Thank you for your wonderful review. I’m so glad you enjoyed it. I wish everyone would read it too. Especially politicians. Then all doctors, whose voices are unsettlingly quiet on the matter of our government led withdrawal of trans healthcare and how this fits with ‘do no harm’.

Absolutely delighted to see the Child Cancer Smart campaign launch today. A campaign steeped in evidence aiming to raise awareness and accelerate diagnosis for all children and young people with cancer. Huge thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to make this happen.

Welcome to the new BlueSky home for the SURFSUP Trial! SURFSUP is a RCT including preterm infants ≥1250g, comparing supraglottic airway surfactant vs minimally invasive surfactant by thin catheter in preventing surfactant treatment failure. We'll be posting updates on the trial here 🏄🏄‍♂️🏄‍♀️

"Breastfeeding was something I could do in a body that so often feels limited. I’m so proud of our journey and everything we achieved." Thanks to Jo for sharing her story with us #DisabilityPrideMonth

The moment I saw that "trans bra" M & S story I sensed it was nonsense. Seconds later, having read the Telegraph piece I knew it was worse than that. It was deliberate hate mongering completely devoid of evidence, names and facts. Superb job of debunking it here www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/06/m...

@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social is hosting a webinar TOMORROW discussing how to support parents with a variety of disabilities in lactation and breastfeeding their child. 🔗 zurl.co/UMvAl #NationalBreastfeedingMonth #NBM #DisabledPregnancy #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2025 #MCH

Still time to join our team! We're exploring how lactation and early nutrition shape lifelong health 🔬🥼👩🏻‍🔬🤱

🦖 What was the first animal that breastfed? 👵🏽 Can you breastfeed after menopause? 🌈 Does the color of breast milk mean anything? 🔬 Why does breastmilk contain stem cells? 💉 Does breastmilk protect against Covid? 🐄 How do different animals milks differ? Come ask us anything on FRIYAY!

New publication on markers of metabolic bone disease in EPT/VLBWs during different clinical regimes. Key points: a) no improvement in ALP/radiological signs/fracture with routine fortification/switch to PTH driven protocol (but v low fracture rate) 1/ share.google/u42DlXULiNzc...

www.amnesty.org.uk/anti-rights Amnesty UK report finding: "a rapidly expanding network of organisations working to undermine human rights protections, targeting reproductive freedoms, LGBTI rights and promoting dangerous practices such as so-called "conversion therapy". "

Today is the 10th anniversary of Ireland's gender recognition act. Ireland's gender recognition is through self-declaration without the need for permission from a doctor, panel or judge etc. In the past decade nothing bad happened. youtu.be/1f8OxezAqTk?...

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day and the first day of Non-Binary Awareness Week The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.

I just read this and it’s wonderful!

#bluesky in Ireland 🙂

Third generation Fenton growth curves #neosky #ebneo pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40534585/

This update also has a new Excel bulk calculator where you don't have to divide the data into boys and girls which is great 🙂

The 3rd generation Fenton preterm growth charts were recently released, so being a data geek, I did some analysis of how the Fenton 2003/2013/2025 and Olsen 2010 preterm charts compared, and harmonization with the WHO growth standards. Also some opinionated musing. #NeoSky #PedSky #rstats #dataviz

Last day to share your voice on future research priorities for LGBTQIA+ perinatal care (pregnancy, birth and beyond) Bit.ly/PSPTopTen - closing midnight Monday June 9th!

🚨New blog: Break the Barriers!🚨 For my PhD, my lived experience partners & I are co-producing research to address #racism in maternity care for Black families in NW London, and we want to share our journey! 🔗 First post + subscribe: bit.ly/3Hw2If4 #BlackMaternalHealth #coproduction #healthequity

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

Last chance to choose your Top Ten priorities for research in LGBTQIA+ perinatal care! Bit.ly/PSPTopTen closing 9th June (Monday) #equity #perinatal #pridemonth2025 #neosky #obsky #midwives #lgbtqia @jameslindalliance.bsky.social @npeu-oxford.bsky.social

📢We are developing a new study looking at treatments that may help improve care for Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy (HIE).📢 If you have a child who received cooling therapy for HIE and are interested in taking part in an online focus group please get in touch. @npeu-ctu.bsky.social

🧠Join us for the second NOTE Summer Guest Lecture! 📅 Wed, June 4 | 🕕 18:00 London time 📍 "2025: Neonatal Seizures Revisited" 👩‍⚕️ Prof. Maria Roberta Cilio, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium 🔗 Register: esntutorial.espr.eu/register #Neonatology #Neurodevelopment #ESN

National surveys reveal that LGBTQIA+ families often have a lot of worries about the care they receive within the maternity and postnatal system. Ilana Levene, a neonatal doctor in Oxford, is working on a project to address this issue. Find out how you can contribute: bit.ly/3T1NTmT #PrideMonth

Video update on the current stage of our priority setting partnership for LGBTQIA+ perinatal care! UK health professionals and LGBTQIA + people, take the survey here: bit.ly/PSPTopTen Share with your networks to recognise Pride month 🙂 #pregnancy #birth #babies #equity 🌈

Mark Pride month by choosing your Top Ten priorities for future research on LGBTQIA+ perinatal care! Calling UK health professionals, LGBTQIA+ people, family, supporters: bit.ly/PSpTopTen #equity @royalcollegeofgps.bsky.social @rcm.org.uk @neonatalnursesuk.bsky.social @bapmofficial.bsky.social

UK perinatal healthcare professionals, take a look at this collaboratively created list of unanswered research questions on lgbtqia+ perinatal care and choose your top ten: bit.ly/PSPTopTen #equity #research #prioritysetting

UK perinatal healthcare professionals, take a look at this collaboratively created list of unanswered research questions on lgbtqia+ perinatal care and choose your top ten: bit.ly/PSPTopTen #equity #research #prioritysetting

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Fantastic piece in @theguardian.com. Doctors only see part of families' lives after brain injury in childhood, this illuminates a bit more of the other side.

Together, UK LGBTQIA+ people and their healthcare professionals have created a list of unanswered research questions about becoming and being pregnant, birth and the time afterwards. *What will your Top Ten questions be?* bit.ly/PSPTopTen *Your Voice Matters! Take the survey* #equity #obssky #neosky

Crossword fans might see a familiar name in the New York Times today 😊 #crossword #nyt

NEW BLOG! Jonathan Griffiths, GP and bereaved parent, shares his personal experience and reflects on how we can support those bereaved of a child. Thank you, @drjongriffiths.bsky.social, for sharing such an important message. Read it here: www.ncmd.info/blog/jonatha...

Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Immigrants. Coming over here & serving in the army. Raising children who become NHS nurses and doctors. Despicable. Private Marciniak pictured below 1945-ish 🇵🇱 #NotACountryOfStrangers

Neonatal Research Shorts : May 2025 Dutta S, et al. Seven-day versus 14-day antibiotic course for culture-proven neonatal sepsis: a multicentre randomised non-inferiority trial in a low and middle-income country. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2025. This is a multicentre trial from India of…

My take as a parent on the new #dumbphone type thing for my tween - the Mudita Kompakt youtu.be/UmVUIGr-bus?...

New research in Nature finds perinatal mental health screening in NICU's helps identify parents who need mental health support. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Love a phrase I heard at MAINN conference this week "all research is me-search" - we can't divorce our selves, our experiences, our beliefs from the research that we choose to do and carry out

This is very valuable data, thank you for sharing the full poster. This may change local practice for us

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

EHRC document makes it absolutely clear what the intent is, an attempt to systematically exclude and target trans people, deny them their rights Utterly terrifying how rapidly commitment to support trans people's basic rights has been reversed by those who think it's politically expedient to do so

Wishing our Sikh friends and colleagues a very happy Vaisakhi ✨️

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

A Florida high school teacher has been fired for using a student's chosen name instead of their deadname, a first under a 2023 law signed by Ron DeSantis. “She is a beloved teacher that changed her students’ lives” said one parent leading a petition with 7,400 signatures demanding her reinstatement

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics. I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Among the many terminated NIH grants was one studying intimate partner violence and pregnancy (the number one cause of death during pregnancy is homicide). The Trump administration thinks preventing domestic violence is DEI. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Excited to see this interview out on the @nicupodcast.bsky.social Fellows Fridays series. It was great fun to record, thanks for the opportunity 😊 www.the-incubator.org/post/294-dyn... #NeoSky #MilkSky