Top five grumpy notes written by the father of evolutionary biology, naturalist, and humanist Charles Darwin. #DarwinDay

What has 10 legs and is coming soon? Give up? It's the cast of Series 19!

#Taskmaster returns with Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin.

It’s feeling like the start of 2016 again… Tony Slattery and now David Lynch 😢 #RIP

Challenge…

Write lyrics to the theme from Wallace and Gromit.

* Must rhyme
* Must scan perfectly with the melody
* Must NOT be about Wallace and Gromit

GO!

I’ve got two posters signed by #MikeWozniak & #WillAdamsdale - repost/like this and I’ll choose two people randomly to send it to after Boxing Day. Merry Christmas!

So, I've been thinking of doing some tips for interacting with the NHS for a while and I've shoe horned it into 24.

Sooooo, over December you will get my "NHS advent calendar". Not especially festive but my gift to you... And let's face it. Sometimes, 2/8

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has passed its Second Reading.

A historic first step to meet the aspirations of the public, who overwhelmingly support having choice, dignity, and compassion at the end of their lives.

#AssistedDyingBill #YestoDignity #AssistedDying

I passed my genetic engineering exam with flying koalas.

Just re-posting a few of the kind of things I’m interested in/find funny/opinions I agree with

This particular performance of this particularly ridiculous song kinda changed my life. I THINK in a good way. 😂

youtu.be/e6raVzrbqrM?...
#DigitalHouseOfTimothy #Backstory
#InflatableYou

Given the news about RFK Jr, here’s a visual argument for vaccines, in 5 posts.

1/ A ward of polio victims, incarcerated inside "iron lungs" in 1950s America. Many are children, lungs paralysed, unable to breathe unaided. Thanks to vaccination, no-one has caught polio in the UK since the 1980s.

Me, leading people from the other place to #Bluesky!

Welcome, newbies! I'm a medical historian who likes to remind people the past was pretty awful.

If you ever wondered what would happen if you needed a leg amputated in 1832, or if you had a toothache in 1765 - look no further.

Well it's nearly the weekend so please enjoy some skeletons fencing.

You know what would be efficient? Keeping people healthy and giving them the opportunity for a good education so they can eventually work and pay taxes which can be used to look after ppl who can't work but are still treasured cos we all have more to offer than labour. Maybe that's just crazy talk

CATS ON THE LONDON UNDERGROUND
🚇 PHOTO /1

There seems to be an increasing number of feline travellers on the London Underground network. I've now encountered enough cats to make a thread!

I met Tony the Cat, with Cat Trainer Mohammed at Walthamstow Central Station. They regularly travel the tube!

I haven’t posted on Twitter since 2019, but continued to lurk there. I’m joining the X-odus and following all my favourites over here, away from The Bad Place…