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Bill Boyes
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“Home no more home to me, whither must I wander?” RLS. Humanitarian. One Health. Fascinated by psycho-social impact of epidemics. Currently in Sierra Leone.
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Covid exposed the cabinet of clowns. Thousands died.
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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“It’s not a negotiation, it’s a shakedown,”
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Great piece of work.
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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“No Money, No Care” "Roughly half of the government health care workers in Sierra Leone are unpaid, working as volunteers in the hope of eventually getting paid work." www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
“No Money, No Care”
The 75-page report, “No Money, No Care: Obstetric Violence in Sierra Leone,” documents cases of verbal abuse, medical neglect, and abandonment of women and girls facing serious obstetric complications...
www.hrw.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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www.theguardian.com/environment/... Beautiful piece of journalism.
Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised
Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist.” Brilliant.
October 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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globalhealthotherwise.com/why-global-h...
Why global health research must stop treating communities as data sources and start honoring them as knowers - GHO
Professor Seye Abimbola joins us for the Expert's Voice where he discusses epistemic injustice, the stubborn legacies of colonialism in academic global health, and why meaningful change requires us to...
globalhealthotherwise.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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npr.org
JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
n.pr
October 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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danigaravelli.bsky.social
"What has likewise escaped global attention are the dogged efforts by volunteers, many of them women, to take on Lochee’s undeniable challenges at street level." @libbybrooks.bsky.social goes to Dundee's much-maligned Lochee and finds a different story.
September 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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catneilan.bsky.social
My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson

Well worth a read

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...
observer.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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"Ebola is never just a virus; it is a mirror." www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/e...
September 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Chris Greenway, BBC Monitoring: "The advance of Russian media influence in Africa continues. Sputnik radio is now aired on FM in Addis Ababa in both Amharic and English."

While the BBC was defunded 38% 2010-24, and as a result, #BBCWorldService is cutting jobs, the Russians are advancing.
August 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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"Operation Warp Speed... was arguably the first Trump administration’s only major policy success in terms of clearly improving lives. Yet the legacy of these tools, which ended the worst of the pandemic, is now being undermined by his very own second administration."

From my piece last month:
We must recognise health problems are information problems | LSHTM
It’s not enough to have useful tools like vaccines to tackle disease epidemics. Those tools also need to be used. But countries are facing growing obstacles, from false information about disease
www.lshtm.ac.uk
August 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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financialtimes.com
America and Britain appear to be in the middle of a crime paradox, with data showing disorder is rising in public consciousness. Is it rising in reality? https://on.ft.com/4oguUmZ
Chart showing relative change in crime rate, and share of people who believe levels are rising
August 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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For the last decade, the Fleming Fund has been a flagship example of the UK’s global leadership on AMR. As with many areas of global health, cuts like these will be felt most acutely in countries in Africa and Asia. wellcome.org/news/wellcom...
Wellcome responds to closure of The Fleming Fund | News | Wellcome
Jeremy Knox, Head of Infectious Disease Policy at Wellcome, responds to the closure of The Fleming Fund, a major UK aid programme to tackle antimicrobial resistance
wellcome.org
July 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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huffpost.co.uk
Spending will fall in Africa but increase in Europe.
Foreign Aid Cuts Will Lead To More Poor People Dying, Government Admits
Spending will fall in Africa but increase in Europe.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The Virology Unit at IPC is constantly working to make surveillance/Early Warning faster, better, cheaper — from air sampling to portable labs. Happy to have our work featured in this @telegraphnews.bsky.social article by @sneweyy.bsky.social 🦠🧪🐓💉🥼😷

Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
From coop to cave: Inside the high-tech hunt for H5N1 and Disease X
The Telegraph joined scientists in Cambodia’s vibrant wet markets and vast bat caves to test revolutionary new disease surveillance tools
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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danigaravelli.bsky.social
"The proscription of a particular group on political grounds.. may become a self-fulfilling prophecy, tipping it into violent acts its members would not otherwise have countenanced." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on pernicious crackdowns on dissent. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2527...
History will judge this government for targeting protesters
A FEW years ago I interviewed Donna McLean, one of the women lied to and seduced by undercover police officers from a special unit set up to…
www.heraldscotland.com
June 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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reuters.com
Over 40 people, including children, killed in Sudan hospital attack, says WHO chief reut.rs/3G5USso
Over 40 people, including children, killed in Sudan hospital attack, says WHO chief
Over 40 people, including children and health care workers, were killed in an attack on a hospital in Sudan at the weekend, the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
reut.rs
June 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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pressgazette.co.uk
British photographer Nick Stern has undergone surgery on his left after being shot with a plastic bullet whilst photographing protests in Los Angeles. Stern had press ID and a large camera plus video camera. www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
British photographer, 60, shot by police at LA riots
Nick Stern said that he was covering the anti-ICE protest when what doctors believe to be a ‘sponge bullet’ hit his thigh
www.thetimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Skyrocketing mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone raises fears of wider spread
Boom in infections in the West African nation is driven by the same viral strain that caused a global outbreak in 2022.
www.nature.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
Belllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
www.youtube.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM