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Bob Phillips

@drbobphillips.bsky.social
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Professor of Paediatrics and Evidence Synthesis at University of York / Hull-York Medical School, and Consultant in Paediatric Oncology, and proud Dad of grownups 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE WIDELY!!! We need your help once again, you magnificent Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter!!! buff.ly/Gab1zWu
Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Covers by Paul Lewin, Katy Shuttleworth, and Galen Dara
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 16/02/2026
This week, I'm going to get way out of my comfort zone and promote the hell out of my podcast. I'm so proud of the work we are doing, and I want as many people as possible to know it exists. So I'll begin here: wilwheaton.net/podcast/
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It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton
You may recognize Wil Wheaton’s name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985’s timeless classic, Stand B…
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Daily 27 @daily27.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
🧵'Cancers can occur in everyone' 🌍 #InternationalChildhoodCancerDay ✍️ @drbobphillips.bsky.social, Professor of Paediatrics and Evidence Synthesis 🔗 daily27.info/2026/02/15/c... #Health #ChildhoodCancer #News #Candlelighters
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
At literally no point in this headline was it possible to predict the next word, 10/10 work
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The museum speaks for the world
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Best ever thread. Enjoy. Thanks for sharing Tom.
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Hull York Medical School @hyms.ac.uk · 21/11/2025
🕯️How fantastic to see the Candlelighters Supportive Care Research Centre, led by our very own @drbobphillips.bsky.social, putting patients at the heart of research; improving the experience and outcomes of children undergoing cancer treatment. Read more here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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York research helping to shape supportive care for children and young people with cancer
Pioneering research led by the University of York is transforming supportive care for children and young people with cancer, directly driven by the crucial insights of patients and their families.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Damn. RIP the absolute titan of British acting that was Prunella Scales. I wrote this Fawlty Towers short story a while back as a tribute to her performance in it. Shared in her memory.
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No Pasarán
Some debts you can never repay Terry stepped out of the kitchen door into the cold, winter air. It was dawn. The sun was slowly rising over Torquay, casting beams of fresh sunlight across the façade o...
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
What would you call the amazing bobbly bits of this hairstyle… poll in the comments to count via “likes”?
Cartoon face with hair drawn into buns on either side at the top of the head
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CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association @cclguk.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
3 persistent symptoms, 3 GP visits or 3 weeks of unexplained symptoms? We want #HealthcareProfessionals to consider: 'Could it be cancer?' #ChildCancerSmart Dissemination Lead, @drbobphillips.bsky.social, explains more about our evidence-based approach. 🔗 bit.ly/4lno0Kh
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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I still don't understand how ostensible experts are saying we're only a few years away from true AGI (or even superintelligence). Analytical AI/ML is ultimately just statistical modeling and analysis, and generative AI is just auto-correct amped up a bunch.
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CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association @cclguk.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Today, we’re launching #ChildCancerSmart alongside campaign ambassador @dramirkhangp.bsky.social - an evidence-based public and professional awareness campaign to improve #EarlyDiagnosis of cancer in children and teenagers aged up to 18 🩵🎗️ Find out more at cclg.org.uk/childcancers...
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The bastards in this world are doing everything they can to destroy the arts and silence voices. Your support of Uncanny Magazine can mean a 12th year of the stories, poems, essays, interviews, podcasts, and covers that folks need. COMMUNITIES FIGHT THE DARKNESS TOGETHER, SPACE UNICORNS!
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Are you a parent/carer of a young man who has had cancer? We are keen to hear your views on a new resource designed to raise awareness of the ways in which cancer treatment can affect fertility. Interested? Contact d.musson@leedsbeckett.ac.uk Please share!
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This is a superb publication that’s very worth reading (and it makes the world a better place while it’s doing it). Subscribe for a year for less than the cost of a round in a city centre pub.
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Lord Sedge of Sedgley @lordsedge.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Worth remembering that one of Ozzy's last acts was to raise £104 million for charity Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need #Ozzy
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a blurred image of a woman dancing in a room
Alt: Ozzy dancing
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We are SO CLOSE to funding Uncanny Magazine Year 12! Just look at the solicited essayists for next year! YOU WANT THIS TO HAPPEN, SPACE UNICORNS!! buff.ly/JkF7S7F
Ryka Aoki, Mark Ayres, Jane Espenson, Hana Lee, Nilah Magruder, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Una McCormack
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Unicorns hand painted add to a collection of priceless items #paedsrocks
Shelf with a “book of poo” book, a Disney cruises mug, a pin badge with “It’s Prof actually” on it and a small pink painted watercolour of a smiling unicorn
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Matt Peters @mrmightyink.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
70% funded. 20 days left. Uncanny Magazine is on its way to another year of incredible stories—and I’ll be right there voicing them for your ears. Help us keep the magic (and space unicorns) alive 🦄 FLY FOREVER! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
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Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns!
Funding to support Year 12 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!
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Matt Peters @mrmightyink.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🎉 We’re officially over halfway to our $50K goal! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who's joined the journey so far. If you love sci-fi & fantasy, now’s the perfect time to jump in and help us cross the finish line to Uncanny Magazine Year 12! 🚀🦄 Support and share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
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Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns!
Funding to support Year 12 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! @kickstarter.com has made the Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Kickstarter a “Project We Love”! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The original version of van life.
Snail on a tarmac path. Looking supremely unconcerned by the world.
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Even if you’ve listened before, now might be a very good time to go through this series and remember the banality of evil, look out for it, and resist. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals - Episode 1 - The Hunt - BBC Sounds
May 1945 and the leading Nazis have gone to ground all over Europe.
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Capture Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumour Charity @capturedsrctc.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
16.5 hours in and these guys are still going STRONG. Alternating between stitching and swimming they have rocked Splash and Stitch. It’s not too late to sponsor them and help us fund essential research into palliative care: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Prof Cole makes stats meaningful, understandable, and has improved child research massively over the last decades
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Growth and development
Tomatoes turning green to red
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/06/2025
Fascism is for losers.
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Keep on dancing at the Space Unicorn Club! Uncanny Magazine Issue 64 Part 2 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET!!! buff.ly/KstaS66
Cover image Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong. An Asian woman with long black hair, wearing a blue qipao-like dress with blue floral designs, holds a pair of black scissors and faces us. A shadowy figure, a woman in profile, stands behind her. At the women’s feet are gray-brown skyscrapers. Behind her is a pale-green-blue sky and a pale yellow sun-like circle surrounded by yellow rays and black angled points shaped like scissors. The Uncanny banner, May/June 2025, Issue Sixty-Four, list of author, essayists, and poets credits, and the editor credits, are on top of the image.
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Capture Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumour Charity @capturedsrctc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Before Capture Mateo felt sad whenever he saw a charity shop. He hated that people cared about other things but that no-one cared enough to try to help save his sister. Through Capture Mateo feels as though he can make a difference. He feels less sad because he knows others care.
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Gjert Moldestad @gjertm.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
For noen kan et lite regnbueflagg bety at vi føler oss tryggere. Man ser flagget og tenker; « her kan jeg passe inn» En enkel måte å vite at jeg også blir satt pris på. Veldig fin video Oslo Pride🌈
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Canal side chill time
Swan gliding on a mirror bright canal, verdant verge in the foreground and leafy trees behind
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Ashley Ball-Gamble @ashleyballgamble.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
It's great to be able to share the results of the landmark Childhood Cancer Diagnosis Study years of work! The aim was for us to quantify diagnostic intervals and referral routes for CYP (0-18) with cancer. (1/7)
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CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association @cclguk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
📢 News: The Childhood Cancer Diagnosis Study, led by Dr Sharna Shanmugavadivel, has found that young people with certain types of cancer are facing lengthy times to diagnosis 🎗 Find out more at bit.ly/3Hg0rVl #ChildCancerSmart #EarlyDiagnosis @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
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Children and young people are waiting longer than necessary for cancer diagnosis, according to new research
A new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that young people suffering from certain types of cancer, such as bone tumours, are experiencing lengthy times to diagnosis.
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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Please could you help me to spread the word about my swashbuckling adventure story with a pirate protagonist, sapphic romance, with a dash of werewolves and vampires? My latest novel THE VENGEANCE is available in all formats geni.us/thevengeance Perfect for escaping the horrors of our time.
Cover of THE VENGEANCE, a novel by Emma Newman with background of purple skies and dark seas, with Solaris logo bottom left corner
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Excellent day at an open cast mine in Yorkshire
Hedge flowers in the foreground, cotton wool clouds in a bright blue sky, gently dipping grass covered ground beyond.
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.
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What Am I Rolling? Podcast 🎙🎧 🎲 @wairpodcast.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🚨Galactic Two-Shot Livestream 🚨 Join us for a Livestream of Galactic: A game of rebellion and relationships over on @oneshotnetwork.bsky.social Twitch! 📆When: Wed 28th May & 4th June 🕢Time: 7:30pm Central Time 💻Where: twitch.tv/oneshotrpg #actualplay #ttrpg #rpg #actualplay #WAIR #oneshotnetwork
Social media graphic for WAIR x OneShot Podcast Network for Galactic Two Shot Livestream. Wednesday 28th May & 4th June at 7:30pm Central Time over on Twitch.tv/OneShotRPG
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Hull York Medical School @hyms.ac.uk · 22/05/2025
🥇We have been awarded the prestigious Athena Swan Gold Award! This award reflects our commitment to advancing gender equality, fostering an inclusive culture, and driving meaningful change across all areas of our School and wider community. @advancehe.bsky.social #AthenaSwan #GenderEquality
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Athena Swan Gold success for Hull York Medical School
Hull York Medical School has received a Gold Award in the Athena Swan Charter, the highest level to be achieved.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association @cclguk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We're proud to have supported such an important project, and would like to thank Bob and his team for their fantastic work. It's powerful to hear the voices of parents in this work, and we are immensely grateful for their honest contributions 💛
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CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association @cclguk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📢 🔬 Led by Dr Jess Morgan, we've funded new research to help families & professionals make treatment decisions for relapsed or hard-to-treat #neuroblastoma. Find out more about the project: bit.ly/44NlMiy #ClinicalTrialsDay
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New research to uncover best treatment options for relapsed and refractory neuroblastoma
CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association is proud to have funded a new research project investigating the latest experimental treatments for hard-to-treat neuroblastoma.
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Jen Sugden @jensugden.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
People of Oxford - and the surrounding areas - we’d love to see you at VICTORIOCITY LIVE! It’s part of a double bill with CROWLEY TIME- and should be a super fun night! Do come 🎉 oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/vic...
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
CW: Incurable cancer We've recently completed the analysis of a project with families about decision making in relapse/refractory rhabdomyosarcoma. This podcast summarises our findings, which we hope will help HCPs and families. Funder: @cclguk.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/203726/episo...
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The Reforms Project - Mosaic LCHTV
This podcast is about how people make decisions about treatments when they have a child with rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of soft tissue cancer. We’ll hear from Professor Bob Phillips of th...
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Roll For Good - Playing TTRPGs for Charity @rollforgood.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The Tiltify will remain open until tomorrow evening, head on over here if you'd still like to donate: tiltify.com/@rollforgood...
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Tiltify - RollForGoodMay2025
rollforgood is fundraising for Game Therapy UK on Tiltify
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Bob Phillips @drbobphillips.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
We’re almost ready to go…
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Roll For Good - Playing TTRPGs for Charity @rollforgood.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Voids between games? Space for more #ttrpg fun! 🌠 During intermission we've got interviews with our GMs and SoulMuppet, giveaways AND a performance of @parablegames.bsky.social' solo ttrpg Ion Heart by @Sanguisblue.bsky.social May 17th & 18th twitch.tv/rollforgood for @gametherapyuk.bsky.social 💙
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MASCC @cancercaremascc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
MASCC is pleased to endorse “Use of food restrictions to prevent infections in paediatric patients with cancer and haematopoietic cell transplantation recipients: A systematic review and clinical practice guideline”. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The RPGeeks @rpgeeksdnd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Baby, it's cold outside (and filled with unfathomable horrors)! On Tuesday, from the mind of Dom Allen (@norollsbarred.bsky.social & @apocalypseplayers.bsky.social), a Call Of Cthulhu one-shot that'll send shivers down your spine. Join us live from 7pm UK at youtube.com/RPGeeksDnD!
Dom Allen with a brown beard, shirt, tie and brown jacket, against a cold, icy, snowflake background. Text reads 'Call of Cthulhu. With Dom Allen' and 'Tuesday May 20th 7pm BST Youtube.com/RPGeeksDnD' plus the RPGeeks logo.
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