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Jamilla Hussain @jamillahussain1.bsky.social · 2h

As many parents will tell you, the earlier you set the boundaries (whilst recognising the big feelings are real), the better … for the little person and family unit as a whole

#nobelpeaceprize

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h

Who could have guessed that Trump's "Give me the peace prize now or I'll go to war with you" strategy wouldn't work out?

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 20h

ENGLAND COVID data latest source via @ukhsa.bsky.social

3,049 Cases
7 days to 1 Oct 2025
🆙19.0%

87 Deaths
7 days to 26 Sep 2025
🆙3.6%

2,077 Patients admitted to hospital
7 days to 30 Sep 2025
🆙9.7%

Virus tests positivity
7 days to 26 Sep 2025
🆙2.2%

ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-...

COVID-19 | UKHSA data dashboard

Overall summary of COVID-19 in circulation within the UK

ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 20h

We've seen how a Trump administration has taken over scientific bodies, so independent research is suppressed if its findings aren't what he wants, and outputs just become govt propaganda. Could the same thing happen here, if a future PM wanted to do the same? Important analysis ⬇️

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21h

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 18h

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 23h

What percentage of the health research funding pot do you think goes on methods and meta science?

Around 2% (if you add together all mention of research design and methodologies across all areas from research.hscni.net/sites/defaul...)

Just 2% spent on the part that underpins EVERYTHING we do.

Dr Will Ball @wpball.com · 23h

Reading some interest stats about health research funding in the UK in recent years.

- Only 7% goes to Mental Health research
- Only 5% of that MH funding goes to studies related to prevention

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Jamilla Hussain @jamillahussain1.bsky.social · 20h

Best day of my @nihr.bsky.social fellowship so far today

Time spent with social scientists and methodologists doing excellent work and pushing us to think hard

Thanks team @bcqr.bsky.social

@laurasheard.bsky.social

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 4d

A gentle warning from Carl Sagan

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

This - as any historian who has studied the subject of immigration knows - is what always happens over time & there is no reason to believe it will not continue. The only enemies of this benign process are those that highlight & seek to profit from division.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 2d

Does she also think that walking through a community and seeing no black or Asian faces means that integration has failed?

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Jamilla Hussain @jamillahussain1.bsky.social · 1d

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 3d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Jamilla Hussain @jamillahussain1.bsky.social · 2d

A chilling read as a UK citizen

I hope our health leaders don’t wait until this stage to speak out &realise their role now is a lot different to their recent predecessors

I don’t envy them- but public health depends on it

“we know that politics are complicated. But this is bigger than politics.”

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Aug 15

*cries in public health*

JAMA @jama.com · Aug 15

📊 JAMA Data Brief: Despite medical advances, US children's health is worsening with increased mortality and chronic conditions, partly due to inadequate insurance and societal investment.

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JAMA Data Brief: Bar graph comparing infant mortality rates in the US vs. OECD18 between 2007 and 2022. Mortality rate decreased but remains higher in the US. Causes listed: prematurity, SUID, and other causes.

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Jamilla Hussain @jamillahussain1.bsky.social · Aug 14

And supplement industry

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 26

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

www.wired.com

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Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · Aug 1

Dementia’s broad reach: More than 1 in 4 families of older adults at risk for providing care news.umich.edu/dementias-br... by @umich.edu

#Alzheimers #dementia #caregiving

Dementia's broad reach: More than 1 in 4 families of older adults at risk for providing care

About 26% of both households and immediate families of older adults include an individual with dementia—often requiring relatives to step into unexpected caregiving roles, according to a new Universit...

news.umich.edu

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Jul 31

I used to wonder why med-tech investors don't have independent experts, especially medical statisticians, evaluate whether the tech actually works. I eventually realized that they simply don't care.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 @nortygirl.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Jamilla Hussain @jamillahussain1.bsky.social · Jun 13

Updated statement by the British Geriatric Society on te assisted dying bill

Risks still not adequately addressed

#assisteddying

www.bgs.org.uk/bgs-warns-th...

@katiewhitemp.bsky.social

BGS warns that older people have been overlooked in the Assisted Dying Bill debate | British Geriatrics Society

The BGS urges MPs to consider the needs of older people ahead of the second report stage debate in the House of Commons and the pivotal third reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill ex...

www.bgs.org.uk

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Jamilla Hussain @jamillahussain1.bsky.social · Jun 13

It still concerns me that the only direct consultation with marginalised groups on the #AssistedDyingBill has been the tiny bits I’ve done

I summarise the key findings here

MPs must not take the silencing of these groups as reassurance

#AssistedDying
@katiewhitemp.bsky.social

Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · Jun 13

A colleague has written this, which I think nicely sums up some of the reasons I have mixed feelings about the #AssistedDying bill.

No simple right answers here; just tradeoffs - but hopefully we can recognise and help those who are at risk.

www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

I consulted marginalised groups on the assisted dying bill – there is fear

The Terminally Ill Adults Bill offers a choice to a small but important group of people who want the option of assisted dying.

www.politicshome.com

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Jamilla Hussain @jamillahussain1.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thanks Tom
I had to switch back to Twitter for ‘knowledge mobilisation impact’ … more engagement by MPs/media there sadly.

You’ve inspired me to come back though

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · Jun 8

⚖️ As the Madleen flotilla gets closer to Gaza, a reminder that international law could not be clearer.

Israel's blockade on Gaza is illegal and Israel is required to ensure unimpeded access for humanitarian aid, which it consistently fails to do: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Gaza: UN experts demand safe passage for Freedom Flotilla Coalition

GENEVA – UN experts* today called for safe passage for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ship carrying essential medical aid, food, and baby supplies to Gaza which departed from Italy on 1 June 2025.“A...

www.ohchr.org

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Mona⁷ ⟭⟬ ⟬⟭ @monawys.bsky.social · Jun 8

The next hours are crucial for the safety of the Madleen.

The Israeli media announced that the IOF will siege the Fredom Flotilla and arrest the people on Board. Now that the signal of the Madleen has been jamed an attack of the Israeli IOF is to be expected.
tracker
flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

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