You cannot gut global health systems, attack scientific institutions, withdraw international cooperation, and then act shocked when disease response worsens. Public health depends on collaboration and expertise – things this admin continues to undermine. Gift Article: zurl.co/GottB

Do yourself a favour, cheer yourself up for a few mins by reading this.

The news has been 😮‍💨. One quote this poster clings to when times are scary is from Fred Rogers: “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” We are comforted & inspired by helpers like Om Mohammed. Keep helping & fighting for what’s right, friends. Have a good weekend!

This is what Farage, Reform and Brexit have done. This is where a very ugly obsession with immigration leads. To this. To “appalling levels of racism and unfair treatment.” To ordinary people being made miserable, day in, day out, at work. What a shameful place to be. www.tuc.org.uk/news/shockin...

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Consider how some of the poorest people in the world handled Ebola - the courage and selflessness.

Today Trump "negotiated" with his private criminal defense lawyer—a man he made AG for this corrupt purpose—the theft of $1.8B in taxpayer money so that it could be given to far-right terrorists in open rebellion against America. It's the most corrupt act by a POTUS in history.

🚨 Experts call for #ClimateChange to be declared a global public health emergency in new PECCH report 🌍⚕️ @lshtm.bsky.social researchers highlight the report’s findings, and outline what leaders across Europe must do to tackle the growing climate and health crises 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

There is no difference between using unchecked AI which hallucinates references and making up references. Those defending AI use are adopting a morally identical stance to justifying falsification.

Prejudice toward one community is prejudice towards us all.

Earlier this wk, UNICEF said 200 children have been killed & 806 injured since fighting resumed between Hezbollah-Israel on 2 March – equating to nearly 14 casualties per day These figures were released in a report on May 13. Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon have since killed & injured more kids

📍Lebanon | For Farah, displacement means more than leaving home. It means finding ways to keep her children safe and reassured while everything around them is uncertain. Like thousands of mothers in Lebanon and around the world, she keeps caring for her family through the hardest conditions.

"Ordinary Britons" don't go to Nazi rallies

But if you want to get things done in life, rather than trusting young men who want power and still think the West Wing was a documentary, you're better off asking a busy person who is furious at seeing the rights of everyone she loves and worried about being curtailed

Sooner than later, we will arrive at this point www.theguardian.com/environment/...

After having consulted the #DRC & #Uganda where the #Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus is known to be currently occurring, I determine that the epidemic constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), as defined in the provisions of IHR. My statement: bit.ly/4wGGiwX

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

🚨 Right now, Tommy Robinson is in London claiming to speak for us. It’s the ultimate distraction from the very real problems we face. But we know the truth: migrants aren’t the problem, far-right billionaires are. ✊ Share this post to make it clear: Tommy Robinson does not speak for us.

The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has now been confirmed as the Bundibugyo strain. This is not good news, there are no licensed or candidate vaccines for this strain. No monoclonal antibodies. I am sure experimental antivirals will be tried. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

Uganda reports that a person has died of Ebola there, too. A 59yo Congolese man. www.facebook.com/100063077148...

Data comes from #INRB in #DRC (one of the main national labs and research institutes). What this would indicate is that there is no approved of currently field-trialed vaccine available (Ervebo (rVSV-ZEBOV, is only proven effective against the Zaire strains and highly effective). #ebola

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundred of thousands ended up as homeless refugees in Gaza

Christopher Harborne is a new entry on the Sunday Times rich list top ten - worth £18 billion. He bought Reform for 0.1% of his fortune...

Well said @carolinelucas.bsky.social ! Getting PR is the top priority to stop Reform from ever obtaining a FPTP 'majority', and also ultimately to give all of us, of whatever party, the chance to vote with our hearts.

🚨🆕 Reports of a new #Ebola outbreak in DRC are very concerning, with at least 65 deaths already reported. This is a reminder that Ebola remains a major global health threat and that rapid detection, IPC and support for frontline healthcare workers are critical to limiting further spread.

Africa CDC is sounding the alarm over an Ebola outbreak in DRC, where 13 of 20 samples tested were positive for Ebola - likely a non-Zaire ebolavirus. So far, there are about 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths.

A BANGER from Rama Salla Dieng... africasacountry.com/2026/03/sene...

How long do we have to continue with the utter farce of this deeply corrupt spiv being considered seriously for our highest political office? Farage should be nowhere near power… but it seems it’s being bought for him by a crypto billionaire who thinks everything’s for sale. Including our democracy.

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"The health ministry in Lebanon says Israeli airstrikes killed 22 people, including 8 children, in the south of the country yesterday"

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

The far right might be loud. But we know that hope is louder, love is brighter and unity is stronger. We won’t let division define us. 👉 Share this post to make it clear: the majority stands for love over hate.

‘The Speech I Wish Keir Starmer Had Given’ Alexandra Hall Hall delivers the big reset speech she wishes the Prime Minister actually had made after Labour's local elections defeats

Wake up! The House of Commons Education Committee says fifty - yes fifty - Higher Education Institutions are at risk of insolvency within the next three years. Wake up! committees.parliament.uk/work/9012/hi...

A British political system ruthless enough to topple failing leaders when they have run out of road still looks a lot healthier than an American political system that can't bring itself to topple a failing leader that has tumbled into complete insanity

Can I just ask, #r4today, as you seem to be very keen to talk about and investigate Polanski’s council tax issue, why not the same feverish scrutiny over the far more troubling and glaringly corrupt £5M bribe Farage took from that crypto billionaire, Harborne? We can hear your strings being pulled.

Do many people know that the ICC judges, once sanctioned by the US, almost immediately lost access to credit cards, google, amazon & microsoft cloud, etc. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...

Let's also spare a thought for the poor council officers in Reform-controlled councils, going into work on Monday morning. They have no choice but to work with people who believe they can sack half of them, cut council tax, and still somehow magically deliver improved services. Grim.

@unuinweh.bsky.social has signed a "strategic partnership" with Nestlé. @ununiversity.bsky.social Due Diligence Policy should have prevented this. The irony: @unu-iigh.bsky.social has spent years warning against this kind of corporate capture of global health.

So shameful "The world’s richest men are crushing the world’s poorest children" @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

Thank you to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social for holding NASEM to account

What politics should be like: “What effect will this policy have on health and climate change?” What politics is actually like: “What effect will this policy have on the gilt market and how will the Daily Mail demonise it?

If the government wants to tackle the "online breeding ground of antisemitism" why on earth are Keir Starmer, the government and @heidialexander.bsky.social still posting on X? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

French police are forcibly separating asylum seeking families as they try to board small boats. On Saturday, this resulted in a 3-year-old crossing the Channel alone, his mother left behind. Full thread and story below: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“Politicians who bleat on about overdiagnosis don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re one step away from Robert Kennedy" “I don’t know any parent of an autistic child that says: ‘I really want a diagnosis because, I know it’s an exaggeration, but I want the diagnosis just to feel better’"

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt #Monday

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Exactly.