The Mighty Neon is very enjoyable but what *is* that accent on Molly supposed to be? It's worse than the Irish(?) accent in the early episodes of Burn Notice. Up there with the worst TV accents ever.

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

We have so much good evidence for cash transfers but so many just refuse to accept that those in poverty can make good decisions.

The main way SAs can influence health inequalities is through economic policy, I think. My thoughts are here: www.bmj.com/content/390/...

I grew up near Barnsley. We still laugh about the Tuscan hill town stuff to this day. Chuffed for Barnsley though.

Worth a read. Note real terms cuts to PH grant to councils. I'd also add that if the creation of SAs comes at the expense of further disempowering councils then this won't work in my view. Needs to work as an equal partnership with complementary roles, not being treated as some kind of hierarchy.

🎉 Absolutely thrilled to see four ADPH members on this year's New Year Honours List. Congratulations to our President @felly500.bsky.social OBE, Vice President Alice Wiseman MBE, Dr Catherine Mbema MBE & Tim Allison MBE! 👏

‪It has a name now 😜 Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed. ✅ zenodo.org/records/1808... ✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/

"do your own research" should be viewed in the same way as "do your own gas plumbing" or "do your own defence lawyering".

It won't help but could we stop calling it 'vaccine skepticism'? Because it isn't really skepticism, is it?

Titus Salt (1803-76) died on this day 1876. Textile manufacturer and politician, built Salt's Mill and the model village of Saltaire, away from the smoke and pollution of overcrowded Bradford.

whats Mandarin for "oh lawd he comin"

having spent a while watching this I would say that it was at its absolute funniest on the seventh, maybe eighth replay

What's the betting it's a regression model?

Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).