Emma Vardy
@emmavardy2.bsky.social
Physician. Honorary Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Manchester. Delirium. Dementia. Quality improvement. Book lover. Mum to daughter with PKU.
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Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all
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Not because I had a small part to play but because now more than ever we need to amplify kindness and human connection, let me share with you the Tale of Kathleen & John
After I had given directions to Kathleen (as I was to learn was her name) she headed off with her trusty walking frame, Esmeralda
After I had given directions to Kathleen (as I was to learn was her name) she headed off with her trusty walking frame, Esmeralda
A woman steps into the shop: Where do I vote?
Me: Are you looking for Carysfort National School?
Her: Yes, I feel it's my duty, I turned 97 yesterday!
#Áras25
Me: Are you looking for Carysfort National School?
Her: Yes, I feel it's my duty, I turned 97 yesterday!
#Áras25
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Not because I had a small part to play but because now more than ever we need to amplify kindness and human connection, let me share with you the Tale of Kathleen & John
After I had given directions to Kathleen (as I was to learn was her name) she headed off with her trusty walking frame, Esmeralda
After I had given directions to Kathleen (as I was to learn was her name) she headed off with her trusty walking frame, Esmeralda
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Woman to a neighbour who is walking down the road with a suitcase: Going somewhere nice?
Neighbour: Visiting my dad to broach the subject of him going into a home.
Woman: Ah. When you’re on your way home tell me. I’ll stick the kettle on.
Neighbour: Visiting my dad to broach the subject of him going into a home.
Woman: Ah. When you’re on your way home tell me. I’ll stick the kettle on.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Woman to a neighbour who is walking down the road with a suitcase: Going somewhere nice?
Neighbour: Visiting my dad to broach the subject of him going into a home.
Woman: Ah. When you’re on your way home tell me. I’ll stick the kettle on.
Neighbour: Visiting my dad to broach the subject of him going into a home.
Woman: Ah. When you’re on your way home tell me. I’ll stick the kettle on.
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Komorebi - the Japanese word for when the sunshine filters through the leaves 🍂 English lacks a single word for this beauty
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Komorebi - the Japanese word for when the sunshine filters through the leaves 🍂 English lacks a single word for this beauty
Is anyone working for an NHS trust which has eliminates corridor care for older people?
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Is anyone working for an NHS trust which has eliminates corridor care for older people?
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The Louvre heist is the uplifting story of 2025, a joyous gift that just keeps on giving
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Louvre heist is the uplifting story of 2025, a joyous gift that just keeps on giving
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Who would've thunk?
In a multicenter randomized clinical trial including 200 patients with persistent AF undergoing cardioversion, the risk of recurrent AF was SIGNIFICANTLY ⬇️ in the group allocated to coffee consumption (47%) compared to abstinent group (64%).
#ScienceMatters
#DoctorsWhoLoveCoffee
In a multicenter randomized clinical trial including 200 patients with persistent AF undergoing cardioversion, the risk of recurrent AF was SIGNIFICANTLY ⬇️ in the group allocated to coffee consumption (47%) compared to abstinent group (64%).
#ScienceMatters
#DoctorsWhoLoveCoffee
Caffeinated Coffee Consumption or Abstinence to Reduce Atrial Fibrillation
This clinical trial compares the effect of caffeinated coffee consumption vs abstinence from coffee and caffeine on recurrent atrial fibrillation.
jamanetwork.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Who would've thunk?
In a multicenter randomized clinical trial including 200 patients with persistent AF undergoing cardioversion, the risk of recurrent AF was SIGNIFICANTLY ⬇️ in the group allocated to coffee consumption (47%) compared to abstinent group (64%).
#ScienceMatters
#DoctorsWhoLoveCoffee
In a multicenter randomized clinical trial including 200 patients with persistent AF undergoing cardioversion, the risk of recurrent AF was SIGNIFICANTLY ⬇️ in the group allocated to coffee consumption (47%) compared to abstinent group (64%).
#ScienceMatters
#DoctorsWhoLoveCoffee
Really this is so good. What a story. What an insight. What women. It's certainly a time investment but a worthwhile one.
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Really this is so good. What a story. What an insight. What women. It's certainly a time investment but a worthwhile one.
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“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19”
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
go.nature.com/3Lspwi0
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
go.nature.com/3Lspwi0
COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?
Nature - Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.
go.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19”
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
go.nature.com/3Lspwi0
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
go.nature.com/3Lspwi0
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My new plan for encouraging resident colleagues to document in the electronic patient record appropriately...
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
My new plan for encouraging resident colleagues to document in the electronic patient record appropriately...
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Electron microscope image of turntable stylus in grooves of a vinyl record
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Electron microscope image of turntable stylus in grooves of a vinyl record
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This otherworldly thing is a snowflake under an electron microscope, yes, it is.
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This otherworldly thing is a snowflake under an electron microscope, yes, it is.
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Love her
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Love her
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Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
www.divasofverse.com/2013/11/mone...
www.divasofverse.com/2013/11/mone...
Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
Monet Refuses the Operation Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I se...
www.divasofverse.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
www.divasofverse.com/2013/11/mone...
www.divasofverse.com/2013/11/mone...
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I haven’t been able to put this book down. @drrageshri.bsky.social names, in such a balanced way, so many of the tensions and barriers that exist for medical doctors and patients in the context of the NHS. I’m compelled to keep reading, but I’ll get nothing else done this weekend 😂 Buy this book!
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I haven’t been able to put this book down. @drrageshri.bsky.social names, in such a balanced way, so many of the tensions and barriers that exist for medical doctors and patients in the context of the NHS. I’m compelled to keep reading, but I’ll get nothing else done this weekend 😂 Buy this book!
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The signs from Australia (their worst flu season on record), Japan (where they’ve had to close schools) and India indicate that this could be a long, drawn out flu season here with hospitals at capacity
If you haven’t had your flu vax get it
Covid as well if possible
inews.co.uk/news/doctors...
If you haven’t had your flu vax get it
Covid as well if possible
inews.co.uk/news/doctors...
Why doctors fear this winter's flu crisis will be the worst in years
An aggressive strain of flu causing record-breaking cases in Australia has been an early warning sign for the UK
inews.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The signs from Australia (their worst flu season on record), Japan (where they’ve had to close schools) and India indicate that this could be a long, drawn out flu season here with hospitals at capacity
If you haven’t had your flu vax get it
Covid as well if possible
inews.co.uk/news/doctors...
If you haven’t had your flu vax get it
Covid as well if possible
inews.co.uk/news/doctors...
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I was in #Whitby for the Literary Festival + visited the archives in the local museum to research the writer #StormJameson who we will republish next year. This ghoulish dried human hand (on display in the museum) points the way through the town. One can see why Bram Stoker’s #Dracula was set here!
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I was in #Whitby for the Literary Festival + visited the archives in the local museum to research the writer #StormJameson who we will republish next year. This ghoulish dried human hand (on display in the museum) points the way through the town. One can see why Bram Stoker’s #Dracula was set here!
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A book reading + discussion of certain rare genes which allowed survival of epic catastrophic conditions in the past... a positive spin on #raredisease ... www.youtube.com/live/QAIXPuF... From "When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes and Genes", my mom #memoir published this year. #Booksky #Momsky #genetics
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A book reading + discussion of certain rare genes which allowed survival of epic catastrophic conditions in the past... a positive spin on #raredisease ... www.youtube.com/live/QAIXPuF... From "When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes and Genes", my mom #memoir published this year. #Booksky #Momsky #genetics
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Only watched this like 30 times.
Both the dog’s cool confidence and the cat’s bitchiness are hilarious.
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Only watched this like 30 times.
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In the second season of our Leading Improvement in Health and Care podcast, our latest episode explores how improvement methods can support the move to a future neighbourhood health service.
Listen now 🎧️
https://bit.ly/4qni5Zd
Listen now 🎧️
https://bit.ly/4qni5Zd
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In the second season of our Leading Improvement in Health and Care podcast, our latest episode explores how improvement methods can support the move to a future neighbourhood health service.
Listen now 🎧️
https://bit.ly/4qni5Zd
Listen now 🎧️
https://bit.ly/4qni5Zd
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A series of waves rolling in Big Beach this afternoon. I often slow down my wave and storm footage but this chaotic moment was pretty cool in real time. Unfortunately the peak of the waves is expected after we lose the light this evening #Ucluelet #Tofino #VancouverIsland #Stormwatching #PNW
October 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
A series of waves rolling in Big Beach this afternoon. I often slow down my wave and storm footage but this chaotic moment was pretty cool in real time. Unfortunately the peak of the waves is expected after we lose the light this evening #Ucluelet #Tofino #VancouverIsland #Stormwatching #PNW
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Owls in Moonlight
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2007
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2007
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Owls in Moonlight
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2007
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2007
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A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine
via Smithsonian Magazine
October 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine
via Smithsonian Magazine