Nick Hopkinson
@copddoc.bsky.social
Professor of Respiratory Medicine FRCP #RCPtimeforchange
#LungSky, social justice 🫁 🚭 #NHS He/him cis Born at 323ppm
https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/n.hopkinson
#MedSky #NHS #LungSky
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#LungSky, social justice 🫁 🚭 #NHS He/him cis Born at 323ppm
https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/n.hopkinson
#MedSky #NHS #LungSky
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Nick Hopkinson
@copddoc.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Lung disease and social justice - COPD as a manifestation of structural violence.
#WorldCOPDday www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/... @atscommunity.bsky.social @ats-assemblies.bsky.social
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Indoor wood burners linked to a decline in lung function www.ersnet.org/news-and-fea...
Indoor wood burners linked to a decline in lung function
Using a wood burning stove at home can lead to a decline in lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Indoor wood burners linked to a decline in lung function www.ersnet.org/news-and-fea...
Report from ERS on the Adoption of Tobacco Endgame Policies in the EU confirms legal basis for introducing a generational sales ban.
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#LungSky @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #RespEd @ash.org
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#LungSky @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #RespEd @ash.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Report from ERS on the Adoption of Tobacco Endgame Policies in the EU confirms legal basis for introducing a generational sales ban.
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#LungSky @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #RespEd @ash.org
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#LungSky @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #RespEd @ash.org
Efficacy of fentanyl buccal tablet and morphine for exertional dyspnoea in patients with cancer: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised clinical trial #LungSky #RespEd thorax.bmj.com/content/earl...
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Efficacy of fentanyl buccal tablet and morphine for exertional dyspnoea in patients with cancer: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised clinical trial #LungSky #RespEd thorax.bmj.com/content/earl...
Towards a practical tool to identify HYDIN genotype using high-speed videomicroscopy thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... #LungSky #RespEd @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @bmj.com #Thorax
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Towards a practical tool to identify HYDIN genotype using high-speed videomicroscopy thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... #LungSky #RespEd @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @bmj.com #Thorax
The NHS opt-out inpatient tobacco dependency service provides treatment on an equitable basis, with the greatest proportion of patients making a supported quit attempt in the most deprived quintile.
thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @bmj.com #LungSky #RespEd
thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @bmj.com #LungSky #RespEd
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The NHS opt-out inpatient tobacco dependency service provides treatment on an equitable basis, with the greatest proportion of patients making a supported quit attempt in the most deprived quintile.
thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @bmj.com #LungSky #RespEd
thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @bmj.com #LungSky #RespEd
"the shift from nonfilter to filter cigarettes appears to have merely altered the most frequent type of lung cancer, from squamous cell to adenomcrarcinoma." @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social #LungSky #'RespEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Nonfilter and filter cigarette consumption and the incidence of lung cancer by histological type in Japan and the United States: Analysis of 30‐year data from population‐based cancer registries
Shifts in the histologic type of lung cancer accompanying changes in lung cancer incidence have been observed in Japan and the United States. We examined the association between the shift in tobacco ...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"the shift from nonfilter to filter cigarettes appears to have merely altered the most frequent type of lung cancer, from squamous cell to adenomcrarcinoma." @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social #LungSky #'RespEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Asthma + Lung UK invite you to a free online COPD webinar! Wed 19 Nov, 6pm. Prof John Hurst: “What does good care look like?” Join at www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/groups-suppo... @asthmaandlung.org.uk #RespEd @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
Condition specific webinars
We hold regular, online, condition specific webinars that are free to join.
www.asthmaandlung.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Asthma + Lung UK invite you to a free online COPD webinar! Wed 19 Nov, 6pm. Prof John Hurst: “What does good care look like?” Join at www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/groups-suppo... @asthmaandlung.org.uk #RespEd @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
Structural violence.
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Last youth centre in one of England’s most deprived coastal areas faces closure
Pie Factory Music in Ramsgate, Kent, runs creative projects and provides a range of support services, but the building that houses the centre is due to be sold off in February
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November 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Structural violence.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
a public and unrepentant racism and sexism that made Watson a pariah in life and poisoned his legacy in death.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
a public and unrepentant racism and sexism that made Watson a pariah in life and poisoned his legacy in death.
Putting out the garbage.
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
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35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
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Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Putting out the garbage.
Reposted by Nick Hopkinson
It's hard to convey my disgust & moral outrage at Trump & Rubio for killing hundreds of thousands
My team at Duke has spent almost a decade studying the pros & cons of health aid, which has undoubtedly saved millions of live but has down sides. We have a policy paper out soon on the topic.
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My team at Duke has spent almost a decade studying the pros & cons of health aid, which has undoubtedly saved millions of live but has down sides. We have a policy paper out soon on the topic.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's hard to convey my disgust & moral outrage at Trump & Rubio for killing hundreds of thousands
My team at Duke has spent almost a decade studying the pros & cons of health aid, which has undoubtedly saved millions of live but has down sides. We have a policy paper out soon on the topic.
1/n
My team at Duke has spent almost a decade studying the pros & cons of health aid, which has undoubtedly saved millions of live but has down sides. We have a policy paper out soon on the topic.
1/n
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"It makes us feel really vulnerable."
With far right rallies being held across the UK, a group of medics decided it’s time to speak up. Omnya Ahmed joins our latest podcast to talk about the impact of racism in the NHS
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With far right rallies being held across the UK, a group of medics decided it’s time to speak up. Omnya Ahmed joins our latest podcast to talk about the impact of racism in the NHS
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1zS9...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"It makes us feel really vulnerable."
With far right rallies being held across the UK, a group of medics decided it’s time to speak up. Omnya Ahmed joins our latest podcast to talk about the impact of racism in the NHS
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1zS9...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
With far right rallies being held across the UK, a group of medics decided it’s time to speak up. Omnya Ahmed joins our latest podcast to talk about the impact of racism in the NHS
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1zS9...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
Nice @bbcnews.bsky.social story about successful lung volume reduction surgery for COPD www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@asthmaandlung.org.uk
@asthmaandlung.org.uk
Man's mission after COPD lung operation's 'unbelievable' change
Jim Shaylor said the change in his quality of life after the operation was
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November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Nice @bbcnews.bsky.social story about successful lung volume reduction surgery for COPD www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@asthmaandlung.org.uk
@asthmaandlung.org.uk
Magnificent
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Maldives becomes the only country with generational smoking ban
Indian Ocean archipelago bans anyone born after 1 January 2007 from buying or using tobacco in order to ‘promote a tobacco-free generation’
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November 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Magnificent
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we have been covering this for months and months now, here (again) is my interview with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about this subject from Thursday @teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
we have been covering this for months and months now, here (again) is my interview with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about this subject from Thursday @teenvogue.com
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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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November 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
Reposted by Nick Hopkinson
Edward Wadie Said would have turned 90 today -
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), 1/2
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), 1/2
November 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Edward Wadie Said would have turned 90 today -
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), 1/2
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), 1/2
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WHO condemns the reported killing of more than 460 patients and their companions, as well as the abduction of six health workers, on 28 October from the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan.
Read the full press release: bit.ly/3WuVZ9u
Read the full press release: bit.ly/3WuVZ9u
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
WHO condemns the reported killing of more than 460 patients and their companions, as well as the abduction of six health workers, on 28 October from the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan.
Read the full press release: bit.ly/3WuVZ9u
Read the full press release: bit.ly/3WuVZ9u
Cigarette filters - the “deadliest fraud in the history of human civilisation". www.tobaccotactics.org/article/ciga... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd
Cigarette Filters - Tobacco Tactics
Filtered cigarettes have historically been marketed as safer than unfiltered. Evidence shows that they are not less harmful and have increased health risks. The tobacco industry should bear responsibi...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Cigarette filters - the “deadliest fraud in the history of human civilisation". www.tobaccotactics.org/article/ciga... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd
Powerful "nicotine is not addictive" vibes.
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Gambling does not cause any ‘social ills’, lobbyist tells incredulous MPs
Head of UK’s Betting and Gaming Council was asked to repeat claim as she spoke against increasing taxes on sector in November budget
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October 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Powerful "nicotine is not addictive" vibes.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Polluter pays tobacco levy briefing. @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social ash.org.uk/resources/vi... #LungSky #RespEd
Polluter pays tobacco levy briefing - ASH
This briefing outlines how a polluter pays levy on tobacco companies, alongside a cap on manufacturer pricing, could raise up to £700 million annually to support smoking cessation and wider public hea...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Polluter pays tobacco levy briefing. @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social ash.org.uk/resources/vi... #LungSky #RespEd
"Three values have animated my work - truth, justice and hope." Michael Marmot.
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Three values have animated my work - truth, justice and hope." Michael Marmot.
The Belgrade Declaration on Tobacco Taxation and Competitiveness affirms that effective tobacco taxation is one of Europe’s highest‑impact, evidence‑based policies. ensp.network/the-10th-ens... @ashorguk.bsky.social @ash.org @whofctc.bsky.social
The 10th ENSP-ECTC - Belgrade Declaration on Tobacco Taxation and Competitiveness - European Network
At the 10th European Conference on Tobacco Control, held in Belgrade between 22-24 October 2025, experts from across Europe, including economists, researchers, and public-health advocates, endorsed th...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The Belgrade Declaration on Tobacco Taxation and Competitiveness affirms that effective tobacco taxation is one of Europe’s highest‑impact, evidence‑based policies. ensp.network/the-10th-ens... @ashorguk.bsky.social @ash.org @whofctc.bsky.social
If we’re serious about building a cleaner, healthier future, then banning cigarette filters isn’t radical – it’s common sense.
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Ban the Butt: Why it’s time to stub out cigarette filters for good
Cigarettes make up around two-thirds of all litter, despite only 12% of people smoking. What steps need to be taken to protect the planet?
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October 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If we’re serious about building a cleaner, healthier future, then banning cigarette filters isn’t radical – it’s common sense.
www.openaccessgovernment.org/ban-the-butt... @ashorguk.bsky.social
www.openaccessgovernment.org/ban-the-butt... @ashorguk.bsky.social