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Mum of 3 football mad offspring. Saintsfc. Cat lady not childless. Work is paediatric liaison psychiatry with a side line in Med Ed. Outside I like getting outside, bit of running (slowly) Trying to make things better one starfish at a time. Ally 🏳️‍🌈she
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BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄

NEW: Letters between author @katemossewriter.bsky.social and Afghan writer Parand provide insight into women's lives under gender apartheid ✍️ Brought to life with illustrations by Nina Krause and @christinalamb.bsky.social Cecilia Tombesi and myself @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

Learn how to save a life👇 We’ll be at Brixton Fire Station today from 11am-3pm sharing life-saving CPR and defib skills Come and join us if you’re in the area! Thanks for having us @londonfire.bsky.social 💚 📍 84 Gresham Road Brixton, SW9 7NP

The Dow is now headed for its worst April since 1932 -- the very worst year of the Great Depression.

The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Big Larry is the street dog I rescued in Thailand 6 months ago. Thin, scared and not quite all there in the head. But his life has transformed. Today he arrived in his new home in England… (1/8) 🧵

The Chancellor did not need to concentrate so much of her fiscal consolidation on welfare. Extending the freeze in personal tax thresholds by just a single year would have saved almost as much (£3.9 billion in 2029-30) and would have been shared much more widely across 24 million households.

it is BUCK WILD that they are just texting this shit to each other

Today we repaired 14 hernias. Started on time, finished on time. Even stopped briefly for lunch. One operating theatre, no expensive technology. Last list for a while as all extra sessions to reduce waiting lists have been stopped for now due to lack of money. #nhs #waitinglists

Gabe and Mjolnir need a new home, can you help? Rowan, their human who has sadly passed, wished for them to remain together. Will help get them relocated to anywhere within the United States; please read on for more details! 🧵 Signal boosts & sharing are appreciated 💙

💔 NEW: A hospital at the centre of the largest NHS maternity scandal let a baby's body decompose so badly it had to be 'triple bagged' for the funeral - midwives then "mocked" the dad, replaying a phone call he'd made months b4 at a "leadership away day" www.thetimes.com/article/82a2... 1/2

Mabel remains unimpressed by the noise from America and will not be submitting 5 bullet points summarising this weeks work to anyone.

It would appear that our son is entertaining fellow travellers on the London Underground…. (I don’t think these are even his pipes!) #Scotland #ScotlandRugby #MusicSky

Mabel taking a dim view of this week’s noise and declarations from the White House #Caturday

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Part 1 of our podcast on Bipolar disorder in young people

‪ Although Sussex Bylines doesn't "officially" cover Hampshire as yet - we hope to do so in the future - we already have a number of people based in the county writing for us. We'd love to recruit more editors and writers from Hampshire. Interested? Do get in touch - [email protected]

Professionals, please read this super important piece on #Oxevision, watch the short but important video and, ideally, consider retweeting and follow @StopOxevision ’s tweet. It’s a scandal that is incredibly important to us as patients and we need the professional community to get it🙏.

2012-2022 saw a 65% increase in children admitted with mental health concerns. There has been over 500% increase in admissions for CYP with eating disorders in the same time period. This is THE health crisis of our time, and it is barely making the news. #KidsMH www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/...

Nothing says 'the continued relevance of monarchy' quite like a billionaire, English, unelected king, dressed up as a Scottish laird, turning up at a food bank in a helicopter

You CAN help people with severe mental illness to stop smoking • Mental health generally improves when we stop smoking • Support for people with severe mental illness must be person-centred & individualised • Above all, we need to believe in the people we are supporting youtu.be/YxDIDeJzYAM?...

“There must be a point where we go beyond analysis and accept that this is a serious problem that needs urgent political action.” RCEM's President responds to ONS research concluding patients who wait in A&E for more than two hours are exposed to an increasing risk of death - tinyurl.com/5fkpp4b6

Excellent stuff, really well presented and rings true from the day job 👇

We’ve been mental elfed!

We’re putting on a conference for those interested in community emergency medicine on 8th May 2025 in London - keen people please sign up to register interest for when tickets are available! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

100% this 👇 and the lack of research into women’s health is an ongoing disaster

Corridor care should not be normalised & without reform & investment outside hospitals the choice to not normalise it will mean closing EDs when capacity is reached &/ or discharging those waiting for (non existent) beds elsewhere into the care of other authorities who have nowhere for them to go?

This 👇 and 12 hour nursing shifts ….

Nat Silvey is here! ⬇️ 100% must-follow for #MedSky - she is awesome.

Everyone with even a smidgeon of clinical training can see that this scenario is completely barking mad (expensive, wasteful, unnecessary, inappropriate) Are there no doctors at all left at NHSE? Is no-one talking to them now? Deeply embarrassing.

Essential to invest in nurturing specialty doctors including the working conditions, access to training & opportunities . For many services, they are a backbone of provision & commitment.

Particularly important @thementalelf.bsky.social blog & worth reading the review also

This video shows what behaviour contagion looks like in a team. Want to take the lead and change how you and your team work together in 2025? Join our community, rolling programme: restorativethinking.co.uk/self-guided/ #Medsky #PublicHealth #Nursing #GeneralPractice #Socialcare #Socialwork

Parish notice: am looking for a couple of people (ideally grad students with pol science or history background) to help me out with some research for a project I’m working on. Will pay for the time. DM if interested or send on to someone if you think would fit the bill.

Any unwanted Christmas gifts (toys, clothes etc) in the Yorkshire region - please DM. Our Adult Social Workers in Bradford are continuing to support people, inc children, in local hotels who are seeking asylum/refuge here. Happy to collect. Thank you #RefugeesWelcomeHere ❤️💚💜💛💙🧡🩵

Report in NEJM describing the first critically ill adolescent with #H5N1 D1.1 (aka #BirdFlu) in North America. A 13 yo rapidly progressed from mild symptoms to respiratory & renal failure. She survived thanks to IMV + ECMO + CRRT. Scary stuff. 📄 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

HNY from St Andrews Bay, South Georgia. Home of the largest king penguin colony.

My marine biologist son Rob has lived on the same island for 7 years, doing painstaking work to improve biodiversity and train local people in conservation. Here’s a new video. Nothing dramatic (he’s not Attenborough and doesn’t have a film crew). Just a healthy coral reef: youtu.be/2wlk-yfYi9Q?...