Delighted to see WHO Director-General Dr Tedros join us on Bluesky @drtedros.who.int Welcome Dr Tedros!

Launching today ‘Creating knowledge together’ – a collection of 13 essays on the power of community engaged research, published by British Science Association. Read our essay ‘How to ethically share power with public research partners: AKA keeping blobs blobby’ and explore the full collection here:

The figures haven't changed in the past few years

Great summary of the day by @peterlangdon.bsky.social It felt like it was one of those talks that resonated with a lot of people. Lots of break time discussion about recruitment, ethics, gatekeepers and funding. So much energy and desire for improvement gives me a kick up the bum to keep going!

We’re back again this year showcasing excellent research involving people with intellectual disabilities and autistic people taking place across the Midlands! Thank you to our partners: NHS England, ADASS, NIHR RDN East and West Midlands, Reach-Out, University of Birmingham

30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything (US)

How should you respond to a regime that has disregard for health and wellbeing, ignores the central role of inequalities in poor health outcomes, and believes science and scholarship to be enemies of progress? @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in the latest Editor's Choice www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Gary Boulet and I are the keynotes today for the Midlands Learning Disability and Autism Research event. Our talk is on the contribution people with learning disabilities make to research; as participants, advisors & as research leaders.

Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

Why is measles such a big deal? Here's why:

"Amanda Jones, a librarian in Louisiana, has received death threats since speaking out against book bans. She was labelled a paedophile and filmed by strangers in public. She fears going out alone. “I can name a librarian in every state this has happened to — and I fear it’s only going to get worse”

More to add to the trial methodology starter pack @amymrussell.bsky.social (and lots to follow here @trialforge.bsky.social @streweek.bsky.social) in not already!

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Currently low response rates from CTU Directors (n=5), Programmers/Data Managers (n=0), & QA Managers (n=3) working in clinical trials. We need to know what these groups think the challenges are for greener trials. forms.office.com/e/fkeLD8HbMA Please complete &RT @ukctunetwork.bsky.social

This is just so cruel. My wife works at a school attended by many kids with disabilities, and one of my daughters is neurodivergent. I am at a loss for words. This state just keeps disappointing me.

"It’s particularly egregious as a women’s health product to be deceiving about what it can and can't do and could prevent women from getting proper treatment." #FemTech #WomensHealth #COI #CDoH www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusf...

Let deregulate children catching fire and botulism. It doesn’t sound like unnecessary red tape when you look at it that way…

On the 5 year anniversary of the shambles that half the country didn't want and now its hard to find anyone who still thinks it was a good idea I felt this was worth a repost #brexit

How can anyone in their right mind ignore this letter from Caroline Kennedy about her cousin, RFK Jr.?

I did not see this one coming

Really feeling for US colleagues and students and knowledge and society right now...

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Trump Reinstated the Global Gag Rule. Here’s What’s at Stake.

Of course we expected this, but it’s still not widely known about among non specialists. The damage done to women’s health by the global gag rule can’t be understated. The GOP/US government have been doing this for decades www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.texastribune.org/2025/01/24/t... @aclu.org - can anything be done? Can Texas Medical Board investigate?

Had such an enjoyable collaborative writing retreat this morning @amymrussell.bsky.social @drmkirby.bsky.social #research

Our new study shows that together with increasing early childhood education and care participation rates, overall inequality has increased in Europe. #ECEC #childcare #education #inequality www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#Trump’s withdrawal from @who.int was widely anticipated & criticised for damage it will cause. It serves as a wake-up call for the importance of multilateralism in the face of American unilateralism. In our @bmj.com piece, we outline actions to address the crisis www.bmj.com/content/388/...

1/ Trump has announced plans to withdraw from @who.int This decision threatens to weaken WHO, isolate the US, and undermine global health diplomacy when unity is most needed. We respond @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/388/...

The wonderful Clara Greed wrote widely on this topic and after years of reducing local authority budgets it is even more urgent. Women, children and disabled people are disproportionately affected by the closure of public toilets. It is discrimination.

Thank you Martin Luther King

Trump did not invite France’s Macron, the UK’s Starmer or Germany’s Scholz for the inauguration but instead invited those countries’ fascists Reconquest/Zemmour (France), the AfD/Weidel (Germany) and Reform/Farage (UK). As a friend just said, it’s not an inauguration. It’s a rally.

Remember these when you’re told cuts are unavoidable because there’s no money… As Davos begins, shocking data revealed in Oxfam’s report: 💰Billionaire wealth is growing 3 times faster than it was just a year ago. 💰Billionaire wealth is growing by $5.7 billion every 𝙙𝙖𝙮.

So we can’t get our new hospitals in the UK as there’s no money? Good job the Conservatives didn’t waste £715 million of tax payers money in just 2 years….oh wait. They did. Revealed: Tories spent £134m on never-used IT systems for failed Rwanda scheme. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Worldwide mood

Disappointing but also not surprising study of how the gender of a seminar speaker affects questions. It’s in economics but I expect it tracks in 🔭 as well as in 🧪 in general /via @maranzazuru.bsky.social & @leafwarbler.bsky.social

For anyone on #MedSky interested in improving the wellbeing, mental health and working lives of health professionals, I've made a start at creating a #MedSkyWellbeing community go.bsky.app/NqFoKDt Let me know of you want adding.

World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We're running our annual online Masterclass in Complex Interventions Evaluations over 3 days in January and February. Come and learn from our expert team of complex interventions trialists at @leedsctru.bsky.social Register now to reserve your place. Deadline 24 Jan. Link below 👇

When in doubt let nature make ice marbles

Read how @universityofleeds.bsky.social @amymrussell.bsky.social's passion for social justice and the inclusion of the lesser-heard voices motivates her to change research culture for the better in this @n8research.bsky.social sky.social blog www.n8research.org.uk/being-passio...

What specifically is Donold distracting everyone from by calling for war on Canada and Greenland

Excellent walk Sunday. Even when the sleet started it was still good to be out walking. Returning to work today, hours sat still at a desk, with kids at home on a snow day, was …. a bit of a contrast and not so much fun.

Staff member: "Never seen it this bad. It’s important people understand how bad it is. Imagine being the patient who has waited in an A&E corridor for 91 hours. That’s 4 days! Then they might be boarded (so no room, no toilet no privacy) in a corridor on a ward."

THANK YOU These papers were led by Profs Carmel Shachar and Kadija Ferryman Links @jama.com: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Boris Johnson, 2019: “awful lot of money & an awful lot of police time now goes into these historic offences...£60m I saw was being spaffed up a wall on some investigation into historic child abuse...what on earth is that going to do to protect the public now?” www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Pity Farage wasn’t asked about this - he should be forced to own it @bbclaurak.bsky.social @theneweuropean.bsky.social

Oh look James Dyson the parasite Billionaire; caught impersonating Elon Musk. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why not submit an abstract of your latest health and care services research for the @hsruk.bsky.social annual conference to be held in Newcastle in July? More information at hsruk2025.org #healthpolicysky #healthresearch #healthservicesresearch #academicsky #medsky