Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Our paper about GP access is out now (TLDR patients and receptionists are engaged in a quest to get the prize of an appointment but are thwarted by digital barriers and practice systems) doi.org/10.1111/1467... #NIHR @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

@gwr.com why oh why oh why do you run short trains to London and cancel the seat reservations. (Asking for a friend) #fail

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

gonna need a big apology... I've been angry since #Thatcher Tories need a leader who can say sorry - on.ft.com/3KA8bmR via @FT

@petescarbs.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I vote we have Sosajis and Bwerger's....🌭🍔😀

My thoughts on job advisers in GP surgeries. As you might guess, I'm not a fan. Will make anxious patients worse. How about incentivising employers instead of telling patients to try harder.

A rapid reponse to my article: 'Despite our practice putting in 6 months of work to prepare for the roll out the coverage in the national press has led to overwhelming demand which has pushed us to the limits of safer capacity. Patients have to read and acknowledge a warning about not using..1/2

At #RCGP25 - inspired by plenary about #kindness in health care. Mum's GP did all this when mum was dying. Not sure my family have experienced any of this in the last few years. 😢

Fuck. Ing. Hell.

The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

PubMed is in trouble This is beyond bad for medical research pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya) by Richard Horton bit.ly/3IPC0PD

Three more days to wait, and our new album Ricordanze will grace the airwaves and the internet! In the meantime, here's a comprehensive interview with Robert Hugill to pique your curiosity about our #nuntastic project. www.planethugill.com/2025/09/one-...

What an awesome event and line up...

This week, I’ve secured £20 million for neighbourhoods in Millbrook and Redbridge, through Labour's Pride In Place fund. 💸 Even better, local people will decide how to spend it. 🎉 What would you prioritise? 🙋🏾‍♀️

Horrific and damning evidence from the war zone medics. #BMJ "resulting injury profiles resembled those reported in combat settings among trained military personnel, highlighting the burden of trauma among civilians in #Gaza." www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Why aren't we doing cutting edge emergency stroke care (thrombectomy)? We asked healthcare professionals. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9... (part of #NIHR Optimist/SPEEDY trial) @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @newcastleuni.bsky.social @ouhospitals.bsky.social @rdm.ox.ac.uk

"Do health professionals have a special duty to speak up against the genocide? I think we do." Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action www.bmj.com/content/390/...

There's a reason why they want to invent a cause of autism. It's the same reason they want to claim they have a cure. It's to remove any emotional or legal obligations to care for or accommodate autistic people

Thank you @london.gov.uk Sadiq Khan for your continued dignity and for role modelling decency and moral values.

All this talk of the Rapture reminded me of this 1956 social psychology classic: When Prophecy Fails by Festinger, Riecken and Schachter. Their 5 conditions /reasons why people hold onto beliefs also seem helpful for our current times .... 1/2

This. Well said @nisreenalwan.bsky.social (We have made the wider context more unequal for 20 years. Shouting at the victims that it's their fault ain't gonna fix it)

Leaving aside optics of attending at any time an event hosted by industry that does so much to create misery, transferring billions from the poor and desperate to billionaires, Rachel Reeves’ decision to do so ahead of a budget seriously questions her judgment www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Looks like me and @jjn1.bsky.social are both re-reading our Gramsci. I'm inclined to agree that this feels like the interregnum, and am wondering how much worse it can get - the birth pains of the new are becoming unbearable observer.co.uk/news/columni...

I’m at yet another conference (this time in 🇨🇭) where a plenary speaker (African) is absent because he couldn’t get a visa. This is a disgrace. And it’s a direct consequence of the pathetic failure by our cowardly politicians to challenge racism.

In London, hate will never win.

What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

We must unite against those who seek to divide us.

The ever-impressive @iandunt.bsky.social speaks for many of us.* * It looks like things might be starting to change at the top of the Govt since this was filmed.

Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

Delighted to see our Analysis piece on Ambient Scribes published @cjpope.bsky.social We call for more research and urge GPs to use this #AI tech with diligence

@lescarr.bsky.social it's like they heard you...spooky

"The art of all truly great national leaders at all times consists in not dividing the attention of a people but in concentrating it upon a single foe." Adolf Hitler 1925. The Farage (& Trump's) playbook is 'Look "small boats" "migrants"!' Some of us have read the history. We know how this ends.

Trump's termination of federal grants for universities has jeopardized lifesaving research breakthroughs at Harvard Medical School — including treatments for cancer and developmental disorders. His attacks on higher education will hurt us all.

This week's @thelancet.com cover and editorial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

From the fiercely brilliant @chrischirp.bsky.social - her update on #authoritarianism "America was the world’s foremost scientific superpower. No longer". open.substack.com/pub/christin.... Chilling. Essential reading. #StandUpForScience

The evidence for more 20mph zones ⤵️ ✔️ Cut deaths and serious injuries by 1/3 ✔️ Protect children ✔️ Reduce crashes ✔️ Lower noise ✔️ Boost walking & cycling

Letter of the day (in the Times)

This weekend we were proud to join fellow trade unionists at #Tolpuddle2025. A powerful reminder of our history and why we fight on. ✊

Reading these together: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r... & www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Hear hear! And Oxford UK based folk do come along next Tuesday 15 July at 1830 to hear all about these arguments from Emily M Bender @ Blavatnik School of Government (message me for details)

New paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

They took their time .... And they created unnecessary misery and confusion with their previous ill thought through statements. Next we need to reform all the poorly worded equality legislation to make it fit for a world that can be brave enough to embrace diversity and inclusion. #EHRC #Equality

Oxford trying out a congestion charge is worth a shot in 2025 I am quite honestly fed up with the negativity and hypocrisy around it. It's time to make the positive case 👇 [10 minutes and a ☕ may be needed] cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/from-city-...

Looking at what's happening with #PalestineAction and thinking about how successive governments have suppressed (largely) peaceful protest. Recalling what they did to #UKuncut and #Greenpeace. How did we get here? www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme....

Really enjoyed giving my inaugural lecture at @education.ox.ac.uk this evening! Good to share work that I’ve been doing with @johannawaters.bsky.social over the past few years on post-Brexit student mobilities Thanks to everyone who came along - in person or online 😊

More Dipex international conference - Lisa Zuidema from Netherlands, researching menstruation, pain and shame. Linking with Sharon Dixon to do some exciting cross country analysis. @oxprimarycare.bsky.social