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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 12d

“Opportunity depends on our health […] This Commission identifies adverse foods and adverse food environments as the often unacknowledged barrier to health, opportunity, and justice.” - Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, opens the 2025 EAT–Lancet launch.

Livestream here ➡️ bit.ly/3VKhnaz

Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, speaks at the EAT-Lancet Commission launch in Stockholm.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 16d

A long-awaited consensus statement on inflammation and heart disease
"We have thus entered an era when the evidence linking inflammation with ASCVD is no longer exploratory but is
compelling and clinically actionable."
@jaccjournals.bsky.social open-access
www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

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Tessa Dekker @tessamdekker.bsky.social · 18d

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

Research Assistant at UCL

Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · Sep 12

A passion for prevention – meet Denise Lyons, President of the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association.

www.croakey.org/a-passion-fo...

#PHCmatters
#HealthReform
#ScopeOfPractice

A passion for prevention

Introduction by Croakey: With decades of experience as a nurse, working in diverse settings across the United States and Australia,

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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Today we pay a visit to Freya Stark, the woman who made travel writing intimate rather than imperial.
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town,” she wrote, “is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
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#travel #travelling #travelwriter #travelblog

A Visit To Freya Stark, Travel Writer.

“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?” Freya Stark, A Winter in Arabia

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · Aug 19

everyone who believes that AI will fix democracy: Read this piece by @himself.bsky.social‬ ‪@hahrie.bsky.social‬

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AI and Democratic Publics

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Sep 6

A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 30

This week's audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI

Scientists are searching for awareness in all its possible forms — insights from human brains could inform that quest.

go.nature.com/4n2Jk8T

Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI

Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.

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Marjorie Cross @verycross.bsky.social · Aug 14

I’m sharing it too

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Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · Aug 13

Raising questions about governance of Primary Health Networks, and the balancing acts involved www.croakey.org/raising-ques... #publichealth

Raising questions about governance of Primary Health Networks, and the balancing acts involved

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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · Jul 29

Read the brilliant Jack London short story 'To Build A Fire' on the blog today #nature #thewild #wilderness #jacklondon #shortstory #fiction #klondike #history
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To Build A Fire - a brilliant short story by Jack London

First published in 1908, To Build a Fire has been called the finest expression of naturalism in American short fiction. A stark and unforgiving tale of survival, it tells the story of a solitary man w...

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Koki Kato @kokikatokk.bsky.social · Jul 17

One of the things that the UK, a country that has led the world in general practice and family medicine, can do in collaboration with doctors in the red-list countries

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#BJGP #GPworkforce #RedList

An international primary care workforce: addressing the ethics beyond the red list

In March 2025, the Nuffield Trust published a report1 that examined ‘Health in the UK after Brexit’. This highlighted the instability of the UK healthcare workforce following the end of free movement ...

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Lady Bibliophage @ladybiblophage.bsky.social · Jul 10

A lot of people dismiss those whose beliefs are rooted in misinformation as uneducated. As Uyi Omoregie and I discovered researching our book, Misinformation Matters, even a PhD is no protection against conspiracy theories: you're convinced your intellect makes you better able to see what is 'true'

Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Addressing real psychological & sociological needs is something those false, misinformed beliefs are doing. We actually need to try to tackle the underlying social problems, like alienation, people are grappling with"

My in-depth essay with brilliant insights from LSE's Prof J McKenzie Alexander ⬇️

The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation

From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · Jul 4

Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report – 16 June to 29 June 2025

"In the last fortnight there was a +12.7% increase in COVID cases, a +55.4% increase in influenza cases, and a +7.3% increase in RSV cases"

🔹COVID: 16,137
🔹Influenza: 32,485
🔹RSV: 12,990

www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

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EdDesigner @shewantstorun.bsky.social · Jun 22

Jo, have you met the amazing surgeon Dr @liangrhea.bsky.social ? I think you'd have much to chat about. Not only is she a kickass surgeon she's also a tiny petite ballerina sized person who educates on gender in medicine.

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Marjorie Cross @verycross.bsky.social · Jun 19

Great book as one would expect from Prof McIntyre

Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · Jun 19

Adding to my TBR list

#BookSky #MedSky #IDSky #IDEpi

Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · Jun 19

"The book blends a sweeping history of public health with a clear examination of our messy present. It delivers a timely, urgent and often deeply personal account of vaccination’s role in our world."
www.croakey.org/review-vacci...
#CroakeyREAD

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Marjorie Cross @verycross.bsky.social · Jun 19

Read it and agree- compelling #ProfRainaMcIntyre

Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · Jun 19

A compelling call for science to “reclaim the stage” in an age of misinformation and distrust www.croakey.org/review-vacci... #publichealth

A compelling call for science to “reclaim the stage” in an age of misinformation and distrust

www.croakey.org

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · Jun 13

Whether by choice or by force, 1 billion people are on the move today 🗺️

Our latest Editorial explores uncertainties in migrant and refugee health, including the impacts of hostile framing: hubs.li/Q03r_pHS0 #WorldRefugeeDay

Cover of The Lancet, June 14, 2025 issue. Quote, "Political narratives that rely on hate and division, further fuelled by the media, are...the great challenge to making gains to protect and support refugee and migrant health."

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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · Jun 9

Solnit - « Behind these stories [blaming sexual assault victims, blaming Ukraine for Russia’s invasion, blaming liberals for the misdeeds of the Trump regime] is the assumption that some people matter more than other people, and that we who matter less have to pander to those who matter more. »

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · Jun 9

I have always been committed to nonviolence but the way a lot of people are talking about nonviolence right now has really been bothering me, and I realized it was reminding me of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything

The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our new paper ⬇️⬇️

Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our new paper - Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities in @bmj.com Medical Humanities #AcademicSky #envhum @medicalhumanity12.bsky.social

@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

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Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities

Healthcare courses typically approach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) education from a ‘translational science’ perspective. Students are taught about ‘evidence-based’ interventions, which are dev...

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · Jun 7

Alongside our sister organisations across the Nordic countries, we put together this short video calling for health action through climate action.

Please watch it and share it!

The Patient Earth is Sick: A Call to Action from Healthcare Professionals

YouTube video by Irish Doctor For the Environment

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · Jun 2

Nigel Keale's 1965 version of '1984' is now on YouTube!
I'd assumed it was wiped.

youtu.be/vw8finsCwZ0?...

1984 by George Orwell & Nigel Kneale - starring David Buck and Jane Merrow (1965)

YouTube video by Classic British Telly

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Marjorie Cross @verycross.bsky.social · Jun 1

And also the grief of Hamlet Prince of Denmark for his father King Hamlet

Cliona O’Farrelly @clionaofarrelly.bsky.social · Jun 1

Grief for a parent is also a theme in Book 1 of the Odyssey but in this case it’s Telemachus’ grief for his long absent father

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · May 30

There will be a brilliant team LIVE BROADCASTING our event at St James's Church Piccadilly, London this Friday May 30th, 2025 at 7.30 pm

'A Golden String: William Blake in Words and Song'
is a fundraiser for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)
Link here:
www.youtube.com/live/4Ft0NGJ...

A Golden String: WILLIAM BLAKE IN WORDS AND SONG - Fundraiser for MAP

YouTube video by Susheela Raman

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Marjorie Cross @verycross.bsky.social · May 30

@mariamtokhi.bsky.social you need to know that a Palestinian colleague in the West Bank, a primary care doctor and a medical educator who is still doing all she can for her patients and students was immensely heartened by this when I shared. We are in contact often. She told me she needed this.

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