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3 persistent symptoms, 3 GP visits or 3 weeks of unexplained symptoms? We want #HealthcareProfessionals to consider: 'Could it be cancer?'

#ChildCancerSmart Dissemination Lead, @drbobphillips.bsky.social, explains more about our evidence-based approach.

🔗 bit.ly/4lno0Kh

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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still don't understand how ostensible experts are saying we're only a few years away from true AGI (or even superintelligence). Analytical AI/ML is ultimately just statistical modeling and analysis, and generative AI is just auto-correct amped up a bunch.

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CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association @cclguk.bsky.social · Aug 7

Today, we’re launching #ChildCancerSmart alongside campaign ambassador @dramirkhangp.bsky.social - an evidence-based public and professional awareness campaign to improve #EarlyDiagnosis of cancer in children and teenagers aged up to 18 🩵🎗️

Find out more at cclg.org.uk/childcancers...

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 1

The bastards in this world are doing everything they can to destroy the arts and silence voices. Your support of Uncanny Magazine can mean a 12th year of the stories, poems, essays, interviews, podcasts, and covers that folks need. COMMUNITIES FIGHT THE DARKNESS TOGETHER, SPACE UNICORNS!

Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 1

CALL THE NEIGHBORS & WAKE THE KIDS! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is 94% funded with just FIVE DAYS TO GO! If you want to see a 12th year of Uncanny Magazine, NOW IS THE TIME TO JOIN THE SPACE UNICORN RANGER CORPS! buff.ly/HPEcU9t

Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara

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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · Jul 28

Are you a parent/carer of a young man who has had cancer?

We are keen to hear your views on a new resource designed to raise awareness of the ways in which cancer treatment can affect fertility.

Interested? Contact [email protected]

Please share!

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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · Jul 28

This is a superb publication that’s very worth reading (and it makes the world a better place while it’s doing it).

Subscribe for a year for less than the cost of a round in a city centre pub.

Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Jul 28

WE NEED YOUR HELP, SPACE UNICORNS! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is 83% funded with 9 days to go! Please push us over that finish line so we can make another year of your Uncanny Magazine! buff.ly/d6biJJf

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Lord Sedge of Sedgley @lordsedge.bsky.social · Jul 22

Worth remembering that one of Ozzy's last acts was to raise £104 million for charity

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need

#Ozzy

a blurred image of a woman dancing in a room

Alt: Ozzy dancing

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Jul 22

We are SO CLOSE to funding Uncanny Magazine Year 12! Just look at the solicited essayists for next year! YOU WANT THIS TO HAPPEN, SPACE UNICORNS!! buff.ly/JkF7S7F

Ryka Aoki, Mark Ayres, Jane Espenson, Hana Lee, Nilah Magruder, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Una McCormack

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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · Jul 21

Unicorns hand painted add to a collection of priceless items #paedsrocks

Shelf with a “book of poo” book, a Disney cruises mug, a pin badge with “It’s Prof actually” on it and a small pink painted watercolour of a smiling unicorn

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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · Jul 21

Weirdly, one of the best bits of being a teens cancer doctor is saying things like “Your scan is really dull. Nothing medically exciting at all.” before wishing them a (clinically) tedious time until we meet again.

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Matt Peters @mrmightyink.bsky.social · Jul 17

70% funded. 20 days left.

Uncanny Magazine is on its way to another year of incredible stories—and I’ll be right there voicing them for your ears.

Help us keep the magic (and space unicorns) alive 🦄

FLY FOREVER!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns!

Funding to support Year 12 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!

www.kickstarter.com

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Matt Peters @mrmightyink.bsky.social · Jul 10

🎉 We’re officially over halfway to our $50K goal! 🎉
Thanks to everyone who's joined the journey so far. If you love sci-fi & fantasy, now’s the perfect time to jump in and help us cross the finish line to Uncanny Magazine Year 12!

🚀🦄 Support and share!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns!

Funding to support Year 12 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!

www.kickstarter.com

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Jul 8

If you're having a bad day, here's some otters on a water slide to make your day better #bluesky ... 😊

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! @kickstarter.com has made the Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Kickstarter a “Project We Love”! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Jul 7

PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE WIDELY!!! We need your help once again, you magnificent Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter!!!
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · Jul 7

The original version of van life.

Snail on a tarmac path. Looking supremely unconcerned by the world.

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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · Jul 5

Even if you’ve listened before, now might be a very good time to go through this series and remember the banality of evil, look out for it, and resist. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals - Episode 1 - The Hunt - BBC Sounds

May 1945 and the leading Nazis have gone to ground all over Europe.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Capture Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumour Charity @capturedsrctc.bsky.social · Jun 21

16.5 hours in and these guys are still going STRONG. Alternating between stitching and swimming they have rocked Splash and Stitch. It’s not too late to sponsor them and help us fund essential research into palliative care: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jun 20

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

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