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Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

With each passing week the impact of the summer heatwaves on deaths becomes clearer. The chart shows deaths occurring in each week of 2025 and 2026 in dark blue. I've added an estimate of deaths which have not yet been registered in lighter blue, and marked heatwave weeks with red borders. 1/4

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Natasha Wynne @natashawynne.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Watched @nebriefing.bsky.social at Llandaff Cathedral last night. The clear presentation of evidence, reasons to be hopeful and opportunity to discuss how to respond with my community was genuinely inspiring. If you can, find a screening (or screen it yourself!). www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

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National Emergency Briefing

Find a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you, or spot a gap that you can fill by hosting a screening.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Plug-in solar panels are coming to the UK from August 27th! It's been in the pipeline for a while & it's already common in Germany. But it's BRILLIANT because it opens up these technologies to renters & ppl w/o their own roof. Plugs into a normal socket & supplies ~ 10-20% of household needs. ☀️🎉

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UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August

Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war

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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

💭 Why is there a divide between health and social care? We explore what the health and social care interface looks like in practice, highlighting the experiences of people stuck in the ‘no man’s land’ of where the two sectors meet. Read the full long read here: bit.ly/4ewYeSj

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The Experience of Patients At The Interface Of Health And Social Care | The King's Fund

Patients face delays, confusion and gaps between health and social care, driven by structural divides in funding, accountability and access, worsening outcomes and continuity of care.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 24/07/2026

POV: you fell asleep reading philosophy and your brain decided to make a group chat out of it. What a fever dream. The dead humanist philosophers WhatsApp group is relentless... Sisyphean, if you will.

Bertrand Russell (02:50):
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

Humanists UK (reply, 02:51):
"Ok thanks"

Albert Camus (02:52):
"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

Simone de Beauvoir (02:55):
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

Humanists UK (03:00):
"Guys, please, it's 3:00am"

It's a joke about famous humanist philosophers "group texting" their quotes at 3am, disturbing whoever runs the Humanists UK account.

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Natasha Wynne @natashawynne.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Woke up in West Cardiff thinking the house was on fire, but the smoke is coming from a wildfire more than 30 miles away. Find myself thinking about the Giddens’ paradox a lot at the moment.

A quote from sociologist Anthony Giddens in 2009, which says “We have to deal with what I call Giddens' paradox. Climate change is about avoiding or minimising abstract, largely future, risk. It is not visible in people's everyday lives and most simply filter it out from their day-to-day concerns. The paradox lies in the fact that if we wait until it does becomes visible - in the shape of disasters that can be unequivocally attributed to climate change - it will by definition be too late to control it.”

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Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Waking in Cardiff to the same smell of smoke as yesterday and realising it's from the wildfires near Blaenavon, 30 miles away. Just another day on a planet in crisis.

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Sam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Obviously this is excellent, detailed, and in many ways pretty terrifying - essential reading for anyone with even a passing concern for literature, thought, learning etc. I would only add that there is an even broader crisis here around attention. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Here’s that question answered. Not impossible we end up with two by-elections in Clacton within a year. One now, then another following Parliamentary sanction triggering a recall petition bsky.app/profile/ruth...

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Women have always had children without any help" The NHS was founded after WW2 See the stark difference Before WW2 - over 400 deaths per 100,000 In the 2000's - around 9 deaths per 100,000

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

'Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds' 🤯 🐔 A trend that's fuelling ecological destruction from the Amazon (rainforests cut down to grow soy feed for chickens) to the River Wye (full of chicken shit): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds

UN report says global meat supply has risen fourfold in last 60 years and is expected to keep rising

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James David Griffiths @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 New Blog 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 A short piece on how the new Senedd voting system worked! How many votes did it take to win a seat? Was it proportional? Who benefitted? Where did parties win support? And what would it take to win one more seat? If you're interested: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal... 🧵👇

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All change! The 2026 Senedd Election

Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

What's happening is we're moving to a European party system but without PR.

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Natasha Wynne @natashawynne.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I’ve long supported PR but the system for this Senedd election feels like it hollowed out local democracy and representation. From 40 to 16 constituencies severs the local link. The list system encourages blind party allegiance. Wads of generic leaflets but not one person knocked on our door.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 30/03/2026

Fascinating read, with a political side-note: once again we see a regulator falling apart due to funding cuts in the 2010s, and the government not paying attention after 2016 because the focus is elsewhere.

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Jac Larner @jaclarner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

New poll in Wales, this time with constituency level estimates from YouGov(🥳). Polling in Wales has been pretty noisy over the last 24 months with some big house effects, but the general vote intention trend is clear - May 2026 is a two-horse race between Plaid Cymru and Reform

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Jacob Rubashkin @rubashkin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Imagine trust in polling being at an all time low and then doing “polls” where a quarter of respondents are AI agents hallucinating answers based on exit polling.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

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"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off

AI Killed My Job: Educators.

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Natasha Wynne @natashawynne.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Bold ambitions in the new Neighbourhood Health Framework for England. Including a ‘fundamental reimagining of roles and skills’ in the workforce over the next 10 years www.gov.uk/government/publications/neighbourhood-health-framework/neighbourhood-health-framework

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Neighbourhood health framework

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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

#ntsummit The divide between what is counted as "Health" or "Social Care" is defined by professionals and policy makers but is not apparent to or understood by the general public who see it as a continuum based on need, not on who pays, how it is paid for, which organisation is responsible

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Natasha Wynne @natashawynne.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Health and social care is a major priority for the Welsh public ahead of the Senedd election - second only to cost of living. It’s especially a priority for older voters. Fascinating that the NHS doesn’t even get a nod in Reform’s core pledges for Wales… www.reformparty.uk/welsh-manife...

Reform’s core pledges for Wales from their manifesto: cut taxes, scrap blanket 20mph limits, put Welsh people first, build Wales for the future, back Welsh farmers

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Does anyone think that this - effectively describing people who came here at *our* invitation to work in care homes as would-be parasites on the welfare state - is what she meant?

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Rachel Cable @rachcable.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Please share. All welcome 💜 #RunningPunks #Cardiff @senedd.wales

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Natasha Wynne @natashawynne.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This is good. Working in the open feels like a crucial easy win. On the NHS, Wales publishes far less data & fewer programme updates than England. Unclear why. Openness isn’t just good for accountability. It’s a key innovation driver - ask any researcher or policy analyst keen to get hold of it!

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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 26/01/2026

Arguably more significant than defections, internal party politics and the Beckhams… In 2024 there were around 3,600 suspected cases of measles. We need to challenge the nonsense spread by anti vaxxers and ensure children are protected. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... news.sky.com/story/uk-los...

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UK loses measles elimination status, warns WHO

Vaccination rates in 2024-25 among five-year-olds who had received both MMR jabs hit the lowest level in 15 years.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

New post just out: "On the edge" On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

Natasha Wynne @natashawynne.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The face of a dog who was so happy to see us when we got back from holiday that he sprained his tail from wagging too much. Poor boy.

A black and white dog sits wistfully in a garden

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Greg Pycroft @gregpycroft.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The charity I work for has found that ethnicity data collection in the NHS in Wales is poor compared to that in England (<50% compared to >95%). Means that Wales unable to provide ethnicity data to cancer audits and not contribute to research. www.tenovuscancercare.org.uk/news-views-l...

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The hunt for ethnicity data in cancer care

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Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

If you don’t collect the data then you don’t know whether a problem exists. And if there’s no evidence of a problem, then there’s no need for a policy solution. It’s not an accident that so many OECD countries don’t collate race or ethnicity data. Pandemic highlighted how data can save lives.

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Natasha Wynne @natashawynne.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The aftermath of storm Darragh in Victoria Park this morning. Lots of damage to beautiful trees, but crikey that could have been a lot worse

A large old tree blown over, luckily away from a street of houses

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Sarah Routley @sarahroutley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill passed its second reading by 330 votes to 275 this afternoon. Adding a devo spin to the @instituteforgov.bsky.social’s analysis, I’ve been taking a look at how MPs across the four nations voted today and what this could mean for its future. 🧵

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Ben Walker @bwalker.uk · 29/11/2024

How the votes for assisted dying split by party

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Natasha Wynne @natashawynne.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Pleased to see the Assisted Dying Bill move on to the next stage of scrutiny. How this Bill would be implemented in Wales is a complex issue needing close consideration. Bet I’m not the only one looking for a decent explainer on the LCM process this afternoon.

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Natasha Wynne @natashawynne.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

New report out today shows the UK increasingly depends on doctors from overseas. Of all licensed doctors in Wales, 38% qualified abroad. That’s up from 33% in 2019. How we talk about immigration matters. Some of the rhetoric today feels really unhelpful. www.gmc-uk.org/-/media/docu...

A graph which shows two lines - the number of doctors in the UK who qualified outside the UK which is rising sharply, and the number of UK qualified doctors which is largely flat. The graph is for 2012 to 2023.

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Julia Cushion @juliacushion.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Lots of MPs are undecided (or at least undeclared). There's still time to use writetothem.com to tell your MP your views on the Assisted Dying Bill - you just need your postcode. The bill has it's second reading vote tomorrow, which will decide if it will then go to committee stage.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A story for the process crowd.. What happens next with assisted dying if it passes - It won't be government bill or get govt time - Civil servants and ministers will start work on it - Govt will work on amendments with Leadbeater to get legislation in shape - Minister will be on bill committee

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Assisted dying bill will not be adopted as government bill if it passes vote

Departments ready to work on assessment of its workability as critics say it is proceeding the ‘wrong way round’

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Great to welcome MS for #Pontypridd @mickantoniw.bsky.social here and former FM & Bridgend MS @carwynj.bsky.social - both now added to this Seneddwyr/cyn-Seneddwyr Starter Pack. #Wales #Cymru 👇 (Ignore my presence, I’m neither past/present/future!) go.bsky.app/7z84W2k

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Natasha Wynne @natashawynne.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Using my first Bluesky post to share my first journal article! Understanding how many people need palliative care has never been more important - our research shows the vast majority of people who die in the UK would benefit from it. Have a read and let’s chat about evidence-based health policy 👋

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