devices wars and snack spats: for @thetimes.com I report from the frontline of of the sleepover scene #parenting www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Culinary wit from maple-syrup land. 🇨🇦 🔥

🚨 Drastic cuts to global health funding are leaving millions without essential HIV services. Young people, key populations, and marginalized communities are being abandoned. Millions are at risk. Act now, save lives! Learn more: 🔗 bit.ly/41CDnrD #ZeroDiscrimination

straw poll: are other folk seeing leftist communities dissolving into spats at the moment? Seeing these vituperative meltdowns everywhere from diggers communialisrs to fo-row hippies and global journo mutual aid groups— what’s with?

ChatGPT scheduler = ‘calming’ @restispolitics.bsky.social

Meet 'wedgies' reply guy. One of the many men who online stalk British women journalists

early arrival on the tide of mullets from Holland: bathing their bellies therapeutically in the chalk water from Lewes weir #fishspa

It’s all about the big issues in the @bmj.com this month! Do smoking bans work? And what about the role of e-cigarettes? A review here from @salvolatile.bsky.social and Geetanjali Krishna. It’s a mixed picture, but some successes across the world. #TobaccoControl #Smoking #SDOH

*awaits pee Pulitzer 😆

roundly disagree with this. Calenderising through LLMs has been revolutionary for me as it corrects for my optimistic cognitive biases around time use and helps me push back professionally against cheeky and pressurising requests (v useful for a people pleaser who doesn’t want to revist #CFS)

On Jan 27, rescheduled due to ye olde Zoom version issues, I share my grandmother's Virginia's wartime recollections of war work at a requisitioned #Glyndebourne and the freedom that the war brought for young women like her #socialhistory leweshistory.org.uk/2024/12/16/n...

The University of Birmingham looked into domestic #woodburning in the West Midlands & found that it is a source of 20% of the total PM2.5 in the area. Notably, they also found that #woodburning related PM2.5 emissions were x7 higher than those measured in 2008-2010 airqualitynews.com/health/birmi...

Rearranged due to Sussex ❄️- date TBC!

We're really looking forward to welcoming Marina Gerner to Brighton tomorrow to discuss her new book, The Vagina Business, with Sally Howard. They will be discussing the innovative breakthroughs that could change everything in women's health. @salvolatile.bsky.social

on @theguardian.com I follow a rediscovered 1935 diary on a trail of limp lettuce in Dorset www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In Rwanda, farmers often watch their harvest spoil before it can reach the market. A fleet of simple, efficient trucks is changing that. Geetanjali Krishna and I report for @rtbcheerful.bsky.social with assistance from @gatesfoundation.bsky.social and EJC reasonstobecheerful.world/nimble-elect...

Doctors from Syria tell me about “Holocaust-like” scenes that have unfolded at the liberated Saydnaya military prison - 18 miles north of the Damascus - after the fall of the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad. I report for @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/387/...

GOOD LUCK and strength and solidarity to all striking today and tomorrow!!

looking for Middle Eastern medics who have fled turbulent home nations in recent years for the Gulf states #journorequest #casestudyrequest

The Taliban bans women from nursing and midwifery training in Afghanistan. A student who who had been ordered to leave her training course on Dec 3 tells me that the ban was a tragedy that “will kill even more women and babies in our country”. I report for @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/387/...

any UK-based, Afghanistan background doctors on here?

‘A handful of middle class women’ is the new ‘binders full of women’ #gregwallace

I'm looking for GPs in the following ICBs to chat about healthcare inequalities: Lancashire, South Cumbria, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Humber and North Yorks, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Mid and South Essex or North Central London

sea foam at Hove yesterday: a mixture of plankton and proteins whipped up by the wind, sea foam (‘Neptune’s detergent’) can be a sign of a healthy marine ecostem #winter #stormBurt

Big shout out to Greener Practice, trailblazing primary care led national sustainability network, wouldn’t have been possible to conceive this project without their support & inspiration! www.greenerpractice.co.uk

such a lovely flurry of fresh blue skyers, in marked contrast to the other place when I’m being trolled by an ‘unvaxxed pure blood patriot country boy’.

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From the perils of plastics for hedgehogs to the inner workings of the hadron collider: excellent, eccentric outings at Sussex STEM fair this weekend

“I’ve noticed I’m not in your starter pack. Any particular reason for that?”

Well said. I know quite a few Etsy artists and others for whom that platform is how they drive traffic to their sales page. They’re hardly crypto bros.

hell-y day perked up by a stolen moonlit sprint