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Anne Osterrieder

@anneosterrieder.bsky.social
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Public/community engagement and involvement. Based in Oxford, interested in scicomm, global health, MEL. Love fibre crafts, cats, plants and Bangkok. Views are my own. She/her. www.tropmedres.ac/research-areas/bi…

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yesterday we started #kakapo artificial insemination for the season. We do this to help maintain genetic diversity, with a potential additional benefit of improving fertility. We inseminated Esperance, who mated naturally a few nights ago. #conservation #parrots #birds
A female kakapo being held during daytime. Credit: Andrew Digby
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 20/12/2025
Public buildings will be increasingly important as cool, safe gathering places during heatwaves and other extreme weather events, which people (mostly the global rich) are making more frequent and severe through climate change, largely by burning fossil fuels. h/t @chrisbaraniuk.com
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Spain to open climate shelter network ahead of next summer
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says the shelters will be in public buildings across the country.
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Anne Osterrieder @anneosterrieder.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Global Health Bioethics Network Webinar: Bioethics and Conflict. Dec 9, 2025 09:00 AM GMT. Speakers: my colleague Ms Napat Khirikoekkong ,@moru-mip.bsky.social, and Prof Dr Thalia Arawi (AUB-AUBMC). Register here: medsci.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: GHBN Webinar: Bioethics and Conflict. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Armed conflict, displacement, and political instability disrupt health systems, deepen vulnerability, and raise profound ethical challenges for healthcare and research. In such contexts, the principle...
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is absolutely four-alarm-fire climate news. Astonishing, that this is the first time I've seen it.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 20/11/2025
now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see
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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
One time I felt bad for a wheelchair-using colleague who had to navigate a poster session where the boards were "accordioned" making the aisle less than 2m wide...
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences? When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded. /
Photo taken at the Neues Museum in Berlin (which luckily has elevators!). It shows lots of stairs both left and right and several floors with people walking up. Some windows at the top.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Have yourself a Hieronymus Bosch Christmas.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This is an insightful discussion about using LLM AI for science communication (please don't). Among the *many* problems, it can't distinguish correlation from causation. By @em-underwood.bsky.social with Abigail Eisenstadt
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The Last Word On Nothing | Why AAAS won’t be using AI to write press releases anytime soon
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
And the reality is that this has barely started.... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds
Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Will a new mutated flu strain cause a rough winter?
Leading flu experts say they will not be surprised if this year's is the worst flu season for a decade.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Went trick or treating as myself last night. Because nothing seems to terrify some of the locals as much as an immigrant.
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Anne Osterrieder @anneosterrieder.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The National Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Summit 2025 marks the beginning of a collective national voice advocating for patients, their families and members of the public in health research. Karachi, 1st Nov, 8-10.30 am GMT, join online. www.eventbrite.ca/e/national-p...
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National PPIE Summit 2025: Awaz se Aaghaz
Join us for the 2nd National Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement Summit online or in-person at Avari Towers in Karachi!
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International Patient and Public Involvement Network @ippin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
How do you see AI fitting into the future of PPI storytelling? And what safeguards or opportunities do you think matter most? Read the latest IPPIN blog post from Patrick Toland - 'Patient Voices in the Age of AI: Opportunity or Visibility Theft?' intppinetwork.wixsite.com/ippin/post/p...
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Wouldn't a prequel to Slow Horses about Lamb's time in communist East Germany be marvellous?
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a man is eating a bowl of noodles with chopsticks and the words slow horses time above him
ALT: a man is eating a bowl of noodles with chopsticks and the words slow horses time above him
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Martha Henson @marthasadie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The need for better genAI literacy is incredibly urgent jfc. Also sea safety, apparently. (I check several sites before relying on them for tide times to account for discrepancies and errors!).
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This is also a disability justice issue.
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Kevin Outterson @koutterson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Are you a researcher working in infectious diseases or #AMR, from a social science discipline (broadly interpreted?). INAMRSS has 3 great opportunities for you! www.globalstrategylab.org/events/open-... Abstract submission open now - move fast!
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Open Call for Social Science Presentations On Infectious Diseases - Global Strategy Lab
INAMRSS was founded to advance social science research on infectious diseases, including but not limited to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In 2026, we are partnering with ESCMID Global (17-21 April i...
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
One in six bacterial infections worldwide are now resistant to antibiotics, WHO warns www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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Maria cassiopeiaknits @cassiopeiaknits.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
‘Knitting had been a safe way to soften the search for new friends each time I took up residence in a new city.’ Susan M. Strawn 🧶
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The Shetland Fair Isle Kep - AgArts
By Susan M. Strawn      Late afternoon my second day in the Shetland Islands, I walked past the ferry terminal toward my hotel in Lerwick. I heard footsteps, quick and determined, following me. My sho...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 01/10/2025
Every morning waking up to news about how migration is Bad, Very Bad, Very Bad for the UK. That it's ruining this country. Picture it like water from the roof of a cave, falling on the head of every migrant who's made their home here: drip, drip, drip, every second, for years, making a hole...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today. What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up. There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long. His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..
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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This thread has some excellent book suggestions! Everything I wanted to suggest was already there, so I now have a massive new list of fun distracting sounding books to listen to/read. Thanks!
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Great to see a UK GP writing a BMJ e-letter like this: "Research must consider Post Exertional Malaise as a neurological event underpinning fluctuating cognitive dysfunction in Long Covid" www.bmj.com/content/390/... #PEM #LongCovid
PEM warrants recognition as a neurological pathology resulting from metabolic and immune dysregulation (3). Approximately 48 hr after a triggering event—physical, cognitive, or emotional—patients experience what is colloquially termed a “crash.” This involves a surge in neurological symptoms that may render them unable to function: profound fatigue, cognitive slowing, hypersomnia, photophobia, phonophobia, tinnitus, nausea, headaches, migraines, executive dysfunction, word-finding difficulties, working memory impairment, pain, and worsening dysautonomia with orthostatic intolerance, mood disorders. Although these symptoms may be present at baseline, they rapidly escalate in the disabling cacophony of the “crash”. Many patients report diurnal variation, with symptoms peaking midday and easing somewhat towards night, repeating daily until resolution, suggesting a neuroimmune process with a circadian rhythm. Patients often experience disablement until the episode resolves over days or weeks.
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Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) @iddonews.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 We are looking for a Head of #DataEngineering & Informatics to play a leading role in our ongoing development & lead our data strategy. 📍 Oxford, UK 📅 Apply by Sep 17 🔗 www.iddo.org/about-us/jobs #NTDs #EmergingInfections #Malaria #GlobalHealth @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk
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International Rescue Committee @rescue.org · 29/08/2025
After 40 years of providing refuge to Myanmar refugees, Thailand has made history, granting them legal status to work. "This not only grants a future of self-reliance and dignity to this population, but also an opportunity to contribute to Thailand." www.rescue.org/press-releas...
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IRC welcomes landmark ruling to give refugees legal status to work in Thailand | The IRC
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) welcomes the news that after 40 years of hosting communities fleeing violence in Myanmar, the Royal Thai Government will grant these refugees legal status to w...
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Kristian Ulrichsen @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I'm peer reviewing a manuscript for a reputable publisher and came across fake references which must be AI-generated - including to an article attributed to me which sounds fascinating but which I never wrote.
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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I ran the numbers on the UK government's recommendation to delete old photos and emails to save water in data centers andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
London study of 27 long COVID patients found their immune cells burn oxygen faster but waste energy as ATP synthase runs in reverse, hinting at a bioenergetic defect tied to fatigue and poor quality of life. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Mitochondrial function is impaired in long COVID patients
The Long COVID syndrome is a major global health problem, affecting approximately 10–20% of individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus with many remaining symptomatic beyond one year. Fatigue, redu...
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Jeff Stringer @blooms-ghost.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It is nearly impossible to imagine how a product conceptualised and delivered by a horde of #TechBros could ever deliver a result like this, isn't it?
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AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds
Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes
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sarah boothby @swastrosarah.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Thanks to Emily Dugan and the Sunday Times for exposing this aspect of how Maeve died from ME. A Devon County Council cover up. Maeve was taking them to judical review, dying in the attempt. Devon County Council may have learnt nothing from the inquest. I have learnt a lot about them. 1/4
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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The world's food production is strongly linked to the Haber-Bosch process. Without this means of producing synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, global human population would potentially only be half as large. Source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/worl...
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World population with and without synthetic nitrogen fertilizers
Estimates of the global population reliant on synthetic nitrogenous fertilizers, produced via the Haber-Bosch process for food production. Best estimates project that just over half of the global popu...
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About - www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/d... "exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crushing, technically unworkable disaster" great takedown by @mmasnick.bsky.social #osa #privacy
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Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…
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Alexis Paton @dralexispaton.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I see this every time I work with community groups. Women stepping in to fill gaps left by LAs and government, only to find the more they step in, the more gaps appear, as government sees this free labour as a solution that their funding crises. It is not. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of free labour by women, says MP Jess Phillips
Minister points to ‘sexist’ practice of country relying on women to provide services so government did not have to
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
5-page @scienceforme.bsky.social post-exertional malaise ( #PEM ) fact sheet www.s4me.info/docs/PEM_Fac... Headings: -Characteristics of PEM -Symptoms of PEM -Exertion and other PEM triggers -Effects of exertion that are not PEM -Living with PEM -Examples of PEM -Research on PEM #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
Logo: Science for ME: Where science and ME/CFS community meet

Post-exertional malaise (PEM)
Key points
 People with ME/CFS have episodes when they are much more ill than usual
following physical or mental exertion. This is called post-exertional malaise, or
PEM.
 PEM is a hallmark of ME/CFS and is important for diagnosis
 Activities like a short walk or reading a few pages may trigger PEM. For the
most severely ill, even chewing may trigger it. For many, light, sound and
other sensory stimuli also trigger PEM. Often it is the combined effect of all
activities and stimuli over a day or more that triggers PEM.
 PEM usually starts hours or a day or two after it is triggered and can last for
hours, days, weeks or longer. During this time, a person cannot do as much
as usual and needs to rest.
 There is no effective treatment for PEM.
 PEM is not the same as the fatigue and muscle soreness anyone can
experience after more activity than usual.
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
💥 New: Narrative CVs are rewriting academic stories and identities ✍️ Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner & Judit Varga #AcademicSky #ResearchAssessment
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Narrative CVs are rewriting academic stories and identities - Impact of Social Sciences
A new study explores how narrative CVs are reshaping research evaluation and academic representation
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Looks like aid groups may be able to provide limited food service to some communities in Gaza. I'm supporting World Central Kitchen. wck.org/news/gaza-up...
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World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause
After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
University: “You need to evidence your research impact.” *turns on Grindr* Me: “Will this do?” 💅🏾
Grindr message saying, “I’ve admired your Twitter and academic output for years!!!”
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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
From Long Flu to Long COVID: A Brief History of Postviral Illness www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/long...
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From Long Flu to Long COVID: A Brief History of Postviral Illness | Think Global Health
Despite centuries of examples, long-term maladies after flu and other viruses remain absent from mainstream policy
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The Heat Will Kill You First is one of three books recommended by @newyorker.com to help you make sense of our accelerating climate chaos. Thank you @elizkolbert.bsky.social
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 22/07/2025
I posted this earlier, but came back to it again. It's just unbelievable. Warwick's consultants telling people how to write terribly so they are "on brand". It's Beyond ridiculous. Or rather "Beyond is ridiculous". brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-gui...
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Tone Of Voice - Warwick University
Find out about our key pillars and traits and how to write in our tone of voice — the Voice of Beyond.
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Antimicrobial resistance #AMR @antimicrobial.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
UK has shut down the £265 million #FlemingFund, which supported #AMR surveillance in 25 LMICs, due to aid budget cuts tied to increased defense spending. This move will harm global health and damage UK's reputation as a reliable international partner in fighting AMR. observer.co.uk/news/science...
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Budget cuts close UK body tackling antimicrobial resistance
Move to close Fleming Fund also threatens standing as a reliable global partner
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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I’d really hesitate to recommend a foreign tourist use the railways to get around UK. Unless they are using an Interrail ticket (though there may be issues with that too!)
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Anne Osterrieder @anneosterrieder.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Read all about the “Pint of Science Laos” event that took place in May earlier this year, and watch the nice video that the LOMWRU team put together. www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/two-nig...
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Two nights of talks for Pint of Science Laos 2025
In May 2025, LOMWRU organised the 4th Pint of Science event in Vientiane, Laos, as part of the global Pint of Science festival. The successful event, open to the general public, had local researchers ...
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