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Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking about the history of the BMI and fat phobia with the awesomely awesome Professor Amy Farrell. shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...

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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

submitted 25 days ago • 353 comments

Absolutely. Sick of explaining this to people

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As the saying goes, "Fascism doesn't start with concentration camps, that's where it ends"

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Literally, WTF!

submitted 46 days ago • 366 comments

Important article by Josh Milton about how Wes Streeting was told how harmful the puberty blocker ban was by the victims of it themselves but went ahead and made it permanent anyway. metro.co.uk/2025/01/01/t...

submitted 57 days ago • 9 comments

One of our top stories of 2024...

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Because who doesn't love a good simulation of measles vaccination and herd immunity? www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

submitted 63 days ago • 61 comments

Reckon this is about the most redundant use of an 'Explicit' warning

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submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

In a world full of Elon Musk wannabes, be a Matt Damon.

submitted 68 days ago • 76 comments

It's pretty clear the far right radfems and their fellow travelers worked hard to try and disprove alleged ties between the shooter and "femcel" terf users like radfem Hitler. shatterzone.substack.com/p/the-madiso...

submitted 72 days ago • 17 comments

“54% of Britons who voted leave, including 59% of voters in “red wall seats”, said in exchange for single market access they would now accept full free movement for EU and UK citizens to travel, live and work across borders.”

submitted 78 days ago • 73 comments

Trans people leaving Twitter and coming to bluesky and the transphobes following us.

submitted 81 days ago • 27 comments

SMITE!!!

submitted 82 days ago • 257 comments

1-1 away to Wycombe That'll do pig, that'll do

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Does HS2 have a future? And why does that question hinge on an unseen government document and a sugar mill in Nottinghamshire?

submitted 83 days ago • 27 comments

Has any government managed to move an organisation and not had a paralysing brain drain? Met Office & HSE in the UK certainly did

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How many children’s lives has the measles vaccine saved in 50 years? Around 90 million. Important to remind ourselves that vaccines save lives ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

Friends, it's fun to see the #immunology community continue to grow! I created a 4th Starter Pack to help folks find each other. If you're an immunologist and you don't see yourself on the lists, let me know 🧪 go.bsky.app/PY5tCas go.bsky.app/FmERUoD go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS go.bsky.app/QSEPDoj

submitted 91 days ago • 41 comments

That mean i'm more chilled since I made the leap? Sweet

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system: The Measles vaccine The Mumps vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Tetanus vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Polio vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine

submitted 88 days ago • 58 comments

Pretty much every other email I get from the Telegraph is about how to avoid tax more effectively.

submitted 89 days ago • 21 comments

Glad to now be on here so I can read these great history threads again

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Please #repost/#share for the #bees.🙏🏼🐝 This matters. So let’s talk about #honeybees in the context of ‘Saving the Bees’. Let’s cut the bull and cut to the chase as there’s way too much confusion/misinformation out there which is a hinderance to, and detrimental to, genuine bee saving. 1/18

submitted 103 days ago • 18 comments

I hadn't realised the LGBA had done this. Absolute snakes. Quite right, Jimmy.

submitted 96 days ago • 91 comments

When people tell me 'you have to listen to the voters! the voters are never wrong!' these are the kind of stats I think of.

submitted 95 days ago • 123 comments

Good example of what Musk's government efficiency commission will actually be: Elon saw the word "diversity" and his eyes turned red, thus he picks on a highly-trained worker who has nothing to do with DEI, could earn a ton more in the private sector, but has dedicated themselves to public service

submitted 96 days ago • 39 comments

#ReadingFC are the sixth oldest professional football club. Oldest in the South of England.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

"Purple spots on my skin. Feet turning blue. Twenty percent chance to live - and that's high." A (then) 22-year-old shares her battle with meningitis in verse. www.voicesforvaccines.org/meningitis-a...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.

submitted 99 days ago • 1110 comments

Because some damn fool asked, here's a thread about Baxter. This was taken on the day I brought home Baxter and threw away all hope of an easy life. Look at him. Absolutely irresistible. And that's how they get you, the utter bastards

submitted 100 days ago • 145 comments

I rarely challenge the decisions of JCVI but I really struggle to see the logic of stopping the antenatal vaccine offer with Autumn COVID 💉 campaign. There is good evidence of protection against infection from maternally derived vaccine-induced antibodies in the first 6 months of an infant’s life.

submitted 102 days ago • 9 comments