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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · Sep 10

Fantastic! Great to see them speaking up and saying what we all know is true.

Alicia Ault @aliciaault.bsky.social · Sep 10

RFK has "shown a blatant disregard for decades of evidence-based, proven science, and have spread dangerous medical misinformation, sowing chaos and confusion and putting lives at risk."

New statement from @acpimphysicians.bsky.social calling for RFK's removal.

#Medsky

American College of Physicians Calls for Removal of Secretary Kennedy at HHS | ACP Online

Statement attributable to:Jason M. Goldman, MD, MACPPresident, American College of Physicians

www.acponline.org

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is simply Reform propaganda straight from the BBC

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 30

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers

Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

www.theguardian.com

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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · Jul 5

If Taylor did TBI

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 12

Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners?

TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country

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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · May 6

That’s some blue sky thinking right there

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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · May 6

Genuinely cackling at the idea of some cyberman putting in a venflon and doing the ‘here’s some lovely fresh air’ chat pre-sleepytime

But hey, gassers seem to be replaceable in this brave new AI world

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · May 6

‘AI ethics’

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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · May 5

There seems to be a very particular form of antipathy directed toward autistic women and girls diagnosed c/ lower support needs

A narrative that we’re ‘attention seeking’ from a need to feel ‘specia’- which feels rooted in misogyny

The desire to silence women’s voices and experiences rumbles on

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · May 4

One thing you notice about anti-feminism is that its public discourses are all about erecting a fantasy of men’s victimization that is clung to all the more desperately and insistently the more it contradicts the actual facts. So the more women are hurt, the more we’re told that men are suffering.

samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · May 3

every day there are new horrors for gender-marginalized people and women--trump going after the equal credit opportunity act, loss of body autonomy, exterminationist anti-trans attacks ramping up--and every single day we have to talk about "male loneliness" and "it's a brutal time to be a young man"

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Dec 25

This was my Sistine Chapel

A copy of Freddie Ayer’s ‘The Central Questions of Philosophy’, featuring the famous cover with him sitting holding a small white dog on his lap. Both Ayer and the dog have googly eyes.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · May 4

A SHORT POEM FOR STAR WARS DAY

Her name was Yoda,
A showgirl she was.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · May 3

“I’ll go for a ‘maybe?’ and ‘or something’, after a pause,” Mulligan explains. “Even though I come out with random and weirdly particular facts throughout the duration of the film, it surely signals I have a merely healthy interest in the subject. They will never know.”

“I think?” Autistic woman prefaces highly specific knowledge to sound less weird

An autistic woman has honed the art of looking normal - despite having a near-encyclopaedic knowledge of all three Bridget Jones films, it has been rumoured. Ellie Mulligan, 34, knows extensive charac...

thedailytism.com

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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · May 3

Key point- incr nos of people being diagnosed autistic doesn’t necessarily mean incr nos of autistic ppl

Women + people of colour don’t always fit the prevailing image and may not be referred for assessment

But there is a strong moral panic around Dx rates atm

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are there more autistic people now?

Why is the number of autism diagnoses changing? And what does it mean for autistic people?

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · May 1

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a condition that affects people with severe breathing problems.

A new paper in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social looks to refine the definition of ARDS and explores avenues to improve current understanding and treatment options: tinyurl.com/yc3avnf4

Figure showing consensus elements of the conceptual model of ARDS. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.

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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · May 3

Gender critical activists broadening their focus post SC judgment in single sex spaces

Now its male mammographers for breast screening

Here is Janice Turner saying breast are ‘intrinsic to female self-esteem, the locus of male desire’

How utterly regressive and backward-thinking is this 💩?

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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · May 3

Helloooo The Times, do you not mean Kneecap rap in Irish, which will not be understood by people who do not understand Irish?

The framing used in article designed to whip up moral panic is fascinating isnt it

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · May 2

there are, in fact, a ton of positive role models for masculinity out there and if teenage boys choose the whiniest and most hate-filled versions that's at least somewhat on them

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · May 2

3) Moving right on immigration normalizes the radical right, their positions and rhetoric. Normalization is a key precondition for electoral expansion of the radical right. Programmatic accommodation and collaboration normalize the radical right and open new segments of the electorate for it.

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Aoife Abbey 📟 🩺 ⚕️ @whistlingdixie.bsky.social · May 2

Really looking forward to this opening plenary - Prof Rockwood himself!
Being literate in frailty is every clinician’s business, but it is especially our business….
The @ics-updates.bsky.social flagship conference SOA is in Birmingham in July, online and in person 📟⚕️

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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · May 2

So much talk right now about ‘protecting’ women
So little talk right now about women’s rights

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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · May 2

So by advertising you’re a married father of four you’re fulfilling gendered expectations and making to clear you’re here to provide for family

The same as a mother? You’re violating the maternal role

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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · May 2

Motherhood penalty vs fatherhood bonus

Father = man who should provide for his family therefore it is right he should be at work and seek tougher roles/promotion

Mother = woman who should care for her family therefore it is wrong for her to be at work and seek tougher roles/promotion

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Apr 29

🧵In March I wrote about how Trump's attacks on science & universities followed the authoritarian playbook & set out Qs as warning signs for escalation.

🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING

This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised

full post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...

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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thank you so much to @survivinginscrubs.bsky.social for asking me to talk about Benevolent Sexism tonight online
Very much enjoyed plugging the work of the great @katemanne.bsky.social - read her work, everyone!!

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Pointless Letters @pointlesslettrs.bsky.social · Apr 27

SCARY THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: This person gets to vote

The clue is in the name. Womb man = woman.

P. TAVENDER, Worthing, Sussex

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