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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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Why is it more expensive to be poor in Britain? Low-to-middle income households in Britain fare worse than their German. French and Dutch counterparts.

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Brilliant cautionary tale around misleading graphs

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The UK Health Security Agency has landed on BlueSky: @ukhsa.bsky.social

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🆕 LSE Health Annual Lecture: #SocialJustice & #HealthEquity 🗣️ Prof. Sir Michael Marmot @michaelmarmot.bsky.social argues that the need to reduce #inequalities in health is a matter of social justice 🗓️ Monday 17 March 18.30 - 20.00 @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

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A thread🧵 on application systems for postdoc jobs in the UK (applies to my university, but I've seen others and they're similar). I have seen (too many times) good applicants who don't seem to understand how recruitment is done on our side - not their fault! it's a privilege! - so here's how

submitted 79 days ago • 7 comments

Wild

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Anyway, concerning the claim that COVID-19 vaccines don’t affect transmission: science says that’s incorrect

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🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide. Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz 1/5

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There is currently significant respiratory virus activity in the EU/EEA, with both #influenza & #RSV epidemics ongoing. #Vaccination campaigns against respiratory pathogens continue in many EU/EEA countries & people who are eligible for vaccination are encouraged to do so.

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Need a laugh? Here are this week's best science memes. #AcademicSky 🧪

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The sequence of SARSCoV2 was made available on Jan 10 2020. Exactly 11 months later on Dec 11th 2020 the first EUA was issued for an mRNA COVID vaccine. These vaccines saved over 20 million lives. None of this would have been possible without NIH funding & dedicated scientists. #ScienceMatters

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The type of talks that infectious disease epidemiologists are invited to attend:

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Interesting BMJ editorial commenting on ONS mortality stats in England stratified by ethnic group. Minority ethnicities have lower mortality rates than the White ethnic group, even after adjusting for their lower median age. Attributed to healthy migrant effect 👇 www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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When I become King all boundaries will be fixed & the NHS will be forced to follow administrative structures. Any organisation trying to create a new set of geographies for its own ends will be abolished. Milton Keynes will be placed in the South East and Glossop in Derbyshire and that will be that.

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No that’s a grinder. Gender is the highest ranking military officer in the Army.

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Pretty sure that’s ginger. Gender is a device used to crush something, like coffee beans, into smaller pieces.

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No, that's an agenda. Gender is the pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical herb, used as a spice in Southeast Asian cuisine.

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📣New Paper:19 months after the UK soft drinks industry levy (SDIL; sugar tax) was enforced we find a 7.5g weekly household sugar reduction from soft drinks. Weekly sugar reductions were highest in houses with lowest incomes(70g/week) / with children(56g/week). 📄: nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...

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Latest publication from our SIREN group, highlighting differential risk to HCWs over the pandemic waves - occupational risk factors key in the second wave, during national social restrictions; after their lifting, household/community factors more significant: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

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📊 What do we know about bloodstream infections in #CriticalCare units in England between 2017 and 2023? Our new study used national #surveillance to find out. www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/13... The incidence of CCU-associated BSI surged by 75% during the first year of the COVID pandemic. Why? [🧵 1/9]

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Nature is keen to find out how scientists are using Bluesky and whether it has become their go-to soc media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced X for you? Tell us about it: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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We've frustratingly allowed "real world" to become a deceptive synonym for "observations we happened haphazardly to make". I'd say half the studies that come to me now, the majority of which are useful but modest clinical audits, will have "real world" in the proposal title. It's magic!

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As we start a new year, we look back at some of the key moments from health and care in 2024. From changes to life expectancy to staffing vacancies, to strike action and the Autumn Budget, explore them all in Siva Anandaciva and Danielle Jefferies's blog: www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

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Couldn't agree more with this

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Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

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Job Vacancy: Senior Antimicrobial Stewardship/Clinical Pharmacist at @UKHSA (0.6WTE) Excited to share the job advert for a new post in my team at UKHSA. Accepting applications until 12.01.2025 www.healthjobsuk.com/job/v6864032 #PharmaceuticalPublicHealth

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This is shocking and funny at the same time

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1/ Imagine being a kid, just vibing at school, when boom—a tapeworm decides to set up camp in your brain. 🧠🏕️ Welcome to the wildest, most unexpected outbreak Belgium has seen. And no, this isn’t an episode of House MD but it reads like it. I love ID #IDSky #MedSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 67 days ago • 16 comments

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

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