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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great to hear this too. I worked for James back at the TUC on this. It was a power fund working all over the country.

Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If Reform really wanted to spend some of this £72million correctly, they’d fund a Nathan Fielder education programme to ensure everyone gets the most out of the documentary next month.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Regardless of what happens next. I’ve been so starved of a PM identifying a big problem and excitedly proposing a big solution to it.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Football coach under pressure to score more goals or concede fewer goals.

Financial Times headline. “Healey under pressure to raise taxes or cut UK spending as fiscal headroom shrinks”

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 21/07/2026

I'd go further than that and say the discourse on this is emblematic of the broader British problem of not treating management itself as a valuable (learnable) skill.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@hankgreen.bsky.social I was delighted to her today that my mum (of often anti-vax and fringe views) is now a regular watcher of yours as well as me. Thank you for continuing to do what you do.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: review of the state of progress. Key element that’s rarely part of the debate. The climate crisis will continue to increase the need for migration. We’ve got to get better at accepting this reality. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Screenshot of text: global political and financial uncertainty and disruption—combined with multiple conflicts and natural disasters—have increased individuals’ need to move, which will continue to be exacerbated by the climate crisis. Although new conflicts and exacerbations of existing ones have led to a rise in forced displacement within and across national borders, labour migration has also risen dramatically, with the pandemic highlighting the health and social needs of these groups globally.

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Another reason to be cheerful, thanks to effective policy deployment of fantastic science:

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Can you BELIEVE all this sports ball!? Great sport balling, everyone.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

@watsoncomedian.bsky.social Strongly agree that Nero is above Starbucks in the chain ranking.

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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Celebrities, rich people and ex-prime ministers should not make health policy. Prostate cancer screening is just not as simple as some are making out. There are real harms caused when people are treated unnecessarily.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Just as with winter fuel, and with two child, and with the welfare cuts, never bet against Keir Starmer doing the maximum damage to himself and to Labour in his inability to accept the inevitable:

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Keir Starmer vows to fight on ahead of Burnham by-election

Prime minister repeats desire to contest next general election

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Breaking news: Person who likes their job, wants to keep their job and knows they'll lose their job if anything change, says change would lead to choas.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I know you've got to say something if you just can't be bothered with a change of prime minister. But the silliest argument is the keep delivering the mandate one. "Sure, he hasn't done a good job for two years but he should be given another couple of years anyway."

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Good on Catherine West for stepping up and stepping forward. If you’re a Labour MP and you genuinely think Starmer is doing OK and/or the next GE won’t be a cluckerfuck, I suppose it’s fine to do nothing now. Otherwise, please act now.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Just had someone (from an org) knock at the door. Perfectly reasonable thing to do, but as an ex-campaign organiser, there's two golden rules: 1. Say who you are. 2. Say who you're from/your role. If you don't, you're either poorly trained and/or deliberately using boiler room sales tactics...

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Happy Pi Day to all who celebrate.

Man pointing at screen that read Pi Day is a fake holiday created by math companies to sell more math.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

‘Simply changing the uprating rules [of OBR forecasts] to the actual basis of UK government policy would transform the long-term projections of public debt. Instead of rising to 275% of GDP debt would fall to a completely sustainable 36%’ Good news from @chrisgiles.ft.com www.ft.com/content/0b2b...

Chart: Sustainable UK public finances if income tax allowances are uprated in line with prices

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19/02/2026

that's silly, it's not going to work, trains are too fast for that

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The most important thread on Bluesky.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'm perhaps naively hopeful that big news stories about AI hallucinations wiil make more people check sources.

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 23/12/2025

We asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to respond to the opinion "Working with organised crime to improve health: a modest proposal" from our #BMJChristmas Issue 2025. Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

First ever research publication! Ever been bored to tears by walls of slide text? Then this is for you. I have no shame - please share widely. (Thanks to @profnicolacooper.bsky.social for her support as co-author.) #MedSky #MedEd #EdSky asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The Clinical Teacher / Volume 23, Issue 1 / e70315

RESEARCH Article 🔒 Open Access

Investigating Death by PowerPoint: Do Medical School Lecturers Adhere to the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning in Their Slide Design?

Rajin Le Blanc, Nicola Cooper

First published: 10 December 2025

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Med school achievement of the week: I can definitely probably spell pneumonia right on the first try now.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Very chuffed the distinction for my Global Health MSc from @citystgeorges.bsky.social has finally been ratified. A lot of hard work went into that and it was a perfect year easing back into education.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Very excited for Philip Pullman's The Rose Field to be released later this week. Though considering the amount of tears I've shed for Lyria over the years, I'm also pretty apprehensive that this really could be the end of her story.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

A great article here from @samfr.bsky.social on his recent NHS experience. I’ve been wondering how staff could feel these kind of challenges for themselves. Following patients (rather than be based in departments) would be valuable experience for us. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

open.substack.com

On the edge

My week in the NHS

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I was VERY annoyed this morning to learn that, on second watch, one of my professor's lectures is much more reasonable in terms of content, detail and context than I felt it was a few weeks ago. Damn you, Professor A, don't you know I've got feels of inadequacy to misplace as frustration at you!

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

@stevensenior.bsky.social Social determinants of health klaxon. Clinical skills on cardiovascular risks.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

One thing I love about the Traitors is you really get a very profound insight into a country culture, and we really do love to kill the clever ones.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Na. I show up on time to the things I'm asked to attend and don't talk over others - seems to do the trick.

Screenshot from BMA email. Says: "Dear Medical student,

We all know that being professional is an essential part of studying and practicing medicine. However, students across the UK have told us that they feel professionalism standards can be weaponised against them. We’ve heard from many peers whose confidence is negatively impacted by the misuse of professionalism and fitness to practice standards by medical schools. Some students even feel unable to raise concerns for fear of reprisal."

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Yeah, it doesn’t look quite right as cabs go, but this is no way to boost its confidence.

A large yellow van, bearing the words RUBBISH TAXI.

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doctor eep (𝘢̶𝘭̶𝘵̶ℴ𝒻𝒻𝒾𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Was surprised to learn today that the VALUABLE service of private healthcare, that people can choose to ADD to the services they pay off, isn’t VATable. As public schools finally have to charge VAT, is this what we’ll argue about next for 20 years?

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I'm trying to think back to when I was teaching, would I say something wasn't important to understand and then talk about it for 20 minutes? ...Probably all the time. (This is of course in no way connected to my current experience as a student.)

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I’m a few weeks into med school now and I’m starting to think potassium and sodium might be important.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Oh no. Google has informed my cloud usage is 25% full! It's exclusively used for my 10 year old email account. This is going to be a real pain in the arse to deal with in 30 years time.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

To join the top 10 sitcoms bandwagon. In no particular order, mine are: - Community - The Good Place - Curb your enthusiasm - Brooklyn 99 - Staff lets flats - What we do in the shadows - Office US - Spaced - Grand Designs - Rick and Morty (There must be more British ones I’m forgetting…)

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

@stevensenior.bsky.social Social determinants of health mention klaxon! Clinical skills session. Dermatology/skin colour DEI challenges —> missed/late diagnosis —> Social determinants of health.

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Who could have possibly foresaw that all the current fundamental flaws of generative AI would impact generative AI medical apps!?

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Just watched a blurry 30 second video of a bacteria being chased by a neutrophil, while dramatic music playing over the top. It's brought tears of joy to my eyes. ...This may suggest my emotional states is currently more flimsy than I'd like to accept...

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Ben Furber @benfurber.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

@dropout.tv My dear old dad just spent £100 on postage to get me a single tee from you. That's how committed to quality merch he is and uninterested in climate change*. And totally not because he didn't notice the P&P line. * = I assume the £100 is to hire a private plane.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 11/09/2025

only around a decade to go until another PM thinks "I know, I should hire Peter Mandelson"

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