And thanks to all those involved - on Bluesky @yingxizhao.bsky.social @drpmanc110.bsky.social @emilyfwood.bsky.social @imcdermott.bsky.social @hcrim.bsky.social @elliewildbore.bsky.social @smspooner.bsky.social @annetteboaz.bsky.social (and all others whose BSky handles I could not find...)

📣 Newly published #HSRUK blog! In this piece, @damianeh.bsky.social and Dr Yingxi Zhao share their experience of a conversation at our 2025 conference developing into an ongoing research collaboration. A wonderful example of HSR UK in action! Read the full blog here: ⬇️ hsruk.org/hsruk/viewpo...

Thanks to the @hsruk.bsky.social team for the invitation to reflection on how research conversations evolve through - and between - conferences!

Magnificent mood-boosting blooms 🌺

I want to say thank you, and farewell, to Stephen Colbert before his final show this evening. But I also want to remind folks of the corruption behind his cancellation. Watch.

Dundrum Bay #Dundrum #CountyDown #NorthernIreland 💚

Anglesey ☀️ #Anglesey #Wales #Sunshine ☀️

More of this, less of bombing other countries (From @acyn.bsky.social )

For those keeping track at home. The Iranians have now blockaded the Strait of Hormuz in response to the US blockading it because the Iranians had blockaded it, in response to the US attacking Iran to ensure that the Strait which was fully open at the time wasn't blockaded.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

AI software for smart glasses wins £1m prize for technology to help people with dementia

Catch up on the Middle East war. Beautifully penned. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

Could have been an outstanding goalkeeper.🐱😺😻 #cat #cats #pets #petlovers #catlovers #animals #meme #memesky #memes #funny #foryou

This is the front cover of the new edition of @thelancet.com (thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing) #HealthPolicy #Science 🧪🧵

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Also deserving of some praise: tactical voting websites. #gortondenton

G&D and Caerphilly painting quite the picture about how the public really feel about Reform - despite much of the media’s desperate attempts to persuade us that a Farage premiership is inevitable come the next GE.

Expect weeks of "family voting" rhetoric from Reform. They're out of the gates on it already. It mustn't be allowed to wash because look at the scale of that win. Tactical voting has obviously played a massive part. Gorton and Denton rejected Reform and its hateful agenda.

Apologies for my woeful Japanese pronunciation and for the baseball cap. I'd love to hear Kazumi Hashimoto's version of Careless Whisper if anyone has it! Tonight The Music Seems So Loud: The Meaning of George Michael, is published around the world this summer. More details: sathnam.com

How much has it snowed in Boston, you ask? Well, enough that our neighbors made a whale out of snow.

Voters in Gorton and Denton can take a FREE personality test today. Simply go into a polling booth and if you find yourself voting for Matt Goodwin, you'll know you're a twat.

I speak as someone regularly ripped off to ensure that Yorkshire Water's complex network of owners all make plenty of undeserved profits and bonuses. Water is a basic necessity of life. And we pay them to chuck shit in it. What a marvellous idea privatisation was... 🤮 share.google/B5nG5aCg5vjC...

A vote for Matt Goodwin/Reform in #GortonAndDenton is a vote for racism and misogyny. A vote to shame the constituency, to divide and fail it. It’s a vote that takes no responsibility for its consequences because it hasn’t thought about them and doesn’t care enough to do that. Don’t be that voter.

We need to go back to a situation where racism is shameful rather than electorally advantageous.

Boris Johnson colluding with right wing Americans to undermine the UK. Where have I heard this before? bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

"The people we watch on TV fighting with each other are, behind closed doors, hanging out – it is just a game," says Anand Giridharadas "They're helping each other stay in power, and have access to information that is not available to the rest of us" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

Farage is in the Maldives. 200 miles away from the Chagos Islands which are not a tourist destination. Hasn't got the paperwork and wasn't on the 'aid boat' he's pointing at which is trying to establish a settlement for four people on the islands. How is this serving Clacton? Who paid?

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy? Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia. And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

Exciting research shows potential for a new way to prevent flu infection using a nasal spray! 🧵🧪

I was born and raised in Gorton and Denton, and I absolutely guarantee you Reform won't put it first. They won't even put Britain first. They'll put Russia first. We LITERALLY jailed one of them for doing that.

Great commentary @dalupton.bsky.social and thank you for speaking out about the #Covid19 information vacuum we live through

Check out my new commentary, in which I provide 2 new versions of healthism - antiscience healthism and reverse healthism

Little robin eating out of my hand yesterday #robin

Sleeping giant at sundown 🌙 #CauseyPike #Keswick

Batman returns! Leadership by crisis and the moral entrepreneurship of Donald J Trump: A dramaturgical perspective journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #academicsky

When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.

New #StrongMessageHere is up. This week, Civilisational Collapse with Stewart Lee. We talk Trump, Truss, Farage and the olden times.

New #StrongMessageHere talking Civilisational Collapse with Stewart Lee. In a few weeks we’ll be discussing your own nominations for political words or phrases that have gobsmacked or baffled you. Send suggestions to [email protected]

🧵How much should the NHS worry about this winter's flu wave? You may have seen this alarming headline on the BBC website today... I think it's too early to make this claim and the data does not support it. I think it will be a bad flu season but no evidence to think worse than previous yrs 1/8

PS It should go without saying that I think getting the flu vaccine is a very good idea! I've had both my flu and covid vaccines this winter.

Good to see CMO recognise and highlight risk of delirium when older people develop infections. And link between delirium and dementia. Infections are one possible cause of delirium (acute confusion) in older people. Sometimes the first symptom, recognised in COVID www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

With the release of The Covid 19 Report, this podcast is worth a listen again. It's an interview with Dr Dan Goyal who worked on the frontline during the pandemic. He was talking about the ITV series "Breathless" which depicted the conditions NHS staff worked under. #Covid19Inquiry

142 deaths in England involving COVID-19: w/ending 7 Nov 2025. 🤦Data too limited 🤷COVID-19 has not disappeared, continues to spread, disable, and disrupt lives - while strategies appear to fail to acknowledge its persistence or the need for better infection prevention. @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social

Modelled on family members #Halloween 🎃

Countdown to #Halloween 🎃 #EdwardGorey

I used to work at a small shop that made little plastic vampires. There were only 2 of us working there, so I had to make every second count.