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Scientist, atheist, optimist (mostly), genealogist, gardener, crafter, musician, endlessly learning, trying to stay alive for another decade or two. I like most things, dislike liars, wet weather, housework.
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Paul Offit, a pediatrician and vaccine skeptic considers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a vaccine cynic. “I fear what will happen in America, which is already seeing a rising mistrust of vaccines, if he becomes health secretary,” Offit writes.

submitted 135 days ago • 9 comments

During natural disasters like wildfires and floods, scammers often emerge to prey on victims looking to rebuild. Here is what you should look for to avoid becoming a victim.

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

The Foldscope brings a powerful science tool to schools that can't afford microscopes. Scientists use it too. Its creators have handed out 2 million units, including a new mini-model for younger kids.

submitted 186 days ago • 17 comments

An interesting way to help people visualize what a ruin used to be.

submitted 185 days ago • 232 comments

Important: there is a fake Sky Follower Bridge website! Don't get Phished! Real one = ".dev" Fake = ".com"

submitted 181 days ago • 6 comments

This JAMA Insights discusses ovarian aging and provides strategies to address infertility due to ovarian aging. ja.ma/414eoxu

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

Word of the day is ‘hibernacle’ (18th century): a hibernating animal’s winter retreat. I believe it works on a human level too.

submitted 186 days ago • 153 comments

In the light of the new government announcement of a national review of Physician Associate roles and scope of practice, I repost our Statement of Concern (March 24) on how the Royal College of Physicians of London had dealt with the matter. At the time we were described as a "social media rabble".

submitted 189 days ago • 7 comments

Maybe I'm a snowflake but I do think a criminal conviction for violence should bar you from serving as an elected official.

submitted 189 days ago • 6 comments

Wow. Imagine the shock for the Daily Mail when it finds out Tory plans were for fines of £5k - later reduced to £3k - for each missed heat pump sale. What Ed Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. As @torstenbell.bsky.social says today Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”

submitted 189 days ago • 149 comments

My latest: Biden and Senate Judiciary should order background checks on Trump nominees now: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 192 days ago • 227 comments

Without trade unions & the workers willing to back them we wouldn’t have • a minimum wage • maternity & paternity rights • pension provision • holiday & sickness entitlements victories which have benefited every single person in this country tuc.org.uk/joinunion

submitted 193 days ago • 44 comments

Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Australia, said on Monday that her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ideas about vaccination were “dangerous” and out of the mainstream.

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

These foul perverted b*stards have turned up here .. you know what to do.

submitted 194 days ago • 314 comments

The hardest I have ever laughed in my life was at this article from a 1979 edition of the Peterborough Standard. I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe; I thought I might die.

submitted 225 days ago • 10 comments

I've just published an investigation on the Transport for London cyberattack: -TfL was hit by a wave of subsequent cyber attacks -Millions of pounds of overcharged fares may never be refunded -Some TfL software coded to be compatible with Internet Explorer 6 www.londoncentric.media/p/an-utter-s...

submitted 215 days ago • 12 comments

More than a million pallets of unusable PPE has now been burned One million pallets Don't get me started 😡😡

submitted 195 days ago • 195 comments

It's disturbing seeing some medical and public health professionals trying to normalize RFK by saying "we have to meet him halfway." NOPE. RFK is a charlatan who has deliberately spread disinformation that has killed people. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

submitted 195 days ago • 120 comments

Vaccines work—thread:

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I’ve opened an account on here mainly to grab my name as my handle. I haven’t closed my Twitter account because I still peep in, though rarely post. You’ll find me mostly on Threads and sometimes Mastodon.

submitted 196 days ago • 0 comments