Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialDaniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I have written The review That was in My inbox And which You were probably Expecting Ages ago Forgive me It was cranky So sour And so late. #ThisAcademicLife #PeerReview 3253
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Nigel Farage wants to take the country out of the European Convention on Human Rights The ECHR protects us all - the rights within it – firmly implanted into UK law by the Human Rights Act – are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice 22527202
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialCraig @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 09/05/2026I, for one, think Chaos with Ed is at least a decade overdue. 1182
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialGuiders against Trans Exclusion @guidersfortrans.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Our community are taking part in Miles for Mermaids. Donate on the page: justgiving.com/team/guidersagainsttransexclusion A group will meet at the ferry for Brownsea Island on 10/5/26 at 9.45. Get involved through the Mermaids website, and message us! #GuidersAgainstTransExclusion #MilesForMermaids 083
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialMaebh Ní Fhallúin @maebhnif.bsky.social · 21/11/2025'ChatGPT is nothing more than a “souped-up autocomplete”. (It) does not draw its info from a carefully curated database of facts. It has no way of selecting the most reliable sources, references, or evidence. It cannot evaluate.' Book review: The AI Con... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 031
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Maths Puzzles for Conspiracy Theorists. One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions. 5544185
cathrynb.bsky.social @cathrynb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Off to Manchester today for #CPCNorth - who will I see there? 111
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/09/2025cannot stress this enough 010120
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Just in case it finally disappears, the CDC page I've been obsessively refreshing for months is currently still there, confirming that vaccines do not cause autismcdc.govAutism and VaccinesAnswers to common questions about vaccine safety and autism. 14673195
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialCentre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Pharmacies should be at the heart of #HIV prevention by raising awareness of and offering #PrEP - a pill that stops HIV transmission. 💊 Recommendations have been published in a new @policybristol.bsky.social briefing. 📰News: tinyurl.com/ywu9xre5 📄Policy briefing: tinyurl.com/5n6bhzj3tinyurl.comPharmacies could play key role in ending new HIV transmissions: new policy briefingCommunity pharmacies should be at the heart of HIV prevention efforts by raising awareness of and providing access to PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), according to a new policy briefing from the University of Bristol. PrEP is a pill that prevents HIV transmission. 124
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialDisco Barrington 🏳️⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2025This book by @kjcharleswriter.com is utterly, sweetly, impressively delightful! A 1920s MM romance between a detective fighting corruption and a hot graphologist (handwriting analyst), who is also a post-war amputee. They’re so cute!! 📚💙 📚❤️ 📚🏳️🌈 📚♿️ 512628
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialTechpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 13/09/2025This may ruffle some feathers with Starmerite partisans, but at some point the silence from Downing Street becomes so deafening that the logical conclusion is that Starmer agrees with the ethnonationalists running amok The onus is on Downing Street to prove otherwise and show leadership 1336
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialDave Jones @welshgasdoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Such a shame that Rule Britannia has been hijacked by the roundabout painters and hotel botherers. #LastNightOfTheProms 2224
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialDr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 13/09/2025Some will say this escalated quickly. Those who've had their eyes open and ears listening will tell you, this is just the beginning. 096
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialShaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 12/09/2025National mental health director Claire Murdoch resigns with immediate effect claiming political pressure for a new person...her resignation letter....👀 12616
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialUK Clinical Pharmacy Association @ukcpa.bsky.social · 11/09/2025🦴 Fragility fractures in older adults can be life-changing. 💡 Hip fractures = up to 40% mortality in 1 year. Join our webinar (Part 1 of 2) to explore: 🔹 Bone health 🔹 Post-fracture care 🔹 The pharmacist’s role in prevention 🎯 For all pharmacists 🔗ukclinicalpharmacy.orgFragility fractures: Pharmacy’s role in prevention and care - UKCPAFragility fractures, often caused by minimal trauma, are common in older adults and can lead to long-term health decline. Hip fractures, in particular, raise 012
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialDr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 11/09/2025Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long. Regulatory failure at its worst. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comGMC examines doctor’s Reform speech linking vaccines to royal family cancerMedical bodies and prime minister condemn Aseem Malhotra’s ‘pseudo-science’ remarks at party conference 15428138
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/09/2025For anyone who needs respite from the news, I highly recommend Taskmaster, an extremely silly long-running UK show in which five comedians compete at absurd tasks. Low-stress, high-pleasure, lots of laughs, utterly disconnected from reality. As your doctor, I hereby prescribe one episode minimum.youtube.comSeries 1, Episode 1 - 'Melon buffet.' | Full Episode | TaskmasterYouTube video by Taskmaster 44707153
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialAnna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Worth reading the full article - it's not 100% rubbish but it's only leading to small gains in very specific tasks, and for some things it's slower and also produces worse results. So perhaps the billions in productivity gains are not just over the horizon. Awkward. 0166
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialDr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 04/09/2025Ho ho ho hoooo! This is just too delicious. 0812
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialKaren Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 02/09/2025In a hundred years, if we survive to write about it, historians will look back on this period as a snake oil boom for AI while fascism burned everything down. 35821
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 02/09/2025The Labour party right now: 14759182
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 01/09/2025It's disappointing that the government's plan to get people moving is focused around "Go for a jog" rather than, as the evidence suggests, building environments that encourage everyday incidental exercise: the ability to walk to amenities liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/388...liveapp.inews.co.ukStreeting’s bid to get Britain off the couch and save NHS £10bnHealth Secretary’s Get Britain Moving campaign could be undermined by difficulty to walk in some areas 29418123
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialMedlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Derek @dieworkwear.bsky.social yrs ago you helped settle the biggest debate in medicine when you ruled that scrubs should be untucked. Thought you might appreciate this full circle, as today my professional body the European Society of Cardiology hosted someone at conference that you might recognise 0141
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2025This is just sad. We’ve posted about this before. Now here is what is going down. The rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial in Orlando (created to honor the 49 lives lost in the 2016 shooting) has now become the target of state enforcement. 35056081388
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialScissors @scissors.myatproto.social · 16/08/2025this is so sick - man w/ confusion, scheduled for dementia screening - man repeatedly asks chatbot if ‘she’ is real - chatbot lies repeatedly, saying ‘yes’ & giving address saying ‘the door is unlocked’ - man falls on the way and dies what if he made it & walked into a woman’s home? 2 victims? 2245
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialBen Zabar @benzabar.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Better red than dead. #methemoglobinemia 122
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.social😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 11/08/2025“A system dropping from 80% to 42% accuracy when confronted with a pattern disruption would be unreliable in clinical settings, where novel presentations are common” lmao they replaced one answer choice with “none of the above” and it broke jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comFidelity of Medical Reasoning in Large Language ModelsThis cross-sectional study evaluates whether the performance of large language models on medical benchmarks reflects logical reasoning or pattern recognition. 24411
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialMadhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 10/08/2025A reminder that the mRNA vaccine technology saved millions of lives during the Covid pandemic and received the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine 3357123
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialRaywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025I refuse to wade into the debate around trans issues except to say that everyone deserves dignity and safety. Full stop. But as a student of philosophy, this one has me gasping for breath. 6776
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialNPPG @nppguk.bsky.social · 26/07/2025In the light of the current Abidec shortage we have updated the information on Liquid Vitamin & Iron Supplements in Neonates & Children. It has a link to a summary of liquid & chewable/soluble tablet multivitamins available in the UK nppg.org.uk/vitamins/nppg.org.ukVitamins - NPPG 034
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialMelissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I think there should be more press about this popular medical historian, author @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social & dual USA-UK citizen’s case. She needs to be in the UK for cancer treatment, yet is not allowed to leave US. 27750
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialThe Pharmaceutical Journal @pharmaj.bsky.social · 06/08/2025A coroner has asked a hospital trust to explain its policy on patients’ allergy status following the death of a patient who was given a penicillin-based antibiotic, despite her GP record showing a known allergy to the drug #ukpharmacy #patientsafetybuff.lyCoroner issues warning after fatal penicillin treatmentA coroner has asked a hospital trust to explain its policy on patients’ allergy status following the death of a patient who was given a penicillin-based antibiotic, despite her GP record showing a… 012
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialBad Medical Takes @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 06/08/2025 103116983
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 05/08/2025This is true and also, increasingly, I am less and less understanding of a public that indulges these lies - because what is meant by illegal in too many minds is "inhuman". And that belief is encouraged by the media, yes, but at some point citizens have to take responsibility for it too. 241560339
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialPharmacistDaz (He/Him) @pharmacistdaz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Happy Yorkshire Day 012
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialWill Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Terribly sad to hear of the death of Allan Ahlberg, one of the greatest writers for children of our age; I grew up with Burglar Bill, Funnybones, Cops and Robbers, Happy Families and so many more; as a parent I have discovered what a joy they are to read, even when requested night after night. 67821
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Nietzsche abhors a vacuum www.worldofmoose.com/products/nie... 361348343
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialDr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 31/07/2025UPDATE: it's been over a week since I was prevented from boarding a flight home. My MP is on the case. My immigration lawyer is on the case. Still no answers. Still in limbo. I'm feeling pretty dejected. Apparently obtaining citizenship still does not safeguard one against these scenarios. 2226785
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialThomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 30/07/2025Happy 100 hots day to all who celebrate 2597
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.social🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 29/07/2025reminder reminder reminder: this technology is not smart enough to do your job. but your boss is dumb enough to think it can. any other framing is overly credulous and missing the point 219643
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialsophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚 131488496
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialDr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 26/07/2025As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep! Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications. This should also be banned? Influence being bought in Govt? Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy 45902560
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialScreamingMD @screamingmd.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Before COVID and 2020, I made my own neurotransmitters. After, not so much. Prozac and Wellbutrin basically allow me to sleep and get out of bed once I awake up. I could be a doctor without them but I couldn’t also bake, garden, and be cross country team parent. I could survive but not *live*. 2383
Reposted by @cathrynb.bsky.socialMatthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Do you live with HIV? Are you in Europe and currently on treatment? Please take part in the Ask Us Europe survey, which aims to improve treatment and care for people with HIV. I am proud to have worked on it with @shareeastlondon.bsky.social and a powerful group of people with HIV. Please share. 🙏 22634
