Anne Osterrieder
@anneosterrieder.bsky.social
Public/community engagement and involvement. Based in Oxford, interested in scicomm, global health, MEL. Love fibre crafts, cats, plants and Bangkok. Views are my own. She/her. https://www.tropmedres.ac/research-areas/bioethics-engagement
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This is absolutely four-alarm-fire climate news. Astonishing, that this is the first time I've seen it.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is absolutely four-alarm-fire climate news. Astonishing, that this is the first time I've seen it.
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now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see
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One time I felt bad for a wheelchair-using colleague who had to navigate a poster session where the boards were "accordioned" making the aisle less than 2m wide...
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
One time I felt bad for a wheelchair-using colleague who had to navigate a poster session where the boards were "accordioned" making the aisle less than 2m wide...
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Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences?
When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
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When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences?
When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
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When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
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Have yourself a Hieronymus Bosch Christmas.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Have yourself a Hieronymus Bosch Christmas.
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This is an insightful discussion about using LLM AI for science communication (please don't). Among the *many* problems, it can't distinguish correlation from causation. By @em-underwood.bsky.social with Abigail Eisenstadt
The Last Word On Nothing | Why AAAS won’t be using AI to write press releases anytime soon
www.lastwordonnothing.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is an insightful discussion about using LLM AI for science communication (please don't). Among the *many* problems, it can't distinguish correlation from causation. By @em-underwood.bsky.social with Abigail Eisenstadt
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
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I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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Went trick or treating as myself last night. Because nothing seems to terrify some of the locals as much as an immigrant.
November 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Went trick or treating as myself last night. Because nothing seems to terrify some of the locals as much as an immigrant.
The National Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Summit 2025 marks the beginning of a collective national voice advocating for patients, their families and members of the public in health research.
Karachi, 1st Nov, 8-10.30 am GMT, join online.
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Karachi, 1st Nov, 8-10.30 am GMT, join online.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/national-p...
National PPIE Summit 2025: Awaz se Aaghaz
Join us for the 2nd National Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement Summit online or in-person at Avari Towers in Karachi!
www.eventbrite.ca
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The National Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Summit 2025 marks the beginning of a collective national voice advocating for patients, their families and members of the public in health research.
Karachi, 1st Nov, 8-10.30 am GMT, join online.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/national-p...
Karachi, 1st Nov, 8-10.30 am GMT, join online.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/national-p...
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How do you see AI fitting into the future of PPI storytelling? And what safeguards or opportunities do you think matter most?
Read the latest IPPIN blog post from Patrick Toland - 'Patient Voices in the Age of AI: Opportunity or Visibility Theft?'
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Read the latest IPPIN blog post from Patrick Toland - 'Patient Voices in the Age of AI: Opportunity or Visibility Theft?'
intppinetwork.wixsite.com/ippin/post/p...
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
How do you see AI fitting into the future of PPI storytelling? And what safeguards or opportunities do you think matter most?
Read the latest IPPIN blog post from Patrick Toland - 'Patient Voices in the Age of AI: Opportunity or Visibility Theft?'
intppinetwork.wixsite.com/ippin/post/p...
Read the latest IPPIN blog post from Patrick Toland - 'Patient Voices in the Age of AI: Opportunity or Visibility Theft?'
intppinetwork.wixsite.com/ippin/post/p...
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Wouldn't a prequel to Slow Horses about Lamb's time in communist East Germany be marvellous?
a man is eating a bowl of noodles with chopsticks and the words slow horses time above him
ALT: a man is eating a bowl of noodles with chopsticks and the words slow horses time above him
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October 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Wouldn't a prequel to Slow Horses about Lamb's time in communist East Germany be marvellous?
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The need for better genAI literacy is incredibly urgent jfc. Also sea safety, apparently. (I check several sites before relying on them for tide times to account for discrepancies and errors!).
October 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The need for better genAI literacy is incredibly urgent jfc. Also sea safety, apparently. (I check several sites before relying on them for tide times to account for discrepancies and errors!).
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This is also a disability justice issue.
Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave
Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office
Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is also a disability justice issue.
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Are you a researcher working in infectious diseases or #AMR, from a social science discipline (broadly interpreted?). INAMRSS has 3 great opportunities for you!
www.globalstrategylab.org/events/open-...
Abstract submission open now - move fast!
www.globalstrategylab.org/events/open-...
Abstract submission open now - move fast!
Open Call for Social Science Presentations On Infectious Diseases - Global Strategy Lab
INAMRSS was founded to advance social science research on infectious diseases, including but not limited to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In 2026, we are partnering with ESCMID Global (17-21 April i...
www.globalstrategylab.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Are you a researcher working in infectious diseases or #AMR, from a social science discipline (broadly interpreted?). INAMRSS has 3 great opportunities for you!
www.globalstrategylab.org/events/open-...
Abstract submission open now - move fast!
www.globalstrategylab.org/events/open-...
Abstract submission open now - move fast!
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One in six bacterial infections worldwide are now resistant to antibiotics, WHO warns www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
One in six bacterial infections worldwide are now resistant to antibiotics, WHO warns www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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‘Knitting had been a safe way to soften the search for new friends each time I took up residence in a new city.’ Susan M. Strawn
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The Shetland Fair Isle Kep - AgArts
By Susan M. Strawn Late afternoon my second day in the Shetland Islands, I walked past the ferry terminal toward my hotel in Lerwick. I heard footsteps, quick and determined, following me. My sho...
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October 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
‘Knitting had been a safe way to soften the search for new friends each time I took up residence in a new city.’ Susan M. Strawn
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Every morning waking up to news about how migration is Bad, Very Bad, Very Bad for the UK. That it's ruining this country. Picture it like water from the roof of a cave, falling on the head of every migrant who's made their home here: drip, drip, drip, every second, for years, making a hole...
October 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Every morning waking up to news about how migration is Bad, Very Bad, Very Bad for the UK. That it's ruining this country. Picture it like water from the roof of a cave, falling on the head of every migrant who's made their home here: drip, drip, drip, every second, for years, making a hole...
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This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today.
What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up.
There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.
What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up.
There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.
September 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today.
What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up.
There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.
What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up.
There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.
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We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long.
His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..
His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..
September 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long.
His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..
His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..
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When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
September 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
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This thread has some excellent book suggestions! Everything I wanted to suggest was already there, so I now have a massive new list of fun distracting sounding books to listen to/read. Thanks!
Anybody read any engrossing, silly, decidedly unserious books lately? Ideally with a great audiobook? Like a real solid mind-vacation-from-the-horrors read?
September 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This thread has some excellent book suggestions! Everything I wanted to suggest was already there, so I now have a massive new list of fun distracting sounding books to listen to/read. Thanks!