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Duncan Anderson
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Ex Psychiatrist and neuroscientist. Optimist
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t0nyyates.bsky.social
I feel I should consume more BBC politics to understand better what most people will be taking in in the UK, and how the BBC are dealing with it. But every time I try I just can't bear it. The combination of superficiality and toe-curling ceding of the ground to populism is too much.
January 18, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
I wrote this poem the day after Renee Good was murdered - it’s about how the media and politicians immediately dehumanised her. I have had a few people ask “who wrote it?” So I am putting it up again - written in anger
Media Notes for Justification of the Orphan Makers Do not be quick to put the boot in Those accused of shooting A peaceful mother in the face (three times) Her demise may well be justified Our population now is radicalised have you noticed how women often fail To even obey the voices of the male?) And this was no run of the mill "mum" She was a deviant one A lesbian And we cannot dismiss How the sapphic can put men with pistols Into a panic She may not have committed the sin of being brown But her profile page declared a pronoun! A typical trait of an enemy of the state But wait A little more She called herself a "poet" too And women like that are often shrews To take language and create a rhythm Another clue to domestic terrorism So I say again From autocue to you The world is surely a better place If we shoot love and peace and protest in the face
January 18, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
A real shame if this photo went viral again today.
Trump and Farage
January 18, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Or to look at it another way, Gaza faces huge challenges from Trump’s peace panel
Big names on Trump's peace panel face huge challenges in Gaza GETTY IMAGES John Sudworth Jerusalem
January 17, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Trump claim linking paracetamol use during pregnancy to autism debunked by review

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Trump claim linking paracetamol use during pregnancy to autism debunked by review
The US president warned pregnant women to "tough it out" and avoid paracetamol last year, highlighting a "meteoric rise" in cases of autism.
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January 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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helenpprice.bsky.social
Another one: British Society for Parasitology. We made the decision at our AGM in March 2025 to no longer post on X/Twitter
Screenshot of the BSP Twitter account which has a statement in the bio saying that the Society is no longer posting. We had had an account since 2011 and had 9219 followers.
January 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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glennyrodge.bsky.social
Saw someone say on here that it’s disrespectful to compare Trump to the Nazis, who perhaps doesn’t realise it’s a bit disrespectful to prosecute anyone who opposes you, disrespectful to randomly pull people off the street and also pretty disrespectful to gun down innocent people for no reason.
January 17, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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chromatowski.bsky.social
A real “tell your parents” paper (since everyone on Bsky is canonically 38).

Review of 21 studies of ppl over 50:

• Shingles vax associated w/47% lower risk of Alzheimer’s, 24% lower risk of any dementia

• Pneumonia vax had 36% lower risk of Alzheimer's

• Tdap had 33% lower risk of any dementia
Association between vaccinations and risk of dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
AbstractImportance. Dementia is a highly prevalent issue in older people. Whilst the prevention of dementia is a public health priority, the role of vaccin
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January 17, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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soozuk.bsky.social
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
January 17, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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carolinepennock.bsky.social
I find this sickening, tbh. The claim that simply being in the presence of a trans woman creates a “a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment” for cis women could not be more transphobic* if it tried.

*Literally: showing discrimination against, aversion to, or fear of, transgender people
'Listen to women' NHS nurses say, after tribunal rules sharing changing room with trans woman 'violated dignity'
However, the tribunal dismissed several other claims, finding that the trans woman had not harassed or victimised the nurses.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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goodlawproject.org
This notion of 'politics as drama or entertainment', and then the chase for audience numbers, rather than 'how our society is structured' is where things went wrong at the BBC.
writesbright.bsky.social Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 3d
This is truly awful prose
January 16, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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tobyontv.bsky.social
if Nigel Farage is lazy enough to record a message for paedophile Ian Watkins in exchange for money, what else might he do for money without thinking too hard
January 16, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
'Please, you don't have to have your hand on me'

Watch the moment ITV News' Peter A Smith was grabbed by a Reform UK staffer after being told to move on from his line of questioning while interviewing the party's new Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord
January 15, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Yet another attempt at legal harassment by the hideous UK Lawyers for Israel - this time against the eminent surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah - fails. www.bindmans.com/news-insight...
Tribunal finds no basis for misconduct in GMC against Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah | Bindmans
The Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service has today rejected the General Medical Council's (GMC's) case that Dr Abu-Sittah had committed misconduct. This brings to an end proceedings pursued by the GM...
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January 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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guardianheather.bsky.social
This "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.
robertsaunders.bsky.social Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 3d
Starmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers.

Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders".

It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
"And this is what Keir Starmer’s press secretary has said about Robert Jenrick at the lobby briefing this morning. [Highlighted] Robert Jenrick was the immigration minister in a government that presided over an open borders experiment [Highlighted], a health minister who left people stuck on waiting lists, and a Treasury minister during the worst decline in living standards on record.” While Reform continues to welcome failed Tory retreads, this Labor government is putting the country back on track."
January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
actually it's called Reform because they're trying to re-form the Conservative party but in the tent next door
January 15, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
Every minister should be using this line.
youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d
actually it's called Reform because they're trying to re-form the Conservative party but in the tent next door
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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jonhenley.bsky.social
This is indeed absolutely right
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d
The United States needs military access to Greenland, which it already has, to defend the Arctic, which it already does, from Russian and Chinese ships, which aren’t actually there, and this is so important we should destroy the Western alliance to get it, do I have that right?
January 14, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
When I was a freelance BBC science presenter, I wrote in support of Professor Dorothy Bishop and was then told I should not be critical of the Royal Society. Now I’ve resigned, so I can say I think @profrachelgan.bsky.social is making an important point here.
profrachelgan.bsky.social Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · 6d
Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
Dear Sir Paul, Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Musk’s Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct and how it is applied. A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that “sexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicine” and that “greater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20–50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia”. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a “powerful incentive for change”. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial. I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society “should only expel fellows if their science proved “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective””. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code “may need to be looked at again”, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research. I suggest that changing the Royal Society’s code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that “there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances”. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists. I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Society’s Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective” research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance. Yours sincerely, Professor Rachel A. Oliver.
January 14, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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t0nyyates.bsky.social
I decide to repost
michaelemann.bsky.social Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5d
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
January 14, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
But... but free speech
georgeeaton.bsky.social George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 5d
Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
January 13, 2026 at 1:26 PM