Helen Lachmann
@helenlachmann.bsky.social
Professor of Medicine, Nephrologist, Clinical Lead NHS Amyloidosis and Autoinflammatory Services. Views my own (mostly)
Monkeying around
October 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Monkeying around
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VEXAS syndrome and immune-mediated rheumatic diseases: overlaps in clinical features and mechanisms
Arvind Kaul and colleagues explores the links between VEXAS syndrome and rheumatic diseases, offering guidance on current management strategies bit.ly/4nkqhY4
@helenlachmann.bsky.social
Arvind Kaul and colleagues explores the links between VEXAS syndrome and rheumatic diseases, offering guidance on current management strategies bit.ly/4nkqhY4
@helenlachmann.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
VEXAS syndrome and immune-mediated rheumatic diseases: overlaps in clinical features and mechanisms
Arvind Kaul and colleagues explores the links between VEXAS syndrome and rheumatic diseases, offering guidance on current management strategies bit.ly/4nkqhY4
@helenlachmann.bsky.social
Arvind Kaul and colleagues explores the links between VEXAS syndrome and rheumatic diseases, offering guidance on current management strategies bit.ly/4nkqhY4
@helenlachmann.bsky.social
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The laziness and implied bias of the BBC here is extreme - "No 10 did not comment" presumably because the CPS and courts are independent, but there's no attempt to find anyone who would argue the opposite view, just the unchallenged whine of someone who called for asylum seekers to be burnt to death
what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lucy Connolly says she was political prisoner over Southport post
She gives her first newspaper interview after being released from prison.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The laziness and implied bias of the BBC here is extreme - "No 10 did not comment" presumably because the CPS and courts are independent, but there's no attempt to find anyone who would argue the opposite view, just the unchallenged whine of someone who called for asylum seekers to be burnt to death
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Balls. Micky was the Sky at Night producer for a while. Utterly dedicated to his work, a perfectionist who could also somehow watch cricket on his phone while doing it. He taught me a lot. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Producer behind Brian Cox documentaries dies in Alps accident
Michael Lachmann, 54, who worked on the ‘Wonders’ series, slipped and fell while coming down the Grands Couloirs glacier in the Vanoise National Park
www.thetimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Balls. Micky was the Sky at Night producer for a while. Utterly dedicated to his work, a perfectionist who could also somehow watch cricket on his phone while doing it. He taught me a lot. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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As US government authorities can no longer be relied upon to provide reliable medical information, the American Medical Association and 78 other medical societies have written an open letter to the American public underscoring the importance of vaccines.
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
www.ama-assn.org
June 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
As US government authorities can no longer be relied upon to provide reliable medical information, the American Medical Association and 78 other medical societies have written an open letter to the American public underscoring the importance of vaccines.
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
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Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
etsc.eu
June 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
Chelsea flower show
May 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Chelsea flower show
The roses are out and the garden is at it's pinkest
May 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The roses are out and the garden is at it's pinkest
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Happy 276th birthday Edward Jenner! What a time for vaccination: 154 million lives saved in the last 50 years, tempered with an increase in vaccine preventable diseases across the world, vaccine sceptics in charge in the US, and cuts to overseas aid threatening global immunisation programmes.
May 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Happy 276th birthday Edward Jenner! What a time for vaccination: 154 million lives saved in the last 50 years, tempered with an increase in vaccine preventable diseases across the world, vaccine sceptics in charge in the US, and cuts to overseas aid threatening global immunisation programmes.
UK National Amyloidosis Centre Annual departmental meeting
May 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
UK National Amyloidosis Centre Annual departmental meeting
Spring flowers walking from Uzes to the Pont de Gard
April 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Spring flowers walking from Uzes to the Pont de Gard
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Big congratulations to Cyrielle Hou (@dib-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social) for receiving the Young Investigator Award at the 13th Meeting of the International Society of Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases (ISSAID) in Paris! 🏆👏
And kudos to the organizers for a fantastic conference!
And kudos to the organizers for a fantastic conference!
April 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Big congratulations to Cyrielle Hou (@dib-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social) for receiving the Young Investigator Award at the 13th Meeting of the International Society of Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases (ISSAID) in Paris! 🏆👏
And kudos to the organizers for a fantastic conference!
And kudos to the organizers for a fantastic conference!
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Our senior editor Maria Papatriantafyllou is attending the 13th Meeting of the International Society of Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases (ISSAID) in Paris!
If you are attending make sure to say hi and if you'd like to meet with her send an email to [email protected] ☕😊
If you are attending make sure to say hi and if you'd like to meet with her send an email to [email protected] ☕😊
April 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Our senior editor Maria Papatriantafyllou is attending the 13th Meeting of the International Society of Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases (ISSAID) in Paris!
If you are attending make sure to say hi and if you'd like to meet with her send an email to [email protected] ☕😊
If you are attending make sure to say hi and if you'd like to meet with her send an email to [email protected] ☕😊
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
Reposted by Helen Lachmann
BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime.
Keep sharing everywhere.
Keep sharing everywhere.
March 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime.
Keep sharing everywhere.
Keep sharing everywhere.
Frogspawn! Oddly 3weeks later than last year
March 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Frogspawn! Oddly 3weeks later than last year
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Utterly devastating situation in the UK TV production industry
"I see articles about factory closures when 100 people lose their jobs, and it makes national news. It’s 40 times worse for the film and TV industry, and nobody seems to notice.”
Same thing came up in a WGGB town-hall meeting this week. Politicians assume we're all rich, or forget we exist.
Same thing came up in a WGGB town-hall meeting this week. Politicians assume we're all rich, or forget we exist.
Senior TV producers take shelf-stacking jobs as UK industry remains in crisis
Experienced figures doing entry-level roles amid prolonged work drought since Covid and rise of online content
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Utterly devastating situation in the UK TV production industry
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Apparently, the CDC are going to investigate the link between vaccines and autism again. Total waste of resources when it has already been conclusively shown that there is no link.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_w7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_w7...
Why we know that vaccine/autism claims are bollocks
YouTube video by Back to the Science
www.youtube.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Apparently, the CDC are going to investigate the link between vaccines and autism again. Total waste of resources when it has already been conclusively shown that there is no link.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_w7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_w7...
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Save the date as the Royal Society’s #SummerScience Exhibition returns on 1-6 July for a free celebration of UK science in the heart of London. Experience the world as an elephant, scan the skies with the world’s largest telescope, and unravel quantum entanglement: royalsociety.org/news/2025/03...
The Royal Society announces its Summer Science Exhibition | Royal Society
Mark your diaries as the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition returns on 1-6 July for an unparalleled, free celebration of cutting-edge UK science in the heart of London.
royalsociety.org
March 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Save the date as the Royal Society’s #SummerScience Exhibition returns on 1-6 July for a free celebration of UK science in the heart of London. Experience the world as an elephant, scan the skies with the world’s largest telescope, and unravel quantum entanglement: royalsociety.org/news/2025/03...
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Vaccines have saved countless lives, eradicating many diseases and protecting us from others. royalsociety.org/current-topi...
Health | Royal Society
An introduction to key work from the Royal Society related to the transformation of human health.
royalsociety.org
February 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Vaccines have saved countless lives, eradicating many diseases and protecting us from others. royalsociety.org/current-topi...
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Human-induced #ClimateChange has increased the risk of extreme weather, caused sea level rise and threatened ecosystems and lives across the world. We all need to take more ambitious action now to reduce these risks, while preserving and restoring nature. royalsociety.org/current-topi...
Climate change and biodiversity | Royal Society
The big questions around climate change and biodiversity at the Royal Society.
royalsociety.org
February 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Human-induced #ClimateChange has increased the risk of extreme weather, caused sea level rise and threatened ecosystems and lives across the world. We all need to take more ambitious action now to reduce these risks, while preserving and restoring nature. royalsociety.org/current-topi...
Todays dose of optimism from Paddington ladies toilet
January 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Todays dose of optimism from Paddington ladies toilet
When America sneezes we all catch cold…
The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social:
The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started
Grant reviews have been suspended at the NIH. This could be an omen.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
When America sneezes we all catch cold…