Becky
@beckymq.bsky.social
Microbiology trainee who plays video games. I love cute things like penguins, bunnies and pokemon. Just about surviving. Opinions my own. she/her
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🔴The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role conspiracy theories fulfil for people's identity can help explain our ‘post-truth’ age, writes @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-cost-o...
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role conspiracy theories fulfil for people's identity can help explain our ‘post-truth’ age, writes @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-cost-o...
The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role conspiracy theories fulfil for people's identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age, writes Hardeep Matharu
www.bylinesupplement.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🔴The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role conspiracy theories fulfil for people's identity can help explain our ‘post-truth’ age, writes @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-cost-o...
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role conspiracy theories fulfil for people's identity can help explain our ‘post-truth’ age, writes @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-cost-o...
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The first results from our swabbing station are in!
Check out our expanding gallery of the microbes that people in South Wales carry around on their skin, in their mouths and noses, and on their mobile phones...
🦠🧫👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025/...
Check out our expanding gallery of the microbes that people in South Wales carry around on their skin, in their mouths and noses, and on their mobile phones...
🦠🧫👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025/...
July 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The first results from our swabbing station are in!
Check out our expanding gallery of the microbes that people in South Wales carry around on their skin, in their mouths and noses, and on their mobile phones...
🦠🧫👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025/...
Check out our expanding gallery of the microbes that people in South Wales carry around on their skin, in their mouths and noses, and on their mobile phones...
🦠🧫👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025/...
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🔴Bearly Newsworthy: The Right Wing Newspapers Resurrecting Dead Cats
The news this week has been chock full of stories designed to distract you from the important things that are actually happening in the country right now, reports @bearlypolitics.co.uk
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/bearly-new...
The news this week has been chock full of stories designed to distract you from the important things that are actually happening in the country right now, reports @bearlypolitics.co.uk
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/bearly-new...
Bearly Newsworthy: The Right Wing Newspapers Resurrecting Dead Cats
The news this week has been chock full of stories designed to distract you from the important things that are actually happening in the country right now
www.bylinesupplement.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🔴Bearly Newsworthy: The Right Wing Newspapers Resurrecting Dead Cats
The news this week has been chock full of stories designed to distract you from the important things that are actually happening in the country right now, reports @bearlypolitics.co.uk
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/bearly-new...
The news this week has been chock full of stories designed to distract you from the important things that are actually happening in the country right now, reports @bearlypolitics.co.uk
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/bearly-new...
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Reform UK has uncovered the scandal of a “wasteful” £350m contract.
Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal.
But apart from that, spot on! 😬
The Bear explains how Reform got it completely wrong ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal.
But apart from that, spot on! 😬
The Bear explains how Reform got it completely wrong ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works
Reform UK just confused a procurement framework with a spending scandal – and revealed they don’t understand government
eastangliabylines.co.uk
June 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reform UK has uncovered the scandal of a “wasteful” £350m contract.
Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal.
But apart from that, spot on! 😬
The Bear explains how Reform got it completely wrong ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal.
But apart from that, spot on! 😬
The Bear explains how Reform got it completely wrong ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
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As usual, there’s a lot of panic about the UK-EU trade deal, so I’ve taken the time to write an FAQ.
It covers what the trade deal actually does (and doesn’t), why the outrage is mostly theatre, why the fish are still fine, and no - Ursula von der Leyen is not your supreme overlord.
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It covers what the trade deal actually does (and doesn’t), why the outrage is mostly theatre, why the fish are still fine, and no - Ursula von der Leyen is not your supreme overlord.
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You Wanted Sovereignty. This Is What It Looks Like.
No-one’s stolen our fish. No laws were imposed by Brussels. This is what happens when a grown-up government tries to fix the mess the last one left behind.
open.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
As usual, there’s a lot of panic about the UK-EU trade deal, so I’ve taken the time to write an FAQ.
It covers what the trade deal actually does (and doesn’t), why the outrage is mostly theatre, why the fish are still fine, and no - Ursula von der Leyen is not your supreme overlord.
🐻
It covers what the trade deal actually does (and doesn’t), why the outrage is mostly theatre, why the fish are still fine, and no - Ursula von der Leyen is not your supreme overlord.
🐻
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"Concerning findings." A new survey by the National Pharmacy Association says patients frequently return partially used antibiotics, while more than a third are aware of patients regularly hoarding them for a later date.
Pharmacists face daily inappropriate demands for antibiotics, survey finds
National Pharmacy Association says some patients hoard them for holidays despite threat posed by antimicrobial resistance
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
"Concerning findings." A new survey by the National Pharmacy Association says patients frequently return partially used antibiotics, while more than a third are aware of patients regularly hoarding them for a later date.
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We need facts as never before.
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline
Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We need facts as never before.
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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My first ever webcomic. I made this over 20 years ago (yikes). It's called Bird and Moon. Part 1/5
January 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My first ever webcomic. I made this over 20 years ago (yikes). It's called Bird and Moon. Part 1/5
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Want to find out more about antibiotics? Want to do it in a fun way? Have you tried out our emoji quiz?
#AMR #SciEd
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#AMR #SciEd
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The Emoji Quiz — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
What kind of antibiotics are there? What do they do? Which infections can be treated with them? Who discovered them? Are there bacteria resistant to them? And why do they have to have such complicated...
www.superbugs.online
December 26, 2024 at 7:38 AM
My partner made me another statue for my 1000 day streak on Duolingo (Japan themed as I'm learning Japanese) and I love it so much. 2nd picture with the original trophy he made for my 1 year streak!
November 16, 2024 at 2:50 PM
My partner made me another statue for my 1000 day streak on Duolingo (Japan themed as I'm learning Japanese) and I love it so much. 2nd picture with the original trophy he made for my 1 year streak!
I did it, 1000 day streak!
November 16, 2024 at 8:58 AM
I did it, 1000 day streak!
Well, amongst all the other worrying news, this is concerning...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump announces RFK Jr as his pick to lead US health department
A scion of Democratic dynasty, RFK Jr is known for embrace of anti-vaccine beliefs and other conspiracy theories
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Well, amongst all the other worrying news, this is concerning...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Hello everyone 👋
This place seems nice 😊 Maybe I'll post more here than I did on the old X...
Expect microbiology, cute things, and video games!
This place seems nice 😊 Maybe I'll post more here than I did on the old X...
Expect microbiology, cute things, and video games!
November 12, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Hello everyone 👋
This place seems nice 😊 Maybe I'll post more here than I did on the old X...
Expect microbiology, cute things, and video games!
This place seems nice 😊 Maybe I'll post more here than I did on the old X...
Expect microbiology, cute things, and video games!