Honoured to be giving the Centre for Personalised Medicine Annual Lecture on 28th April at 5.30 pm in Oxford's Mathematics Institute: Personalised medicine - A view from primary care. All welcome, free to attend but please book. cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cpm-an...

I posted the growing prevalence of raw milk just two days ago. Here is a huge issue that underlies why people are opting for such dangerous practices. We need to do more to help people understand disinformation because the social media companies won’t remove disinformation at all

Does Trump really think we are that stupid that anyone believes that or his brain so wrong that he believes that himself? Either way it’s highly concerning

Artemis photo of Earth from the far side of the moon. Breathtaking. What a precious and beautiful planet we live on

Is now a good time to brush up on the principle of universal jurisdiction? It applies to grave breaches of all 4 Geneva Conventions. While heads of state have immunity (while still in office), those obeying their orders don't.

Well, we're not talking about the Epstein files, are we.

No fighting in the war room.

*If* this is the case, it would be nice if the US Congress could, I don't know, have a long hard think about what has gone on and maybe do something about it.

regardless of what happens tonight, isn't it a shame that the Supreme Court gave Trump absolute immunity to any duties carried out as part of his office...

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Pleased to have written this with my @independentsage.bsky.social friends @sheencr.bsky.social, @duncanrobertson.bsky.social, and @helensalisbury.bsky.social We must reverse the decline in MMR and other vaccines, urgently... bmj.com/cgi/content/...

"...He's always watching the TV..."

Inaccurate election bar charts are nothing new. But when we challenged a Reform spokesman on the numbers didn’t apologise or plead mathematical incompetence; he openly admitted that the misleading bar chart was a deliberate tactic. Read about it here:

I'm sure it has nothing to do with this. dysonfarming.com

The UK has relied on food imports since at least Napoleonic times. Unfortunately, the Brexiters were so busy obsessing over blue passports and the tax cuts they never stopped to work that one out.

Great post

Delighted to see my friend and former colleague @nschwalbe.bsky.social profiled in the Lancet. A real champion of public health now running for US Congress. Good luck! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

more in my substack christinapagel.substack.com/p/while-the-...

As the world goes for renewable energy (even if too slowly), the US has gone the other way. Since the start of his second term in Jan 2025, Trump has done all he can to promote fossil fuels and block renewables Tying the US to a fossil fuel future will leave US less powerful & consumers worse off

Pleased to have written this with my @independentsage.bsky.social friends @sheencr.bsky.social, @duncanrobertson.bsky.social, and @helensalisbury.bsky.social We must reverse the decline in MMR and other vaccines, urgently... bmj.com/cgi/content/...

To tackle such issues we call for sustainable changes that embed vaccination in a well informed patient population- this must include supporting education to spot misinformation, funding and training more local staff and community networks/champions. Please do read! www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

This coupled with the proliferation of disinformation has worsened vaccine hesitancy + enhanced confusion about the risks of the diseases themselves v the vaccines...if you are not convinced whether a vaccine is needed and its not convenient to get one - then this presents huge barriers for uptake.

Excited to share our editorial in @bmj.com - we discuss the need for targeted action to address the fact that the UK has lost its measles-free status. We highlight issues like public health spending cuts, fragmented infrastructure, training cuts that impacted vaccine access #HealthPolicy 🧵

This was very much a a team effort led by @profstevegriffin.bsky.social with @helensalisbury.bsky.social and @duncanrobertson.bsky.social

Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The US' Suez. With added crisis.

What about the bit where your beautifully researched and detailed paragraphs are just too much and you know it and when you editor says: cut them out, and they scream and lie bleeding on the floor…

I enjoy research and I *love* writing. But the bit in between, where the research has to be turned into material that you use in the writing, is the most godforsaken activity on earth. Like extracting marrow from your bones.

I wrote this last year to mark the day which considered some of the major disparities around vaccine access across the world. I also tried to contextualise my very personal reason for advocating so strongly for vaccines (and no I don't get paid for this at all)

Today is #CelebrateVaccines day for the @britsocimm.bsky.social so sharing this basic explainer of how vaccines work and the main different types of vaccine

Thanks @zackpolanski.bsky.social! 💚 Yesterday's publication of the Module 3 Report of the Covid Inquiry completely vindicates Green Party policy on: ✅️ clean air standards in healthcare ✅️ Long-Covid as an occupational disease & a workers' & patients' rights issue. #CleanAir #WorkersRights

"There are signs an outbreak of measles in north London may have stabilised although there could still be more cases, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said."

Some of the most important threats to democracy do not make the biggest headlines - especially (and understandable) given the new war in Iran. This 4 min update looks at actions weakening the rule of law, reducing oversight, expanding executive power, and making voting harder. youtu.be/DzHg-TbhdfQ

Adding: For anyone with genuine interest in this topic, this thread from @profstevegriffin.bsky.social is very good. Deals with objections very nicely. bsky.app/profile/prof...

Just over a minute on Trump as the would be king... youtube.com/shorts/dpLgf...

The end of Digging for Britain. For me, at least. But I’ll still be making television about archaeology, on other channels. So watch this space…

I REALLY hope this can be replicated in humans. A trial in mice showed that a nasal vaccine targeting multiple respiratory pathogens including COVID-19 worked really well - enabling development of protective Immunity in the lung for 3 months (the duration of testing) 🧪

Yay Cambridge Vet School stays open. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Quelle surprise... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Usually meetings early in year would discuss fall vaccines. Now Kennedy is cancelling meetings so what will the future vaccines be?

Things just go from bad to worse over in the US.

Universities were forced to pivot quickly to online teaching when all institutions went into multiple lock downs imposed by the government in response to a covid pandemic. 🧵

But how are vaccine manufacturer's able to work and respond to capricious changes at the turn of a time from Kennedy's team? This illustrates how unqualified they are and risks the future of vaccine research in the States as well as damages access to better vaccines which we REALLY need for flu

the FDA have done an abrupt turnaround and after initially saying they wouldn't review Moderna's application to licence an updated flu vaccine for the fall they have NOW decided they will review the application 🤷‍♀️

"And the man at the back said, "Everyone, attack" And it turned into a ballroom blitz And the girl in the corner said, "Boy, I wanna warn ya It'll turn into a ballroom blitz" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quite a photo www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Wow.

"I've been totally exonerated"

So the US government is now providing a website that essentially lets European users look at banned porn and hate content cos they love free speech so much yet somehow keep stifling their own journalists and criticism of Trump…. Yup that’s completely normal ?!?!