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David Vaughan

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Paediatrician. “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -- Omar El Akkad

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David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Mar 20

I absolutely love this from @mariafarrell.bsky.social

Words for our time.

“Despair is unethical, we have a duty to hope.'”

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 18d

I felt pretty darn good about this press release on Iger and Disney. indivisible.org/statements/i...

Washington, D.C. — Today, Ezra Levin, Indivisible’s co-founder and co-executive director, released the following statement on Indivisible’s campaign to boycott and protest Disney and ABC following the firing of Jimmy Kimmel:

“Bob Iger apparently never watched Andor. He should binge watch it this weekend, look deep within his soul, and reverse course – or resign in disgrace as CEO of Disney. Until then, Indivisible is organizing to save this beloved American company from disgrace, and to protect our constitutional rights that Iger is so willing to sacrifice.

“Iger’s cowardice is bad for Disney and bad for democracy. There was a time when Disney was on the side of democracy, producing some of the most memorable anti-fascist cartoons of the 1940s to help us win the war. But eighty years later, Iger is tarnishing a great American company’s reputation with his cowardly capitulation to Trump’s goons. Rather than stand up for free speech, he’s falling over to help an unpopular president squash dissent and trample our rights. Shame, Bob, shame.

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David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Sep 5

You have been on that beach

David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Sep 4

#LaytownRaces

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David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Aug 7

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David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jul 27

#StormySkies

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David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Less than average? Taking that as the benchmark will really skew the incentives

David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Matt Scanlon @matt13.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is one of those situations when I don’t want to hit the “heart” button because I don’t know what it means.

I refer to the local Organ Procurement group as vultures.

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David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jul 20

It should be a matter of national shame that we now spend more on maternity litigation than the total cost of running maternity services.”

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

NHS facing ‘absolutely shocking’ £27bn bill for maternity failings in England

Exclusive: Legal actions rise after death or injury of hundreds of babies and women in recent years

www.theguardian.com

David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jul 20

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Jul 16

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... "everyone in Ireland fell into a vat of Guinness, got drunk and needs to sober up" is 10/10 persuasive diplomacy.

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David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jul 13

You had almost…what hope for the median voter

David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jul 5

“The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s point of view. The only thing that can do that is a good story. stories are a kind of benevolent Trojan horse. You let them in, and they add complication, allowing you to understand a thing and its opposite are true at the same time.”

David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jun 30

OpenAI’s o3 reasoning model to correctly solve 85.5 per cent of the NEJM cases.

That compared with about 20 per cent by experienced human doctors,

#AIDiagnosis via @financialtimes.com

David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jun 30

Enjoy

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 25

me: there's no way this day could possibly get any better

Ireland:

The Journal @thejournal.ie · Jun 25

A meme of US Vice President JD Vance depicted as a baby was held up in the Dáil today by Labour leader Ivana Bacik.

jrnl.ie/6743403t

Ivana Bacik holds up meme of bald baby JD Vance in the Dáil

Bacik said the meme was “amusing” and that the US clampdown on visa’s is “authoritarian”.

jrnl.ie

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David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jun 25

It feels like the dark ages are creeping up on us.
#Diphtheria

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Corynebacterium diphtheriae Outbreak in Migrant Populations in Europe | NEJM

A surge of cases of Corynebacterium diphtheriae infection was observed in reception centers for migrants in Europe beginning in the summer of 2022. Most of the cases were cutaneous, although some r...

www.nejm.org

David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jun 24

Definitely time to reup this

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · Jun 22

History always repeats itself.

First as tragedy then as what the fuck.

David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jun 24

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www.reddit.com/r/Futurology...

From the Futurology community on Reddit: The radical idea that space-time remembers could upend cosmology

Explore this post and more from the Futurology community

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Jun 23

Probably the best reaction by anyone just learning about the 36-hour B-2 missions.

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David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jun 23

Two letters to @economist.com on #HighReliability this week. Is this a record?

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David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jun 22

“Every administration is trying to build the plane as it flies. This may be the first adminstration that is yanking random pieces out of the engine, and chucking them out of the cargo bay in mid air.”

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Jun 22

"The road to sticky foreign policy quagmires is paved with temporizing immediate decisions."

www.programmablemutter.com/p/flexibilit...

Flexibility, slag heaps and bombs

Foreign policy minefields in the era of Trump

www.programmablemutter.com

David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jun 21

Oh dear. Not the kind of story ireland wants to see on page 1 of the @wsj.com

David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jun 21

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · Jun 21

Proponents of STEM as a field always frame it as pure and objective, its advances driven only by the scientific method and eventually diffusing into society by way of the economy and medicine.

But science, and tech especially, can never be dissociated from the politics of the society it bathes in.

David Vaughan @davidjvaughan.bsky.social · Jun 20

A question for delegates attending #HEPS2025

If the HFE community was allowed to focus on only one “thing” to improve healthcare, what would that one thing be? And you aren’t allowed to say education.

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