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Marjorie Cross
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'*Little* words, *little* statements make such a huge impact'. 👏

Fabulous podcast from @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
Miss Maria Satchi, Miss Tharani Nitkunan and Miss Tina Rashid with advice for everyone (not just women).
#MedSky #GenderEquity #ILookLikeASurgeon
Leadership, Surgery & Motherhood
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November 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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When you got a good blurb and you want to show it off. cc @nickharkaway.com!
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John le Carre, with a giant blurb by JB Priestly on the front.
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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willdalrymple.bsky.social
As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad!
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November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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nolabob.bsky.social
#KillerTunes
#MusicChallenge

Day 17: Sadako (The Ring)

The Moody Blues - Watching And Waiting
Watching And Waiting (Remastered 2022)
YouTube video by The Moody Blues - Topic
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October 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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“These papers lay out for the first time a comprehensive description of health in the post-pandemic world.”

📄 A Lancet Editorial provides an overview of 3 new articles, presented at the @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/yke8vh56 #WHS2025 #GDBStudy @ihmeuw.bsky.social
Health progress in a post-COVID-19 world
The COVID-19 pandemic upended global mortality and morbidity. COVID-19 was ranked as the number one age-standardised cause of death globally in 2021 but by 2023 had dropped to the 20th cause of death ...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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“Opportunity depends on our health […] This Commission identifies adverse foods and adverse food environments as the often unacknowledged barrier to health, opportunity, and justice.” - Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, opens the 2025 EAT–Lancet launch.

Livestream here ➡️ bit.ly/3VKhnaz
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, speaks at the EAT-Lancet Commission launch in Stockholm.
October 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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erictopol.bsky.social
A long-awaited consensus statement on inflammation and heart disease
"We have thus entered an era when the evidence linking inflammation with ASCVD is no longer exploratory but is
compelling and clinically actionable."
@jaccjournals.bsky.social open-access
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September 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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tessamdekker.bsky.social
We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence
Research Assistant at UCL
Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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September 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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melissasweetdr.bsky.social
A passion for prevention – meet Denise Lyons, President of the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association.

www.croakey.org/a-passion-fo...

#PHCmatters
#HealthReform
#ScopeOfPractice
A passion for prevention
Introduction by Croakey: With decades of experience as a nurse, working in diverse settings across the United States and Australia,
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September 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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madridlitmag.bsky.social
Today we pay a visit to Freya Stark, the woman who made travel writing intimate rather than imperial.
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town,” she wrote, “is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
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#travel #travelling #travelwriter #travelblog
A Visit To Freya Stark, Travel Writer.
“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?” Freya Stark, A Winter in Arabia
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September 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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bprainsack.bsky.social
everyone who believes that AI will fix democracy: Read this piece by @himself.bsky.social‬ ‪@hahrie.bsky.social‬

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AI and Democratic Publics
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August 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.
September 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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This week's audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI

Scientists are searching for awareness in all its possible forms — insights from human brains could inform that quest.

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Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI
Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.
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August 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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croakeynews.bsky.social
Raising questions about governance of Primary Health Networks, and the balancing acts involved www.croakey.org/raising-ques... #publichealth
Raising questions about governance of Primary Health Networks, and the balancing acts involved
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August 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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madridlitmag.bsky.social
Read the brilliant Jack London short story 'To Build A Fire' on the blog today #nature #thewild #wilderness #jacklondon #shortstory #fiction #klondike #history
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To Build A Fire - a brilliant short story by Jack London
First published in 1908, To Build a Fire has been called the finest expression of naturalism in American short fiction. A stark and unforgiving tale of survival, it tells the story of a solitary man w...
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July 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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kokikatokk.bsky.social
One of the things that the UK, a country that has led the world in general practice and family medicine, can do in collaboration with doctors in the red-list countries

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#BJGP #GPworkforce #RedList
An international primary care workforce: addressing the ethics beyond the red list
In March 2025, the Nuffield Trust published a report1 that examined ‘Health in the UK after Brexit’. This highlighted the instability of the UK healthcare workforce following the end of free movement ...
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July 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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A lot of people dismiss those whose beliefs are rooted in misinformation as uneducated. As Uyi Omoregie and I discovered researching our book, Misinformation Matters, even a PhD is no protection against conspiracy theories: you're convinced your intellect makes you better able to see what is 'true'
hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Jul 10
"Addressing real psychological & sociological needs is something those false, misinformed beliefs are doing. We actually need to try to tackle the underlying social problems, like alienation, people are grappling with"

My in-depth essay with brilliant insights from LSE's Prof J McKenzie Alexander ⬇️
The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age
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July 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report – 16 June to 29 June 2025

"In the last fortnight there was a +12.7% increase in COVID cases, a +55.4% increase in influenza cases, and a +7.3% increase in RSV cases"

🔹COVID: 16,137
🔹Influenza: 32,485
🔹RSV: 12,990

www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report – 16 June to 29 June 2025
July 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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shewantstorun.bsky.social
Jo, have you met the amazing surgeon Dr @liangrhea.bsky.social ? I think you'd have much to chat about. Not only is she a kickass surgeon she's also a tiny petite ballerina sized person who educates on gender in medicine.
June 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
verycross.bsky.social
Great book as one would expect from Prof McIntyre
catanita.bsky.social Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · Jun 19
Adding to my TBR list

#BookSky #MedSky #IDSky #IDEpi
melissasweetdr.bsky.social Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · Jun 19
"The book blends a sweeping history of public health with a clear examination of our messy present. It delivers a timely, urgent and often deeply personal account of vaccination’s role in our world."
www.croakey.org/review-vacci...
#CroakeyREAD
June 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
verycross.bsky.social
Read it and agree- compelling #ProfRainaMcIntyre
June 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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thelancet.com
Whether by choice or by force, 1 billion people are on the move today 🗺️

Our latest Editorial explores uncertainties in migrant and refugee health, including the impacts of hostile framing: hubs.li/Q03r_pHS0 #WorldRefugeeDay
Cover of The Lancet, June 14, 2025 issue. Quote, "Political narratives that rely on hate and division, further fuelled by the media, are...the great challenge to making gains to protect and support refugee and migrant health."
June 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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excubs.bsky.social
Solnit - « Behind these stories [blaming sexual assault victims, blaming Ukraine for Russia’s invasion, blaming liberals for the misdeeds of the Trump regime] is the assumption that some people matter more than other people, and that we who matter less have to pander to those who matter more. »
June 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Our new paper ⬇️⬇️
June 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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irishdocsenv.bsky.social
Alongside our sister organisations across the Nordic countries, we put together this short video calling for health action through climate action.

Please watch it and share it!
The Patient Earth is Sick: A Call to Action from Healthcare Professionals
YouTube video by Irish Doctor For the Environment
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June 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM