The need for better genAI literacy is incredibly urgent jfc. Also sea safety, apparently. (I check several sites before relying on them for tide times to account for discrepancies and errors!).

This is also a disability justice issue.

Are you a researcher working in infectious diseases or #AMR, from a social science discipline (broadly interpreted?). INAMRSS has 3 great opportunities for you! www.globalstrategylab.org/events/open-... Abstract submission open now - move fast!

One in six bacterial infections worldwide are now resistant to antibiotics, WHO warns www.bmj.com/content/391/...

‘Knitting had been a safe way to soften the search for new friends each time I took up residence in a new city.’ Susan M. Strawn 🧶

Every morning waking up to news about how migration is Bad, Very Bad, Very Bad for the UK. That it's ruining this country. Picture it like water from the roof of a cave, falling on the head of every migrant who's made their home here: drip, drip, drip, every second, for years, making a hole...

This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today. What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up. There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.

We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long. His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

This thread has some excellent book suggestions! Everything I wanted to suggest was already there, so I now have a massive new list of fun distracting sounding books to listen to/read. Thanks!

Great to see a UK GP writing a BMJ e-letter like this: "Research must consider Post Exertional Malaise as a neurological event underpinning fluctuating cognitive dysfunction in Long Covid" www.bmj.com/content/390/... #PEM #LongCovid

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 We are looking for a Head of #DataEngineering & Informatics to play a leading role in our ongoing development & lead our data strategy. 📍 Oxford, UK 📅 Apply by Sep 17 🔗 www.iddo.org/about-us/jobs #NTDs #EmergingInfections #Malaria #GlobalHealth @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

After 40 years of providing refuge to Myanmar refugees, Thailand has made history, granting them legal status to work. "This not only grants a future of self-reliance and dignity to this population, but also an opportunity to contribute to Thailand." www.rescue.org/press-releas...

I'm peer reviewing a manuscript for a reputable publisher and came across fake references which must be AI-generated - including to an article attributed to me which sounds fascinating but which I never wrote.

Not enough people are talking about how they took the mini crossword from us

I ran the numbers on the UK government's recommendation to delete old photos and emails to save water in data centers andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...

London study of 27 long COVID patients found their immune cells burn oxygen faster but waste energy as ATP synthase runs in reverse, hinting at a bioenergetic defect tied to fatigue and poor quality of life. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It is nearly impossible to imagine how a product conceptualised and delivered by a horde of #TechBros could ever deliver a result like this, isn't it?

Thanks to Emily Dugan and the Sunday Times for exposing this aspect of how Maeve died from ME. A Devon County Council cover up. Maeve was taking them to judical review, dying in the attempt. Devon County Council may have learnt nothing from the inquest. I have learnt a lot about them. 1/4

The world's food production is strongly linked to the Haber-Bosch process. Without this means of producing synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, global human population would potentially only be half as large. Source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/worl...

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About - www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/d... "exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crushing, technically unworkable disaster" great takedown by @mmasnick.bsky.social #osa #privacy

I see this every time I work with community groups. Women stepping in to fill gaps left by LAs and government, only to find the more they step in, the more gaps appear, as government sees this free labour as a solution that their funding crises. It is not. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

5-page @scienceforme.bsky.social post-exertional malaise ( #PEM ) fact sheet www.s4me.info/docs/PEM_Fac... Headings: -Characteristics of PEM -Symptoms of PEM -Exertion and other PEM triggers -Effects of exertion that are not PEM -Living with PEM -Examples of PEM -Research on PEM #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

💥 New: Narrative CVs are rewriting academic stories and identities ✍️ Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner & Judit Varga #AcademicSky #ResearchAssessment

Looks like aid groups may be able to provide limited food service to some communities in Gaza. I'm supporting World Central Kitchen. wck.org/news/gaza-up...

University: “You need to evidence your research impact.” *turns on Grindr* Me: “Will this do?” 💅🏾

From Long Flu to Long COVID: A Brief History of Postviral Illness www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/long...

The Heat Will Kill You First is one of three books recommended by @newyorker.com to help you make sense of our accelerating climate chaos. Thank you @elizkolbert.bsky.social

I posted this earlier, but came back to it again. It's just unbelievable. Warwick's consultants telling people how to write terribly so they are "on brand". It's Beyond ridiculous. Or rather "Beyond is ridiculous". brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-gui...

UK has shut down the £265 million #FlemingFund, which supported #AMR surveillance in 25 LMICs, due to aid budget cuts tied to increased defense spending. This move will harm global health and damage UK's reputation as a reliable international partner in fighting AMR. observer.co.uk/news/science...

I’d really hesitate to recommend a foreign tourist use the railways to get around UK. Unless they are using an Interrail ticket (though there may be issues with that too!)

Read all about the “Pint of Science Laos” event that took place in May earlier this year, and watch the nice video that the LOMWRU team put together. www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/two-nig...

“Ensuring that the world of work is welcoming and supportive for everyone is a crucial first step before other policies can be put in place to increase the rate of employment for disabled people and those with long-term health conditions.”

The value of Global Risks 2025 lies in hammering home the message that the crisis now facing humanity is far larger, more complex and interlinked than we are willing to understand. @JulianCribb #auspol #thehumanfuture

I highly recommend the book “The heat will kill you first” by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social. Very clearly written. And a great mix between science and personal stories of people who are affected by the increasing heat due to climate change.

The process of colonial theft doesn't end when you finish extracting people's wealth and resources on their soil at gunpoint. It continues when you then deploy violent borders to shut out people from those countries so you can keep the proceeds of that theft for yourselves

Think this is the first and only time I’ve seen a AMR practice-based message in the wild #uti

We're hosting a Patient-Led Research Fund (PLRF) webinar on July 9, 1–4:30PM ET! Hear results from 10 PLRF-funded biomedical studies (on microclots, T cell exhaustion, trials, & more), all selected by a panel of patient-researchers. 🗓️ Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #LongCOVID

The Salt Path scandal is also catastrophic news for the army of woodcut illustrators contractually obliged to produce covers for every nature/walking memoir ever published.

Yes! It’s the talk of the morning in my book group. Also I’m finding lots of new people to follow on here, who are discussing the “Salt Path”. 😂

The trouble with being a Bluesky user in Europe is checking one’s feed upon waking to be faced every morning with a wall of overnight horror from US accounts through which to doomscroll. It’s not a great way to start the day.

One of the reasons Twitter became the place for govt feeds was that it used to be possible to view all of (non-private) Twitter without being logged in, hence making it function like a mini blog. That ended under Musk, and really should have been the end of it.

I read *a lot* of scientific abstracts that are missing key elements. Here are the 5 things an abstract needs: 1. Introduce the topic, 2. State the unknown, 3. Outline the method used to answer the question, 4. Preview the findings, and 5. Tell us what your work teaches us.

I am losing my mind over all these pieces on the number of disabled people increasing in the UK since 2020 that don’t even mention Long Covid, the new disabling illness that now affects two million Britons

Maintaining research integrity in the age of GenAI: an analysis of ethical challenges and recommendations to researchers @sonjabjelobaba.bsky.social, @wisewoman.bsky.social et al. edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

After handling the IT/AV for a meeting today, and fighting various cloud sharing security settings…I miss the old times when people turned up with USB sticks to upload their talks.

New CERCLE Lecture: "Bad Global Health", a candid take on the current state of global health by Prof. Sir Nick White, from technical incompetence to misplaced priorities and how we can do better. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/El-waW1qTTs #GlobalHealth #CERCLE #Equity

“How do we move from principles to practice in equitable research?” Prof. Phaik Yeong Cheah (Head of my group) from MORU @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk shares insights from the Thai-Myanmar border on ethics, engagement, and power in global health. youtu.be/QqQY3cTpH3k?...

At the #PandemicSciences25 conference at the Said Business School in Oxford today and tomorrow. Luckily there's air conditioning - it's super hot in the UK, and even my Thai colleague said it's different to the heat in Bangkok.

As somebody from Florida now living in Oxford, 32C *is* dangerously hot when virtually no houses and very few public buildings have aircon and almost all of them are masonry built and designed to retain heat, you cannot be comparing hot weather here to heat in a place EQUIPPED for it, come tf on