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Jo Morrison
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Gynaecological oncologist | Honorary Associate Professor Uni of Exeter | EiC The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist | Senior Editor Cochrane Collaboration | dinghy sailor | gardener.

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thebossross.bsky.social
Who's gonna tell him?
Screenshot from @FoxNews tweet on X: PRESIDENT TRUMP pushes back against Denmark over control of Greenland: "We have to have it." "Because a boat went there 500 years ago and then left, that doesn't give you title to property." Jan 20, 2026.
January 20, 2026 at 5:55 AM
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loreandordure.com
Seeing Americans recognising that their current disaster is one wholly of their own making, which is true. However very little reflection on the effect it has on the rest of the world who had nothing to do with making it.
We are afraid. The trust is broken. That trust is never coming back.
January 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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snellarthur.bsky.social
More than half the US was acquired through purchases including the USVI which they bought from Denmark. But that actually undermines Trump's claims, because in the 1917 Treaty of the Danish West Indies the USA ruled out any claims to Greenland. More here👇 open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
When Denmark sells an island
Trump might think that buying a country is normal
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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bcdreyer.social
This is probably approaching "And *now* a warning?" levels, but truly he's gone completely insane.
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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snellarthur.bsky.social
If this text is real (no reason to think it isn’t) we have to accept that the only solution here is Congress doing its job. He cannot be a president in this deteriorating mental state. But Congress won’t act.

We’re f*cked
justinling.ca Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 1d
There are, I promise you, still serious and important people who think that Trump is playing 3D chess — putting on an act to convince his laggard NATO allies to pony up their fare share.

But stuff like this is pretty clear evidence that he's *the* immediate risk to our collective security
Tweet from PBS correspondent Nick Schifrin: NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
January 19, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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aliceolilly.bsky.social
Regular reminder that you can’t just point at the Constitution and assume it will work if the people whose job it is to uphold it are unwilling to do the work expected of them
January 19, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
The Trump move on Greenland is celebrated as a huge victory on multiple fronts by Moscow. As Danish papers and the Danish intelligence service have documented, the whole effort to persuade Trump that he "needed" Greenland was born in the Kremlin. kyivindependent.com/russia-welco...
Russia welcomes Trump's tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland as 'collapse' of alliance
"The transatlantic alliance is over," Kremlin economic negotiator Kirill Dmitriev said.
kyivindependent.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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grahambs.bsky.social
Reform with a majority of MPs on less than 30% of the vote! You may hope that tactical voting etc will stop it happening but are we really prepared to take the risk? Wouldn’t you prefer seats to match votes? It’s time for electoral reform #PR
electionmaps.uk Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d
General Election Nowcast - 18/01/26:

RFM: 337 (+332), 29.1% (24 Maj.)
LAB: 86 (-325), 18.7%
LDM: 77 (+5), 12.8%
CON: 50 (-71), 19.4%
SNP: 44 (+35), 2.7%
GRN: 22 (+18), 12.9%
PLC: 8 (+4), 1.3%
Oth: 7 (+2), 3.2%

electionmaps.uk/nowcast
January 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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aliciajeanking.bsky.social
If you think you know what constitutes best practice in #QualitativeResearch methods in #HealthResearch, here's a list that may confirm or challenge your understanding 👇

If it challenges you, perhaps give the full paper a read? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#academicsky #ImplementationScience
January 18, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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pimlicat.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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kitb.bsky.social
Excellent piece of work, based on people's actual expressed views.

I wonder whether NHS managers will notice, or act on, this?
Highlights • Key themes of what constitutes a red flag of toxic NHS workplaces were identified. • X/Twitter analysis captures underreported issues and nuances of organisational culture. • Inductive thematic analysis offers flexibility and depth in exploring complex issues. Results A total of 462 tweets were examined, revealing five key themes of what constitutes a red flag of a toxic workplace culture. The first theme was emotional depletion, with staff feeling drained and futile about their work. The second theme was incivility and unfair treatment, often rooted in a bullying culture. A third theme was a culture of blame shifting, whereby leaders and managers pressured frontline staff to resolve or take the blame for systemic issues, including understaffing. This also fed into the fourth theme, regarding staff feedback and/or concerns being ignored by leaders/managers. A fifth underlying theme was the fear of speaking out, with some employees facing punishment for doing so. Conclusions This study highlights the pervasive and complex nature of toxic workplace cultures within the NHS, as experienced by healthcare professionals on Twitter. The findings demonstrate the importance of analysing social media posts to amplify critical voices often absent from more traditional methods of capturing healthcare workers’ opinions, such as staff surveys, offering valuable insights into the complexities of organisational dysfunction. There is an urgent need to tackle a culture of incivility to safeguard staff wellbeing.
January 18, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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katie0martin.ft.com
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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paulpharoah.bsky.social
Interesting. I have said many times to friends and colleagues in Europe that living in an authoritarian state is odd because, for most of us, everything carries on as normal.
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d
‘It’s the continued existence of the normative state that lulls a population to sleep. It makes you discount the warnings of others. “Surely,” you say to yourself, “things aren’t that bad. My life is pretty much what it was.”’
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Frankel had observed the rise of Nazi rule as a working lawyer and committed social democrat and noted that ordinary Germans enjoyed the benefit of what Huq describes as a "capitalist economy governed by stable laws" even as other parts of the German system changed into an engine of genocide and war. The two components of the dual state are the normative state - the seemingly normal world that you and I inhabit, where, as Huq writes, the "ordinary legal system of rules, procedures and precedents" applies - and the prerogative state, which is marked (in Frankel's words) by "unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees." "The key here," Huq writes, "is that this prerogative state does not immediately and completely overrun the normative state. Rather, Frankel argued, dictatorships create a lawless zone that runs alongside the normative state."
January 18, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions.

Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.
January 18, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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number10cat.bsky.social
I'm not saying Trump is a Russian asset, just that I can't think of anything he'd be doing differently if he were.
January 18, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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drlindadykes.bsky.social
Organisational toxicity in healthcare: three years ago I asked #MedTwitter to share their red flags. We got hundreds of replies - the thread oozed pain. Three people offered to help write it up… our paper was published last week.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please share it 🙏🏼 #MedSky
“It's not bullying if I do it to everyone”: What are the red flags of a toxic healthcare workplace culture? #MedTwitter responses from UK NHS healthcare professionals – A qualitative study
The study aimed to understand NHS healthcare workers’ perceptions of toxic organisational cultures and behaviours, by undertaking an analysis of tweet…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:23 PM
jomorrison.medsky.social
@annabav.bsky.social really interesting paper for you
January 18, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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alisonmotluk.bsky.social
Most important item you will read today (gift article):

One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Opinion | One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
Philippa Islington-Smythe - aka my cat Roscoe - hanging out at home
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
jomorrison.medsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... the first paragraph is utter perfection 👌
Mystic Nigel has seen the future: a country run by his cabinet of taxidermied Tories | Marina Hyde
By welcoming ‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick into the fold, the Reform seer is embracing the uniparty chaos he claimed to be seeing off, writes Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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number10cat.bsky.social
67% of Reform MPs have previously been elected as representatives of the Conservative Party. They broke the country last time; do you trust them to fix it?
January 15, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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deborahmeaden.bsky.social
Here I am… X is not a healthy place to be!!
elgatothe43rd.bsky.social seandelier @elgatothe43rd.bsky.social · 5d
@deborahmeaden.bsky.social You’ve been away to long Deborah, please post on here 🙏
January 15, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Whoever got this unethical trial cancelled, you just saved some lives. Kennedy, you should be ashamed of yourself for backing it in the first place.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled
$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power.

And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
davidallengreen.bsky.social dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Aug 28
NEW

The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution

In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
jomorrison.medsky.social
Taking to a very fed up colleague at the weekend who has worked out that he earns the same in pasties from take home pay as he did when he first started as a consultant >20 years ago.
#Medsky
January 13, 2026 at 7:13 AM