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Tracy King
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Author, producer, scicomms, animation. Royal Institution writer-in-residence.

Books:
Learning To Think (Penguin)
The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins)
Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · Oct 30
In lovely science news, it is now official: I am the inaugural Writer in Residence at the Royal Institution to mark 200 years of the Christmas Lectures: www.rigb.org/explore-scie...
Tracy King announced as Writer in Residence to the CHRISTMAS LECTURES
Critically acclaimed author appointed as Writer in Residence to the 2025 CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution.
www.rigb.org
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@dfedmpls.bsky.social my dear old friend! How ARE you?
February 1, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: NHS England warns of "emerging evidence" of harm across England by surgeons, as it launches new requirements and chief exec Sir Jim mackey tells hospitals to be "more curious" in the wake of @GreatOrmondSt scandal:
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Hospitals ‘must be more curious’ to catch rogue surgeons
The head of NHS England says trust boards rely too much on poor data and should challenge doctors to avoid another scandal like GOSH
www.thetimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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Do get me started
soozbee.bsky.social Sooz Bee @soozbee.bsky.social · 11h
The hilarious thing to me (a 64 yr old American) about the "I could care less" thing is that it isn't actually correct here, either. My teachers pounded that one into me back in the 70s.
January 31, 2026 at 10:35 PM
tracyking.bsky.social
Always lovely when a recommendation pays off. My current ‘tell everyone’ is Stephen King’s The Long Walk which I read ahead of seeing the film and hoo boy is it timely.
aiabx.bsky.social Andy Beaton @aiabx.bsky.social · 13h
Finished the Emily Wilson translation of The Odyssey, which was excellent and very readable. I’m told it’s a big improvement over the Fagles translation but it’s been so long since I read it that I can’t say and tbh I think I’ve had enough of Homer for now. (Thx @tracyking.bsky.social )
January 31, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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I am willing to bet women are driving this. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been next in the bar crush and ignored in favour of a man (taller, pushier). I used to be a barmaid so know how the job should be done and bar staff stopped doing ‘eye contact and nod’ acknowledgement years ago.
January 31, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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My Wogan story - It was my first day of work at BBC Broadcasting House, I was 19 & quite nervous. I passed Wogan on the stairs & he gave me a cherry "Morning"

Later that week he stopped me & asked how I was getting on, which was lovely of him because he didn't know me at all.

A class act.
wrongtom.bsky.social wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 22h
10 years since we lost the great Terry Wogan who, if you didn't know, was the first person to play reggae music on mainstream radio in the UK. I mentioned him in this piece about Dawn Penn's No No No for the @thequietus.com a couple of years back thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Terry Wa'gwan?
January 31, 2026 at 12:33 PM
tracyking.bsky.social
Years ago we tried to watch Schitts Creek, gave up one ep in. Didn’t get it. Last year we tried again, gave it three eps. And then mainlined the entire lot over a few weeks. Obsessed. Truly one of the great sitcoms. Do watch if you never have.
rodger.bsky.social Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d
I don't know whether it is the #1 Catherine O'Hara accomplishment but the fact that she invented a manner of speaking that no other person in human history has ever attempted for Schitts Creek and made it seem realistic that her character would talk that way felt like a comedy miracle to me
January 31, 2026 at 10:16 AM
tracyking.bsky.social
I was just asked to connect Cilla Black to Stephen King in as few steps as possible and it was way way fewer steps than you might think
January 30, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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A New York federal judge dismissed murder and weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, a major blow to prosecutors that means Mangione no longer faces a possible death penalty if convicted reut.rs/45Fin56
January 30, 2026 at 3:28 PM
tracyking.bsky.social
Filming today. Name that cinema!
A brunette woman in jeans, jacket and cowboy boots sitting on a chair in an empty cinema
January 30, 2026 at 9:58 AM
tracyking.bsky.social
Dunno what the Arctic Monkeys are on about, I just read 1984 and there isn’t a single dancing robot in it
January 30, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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sonofbengt.bsky.social Son of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social · 2d
Still the greatest video ever made. Sorry. I don't make the rules...
January 29, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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Petition to make it illegal for audio or ebook samples to be a bit of the introduction rather than THE ACTUAL FUCKING BOOK
January 29, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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I used to do stand up. This post is accurate and much funnier than I ever was.
January 29, 2026 at 1:52 PM
tracyking.bsky.social
Haha “marry early”
January 29, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks
January 28, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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Nora Ephron was wrong, not everything is copy
January 27, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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I’m the Editor’s Pick today, very personal piece (paywalled) (I did not write the headline) www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...
A screenshot of the Times newspaper website of an article telling my experience with surgeon Ian Paterson. The photo is me, a brunette woman in a green cardigan sitting in a chair.
January 26, 2026 at 8:59 AM
tracyking.bsky.social
Half of me: don’t punish the behaviour you want to see

Other half with a very long line of ancestors behind me: not forgiven
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d
Ye, fka Kanye West, takes out a full-page in the Wall Street Journal to apologize to the Black community, and for antisemitism:

“I lost touch with reality”
Twenty-five years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain. At the time, the focus was on the visible damage - the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma. The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed. Comprehensive scans were not done, neurological exams were limited, and the possibility of a frontal-lobe injury was never raised. It wasn't properly diagnosed until 2023. That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-l diagnosis. Bipolar disorder comes with its own defense system. Denial. When you're manic, you don't think you're sick. You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you're seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you're losing your grip entirely. Once people label you as 'crazy', you feel as if you cannot contribute anything meaningful to the world. It's easy for people to joke and laugh it off when in fact this is a very serious debilitating disease you can die from. According to the World Health Organization and Cambridge University, people with bipolar disorder have a life expectancy that is shortened by ten to fifteen years on average, and a 2x-3x higher all-cause mortality rate than the general population. This is on par with severe heart disease, type-1 diabetes, HIV, and cancer-all lethal and fatal if left untreated. The scariest thing about this disorder is how persuasive it is when it tells you: You don't need help. It makes you blind, but convinced you have insight. You feel powerful, certain, and unstoppable. I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst. You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to love someone who was at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self. In that fractured state. I gra…
January 26, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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My friend Tracy went through hell, and I'm glad some justice was served.

FWIW the article was not paywalled for me.
tracyking.bsky.social Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 6d
I’m the Editor’s Pick today, very personal piece (paywalled) (I did not write the headline) www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...
A screenshot of the Times newspaper website of an article telling my experience with surgeon Ian Paterson. The photo is me, a brunette woman in a green cardigan sitting in a chair.
January 26, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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First review of The Cost of Trust! (It’s out on Feb 12th) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
The truth about the ‘butcher surgeon’ is worse than we thought
Deborah Douglas recounts her own brutal ordeal under Ian Paterson’s knife in an unsparing catalogue of horrors
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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Do read my piece if you can. The issues in The Cost of Trust book affect all of us.
A photo of the Times newspaper showing a brunette woman in jeans and a green cardigan sitting on a chair. The headline is ‘I was a victim of the butcher breast surgeon’
January 26, 2026 at 9:50 AM
tracyking.bsky.social
I’m the Editor’s Pick today, very personal piece (paywalled) (I did not write the headline) www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...
A screenshot of the Times newspaper website of an article telling my experience with surgeon Ian Paterson. The photo is me, a brunette woman in a green cardigan sitting in a chair.
January 26, 2026 at 8:59 AM
tracyking.bsky.social
I’m trying to explain to Dan how men sometimes ruin things and to prove my point I played him Hit by The Sugarcubes
January 25, 2026 at 6:59 PM