Sean O’Sullivan
@seaneosullivan.bsky.social
Soul music, special education, art and general dabbling in what’s going on.
Retired headteacher of a special school (Frank Wise School, Banbury).
Record collector, fed up with Twitter.
Retired headteacher of a special school (Frank Wise School, Banbury).
Record collector, fed up with Twitter.
The 3rd year of this campaign to raise awareness that anyone can get lung cancer, and to help people recognise symptoms and improve early diagnosis.
Wouldn’t it be great to think campaigns like this were no longer necessary?
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
#LungCancer
#EGFR+
Wouldn’t it be great to think campaigns like this were no longer necessary?
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
#LungCancer
#EGFR+
It’s 1 November - the start of Lung Cancer Awareness Month and the launch of the third year of #AllYouNeedIsLungs! 💟
We’re sharing over 30 real voices this year - all ages & backgrounds who want others to recognise the signs sooner.
Because lung cancer doesn’t have one face. #LCSM
We’re sharing over 30 real voices this year - all ages & backgrounds who want others to recognise the signs sooner.
Because lung cancer doesn’t have one face. #LCSM
November 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The 3rd year of this campaign to raise awareness that anyone can get lung cancer, and to help people recognise symptoms and improve early diagnosis.
Wouldn’t it be great to think campaigns like this were no longer necessary?
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
#LungCancer
#EGFR+
Wouldn’t it be great to think campaigns like this were no longer necessary?
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
#LungCancer
#EGFR+
Reposted by Sean O’Sullivan
“I’m Eve, 44, French, & live in the North East with my husband & our 2 girls.
I was diagnosed with stage 4 EGFR+ #lungcancer in Jan 2023 after a year-long cough & being sent home a couple of times.”
Eve 💟 is one of the voices in our 2025 All You Need is Lungs campaign.
tinyurl.com/ysvuavmc #LCSM
I was diagnosed with stage 4 EGFR+ #lungcancer in Jan 2023 after a year-long cough & being sent home a couple of times.”
Eve 💟 is one of the voices in our 2025 All You Need is Lungs campaign.
tinyurl.com/ysvuavmc #LCSM
August 12, 2025 at 5:40 AM
“I’m Eve, 44, French, & live in the North East with my husband & our 2 girls.
I was diagnosed with stage 4 EGFR+ #lungcancer in Jan 2023 after a year-long cough & being sent home a couple of times.”
Eve 💟 is one of the voices in our 2025 All You Need is Lungs campaign.
tinyurl.com/ysvuavmc #LCSM
I was diagnosed with stage 4 EGFR+ #lungcancer in Jan 2023 after a year-long cough & being sent home a couple of times.”
Eve 💟 is one of the voices in our 2025 All You Need is Lungs campaign.
tinyurl.com/ysvuavmc #LCSM
#WorldLungCancerDay
If you’re struggling to get your doctor to check you out, maybe show them this campaign video.
Early diagnosis can be life saving.
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
If you’re struggling to get your doctor to check you out, maybe show them this campaign video.
Early diagnosis can be life saving.
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
Our award-winning See Through the Symptoms campaign is back!
Launched today for World #LungCancer Day, the campaign returns with a brand-new website - ready to support early diagnosis in primary care.
See Through the Symptoms is part of All You Need Is Lungs.
www.seethroughthesymptoms.uk #LCSM
Launched today for World #LungCancer Day, the campaign returns with a brand-new website - ready to support early diagnosis in primary care.
See Through the Symptoms is part of All You Need Is Lungs.
www.seethroughthesymptoms.uk #LCSM
August 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#WorldLungCancerDay
If you’re struggling to get your doctor to check you out, maybe show them this campaign video.
Early diagnosis can be life saving.
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
If you’re struggling to get your doctor to check you out, maybe show them this campaign video.
Early diagnosis can be life saving.
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
A howl of logical outrage from @johnharris1969.bsky.social that let me know that @stephenunwin.bsky.social has written a vital new book.
You don’t have to be a @theguardian.com reader to buy this book, but it helps that they published this review!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You don’t have to be a @theguardian.com reader to buy this book, but it helps that they published this review!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past | John Harris
A landmark book exposes the history of loathing that underpins scandals like Winterbourne View. It has received next to no attention, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A howl of logical outrage from @johnharris1969.bsky.social that let me know that @stephenunwin.bsky.social has written a vital new book.
You don’t have to be a @theguardian.com reader to buy this book, but it helps that they published this review!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You don’t have to be a @theguardian.com reader to buy this book, but it helps that they published this review!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#ThamesWater
Am I missing something here?
The CEO and senior bosses preside over the most appalling management of a vital monopoly company, incurring severe fines, taking the business to the brink of collapse with phenomenal debt, and the Chair wants to retain them rather than sack them?
Am I missing something here?
The CEO and senior bosses preside over the most appalling management of a vital monopoly company, incurring severe fines, taking the business to the brink of collapse with phenomenal debt, and the Chair wants to retain them rather than sack them?
July 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#ThamesWater
Am I missing something here?
The CEO and senior bosses preside over the most appalling management of a vital monopoly company, incurring severe fines, taking the business to the brink of collapse with phenomenal debt, and the Chair wants to retain them rather than sack them?
Am I missing something here?
The CEO and senior bosses preside over the most appalling management of a vital monopoly company, incurring severe fines, taking the business to the brink of collapse with phenomenal debt, and the Chair wants to retain them rather than sack them?
Such depressing reading on DfE spending, especially when so much of it is fully legitimate (Keegan et al), possibly virtually all of it.
Rules around Ministers’ and other exit payments desperately need to be overhauled.
Rules around Ministers’ and other exit payments desperately need to be overhauled.
'Worsening' high needs cost pressures, £600 million of 'irregular' grant spending and bumper pay boosts and payouts for senior officials and ministers have been revealed in the Department for Education’s annual report and accounts
schoolsweek.co.uk/send-major-i...
schoolsweek.co.uk/send-major-i...
13 things we learned from the DfE's annual accounts
'Worsening' high needs pressures and 'irregular' grant spending flagged in 332-page document
schoolsweek.co.uk
July 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Such depressing reading on DfE spending, especially when so much of it is fully legitimate (Keegan et al), possibly virtually all of it.
Rules around Ministers’ and other exit payments desperately need to be overhauled.
Rules around Ministers’ and other exit payments desperately need to be overhauled.
This looks great 👏
Another scorching day and another scorching box set!
This 50 years of Trojan is lovely, obviously some great tunes! Badges, slip Matt poster and a superb book talking about classic Trojan artwork 👍
This 50 years of Trojan is lovely, obviously some great tunes! Badges, slip Matt poster and a superb book talking about classic Trojan artwork 👍
July 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This looks great 👏
An article in today's Guardian about the link between air pollution and lung cancer, particularly adenocarcinoma.
#LungCancer
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#LungCancer
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Air pollution linked to lung cancer-driving DNA mutations, study finds
Research finds that the higher the levels of air pollution in a region, the more cancer-promoting mutations are present
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
An article in today's Guardian about the link between air pollution and lung cancer, particularly adenocarcinoma.
#LungCancer
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#LungCancer
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Reposted by Sean O’Sullivan
Wow - blown away doesn’t cover it!! All You Need Is Lungs is a finalist in the 2025 #UKSocialMediaAwards! 💟 A campaign with no media budget, no agency - just real voices from people living with non-smoking #lungcancer. Thank you 🙏 to all our incredible ‘voices’ for making this possible! #LCSM
June 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Wow - blown away doesn’t cover it!! All You Need Is Lungs is a finalist in the 2025 #UKSocialMediaAwards! 💟 A campaign with no media budget, no agency - just real voices from people living with non-smoking #lungcancer. Thank you 🙏 to all our incredible ‘voices’ for making this possible! #LCSM
Disturbing in pretty much every sentence, @captaink77.bsky.social makes clear sense of the weird data about SEN units & resource bases. Clear, & uncomfortable.
Now you see them, now you don’t: The curious case of the vanishing resource bases and SEN units www.specialneedsjungle.com/vanishing-re...
Now you see them, now you don’t: The curious case of the vanishing resource bases and SEN units www.specialneedsjungle.com/vanishing-re...
Now you see them, now you don’t: The curious case of the vanishing resource bases and SEN units - Special Needs Jungle
Special Needs Jungle provides parent-centred information, news, special needs resources and informed opinion about SEND - Special educational needs and disability, Education, Health and Care Plans, EH...
www.specialneedsjungle.com
May 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Disturbing in pretty much every sentence, @captaink77.bsky.social makes clear sense of the weird data about SEN units & resource bases. Clear, & uncomfortable.
Now you see them, now you don’t: The curious case of the vanishing resource bases and SEN units www.specialneedsjungle.com/vanishing-re...
Now you see them, now you don’t: The curious case of the vanishing resource bases and SEN units www.specialneedsjungle.com/vanishing-re...
@bbcspringwatch.bsky.social I thought you might enjoy these 2clips of a fox cub I’ve just seen in the back garden here in Banbury. The first shows it carrying an unripe fig that had fallen off the tree, but hard to spot as it’s not slo-mo!
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May 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
@bbcspringwatch.bsky.social I thought you might enjoy these 2clips of a fox cub I’ve just seen in the back garden here in Banbury. The first shows it carrying an unripe fig that had fallen off the tree, but hard to spot as it’s not slo-mo!
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Very impressed by this!
May 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Very impressed by this!
When you read this article, how can we still be puzzled by how ordinary people could have behaved so abominably in....
[Please insert whatever authoritarian/dictatorial/fascist regime you feel is appropriate].
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
[Please insert whatever authoritarian/dictatorial/fascist regime you feel is appropriate].
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial
Man who says he had previously left and re-entered the country multiple times alleges border officials called him ‘retarded’ and boasted ‘Trump is back in town’
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
When you read this article, how can we still be puzzled by how ordinary people could have behaved so abominably in....
[Please insert whatever authoritarian/dictatorial/fascist regime you feel is appropriate].
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
[Please insert whatever authoritarian/dictatorial/fascist regime you feel is appropriate].
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m staggered at the gross insensitivity displayed by the #Conservatives in nominating Amanda Spielman for a peerage.
It is a disgraceful insult to the family, friends and colleagues of #RuthPerry.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
It is a disgraceful insult to the family, friends and colleagues of #RuthPerry.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘An insult’: Amanda Spielman, Ofsted chief at time of Ruth Perry’s suicide, to be given a peerage
The nomination by Conservatives of the former chief inspector of schools has been met with outrage by the headteacher’s family, and called ‘obscene’ by school leaders
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I’m staggered at the gross insensitivity displayed by the #Conservatives in nominating Amanda Spielman for a peerage.
It is a disgraceful insult to the family, friends and colleagues of #RuthPerry.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
It is a disgraceful insult to the family, friends and colleagues of #RuthPerry.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The state of palliative care in Britain.
What will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social do?
#PalliativeCare
#NHS
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
What will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social do?
#PalliativeCare
#NHS
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Hospices are in retreat’: funding crisis squeezing UK palliative care providers
St Catherine’s hospice in West Sussex says it has been forced to leave beds empty despite the demand for end-of-life care
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The state of palliative care in Britain.
What will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social do?
#PalliativeCare
#NHS
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
What will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social do?
#PalliativeCare
#NHS
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The training was for staff in roles across the surgery, along with their own GPs and others who join them as a training centre.
I’m very grateful to BCHC for taking this on, and hope it can inspire other surgeries to remind staff that #AllYouNeedIsLungs to get #LungCancer.
I’m very grateful to BCHC for taking this on, and hope it can inspire other surgeries to remind staff that #AllYouNeedIsLungs to get #LungCancer.
After Christine passed away in Oct 2024, her husband Sean met with her GP surgery to discuss her delayed EGFR+ #lungcancer diagnosis.
Now, Banbury Cross Health Centre has made lung cancer in non-smokers part of their GP training.
💬 Patient advocacy changes conversations & outcomes. #LCSM
Now, Banbury Cross Health Centre has made lung cancer in non-smokers part of their GP training.
💬 Patient advocacy changes conversations & outcomes. #LCSM
March 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The training was for staff in roles across the surgery, along with their own GPs and others who join them as a training centre.
I’m very grateful to BCHC for taking this on, and hope it can inspire other surgeries to remind staff that #AllYouNeedIsLungs to get #LungCancer.
I’m very grateful to BCHC for taking this on, and hope it can inspire other surgeries to remind staff that #AllYouNeedIsLungs to get #LungCancer.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to argue that the significant increase in lung cancer and the change of type within that is just random bad luck.
We desperately need our government to face reality.
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
#LungCancer
#EGFR+
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
We desperately need our government to face reality.
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
#LungCancer
#EGFR+
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK
Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers.
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to argue that the significant increase in lung cancer and the change of type within that is just random bad luck.
We desperately need our government to face reality.
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
#LungCancer
#EGFR+
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
We desperately need our government to face reality.
#AllYouNeedIsLungs
#LungCancer
#EGFR+
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
Fascinating hearing about goldfinches eating teasel seeds.
I was out near Tysoe on Tuesday, and saw a flock of goldfinches on a clump of what may have been teasels. As they fed I heard an occasional mechanical rasping noise. Is that typical as they feed?
Fascinating hearing about goldfinches eating teasel seeds.
I was out near Tysoe on Tuesday, and saw a flock of goldfinches on a clump of what may have been teasels. As they fed I heard an occasional mechanical rasping noise. Is that typical as they feed?
January 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
@bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
Fascinating hearing about goldfinches eating teasel seeds.
I was out near Tysoe on Tuesday, and saw a flock of goldfinches on a clump of what may have been teasels. As they fed I heard an occasional mechanical rasping noise. Is that typical as they feed?
Fascinating hearing about goldfinches eating teasel seeds.
I was out near Tysoe on Tuesday, and saw a flock of goldfinches on a clump of what may have been teasels. As they fed I heard an occasional mechanical rasping noise. Is that typical as they feed?
This is such an important point. I had the privilege of spending most of my career in a special school.
Nobody could claim that every pupil (or member of staff) was happy all the time, but the vast majority were, for most of the time.
That’s what motivates you, and that’s why I stayed for 32 years.
Nobody could claim that every pupil (or member of staff) was happy all the time, but the vast majority were, for most of the time.
That’s what motivates you, and that’s why I stayed for 32 years.
☹️ 'We can’t hope to find ways to increase teacher motivation to stay in the classroom without respect to how pupils feel about being there'
We need to be honest about unhappiness in our schools
We won't solve the worforce crisis if we don't get to grips with what is driving pupils out too
buff.ly
January 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is such an important point. I had the privilege of spending most of my career in a special school.
Nobody could claim that every pupil (or member of staff) was happy all the time, but the vast majority were, for most of the time.
That’s what motivates you, and that’s why I stayed for 32 years.
Nobody could claim that every pupil (or member of staff) was happy all the time, but the vast majority were, for most of the time.
That’s what motivates you, and that’s why I stayed for 32 years.
Reposted by Sean O’Sullivan
Wow! 1,000 followers have flocked here to #Winterwatch on Bluesky 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛ Can we make it 3,000 before #Winterwatch2025 finishes on Friday?
Share this & spread the word so our #murmuration grows like these #Starlings filmed by @DanFWildlife.bsky.social
#wildlife #nature #birds
bsky.app/profile/danf...
Share this & spread the word so our #murmuration grows like these #Starlings filmed by @DanFWildlife.bsky.social
#wildlife #nature #birds
bsky.app/profile/danf...
January 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Wow! 1,000 followers have flocked here to #Winterwatch on Bluesky 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛ Can we make it 3,000 before #Winterwatch2025 finishes on Friday?
Share this & spread the word so our #murmuration grows like these #Starlings filmed by @DanFWildlife.bsky.social
#wildlife #nature #birds
bsky.app/profile/danf...
Share this & spread the word so our #murmuration grows like these #Starlings filmed by @DanFWildlife.bsky.social
#wildlife #nature #birds
bsky.app/profile/danf...
@bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
Lovely to have #Winterwatch back on TV. I love the range of topics covered, and found this evening's section on ducks was a classic in terms of bringing the beauty and fascination of things you think are familiar to the fore. 🦆
Lovely to have #Winterwatch back on TV. I love the range of topics covered, and found this evening's section on ducks was a classic in terms of bringing the beauty and fascination of things you think are familiar to the fore. 🦆
January 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
@bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
Lovely to have #Winterwatch back on TV. I love the range of topics covered, and found this evening's section on ducks was a classic in terms of bringing the beauty and fascination of things you think are familiar to the fore. 🦆
Lovely to have #Winterwatch back on TV. I love the range of topics covered, and found this evening's section on ducks was a classic in terms of bringing the beauty and fascination of things you think are familiar to the fore. 🦆
If you have experience of palliative care, as a patient, family member etc, do try and take time to send your thoughts to this commission.
It would be great to see people with @egfrpositiveuk.bsky.social & others affected by #LungCancer to be heard here.
palliativecarecommission.uk/submit-writt...
It would be great to see people with @egfrpositiveuk.bsky.social & others affected by #LungCancer to be heard here.
palliativecarecommission.uk/submit-writt...
Palliative Care Commission
palliativecarecommission.uk
January 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If you have experience of palliative care, as a patient, family member etc, do try and take time to send your thoughts to this commission.
It would be great to see people with @egfrpositiveuk.bsky.social & others affected by #LungCancer to be heard here.
palliativecarecommission.uk/submit-writt...
It would be great to see people with @egfrpositiveuk.bsky.social & others affected by #LungCancer to be heard here.
palliativecarecommission.uk/submit-writt...
I went to see this exhibition at St John's College in Oxford on Thursday this week. It moves from works around loss and sorrow in Room 1, through to hopefulness, in Room 2.
A wide range of thought-provoking works, well worth visiting and taking your time over.
www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/eve...
A wide range of thought-provoking works, well worth visiting and taking your time over.
www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/eve...
Routes of Sorrow, an Exhibition
Artist, Pam Foley, presents art exhibition, "Routes of Sorrow: Like the Phoenix from the Flame"
www.sjc.ox.ac.uk
January 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I went to see this exhibition at St John's College in Oxford on Thursday this week. It moves from works around loss and sorrow in Room 1, through to hopefulness, in Room 2.
A wide range of thought-provoking works, well worth visiting and taking your time over.
www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/eve...
A wide range of thought-provoking works, well worth visiting and taking your time over.
www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/eve...
Reposted by Sean O’Sullivan
Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams
January 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams
Blistering stuff by the indefatigable @captaink77.bsky.social .
The most telling point he makes, amongst many, is:
The most telling point he makes, amongst many, is:
January 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Blistering stuff by the indefatigable @captaink77.bsky.social .
The most telling point he makes, amongst many, is:
The most telling point he makes, amongst many, is: