Benn Gooch
benngooch.bsky.social
Benn Gooch
@benngooch.bsky.social
Oxford based GP with interests in tech and science
A crested guan
#CostaRicanWildlife
December 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
December 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
December 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A visitor to the garden.
They were ushered out with great caution.
#Herpetology #CostaRicaWildlife
December 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Here’s another one
#CostaRicaWildlife
December 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
December 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Glad to see our research in the Daily Mail in a really thoughtful and well researched piece from Elizabeth Haigh.
This is the untold story of millions of children making their way to school in levels of unacceptable danger. We need #streetsforkids

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Girl, 12, in hit-and-run as 440 kids injured each year on school run
Aaishah Mohammed, then 12, was walking home with her eight-year-old sister when a car came careering around a corner and struck her head-on, leaving her needing emergency surgery.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📢 Calling all UK Hospital at Home Society members!

📨 Our National Benchmarking Survey has just been launched – please check your inbox and respond to help us deliver the most comprehensive look yet at Hospital at Home services across the UK.

#HospitalAtHome
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Editorial about the ultraprocessed food oligopoly putting profit before health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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#solvetheschoolrun #roadsafety #londonparents
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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😮 A sobering statistic for Road Safety Week... In the UK, SUVs are three times more likely to kill a child under the age of 10 and heavier cars are more likely to be involved in fatal collisions.

Source: @cleancitiescampaign

#roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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📣 Coming soon!

The UK Hospital at Home Society National Benchmarking Survey, the most comprehensive look at Hospital at Home services yet!

Members watch this space so you can….

➡️Tell your story.
➡️Share your model.
➡️Shape the future.

#HospitalAtHome #Benchmarking
October 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Help us get this to 20,000 and beyond!

#Dieselgate car manufacturers have never properly been held to account in the UK.

Let's change that. Sign and share! #AirPollution
Make polluters pay for poisoning our children
10 years ago it was revealed that many diesel cars were being fitted with illegal technology that means they emit levels of toxic gases (NOx) exceeding testing and legal limits. These emissions…
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This is apparently the second-highest 24-hour total recorded anywhere in the world.

The record occurred in the Bach Ma mountains above Hue.
October 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Rolling back clean energy policies to “save” European industry will backfire. It may seem attractive in the short term, but it’s poor industrial policy in the long run.

Standing still on climate policy undermines competitiveness. Industry needs stability and long-term direction, not uncertainty.
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I moved some errant voi scooters and a lime bike (with a terrible puncture) from blocking the pavement by Warneford Lane roundabout.

People! Don't block pavements with stuff you've hired!
Able-bodied people passing! Do move them if you are able.

@badlyparkedox.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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NEW: Oxford-led researchers have delivered the most comprehensive analysis yet of cancer diagnosis in patients with vague symptoms (like fatigue or weight loss) - tackling one of primary care’s biggest challenges.

Find out more ⬇️
New study evaluates effectiveness of cancer diagnosis pathway for
A major UK study, led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the National Institute for
www.ox.ac.uk
September 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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*Pushes 2 + 2 on hand held calculator*

*4 appears on screen*

Wow it’s alive and thinking, maybe even sentient
August 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM