Fiona McArdle
@fionamca.bsky.social
Love Parkrun and walking the woodlands and beaches of East Lothian with friends & family.
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We are witnessing a poisonous effort to destroy what the vast majority of Americans know is a key pillar of public health.
Vaccines are responsible for 40% of the reduction in child mortality achieved in the last half century.
Vaccines are responsible for 40% of the reduction in child mortality achieved in the last half century.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
We are witnessing a poisonous effort to destroy what the vast majority of Americans know is a key pillar of public health.
Vaccines are responsible for 40% of the reduction in child mortality achieved in the last half century.
Vaccines are responsible for 40% of the reduction in child mortality achieved in the last half century.
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Want to learn and apply skills in #qualitativedataanalysis ? Sign up to our half day course Qualitative Data Analysis: A Practical Workshop | Wed 10 Dec 2025 (1100-1400) at the Western General Hospital clinical-research-facility.ed.ac.uk/qualitative-...
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Want to learn and apply skills in #qualitativedataanalysis ? Sign up to our half day course Qualitative Data Analysis: A Practical Workshop | Wed 10 Dec 2025 (1100-1400) at the Western General Hospital clinical-research-facility.ed.ac.uk/qualitative-...
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Applications are now open for the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government's NHS Researcher Development Fellowship.
The closing date for applications is midday on Wednesday 17 December 🔗 https://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/fellowship-funding/csonhsrdf/
The closing date for applications is midday on Wednesday 17 December 🔗 https://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/fellowship-funding/csonhsrdf/
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Applications are now open for the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government's NHS Researcher Development Fellowship.
The closing date for applications is midday on Wednesday 17 December 🔗 https://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/fellowship-funding/csonhsrdf/
The closing date for applications is midday on Wednesday 17 December 🔗 https://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/fellowship-funding/csonhsrdf/
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More signed copies at @waterstones.bsky.social in Edinburgh- also exciting book events ahead which I'll post about soon.
October 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
More signed copies at @waterstones.bsky.social in Edinburgh- also exciting book events ahead which I'll post about soon.
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This an awesome music video by scaredketchup. He has produce some of the greatest videos monking the Regime. Please support his work!
youtube.com/watch?v=8w3o...
youtube.com/watch?v=8w3o...
NO KINGS 2.0 - The Music Video
YouTube video by scaredketchup
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October 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This an awesome music video by scaredketchup. He has produce some of the greatest videos monking the Regime. Please support his work!
youtube.com/watch?v=8w3o...
youtube.com/watch?v=8w3o...
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Four parallel sessions at #ScotHRIC25 will hear from experts across the Scottish landscape on Digital Health and AI, Population Health and Data Science, Patient-centred Research and Innovative Healthcare Delivery. @uofgregiusanna.bsky.social
Read our full programme 🔗 https://bit.ly/3WFIt2L
Read our full programme 🔗 https://bit.ly/3WFIt2L
October 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Four parallel sessions at #ScotHRIC25 will hear from experts across the Scottish landscape on Digital Health and AI, Population Health and Data Science, Patient-centred Research and Innovative Healthcare Delivery. @uofgregiusanna.bsky.social
Read our full programme 🔗 https://bit.ly/3WFIt2L
Read our full programme 🔗 https://bit.ly/3WFIt2L
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@prostatecanceruk.bsky.social are offering funding to support bold, innovative research projects that have the real potential to impact the way prostate cancer is diagnosed and treated.
Apply 🔗 https://prostatecanceruk.org/research/for-researchers/funding-opportunities/research-innovation-awards
Apply 🔗 https://prostatecanceruk.org/research/for-researchers/funding-opportunities/research-innovation-awards
October 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
@prostatecanceruk.bsky.social are offering funding to support bold, innovative research projects that have the real potential to impact the way prostate cancer is diagnosed and treated.
Apply 🔗 https://prostatecanceruk.org/research/for-researchers/funding-opportunities/research-innovation-awards
Apply 🔗 https://prostatecanceruk.org/research/for-researchers/funding-opportunities/research-innovation-awards
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September 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Abstract submissions are open for Scotland's 2026 Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) event.
Presentation and poster abstracts, as well as workshop proposals, are being accepted until Friday 31 October.
Submit now 🔗 https://bit.ly/42dY5Of
Presentation and poster abstracts, as well as workshop proposals, are being accepted until Friday 31 October.
Submit now 🔗 https://bit.ly/42dY5Of
September 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Abstract submissions are open for Scotland's 2026 Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) event.
Presentation and poster abstracts, as well as workshop proposals, are being accepted until Friday 31 October.
Submit now 🔗 https://bit.ly/42dY5Of
Presentation and poster abstracts, as well as workshop proposals, are being accepted until Friday 31 October.
Submit now 🔗 https://bit.ly/42dY5Of
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📣REGISTRATION CLOSING: 25 September 2025
Join our “How to be a Great CI for Clinical Trials” workshop in Glasgow on 9 October 2025.
Learn from top CIs & trial staff from multiple disciplines.
🔗tinyurl.com/4a6a2jum
#UKCTUNetwork
Join our “How to be a Great CI for Clinical Trials” workshop in Glasgow on 9 October 2025.
Learn from top CIs & trial staff from multiple disciplines.
🔗tinyurl.com/4a6a2jum
#UKCTUNetwork
September 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
📣REGISTRATION CLOSING: 25 September 2025
Join our “How to be a Great CI for Clinical Trials” workshop in Glasgow on 9 October 2025.
Learn from top CIs & trial staff from multiple disciplines.
🔗tinyurl.com/4a6a2jum
#UKCTUNetwork
Join our “How to be a Great CI for Clinical Trials” workshop in Glasgow on 9 October 2025.
Learn from top CIs & trial staff from multiple disciplines.
🔗tinyurl.com/4a6a2jum
#UKCTUNetwork
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The NIHR Principal Investigator Pipeline Programme allows research delivery nurses, midwives and allied health professionals to develop as Principal Investigators on NIHR portfolio studies.
Scottish Cohort 2 opens for application 1 October. Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/3UY6vp4
Scottish Cohort 2 opens for application 1 October. Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/3UY6vp4
NIHR Principal Investigator Pipeline Programme (PIPP) in Scotland | Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility | Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility
The NIHR Principal Investigator Pipeline Programme (PIPP) in Scotland offers research delivery nurses, midwives and allied health professionals (NMAHPs) the opportunity to develop as Principal Investi...
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September 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The NIHR Principal Investigator Pipeline Programme allows research delivery nurses, midwives and allied health professionals to develop as Principal Investigators on NIHR portfolio studies.
Scottish Cohort 2 opens for application 1 October. Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/3UY6vp4
Scottish Cohort 2 opens for application 1 October. Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/3UY6vp4
There’s an Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve elections: shady billionaires can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap - effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to the petition for a cap on donations today: 38d.gs/hy28
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
38d.gs
September 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There’s an Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve elections: shady billionaires can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap - effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to the petition for a cap on donations today: 38d.gs/hy28
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Calling all cancer researchers!
Join us, @ohsuknight.bsky.social and @stanford.edu at this year's Early Detection of Cancer Conference for the cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary science that is shaping the future of cancer early detection.
Check out the agenda and register: cruk.ink/3UR67Zu
Join us, @ohsuknight.bsky.social and @stanford.edu at this year's Early Detection of Cancer Conference for the cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary science that is shaping the future of cancer early detection.
Check out the agenda and register: cruk.ink/3UR67Zu
September 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Calling all cancer researchers!
Join us, @ohsuknight.bsky.social and @stanford.edu at this year's Early Detection of Cancer Conference for the cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary science that is shaping the future of cancer early detection.
Check out the agenda and register: cruk.ink/3UR67Zu
Join us, @ohsuknight.bsky.social and @stanford.edu at this year's Early Detection of Cancer Conference for the cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary science that is shaping the future of cancer early detection.
Check out the agenda and register: cruk.ink/3UR67Zu
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Our next free webinar will inspire NHS forward-thinkers to realise the opportunities afforded by NHS Scotland procurement in taking their ideas to the next level.
Read more and register 🔗 https://innoscot.com/events/accelerating-healthcare-innovation-readiness-through-the-vital-procurement-process
Read more and register 🔗 https://innoscot.com/events/accelerating-healthcare-innovation-readiness-through-the-vital-procurement-process
September 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Our next free webinar will inspire NHS forward-thinkers to realise the opportunities afforded by NHS Scotland procurement in taking their ideas to the next level.
Read more and register 🔗 https://innoscot.com/events/accelerating-healthcare-innovation-readiness-through-the-vital-procurement-process
Read more and register 🔗 https://innoscot.com/events/accelerating-healthcare-innovation-readiness-through-the-vital-procurement-process
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The programme for this year’s Aye Write Glasgow's Book Festival is launched today. Delighted to announce that I’ll be appearing with the inimitable Ambrose Parry (Christopher Brookmyre & Marisa Haetzman) on Friday 7th Nov at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall chatting about our historic mysteries.
September 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The programme for this year’s Aye Write Glasgow's Book Festival is launched today. Delighted to announce that I’ll be appearing with the inimitable Ambrose Parry (Christopher Brookmyre & Marisa Haetzman) on Friday 7th Nov at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall chatting about our historic mysteries.
Donald Trump is the only person who can lean on Israel to stop starving people to death in Gaza. Keir Starmer could convince Trump to do that. They're meeting on Monday, so we don't have long to get the PM to act. Add your name to the open letter now: 38d.gs/07es
An open letter to Keir Starmer on Gaza
Donald Trump is the only person who can lean on Israel to stop starving people to death in Gaza. Keir Starmer could convince Trump to do that. Trump and Starmer are meeting on Monday, so we don't have...
38d.gs
July 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Donald Trump is the only person who can lean on Israel to stop starving people to death in Gaza. Keir Starmer could convince Trump to do that. They're meeting on Monday, so we don't have long to get the PM to act. Add your name to the open letter now: 38d.gs/07es
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Tax Evasion a problem 360x worse than Benefit Fraud.
June 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Tax Evasion a problem 360x worse than Benefit Fraud.
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Marise Bucukoglu, Head of Research Governance at ACCORD, is championing Red for #Red4Research – as a small gesture to honour the enormous impact that research has on people's lives.
June 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Marise Bucukoglu, Head of Research Governance at ACCORD, is championing Red for #Red4Research – as a small gesture to honour the enormous impact that research has on people's lives.
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Douglas Young, Principal R&D Manager at ACCORD, NHS Lothian, reflects on the role of the ACCORD team in facilitating healthcare research. #Red4Research
June 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Douglas Young, Principal R&D Manager at ACCORD, NHS Lothian, reflects on the role of the ACCORD team in facilitating healthcare research. #Red4Research
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We're looking forward to seeing photos from across the country as teams mark #Red4Research - we've turned our website banner and logo red! The top news story on our website is a message from our leadership team about the importance of recognising everyone involved in research: www.ukrdleaders.org
June 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We're looking forward to seeing photos from across the country as teams mark #Red4Research - we've turned our website banner and logo red! The top news story on our website is a message from our leadership team about the importance of recognising everyone involved in research: www.ukrdleaders.org
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It's Red for Research day, the international day for celebrating the people who make health research possible! Without them we wouldn't have all the care, & treatments we rely on today or the future ones that will be even better. Take a picture with some red, tag #Red4Research & spread the word!
June 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
It's Red for Research day, the international day for celebrating the people who make health research possible! Without them we wouldn't have all the care, & treatments we rely on today or the future ones that will be even better. Take a picture with some red, tag #Red4Research & spread the word!
Just bought my holiday reading for a week in Kenmore. Perfect!
June 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Just bought my holiday reading for a week in Kenmore. Perfect!