Andy Conway Morris
@andymoz78.bsky.social
Associate Prof /ICU Dr @Cambridge, UK
nosocomial infections, pneumonia, neutrophil biology & sepsis immune dysfunction
Medical director for Sepsis Research FEAT.
orcid.org/0000-0002-3211-3216
https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-andrew-conway-morris
nosocomial infections, pneumonia, neutrophil biology & sepsis immune dysfunction
Medical director for Sepsis Research FEAT.
orcid.org/0000-0002-3211-3216
https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-andrew-conway-morris
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Experts recommend a simple change to antibiotic administration that will save lives in sepsis
ics.ac.uk
A simple shift in NHS critical care practice is set to save more lives from #Sepsis.
The @ICS_updates & @BritInfectAssoc now recommend continuous infusion for key antibiotics over intermittent dosing. Evidence shows increased 90-day survival.
We urge all hospitals to adopt this practice immediately
The @ICS_updates & @BritInfectAssoc now recommend continuous infusion for key antibiotics over intermittent dosing. Evidence shows increased 90-day survival.
We urge all hospitals to adopt this practice immediately
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Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
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Robbie Gibb once suggested that reporters should reflect if they were getting more retweets from one side than the other - a braindead analysis that ignores that fair and impartial reporting of education might get more Tory retweets than say, criminal justice.
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Robbie Gibb once suggested that reporters should reflect if they were getting more retweets from one side than the other - a braindead analysis that ignores that fair and impartial reporting of education might get more Tory retweets than say, criminal justice.
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"Brexit has reduced GDP by 6% to 8%"
So actually worse than 'project fear'. Great job everyone.
cc @mrjamesob.bsky.social
So actually worse than 'project fear'. Great job everyone.
cc @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"Brexit has reduced GDP by 6% to 8%"
So actually worse than 'project fear'. Great job everyone.
cc @mrjamesob.bsky.social
So actually worse than 'project fear'. Great job everyone.
cc @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Despite the lack of a planet-warming El Niño event this year, 2025 has been the 2nd-warmest year on record for the year-to-date period, and is on track to end up as the 2nd- or 3rd-warmest year on record, behind only the El Niño-warmed years of 2024 and 2023:
October 2025 was the planet's third-warmest October on record » Yale Climate Connections
Only October 2023 and October 2024 were warmer.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Despite the lack of a planet-warming El Niño event this year, 2025 has been the 2nd-warmest year on record for the year-to-date period, and is on track to end up as the 2nd- or 3rd-warmest year on record, behind only the El Niño-warmed years of 2024 and 2023:
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“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.”
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.”
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
I guess they didn’t teach relative risk and risk factors at Sen Marshall’s medical school, or maybe he slept through that course?
He should see how many people claim kidnap insurance or tornado insurance, hell even auto insurance, risk pooling to catastrophic but unexpected costs.
He should see how many people claim kidnap insurance or tornado insurance, hell even auto insurance, risk pooling to catastrophic but unexpected costs.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I guess they didn’t teach relative risk and risk factors at Sen Marshall’s medical school, or maybe he slept through that course?
He should see how many people claim kidnap insurance or tornado insurance, hell even auto insurance, risk pooling to catastrophic but unexpected costs.
He should see how many people claim kidnap insurance or tornado insurance, hell even auto insurance, risk pooling to catastrophic but unexpected costs.
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Monsters.
Each and everyone one of these scientists to suggest such an arm in this trial.
Each and everyone one of these scientists to suggest such an arm in this trial.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Monsters.
Each and everyone one of these scientists to suggest such an arm in this trial.
Each and everyone one of these scientists to suggest such an arm in this trial.
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This might be the first spy who appears to be literally wearing one of those 'spy disguises' you could pick up in a joke shop in Newquay in 1993.
Russian activist held in Poland admits he worked as FSB agent, court papers say
Igor Rogov, who left Russia in 2021, due to go on trial accused of informing on other Russian opposition activists
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This might be the first spy who appears to be literally wearing one of those 'spy disguises' you could pick up in a joke shop in Newquay in 1993.
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A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
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Edinburgh’s Architecture
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Edinburgh’s Architecture
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Alongside the British war dead, especially my own family members, this Remembrance Sunday I shall remember all American liberators but especially these African-American liberators.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Alongside the British war dead, especially my own family members, this Remembrance Sunday I shall remember all American liberators but especially these African-American liberators.
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Despite negative press reporting the energy transition is well underway. In the UK, we see strong demand for electric vehicles and solar panels. And the more people learn that these technologies can offer them tangible benefits the more others will adopt them too.
November 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Despite negative press reporting the energy transition is well underway. In the UK, we see strong demand for electric vehicles and solar panels. And the more people learn that these technologies can offer them tangible benefits the more others will adopt them too.
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Labour’s reset with the EU may solve this boring, costly nightmare for British businesses.
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Plant importers say border delays in Kent could drive up prices and stop deliveries from EU
Traders report long waits at Sevington inspection post and claim trees and shrubs are repeatedly being damaged
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Labour’s reset with the EU may solve this boring, costly nightmare for British businesses.
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Agree - a great day, fascinating to learn more about the Irish healthcare setup too. The humanity speakers ironically cemented my desire to work more on how our AI can help improve communication with patients with things like diaries.
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Agree - a great day, fascinating to learn more about the Irish healthcare setup too. The humanity speakers ironically cemented my desire to work more on how our AI can help improve communication with patients with things like diaries.
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Honoured to be asked to talk on #HealthcareAI at the Intensive Care Society of Ireland autumn meeting, along with @andymoz78.bsky.social
Made the mistake of asking my brother in law for a Gaelic greeting and now have a 30-second voice note with what appears to be some kind of toast...
Made the mistake of asking my brother in law for a Gaelic greeting and now have a 30-second voice note with what appears to be some kind of toast...
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Honoured to be asked to talk on #HealthcareAI at the Intensive Care Society of Ireland autumn meeting, along with @andymoz78.bsky.social
Made the mistake of asking my brother in law for a Gaelic greeting and now have a 30-second voice note with what appears to be some kind of toast...
Made the mistake of asking my brother in law for a Gaelic greeting and now have a 30-second voice note with what appears to be some kind of toast...
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EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
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only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
Nazis in the White House? Whatever next
Top AfD politician makes surprise visit to White House
Vice President JD Vance has spoken out against the far-right AfD’s political exclusion in Germany.
www.politico.eu
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Nazis in the White House? Whatever next
One of these groups is not like the others
With Maurice Glasman and Dominic Lawson calling for the return of the stocks, we find most Britons opposed - although Reform voters are divided
All Britons: 21% support / 72% oppose
Lib Dem: 12% / 85%
Labour: 12% / 83%
Green: 13% / 82%
Con: 28% / 64%
Reform: 43% / 48%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
All Britons: 21% support / 72% oppose
Lib Dem: 12% / 85%
Labour: 12% / 83%
Green: 13% / 82%
Con: 28% / 64%
Reform: 43% / 48%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
One of these groups is not like the others