The accompanying editorial tells the sad truth that is largely being ignored www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Don't forget to send in your meter readings tomorrow if you are on a standard tariff without a smart meter. If you don't your bill will be based on next week’s price cap increase. The difference for a week’s energy at October rates compared with September is +£17 www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

"We welcome expressions of interest from academics who have experience working with artists as well as those who are curious but have not explored this previously." Are YOU artist curious??

House of Guiness is a Jolly good jaunt of TV on netflix. However Anne Lee Blunkett, rather than an unhappy woman in a stale marriage with nothing better to do than matchmake for her brothers, was actually married to Archbishop of Dublin, who supported her philanthropic work. Also had 6 children.

51 miles walked. £380 pounds raised on last day of mile a day in September. fundraise.dementiauk.org/fundraisers/...

12 year old has off loaded some book shelves from her bedroom. Now have a Japanese and South Korean themed shelfie. 🥰

🆕In this blog, patient advocate Risa Mallory talks about the importance of listening in healthcare, and how patient voices play a critical role in ensuring safety, quality, and fairness. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #WorldHeartDay #PatientAdvocacy #PatientSafety

Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem set me up for the week with fabulous Manchester show tonight...

@danfurmedge.bsky.social been a while Dan!

What a lovely evening to be out and about!

What a book! Full of twists and humour. Thank you @janicehallett.bsky.social - your best to date. Loved it.

Lolol plot twist.

Just watched the Buckingham Murders on Netflix and… 😮😳 Just brutal… I mean… 😳😳😳 Obviously have to watch it again but…🤯😳 NB: There are loads of trigger warnings, so doublecheck before you watch.

Prevalence of pulmonary hypertension in HF is about 50%, with some variation depending on use of echo vs. RHC and HFpEF vs HFrEF. Unfortunately, the I2 heterogeneity is almost 100% onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #cardiosky

Reading latest edition of NSPKU News and Views. Familiar face @andyburnham.bsky.social #pku #promin

Bookbanks, the brilliant charity putting books into food banks is recruiting for a North-West Regional Lead forging new partnerships with food banks and authors, publishers, booksellers and the book industry. Details in link here : static1.squarespace.com/static/6525a... www.bookbanks.co.uk

Painting of the day - The Travelling Companions by Augustus Leopold Egg.

Revisiting the @arablit.bsky.social Gaza edition. As always beautifully put together. In the introduction, Mohammed Zaqzooq and Mahmoud Ai-Shaer write "Writing is an opportunity to survive and create meaning... We do not want to forget who we are."

You had one job... 😂🤣

Have a wonderful Wednesday evening, Bluesky friends 💛😊 #eastcoastkin #photography #bloomscrolling

For #forestfriday, here are some pictures from a car ride outside of Seattle, WA. The leaves were starting to turn, even in the "Evergreen State" #eastcoastkin #photography #pnw

Butcher offered to put fundraising notice in window today. Likelihood of a donation- low Likelihood of village knowing I'm not shy to ask with a very amateur notice- high fundraise.dementiauk.org/fundraisers/...

A very special display in my local library!

This is wise….but it is, oddly, an ongoing battle in many centres even to maintain the current coverage…

It’s over for us

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. - Assata Shakur Pic of the day #photography

Thank you @edent.tel for a lovely review of my book! #cansky shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09...

New @age-and-ageing.bsky.social paper: What are we teaching UK medical students about ageing and geriatric medicine? Results of the third British Geriatrics Society national curriculum and teaching survey. Read it in full at academic.oup.com/ageing/artic... @graceinvaders.bsky.social

A video explainer from @kiranstacey.bsky.social on immigration and what the real numbers are. From the @theguardian.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=drkj...

Has taken me years to figure out how to read short story collections in a way that suits me. Being a novel reader – and raised to listen to albums in order from start to finish – I've learned to introduce some chaos to my reading. Picking up a collection without commitment. Not overconsuming it.

‘Don’t trust Trump’: how UK health experts are fighting back against a war on medicine

These rooms should be filled with newborn cries, the beeping of monitors, pregnant women being cared for, patients finding relief amid a genocide. Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza.

This is what it’s all about.

Right. Off for a dementia UK walk. For anyone who wants to donate...£440, 000 raised so far by all taking part paying for 88,000 to the helpline! fundraise.dementiauk.org/fundraisers/...

Terrible sentence, apologies. But you get my drift. See it in medicine not infrequently. I'm old and wise enough to address it head on when witness it.

It really is a test of a persons 'real' character as to whether some treat others differently based on role/position/status. It's a trait I really deplore.

Just interrupted my own doomscrolling to read Slate's list of the top 25 picture books from this century, and I recommend you do the same! slate.com/culture/2025... In my household, The Book with No Pictures and (the brilliant) Du Iz Tak? are both all-timers. Also Press Here (for littles).

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

At last!

I saw something a few weeks ago that was an attempt to re-engineer the speculum it was a plastic device that opened like a flower.

My partner and I were discussing how barbaric the tools of gynecology still are, there has got to be a better way to do a pelvic exam than using a speculum.

Just remember, no one wanted to study ways to treat an extremely painful disease that affects 1 in 10 women (and is probably underdiagnosed), but they WERE willing to study that disease’s effects on perceived attractiveness.

This definitive document fills a massive void and casts aside all the ambiguity and misinformation perpetuated within current IPC manuals (and the former ‘4-nations IPC guidance’). See Press release here: www.bohs.org/media-resour...

Just started this one. Enjoying so far! Clever premise...

@jenniferrichards.bsky.social night. X

Just take a look! At the exhibition Ukraine WOW the paintings of Kateryna Bilokur have blossomed. Kateryna Bilokur (1900–1961) – a Ukrainian self-taught artist, celebrated for her detailed paintings of flowers.

Seriously. Having to go on X to sort out HMRC online portal issues. Because there are no humans to deal with. Or phone numbers to call. Infuriating.

Primavera Sound Barcelona announces 2026 lineup: It’s a stunningly eclectic affair, featuring The Cure, Doja Cat, The xx, and Gorillaz.