Steve Senior
@stevensenior.bsky.social
Consultant in Public Health. Recovering policy wonk. Lapsed neuroscientist. Ex-paper boy and former donut stand operator. Ultracrepidarian. Denizen of West Yorkshire. Opinions my own, re-posts are not endorsements.
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Heptonstall Museum, currently closed for restoration and neighbouring buildings illustrates perfectly the largely untouched nature of the village over centuries, which means that they have been preserved in a way that emphasises their individual historical and architectural styles.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Heptonstall Museum, currently closed for restoration and neighbouring buildings illustrates perfectly the largely untouched nature of the village over centuries, which means that they have been preserved in a way that emphasises their individual historical and architectural styles.
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Every child deserves a good-quality, warm, and safe home.
But children across the UK are growing up with damp, cold and mould in their homes — putting their health on the line.
They shouldn’t need a hazmat suit to stay healthy at home. Help us call for real solutions. 👉https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
But children across the UK are growing up with damp, cold and mould in their homes — putting their health on the line.
They shouldn’t need a hazmat suit to stay healthy at home. Help us call for real solutions. 👉https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Every child deserves a good-quality, warm, and safe home.
But children across the UK are growing up with damp, cold and mould in their homes — putting their health on the line.
They shouldn’t need a hazmat suit to stay healthy at home. Help us call for real solutions. 👉https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
But children across the UK are growing up with damp, cold and mould in their homes — putting their health on the line.
They shouldn’t need a hazmat suit to stay healthy at home. Help us call for real solutions. 👉https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
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FACT OF THE DAY.
People who are on the fence about Teflon coated saucepans are known as agnonstic.
People who are on the fence about Teflon coated saucepans are known as agnonstic.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
FACT OF THE DAY.
People who are on the fence about Teflon coated saucepans are known as agnonstic.
People who are on the fence about Teflon coated saucepans are known as agnonstic.
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YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. DO YOU HAVE MEDICINE YOU NEED TO TAKE?
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. DO YOU HAVE MEDICINE YOU NEED TO TAKE?
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The difficult political and fiscal choices presented by this week's Budget reflect the economic consequences of failing to protect working-age health.
@davefinch.bsky.social argues that government must focus on the longer term action needed to build a healthier workforce⬇️
https://bit.ly/4okAqE5
@davefinch.bsky.social argues that government must focus on the longer term action needed to build a healthier workforce⬇️
https://bit.ly/4okAqE5
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The difficult political and fiscal choices presented by this week's Budget reflect the economic consequences of failing to protect working-age health.
@davefinch.bsky.social argues that government must focus on the longer term action needed to build a healthier workforce⬇️
https://bit.ly/4okAqE5
@davefinch.bsky.social argues that government must focus on the longer term action needed to build a healthier workforce⬇️
https://bit.ly/4okAqE5
I kept going "ooh, that looks interesting, can I do it?" And no-one said no.
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I kept going "ooh, that looks interesting, can I do it?" And no-one said no.
Unsolicited children's book recommendation: Bird and Bear books are great. I like how the moral is always: people are flawed and messy and you can be friends with them anyway.
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Unsolicited children's book recommendation: Bird and Bear books are great. I like how the moral is always: people are flawed and messy and you can be friends with them anyway.
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Some of those who work forces
Are the same who burn crosses
Some of those who work forces
Are the same who burn crosses
Are the same who burn crosses
Some of those who work forces
Are the same who burn crosses
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Some of those who work forces
Are the same who burn crosses
Some of those who work forces
Are the same who burn crosses
Are the same who burn crosses
Some of those who work forces
Are the same who burn crosses
I was high on a Molotov of cocktails
I was low on a hundred things
I was wrong to put my money where my mouth was
I was right about the whales and the dolphins
Whales and dolphins, whales and dolphins, yeah
I was low on a hundred things
I was wrong to put my money where my mouth was
I was right about the whales and the dolphins
Whales and dolphins, whales and dolphins, yeah
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I was high on a Molotov of cocktails
I was low on a hundred things
I was wrong to put my money where my mouth was
I was right about the whales and the dolphins
Whales and dolphins, whales and dolphins, yeah
I was low on a hundred things
I was wrong to put my money where my mouth was
I was right about the whales and the dolphins
Whales and dolphins, whales and dolphins, yeah
Do you have the time to listen to me whine?
About nothing and everything, all at once
I am one of those melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it
About nothing and everything, all at once
I am one of those melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it
Nothing compares
Nothing compares... 2 u
Nothing compares... 2 u
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Do you have the time to listen to me whine?
About nothing and everything, all at once
I am one of those melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it
About nothing and everything, all at once
I am one of those melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it
Lifehack: cook a Sunday roast on a Saturday making Saturday feel like Sunday so then when Sunday arrives it feels like a bonus.
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Lifehack: cook a Sunday roast on a Saturday making Saturday feel like Sunday so then when Sunday arrives it feels like a bonus.
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Pitch for Disarm to be considered a Christmas song because it's got bells.
When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Pitch for Disarm to be considered a Christmas song because it's got bells.
Anyone who's read me ranting about screening will know I'm all for thinking critically about health care. But there's a reason maternal mortality has more than halved in the last 40 years. There's a reason maternal mortality is used as a proxy for health care quality globally.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Anyone who's read me ranting about screening will know I'm all for thinking critically about health care. But there's a reason maternal mortality has more than halved in the last 40 years. There's a reason maternal mortality is used as a proxy for health care quality globally.
And it's hard to avoid the conclusion that we're worse prepared now than we were six years ago. Public health still underfunded, national agency chopped up, NHS fragmented, councils in a more fragile position, society more riven and misinformation everywhere.
Responding to the new report from the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, @jenniferthf.bsky.social says it lays bare how delays, inaction and failures in the pandemic response worsened the impact for individuals, communities, and health and care services.
Read more ⬇️
https://bit.ly/47W06C0
Read more ⬇️
https://bit.ly/47W06C0
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
And it's hard to avoid the conclusion that we're worse prepared now than we were six years ago. Public health still underfunded, national agency chopped up, NHS fragmented, councils in a more fragile position, society more riven and misinformation everywhere.
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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🎉 Huge congratulations to this year's ADPH Awards winners:
🏅 CMOs' National Impact - Margaret Jones, Director of Public Health (DPH) Sefton Council
🏅 Innovative Practice - Dr. Sakthi Karunanithi, DPH Lancashire County Council
🏅 Mentoring - Sangeeta Leahy, DPH @lb-southwark.bsky.social
🎉 Huge congratulations to this year's ADPH Awards winners:
🏅 CMOs' National Impact - Margaret Jones, Director of Public Health (DPH) Sefton Council
🏅 Innovative Practice - Dr. Sakthi Karunanithi, DPH Lancashire County Council
🏅 Mentoring - Sangeeta Leahy, DPH @lb-southwark.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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🎉 Huge congratulations to this year's ADPH Awards winners:
🏅 CMOs' National Impact - Margaret Jones, Director of Public Health (DPH) Sefton Council
🏅 Innovative Practice - Dr. Sakthi Karunanithi, DPH Lancashire County Council
🏅 Mentoring - Sangeeta Leahy, DPH @lb-southwark.bsky.social
🎉 Huge congratulations to this year's ADPH Awards winners:
🏅 CMOs' National Impact - Margaret Jones, Director of Public Health (DPH) Sefton Council
🏅 Innovative Practice - Dr. Sakthi Karunanithi, DPH Lancashire County Council
🏅 Mentoring - Sangeeta Leahy, DPH @lb-southwark.bsky.social
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🏅 Partnership - Helen Bromley, DPH Cheshire West and Chester Council
🏅 Practice Improvement - Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Public Health Team
🏅 Research - Mike Sandys, DPH Leicestershire County Council
🏅 Team - South Gloucestershire Council Public Health Team
🏅 Partnership - Helen Bromley, DPH Cheshire West and Chester Council
🏅 Practice Improvement - Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Public Health Team
🏅 Research - Mike Sandys, DPH Leicestershire County Council
🏅 Team - South Gloucestershire Council Public Health Team
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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🏅 Partnership - Helen Bromley, DPH Cheshire West and Chester Council
🏅 Practice Improvement - Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Public Health Team
🏅 Research - Mike Sandys, DPH Leicestershire County Council
🏅 Team - South Gloucestershire Council Public Health Team
🏅 Partnership - Helen Bromley, DPH Cheshire West and Chester Council
🏅 Practice Improvement - Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Public Health Team
🏅 Research - Mike Sandys, DPH Leicestershire County Council
🏅 Team - South Gloucestershire Council Public Health Team
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will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve
That sounds you can hear is thousands of English lit graduates roaring in vindication.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
That sounds you can hear is thousands of English lit graduates roaring in vindication.
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If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
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Rotherham has seen a remarkable rise in its productivity in recent years. From the lowest in South Yorkshire in 2004, by 2023 it had the highest productivity in the area, even above Sheffield.
So what’s going on in South Yorkshire?
Short thread below.
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So what’s going on in South Yorkshire?
Short thread below.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Rotherham has seen a remarkable rise in its productivity in recent years. From the lowest in South Yorkshire in 2004, by 2023 it had the highest productivity in the area, even above Sheffield.
So what’s going on in South Yorkshire?
Short thread below.
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So what’s going on in South Yorkshire?
Short thread below.
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Oh god I'm going to have to read that COVID-19 inquiry report aren't I?
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Oh god I'm going to have to read that COVID-19 inquiry report aren't I?
Man selling thing says thing he's selling is ace.
OpenAI says new GPT-5 model speeds up research in maths and science on.ft.com/3XHelEI
OpenAI says new GPT-5 model speeds up research in maths and science
Development comes as tech groups bet on potential for AI to accelerate drug discovery and uncover new materials
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Man selling thing says thing he's selling is ace.
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New profile pic
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New profile pic
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True story: we had to delay publication of @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's great story because we kept finding issues in our anatomical drawings of the pelvic floor. In 2025. Really, no one seems to know where exactly it is www.wired.com/story/the-pe...
The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem
Everyone’s suddenly obsessed with the pelvic floor—physical therapists, MAHA influencers, me. Could this deeply misunderstood body part really be the seat of so much modern dysfunction?
www.wired.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
True story: we had to delay publication of @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's great story because we kept finding issues in our anatomical drawings of the pelvic floor. In 2025. Really, no one seems to know where exactly it is www.wired.com/story/the-pe...