Laura RNC
@laurarnc1.bsky.social
📝 CYP nurse lecturer @ Brunel University London.
📕 Co-author: Clinical Pocket Ref for #NAs. Evidence Based Practice #EBP #PublicHealth.
🩸Living w/CML (chronic blood cancer).
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📕 Co-author: Clinical Pocket Ref for #NAs. Evidence Based Practice #EBP #PublicHealth.
🩸Living w/CML (chronic blood cancer).
⛔️All own views. Professional. Unsolicited DM, bitcoin, crypto = BLOCK 🚫
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Researchers are recruiting the help of dogs from Medical Detection Dogs and their powerful noses to sniff out lung infections caused by cystic fibrosis in patients. www.optimistdaily.com/2025/03/supe...
Super sniffers: how dogs could help detect dangerous bacteria in cystic fibrosis patients | The Optimist Daily
Imperial College scientists are training dogs to sniff out bacteria in cystic fibrosis patients, offering a non-invasive tool to fight deadly infections.
www.optimistdaily.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Researchers are recruiting the help of dogs from Medical Detection Dogs and their powerful noses to sniff out lung infections caused by cystic fibrosis in patients. www.optimistdaily.com/2025/03/supe...
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This is awesome work by Christina
Amazing to hear my work tracking Trump's authoritarian actions opening the @npr.org On The Media podcast this week - the TrumpActionTracker is now at over 1100 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
my recent substack:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi...
pca.st/episode/a2b1...
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
my recent substack:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi...
pca.st/episode/a2b1...
Is America Becoming an Autocracy?
pca.st
August 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is awesome work by Christina
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This is terrifying
🚨Challenge Trump and you’ll be punished.
My new substack looks at how Trump’s weaponisation of government has rapidly escalated.
Judges, journalists, officials, politicians, business leaders, celebrities - even whole cities - are all in his sights.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-war...
My new substack looks at how Trump’s weaponisation of government has rapidly escalated.
Judges, journalists, officials, politicians, business leaders, celebrities - even whole cities - are all in his sights.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-war...
September 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is terrifying
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All of our webinar recordings are out now on our YouTube channel! Go to - youtube.com/@abpn_childn... to see our full back dated catalogue now! And sign up for our upcoming webinars at www.abpn-uk.com/webinars
July 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
All of our webinar recordings are out now on our YouTube channel! Go to - youtube.com/@abpn_childn... to see our full back dated catalogue now! And sign up for our upcoming webinars at www.abpn-uk.com/webinars
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We have published a Blueprint for Community Children’s Nursing and the Report from our World Café event in March: Developing a Rights Based Approach to the Provision of Comprehensive Integrated Community Childrens’ Nursing Services
Find them both on our website: www.abpn-uk.com
Find them both on our website: www.abpn-uk.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We have published a Blueprint for Community Children’s Nursing and the Report from our World Café event in March: Developing a Rights Based Approach to the Provision of Comprehensive Integrated Community Childrens’ Nursing Services
Find them both on our website: www.abpn-uk.com
Find them both on our website: www.abpn-uk.com
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This should be a warning to anyone who thinks the gross abuses by ICE in the US couldn’t happen here. Former Reform MP reports charity rowing team (including ex Royal Marine) as possible “illegal” migrants. In US it’s enough to look Hispanic. Here all that may be needed is to be in a boat.
Rupert Lowe reports charity rowers to coastguard as possible ‘illegal migrants’
Rupert Lowe reports charity rowers to coastguard as possible ‘illegal migrants’
MP agrees to donate £1,000 to crew’s fundraising effort after alerting authorities to rowing boat off Great Yarmouth
The independent MP Rupert Lowe has agreed to donate £1,000 to a charity after mistaking its rowing crew, including a former Royal Marine, for “illegal migrants”.
Lowe, who was elected as a Reform MP but now sits as an independent for Great Yarmouth, said he had shopped the crew to the authorities and vowed to do everything he could to have them deported if they turned out to be what he suspected. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This should be a warning to anyone who thinks the gross abuses by ICE in the US couldn’t happen here. Former Reform MP reports charity rowing team (including ex Royal Marine) as possible “illegal” migrants. In US it’s enough to look Hispanic. Here all that may be needed is to be in a boat.
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Interested to learn about how to run your own Loculus (the database code behind @pathoplexus.org)? 🤔🖥️
Sign up for the Loculus Tutorial on Mon 8 Sept at BC2 Conference (@sib.swiss) in Basel, run by @chaoranchen.de & Anya Parker! 🧬
Register: www.bc2.ch/registration...
#bioinformatics #openScience
Sign up for the Loculus Tutorial on Mon 8 Sept at BC2 Conference (@sib.swiss) in Basel, run by @chaoranchen.de & Anya Parker! 🧬
Register: www.bc2.ch/registration...
#bioinformatics #openScience
August 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Interested to learn about how to run your own Loculus (the database code behind @pathoplexus.org)? 🤔🖥️
Sign up for the Loculus Tutorial on Mon 8 Sept at BC2 Conference (@sib.swiss) in Basel, run by @chaoranchen.de & Anya Parker! 🧬
Register: www.bc2.ch/registration...
#bioinformatics #openScience
Sign up for the Loculus Tutorial on Mon 8 Sept at BC2 Conference (@sib.swiss) in Basel, run by @chaoranchen.de & Anya Parker! 🧬
Register: www.bc2.ch/registration...
#bioinformatics #openScience
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i was precocious, know this
July 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
i was precocious, know this
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greetings i have made another zine, this is about how i got my hands on a knife at age ~9 (individual pages in the replies) #internationalzinemonth #minizinejuly2025
July 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
greetings i have made another zine, this is about how i got my hands on a knife at age ~9 (individual pages in the replies) #internationalzinemonth #minizinejuly2025
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New paper: What increases people’s support for policy responses to #climate #change? ✊
We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎
We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change
Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...
www.nature.com
July 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
New paper: What increases people’s support for policy responses to #climate #change? ✊
We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎
We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎
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Hey, these guys need money to continue their fight for patient safety. Link below.
Oh. So Anaesthetists United and the parents of Emily Chesterton wanted to present our peer-reviewed systematic review of PAs in court as evidence. The General Medical Council tried to stop them - AND FAILED.
anaesthetistsunited.com/legal-update...
anaesthetistsunited.com/legal-update...
LEGAL UPDATE - PA safety data is admissible in court - Anaesthetists United
LEGAL UPDATE - PA safety data is admissible in court
anaesthetistsunited.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hey, these guys need money to continue their fight for patient safety. Link below.
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Scientists have created the first map of mitochondria throughout the entire brain
https://go.nature.com/4c8CLNM
https://go.nature.com/4c8CLNM
First map of human brain mitochondria is ‘groundbreaking’ achievement
Nature - Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.
go.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Scientists have created the first map of mitochondria throughout the entire brain
https://go.nature.com/4c8CLNM
https://go.nature.com/4c8CLNM
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The functional role of interpersonal dehumanization and associated brain networks
Review by Lasana T. Harris & Naira Delgado
Web: go.nature.com/42lh9up
PDF: rdcu.be/efO4D
Review by Lasana T. Harris & Naira Delgado
Web: go.nature.com/42lh9up
PDF: rdcu.be/efO4D
March 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The functional role of interpersonal dehumanization and associated brain networks
Review by Lasana T. Harris & Naira Delgado
Web: go.nature.com/42lh9up
PDF: rdcu.be/efO4D
Review by Lasana T. Harris & Naira Delgado
Web: go.nature.com/42lh9up
PDF: rdcu.be/efO4D
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Listen to @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social discuss the latest evidence on the use of Physician Associates in the NHS on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme - she's very clear!
youtu.be/IWNw6nfnN3o
youtu.be/IWNw6nfnN3o
March 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Listen to @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social discuss the latest evidence on the use of Physician Associates in the NHS on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme - she's very clear!
youtu.be/IWNw6nfnN3o
youtu.be/IWNw6nfnN3o
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NEW: Study finds little evidence supporting the safety & efficacy of Physician & Anaesthetic Associates in the NHS.
From @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @martinmckee.bsky.social, the largest ever UK review raises critical questions about the rapid expansion of these roles.
#NHS #WorkForce @bmj.com
From @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @martinmckee.bsky.social, the largest ever UK review raises critical questions about the rapid expansion of these roles.
#NHS #WorkForce @bmj.com
Role of Physician and Anaesthetic Associates in UK healthcare challenged in largest ever review
A new study has found little evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthetists associates (AAs) in the UK, raising critical questions about the rapid expansio...
www.phc.ox.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
NEW: Study finds little evidence supporting the safety & efficacy of Physician & Anaesthetic Associates in the NHS.
From @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @martinmckee.bsky.social, the largest ever UK review raises critical questions about the rapid expansion of these roles.
#NHS #WorkForce @bmj.com
From @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @martinmckee.bsky.social, the largest ever UK review raises critical questions about the rapid expansion of these roles.
#NHS #WorkForce @bmj.com
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In the excitement over our new review of PAs, I forgot to tell you about the OTHER paper published in BMJ today, my commentary on the challenges of doing systematic reviews of evidence when there's no RCTs and most of the primary studies were unique and non-standardised.🧪
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Systematic reviews of non-RCT evidence: building dry stone walls
To bake good cookies, start with good cookie dough. To use a different metaphor, to build a brick wall, take a large collection of bricks—all the same size and in perfect shape—and line them up neatly...
www.bmj.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In the excitement over our new review of PAs, I forgot to tell you about the OTHER paper published in BMJ today, my commentary on the challenges of doing systematic reviews of evidence when there's no RCTs and most of the primary studies were unique and non-standardised.🧪
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Unfucking believable as CDC is suddenly launching a study into exploring possible links with MMR and autism. I wonder who might have initiated this? 🤔 to be clear There is NO link and this has already been debunked in massive studies 🧪🧵
Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
www.reuters.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Unfucking believable as CDC is suddenly launching a study into exploring possible links with MMR and autism. I wonder who might have initiated this? 🤔 to be clear There is NO link and this has already been debunked in massive studies 🧪🧵
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thrust psychiatric medications and their use among children into the national spotlight.
What do we actually know about SSRIs?
Here’s a primer and what they are, how they work, if they’re addictive and more, from @politifact.bsky.social:
www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...
What do we actually know about SSRIs?
Here’s a primer and what they are, how they work, if they’re addictive and more, from @politifact.bsky.social:
www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...
RFK Jr. questions antidepressants for kids. What do we actually know about SSRIs? - Poynter
A new federal review puts kids’ psychiatric meds under scrutiny, but experts say RFK Jr.’s claims about SSRIs are misleading and unsupported.
www.poynter.org
March 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thrust psychiatric medications and their use among children into the national spotlight.
What do we actually know about SSRIs?
Here’s a primer and what they are, how they work, if they’re addictive and more, from @politifact.bsky.social:
www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...
What do we actually know about SSRIs?
Here’s a primer and what they are, how they work, if they’re addictive and more, from @politifact.bsky.social:
www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...
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The UK's record on child poverty is pretty terrible.
Based on before-housing-cost thresholds, only Greece had worse rates among European countries in 2018.
Based on before-housing-cost thresholds, only Greece had worse rates among European countries in 2018.
March 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The UK's record on child poverty is pretty terrible.
Based on before-housing-cost thresholds, only Greece had worse rates among European countries in 2018.
Based on before-housing-cost thresholds, only Greece had worse rates among European countries in 2018.
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Wanna cut Medicaid? It covers 39% of kids, 80% of kids in poverty, 16% of adults, half of adults in poverty, 25% of adults w/disabilities, 41% of births, 50% of kids w/special health care needs, 5 of 8 in nursing homes, 29% of non-elderly adults w/ mental illness, & 40% of non-elderly adults w/HIV.
10 Things to Know About Medicaid | KFF
At the start of 2025, many issues are at play that will affect Medicaid coverage, financing, and access to care. While Medicaid was not discussed much on the campaign trail, Congress may consider big ...
www.kff.org
March 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Wanna cut Medicaid? It covers 39% of kids, 80% of kids in poverty, 16% of adults, half of adults in poverty, 25% of adults w/disabilities, 41% of births, 50% of kids w/special health care needs, 5 of 8 in nursing homes, 29% of non-elderly adults w/ mental illness, & 40% of non-elderly adults w/HIV.
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Don't let anyone tell you that there is no protest happening. Our latest Crowd Counting Consortium data update is now available. February saw thousands of events. 50501 days of action, immigration-related protests & Tesla takeovers were key spikes in activity. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm....
March 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Don't let anyone tell you that there is no protest happening. Our latest Crowd Counting Consortium data update is now available. February saw thousands of events. 50501 days of action, immigration-related protests & Tesla takeovers were key spikes in activity. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm....
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"20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years"
March 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years"
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🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org:
We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*.
Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past.
[New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]
We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*.
Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past.
[New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]
March 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org:
We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*.
Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past.
[New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]
We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*.
Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past.
[New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]