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.
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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
October 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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An experiment:
If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.
If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.
October 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
An experiment:
If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.
If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.
Tried to pay for postage to the US using #RoyalMail online. Can't do it without accepting all cookies and they 'require' recipient's email and phone number. I don't want tracking. It's a birthday card, no need for her to know when it will be delivered. Outrageous abuse of personal data. No thanks.
October 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Tried to pay for postage to the US using #RoyalMail online. Can't do it without accepting all cookies and they 'require' recipient's email and phone number. I don't want tracking. It's a birthday card, no need for her to know when it will be delivered. Outrageous abuse of personal data. No thanks.
October 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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But you can't deny that the cartoonishness has been across the board. Sometimes cartoons are very entertaining!
September 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
But you can't deny that the cartoonishness has been across the board. Sometimes cartoons are very entertaining!
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A sobering but massively powerful piece. Our youngest's girlfriend is black and was due to travel back to London yesterday via Waterloo. She asked to stay here in relative, rural security because she was scared of the people on that march. This is not a drill open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo
It's clear now that we are in a battle of terrible proportions.
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A sobering but massively powerful piece. Our youngest's girlfriend is black and was due to travel back to London yesterday via Waterloo. She asked to stay here in relative, rural security because she was scared of the people on that march. This is not a drill open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Shot, chaser
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
September 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Shot, chaser
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
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Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long.
Regulatory failure at its worst.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Regulatory failure at its worst.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
GMC examines doctor’s Reform speech linking vaccines to royal family cancer
Medical bodies and prime minister condemn Aseem Malhotra’s ‘pseudo-science’ remarks at party conference
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long.
Regulatory failure at its worst.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Regulatory failure at its worst.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Duties of a Doctor (General Medical Council) imply that giving out false or misleading information that could lead to harm might be grounds for removing a doctor from the Medical Register.
September 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Duties of a Doctor (General Medical Council) imply that giving out false or misleading information that could lead to harm might be grounds for removing a doctor from the Medical Register.
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This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4
September 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4
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It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
August 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
Morning, Coniston shore path.
#LakeDistrictWalks
#LakeDistrictWalks
August 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Morning, Coniston shore path.
#LakeDistrictWalks
#LakeDistrictWalks
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A mosaic showing #Orpheus charming animals & birds with his lyre, from Caesaraugusta/Zaragoza in Spain. This subject was popular and widespread in villas throughout the Roman World right into the Late Antique period. (Zaragoza Museum) #mosaicmonday
August 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
A mosaic showing #Orpheus charming animals & birds with his lyre, from Caesaraugusta/Zaragoza in Spain. This subject was popular and widespread in villas throughout the Roman World right into the Late Antique period. (Zaragoza Museum) #mosaicmonday
August 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
August 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Hey if you're on Instagram, be sure to go to your settings in the app & scroll down to "who can see your content". Make sure to turn off your location services under "story, live, and location".
Insta rolled out an update that defaults to sharing your location You cannot turn this off from desktop.
Insta rolled out an update that defaults to sharing your location You cannot turn this off from desktop.
August 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Hey if you're on Instagram, be sure to go to your settings in the app & scroll down to "who can see your content". Make sure to turn off your location services under "story, live, and location".
Insta rolled out an update that defaults to sharing your location You cannot turn this off from desktop.
Insta rolled out an update that defaults to sharing your location You cannot turn this off from desktop.
August 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM