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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Dr Agnes Ayton @agnesayton.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Delighted that our new paper on addressing the false dichotomy of autonomy and preservation of life in severe anorexia nervosa has been published. We are challenging unhelpful myths, and offer constructive solutions to clinicians and lawyers www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

This paper is to help clinicians and lawyers to understand the complexities related to treatment refusal and capacity in severe anorexia nervosa. We need to support patients as they can improve even after many years of illness

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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Psychiatric Educator of the Year award for my brilliant wife @agnesayton.bsky.social. So pleased to trumpet this achievement to a broader constituency than would normally hear about such things. 4th photo: Agnes & two colleagues (see ALT text) who contributed to this work.

Agnes standing at the lectern at the RCPsych awards ceremony last Thursday, giving her acceptance speech.

The citation for Agnes's award which emphasises her 'contributions at national level. Her most impressive contributions have been her leading on the rollout of UK's first Credential in Eating Disorders and Treating Patients Well - the first national guidance to formally recognise eating disorders as a required area of learning for all medical professionals are significant pieces of work which impact on training, leadership and patient safety.'

The award - a transparent column, with an inscribed details - standing on a table.

Agnes at the awards ceremony, flanked by Dr Ali Ibrahim (left), with whom she has published a number of important papers that contributed to the work leading to this award; and (right) Dr Ashish Kumar, with whom she has shared the leadership of the Eating Disorders Faculty of RCPsych for about ten years.

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West Midlands Ringing Group @westmidlandsrg.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

👀 Want to see conservation in action? Join us for updates on bird ringing across the West Midlands, from robins to warblers. Follow, share & spread the word, together, we can give nature a voice! 🕊️ #BirdsOfBritain #CitizenScience

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The end of a few days at Woodspring Priory, Somerset. Of all the Landmark Trust properties that we’ve stayed at, few can match this former Augustinian Priory for grandeur. Significant portion of the church attached, as a ‘museum’, to the the spacious living quarters. A wind-swept, memorable weekend.

View of the Priory, with the nave, crossing tower, and remains of the cloister wall on right, and later, lower range (former farmhouse) attached to NW corner of nave. Greyish sky, green lawn, tree to left edge of view.

View of nave and tower (65 feet) of the Priory from S. Bedrooms located on what is now first floor of nave. Original architecture of 15th century - Perpendicular Gothic style windows - with later, ground floor windows inserted after the Dissolution of the monasteries. Blue sky with dappled clouds. Lawn and yew tree to left.

Interior of the ‘museum’ part of the Priory: under the tower (crossing), restored fan vaulting and upper part of south-facing, four light window.

Information board in the museum part of the Priory: outline of building history, 13th century to Dissolution of the Monasteries, with reconstructions and cut away ground plan.

Some of the contents:
Woodspring Priory developed over several centuries and reached its greatest extent around 1530. We do not know what the earliest chapel looked like, but the surviving buildings contain fabric from the 13th-century onwards. Extensive archaeology helps us understand what the priory looked like at various phases in its development. This museum room is in part of the nave and the 'crossing under the tower.
Both date from the 13th century.

The main altar was in the chancel of the priory church, which extends beyoed the tower to the east. The 13th-century chancel was much larger than the nave but it seems it was destroyed by a disastrous fire in the 14th century. Today even its replacement has long since disppeared. The basic shell of the nave survives today though is much altered and had extra floors inserted when the site became a farmhouse.

Woodspring Priory was at its richest and most developed around 1530, just before the Dissolution. The priory had recovered from the setbacks of fire and the Black Death in the 14th century, and had received generous endowments.

Through the 15th century, it was redeveloped in the Perpendicular style. A north aisle was added to the nave. In 1536 work was still going on to build fine lodgings for the prior leading off the northwest corner. The adjacent west front, the main entrance to the church, was embellished with statues of saints and fine carvings.

The tower was its current height. A gatehouse, perhaps doubling as a guest house, stood in front of the priory complex. A fine infirmary with its own chapel had been built at the southeast corner of the site, next to a refectory (or dining hall).
The chancel, however, was now only about half the length of the original 13th-century one, destroyed earlier in a fire or other disaster.

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Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

GreatAdaptations: Female bonobos team up to boss males around. One more awesome piece of data to add to the enduring mystery of why bonobos and chimps are so different. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Drivers of female power in bonobos - Communications Biology

In mammals, documented female dominance is rare, but females can hold high status even with male-biased dimorphism. In wild living bonobo groups, female coalition formation best explains the observed ...

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Space VFX @spacevfx.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A celestial whisper: a planetary nebula’s ring of ionized gas cradles a white dwarf star, as radiative shock waves etch delicate secrets, shimmering through a starry expanse.

A striking digital artwork of a space scene depicting a planetary nebula, with a ring of ionized gas surrounding a central white dwarf star. Radiative shock waves extend outward, creating intricate patterns against a starry background.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

i love that we got 4 new hubble images today and we still continue to get more after 35 years 🥹 hubble really is the little telescope that could!!!

Composite shows four Hubble images in quarters. At top left is a crisp view of Mars in shades of orange, blues, and browns. At top right is planetary nebula NGC 2899, which is shaped like a single macaroni noodle, with its central torus appearing semi-transparent and blue and green, and its top and bottom edges in orange. At bottom left is a tiny portion of the Rosette Nebula. Very dark gray material shaped like a triangle takes up the center. At bottom right is barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 with a milky yellow center that forms a bar surrounded by multiple blue star-filled spiral arms that wrap up counterclockwise.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 22/04/2025

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The cowslips phase of our Staffs #GardenMeadow is now in full swing. So far, more butterflies this year as well.

In foreground, a couple of clusters of cowslips - bright yellow, often drooping, bell-shaped flowers; a mass of them further back in the photo. Set within a rough, dry grassy meadow with leaf litter.

Close-up of a clump of cowslips, with a bumblebee hanging from one of the yellow, bell-shaped flowers.

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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Given the dramatic decline (in many places, disappearance) of the House Sparrow in the UK during my adult life, it’s heartening to encounter a noisy colony of these gregarious birds, as here, by the Trent & Mersey canal, near #Shugborough (sound on).

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Jillian Rigert, DMD, MD, ACC @jillianrigert.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Anorexia nervosa is an often misunderstood condition that thrives in secrecy- so let's talk about it. Friend's link for access regardless of subscription: medium.com/@jillian.rig...

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Do You Live With Anyone? Yes, Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is (falsely) portrayed as a glorified condition that young, White females and celebrities get in attempts to obtain…

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TheGingerGeologist 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @gingergeologist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I’m a paleontologist. As such, it is comforting to me to know the Earth will be absolutely fine no matter what screwed up things we humans do. Sure, we may yeet ourselves out of existence but the Earth will be fine. In fact, life will, indeed, go on, with or without us.

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The Royal College of Psychiatrists @rcpsych.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🚨 NEW: The RCPsych has identified plans that would result in funding cuts for children and young people’s eating disorder services in more than half of areas across England. We're calling for the creation of a national strategy for eating disorders in England. www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

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Dr Agnes Ayton @agnesayton.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Listening to the assistedsuicide debate on Parliament tv: they don’t want a photo ID 🤷🏻‍♀️ parliamentlive.tv/Commons

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Parliamentlive.tv - Commons

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Although GPs have not been granted everything on their wish list, major steps have been made towards making good the losses of the past few years, which may at least pause the closure of general practices. But the real prize is the promise of a comprehensive new contract. doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

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Helen Salisbury: The promise of a comprehensive new GP contract

For the first time in four years, negotiations between the Department of Health and Social Care and GP representatives in England have resulted in agreed changes to the GP contract, rather than fundin...

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Royal Society to meet after fellow Elon Musk accused of ‘promoting conspiracies’ www.independent.co.uk/space/elon-m...

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Here are some nice mushrooms

A broken branch is colonized by dozens of climbing false turkey tail fronds. Their salmon shelves are cupped like pringles toward the sky. All photos by me

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Dr Agnes Ayton @agnesayton.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Is anyone interested in here about the assisted suicide bill in the UK? i wanted to stop using X, but there seems to be complete silence here.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28/02/2025

London was the first city in the Western world to host a Ramadan Lights display. It’s a powerful symbol of who we are as Londoners. I’d like to extend my warmest wishes to Londoners and those around the world observing the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarak.

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Ramadan Lights Return to the West End | Mayor of London Switches on the Dazzling Display

YouTube video by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 28/02/2025

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

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Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 20/02/2025

What does the #NHS staff survey tell us about the changing behaviours and motivation of health care staff? 👨‍⚕️ Our new analysis reveals a widening gulf in job satisfaction between the NHS’s youngest and oldest staff. 👇🧵 www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/wh...

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What does the NHS staff survey tell us about the changing behaviours and motivation of health care staff?

Over the past decade younger NHS staff have reported lower job satisfaction, higher stress levels, and greater dissatisfaction with pay than their older colleagues, according to this new analysis of o...

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 20/02/2025

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

After making judicial oversight by the High Court a principal ornament of her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to encourage MPs to vote for it at Second Reading, Kim Leadbeater MP now proposes to abandon that provision www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I’m changing my bill to ensure people have the right to a dignified death – here’s how | Kim Leadbeater

I’ve listened to the evidence, and believe that the new safeguarding process will protect terminally ill people and their families as best as possible, says Kim Leadbeater MP, sponsor of the assisted ...

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

We have always said that a complex and difficult area like assisted suicide needs mature consideration by a Royal Commission or enquiry, and then Government legislation if a case can be made. We once again call on Kim Leadbeater to withdraw her Bill and let the professionals deal with the issue.

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Of the other signatories, 81% are new MPs who entered Parliament only last year. There are very few experienced MPs willing to back the Bill after its catastrophic first few days in Committee. We know that the Secretaries of State for both Health and Justice passionately oppose the Bill.

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Trying to plug a catastrophic loss of support for their Assisted Dying Bill, lobbyists have published a letter signed by 53 MPs backing the latest change to the Bill, removing the judicial safeguards that they'd previously said were critical. But the letter reveals more weakness than strength 🧵

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If Westminster and/or Holyrood politicians go through with assisted dying/ assisted suicide, despite the clear danger to so many underprivileged groups, they must not be permitted to claim they couldn't have known what the inevitable result would be. Their eyes are wide open, as are ours.

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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

All over the UK, half-term science projects are being completed, often, no doubt (as here) with the assistance of grandparents. Here we have an erupting, prehistoric volcano, using ingredients that will be familiar to those who unblock sinks.

Painted, cardboard volcano, erupting (bicarbonate of soda reacting with vinegar) in a prehistoric landscape with plastic dinosaurs and vegetation. Moss from garden. We thought the pterodactyl at the top would be swept away by the ‘lava’, but it flowed the other way.

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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If there are autistic people in your life, make sure they’re ok. The anti-vax mob won’t give up and are now trying to buy results to ‘prove’ autism is caused by vaccines. It’s not. But the side effect of this is stigmatising autism as a preventable disease. It’s not a disease. It’s a difference.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Here are some nice mushrooms

A colony of butter oysterling mushrooms are frozen on the end of a broken stick, held up to see their wavy gills in front of a snowy forest

All photos by me

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Dr Agnes Ayton @agnesayton.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

We went during the previous administration. My junior doctor (second generation Iraqi) was detained twice at the airport. Because of his name. Awful experience.

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