Where did May go? I’ve not posted in a month, so Bluesky has become my monthly quote board update! In the *badly needed* spirit of allyship this one is for Pride month, courtesy of Alok Vaid-Menon

May quote of the month, from Christina Koch: “Planet Earth, you are a crew”. If you haven’t heard this speech yet, you so should!… youtube.com/shorts/_74Ms...

April’s quote of the month for my office. This is from Whitney Hanson’s beautiful poem on hope - www.instagram.com/reel/DWR5v1_...

This is the civilization that Trump has threatened to wipe out in a matter of hours. 92 million people. And still he hasn’t been impeached.

I hope everyone at Sharif University is OK. This is despicable, yet another crime against humanity. The Nazis burned books. Trump bombs universities.

I hope everyone celebrating had a happy Easter! After a busy Easter weekend playing music at my local church, here’s a little thread reflecting on an interesting conversation I had…

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

📹 Here’s a short video to explain our priorities at the Emergency Medicine Journal: 1️⃣ Improve emergency care 2️⃣ Excellent author & reader experience 3️⃣ Social responsibility With our fantastic team, I think it’s going to be amazing 🚀🤩 youtu.be/kIMfaZcBOJM

Yesterday, we finished our POC high-sensitivity troponin testing event on a high. In the morning, we focused on ED care with great talks from Kristin Aakre, Ahmed Dakhshi & Paul Collinson, with 7 manufacturers & 12 members of the public. Key message: success is all about the *pathway*.

Part 1 of our Innovating in Cardiac Care event is complete - a fantastic networking evening bringing together industry, emergency physicians, specialist nurses, ED nurses, cardologists & lab medicine to talk about how we can get real value from point of care high-sensitivity troponin testing.

Billionaire Monaco immigrant, who pays no UK tax, blames immigrants for the UK’s problems. Immigration makes a net economic contribution to the UK. He thinks emulating his “unpopular” approach at Man Utd (sacking 100s of lower paid staff) will work. He’s lost >£6b in net worth since buying United.

One of the best bits of an academic job today - getting to meet in beautiful places. Today we had a lab meeting in the awesome Whitworth Building at the University of Manchester 🏯 Sadly I didn’t get to play the organ.

If a famous footballer posted a horrendously racist video involving monkeys on social media, there would be outrage, and they would be banned. If Donald Trump does it, he blames a staffer and that’s it. No consequences. No apology. I can’t emphasize enough how disgustingly wrong this regime is.

A winner is a loser who tried one more time. February’s quote board!

Cycling to work, I passed a man in a hi vis jacket, who looked at me and said, “English or enemy?” I looked back at him as I passed slowly, puzzled. We have come so far with Far Right radicalization that even I (White British) am getting hateful comments. It needs to stop, this is so dangerous.

Today I came to use my office post it notes, and I found this. I have no idea who wrote this, but what an amazing thing to do! Thanks to whoever it was. You’re also *awesome*! 😊

🎥 We’ve produced a short video to highlight the value of partnership between the @nihr.bsky.social Manchester Biomedical Research Centre and industry. 🎬 We believe this is crucial to drive improvements to health and care. youtu.be/PeIiFLhwCiI?...

Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?" Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism" "So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"

November's EMJ podcast has dropped, featuring... 🐱Garfield the cat (guest appearance) & @drsarahedwards.bsky.social 🫀 Resuscitation manikins & diversity 🧠 Functional neurology 👶 Serious bacterial infection in infants 🚁 Sedation in HEMS 🍎 lnkd.in/ebTjEkSw 🎧 lnkd.in/ekZij7MD 🛜 lnkd.in/esHRsMBz

If you see this, quote with a robot that is not from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers

Latest EMJ podcast now out, covering 🥁🥁🥁 🩸 Blood products in paediatric trauma ⌚ Predicting ED waiting times 👀 🔍 Same Day Emergency Care 📲 Digital streaming tools 📖 Plus, 'Whose turn is it?' A SUBLIME poem ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 🍎 lnkd.in/eYat4HpQ 🎧 lnkd.in/eQaz_yVV 🛜 lnkd.in/eggSh7yU

October’s quote of the month is from a Langston Hughes poem. “Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly”.

It’s September, so it’s time for another office quote of the month! This time, it’s from Carl Jung

I’m honoured to be starting as Editor in Chief at the Emergency Medicine Journal from January 2026. 😬🤩 I’m both daunted and excited, I’m so grateful to Ellen Weber and all the fantastic people I’ve been working with on this journey & I’m looking forward to building a bright future for the EMJ! 📈🚀

We are excited to launch our new talk series: Care, Outcomes, and Reform of Emergency Systems (CORE) Talks. Free Zoom seminars on policy-relevant evidence about EDs, telemedicine, and urgent care. www.coretalks.org Today at 11a EST, Dr. Jesse Pines, “How AI May Transform Emergency Care.”

Three weeks ago, a patient kicked me so hard in the temple. It took at least 10 days to recover from the concussion. Tonight, it happened *again* - kicked in the eye & across the room by another patient as I calmly tried to talk him down. I’m not the only one. And it’s completely unacceptable.

Too many of my peers & those decades older are not cognisant of the facts around the problems for Resident Doctors Who are paid 20-30% less, have £100k student debt, will have substantially lower pensions Yet here they are speaking to the media from their positions of privilege Check the facts🤷🏻‍♂️

applying for jobs again

Always . Last shift I sat down with an upset colleague and counselled them . The previous shift I broke very bad news to a patient and family . Later on in that shift an aggressive man triggered my latent PTSD and the team looked after me . We must take time to be compassionate .

June’s quote of the month for my office board. This one is courtesy of Carl Jung!

Is there still room for compassion in emergency care? I answered this question in a @stemlyns.bsky.social blog, over a decade after I first led research on this topic, which should always be at the heart of emergency care… www.stemlynsblog.org/is-there-sti...

Is there still room for compassion in emergency care? At @stemlyns.bsky.social. Over a decade after I first talked about this topic, I revisited it with some of the many things I’ve learned more recently about compassion in our daily practice. www.stemlynsblog.org/is-there-sti...

The FA has banned trans women from playing women’s football. What problem does it solve? How were the 0.0002% of players who are trans (none of them professional) causing harm? Sport should be inclusive, it’s so important for health. Excluding whole groups without justification is totally wrong.

One of my favourite quotes from Pope Francis, who said he would be a “Pope of the poor”. He spoke out against injustice, emphasizing the need for compassion, calling for peace & strongly supporting the Palestinian people under attack. Rest in peace.

It’s right that our society should be worried about women’s safety. Violence against women & girls is rife, and we all have a responsibility to tackle it. But the answer is not to blame trans people. Effectively banning legal gender transition will not help. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️

This makes me extremely proud to work at MFT. We have the *only* printed collection of the human genome in the UK with each chromosome *organised by colour*. Outstanding.

Quote of the month. This is from Charlie Chaplin’s famous ‘The Great Dictator’ speech, and I think it’s pertinent right now.

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. Trans people face huge challenges from >5 year NHS waiting lists for care to homelessness (1 in 5) to >40% of employers unsure if they’d employ a trans person, verbal abuse (85%), assault (29%/3 years) & much more. It’s more important than ever to mark today 🏳️‍⚧️

Eid Mubarak to all my Muslim friends and colleagues, and to everyone celebrating! I hope you all have a fantastic celebration and get to spend some time off work.

Does this make America great? They have deported people to be locked up in a for-profit super prison in a third country, with no trial, some apparently simply because they ‘had a tattoo’. How could humans do this? 😢

This feels like a Parkland shooting moment. If Americans don't care about dead kids we aren't gonna get gun control. If they don't care about their OWN DEAD KIDS then I'm not sure how you fight back against that

Here we go again... “The end of NHS England [...] 'reform' is one of the trickiest words in the political lexicon..." Read more 👇 @imcdermott.bsky.social @drdon.bsky.social @kathcheckland.bsky.social @benwealthy.bsky.social @richardbody.bsky.social @surin75.bsky.social @cath-lewis.bsky.social

Narratives from the rapid and devastating collapse of US civilization, continued.

If you’re an emergency physician, we’d be really grateful if you’d take just a couple of minutes to give your opinion on the management of abdominal pain in the ED, via this short survey… docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Also he should wear a suit while doing this

Awkward - and actually really sad - questions, that need to be asked so much right now if we ever want a world with equality. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdeDx1T1/

Great news - the NIHR Incubator for Emergency Care is now on Bluesky! 👏

"Key limitation of term non-pharmaceutical intervention lies in its definition by negation. It describes interventions by what they are not—pharmaceutical products e.g. drugs and vaccines—rather than by what they are" read more👇 @richardbody.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @imcdermott.bsky.social

*screams in Emergency Medicine