vaccine effectiveness estimation for respiratory viruses. Apply here 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 Just a couple of days left until PyCon UK 2025 closes! 🚨 Got a great idea for a talk, workshop or Young Coders’ session? Share it with the community! 🌟🐍 Find out how and why to submit a proposal here 👉 buff.ly/PP9xos3 🗓️ CfP close: 23:59 (Europe/London) Sunday 11 May #PyConUK2025 #Python #CfP

Simple way to reasonably run a background process in a docker container. Saves setting up s6 or similar. Uses the run-one-constantly tool from the run-one package to keep it running, and the default docker init process to propagate signals to all child processes. gist.github.com/bloodearnest...

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

Ever wanted to boss me around?

We really enjoyed welcoming so many people to our OpenSAFELY Community Symposium in London last week. We're busy making videos of every session, so there'll be an archive for those of you that couldn't make it While we work on that - here's a teaser :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv_Z... #OpenSAFELY

My expansive pose

Just sympin'

If you've been wondering where I went: my team in Oxford (60 of us!) build beautiful tools for NHS data. We help researchers work on the whole nation's GP records while protecting - provably - everyone's privacy. It's big potatoes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...