Nick Owen
@nick-owen.bsky.social
Head of Digital at Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) UK. Ebola vaccine guinea pig. Liberal applier of hot sauce. Views mine, not MSF's.
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Christmas column in praise of the eternal Bossman and how corner shops became the high street of last resort www.economist.com/britain/2024...
December 19, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Christmas column in praise of the eternal Bossman and how corner shops became the high street of last resort www.economist.com/britain/2024...
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This story is so appalling - the dark underside of social media moderation: www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD
Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:09 PM
This story is so appalling - the dark underside of social media moderation: www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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There's public support for assisted dying so it may have happened sooner or later. But if it happens now I think Kim Leadbeater will be able to claim much personal credit. A less able, sympathetic and effective champion could easily have put off 30 or so wavering MPs. She'll have a place in history.
November 29, 2024 at 4:57 PM
There's public support for assisted dying so it may have happened sooner or later. But if it happens now I think Kim Leadbeater will be able to claim much personal credit. A less able, sympathetic and effective champion could easily have put off 30 or so wavering MPs. She'll have a place in history.
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This was the tipping point that led to us deciding that MSF had to intervene in the UK.
I hope the investigation not only prevents a repeat of Manston, but leads to an overhaul of an irrational asylum management system which seems designed to cause harm.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
I hope the investigation not only prevents a repeat of Manston, but leads to an overhaul of an irrational asylum management system which seems designed to cause harm.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Revealed: Home Office ‘completely lost grip’ at notorious Manston asylum centre
Court documents contain admissions by officials that they were unable to control the situation at the Kent facility where 18,000 asylum seekers were illegally detained
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:20 AM
This was the tipping point that led to us deciding that MSF had to intervene in the UK.
I hope the investigation not only prevents a repeat of Manston, but leads to an overhaul of an irrational asylum management system which seems designed to cause harm.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
I hope the investigation not only prevents a repeat of Manston, but leads to an overhaul of an irrational asylum management system which seems designed to cause harm.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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I never tire of reading about Russell Crowe commissioning Nick Cave to write Gladiator 2, what he ended up getting & his considered response.
faroutmagazine.co.uk/nick-cave-glad…
faroutmagazine.co.uk/nick-cave-glad…
November 21, 2024 at 12:59 AM
I never tire of reading about Russell Crowe commissioning Nick Cave to write Gladiator 2, what he ended up getting & his considered response.
faroutmagazine.co.uk/nick-cave-glad…
faroutmagazine.co.uk/nick-cave-glad…
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Bluesky has overtaken Threads in the US!
Twitter you're next 👉
Twitter you're next 👉
November 22, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Bluesky has overtaken Threads in the US!
Twitter you're next 👉
Twitter you're next 👉
Exciting prospect for NTD treatment: “We hope that one day... we will reduce the time from years, maybe even decades to design a drug, down to months, or perhaps even weeks”
‘An AI Fukushima is inevitable’: scientists discuss technology’s immense potential and dangers
‘An AI Fukushima is inevitable’: scientists discuss technology’s immense potential and dangers
Experts are optimistic about energy and drug production breakthroughs but also fear its potential misuse
When better to hold a conference on artificial intelligence and the countless ways it is advancing science than in those brief days between the first…
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Exciting prospect for NTD treatment: “We hope that one day... we will reduce the time from years, maybe even decades to design a drug, down to months, or perhaps even weeks”
Who knew a picture of a billboard could be so exciting? Very pleased to see these digital out of home ads in the wild for MSF UK's end-of-year Emergency Trauma Care campaign.
November 22, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Who knew a picture of a billboard could be so exciting? Very pleased to see these digital out of home ads in the wild for MSF UK's end-of-year Emergency Trauma Care campaign.