🥰 Final reminder that tomorrow (Sunday) is the biggest action day ever in the history of the Green Party. ⏳ Mayor of Hackney & local council elections in May. 💚 First timers especially welcome - no experience necessary! See you tomorrow! 🎉👇🏼 Https://actionnetwork.org/events/big-day-out-in-hackney/

Had such a fun day today at #OSFC looking at A level places for my son. He wants to do triple science so we visited the labs who had pulled out all the stops and rolled out the coolest experiments. Dissection, dry ice, colourful chemical stuff. Awesome!

Oxford people - there is another far right demo planned at the asylum hotel near the Kassam. To join a peaceful counter protest go to the Holiday Inn Express, Guelder Rd, at 11.30 on Sunday 5th October. Really important to have good numbers there. Last weekend we outnumbered them 4:1

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

These #crochet fingerless gloves made me doubt my ability to read and count to 2! Pattern is celtic weave fingerless gloves on ravelry. Great pattern - all issues entirely down to me!

US based, but at a glance looks interesting. #Obstetrics #Midwifery #Syphilis #Pregnancy

Doing some work for a uni course. It’s been a while since I last did this. Used to use EndNote. Now that’s prohibitively expensive. Can’t get Mendeley to work, trying to use Zotero. No templates available for the style I need to use so I think I’m going to have to do it manually. Feels like 1994!

Fantastic! @newtus.bsky.social you will like this. I think there is an option for rude names as well!

Cytosponge for #BarrettsOesophagus @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social recruited to one of the trials for this. Less invasive option for testing and definitely preferred by patients.

Where is my storm? I was promised a storm ⛈️ that would make it feel less muggy. @chadweather.bsky.social do you think it’s coming any time soon, or am I just going to melt into a puddle? 😂

#CrossStitch This is what I’m working on today. Maggie the Messmaker. Beautiful big blocks of colour.

#Midwifery #ClinicalResearch #Neonatal Looks interesting. Will have to read full article on big screen. But as we take cord blood fairly routinely from at risk infants, why not test for this is useful. Seems like a large scale trial should be very doable.

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#NHS #Midwifery I can see a huge amount of positives for this - mainly early identification of some rare, treatable conditions. But I have HUGE concerns about the level of informed #consent for this, especially as this consent will be by parents, not the individual being tested.

Don't ignore the elephant in the waiting room: You can't fix the NHS without fixing social care.

🤰🏽 Emerging evidence suggests that decidual #macrophages are attractive targets in #PretermLabour 👩🏻‍🔬 But understanding how macrophage subsets differ in their origin, function and localisation will help us to do this better! 📃 Our forum on this is out now! #ReprodSky #ObGynSky #ImmunoSky #MedSky

Really promising research into #leukaemia here - Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust supported this study at the Royal Oldham Hospital and Salford Royal www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I have a big finish! I absolutely loved stitching some of those cats. Others, not so much. December, we are looking at you! Needs a good wash and iron but I’m impatient and wanted to share Kit by @hcrafts.com original artwork by Margaret Sherry

#NHS #Midwifery Worked some bank shifts recently with some amazing colleagues. One shift in particular came away thinking - yep, we’ve done a really good job there. Often that doesn’t happen because if staffing and pressures etc. You feel that you could and should have done more. 1/?

I used to really like the free pens. No one ever offered me several thousand pounds though. How can he be for the #NHS when he’s in the pocket of the private companies.

It is tea time for the dog. I’m not sure why, but she feels the need to go and bark at the trees where the birds sit as soon as she realises it’s tea time or walk time. I don’t think the birds care really. They aren’t getting tea. Or a walk. But dog definitely feels they need to know.

I might sign up for this. @newtus.bsky.social tell @henrynewport.bsky.social about it.

#IDM2025 #Midwifery #Maternity Happy International Day of the Midwife to all my colleagues all around the world.

#Maternity #Midwifery Interesting. Wonder if same holds true for all pregnancies, not just those in SLE. Could be particularly relevant in UK a where most people have low vit D.

Found this #fabric at Dalston Mill. Will have to get some. Need to make scrubs for work. Or at least a theatre hat. Or maybe a dress as well. #sewing #midwifery

My wonderful daughter turned 18 yesterday. I have permission to post this photo (and not the other silly ones!). We shopped and she had a Pina Colada. Much to her disappointment she was not asked for her ID. Probably because I paid and I certainly do not look 18! 😂😂

#MedSky #NurseSky #Midwifery I sutured a perineum today, and I had one of those saddle stools to sit on. Normally I sit on the side of the bed, but not today. Why are they that shape? My anatomy is clearly an entirely different shape because I couldn’t get out of the car when I got home!

I have news! The post I have been seconded to has been made permanent, and I got the job. 😁 Oncology Research Team Lead Very happy!! #CancerResearch #ClinicalResearch

I don’t think I’m a huge fan of Macron but this is beautiful.

to really take your research to the next level, it is important to build interdisciplinary teams #collaboration #scientificinterfaces

This looks really promising I think. Will be watching with interest.

So today I learned that I am not as clever as a crow. 😂 The ‘quick’ instruction panicked me a bit so I just picked a random shape. The wrong one apparently. But this pretty much represents how the rest of my day went as well 😂😂

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

A Christmas ornament from #VictoriaSampler photo as usual doesn’t really do the colours justice. I really like this one. Very elegant. Started by my friend Pat before she died, and I completed it. Hope I’ve done a good job for you Pat ❤️ #CrossStitch #Hardanger #CutWork

Does there ever come a point where your brain is so full of stuff that it can’t take on any more stuff - no matter how small the new stuff is? Because I think I might now be at that point! Wish I could offload some of the useless stuff to make room for important stuff.

This is huge - and wonderful news if we are approaching an effective treatment for hyperemesis gravidarum

#Caturday This is Millie. A true princess cat. She is currently asleep on a double bed with a a mattress with integrated topper, plus additional memory foam topper, then a duvet, a blanket, then her cat bed, with an extra cushion in it. Anything less is not acceptable to her.

I’m about to go visit my daughter’s workplace (bar/restaurant), with my husband, while she’s on shift. At her request. Apparently it’s my Mother’s Day present. She’s 17. Husband and I are absolutely bricking it. If we breathe wrong, she will not forgive us for at least a month. 😬😬😬

I probably shouldn’t like this - but I do!!

Several years ago I used to clench/grind my teeth. Especially when I was annoyed. Now I seem to have replaced that habit with biting the inside of my lip. This hurts, so I have no idea why I keep doing it. Need to move on to nail biting or something.

Is there an etiquette for Teams channels? Can I just add people to a channel without asking them first or would that be rude? I think it’s a helpful thing I’m adding them to (but I suppose they might not agree!)

Stitching and a brew while my boys do the shopping! Perfect. #Coffee #CrossStitch

My husband has agreed to try to take some of the ‘mental load’ from me. So today he came to ask me which table we should sit at in the cafe because that was too much of a decision for him. 🙄😂😂

It is costing you £20bn a year NOT to nationalise the water companies, and it is going to go up nearly 10% EVERY YEAR. All that money is stolen out of the UK to foreign tax havens. This is the cost that you cannot afford.

How justice 'works'.

Data from our CHHiP trial was used in this combined analysis investigating radiotherapy for #ProstateCancer. Looking at 5,880 participants' data from 7 studies confirmed that prostate radiotherapy could be safely given over 4 weeks, rather than 7. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today is World Down Syndrome Day. We've recently updated one of our i-Learn modules and renamed it :-) "Down syndrome: Care and considerations". Check it out here: www.ilearn.rcm.org.uk/course/view.... @rcm.org.uk #ilearn #elearning #learntech #rcm #midwife #msw #downsyndrome #WorldDownSyndromeDay

#MedSky #Maternity