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Euan Lawson

@euanlawson.social
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Academic GP, Lancaster Uni. Editor, British Journal of General Practice. Research: working with people who use drugs. Chair FPH Drugs SIG. Dailyish fell/trail runner in Cumbria. My views etc… linktr.ee/euanlawson

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Much as I love the News Agents their discussion on Covid was ill-informed and misleading. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...
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We are learning the wrong lesson from Covid school closures
A response to yesterday's News Agents podcast...
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 18/07/2026
I never quite got to it last time but going to bump it up my list again, though I am on a bit of an Italy jag at the moment with reading.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 18/07/2026
No book suggestions but spotted Belly Woman in the photo and was reminded of your (rather fabulous) review of it - well worth anyone’s time. bjgp.org/content/74/7...
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Books: Belly Woman
Benjamin Black Neem Tree Press, 2022, PB, 300pp, £10.11, 978-1911107576 Read this book. Read it even though you’re not an obstetrician working in harsh conditions in a low-income country (in Black...
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Am racking my brain to think of ways we can all keep the pressure and heat on this story. Meta & Mark Zuckerberg - one of the richest men in the world - are putting unfathomable legal and financial pressure on whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Pretty sure most people are on her side - not their's
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 05/06/2026
Ha, my first gig too - Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour in 1988. Wembley Arena on the 10/11 Dec. (They played the Edinburgh Playhouse 20-22 Nov.) Missed last train home out of London, got to Gatwick, and slept on bench until able to get the milk train home… www.concertarchives.org/bands/iron-m...
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Iron Maiden's 1988 Concert & Tour History | Concert Archives
Iron Maiden tours & concert list along with photos, videos, and setlists of their live performances.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 03/06/2026
I’d be delighted - let me know deets via DM etc and very happy to sort. 😀
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 31/05/2026
BTW, just while I am feeling a bit mardy, here's a short post about my feelings on 'red flag' emails. And, please let me know if you have ever flagged an email as 'low importance'. (Though it might, on reflection, be the best/snarkiest approach to a red flag email.) euan.is/raging-about...
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Is there ever justification for 'red flagging' emails?
I have to admit, when I get an email with a red flag stating it is 'important', it raises antibodies with me. I strongly suspect the person at the other end ...
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 31/05/2026
That sounds perfect - delighted to do that.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 31/05/2026
“Blink once if you can hear us, Sarah, twice if [Mark] Zuckerberg is an asshole.” Best response here is to read Sarah Wynn-William’s book, Careless People, and recommend it to everyone. @biggreenbooks.bsky.social - I’d be very happy to buy someone a copy via yourself, if you still do that.
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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 20/04/2026
Great to see the Levellers getting some love. Part of my life since 1990 and looking forward to seeing them at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool later this year. #levellers
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Banned from the radio after Princess Diana died: how Levellers made What a Beautiful Day
‘Its release seemed timely as the Tories had just left office. But then Diana died and all cheerful songs were taken straight off the radio. Boom! It disappeared’
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 10/04/2026
And for the record, as it might be possible to misinterpret your post as a result rather than a statement of the study aim: “This population-based analysis demonstrated that early methadone dose titration was associated with improved treatment retention and lower hazard of opioid toxicity.”
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Brief update from the battlefields of attacking extreme wealth concentration (we're still far from making any progress) crookedtimber.org/2026/04/09/e...
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Extreme wealth concentration — as strong as ever — Crooked Timber
Short answer: today that number is 5 million dollars per hour.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Another version of "never fucking surrender" aka hope in action.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 15/03/2026
If there wasn’t a photo I would have assumed “bathed a chicken” was a euphemism but I would have been too nervous to Google it. (Actually I use DuckDuckGo which would also be more in keeping. I’ll stop now.)
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 04/03/2026
Go on. Delete it right now… (This is mostly about authoritarianism but perhaps the most grim sentence I read this week on AI and war was how it “shortens the kill chain”.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 25/02/2026
“Labour are clearly flailing…” as @zackpolanski.bsky.social accurately notes. People going to the Greens certainly care about nature - but what people want is progressive social policies that are environmentally sound. It’s not really about beavers, you muppets. (As welcome and as cute as they are…)
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Lost species to be released as Labour seeks to stave off Greens’ election threat
Push for good nature news before polls with reintroduction of white-tailed eagles, pine martens and beavers in England
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...
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OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 21/02/2026
My heart goes out to the staff and students - when courses, esp ones as complex as med/vet clinical courses, become dysfunctional it takes a toll. Got to mention that the RCVS noted improvements in 2025 - not easy. This period must be incredibly difficult for them all.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 21/02/2026
Anyone with an interest in #meded should read the RCVS Nov 24 report to understand how a med/vet school can go to the wall - two ways, as Hemingway might have said, gradually and then suddenly. The RCVS details the gradual part. www.rcvs.org.uk/news-and-vie...
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Cambridge University Vet School given 10 months to meet recommendations for improvement of veterinary degree
Following a meeting of our Education Committee last week [Tuesday 19 November 2024], we have notified the University of Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine that it must demonstrate improveme...
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 21/02/2026
Been watching this story with interest, from perspective of working in a med school. The FT boils this down to money - and the 995 academics are certainly more concerned about ceding power than vets per se. But Cambridge let the vet course degrade to the point where accreditation was threatened.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 20/02/2026
Hmm, that’s a bit harsh on Lidl and people who work on checkouts…
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Sonya Bushell @sonyabushell.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Seeing my research in print is so exciting, and it's featured in the BJGP editorial too! So grateful to all at @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Note the timing of Home Office re-press releasing the “most ever raids” & “hardest ever immigration crack down” today. Signalling alignment with Trump & ICE. They haven’t got a clue how to make ordinary British people’s lives better, only how to make migrants suffer. #r4today
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o... #retraction #stemcells #cardiology @erictopol.bsky.social
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An Open Letter to the BMJ Editorial Board
to: Editor in chief, Kamran Abbasi , kabbasi@bmj.com      Executive editor, Theodora Bloom , tbloom@bmj.com      Head of research, Elizab...
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 04/01/2026
i Mondiali di freccette é una grande festa - molto divertente! youtube.com/shorts/D8CTj...
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Crowd Goes CRAZY as the Set Finishes at Ally Pally 🤯🔥 #pdc #allypally #darts
YouTube video by Thedartszone180
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 03/01/2026
Best quote summarising health visiting: “With a history in universal child health provision spanning more than 150 years, health visiting is one of the most established and important public health initiatives in the UK, promoting equity from infancy in the community.”
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 03/01/2026
Ah, I knew we had an editorial in the BJGP on health visiting recently - though turns out it was >3 years ago. bjgp.org/content/72/7...
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Greater support, recognition, and research for health visiting post-pandemic
Traditionally, appointments between families and health visitors have taken place face-to-face in families’ homes, local community venues, and primary care settings alongside GPs.1 Working across thes...
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 03/01/2026
Lovely article from David Misselbrook on the “pings and the bongs of regulatory micromanagement and guideline hypertrophy” and the erosion of the patient-doctor relationship. “For at least the last two decades we have all had a DHSS sponsored buffoon sitting in our consulting rooms.” 🤣
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 30/12/2025
OK I am in. 26 left now 😀
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 26/12/2025
Oh, that’s a nice surprise - my article, featuring the fabulous @deevybee.bsky.social, is included on the list. Thank you to the wonderful editors for all their support 🤩
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 11/12/2025
Closing shot of BOTRK - I often feel like the medical officer here…
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 11/12/2025
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a man wearing a hat is smiling with the words madness written below him
Alt: an army officer wearing a hat is grimacing with the words madness written below him
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SAPC @sapc.ac.uk · 05/12/2025
Brighton & Sussex Medical School is seeking to appoint a practicing GP as Associate Professor or Professor of General Practice jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/cde88946... @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social #academicprimarycarejobs #primarycareresearch
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Clinical Associate Professor or Professor of General Practice Ref: 42195 - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 25/11/2025
Currently the framing we use for BJGP reviewers is slightly different: Definitely yes/Probably yes/Probably not/Definitely not. All needs to be interpreted with care - it often surprises me how much the recommendation and the review itself don’t obviously align.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 25/11/2025
That screenshot looks more like the ScholarOne options for the AEs to make recommendations back to the EiC. (Or the EiC making a decision.) It then means a different email template gets generated - the optimistic/pessimistic framing could be helpful. There is a big range within ‘major revisions’…
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In this blog, we explain why we need to have an Extreme Wealth Line, just like the Extreme Poverty Line. Also, having a line as a social indicator does not necessarily commit one to a limit on wealth possession via taxation only; it's a regulative ideal. blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
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Let’s be clear – an Extreme Wealth Line is not a cap on wealth
An extreme wealth line (EWL) defines a level where the harms associated with extreme wealth become socially unacceptable. It is not the same as a cap on wealth
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Andrew Papanikitas @gentlemedic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
FYI @bjgp.bsky.social @bjgpopen.bsky.social @euanlawson.social @drtomround.bsky.social @timsenior.bsky.social @nadakhan.bsky.social
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 10/10/2025
Not directly related but adjacent - I get very twitchy when people talk about “building the evidence base”. In itself, innocuous and unarguable - but context is everything and can be a red flag when talking about an intervention that they support (and have already decided works).
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 08/10/2025
At a conference? Why not check the speaker against the Disclosure UK database? They might be paid thousands of pounds from the pharmaceutical industry. I think we can agree transparency is important - but I suspect many (?most) doctors don't know about it. search.disclosureuk.org.uk
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Disclosure Search
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
How do we keep GPs in the job? New research from Sophie Park. www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/gp-work...
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How can we keep GPs in the job? New review points to relationships, meaning, and learning
New research shows GP retention depends on how services are organised, not just individual resilience. Meaningful work, strong relationships, and learning cultures help GPs stay in post and deliver be...
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 25/09/2025
Listen to the full audio interview with BJGP Editor, @euanlawson.social‬, for editorial insights into journal impact and real world applicability. www.bjgplife.com/212 #ResearchMethods #PrimaryCare #GPsky #Medsky
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Inside the BJGP and editorial insights: Euan Lawson on the future of publishing and how to get published
Quickly and easily listen to BJGP Interviews for free!
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 23/09/2025
DM’d you David 👍
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 09/09/2025
My thoughts with the good people at @releasedrugs.bsky.social but also, especially, with the people who are being targeted by the far-right. As they say “Solidarity is key when under attack…” www.release.org.uk/blog/office-...
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Our office was attacked
Release’s offices were subject to an attack over the weekend. Members of the right targeted our building between the 5th and 6th of September, painting a Cross of St George on the front of the premise...
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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The Govt needs to go much further on private school reform if it wants to reach its goal of ‘smashing the class ceiling’
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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The story of how I met Enid Balint and two other remarkable psychoanalysts, but never became one myself. Just out @bjgp.bsky.social. bjgplife.com/encounters-w...
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Encounters with three remarkable women
"Although I knew so little about them at the time I met them, it now feels an extraordinary privilege to have encountered these three remarkable women." A slice of memoir from John Launer
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 23/08/2025
Nick Clegg - here he is, again, rationalising the staggering malignancy he has blithely facilitated. Austerity and its litany of deaths. Tuition fees and the disintegration of HE. Facebook and the tech bros. If there is a social ill or moral void seems we'll find him greasing the wheels.
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‘If I felt Zuckerberg and Sandberg were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked at Meta’: Nick Clegg on tech bros, AI and Starmer’s half measures
When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 23/08/2025
Obviously most doctors respect confidentiality and there are important considerations around training/learning - but I think that is at the heart of it. They just don't frame it as the patient's story - doctors frame it as theirs.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 23/08/2025
Been wrestling with this at the journal for years. My experience is that there is a deep rooted fundamental assumption amongst doctors that patients’ stories are theirs to share/tell.
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 20/08/2025
Read the issue dedicated to #QualitativeResearch, with an editorial from Prof. Carolyn A Chew-Graham‬ plus a celebration of qualitative research from @euanlawson.social‬ bjgp.org/content/75/755
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British Journal of General Practice: 75 (755)
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Rebecca Henderson @rebecca-henderson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The review also found a lack of evidence about who is most likely to be missed, highlighting the need for more research to understand and prevent inequalities at this crucial point of care. You can read the full paper here: doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PalliativeCare #Research #GeneralPractice #BJGP
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Equitable inclusion of patients with cancer on the palliative care register: a systematic review in primary care
Background GPs are instrumental to palliative care in the UK and most practices maintain a register of patients with palliative care needs. However, many people with incurable cancer who could benefit...
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