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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2h

I need a Tommy Flowers Was Robbed t-shirt. Great piece!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline cleanse
came across tiny postman's gardens in old London where there is a wall of plaques, set up in 1900, for ordinary people who sacrificed themselves to save others...

Beautiful small garden and beautiful tributes

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 14h

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

retractionwatch.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe Brits can find jobs in thriving Poland… oh, wait

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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 7h

🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle

12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain

When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 7h

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic interview with Neil Kinnock. Interesting, human, insightful with some truly poignant and moving moments. It was a real conversation and so much the better for it. More of this @lewisgoodall.com, please!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Neil Kinnock on the speech that changed the Labour Party

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 10/10/2025 · 56m

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 11h

This narrative doesn't make sense. You can't blame Brexit for harming the economy ... (UK businesses, for example, lose £37bn a year due to a drop in EU trade) ... yet at the same time categorically rule out returning even to the Single Market. So Starmer needs to do a masssive U-turn or step down.

Starmer ‘planning to blame Farage and Brexit’ for budget tax hikes

Sir Keir Starmer has been ramping up his attacks on Nigel Farage in recent weeks as Labour falls behind in the polls

www.independent.co.uk

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 11h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1d

LBC caller: “Brexit gave me freedom because I can choose my own government.”

Also LBC caller: “The EU is to blame for immigration and ID cards.”

You couldn’t make it up.
#Brexit #SaveBritishFarming

Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!
youtu.be/eib6I0Bczzg

Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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J Green @jgreen63.bsky.social · 2d

Sort yourselves out @england.nhs.uk

Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Just had a post of mine removed by the NHS for saying ‘COVID is a predominantly airborne virus’.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome re-analysis of the Franklin / Crick / Watson story. Explains how Franklin produced (with considerable skill) the *pictures* that made the penny drop for slow-on-the-uptake Watson. Sadly, paywalled.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Reassessing Discovery: Rosalind Franklin, Scientific Visualization, and the Structure of DNA | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Reassessing Discovery: Rosalind Franklin, Scientific Visualization, and the Structure of DNA - Volume 79 Issue 1

www.cambridge.org

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to BlueSky, @mantatrust.bsky.social 🧪

Manta Trust @mantatrust.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 BREAKING: All oceanic devil rays are now Critically Endangered.

🤝 Be part of our #SaveTheMantas campaign:
✔️ Sign the petition: only.one/act/cites-2025
✔️ Grab a campaign T-shirt, snap a photo, and share it on our campaign page: mantatrust.org/save-the-mantas

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Institute of Health Visiting @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social · 2d

This year’s #iHVLeadership2025 Conference programme is focused on some of the most cutting edge & high-priority public health topics & challenges being faced by practitioners working across #HealthVisiting and the early years. View the programme here: buff.ly/dznXvxl

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

Last 2 days in Trump's America - mainly around suppressing dissent and attacking science.

All actions available on www.trumpactiontracker.info

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGuv...

Main authoritarian things Trump has done since Wednesday - as of Fri 10th October

YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel

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Sarah Cowley @profsarahcowley.bsky.social · 1d

Huge congratulations!

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Rebecca Payne @oohgpwales.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to receive the RCGP health services research paper of the year award today! Massive thanks to the whole RBD2 team and particularly all those who worked on this paper

Chris Williams @drchriswilliams.bsky.social · 3d

Challenges to quality in contemporary hybrid general practice. Research paper of the year noted the context of: infrastructure not fit for purpose, technostress, workforce pressures with GPs seeing the most complex patients. There are unintended effects. presented by @oohgpwales.bsky.social #RCGPAC

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

I had a high opinion of MIT before today but it just went up some more.

Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 2d

MIT, as one of nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks, REJECTS the Trump administration deal.

wapo.st/4niC09b
(gift article) #AcademicSky

MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding

MIT is one of nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.

wapo.st

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

😅😅🤣

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Sarah Cowley @profsarahcowley.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the update @chrischirp.bsky.social

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet open.substack.com/pub/christin...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

open.substack.com

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Sarah Cowley @profsarahcowley.bsky.social · 2d

Health visitor concerns were ‘not taken seriously enough’, Covid inquiry told
www.nursinginpractice.com/clinical/res...

Health visitor concerns were ‘not taken seriously enough’, Covid inquiry told

The redeployment of health visitors during the early stages of the Covid pandemic was ‘totally inappropriate’, an inquiry has heard.

www.nursinginpractice.com

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Politics Phil @politicsphil.bsky.social · 3d

It has always been imperative that Science and the Judiciary are independent of both the executive and the state.

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