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Jonathan Tummons

@jonathantummons.bsky.social
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Rarely here. Email me if you want to get in touch. York (home), Durham (work), or anywhere there's a record shop. 33, 45, 78, 160, 200-500 rpm. Professor, School of Education, Durham University. www.durham.ac.uk/staff/jonathan-tum…

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
'Retrieval practice' is not a synonym for teaching or learning. The learning = memory narrative is really problematic for our conception of what education is. #EduSky
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A regulator that waits for journalists, whistleblowers, MPs & police to do its work is failing in its basic duty The soporific Office for Students finally lumbers into action at Uni Greater Manchester .... after months of allegations of bribery & misconduct www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Regulators open inquiry into University of Greater Manchester amid fraud claims
University is already being investigated by police over ‘allegations of financial irregularities’ and has suspended three of its senior staff
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A regulator that waits for journalists, whistleblowers, MPs & police to do its work is failing in its basic duty The soporific Office for Students finally lumbers into action at Uni Greater Manchester .... after months of allegations of bribery & misconduct www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Regulators open inquiry into University of Greater Manchester amid fraud claims
University is already being investigated by police over ‘allegations of financial irregularities’ and has suspended three of its senior staff
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Boulez is going to the charity shop. It's just not good enough. #NowPlaying the Böhm Siegfried which is much more like it. Better in every way. As fast as you need it to be. Tremendous through line - it really does sound like one (big) single piece. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #RichardWagner
The libretto for Siegfried conducted by Böhm propped up on my record player. Just about to start listening.Vinyl box set. Der Ring des Nibelungen. Cond. Karl Böhm. Recorded at the Bayreuth Festival.
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Noise Annoys @noiseannoys78.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Tomorrow is Record Store Day Black Friday, sadly we won’t be participating by stocking overpriced exclusive releases scraped from the bottom of a barrel. What we will be doing is our own version of Black Friday by giving away a free copy of this LP to the first 3 paying customers to ask for one 😎
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn." #HigherEd www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Less than Greggs? Public have no idea of value of top universities, study finds
Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
More Wagner homework so #NowPlaying the Boulez centenary recording. And he goes at quite some speed - you do lose a bit of detail sometimes. RIP Donald McIntyre who sadly passed away recently - singing The Wanderer here and he's really good. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #Opera #RichardWagner
Siegfried. Opera by Richard Wagner. Conducted by Pierre Boulez. On my record player and ready to go!
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This week Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s Leader in Wales will be sentenced for 8 charges of Russian bribes. Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”. Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Early homework today for the next part of the Ring Cycle at Covent Garden so #NowPlaying Siegfried cond. Janowski. Hugely underrated Cycle and overall preferable to some other big name studio versions (Solti, Karajan, Levine, Haitink, I am looking at you) #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #Opera
Siegfried by Richard Wagner. This is the Marek Janowski cycle released on Eurodisc in the early 1980s. On my record player and ready to go!
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Getting my homework done for Covent Garden the week after next so #NowPlaying Věc Makropulos by Janáček (which I don't know as well as his other mature works) whilst reading a PhD thesis, which constitutes a pretty good day at work I reckon. #Opera #AcademicSky
Věc Makropulos by Janáček - CD box set on the Decca label.
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Carolyn Jackson @carolynjackson.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Great to see my article with Emily M. Gray is now published open access.
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Gender-related violence in Australian and UK universities
We analyse interview data from two projects undertaken in Australia and England to explore gender-related violence (GRV) and its impact on university staff. This focus is novel and important as mos...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Senior management at Lancaster University insist cuts of 1 in 4 jobs are “difficult but necessary” This means “we messed up the finances & you’ll be paying for it” www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Lancaster University industrial action begins Monday with 1 in 4 jobs set to be axed
Staff at Lancaster University will begin industrial action on Monday November 10 over management’s threat to axe one in four staff, the University and College Union (UCU) announced.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Why, yes, More. by Pulp is #NowPlaying on my record player *again*. The real question is for anyone who hasn't listened to it yet: why not? #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
More by Pulp playing on my record player.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
#Nowplaying volume 2. Worth it for the first track ("Jeannine"). This is my only proper OG @bluenoterecords.bsky.social pressing, though I can't remember where I got it (it was ages ago). Will keep this old one when the Tone Poet reissue arrives. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #JazzSky
Donald Byrd At The Half Note Café volume 2, on my record player and ready to go. Donald Byrd At The Half Note Café volume two. This is a picture of the run out groove and you can see the 'ear' stamp (really an inverted p) and the RVG STEREO stamp.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Donald Byrd is #NowPlaying in my front room. At The Half Note Café volume 1. Tone Poet reissue on @bluenoterecords.bsky.social and sounds absolutely amazing. Proper hard bop, no messing about. Excellent! And excited for the volume 2 reissue. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #JazzSky
Donald Byrd At The Half Note Café volume 1, all set up and ready to go on my record player.
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 07/11/2025
Hüsker Dü’s miracle year wasn’t because of happenstance or good luck; it was due to hard work, inner strength, and a big, unforgettable sound. Here's a look back on this formative era for the band.
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Some Kind of Fun: Hüsker Dü’s Generational Blues
The miracle year and miracle band that shaped the sound of underground music to come.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Am having a slow start today (worked late yesterday evening because reasons) so #NowPlaying some proper hard bop whilst drinking my coffee. I should start EVERY day like this. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
Smokin' At The Half Note. Jazz LP by the Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery. On my record player and ready to go.
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This story is grim - and one outcome of the ‘business’ model of higher education. Academic freedom at risk not (just) within a country but from external forces…
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China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing
Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Splendid evening with @operanorth.co.uk last night for some Puccini: thanks very much! Looking forward to Britten and Mozart in February. At the end of this month, off to London for some Janáček, which I am particularly excited for.
Programme for La Bohème by Puccini, performed by Opera North.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
"Matthew Goodwin wants us to worry about a ‘new elite’ of media workers and academics, not the actual elite of billionaires — like his backers. " #Reform #politics #woke morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/fi...
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The financial backers of the war on woke
THERE is a professor on the TV telling you that Britain is run by a “new elite of radical, woke, middle-class liberals” who want to stop you from feeling “British” enough — and that it is the real pro...
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Slow Listening. Busy day so am #NowPlaying Interpol and having coffee. Post-punk revival and caffeine should see me right. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
Our Love To Admire by Interpol. On my record player and ready to go.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Slow Listening. I am #NowPlaying the new Neko Case record (finally!) and it's absolutely excellent. Is there a better singer out there right now? And am loving the orchestral arrangements. As with anything she does, an essential purchase. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
Neon Grey Midnight Green by Neko Case - vinyl record on the record player and ready to go.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Today's essential viewing courtesy of the always impressive @ledbydonkeys.org 👇
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The PricewaterhouseCoopers University is expanding internationally while cutting jobs in Wales Cardiff University’s new Kazakhstan campus is officially registered under PwC lawyer’s email Nothing says “world-class university” like outsourcing your integrity 😉 nation.cymru/news/new-con...
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New concerns over Cardiff University's offshoot in Kazakhstan
Martin Shipton Fresh concerns have been raised about Cardiff University’s recently opened branch campus in Kazakhstan after details of its registration with the Kazakh equivalent of Companies House we...
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apache/ @apache.be · 24/10/2025
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Hey @dailymail.co.uk we fixed your newspapers for you 💋 Lord Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail pays NO TAX in the UK. The rest of us fund public services, he CHOSES not to. Yet we’re supposed to believe problems in the NHS are migrants’ fault? The utter cheek.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
University HR Directors & Heads of Legal are openly weeping & distraught Universities are one of the big users of Non Disclosure Agreements to cover up abuse & misconduct No more, it's stopping gov.uk/government/n...
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Slow Listening. #NowPlaying Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler. I had no idea what this would sound like when I bought it. It's fantastic. A kind of folk-chamber pop thing going on. I could listen to this all day. Butler is a known quantity. Buckley can really sing. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
For All Our Days That Tear The Heart by Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler. On my record player and ready to play.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I am no foodie but I am concerned about (1) the county in which I live and (2) calling out economic and social injustice. unherd.com/2025/10/what...
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What’s eating the food capital of Yorkshire?
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Mission Accomplished! #RichardWagner #RoyalBalletAndOpera
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Slow Listening. Can't have anything too hectic on a Sunday so am #NowPlaying Talkie Walkie by Air. Perfect. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
Talkie Walkie by Air, on my record player and ready to go.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Slow Listening. Am #NowPlaying Art Blakey! Jazz Messengers! Art Blakey born on this day in 1919. This is a Verve By Request reissue pressed by Third Man records - not as good as the Tone Poet pressings on Blue Note but pretty decent sound nonetheless. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #JazzSky
Art Blakey - Jazz Messengers. On the Impulse label. Ready to start on my record player.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax next year after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending. That’s despite Reform UK flyers during the Local Elections criticising councils for doing just that. Never trust a Reformer. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 18/08/2025
It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Slow Listening. I am #NowPlaying Made To Be Devoured by Chorchazade. This a late 1980s 'lost album' (google it for the full story) and it's fantastic. Indie post-punk/post-rock that still sounds fresh today. If you can find a copy, don't hesitate. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
Made To Be Devoured by Chorchazade, on my record player and ready to go.
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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I have recently been one of the editors led by @drnomyn.bsky.social with Keith Heggart of a special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online". Naomi has written a great post here about the project and the other papers 1/7
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Introduction to special section: the political life of education online | Naomi Barnes
Just published online! A special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online" edited by myself, Keith Heggart and Dr Sheena MacRae. https://l...
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Slow Listening. Am #NowPlaying A Secret Wish by Propaganda, courtesy of Earworm Records in York aka the best tiny record shop ever. Haven't heard all of this album for years, possibly decades. So much of it's time: love it. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
A Secret Wish by Propaganda, on my record player and ready to play.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I need to wake up a bit because I still have some work to do this evening so am #NowPlaying Minor Threat. This should do the trick #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
Out Of Step by Minor Threat, on my record player and ready to go!
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Slow Listening. Why yes, I *have* got the place to myself! #NowPlaying the incomparable Talk Talk and then Mark Hollis - for quite a while. Four of the very best records in my collection #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
Laughing Stock by Talk Talk on my record player.Three records in their sleeves: Spirit of Eden and The Colour of Spring by Talk Talk, and the eponymous Mark Hollis record.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
OpenAI's rapid rush into education has been achieved by habituating users through training programs, institutional lock-ins, strategic marketing partnerships, and third party integrations that together are helping it become infrastructural to teaching and learning. It's going to be hard to get out.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
#NowPlaying Rainy Sunday Afternoon. Last week, an absolutely excellent matinee show from @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social at the Brudenell in Leeds (was particularly delighted when they did The Happy Goth). Today, my copy of their new record has arrived so here we go! #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
Rainy Sunday Afternoon by The Divine Comedy. On my record player and ready to go.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Slow Listening. Mornings and late evenings are my favourite times to listen to jazz so let's do that. #NowPlaying John Coltrane and with McCoy Tyner on piano, it's a particular treat. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #JazzSky
Coltrane Live At The Village Vanguard. The picture is of the record sleeve.
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Slow Listening. Am #NowPlaying The Godfather of Soul! Perfect to motivate me for one more day's work before the weekend. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity
I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me by James Brown, ready to go on my record player.
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Dr Kate Haddow @khaddow93.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hate self promoting posts! And not going to say 'I am delighted' 😂 but also no one will promote this for me 😂. So sod it! Please give my article some love or a repost. This article means a lot to me on food aid beyond the food bank! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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‘Free Food Places’: Looking Beyond the Food Bank to Better Understand Alternative Models of Food Aid - Kate Haddow, 2025
In the last decade, there has been a vast increase in research into the rise of food aid, particularly food banks, in wealthier countries. However, what has bee...
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
You see this, post a concert picture you took
A photo of the band Lanterns on the Lake
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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Enjoyed the Wynton Kelly/Wes Montgomery so much yesterday that I am going in again courtesy of the always excellent Resonance Records
Wes Montgomery and the Wynton Kelly Trio - Smokin' in Seattle. Ready to go on my record player.
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 23/09/2025
Please know that this is Trump scaremongering. There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism. A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism
President says acetaminophen – also known as paracetamol - increases risk when taken by pregnant women, assertion contradicted by research
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