Becky
@dr-r-acres.bsky.social
UK Doctor (ID/GIM), Trade-Unionist,
Member of BMA Council (and a few other BMA things)
Organise with the Broad Left
Really quite left; fascinated by medicine, history, science, the law...
AuDHD. Not here for transphobia.
Views my own.
Member of BMA Council (and a few other BMA things)
Organise with the Broad Left
Really quite left; fascinated by medicine, history, science, the law...
AuDHD. Not here for transphobia.
Views my own.
Scottish Government broke their deal with Scotland's Resident Doctors over Pay.
They have left us with no choice but to ballot.
No doctor wants to be on strike but a government that breaks its promises cannot go unchallenged.
Doctors aren't worth 17% less than 2008... 🧵
They have left us with no choice but to ballot.
No doctor wants to be on strike but a government that breaks its promises cannot go unchallenged.
Doctors aren't worth 17% less than 2008... 🧵
Becky (@bugdoc_a) on Threads
Scottish Government broke their deal with Resident Doctors over pay.
They have left us with no choice but to ballot.
No doctor wants to be on strike but a government that breaks its promises cannot g...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Scottish Government broke their deal with Scotland's Resident Doctors over Pay.
They have left us with no choice but to ballot.
No doctor wants to be on strike but a government that breaks its promises cannot go unchallenged.
Doctors aren't worth 17% less than 2008... 🧵
They have left us with no choice but to ballot.
No doctor wants to be on strike but a government that breaks its promises cannot go unchallenged.
Doctors aren't worth 17% less than 2008... 🧵
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"As doctors, we at the BMA wish to ensure that, while resident doctors are taking lawful industrial action, patients remain safe"
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"As doctors, we at the BMA wish to ensure that, while resident doctors are taking lawful industrial action, patients remain safe"
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
I know that your policy conference have decided to review your financial relationship with Labour...
here is the leader of the supposed political branch of organised labour encouraging @bma.org.uk members to cross our picket lines.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
I know that your policy conference have decided to review your financial relationship with Labour...
here is the leader of the supposed political branch of organised labour encouraging @bma.org.uk members to cross our picket lines.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Keir Starmer: Junior doctors should break ranks with the BMA leadership
The industrial action that starts on Friday is in no one’s interests and medics should not follow their union down its dangerous and destructive route, he says
www.thetimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
I know that your policy conference have decided to review your financial relationship with Labour...
here is the leader of the supposed political branch of organised labour encouraging @bma.org.uk members to cross our picket lines.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
I know that your policy conference have decided to review your financial relationship with Labour...
here is the leader of the supposed political branch of organised labour encouraging @bma.org.uk members to cross our picket lines.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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This came up at a conference I was at on Friday, and I was curious if other think about this similarly.
I view keeping to my assigned time in presentations as an embodiment of my feminist values at work. There is a set amount of total time and going over takes time away from ~someone~ else.
I view keeping to my assigned time in presentations as an embodiment of my feminist values at work. There is a set amount of total time and going over takes time away from ~someone~ else.
December 9, 2024 at 2:05 PM
This came up at a conference I was at on Friday, and I was curious if other think about this similarly.
I view keeping to my assigned time in presentations as an embodiment of my feminist values at work. There is a set amount of total time and going over takes time away from ~someone~ else.
I view keeping to my assigned time in presentations as an embodiment of my feminist values at work. There is a set amount of total time and going over takes time away from ~someone~ else.
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At the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Conference, if you run over your time, you are literally forced to exit, pursued by a bear.
The bear can and will take your paper from you to shut you up.
The bear can and will take your paper from you to shut you up.
I could not tell you how often I have done readings with male writers who go way over the allotted time limit, biting into other people's reading time or making the event last way longer than it was supposed to.
But the worst ones are the ones who go: "I'll just read until someone stops me."
But the worst ones are the ones who go: "I'll just read until someone stops me."
Ending on time is a feminist act.
December 9, 2024 at 5:15 PM
At the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Conference, if you run over your time, you are literally forced to exit, pursued by a bear.
The bear can and will take your paper from you to shut you up.
The bear can and will take your paper from you to shut you up.
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It is however nuts that for literally the most predictable NHS crisis we still rely on the luck of the disease draw (and the weather) every winter.
@paulmainwood.bsky.social put it brilliantly a few weeks ago in his substack (which I recommend). 5/6
@paulmainwood.bsky.social put it brilliantly a few weeks ago in his substack (which I recommend). 5/6
November 27, 2024 at 7:21 AM
It is however nuts that for literally the most predictable NHS crisis we still rely on the luck of the disease draw (and the weather) every winter.
@paulmainwood.bsky.social put it brilliantly a few weeks ago in his substack (which I recommend). 5/6
@paulmainwood.bsky.social put it brilliantly a few weeks ago in his substack (which I recommend). 5/6
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Won't someone think of the poor feefees of the people who are trying to eradicate us from existence!
No. No, I will not.
No. No, I will not.
November 26, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Won't someone think of the poor feefees of the people who are trying to eradicate us from existence!
No. No, I will not.
No. No, I will not.
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Eight ways for men to alleviate women’s gender-based fear
With gender-based fear and violence on the rise, here's what men can do to make women feel safer in public | Gemma Gould
@gemmagould.bsky.social
With gender-based fear and violence on the rise, here's what men can do to make women feel safer in public | Gemma Gould
@gemmagould.bsky.social
Eight ways for men to alleviate women’s gender-based fear
With gender-based fear and violence on the rise, here's what men can do to make women feel safer in public
centralbylines.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Eight ways for men to alleviate women’s gender-based fear
With gender-based fear and violence on the rise, here's what men can do to make women feel safer in public | Gemma Gould
@gemmagould.bsky.social
With gender-based fear and violence on the rise, here's what men can do to make women feel safer in public | Gemma Gould
@gemmagould.bsky.social
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Actually no, at no point did any doctor or nurse agree to have the state/their employer "audit" personal electronic devices
Being a healthcare professional does not abrogate the ECHR Article 8 right to privacy
Being a healthcare professional does not abrogate the ECHR Article 8 right to privacy
I know what I’ll be saying if “the hospital” tries to check my personal phone
November 25, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Actually no, at no point did any doctor or nurse agree to have the state/their employer "audit" personal electronic devices
Being a healthcare professional does not abrogate the ECHR Article 8 right to privacy
Being a healthcare professional does not abrogate the ECHR Article 8 right to privacy
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You wanna look at my phone? Give me a work phone.
November 25, 2024 at 6:16 PM
You wanna look at my phone? Give me a work phone.
Men do not "help", they also do not babysit.
They adult appropriately plus they partner and/or co-parent.
Anything else is unacceptable.
If there's a baby in the house and he's not the birthing parent then he does most of the chores, not half of them, thats 50:50.
They adult appropriately plus they partner and/or co-parent.
Anything else is unacceptable.
If there's a baby in the house and he's not the birthing parent then he does most of the chores, not half of them, thats 50:50.
Nah lady, you don't need your husband to help you. That's ridiculous. What you need is for you to do his fair share.
November 25, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Men do not "help", they also do not babysit.
They adult appropriately plus they partner and/or co-parent.
Anything else is unacceptable.
If there's a baby in the house and he's not the birthing parent then he does most of the chores, not half of them, thats 50:50.
They adult appropriately plus they partner and/or co-parent.
Anything else is unacceptable.
If there's a baby in the house and he's not the birthing parent then he does most of the chores, not half of them, thats 50:50.
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Will happily take a work-provided smart phone with the same capabilities as my personal one which currently offsets a huge amount of inadequate IT...
This is a systems issue that needs a solution. That solution needs to make it easy not to need to use a personal device (as well as appropriate IG)
This is a systems issue that needs a solution. That solution needs to make it easy not to need to use a personal device (as well as appropriate IG)
I know what I’ll be saying if “the hospital” tries to check my personal phone
November 25, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Will happily take a work-provided smart phone with the same capabilities as my personal one which currently offsets a huge amount of inadequate IT...
This is a systems issue that needs a solution. That solution needs to make it easy not to need to use a personal device (as well as appropriate IG)
This is a systems issue that needs a solution. That solution needs to make it easy not to need to use a personal device (as well as appropriate IG)
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This, fundamentally, is the problem with billionaires. It's not just how much money they have, but the fact that any one person having that kind of money constitutes a form of unaccountable power where they can just buy shit to silence voices they don't like.
In Hungary, a key Orbán tactic in dismantling their democracy was that his allies bought media outlets that were critical of the regime and turned them into loyal cheerleaders for the regime.
November 25, 2024 at 8:31 PM
This, fundamentally, is the problem with billionaires. It's not just how much money they have, but the fact that any one person having that kind of money constitutes a form of unaccountable power where they can just buy shit to silence voices they don't like.
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We’ve had viable solutions for mobility both within & between cities for a long time, like high-speed rail, prioritized public transit and networks of protected bike-lanes. We need leadership. And we need to stop letting “shiny new tech” distract us from implementing them. Image via UrbanThoughts11
November 25, 2024 at 5:33 AM
We’ve had viable solutions for mobility both within & between cities for a long time, like high-speed rail, prioritized public transit and networks of protected bike-lanes. We need leadership. And we need to stop letting “shiny new tech” distract us from implementing them. Image via UrbanThoughts11
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On prices, and why inflation figures aren't capturing public concern adequately. www.ft.com/content/fb32...
November 25, 2024 at 9:12 AM
On prices, and why inflation figures aren't capturing public concern adequately. www.ft.com/content/fb32...
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Those accusing the ICC of being “political” do not fully understand the law.
Post WWII, we in “the West” stipulated a set of shared rules that we believed applied to everyone - enemies, allies and ourselves.
If an ally breaches those rules, the rules have not suddenly become “political” overnight.
Post WWII, we in “the West” stipulated a set of shared rules that we believed applied to everyone - enemies, allies and ourselves.
If an ally breaches those rules, the rules have not suddenly become “political” overnight.
November 25, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Those accusing the ICC of being “political” do not fully understand the law.
Post WWII, we in “the West” stipulated a set of shared rules that we believed applied to everyone - enemies, allies and ourselves.
If an ally breaches those rules, the rules have not suddenly become “political” overnight.
Post WWII, we in “the West” stipulated a set of shared rules that we believed applied to everyone - enemies, allies and ourselves.
If an ally breaches those rules, the rules have not suddenly become “political” overnight.
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Yes yes and yes!
We are beholden to an outdated and archaic system that prevents real change.
We need PR! We need PR!
Repost if you agree!
We are beholden to an outdated and archaic system that prevents real change.
We need PR! We need PR!
Repost if you agree!
November 25, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Yes yes and yes!
We are beholden to an outdated and archaic system that prevents real change.
We need PR! We need PR!
Repost if you agree!
We are beholden to an outdated and archaic system that prevents real change.
We need PR! We need PR!
Repost if you agree!
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I hadn't realised the LGBA had done this. Absolute snakes. Quite right, Jimmy.
November 24, 2024 at 11:26 AM
I hadn't realised the LGBA had done this. Absolute snakes. Quite right, Jimmy.
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A great paradox of working in Infectious and Microbiology is that we beg for new antimicrobials -
but as soon as they arrive the first thing we do is to tell everyone NOT to use them.
You can see why this deters pharma from investing in them.
but as soon as they arrive the first thing we do is to tell everyone NOT to use them.
You can see why this deters pharma from investing in them.
November 23, 2024 at 2:22 PM
A great paradox of working in Infectious and Microbiology is that we beg for new antimicrobials -
but as soon as they arrive the first thing we do is to tell everyone NOT to use them.
You can see why this deters pharma from investing in them.
but as soon as they arrive the first thing we do is to tell everyone NOT to use them.
You can see why this deters pharma from investing in them.
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“One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election”
@aoc.bsky.social
@aoc.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 7:23 AM
“One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election”
@aoc.bsky.social
@aoc.bsky.social
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If you can go to @aslefunion.bsky.social Bluesky and show some support for this campaign it's unbelievable the way their members are being treated with their basic dignity being disregarded at work. As a Nurse I'm horrified! ✊
November 23, 2024 at 8:02 AM
If you can go to @aslefunion.bsky.social Bluesky and show some support for this campaign it's unbelievable the way their members are being treated with their basic dignity being disregarded at work. As a Nurse I'm horrified! ✊
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Literally what Starmer has left her in place for.
They could have appointed an interim chair as her contract was up. Instead, they've protected a bigot in her post for 12 months, hoping she does the dirty work so they don't have to
Whatever Faulkner does now is as a LABOUR appointment, not a Tory
They could have appointed an interim chair as her contract was up. Instead, they've protected a bigot in her post for 12 months, hoping she does the dirty work so they don't have to
Whatever Faulkner does now is as a LABOUR appointment, not a Tory
Kishwer Falkner is determined to do as much damage to trans equality as she can before she leaves the EHRC (backed up by the transphobic ‘gender critical’ board member cronies)
They’re going for the scorched earth policy of attacking trans rights before they leave! 😣
They’re going for the scorched earth policy of attacking trans rights before they leave! 😣
The EHRC is describing itself as “Impartial” in this case going to the Supreme Court, a case that trans people have been locked out of (once again like Bell).
Surely this is perjury.
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
Surely this is perjury.
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
November 22, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Literally what Starmer has left her in place for.
They could have appointed an interim chair as her contract was up. Instead, they've protected a bigot in her post for 12 months, hoping she does the dirty work so they don't have to
Whatever Faulkner does now is as a LABOUR appointment, not a Tory
They could have appointed an interim chair as her contract was up. Instead, they've protected a bigot in her post for 12 months, hoping she does the dirty work so they don't have to
Whatever Faulkner does now is as a LABOUR appointment, not a Tory
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The EHRC is describing itself as “Impartial” in this case going to the Supreme Court, a case that trans people have been locked out of (once again like Bell).
Surely this is perjury.
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
Surely this is perjury.
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
November 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM
The EHRC is describing itself as “Impartial” in this case going to the Supreme Court, a case that trans people have been locked out of (once again like Bell).
Surely this is perjury.
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
Surely this is perjury.
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
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Mindboggling - our new PM looks at the country after
40 years of failed privatisation 💧💡🚌🚄🏥📮
14 years of austerity
And decides BlackRock will put money in people's pockets? They manage assets so THEY profit
Don't beg them for new PFI deals! Why can't we own our own assets?
40 years of failed privatisation 💧💡🚌🚄🏥📮
14 years of austerity
And decides BlackRock will put money in people's pockets? They manage assets so THEY profit
Don't beg them for new PFI deals! Why can't we own our own assets?
November 23, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Mindboggling - our new PM looks at the country after
40 years of failed privatisation 💧💡🚌🚄🏥📮
14 years of austerity
And decides BlackRock will put money in people's pockets? They manage assets so THEY profit
Don't beg them for new PFI deals! Why can't we own our own assets?
40 years of failed privatisation 💧💡🚌🚄🏥📮
14 years of austerity
And decides BlackRock will put money in people's pockets? They manage assets so THEY profit
Don't beg them for new PFI deals! Why can't we own our own assets?
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Just horrible, that this government hasn’t simply scrapped the *entirety* of the sanctions regime, that has repeatedly been shown to make it *less* likely that people return to work, let alone the devastating effects mentioned in Liam’s report www.theguardian.com/society/2023...
November 23, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Just horrible, that this government hasn’t simply scrapped the *entirety* of the sanctions regime, that has repeatedly been shown to make it *less* likely that people return to work, let alone the devastating effects mentioned in Liam’s report www.theguardian.com/society/2023...