With increasing numbers of online medicine consultations- please ensure everyone that friends & family know to check register www.pharmacyregulation.org/registers/ph...

I crocheted a cover for my tiny bolster cushion with a sunflower on each end. But when I look at it I'm getting flashbacks...

First Pimm's of the season. Cheers

The Blue Guidelines remain an essential resource for forensic clinicians, supporting the assessment and management of alcohol and substance use disorders in police custody: https://tinyurl.com/yu4nc7a9 The current edition is under review, with an updated version due later this year

Another risk is the incorrect picking of product when there are, for instance, several different strengths available for a particular drug

Enjoyed listening to 'David Olusoga in Conversation' this evening, a Clevedon Litfest event at the lovely Curzon cinema

I 'quite liked' David Hockney's work (only seen through various media) until I saw his exhibition at the RA in 2012. Absolutely amazing seen firsthand

Everything!

Really??!!

Stated that really don't like AI, and some tech bootlicker pointed out that I must have still used it because it's everywhere now, as if this was some sort of 'gotcha'. I mean, I don't like bird shit either. That it's ended up on my car so often doesn't undermine my stance, it reinforces it.

This is heartbreaking (from the India subreddit)

Not too decrepit to make a killing on Dell shares, eh?

Please don't let AI take over. My phone is offering me a photo collection of 'selfies with Cathy' 🙄

Celebrities, rich people and ex-prime ministers should not make health policy. Prostate cancer screening is just not as simple as some are making out. There are real harms caused when people are treated unnecessarily.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I didn't intend to buy any books while I was waiting...

I've just looked at 2017 for a little writing project. Ooh, not a good year, globally 🫩

We are a nation of immigrants. Most folks don't know their own family history more than a generation or so back. Many of the people on this rally are unknowingly protesting against their own grandparents or great grandparents. What a time to be alive.

It’s ok to acknowledge when the work feels heavy. In forensic and legal medicine, and across secure and detained settings, professionals are often exposed to complex and emotionally demanding situations. Recognising that emotional load is not a weakness #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

This wasn't the history I was looking for

Trying out the roasted barley, rye and chicory drink in a suitably annotated mug

Are you an Expert in forensic and legal medicine? 🩺 ⚖️ We are recruiting a Lead MFFLM Part 1 & DLM Examiner 💰 £5,000 upon completion for each paper cycle 🎓 Legal qualification & medico-legal experience required 🔗 Get Involved: https://fflm.ac.uk/about/get-involved #FFLM #ForensicMedicine #ExamLead

It's #WorldImmunizationWeek Vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives since 1974 — not by accident, but because ordinary people made the decision to protect themselves, their children and one another. That’s 6 lives every minute, every day, for more than 5 decades https://bit.ly/4mH2HWi#WorldImmunizationWeek

This makes me sad - not only lost public art but public art history - Antony Gormley's first civic commission. But councils of all colours are having to make hard choices. What makes me angry and sad is the secrecy - this is public money and I don't see a justification for hiding the sum received.

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RSV maternal vaccine cuts baby hospital admissions by up to 85% www.gov.uk/government/n...

www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... Thanks @bathnewseum.bsky.social for your post. Also found this great little animation from @rspb.bsky.social

Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from Iron Age Britain! 🤩 This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago. British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

The launch of the Royal College of Pharmacy was celebrated on 15 April 2026 — 185 years after the founding of its predecessor, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society #ukpharmacy

What today’s information superhighway shows me is how much incompetence there is across all sectors. I’m sure there always has been, we just didn’t know about it in the limited snail-pace days

Well done, Hungary. Made it count

Back from holiday; missing Norway

AI - a statistical summary of the past masquerading as a window into the future. David William Silva

Celebrating our Vice-President for Forensic Medicine, Dr Libby Sevink! Since 2016, she’s worked across GFM, SOM and now the Paediatric SARC in Exeter. A dedicated clinician, examiner and FFLM Fellow, her work has helped shaped national guidance, including on non‑fatal strangulation #IWD2026

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link. *see next post in thread

If you're not listening to Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service then I recommend them. This morning's provides informative coverage of events in the Middle East

Pharmabrology

Not bad. Net electricity cost for the previous 12 months, minus solar export income, was £173.

Forgot to put out the recycling bins last night 😲

Anyone surprised that Palantir spread like mould through a government department?

I've voted in the elections! Nice to see so many people standing for the England Council, well done all. I've selected a mix of differing experience, I hope they all get in

Trump's a puppet. (And the play is dire)