Susannah Fleming
@susannahfleming.bsky.social
she/her. Primary care researcher in Oxford. Crafter. Volunteer with St John Ambulance. All opinions my own. Reshares do not imply endorsement.
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March 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The difference between an expat and an immigrant is an immigrant actually contributes to the community they become a part of
The reason these racists say people born here might not be British, is because when they and their like move abroad, they wish to remain British. They do not assimilate. Learn and enjoy the new culture they live in. They can't conceive of migration working in any other way
January 29, 2026 at 10:27 AM
The difference between an expat and an immigrant is an immigrant actually contributes to the community they become a part of
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'This decision is a major setback for Sex Matters, which raised more than £65,000 to try and force the pond to ban trans people, trying to go against regular swimmers. More than 32,000 people said they wanted the ponds to remain trans inclusive – 86% of the respondents to the consultation'
January 29, 2026 at 12:20 PM
'This decision is a major setback for Sex Matters, which raised more than £65,000 to try and force the pond to ban trans people, trying to go against regular swimmers. More than 32,000 people said they wanted the ponds to remain trans inclusive – 86% of the respondents to the consultation'
As a co-ordinator for two of these courses, I am biased, but I honestly think they are really good - and our student feedback shows that they do too. It's really great to be able to offer NHS staff a discount.
A quick reminder that we are offering a limited number of bursaries to current employees of the NHS on selected Evidence-Based Health Care Short courses, as part of our new NHS Short Course Bursary scheme.
Find out more here: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/ebhc-nhs-short-course-bursary
Find out more here: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/ebhc-nhs-short-course-bursary
January 26, 2026 at 4:09 PM
As a co-ordinator for two of these courses, I am biased, but I honestly think they are really good - and our student feedback shows that they do too. It's really great to be able to offer NHS staff a discount.
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A quick reminder that we are offering a limited number of bursaries to current employees of the NHS on selected Evidence-Based Health Care Short courses, as part of our new NHS Short Course Bursary scheme.
Find out more here: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/ebhc-nhs-short-course-bursary
Find out more here: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/ebhc-nhs-short-course-bursary
January 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
A quick reminder that we are offering a limited number of bursaries to current employees of the NHS on selected Evidence-Based Health Care Short courses, as part of our new NHS Short Course Bursary scheme.
Find out more here: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/ebhc-nhs-short-course-bursary
Find out more here: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/ebhc-nhs-short-course-bursary
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Nigel Farage, has proposed a mass deportation plan called "Operation Restoring Justice," which includes creating a "UK Deportation Command" modelled on the U.S. ICE.
Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.
Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.
January 24, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Nigel Farage, has proposed a mass deportation plan called "Operation Restoring Justice," which includes creating a "UK Deportation Command" modelled on the U.S. ICE.
Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.
Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.
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A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
January 23, 2026 at 11:44 AM
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
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fucking HELL
Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.
Thousands to lose access to HIV drugs with new cuts
An estimated 10,000 people are about to lose access to their HIV medication as the Florida Department of Health makes cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).
www.fox13news.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
fucking HELL
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The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined
January 10, 2026 at 7:45 PM
The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined
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The Mentos challenge just got serious 🧐 See what happens when chem prof Tom Kuntzleman dds Mentos to a bottle of champagne in comparison to a different carbonated beverage. Cheers! #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #mentoschallenge #ChemEd
January 6, 2026 at 8:34 PM
The Mentos challenge just got serious 🧐 See what happens when chem prof Tom Kuntzleman dds Mentos to a bottle of champagne in comparison to a different carbonated beverage. Cheers! #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #mentoschallenge #ChemEd
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British citizenship isn't a privilege bestowed onto the very best humans on the planet. As we are about to see in town centres all over the country on New Year's Eve
December 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
British citizenship isn't a privilege bestowed onto the very best humans on the planet. As we are about to see in town centres all over the country on New Year's Eve
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Position Statement on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by
NHS professionals when answering medicine-related questions
#Pharmsky
www.ukmi.nhs.uk/fileDownload...
NHS professionals when answering medicine-related questions
#Pharmsky
www.ukmi.nhs.uk/fileDownload...
December 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Position Statement on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by
NHS professionals when answering medicine-related questions
#Pharmsky
www.ukmi.nhs.uk/fileDownload...
NHS professionals when answering medicine-related questions
#Pharmsky
www.ukmi.nhs.uk/fileDownload...
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Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"
December 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"
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if you have small kids, here’s a cheap and easy last minute gift idea:
after they go to bed, pull your sofa out from the wall and retrieve all the toys that they pushed under there over the last year
after they go to bed, pull your sofa out from the wall and retrieve all the toys that they pushed under there over the last year
December 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
if you have small kids, here’s a cheap and easy last minute gift idea:
after they go to bed, pull your sofa out from the wall and retrieve all the toys that they pushed under there over the last year
after they go to bed, pull your sofa out from the wall and retrieve all the toys that they pushed under there over the last year
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Itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie ancient Roman langoustinie
We hope the BlueSky moderators don't flag today's offering for #MosaicMonday as being, ahem... prawnographic. 😳
December 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie ancient Roman langoustinie
If you're in Preston over the next two weeks, drop into the Harris and catch the Wallace and Gromit exhibition. So much detail. Worth queuing for.
Also, genuinely a really nice museum/library.
Also, genuinely a really nice museum/library.
December 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you're in Preston over the next two weeks, drop into the Harris and catch the Wallace and Gromit exhibition. So much detail. Worth queuing for.
Also, genuinely a really nice museum/library.
Also, genuinely a really nice museum/library.
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Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
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When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
The CDC has endorsed ACIP’s decision of revoking universal access in USA to hepatitis B vaccines at birth. The policy had been in place for 34y and was changed despite no new evidence emerging of any risk of vaccination. #HealthPolicy 🧵
CDC accepts ACIP’s hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for babies
The CDC also said if a baby is not receiving a birth dose of vaccine, the initial dose should be administered no earlier than 2 months of age.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
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If you're teaching a graduate level course, I beg you to include a module on how to schedule and run a meeting.
Time zones, calendar invites, links, agendas, minutes, chairing.
Together we can be the change we so desperately need.
Time zones, calendar invites, links, agendas, minutes, chairing.
Together we can be the change we so desperately need.
March 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If you're teaching a graduate level course, I beg you to include a module on how to schedule and run a meeting.
Time zones, calendar invites, links, agendas, minutes, chairing.
Together we can be the change we so desperately need.
Time zones, calendar invites, links, agendas, minutes, chairing.
Together we can be the change we so desperately need.
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—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
I remember just not being able to go out with friends because my asthma is extremely sensitive to tobacco smoke.
And when the "no smoking" area in pubs was demarked by a little bit of red rope, which definitely stopped the smoke getting in there.
And when the "no smoking" area in pubs was demarked by a little bit of red rope, which definitely stopped the smoke getting in there.
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I remember just not being able to go out with friends because my asthma is extremely sensitive to tobacco smoke.
And when the "no smoking" area in pubs was demarked by a little bit of red rope, which definitely stopped the smoke getting in there.
And when the "no smoking" area in pubs was demarked by a little bit of red rope, which definitely stopped the smoke getting in there.
I'm not a fan of strong fragrances generally, but:
1) why would I want a scent of marzipan in the work toilets?
2) when I smell almonds, my brain goes to "cyanide" before "Christmas"
(it's in every toilet in the office, and it's overpowering)
1) why would I want a scent of marzipan in the work toilets?
2) when I smell almonds, my brain goes to "cyanide" before "Christmas"
(it's in every toilet in the office, and it's overpowering)
December 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I'm not a fan of strong fragrances generally, but:
1) why would I want a scent of marzipan in the work toilets?
2) when I smell almonds, my brain goes to "cyanide" before "Christmas"
(it's in every toilet in the office, and it's overpowering)
1) why would I want a scent of marzipan in the work toilets?
2) when I smell almonds, my brain goes to "cyanide" before "Christmas"
(it's in every toilet in the office, and it's overpowering)
A couple of weeks ago, I had the joy of teaching Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods in person, with these lovely students.
On the last day, our student groups presented their studies to a "funding committee", with "funding" (chocolate) going to the best project.
On the last day, our student groups presented their studies to a "funding committee", with "funding" (chocolate) going to the best project.
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A couple of weeks ago, I had the joy of teaching Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods in person, with these lovely students.
On the last day, our student groups presented their studies to a "funding committee", with "funding" (chocolate) going to the best project.
On the last day, our student groups presented their studies to a "funding committee", with "funding" (chocolate) going to the best project.