🧪 #AcademicSky 🇬🇧 30% staff cut in Chemistry at Nottingham. Two years ago, the Department received the RSC Prize in Excellence for Higher Education. Resources and talent going to waste. UKG doing nothing to preserve strategic know-how for the country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/notting...

Researchers from University of Nottingham have been awarded £1.19m as part of two-year project to tackle pharmaceutical water pollution #waterpollution #PhRESHWater pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news...

Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales internationally. Meanwhile opioid prescribing in Ireland has risen, whilst falling in England. I wrote about why the Irish health service needs to confront its opioid problem on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pulse/irish-... brief🧵

Nottingham job cuts ‘pose systemic risks to research’, union warns. Research-intensive university told it risks “intellectual stagnation” as 2,700 staff put at risk of redundancy. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

In a week of deeply depressing news at home and abroad, take five minutes to be inspired by Tala and Farah’s grit and tenacity. Tell your kids what they achieved, from a tent in a bombed-out city. Gaza sisters win prize for turning rubble into reusable bricks www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Big news from Westminster - at last we’re going to have a Single Patient Record. Why it’s a good thing and why the government must act to ensure our health data is in safe hands open.substack.com/pub/rorycell...

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

'The government has no clear plan for universities at risk of insolvency, despite the fact that such a financial failure would deal a “severe and lasting blow” to the UK’s reputation for outstanding research, a committee...has warned.' Finally, recognition that teaching & research joined at hip.

"Doing nothing is not an option" with @uniofnottingham.bsky.social set to run out of money by 2031 without major change, v-c tells @julietterowsell.bsky.social - 600+ jobs now set to go www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting...

England university crisis. 24 institutions at risk of insolvency within the next 12 months. A further 26 at risk of exit in 2-3 years. Dire consequences for students. Need govt plans. Sector destroyed by successive govts. £267bn student debt.

New: Lack of planning for university failure risks ‘lasting blow’ to R&D. Excoriating education committee report on HE finances warns government is not prepared for university insolvencies, with worrying implications for students and academics. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

We are back at Clinical Pharmacy Congress today and looking forward to the insightful discussions ahead. Visit us at stand B1 and find out more about education and training, credentialing, membership benefits, our commitments as a royal college of pharmacy and more. https://ow.ly/1p0i50YWBcN

Pharmacy First Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 35% of the Scottish population (1,958,711) used Pharmacy First Scotland in the most recent 12 months reported (1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025). #Pharmsky

At CPC today? Come and meet us on stand B1 or hear from our speakers covering key topics including our work as the Royal College of Pharmacy, becoming an advanced pharmacist and learning through leadership: https://ow.ly/1ebP50YWtyL Clinical Pharmacy Congress

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

For some in Oxford, spring is signalled not by May Morning, or the swifts returning, but a very different phenomenon - the arrival of mangoes to the Cowley Road. This is the primer you never knew you needed, on Oxford's (not so) hidden seasonal fruit.

Only 42% of people with #Parkinson's receive their medicines on time when being cared for. They need to #GetItOnTime every time. Great link here for health and social care professionals. Tools, resources and learning support. www.parkinsons.org.uk/professional... @parkinsons.org.uk

🚨: NASA releases new image of planet Jupiter captured by James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.

🎉 APTUK warmly welcomes and congratulates the opening of the Royal College of Pharmacy. APTUK issues a statement and shares 'Congratulations to our Royal College colleagues on this historic and inspiring achievement.' Read the statement here: https://ow.ly/9cGy50YQtgH

Honoured to be giving the Centre for Personalised Medicine Annual Lecture on 28th April at 5.30 pm in Oxford's Mathematics Institute: Personalised medicine - A view from primary care. All welcome, free to attend but please book. cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cpm-an...

We're living through a time in which university leadership is simultaneously cutting staff, telling everyone left that they need to go through a massive intensification of teaching practice and offering time management courses to lecturers when they ask "what gives?". share.google/NiL4ivdiM2O5...

Our #minorailments collection has been mapped to cover the conditions specified by the Welsh common minor ailments service, NHS Pharmacy First Scotland and #PharmacyFirst in England. Click below to find out more, and to take our self-assessment quiz 👇

Actually, researchers want to do it, and agencies want to fund it, but peer reviewers get jealous/scared and make sure the proposal is taken down by endless questions about feasibility, sinking the idea without trace. Then bits of the idea come back in the PIs unfunded work, BUT also the reviewer's.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of three new lay Trustees - Jacob Lant, Katie Mantell and John Turner - and the election of Professor Claire Anderson, to the Board of Trustees of the Royal College of Pharmacy. Find out more: https://bit.ly/48Z2zvo

Island kids in Fiji can’t get to school because boat fuel prices have skyrocketed. They have a message for world leaders.

NEW: Replacing just one meat option with a vegetarian dish in workplace cafeterias led to: 🥗 +41% veg choices 🍵 - 26 calories per meal = tea with milk and 1 sugar 🌍 ~8.5% reduction in CO2-equivalent per meal 💼 No hit to revenue Find out more about the research from @elisabecker.bsky.social 👇

The establishment of the royal college is the foundation stone for a new chapter for pharmacy, one defined by possibility, collaboration, and the development of a shared vision for the future. Find out more about how we're governed and explore our new website: https://ow.ly/qwlE50YJOya

“Becoming the Royal College of Pharmacy gives us a stronger platform to develop a louder and more influential voice, and a renewed purpose to champion pharmacy and drive excellence in practice." rcpharm.org

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has today officially become the Royal College of Pharmacy, marking a historic milestone and the beginning of a new era of professional leadership and collaboration in pharmacy. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3O5t3EF

We are currently undergoing a changeover to our new website as we become the Royal College of Pharmacy. Some services will be disrupted so please bear with us during this period. The new website, rcpharm.org, will be live from 9am on Wednesday 15 April.

Catriona Sinclair, member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Scottish Pharmacy Board, had the chance to highlight the work of remote and rural pharmacists to John Swinney, first minister for Scotland #ukpharmacy #communitypharmacy pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news...

Supporting children to switch from liquid medicine to tablets could save thousands of pounds for the NHS and improve the patient’s quality of life, according to the results of a project conducted by Great Ormond Street Hospital #ukpharmacy #paediatrics #congenitalhyperinsulinism

Today, we look back at the history of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, highlighting the historical high points that have so far defined the #RPS #rpharms #royalcollegeofpharmacy

#CatherineDuggan, chief executive of #FIP, has received the #RPS Charter Award #pharmacyaward #rpharms #leadershipinpharmacy buff.ly/rbj0bNI

Losing contact with the Earth for 40 minutes sounds ideal

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... “Management consultants are ruining UK universities”. No, fleecing.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Summertown’s French bakery, Gatineau, has opened a pop-up outside the University Church in the city centre. Founded by Hervé Gatineau in 2007, it sells cakes, pastries and coffee. The former Vaults & Garden cafe at the church relocated over the road to King Edward Street after a long legal battle.

Join us for our conferences in the Midlands or Scotland where colleagues from across all sectors and expert local speakers will come together to explore key developments across pharmacy. Midlands: https://ow.ly/2giX50YB96t Scotland: https://ow.ly/it8V50YB96s

🚀 We're delighted to announce the launch of two NEW pharmacy-specific diabetes CPD resources on the CPA Academy! Click the link below to access the Diabetes hub of the CPA Academy today! 👇👇👇

Hosted in collaboration with Royal Society of Biology and Royal Society of Chemistry, the QP Symposium is a flagship event that brings together QPs and trainee QPs from across Pharmacy, Chemistry and Biology. Spaces going fast. Book yours now: https://ow.ly/l00y50Yh3Jt

Day one at UKSG in Glasgow. We’re here to help universities maximise value from MedicinesComplete. Come and chat with us at stand 90 to find out more. #UKSG #Glasgow #AcademicLibraries #HigherEduation #LibraryCommunity #ScholarlyCommunication

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Head lice are "a psychological, emotional problem” more than they are a medical concern, one expert told Daniel Engber. He writes about the unending battle humans have to face against the bug that’s programmed to get up to our heads:

Zack Polanski being cheered to the rafters yesterday #TogetherAlliance www.instagram.com/reel/DWcJTPV...

Didn’t want to get affected like this giving evidence. Caught me by surprise. We all lost so much. We have to act on the inquiry’s recommendations. We have to be better now, so that we can be better next time.