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Bobbie Farsides

@farsidesb.bsky.social
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Emeritus Prof of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics at Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Alto, displaced North Londoner, European. Was @Ethixbird in another place.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Please @sianberry.bsky.social is there anything you can do to call the train companies ‘serving’ Brighton to account. Service has been either non existent or abysmal since the New Year
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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Breaking the Firewall—The Moral Calamity of Using Medicaid Data for Immigration Enforcement - Patricia Mae Santos, Rachel Fabi, Benjamin Sommers, Lilia Cervantes | JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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The Moral Calamity of Using Medicaid Data for Immigration Enforcement
This Viewpoint lays out the consequences of the proposed agreement to share Medicaid patient data with the Department of Homeland Security and offers advice to clinicians and health care administrator...
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I added my name to demand real action from the UK government – not just words - to protect civilians and humanitarian workers in Gaza with @dotwuk.bsky.social. 💙 Please take a minute to do the same. petition.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/page/171651/...
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PETITION : The UK must put pressure on Israel
Doctors of the World humanitarian workers are responding to the mass violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Please sign the petition to protect civilians and medical workers.
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
It truly pains me to see this news, but sadly it backs up my longheld view that an opt out system was not the answer www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Number of patients in UK waiting for lifesaving organ transplant at record high
More than 8,000 people, including almost 300 children, are on waiting list, as NHS sees sharp drop in donors
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Very interesting to look at the list of MPs who chose to vote against the decriminalisation of abortion.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Well payed, Harvard, well played. Harvard offers FREE American Government course.
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Brighton and Sussex Medical School @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🎧 New episode from @genomicsengland.bsky.social! BSMS' @farsidesb.bsky.social & @richgorman.bsky.social dive into how compassionate approaches, including poetry, can bring compassion and humanity to the ethical questions shaping genomics. Listen now 👉 ow.ly/pthk50VG4mq
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
@theguardian.com hi I’m a subscriber but keep getting error message when trying to access crosswords. Please can you advise? Thank you
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Alanna Vagianos @alannavagianos.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.
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Trump Admin Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence
Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.
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University of Sussex @sussex.ac.uk · 26/03/2025
“We need to take a stand for the sector and for the right of universities[...]to create respectful and inclusive communities, which is put at risk by this judgement.” Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sasha Roseneil, shares a message following the Office for Students' report published today.
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Please take a moment to read this www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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The Kafkaesque investigation into our university looks like political scapegoating
The Office for Students' so-called investigation into the University I represent was flawed and politically motivated. The implications for the hig...
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow. I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws. But her name was Haley.
A school photo of a gently smiling teenage girl. She has long brown hair and a black cardigan.
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Progress Educational Trust (PET) @pet-bionews.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
PET has joined BlueSky! We are using our first ever post to tell you about our next Wednesday Night with PET Event: Full details and how to register can be found on the PET website www.progress.org.uk/event/infect... #fertility #infertility #fertilityclinic #ivf #ivfclinic #hfea #InfectedBlood
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Amazing day @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social today discussing how best to convey the learning from the UK Infected Blood Inquiry. Thank you to all our guests for their powerful & thought provoking contributions. Such a privilege to sit alongside you.
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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The obsession of #r4today regarding private school fees should be contrasted with their complete indifference regarding the 3,000 or so food banks now needed to feed the working poor.
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
So proud of my much adored sister in law who was the producer of this TV gem and put nine months hard work into brightening so many people’s Christmas. Well done Sal !
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Well done and thank you to the choir raising money for St Catherine’s Hospice Crawley at Victoria Station this evening. So pleased to support you.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
How many children’s lives has the measles vaccine saved in 50 years? Around 90 million. Important to remind ourselves that vaccines save lives ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org
Chart showing estimates of number of lives various vaccines have saved over 50 years
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I listened to the whole debate today and was struck by the mutual respect shown, the avoidance of irrelevant politicking (with the notable exception of Robert Jenrick) & the willingness of parliamentarians to take on the heavy responsibility asked of them. The conversation can continue.
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Rich Gorman @richgorman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Lovely evening celebrating the launch of Mark Ward’s book ‘Bleeding Fabulous’. Great to see such solidarity and celebration by the haemophilia community.
A copy of the book Bleeding Fabulous by Mark Ward
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The lack of shame & embarrassment expressed by those MPs relying heavily on the current state of palliative care provision in this country as a reason for opposing the bill is striking. We were world leaders in palliative care yet its funding has never been prioritised. MPs could have changed this.
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Setting things up for a working day in front of the TV #assisteddyingbill
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Poignant that I pick up this news on my way to a meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine co-hosted by their Palliative Care and Psychiatry sections
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I always appreciated Prof Bishop’s contribution in the other place, would be great to see her here.
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It’s days like today one misses the established sense of community built up over many years in the other place. It will come, but for now it’s hard to reach out to colleagues at Sussex University dealing with yesterday’s announcement of a voluntary severance scheme.
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
RIP Judith Jamison “The point is to have a connection with your soul,”
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I feel I need Jenny Eclair on here. Can anyone give her a friendly nudge?
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm really excited about this one. We've opened a new @britishacademy.bsky.social call offering up to £150k for researchers to work with peers around the world to strengthen evidence informed policymaking in different contexts. Deadline 19th Feb. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/evid...
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Evidence-informed policymaking grants
This programme gives ODA-eligible early-career to senior researchers the opportunity to work with peers around the world to inform policymaking through quality evidence and research.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.
An example of Acción Ortográfica Quito doing the Lord's work (graffiti on a wall corrected with red spray paint)
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Took this photo in NYC before the election www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Jonathan Herring @jonathanherring.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Unwanted intimate examinations, patriarchy and power over marginalised bodies - Transforming Society: new blog post with @marthe.bsky.social and Camilla Pickels. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/11/18/u...
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Unwanted intimate examinations, patriarchy and power over marginalised bodies - Transforming Society
Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter, Jonathan Herring and Camilla Pickles highlight how intimate examinations transcend maternity care, exposing power imbalances and violations against marginalised bodies.
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
When an amazing young woman you’ve known since birth makes a film - so proud www.channel4.com/news/the-sti...
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The Stimming Pool: Life from a neurodivergent perspective
Around 1 in 7 people in the UK is estimated to have some kind of neurodivergence, a term used to describe those who think about and see the world differently.
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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Early evening cinema trip to the wonderful Duke of Yorks - hope they turn up here soon.
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This weekend all the football teams in the Women’s Super League are playing in their clubs’ main stadiums. More of this please
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
@municipaldreams.bsky.social always have mi e to hand
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
NEED SOME GOOD NEWS? The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels. Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This feels like being at a party which is really good, but you know you’d enjoy it more if you knew more people
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
@freedomtolearn.bsky.social yeahhhh you flew the nest too x
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
@jsnyder.bsky.social hi Jeremy I would be very pleased to be included on your list. I’m a bioethicist in the UK
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Bobbie Farsides @farsidesb.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I’ve arrived. I’m not sure what do next but sometimes you just know that you have to move on
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