Sarah Stoner
@sjstoner.bsky.social
Retired NHS GP. Carving a path.
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mRNA vaccines are a game-changer. Faster to develop, generally safer, easy to modify, huge potential for wider applications (e.g. cancer). If the vaccine has been approved, it's already been thoroughly tested in randomised controlled trials. Nobody's trying to poison anyone with these vaccines.
August 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
mRNA vaccines are a game-changer. Faster to develop, generally safer, easy to modify, huge potential for wider applications (e.g. cancer). If the vaccine has been approved, it's already been thoroughly tested in randomised controlled trials. Nobody's trying to poison anyone with these vaccines.
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DECODE ME has published its results.
Massive congratulations to @cgatist.bsky.social and team in Edinburgh.
Let’s hope this is the start of a paradigm shift in how we view, research and treat this dreadful illness.
www.decodeme.org.uk/initial-dna-...
Massive congratulations to @cgatist.bsky.social and team in Edinburgh.
Let’s hope this is the start of a paradigm shift in how we view, research and treat this dreadful illness.
www.decodeme.org.uk/initial-dna-...
Initial DecodeME DNA Results - DecodeME
06 August 2025 The DecodeME team is delighted to announce that the initial analysis of 15,579 DNA samples is complete, and we have important news to share. Main findings from our analysis Your genes ...
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August 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
DECODE ME has published its results.
Massive congratulations to @cgatist.bsky.social and team in Edinburgh.
Let’s hope this is the start of a paradigm shift in how we view, research and treat this dreadful illness.
www.decodeme.org.uk/initial-dna-...
Massive congratulations to @cgatist.bsky.social and team in Edinburgh.
Let’s hope this is the start of a paradigm shift in how we view, research and treat this dreadful illness.
www.decodeme.org.uk/initial-dna-...
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Deeply shocked and saddened by the passing of our dear friend, colleague and @who.int Envoy David Nabarro.
David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals. His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world. (1/2)
David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals. His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world. (1/2)
July 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Deeply shocked and saddened by the passing of our dear friend, colleague and @who.int Envoy David Nabarro.
David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals. His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world. (1/2)
David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals. His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world. (1/2)
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Nature is telling us, but we aren’t listening.
July 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Nature is telling us, but we aren’t listening.
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I learned yesterday that my elderly parents weren't going to renew their house insurance "because it's all now online and too daunting."
Suffice it to say I said I'd help them sort it, but I wonder how many elderly are losing services because the Internet is scary/impersonal to them.
Suffice it to say I said I'd help them sort it, but I wonder how many elderly are losing services because the Internet is scary/impersonal to them.
July 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I learned yesterday that my elderly parents weren't going to renew their house insurance "because it's all now online and too daunting."
Suffice it to say I said I'd help them sort it, but I wonder how many elderly are losing services because the Internet is scary/impersonal to them.
Suffice it to say I said I'd help them sort it, but I wonder how many elderly are losing services because the Internet is scary/impersonal to them.
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WTAF was the World This Weekend doing giving credence to climate “scepticism” just now? I thought the BBC had finished with achieving “balance” by talking to both sides of the argument on global heating.
a red cartoon character with a mustache is sitting with his arms outstretched .
ALT: a red cartoon character with a mustache is sitting with his arms outstretched .
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July 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
WTAF was the World This Weekend doing giving credence to climate “scepticism” just now? I thought the BBC had finished with achieving “balance” by talking to both sides of the argument on global heating.
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Who’s on RFK’s new vaccine advisory group? What are their conflicts of interest? Read and weep. open.substack.com/pub/sheenacr...
Vaccine advisory committees and transparent practices
Why changes to ACIP are concerning.
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June 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Who’s on RFK’s new vaccine advisory group? What are their conflicts of interest? Read and weep. open.substack.com/pub/sheenacr...
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If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
June 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
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The scientists warning the world about ocean acidification – ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The scientists warning the world about ocean acidification – ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis
There’s frustration among researchers that falling pH levels in seas around the globe are not being taken seriously enough, and that until the buildup of CO2 is addressed, the consequences for marine ...
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The scientists warning the world about ocean acidification – ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses.
Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment.
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We were so goddamn close.
Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment.
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We were so goddamn close.
Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine
The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.
www.npr.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses.
Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment.
...
We were so goddamn close.
Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment.
...
We were so goddamn close.
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You couldn’t make it up - this is the same government that promised to deliver significant nature recovery - yet once again they’re slashing key nature funding & massively undermining farmers in the process. Madness
Fund for nature-friendly farming to be slashed in UK spending review
Exclusive: Defra sources say scheme, which pays farmers to protect nature, will be targeted at ‘small farms’
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
You couldn’t make it up - this is the same government that promised to deliver significant nature recovery - yet once again they’re slashing key nature funding & massively undermining farmers in the process. Madness
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I'm usually immune to being shocked...
Emissions from Land use and forestry (LULUCF) are set to nearly double, and match emissions from transport (!) in the 2030s, as forests are harvested and become a major carbon source.
Emissions from Land use and forestry (LULUCF) are set to nearly double, and match emissions from transport (!) in the 2030s, as forests are harvested and become a major carbon source.
May 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I'm usually immune to being shocked...
Emissions from Land use and forestry (LULUCF) are set to nearly double, and match emissions from transport (!) in the 2030s, as forests are harvested and become a major carbon source.
Emissions from Land use and forestry (LULUCF) are set to nearly double, and match emissions from transport (!) in the 2030s, as forests are harvested and become a major carbon source.
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
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@krishgm.bsky.social I would be delighted to debunk the outrageous vaccine misinformation and spin we heard from your guest here.
I'm astonished that @channel4news.bsky.social felt it was newsworthy.
www.channel4.com/news/rfks-ne...
I'm astonished that @channel4news.bsky.social felt it was newsworthy.
www.channel4.com/news/rfks-ne...
RFK’s new British medical advisor on vaccines and Big Pharma
The British cardiologist Aseem Malhotra was appointed Chief Medical Adviser to the Make America Healthy Again initiative - effectively making him Robert F Kennedy Jr's top medical adviser.
www.channel4.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@krishgm.bsky.social I would be delighted to debunk the outrageous vaccine misinformation and spin we heard from your guest here.
I'm astonished that @channel4news.bsky.social felt it was newsworthy.
www.channel4.com/news/rfks-ne...
I'm astonished that @channel4news.bsky.social felt it was newsworthy.
www.channel4.com/news/rfks-ne...
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Everyone should watch the last 12min of BBC Politics Live. That was awful, a toe curling experience. A Labour government minister, his Tory shadow counterpart, and the BBC chief political correspondent all trying to defend the new hostile environment in the presence of a foreigner impacted by it.
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May 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Everyone should watch the last 12min of BBC Politics Live. That was awful, a toe curling experience. A Labour government minister, his Tory shadow counterpart, and the BBC chief political correspondent all trying to defend the new hostile environment in the presence of a foreigner impacted by it.
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Michael Rosen is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist & academic, he’s a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Here narrating his own poem 👇
Here narrating his own poem 👇
April 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Michael Rosen is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist & academic, he’s a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Here narrating his own poem 👇
Here narrating his own poem 👇
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There is no other word for illegally deporting a toddler with cancer apart from evil. Not just Trump and Stephen Miller but every single person involved in doing it from start to finish.
April 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
There is no other word for illegally deporting a toddler with cancer apart from evil. Not just Trump and Stephen Miller but every single person involved in doing it from start to finish.
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The Great Gatsby turns 100 next week and in honor of its centenary I’ve written a piece that says something I’ve been wanting to say for a while now. www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’
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April 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The Great Gatsby turns 100 next week and in honor of its centenary I’ve written a piece that says something I’ve been wanting to say for a while now. www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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"People will die... but we will never know."
That's quite a chilling sentence when you think about it.
That's quite a chilling sentence when you think about it.
The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world.
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
"People will die... but we will never know."
That's quite a chilling sentence when you think about it.
That's quite a chilling sentence when you think about it.
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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
February 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
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So I return from Munich to Lithuania with dark thoughts on my mind. And while I accept that the statements made by the US Vice President were the necessary medicine for a lethargic Europe, I just pray the cure doesn’t kill the patient.🧵17/17
February 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
So I return from Munich to Lithuania with dark thoughts on my mind. And while I accept that the statements made by the US Vice President were the necessary medicine for a lethargic Europe, I just pray the cure doesn’t kill the patient.🧵17/17