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The medical students I teach hate the way they’re allocated to their 1st job after graduation: it’s a kind of lottery system. This study shows just how much they dislike it & how much damage it does to the way they view their future career. Hope someone’s listening. academic.oup.com/pmj/advance-...

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How cool is this. Voyager 1 is coasting in interstellar space, more than 48 years & 25 billion miles from Earth. Its back-up manoeuvring thrusters failed more than 2 decades ago. But @NASAJPL have GOT THEM WORKING AGAIN!!!! www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...

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My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight

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In operating theatres at UCLH this morning, with our wonderful theatre teams. Many people from many places, all of them helping us deliver the care. Couldn’t do it without them.

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One of the universe’s great unanswered questions: How come there’s gonna be no #Andor Season 3?

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On the prevention of measles and its frequent complications gift link www.wsj.com/health/healt...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

My thanks!

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Honoured to have been part of #ASM25CNS Fantastic meeting. Caught up with friends old & new. Learned many things. Inexplicably went for an early morning run. Congrats to the new #ANZCA fellows. Thanks for the hospitality!

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It’s important to push back boundaries & in many ways this week’s #BlueOrigin flight did that. But if you want to know about the first American women in space & the story of NASA’s remarkable 1978 astronaut class, have a listen to this episode of #16Sunsets podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

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Kangeroos in space 🦘🚀 One of the stories in the latest bonus episode of the #16Sunsets space shuttle podcast. @drkevinfong.bsky.social in conversation with shuttle flight director and raconteur Rob Kelso. Mission control high jinks and serious spaceflight insights too #nasa apple.co/4i8Xi6s

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Update on measles in the US, cases and deaths, in context of vaccine introduction

submitted 43 days ago • 9 comments

First sighting in the wild! So Very Small at the Oxford Literary Festival: If you’re not in Oxford today and would like a copy, you’ll have to pre-order, as the official UK pub date is May 1. Gotta say—it’s great to see it in the flesh.

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Doesn’t feel like 5 years already since we had to learn to don PPE, to work in it all day & make it last because there wasn’t enough of it. People have different opinions about what did & didn’t happen. I can only say that in 27 years of practice it was the worst thing I’ve ever seen, every day.

submitted 57 days ago • 16 comments

Yep. Every word of all of this.

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This’ll be worth a read!

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Jan 1981. Ronald Reagan is President elect, Blondie’s ‘The Tide is High’ is in the top ten, Dynasty is on TV and at Kennedy Space Center space shuttle Columbia is finally on the launch pad. #16Sunsets podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

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Module 5 of the Coivd Inquiry kicks off today. Looking at procurement & VIP lanes. Should be interesting … www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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As doctors, researchers, and other academics flee X (formerly Twitter), @munkeatlooi.bsky.social looks at what the social network Bluesky is and why #MedSky might be worth trying www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Met Terry White in 2011, at the OPF on the last day of the last space shuttle mission. A joy to catch up with him again for this episode of #16Sunsets, to ask him about the difficult road to the launch of the first mission, Columbia, on STS-1. Have a listen podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

Also, for my UK friends:

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Until end of tomorrow! 👇

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Behold. The era of the mouse anaesthetist.

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Let’s get BlueSky newbie @drasifqasim.bsky.social over 1000 followers. And if you’re eligible to vote in the Royal College of Physicians of London Presidential election, take a look at his website here asifqasim.co.uk/prcp. He will have my vote.

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Measles cases continue to surge globally, putting millions of children at risk. More than 10 million people globally were infected with measles in 2023, a 20% increase from the previous year. bit.ly/48SAtkf

submitted 92 days ago • 23 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 93 days ago • 415 comments

In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris

submitted 93 days ago • 19 comments

What do you do if something goes wrong on your way to outer space? #16Sunsets Ep 6: Abort Abort Abort. Masterful work from @andrewl-b.bsky.social, @Richardcourtice.bsky.social and the rest of the Sunsets team. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

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In 1978 NASA selected a new class of astronauts, the most diverse in the agency’s history. This is their story. #16Sunsets podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

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Wondering what’s up with Trump and Big Tech? Check out what the ADA Lovelace Institute’s Andrew Strait & Nobel Prize Winner @dacemoglumit.bsky.social have to say about it on #TheArtificialHuman www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Another great episode is out on 16 Sunsets @drkevinfong.bsky.social amazing history of the space shuttle. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

An astonishing exploration of the reality of ‘DEI’ in this excellent @drkevinfong.bsky.social podcast about 1970s NASA. The testimony from older male astronauts on how female excellence changed their minds is memorable. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

submitted 108 days ago • 3 comments