Ruth Thorpe
@ruth.medsky.social
European music-loving medic
🎶 Alto in nonsuchsingers.org.uk and temenos-chamberchoir.org.uk
🩺 #MedSky Neurology, Psychiatry, Mental Health Law.
Refugees welcome. She/her.
🎶 Alto in nonsuchsingers.org.uk and temenos-chamberchoir.org.uk
🩺 #MedSky Neurology, Psychiatry, Mental Health Law.
Refugees welcome. She/her.
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
www.instagram.com/p/DSM4fbTCez...
Tonight
Going to be beautiful 🎶
Come and join us
#Carols
#MusicInLondon
#LiveMusic
Tonight
Going to be beautiful 🎶
Come and join us
#Carols
#MusicInLondon
#LiveMusic
Nonsuch Singers on Instagram: "TONIGHT. We're so looking forward to our fabulous Christmas Concert 'Star of Wonder', tonight 13-Dec at St Peter's Church, Eaton Square. Come and listen and sing with us...
2 likes, 1 comments - nonsuchsingerslondon on December 13, 2025: "TONIGHT. We're so looking forward to our fabulous Christmas Concert 'Star of Wonder', tonight 13-Dec at St Peter's Church, Eaton Squar...
www.instagram.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
www.instagram.com/p/DSM4fbTCez...
Tonight
Going to be beautiful 🎶
Come and join us
#Carols
#MusicInLondon
#LiveMusic
Tonight
Going to be beautiful 🎶
Come and join us
#Carols
#MusicInLondon
#LiveMusic
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political science
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
political science
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Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
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Bal du Moulin de la Galette, 1876: Sunday afternoon in Montmartre, Impressionist masterpiece, ‘monument précieux de la vie parisienne’, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, died #OTD 1919; admired for its fluid brushstrokes & dappled light, the painting was owned by Gustave Caillebotte.
@museeorsay.bsky.social
@museeorsay.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Bal du Moulin de la Galette, 1876: Sunday afternoon in Montmartre, Impressionist masterpiece, ‘monument précieux de la vie parisienne’, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, died #OTD 1919; admired for its fluid brushstrokes & dappled light, the painting was owned by Gustave Caillebotte.
@museeorsay.bsky.social
@museeorsay.bsky.social
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Really positive step to reduce transmission of HIV in UK with targeted action for those who may be less likely to seek support
Testing at A&Es part of plan to end new HIV cases in England by 2030
Labour announces prevention programme as well as efforts to re-engage people who have fallen out of medical care
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Really positive step to reduce transmission of HIV in UK with targeted action for those who may be less likely to seek support
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Hunt in the Forest, c 1470, rare Renaissance nocturnal landscape with vibrant colours & novel linear perspective; tempera & oil, with traces of gold on panel, by Paolo Uccello, died in Florence 1475; apprentice of Ghiberti, inspired Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer.
Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Hunt in the Forest, c 1470, rare Renaissance nocturnal landscape with vibrant colours & novel linear perspective; tempera & oil, with traces of gold on panel, by Paolo Uccello, died in Florence 1475; apprentice of Ghiberti, inspired Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer.
Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum
Ghirlandaio Nativity at the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, UK. This one is thought to be mainly by the hand of Domenico Ghirlandaio himself.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Ghirlandaio Nativity at the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, UK. This one is thought to be mainly by the hand of Domenico Ghirlandaio himself.
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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I’ve got a measles joke—but if you’re vaccinated I’m near certain you won’t get it.
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I’ve got a measles joke—but if you’re vaccinated I’m near certain you won’t get it.
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Christ giving the keys to St Peter, 1625, with distinctive rich yellow of Guido Reni, Italian Baroque artist of Bolognese School, born #OTD 1575. Trained in Rome under the Carracci, painter to the Pope, his restrained classicism inspired French & Spanish artists incl. Vouet, Murillo.
Musée du Louvre
Musée du Louvre
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Christ giving the keys to St Peter, 1625, with distinctive rich yellow of Guido Reni, Italian Baroque artist of Bolognese School, born #OTD 1575. Trained in Rome under the Carracci, painter to the Pope, his restrained classicism inspired French & Spanish artists incl. Vouet, Murillo.
Musée du Louvre
Musée du Louvre
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Are you a clinician who wants to do a PhD? Come to @crick.ac.uk (you can even come to my lab).
October 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Are you a clinician who wants to do a PhD? Come to @crick.ac.uk (you can even come to my lab).
Varenna ferry, from Bellagio
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Varenna ferry, from Bellagio
October 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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An experiment:
If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.
If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.
October 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
An experiment:
If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.
If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.
Tried to pay for postage to the US using #RoyalMail online. Can't do it without accepting all cookies and they 'require' recipient's email and phone number. I don't want tracking. It's a birthday card, no need for her to know when it will be delivered. Outrageous abuse of personal data. No thanks.
October 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Tried to pay for postage to the US using #RoyalMail online. Can't do it without accepting all cookies and they 'require' recipient's email and phone number. I don't want tracking. It's a birthday card, no need for her to know when it will be delivered. Outrageous abuse of personal data. No thanks.
October 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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But you can't deny that the cartoonishness has been across the board. Sometimes cartoons are very entertaining!
September 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
But you can't deny that the cartoonishness has been across the board. Sometimes cartoons are very entertaining!
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A sobering but massively powerful piece. Our youngest's girlfriend is black and was due to travel back to London yesterday via Waterloo. She asked to stay here in relative, rural security because she was scared of the people on that march. This is not a drill open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo
It's clear now that we are in a battle of terrible proportions.
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A sobering but massively powerful piece. Our youngest's girlfriend is black and was due to travel back to London yesterday via Waterloo. She asked to stay here in relative, rural security because she was scared of the people on that march. This is not a drill open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Shot, chaser
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
September 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Shot, chaser
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
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Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long.
Regulatory failure at its worst.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Regulatory failure at its worst.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
GMC examines doctor’s Reform speech linking vaccines to royal family cancer
Medical bodies and prime minister condemn Aseem Malhotra’s ‘pseudo-science’ remarks at party conference
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long.
Regulatory failure at its worst.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Regulatory failure at its worst.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Duties of a Doctor (General Medical Council) imply that giving out false or misleading information that could lead to harm might be grounds for removing a doctor from the Medical Register.
September 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Duties of a Doctor (General Medical Council) imply that giving out false or misleading information that could lead to harm might be grounds for removing a doctor from the Medical Register.