A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before. https://cnn.it/4oIRswI

Congratulations and respect to you all. ❤️ Lisa Nandy acknowledges that the grief of Covid bereaved "is profound. With friends and families unable to mark people’s passing in the normal ways it felt as if people were disappearing." We wrote about this in 'When This is Over': tinyurl.com/48v8nb8y

Thank you! And we are proud that our Chair, @franfd.bsky.social, contributed to 'When This is Over' - an important book. ❤️

Get yourself ready for Storm Claudia. Torches in easy reach and storm lamps and power banks charged. Charge your phone, fill the kettle and get your snacks on standby

It may be a month away but I am really looking forward to chatting with @lucygobag.bsky.social about crisis preparedness and what has happened during 2025. You can join us for this free online event on 16 December. Check it out here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1932956658...

A book that helped me make sense of visiting a domestic abuse war zone (abandoned house) reminds me of effects so precious after disaster @lucygobag.bsky.social seeks to preserve for traumatised survivors The biggest impact on me were seeing letters, pregnancy notes & scans after 15 yrs

Thrilled to see @monisharajesh.bsky.social Moonlight Express on here as it’s one that I will be gifting this year ❤️

Written before the BBC resignations but this by @arusbridger.bsky.social is really worth reading. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

After nine weeks of evidence and more than 100 witnesses, my big read on how the Southport atrocity could - and should - have been prevented: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Amazing that more than 100 people have already signed up to join the wonderful @lucygobag.bsky.social and me for a pre-festivities look at being crisis ready and what happened in 2025. If you are interested find out more here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1932956658...

Join us this Friday at 12:00 p.m. MST to learn more about funding opportunities through the Health and Extreme Weather Research Award Program. Register for the virtual webinar today: bit.ly/4hHTZ7L

Thanks to @bps-social-psych.bsky.social for bringing my notes together from the event that @merveozturkey.bsky.social & I organized. Reflections came from the responses of: @profjohndrury.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social Dr Rim Saab and Dr Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir www.bps.org.uk/news/rising-...

Thanks to everyone that has already signed up. Free online webinar with @lucygobag.bsky.social and me looking at preparedness and what happened in 2025. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1932956658...

Oh and a link to buy @lucygobag.bsky.social book is here - www.foyles.co.uk/book/come-wh... And remember, when buying this book - support local, independent book shops :)

Amid the tinsel and festivities the amazing @lucygobag.bsky.social is going to chat with me about being crisis ready and looking back at 2025. It is free, online and on 16 December. Find out more here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1932956658...

The idea of “bad help” in disasters is an issue some #DRR practitioners & policy makers are already familiar with. Support works best when shaped with communities NOT for communities. Listening is key. So I loved this point from @lucygobag.bsky.social More - bit.ly/3Lm9d63 #InclusiveDRR

As a hurricane Helene survivor, I can testify that a great influx of clothing and supplies from outside required volunteers to sort and store. The best help came in the form of money to be used LOCALLY for such things as building supplies, food, temporary housing, and generators. Money.

"During the response to Hurricane Mitch, which struck Honduras in 1998, a plane carrying aid was unable to land due to bales of unusable clothing blocking the runway."

Re-upping this for ego purposes

Sharing this a lot tonight - donated items in disaster only make things worse (pretty much without exception and anywhere in the world). There is a long history of this going very wrong particularly after hurricanes www.theguardian.com/books/2023/m...

Put this in your 👂 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Tune into The Briefing Room at 4pm, BBC R4 on better models for public inquiries and what they actually change 👂

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A huge thanks to our wonderful speakers — Dr Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir, Dr Rim Saab , Prof. Lucy Easthope @lucygobag.bsky.social , and John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social — for their time, insight, and generous contributions.

This is so important www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

🚨 Exclusive: New leaked document proves @NHSEngland was warned a decade ago about failures in child hearing test centres across England. Hundreds of children have been harmed, some left with lifelong problems: ▶️ www.thetimes.com/article/294c...

Because a lot of people are finding this week hard….

Pleased to see readying for storms, floods and power outages continuing to become so mainstream. Out today in HomeStyle magazine October edition ⭐️

Season 9 of the We Society podcast is here! Episode 1 sees Will Hutton joined by disaster recovery expert @lucygobag.bsky.social to explore the hidden world of emergency planning incl. the long-term implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on societal resilience. podfollow.com/the-we-socie...

Season 9 of The We Society is here! In Episode 1, Will Hutton is joined by disaster recovery expert @lucygobag.bsky.social to explore the hidden world of emergency planning, incl. the long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on societal resilience. 🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/lucy...

Just saying, I helped establish or grow Some of those initial programs. Interesting times.

Three weeks into the school run and my new radicalising thing is cars ever so gently rolling forward as my daughter scooters over the zebra crossing. What are you doing. Take your foot off the accelerator there’s a fucking four year old in front of you

Drivers, don't do this. To anyone on a zebra crossing, not just little kids going to school. You're supposed to *stop*, not slow down to a crawl and play chicken with the pedestrians. Related, if a driver does this to me, I start walking extremely very slowly, all the while maintaining eye contact.

Universities enable people to explore their interests and passions and prepare for the world of work. They have become the go-to institutions for research and the generation of ideas, and therefore are engines for both economic growth and social mobility. www.nature.com/articles/d41...