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Devi Sagar

@devirsagar.bsky.social
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Research manager. Talking about caring, research, palliative and end of life care, grief & bereavement, being a sib of an adult with LD and other stuff in between. Opinions are my own. (She/her)

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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sometimes wonder how useful taking blood pressure is at hospital outpatients appointments- it’s so stressful getting to them, the readings can’t be normal….
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hey local media SM teams - I understand you need to make posts click-baity to get engagement, but if you post about something like school children being sent to hospital - could you at least mention the area in the post so worried parents don’t have to click through several pages to find out where
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WHO @who.int · 03/05/2026
Age-friendly cities can mean the difference between independence and isolation for an older person. Where we live shapes how we age. Watch today’s daily dose.
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Sportspeople advocating to deny the right for people to exercise is a level of punching down I can’t understand and never wish to.
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Massi(e)h Moayedi — مسیح مویدی @massih.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Want to learn about what some of are thinking about chronic #pain? Gillian Best interviewed pain researchers, including Melanie Noel, @richellemychasiuk.bsky.social, @simonbeggslab.bsky.social, @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social, @jeffreymogil.bsky.social, @daspainbrain.bsky.social, me, & many more.
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A Lancashire health trust pioneers a painless new blood test, transforms the experiences of patients with learning disabilities and needle phobia www.uhmb.nhs.uk/news-and-eve...
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Video and story: UHMBT pioneers painless new blood test and transforms lives of patients with learning disabilities and needle phobia :: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
Patients with learning disabilities and needle phobia are benefiting from a painless new form of blood sampling pioneered by University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT).
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Sarah Holmes @holmes74sarah.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We are trying to set a @guinnessworldrecords.com on Sunday at @londonmarathon.bsky.social for the fastest female 4-legged marathon in aid of @mariecurieuk.bsky.social Please help us raise enough to fund a day of nursing care for every mile we run! 2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/quad-squa...
Helen, Sam and Sarah running through a park tied together at the ankles. All are wearing Marie Curie T-shirts, smiling and waving at the camera.
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🗽💜 @chips1955.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
CARE WORK IS HIGHLY SKILLED WORK and only paid so poorly because of the failure of successive governments to value it properly
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Will the academic exodus from X silence research? Spread of researchers across multiple social media platforms brings warnings of a tougher struggle for impact. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Will the academic exodus from X silence research? - Research Professional News
Spread of researchers across multiple platforms brings warnings of a tougher struggle for impact
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
October to March is known as “Bronch Season” in children’s hospitals, where the wards are full of children with respiratory infections struggling to breathe. Both my babies had RSV - an experience I wouldn’t wish on anyone. This vaccine sounds like a game changer and I am so grateful.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/04/2026
It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
My quote of the day Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Science storytelling and neuroscience - definitely needs a follow 😎
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Paula Croxson (she/her) @paulacroxson.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I’m so honoured to be featured in Stories of WIN this month - sharing my career journey and how storytelling changed everything for me! 🧪🎙️
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
“Measles is a nasty illness for any child, but for some it can lead to long term complications and tragically death, but is so easily preventable with two doses of the MMRV” Protect your loved ones and those around you. Get vaccinated.
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North London measles outbreak hits several schools with at least 34 children infected
A number of children have been hospitalised as officials urge families to check they are up to date with their vaccines.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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batman and robin are running down a city street and the words `` help is on the way '' are written on the screen .
Alt: batman and robin are running down a city street and the words `` help is on the way '' are written on the screen .
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 30/01/2026
Removing vaccine recommendations for at risk children does not make America healthy. #RemoveRFKJr www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Evidence shows benefit of RSV vaccines as Trump officials push restrictions
Shots to prevent respiratory syncytial virus recommended only for high-risk babies even as experts hail jabs’ success
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Thanks Tash. It was just a shock and thankfully no damage done and B wasn’t upset by it.
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Flag waving protesters outside the Best Western hotel in Long Eaton hurled an ice/snowball at the window of my car as I was waiting in traffic so hard I thought they’d broken a window. My child was in the car at the time. I’m a British citizen. Let’s stop pretending it’s about asylum seekers.
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Same. I miss the people I connected with on there but I couldn’t stand the hate on there.
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Currently 125th in the queue to report a downed phone line. Thoughts and prayers for all phone operators
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy New Year to all except whichever genius decided Y10 students should do work experience in March, but didn’t check that businesses would take Y10 students in March (or at any time).
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Make a Bond movie academic The Living Documents
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
MBS needs to leave Lando’s hair alone. #F1
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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic... 1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
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🖇️ Jane @janetea4.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I’m from the generation that remembers when these diseases ran rampant. Perhaps we need to be reminded with a dose of repeated history
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/12/2025
It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed | Gordon Brown
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It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed | Gordon Brown
Palliative care is deeply underfunded and unequal. Assisted dying cannot go ahead until politicians right that wrong, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 20/11/2025
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING
TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
THIS IS WHY WE'RE SO FUCKING ANGRY
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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) in pregnancy does not increase the risk of autism @jama.com @ki.se jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Anyone interested in learning about why journals make a proactive effort to increase women's participation in the peer review process should take the time look at some actual evidence about why this is needed. Ditto journalists covering such a story. Do some reporting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I just want to make this *abundantly clear*. When “experts” say COVID-19 is mild for kids… THEY HAD, AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TEN YEARS WORTH OF INFECTIONS WILL CAUSE.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The Farage Factor. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
If people are talking about removing the right to remain of “legal” migrants who have lived and worked (and paid tax) here, then they don’t believe that anyone “not from here” can “integrate”. Thank you do it going to my TED talk.
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Devi Sagar @devirsagar.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Short exercise intervention may help *male* teens with ADHD. *The control group (n = 37) consisted of 98 % males, with a mean age of 14.38 years (SD = 1.80), whereas the intervention group (n = 45) comprised 96 % males and had a mean age of 14.10 years (SD = 1.50).
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Your regular reminder that any kind of racist message always travels faster and reaches more people than a half-hearted apology issued days later. The true target audience doesn't care about the apology and keeps celebrating the original message.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
If Pochin doesn't lose the whip - and she should - then Farage's party will be happy to have a racist on its benches. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
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Visions of Hope @visions-of-hope.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
In 2008 our financial institutions collapsed under their weight of their incompetence and avarice. Rather than sending the people responsible to jail we bailed them out with taxpayer money and made massive spending cuts to pay for it. And we’ve NEVER recovered.
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 24/10/2025
A rise in racist attacks over recent years has led one man to set up a new anti-racism monitoring service - RADAR | Daniel J Thomas @djournothomas.bsky.social
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Putting racism on the RADAR: a new anti-racism service
A rise in racist attacks over recent years has led one man to set up a new anti-racism monitoring service - RADAR
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 24/10/2025
A rise in racist attacks over recent years has led one man to set up a new anti-racism monitoring service - RADAR | Daniel J Thomas @djournothomas.bsky.social
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Putting racism on the RADAR: a new anti-racism service
A rise in racist attacks over recent years has led one man to set up a new anti-racism monitoring service - RADAR
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Natasha Davies @daviesna2.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
So it would seem the best way to beat Reform, is to actually challenge Reform. On their rhetoric, their policies and their values. Who could have guessed 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Spotify is doubling down on decision to run ICE ads ‼️ Help us spread the word to #BoycottSpotify | boycottspotify.com
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