@theguardian.com how many prisoners were freed in error by the previous government? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Do teachers Unions prefer not to have any #ofsted #inspection? If yes is that in the interests of kids and their careers? If no then why can’t these Unions counter-propose what a fair inspection system and its outputs should look like so the rest of us can scrutinise? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Participatory development of innovation and implementation strategy - a practical approach https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.19.679982v1

#NHS England is dead! Long live the NHS in England! Will anyone tell us where the ca. 16,000 NHSE staff came from? Did most of them move from NHS Trusts and other arms length bodies, and will most of them gradually return back? theconversation.com/keir-starmer...

Have they surveyed parents to ask *they* want? May be many do like a reductive approach to “capture the complexity of school life” based on the “sum of Ofsted judgements across at least 40 points of comparison". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. Theory of Moral Sentiments, II:II, p.88 (www.panmurehouse.org/adam-smith/s...)

#USA contribution = $264M assessed + $442M voluntary = $706M = 10.3% of $6830M @who.int budget. By withdrawing, programs may shrink ~5% as: 1) other states up their contributions & influence; 2) #WHO will make efficiency savings, including not having to pay for #US staff & activities. #PissInTheWind

विनाश (vinaash) काले (kaale) विपरीत (vipareet) बुद्धि (buddhi) disastrous time accompanies backward reasoning

Some who take #bisphosphonates for #osteoporosis etc. were found to be protected against #covid. We now have a #molecularmodel to explain this. Thanks to my #BITSPilani collaboration. doi.org/10.1016/j.jm... & tinyurl.com/S27374165235... @sciencedirect.bsky.social @harvardchanschool.bsky.social

Want to make X (Twitter) your ex? Overcoming network effects (online.hbs.edu/blog/post/wh...) will be easy if all academic institutions and journals stop posting on the hateful echo chamber called X and switch to an alternative like BSky. It will lead to an eXodus faster than you imagine.

@rcpsglasgow.bsky.social please start using BlueSky

@uniofyork.bsky.social please start using BlueSky

www.preprints.org/manuscript/2... We lack safe, effective & cost effective #treatments for #covid. Our latest research into #bisphosphonates has identified three potential #drug candidates (CHEMBL196676, CHEMBL164344, and CHEMBL4291724) that warrant further investigation in cells and animal models.

President of the Royal College of #Pathologists Dr Bernie Croal explains how direct to consumer tests (DTCTs) differ from home self-tests, their pros and cons. See www.degruyter.com/document/doi... for a good paper

Well done @oxfordbiology.bsky.social! 60 years after it was last recorded, the iconic, egg-laying, long-beaked #mammal #echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) has been rediscovered in one of the most #unexplored regions of the world. See it youtu.be/5BQrM8lXdg8

Prof Gerry McCartney correctly argues that the design of #economics is too important to leave to #economists, and that we must put economic policy in service of #health for all. See doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (my 1st #author @bsky.app)