How much of an impact does hearing stories of mental health recovery have on those who are struggling? The programme coordinator for NEON - which looked at this - shares what they found & what needs to happen next. Read it here 👉 mcpin.org/storytelling-mental-health-recovery/ @institutemh.org.uk

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.

Good news! St. Lucia has struck down colonial-era laws that criminalised homosexuality. While much of the world is edging backwards on LGBTQ rights and acceptance, St. Lucia becomes the 5th Eastern Caribbean country to decriminalise same-sex relations in the last few years.

In honor of #NationalMothWeek I will be posting #moths. We start with the amazingly beautiful Hieroglyphic Moth, Diphtera festiva, which I have only seen once.

It's South Asian Heritage Month 2025! Stay tuned for upcoming content to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month which will include a special podcast, a webinar and a blog post.

UK Govt inheriting poor value assets due to bad handling of PFI contracts. PFI is part of corporate welfare. For every £1 of private investment govt repays more than £6 + more for services. Cheaper for govt to borrow. Yet govt is entering new PFI deals lasting to 2052-53.

"The areas with the greatest need saw the biggest reductions in support. Is it any surprise health inequalities widened?" @michaelmarmot.bsky.social on how government decisions shaped health inequalities, racism, and a million UK children living in destitution www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Wishing all of my friends in the United States a happy Independence Day. Only took you 249 years to go back to having a King... 🇺🇸

Today at #BAP2025 we heard from both lived-experience and pharmacology experts that clozapine,“Britain’s most dangerous drug” is lifesaving for people with treatment-resistance— with current thresholds for discontinuation racially unequal (some people have naturally lower but safe neutrophil levels)

Despite being banned by new Hungarian legislation, Budapest Pride will still take place on June 28. Throughout history, laws and society have attempted to deny, erase or crush LGBTQ lives. They have always failed.

The EHRC withdraw its daft, cruel and unworkable directive that all employers need provide single-sex toilets. Well fought @goodlawproject.bsky.social!

Yup! We now live somewhere where Pride flags are removed because they’re ‘promoting homosexuality.’ Deja vu. 🏳️‍🌈 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Fresh words ✨ allyfromnola.medium.com/juneteenth-b...

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on its test stand on Wednesday, sending a large fireball into the sky. The company had cleared personnel from around the site. wapo.st/4kUmz6G

Honored to share my newest piece, this one around the framework I created years ago for myself to navigate my suicidal thoughts. Especially during these times, we need to have open conversations around mental health to save lives. I love you all.🌙💖🐦‍🔥🦄🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽 Link: www.wondermind.com/article/psyc...

I don't know how many people understand that disabled people are looking at losing £450 a month, every month, potentially for life. Money that pays for the help, aids, and adjustments that they need to exist in the world. There are disabled people who wouldn't survive these cuts.

...and she won! 🥳 Starting off the week with some great news: Dr. @asilayseker.bsky.social won Higher Resident Dr in the 2025 RC Psych London Awards! We admire her dedication to improving care for neurodivergent children & young people, & her consistent support of other trainees. Well done Asilay!

The NHS recently announced it will open specialist mental health centres as an alternative to A&E. But patients don’t always present with cases that fall neatly into “mental” or “physical” boxes, says @jamesldowns.bsky.social, and this risks reinforcing the divide www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Important #PrideMonth systematic review of 81 (eighty one! 👏) papers. 'hormones and surgery as a collective for adults with gender incongruence has therapeutic value and should be considered for funding within Australia's healthcare systems.' #MedSky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bottlenecks in postgraduate medical training are an abject failure of medical leadership, writes @mancunianmedic.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/389/...

I just hope dog owners will keep their pups on leads anywhere near them. Otherwise we could have a Greenwich version of Fenton.

First view of the Greenwich Park's herd of eight fallow and red deer, introduced in May 2025 - such wonderful news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Measles Update: 1168 cases and counting—we're now 106 shy of the 1274 from 2019, which would make it the worst outbreak in over 30 years. Given recent airport exposures, we'll probably get there. Meanwhile, RFK Jr is like "nothing to see here—vaccines are the problem." www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/h...

NHS to get £30bn boost over three years at expense of other services

trying to understand my ex better

Today is the anniversary of Alan Turing’s suicide, in 1954. Turing was the father of modern computing. His codebreaking helped the Allies to win WWII. Arrested for being gay, he chose chemical castration over a prison sentence. He lost his security clearance, as all homosexuals were deemed a risk.

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

Pride is a protest, pass it on.

'the study drives home the important differences between race and genetic ancestry. “The clear message here is that these are two distinct constructs, they mean different things, and they should not be used interchangeably,” said Luisa Borrell, a social epidemiologist at...CUNY'. 1/2

Good morning! #unheard is just 99p on kindle currently. www.amazon.co.uk/Unheard-Prac...

"There's a nugget of truth and there's a whole bunch of nonsense." Listen to @profdevisridhar.bsky.social discuss the Make America Healthy Again movement & wellness culture with @kamranabbasi.bsky.social 🎧 on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7CDx... 🎧 on Apple podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/w...

once again I must tap my own sign

The complicity of NHS England, the GMC, the Colleges & establishment medics in this experiment on NHS patients has been scandalous. It should never have taken years of grassroots doctor whistleblowing to expose. But this is a small step in the right direction. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Delighted about this news: Government announces preferred candidate (Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson) for Chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission. I've worked with Mary-Ann a lot over the years: she's v clever and has considerable expertise on equality and human rights issues www.gov.uk/government/n...

Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’

The lack of affordable homes in London is a significant social issue "Housing is not just a social crisis in London, it's also holding back the economy. It's harder for businesses to keep and then retain their staff" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

Genuinely good news. Extending FSM to all children on Universal Credit is long overdue. Will cut poverty and help improve concentration and health.

It's hard to celebrate when someone like Elon Musk waltzes into the federal government, wrecks the place, and walks away seemingly with everything he wanted. But did he, though? In the end, Musk left defeated, humiliated, and widely despised. That’s no small thing. We should take the win.

Excellent contribution to the what % of outcomes are attributable to x, y, z www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Measured & unmeasured life-course factors explain up to 74% of chronic disease accumulation Clinical Lifestyle (term used advisedly!) Early life Socioeconomic All the above interacts 1

The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.

Joking that someone 'looks homeless' isn't harmless. A new report from Centre for Homelessness Impact (with research from IoPPN's Dr Apurv Chauhan, @julietfoster.bsky.social) highlights how everyday language perpetuates stigma against people experiencing #homelessness www.kcl.ac.uk/news/homeles...

This is absolutely shameful. Harvey Milk was a hero. He died for our community. Brave LGBTQ veterans worked for years to achieve the naming of a ship for Harvey. Now they’re wiping it away due to straight up bigotry. They’re determined to erase LGBTQ people from all aspects of public life.

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

MAHA is a pseudoscientific assault on public health.

Pride Month 2025 begins amid an unprecedented erosion of LGBTQ+ rights across Europe. The hostile environment, created by politicians, Governments and the media, results in actual violence against LGBTQ+ people. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

you gotta be faster

Treat social housing as critical infrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss