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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Peter Mandelson embroiled in scandal on Groundhog Day. Apt.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 18/01/2026

They're ahead of schedule. #RedDwarf

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Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

When excellent MPs stand up for what’s right and then get suspended by their party we should be very worried. Chris Hinchliff has been a staunch defender of nature and is far closer to the public view than the prime minster. Such arrogance 😡. Great quote here from Craig Bennett, agree 💯 .

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This is “healthcare” in the United States. A pharmacy benefit manager randomly decided they just weren’t going to cover this man’s inhaler anymore, so he couldn’t afford it. He died of an asthma attack. Devastating. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Parents sue over son's asthma death days after inhaler price soared without warning

Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, had insurance but couldn’t afford to refill his asthma inhaler after the cost jumped from $70 to more than $500.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#NoMowMay has begun! 🌼 The rare chance to help nature by doing nothing.

The image presents a comparison between two types of lawns to promote #NoMowMay. On the left side, titled "Why have a lawn like this?" it displays a grid of uniform green squares representing a plain, regularly mowed lawn. On the right side, titled "When you can have a lawn like this?" the grid intersperses colourful icons of a sunflower, a pink flower, a ladybug, a frog, a bee, a butterfly, a white flower with a yellow centre, a tulip, another sunflower, a red mushroom with white spots, and additional flowers, symbolising a lively, biodiverse lawn encouraged by letting grass grow naturally during May.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/03/2025

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

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Liz Dobson @lizdobsonuk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

One of the top two talks at #rewired25, @jessrmorley.bsky.social looking philosophically (& necessarily) deeper than the usual AI healthcare hype. TLDR summary: AI is systemic ie. Like electricity, and can be more effective at population level, but individual is where the current focus is

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Paul Campbell @paul0campbell.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

A reminder that cycle infrastructure allows more women to cycle

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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Liz Dobson @lizdobsonuk.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Here are some nice prickly pear also

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Liz Dobson @lizdobsonuk.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Away on hols, so please enjoy this beautiful sunset from last night instead of my usual musings. From Las Hayas on the Canary Island of La Gomera. Normal service will sadly be resumed soon

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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My latest @bmj.com piece . Having spent much of Tuesday in a severely overcrowded ED with corridor/waiting room care galore & much of Monday on a ward unable to discharge patients waiting for community services that they absolutely *do* need - policy meets real life. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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David Oliver: Losing too many NHS hospital beds has been an act of avoidable self-sabotage with predictable consequences

In recent decades we’ve surely lost too many general and acute hospital beds in the UK, without creating sufficient alternative capacity outside hospital. This has resulted in entirely predictable ris...

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Cosáin Climate @cosaingalway.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Efficient transport infrastructure often looks empty. Inefficient infrastructure looks "busy".

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

So the secret is out. The ITV team that made Mr Bates vs the Post Office has been making a drama about the phone-hacking scandal. Featuring David Tennant as Nick Davies. And Mr Bates himself (aka Toby Jones) as me. An altogether less heroic role for Toby, but he’s brilliant as always

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 22/01/2025

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more

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Liz Dobson @lizdobsonuk.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Amidst the DeepSeek debate, here is a highly readable and researched piece on whether it's the model (open code, remember) or run environment (local or cloud) that censors. It's the run environment, notably (state) controlled clouds. Which puts things in a very different perspective. Recc'd reading

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This morning I read that DeepSeek used training data generated from other language models which has companies like OpenAI fuming, and I can't stop thinking about how there's a lesson in there

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A new UK group is suggesting a five-point manifesto to address the rise of SUVs www.suv-alliance.org.uk

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SUV Alliance

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

EU medicines agency quits X & moves to Bluesky "EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We know the main reason that people don’t cycle is because they think it’s unsafe … but it appears the opposite is true, cycling makes you live longer in better health.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

"This is unconstitutional," I scream as the facial recognition equipped robot dogs drag me to my cell. "This goes against everything America stands for!" I shout, as the algorithmic sentencing machine condemns me to death. "This is not who we are!" I remind the firing squad of child soldiers

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 05/01/2025

Mediterranean diet changes gut bacteria, boosting memory and cognition: A new @tulaneu.bsky.social study suggests the Mediterranean diet's brain-boosting benefits may work by changing the balance of bacteria in the gut. [MedSky]

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Study: Mediterranean diet changes gut bacteria, boosting memory and cognition

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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

You just gotta love London knitting. Merry Christmas all

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I don’t know who made this but great job

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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

this truly helped me writing my dissertation

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Ynterviewere: Kan you explayne this gap in your resume? Gandalf: Then Darknesse took me, and I strayede out of thoughte and tyme, and I wanderid far on roades that I will not telle.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 23/12/2024

A wonderfully uplifting story about groundbreaking surgery at Papworth, where surgeons transplanted a pair of lungs revived outside the body in a hi-tech box. Medical science doing its magnificent, awe-inspiring, life-enhancing thing 💙🫁🫀 www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Machine to revive donor organs used in double-lung transplant in UK first

Exclusive: Daniel Evans-Smith tells of transformative effect of operation using technology that could cut waiting lists

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 23/12/2024

I swear I’m not trying to be a total shill for the government but this is a very weird framing in the main BBC story about zero growth. They only won the election in July! It takes time for them to do stuff!

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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I knew it!!!! The socks!!!

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Sryan Bruen @sryanbruen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Every sunrise and sunset I've captured in 2024.

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Sryan Bruen @sryanbruen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

For the day that's in it... except this isn't the winter solstice, this was the summer solstice sunrise over Newgrange this year which was the earliest since 1796.

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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This article depicts a battle ‘within the National Trust’ but RT2021Ltd or Restore Trust is a private company with 4 directors, The National Trust is a 129-year-old charity which has 5.5m members, all of whom have democratic voting rights. www.thetimes.com/article/26a1...

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Battle over National Trust decision not to restore ruined Clandon Park

Charity plans to showcase country house, which was gutted in a devastating 2015 blaze, as a fire-damaged shell but traditionalists demand it be restored

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 17/12/2024

A mom just came in SO EXCITED to find a map store bc her son would LOVE it. She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid." I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends.

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 18/12/2024

Top punning

A sign, on the fence of tennis courts with grass and pavement in front (Priory Park, Hornsey) for a Christmas tree seller, reading 'Tree Amigos'

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 17/12/2024

Disney princesses face serious health risks, warn experts. Disney must consider ways to improve princesses’ wellbeing, including mindfulness, training on cohabitation with animals, and personal protection measures against toxic particles #ChristmasBMJ www.bmj.com/content/387/...

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

hello hello hello SO this might sound VERY BORING but if you're on Bluesky I'm guessing you're not a fan of Massive Platforms Owned by Billionaires. It's about to get much harder to run any sort of online community in the UK, unless you do it on a platform like Facebook, WhatsApp, Discord, etc

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This morning the UK Gov published a new batch of entries of algorithms in use in the public sector (on their Algorithmic Transparency Reporting Standard). www.gov.uk/algorithmic-... Long form response tomorrow coming, but a quick 🧵 @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social

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Find out how algorithmic tools are used in public organisations

Find out how and why public sector organisations use AI and algorithmic tools for decision making.

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Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 17/12/2024

🚨 I'm recruiting 2x postdocs and 1-2 DPhil (PhD) students at Oxford to work on AI, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, and public interest technology research. Interested in human-centred and critical approaches to study the impact of data and algorithms on society? Join us next year!

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Recruiting 2x three-year postdoctoral researchers and 1-2 PhD students – Synthetic Society

The Synthetic Society research team at the Oxford Internet Institute invites applications from enthusiastic and motivated candidates for two postdoctoral positions and 1-2 PhD positions in 2025, worki...

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

When you work in NHS Scotland and read out a CHI number as 3-3-4 instead of 2-2-2-4

Among us meme
Image from the game "Among us" featuring a series of characters with the caption "crewmate: there is 1 imposter among us"

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Elizabeth Ammon @elizabethammon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We’ve all been there.

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