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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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This is a REALLY important thread about the threat to vaccine, vaccine access and vaccine design the new administration is. Do read

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A masterly take on the Munich Security Conference from Lewis Goodall: "The American state has been captured by a group of people who do not see the world as we do, who are hostile to the world as we want it to be" open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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The link between poverty & poor health is a well-known issue. Our long read shows that 49% of people in the most deprived areas report that the cost-of-living squeeze is impacting their physical health. Find out more: https://buff.ly/4gC5I5D

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As UK Parliament considers how the Bill on #AssistedDying should be implemented, if it becomes law, ARC palliative and end of life care webinar highlights the complexities and makes key recommendations: 👉 arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight... #AssistedDyingBill @arceastofengland.bsky.social

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An absolutely scorching OpEd by Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, on Trump's destruction of the vaunted US scientific & biomedical enterprise & on Trump's kooky picks to lead the US health & science agencies Gift link to share far & wide www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

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It can’t be helping #Chelsea that they are playing in kit that looks like it’s modelled on Liquorice Allsorts #BHACHE

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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Important review on domestic abuse in the context of life limiting illness. Relevant to assisted dying debate. Summary below. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

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So the VP of an administration that has excluded the @apnews.com from press briefings for continuing to call an international body of water by its correct name is now criticising Europe on free speech 🤯

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Ukraine did not "go into this war“. They were attacked.

submitted 11 days ago • 40 comments

Absolutely chilling post by @chrischirp.bsky.social setting out how T rump is aggressively mobilising a classic authoritarian playbook. I did not think I would see the death of American democracy (and American science) in my lifetime. #academicsky open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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Our new Editorial in BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care on inequity and inequality in palliative and end of life care, and smarter use of routine data to measure and monitor inequalities, and to inform decision-making. 👇👇👇

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"Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing" @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

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Yup. All of this…

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Sadly nothing in this piece surprises me - everyone working in #hospice #palliativecare in the community will have come across people in similar situations with similar CHC battles

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Thank you @channel4news.bsky.social for highlighting the dire situation that many hospices are in. It’s so sad to see valuable services being cut because of inadequate funding @wesstreeting.bsky.social

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EU medicines agency quits X & moves to Bluesky "EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement www.reuters.com/world/europe...

submitted 28 days ago • 487 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 28 days ago • 1093 comments

Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.

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Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

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Has the Times sacked its Media Correspondent? Scrolling through its news list and it’s missed a huge story involving the monarchy, journalist ethics and a billion pound cover up at a hugely powerful media organisation. Surely more important than whether dogs suffer from January blues?

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Former vaccines tsar describes ‘open warfare’ within UK government during Covid pandemic

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Kate Bingham, brilliant 👏 Eejit ministers not procuring antibody prophylaxis for @cv_cev, self-interested, irresponsible, and short sighted. #Evusheld vs ICU bed...tough decision...not. 🤬🤦‍♂️🙄

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Predictable, but sad.

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The public enquiry should also consider the behaviour of elected politicians during the investigation and prosecution of this case, and their willingness to confect rumour and spread inflammatory misinformation in the service of their own agendas.

submitted 34 days ago • 39 comments

MLK day.

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments

Somehow, it is still January. Here are my nine wellness-free survival tips | Emma Beddington

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Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

submitted 35 days ago • 252 comments

Nicely articulated by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social ⬇️

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Sorry, I’m washing my hair

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Started the day by reading some Martin Luther King, whose commemoration it is: 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it tends towarda justice".

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I've always loved the fact that the word 'sneeze' is the result of a historical accident. The original form, in the Middle Ages, was 'fnese', but someone mistook the 'f' for the long medieval 's' and wrote down 'sn-' instead. Fneezing sounds much more like a proper, nasal sneeze.

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