Ruth Thorpe
@ruth.medsky.social
European music-loving medic
🎶 Alto in nonsuchsingers.org.uk and temenos-chamberchoir.org.uk
🩺 #MedSky Neurology, Psychiatry, Mental Health Law.
Refugees welcome. She/her.
🎶 Alto in nonsuchsingers.org.uk and temenos-chamberchoir.org.uk
🩺 #MedSky Neurology, Psychiatry, Mental Health Law.
Refugees welcome. She/her.
Thank you to the person who recommended #AMonthInTheCountry. It's been on my list for years, you prompted me to read it and I *love* it. Such a lively, natural voice, as if he's talking to his best mate.
#Booksky 📚
#Booksky 📚
January 24, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Thank you to the person who recommended #AMonthInTheCountry. It's been on my list for years, you prompted me to read it and I *love* it. Such a lively, natural voice, as if he's talking to his best mate.
#Booksky 📚
#Booksky 📚
January 9, 2026 at 12:48 PM
January 8, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Happy anniversary sweetheart ❤️❤️
January 5, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Happy anniversary sweetheart ❤️❤️
Loved this interpretation of The Dream of Gerontius and there's some beautiful singing
December 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Loved this interpretation of The Dream of Gerontius and there's some beautiful singing
December 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
www.gofundme.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas is coming 🤶🎶 Big fun in a good cause.
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
December 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas is coming 🤶🎶 Big fun in a good cause.
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
www.instagram.com/p/DSM4fbTCez...
Tonight
Going to be beautiful 🎶
Come and join us
#Carols
#MusicInLondon
#LiveMusic
Tonight
Going to be beautiful 🎶
Come and join us
#Carols
#MusicInLondon
#LiveMusic
Nonsuch Singers on Instagram: "TONIGHT. We're so looking forward to our fabulous Christmas Concert 'Star of Wonder', tonight 13-Dec at St Peter's Church, Eaton Square. Come and listen and sing with us...
2 likes, 1 comments - nonsuchsingerslondon on December 13, 2025: "TONIGHT. We're so looking forward to our fabulous Christmas Concert 'Star of Wonder', tonight 13-Dec at St Peter's Church, Eaton Squar...
www.instagram.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
www.instagram.com/p/DSM4fbTCez...
Tonight
Going to be beautiful 🎶
Come and join us
#Carols
#MusicInLondon
#LiveMusic
Tonight
Going to be beautiful 🎶
Come and join us
#Carols
#MusicInLondon
#LiveMusic
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political science
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
political science
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Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
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Bal du Moulin de la Galette, 1876: Sunday afternoon in Montmartre, Impressionist masterpiece, ‘monument précieux de la vie parisienne’, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, died #OTD 1919; admired for its fluid brushstrokes & dappled light, the painting was owned by Gustave Caillebotte.
@museeorsay.bsky.social
@museeorsay.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Bal du Moulin de la Galette, 1876: Sunday afternoon in Montmartre, Impressionist masterpiece, ‘monument précieux de la vie parisienne’, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, died #OTD 1919; admired for its fluid brushstrokes & dappled light, the painting was owned by Gustave Caillebotte.
@museeorsay.bsky.social
@museeorsay.bsky.social
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Really positive step to reduce transmission of HIV in UK with targeted action for those who may be less likely to seek support
Testing at A&Es part of plan to end new HIV cases in England by 2030
Labour announces prevention programme as well as efforts to re-engage people who have fallen out of medical care
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Really positive step to reduce transmission of HIV in UK with targeted action for those who may be less likely to seek support
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Hunt in the Forest, c 1470, rare Renaissance nocturnal landscape with vibrant colours & novel linear perspective; tempera & oil, with traces of gold on panel, by Paolo Uccello, died in Florence 1475; apprentice of Ghiberti, inspired Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer.
Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Hunt in the Forest, c 1470, rare Renaissance nocturnal landscape with vibrant colours & novel linear perspective; tempera & oil, with traces of gold on panel, by Paolo Uccello, died in Florence 1475; apprentice of Ghiberti, inspired Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer.
Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum
Ghirlandaio Nativity at the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, UK. This one is thought to be mainly by the hand of Domenico Ghirlandaio himself.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Ghirlandaio Nativity at the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, UK. This one is thought to be mainly by the hand of Domenico Ghirlandaio himself.
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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I’ve got a measles joke—but if you’re vaccinated I’m near certain you won’t get it.
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I’ve got a measles joke—but if you’re vaccinated I’m near certain you won’t get it.
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Christ giving the keys to St Peter, 1625, with distinctive rich yellow of Guido Reni, Italian Baroque artist of Bolognese School, born #OTD 1575. Trained in Rome under the Carracci, painter to the Pope, his restrained classicism inspired French & Spanish artists incl. Vouet, Murillo.
Musée du Louvre
Musée du Louvre
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Christ giving the keys to St Peter, 1625, with distinctive rich yellow of Guido Reni, Italian Baroque artist of Bolognese School, born #OTD 1575. Trained in Rome under the Carracci, painter to the Pope, his restrained classicism inspired French & Spanish artists incl. Vouet, Murillo.
Musée du Louvre
Musée du Louvre
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Are you a clinician who wants to do a PhD? Come to @crick.ac.uk (you can even come to my lab).
October 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Are you a clinician who wants to do a PhD? Come to @crick.ac.uk (you can even come to my lab).
Varenna ferry, from Bellagio
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Varenna ferry, from Bellagio