Looks like we've passed peak academia. www.ft.com/content/8097... via @data.ft.com

So The Boys, er, ended. Now we get a big budget TV version of the Power Fantasy, right? Must be some good ethical actors? @kierongillen.bsky.social

Found this 94-year-old copy of The Architectural Review at last weekend’s garage safari in Kingsdown. It’s focused on the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London and contains some great photos and adverts. Will share some in this thread and more over the days ahead 🧵

Rewatching 30 Rock and I think this is still possibly one of the best constructed jokes in anything, ever.

The Onion is really tickling me lately with nonsense

Cheeky fox just sat down on the patio and looked at me

There's a lot of photos of filling midwestern US foods on here, but today's it's the UK's West Midland's turn... It's Orange Chips day!

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

www.youtube.com/live/4dsZIFf... This is so cool, just tuned in and the mothers there on her eggs, up Old Joe clock tower!

Looking for a lightswitch in a lecture theatre today, came across some cool features. Something about all this old technology wired up, but unusable now. One day maybe I'll have a @wowhaus.bsky.social with wood panelling and cool switches and plugs.

Kids playing in the stream at Leasowes. Magical place, just hidden down from roads and DIY stores. Thomas Jefferson visited when a formal garden said: 'Shenstone's Leasowes is the simplest and plainest, but the most rural of all. I saw no spot so small that exhibited such a variety of beauties'

Finally getting round to Power Fantasy vol 2 by @kierongillen.bsky.social , after initially hearing it recommended on @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social podcast and getting the amazing first vol. No spoilers, but this page in vol 2 stopped me in my tracks. So cynical. So utilitarian.

Nice views today, despite the grey, from Kinver Hill fort

Cherry blossom tree when we moved in was a good investment

Caturday! The sound of lego pieces attracted him

Are we all going to go Baysean? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found... doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... "1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min." Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.

Trip to London for ECHILD health data meeting in the lovely Friends House opposite Euston, learnt lots about UK data, and time for a quick look at Wellcome exhibition on prayer scrolls for safe delivery of babies - topical for my day jobs! Scrolls from Ethiopia 18-19th C and medieval England

Watching England France after a lovely walk in Shropshire, great end to the 6 Nations

Just sat watching my back, about 3 metres away!

We should rename these types of funnel plots to ‘avalanche plots’

Use of language in confidential enquiries and adverse event reviews in maternity care Allison Felker, Marian Knight, Beatrix Callard, Isabelle Malhamé www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

Would parties get votes saying dodgy automatic plate recognition car parks are all rent seeking drains on the real economy and harming high streets? You try and pay but mess it up, or are 5 minutes over, or you miss a sign hidden somewhere, and suddenly you owe £60 (or £100 unless you pay quick)

@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social In the 90s as a young kid we lived next to Chris Patten, we got all their second hand kids wellie boots, for a decade after our boots had 'PATTEN' written in marker. Dad says he went out for a smoke once and bumped into an armed security guy hiding in a garden bush

I guess Caturday is the Bluesky thing to do. Two younger boys rudely disturbing the old girl's sleep.

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Snow scene and my kids' snow beasts! 😁

Not mine or my kids, but someone left an amazing snowman and snow dog at Warley Woods today!

When you realise that Paw Patrol episodes have the same naming structure as Always Sunny In Philadelphia and can't unsee it.

Kids enjoying the snow! But @bearwoodcouncil.bsky.social what is with the delay in the Warley Gondola? It's been years, and still no ski lifts, or cable car.

Every year we have been doing last sunset or first sunrise. This year it's sunset, goodbye 2025! Lucky to have found a good spot and good sky for the send off

Cheeky fox came back, kids so excited. They got within a few metres of it. Then the cat came and had another face off..

Finally did some scrambling up mountains in Wales, Tryfan and Bristley, mate took this cheesy photo without me knowing. We are so lucky in the Midlands to be under 3 hours drive from these amazing places

When you find some lego your kids built, and it reminds you of the psychological-horror-with robots-game Soma Creepy!

So sorry to read that Dr Sophie Jackson has passed away. Such an inspirational figure. A huge loss to the healthcare community, and the children she looked after and their families. Sophie Jackson: paediatrician and trailblazer for doctors with disabilities | The BMJ doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

To me this is a thread of normal sized things. Have you seen a emdotrachel tube for an adult man (8.0) its like a drainpipe! NICU makes sense, best place to work

Alt text: Photos of a pigeon live on stage at Rock City, Nottingham last night, plus some guys called the Beta Band who played some great stuff. Been a while since I've been to a proper gig, black painted walls, sticky floors, and band having a great time

Orange cat meets orange fox!

I had a great chat with Rupa from St Louis for the Incubator podcast, talking about how we train in neonatology in the UK, and my research www.the-incubator.org/post/343-inv...

Happy to share latest work on hospital admissions of very preterm children in England and Wales. Majority of children had at least 1 admission between neonatal discharge and their 2nd birthday, mostly short unplanned admissions for respiratory infections. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Not sure you can see the swifts on the photo but nice evening display over the gardens last night

Well done to Hannah Mitchell & her great team who produced this hugely important work: Contribution of ethnicity and deprivation to paediatric critical care outcomes in the UK, 2008–21: a national retrospective cohort study - The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"Function over diagnoses: parents of extremely preterm infants give recommendations to clinicians about their information needs" Another intriguing paper from Annie Janvier's group in Canada fn.bmj.com/content/earl... @99nicu.bsky.social @ebneo.bsky.social @nicupodcast.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... Good letter in BMJ identifies key challenges for clinical academia and trials - with some suggestions for how we could do better. Better use of patient data seems like could be part of the answer.

Thought provoking paper I read today, does ableism affect the way we talk to parents in NICU? Includes suggested phrases e.g. 'what does a good life look like for your child?' and 'we are here to support you making the best decision for your family' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another thing not sure we always think about... Prematurity and obstructive sleep apnea in children: The perfect storm www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @99nicu.bsky.social @nicupodcast.bsky.social

Interesting! Moderate-To-Late Preterm Infants Benefit From the Early Collaborative Intervention: Primary Outcomes of an RCT 87 babies born 30-36wk, 3 sessions for parent-baby interactions pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40511708/ @ebneo.bsky.social @nicupodcast.bsky.social @99nicu.bsky.social

Loved listening to a range of great talks, and chance to discuss good practice, challenges, and priorities for care of children with complex chronic conditions

This came up on my alerts, very good paper using data from the Basque region to look at medical complexity and life limiting conditions in children, important group of children who spend a lot of time in hospital. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40447966/