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Could Kier Starmer get any worse? Don't answer that. Just like Trump, he is picking on the most vulnerable by cutting international aid.

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NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

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🦠🎂 5 years ago today I had my first symptoms of Covid-19. Half a decade on I still have various ongoing symptoms. I prepared a video but unfortunately it’s too long for here so it’s over on the Other Place, if you’d like to take a look! ⬇️ #LongCovid #StillNotRecovered x.com/NikkiS_MCSFS...

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📣 1/3. The #LongCovid community has been crucial in defining the condition & advocating for better outcomes. On #LongCovidAwareness Day, we invite you to join us for our Community Strategy Launch! 🌟15 March 2025, 2pm GMT - Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London W6 0QL, & online🌟 Registration link ⬇️

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Shame

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Good to hear Mikey Madison showing solidarity with sex workers in her acceptance of the BAFTA award for best actress.

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Paul Noth said it.

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Interested in bioinformatics and STIs? Great job below please apply! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

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“Few would have imagined that in post-Brexit Britain, a young person could take a job in Japan for two years but be unable to do the same in France. Yet here we are” sussexbylines.co.uk/world/europe...

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I have signed - please sign and repost if you agree. Open to all members of the scientific community.

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Christ these companies are spineless. And if they think it will protect them, the face-eating leopard will give them a nasty surprise. www.macrumors.com/2025/02/11/a...

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Posting footage of deportations impresses no one. Reform voters don’t think it’s enough hatred and the rest of us turn away from yet more performative cruelty. The Labour vote disintegrates. If Labour can’t decide who it should be talking and listening to, then it ends up without an audience.

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Very helpful explanation of the reckless proposals of the stroppy kids in the White House.

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Study reveals how a simple blood test can predict the severity of COVID-19 infection, paving the way for personalised approaches to vaccination and better protection for those most at risk. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social Full story 👇 imperialbrc.nihr.ac.uk/2025/01/24/r...

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⚡Gwynne who has had #longcovid and was the Minister for Health and Prevention has been sacked after racist, sexist, anti-Semitic and comments in a what app group. This follows controversy where the Gwynne denied the airborne nature of COVID. To read more: tinyurl.com/mv23fkfy

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Thanks for writing this @ddiamond.bsky.social @lenasun.bsky.social 🥺

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“Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding.” Many people, including working in universities, don’t understand how essential indirect costs (overheads) are. With this cut Trump & Musk will decimate clinical research in universities. Which will be bad for health & the economy.

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Clinical trials stopped putting people at risk. The insanity and brutality of Trump’s orders which will likely end up being shown to be illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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🧪 Editors for integrity please stand up My specialty, sexually transmitted infections, sexual and reproductive health and rights in particular @profhelenward.bsky.social @billmiller-epi.bsky.social @grahamkendall.bsky.social @helenbranswell.bsky.social insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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Donald Trump is scrubbing critical health information from government websites. This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...

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Parkrun numbers took a surprisingly lasting hit from the pandemic but have now convincingly surpassed the pre-pandemic peak

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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“A group of researchers and students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is gathered today for a data preservation marathon, scraping and downloading data related to health equity from U.S. government agency websites before they disappear.”

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APPLICATIONS OPEN NOW! Always wanted to learn about applied infectious diseases modelling? 💡Annual short course 15-26th September '25 🗓️ Application deadline for limited number of full scholarships 16th March ✏️Find out more & apply www.infectiousdiseasemodels.org/index.php

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In immunosuppressed people a simple at-home antibody test (as used in REACT-2) identified people with immunosuppression who remain most at risk after vaccination, providing a mechanism to further individualise protection approaches @imperialbrc.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Putting the final touches to my Crick biography, it will go off for copy-editing at the end of this week. Over three years in someone else's head is enough. It will be out in October/November this year. 150k of text, 40k of notes. It will be a wrist-sprainer, but will look lovely I promise.

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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

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NEW: The Trump administration has halted nearly all global health funding, immediately, for at least 90 days. That includes the lauded HIV/AIDS program PEPFAR — a “catastrophic" move that’s “doing irreparable harm to the global AIDS response." My latest for @npr.org: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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“the immediate halting of funding to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), including a stop-work order for existing grants and contracts, places millions of lives in jeopardy”, @iasociety.bsky.social writes in a statement. #IDsky 🧪

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Study: Long COVID Symptoms Persist for 2+ Years Two-thirds of people with Long COVID still face symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, and exercise intolerance after two years. Testing for cognitive and physical issues is essential. More research is urgently needed. #LongCOVID #PublicHealth #Research

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Can’t watch any news

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Dulwich College linked to 27% rise in air pollution www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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“When EBOV outbreaks occur, communities must depend on the goodwill of foreign governments and corporations to send doses.” This “resource allocation method” is antithetical to human rights. It is the legacy of colonialism, extraction, & nationalism, & expansion—all getting worse not better.

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⭐️$1.5M Grant Fuels Research on Long COVID’s Impact on the Brain Dr. Jianyang Du of UTHSC is studying how COVID affects brain function, focusing on neuronal activity and immune response. Aims to understand long COVID’s neurological effects and address health disparities. #LongCOVID #BrainHealth

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A sea fret (thank you NYT mini crossword!) and a sharp easterly wind this morning.

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Public health people - parkrun are looking for new trustees. One in public health. A great opportunity, closing date Monday. A great example of participatory, bottom-up approach to health improvement. www.parkrun.com/blog/news/20...

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Another of my intermittent film reviews: The Substance. What a load of nonsense, so boring. And absolutely not feminist - more an excuse for showing lots of near-naked women cavorting around.

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Good riddance. Won’t pay your taxes like the rest of us? Piss off.

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A good, accessible explanation of some of the poor evidence and particularly poor science communication in nutritional world.

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Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution

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