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Nizam Mamode

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Humanitarian surgeon. Professor of Transplant Surgery. Healthcare consultant and transplant surgeon in Scotland and overseas

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 17h
What will shape the health of the next generation? A new Lancet Commission outlines 17 interlinked catastrophic threats to health and human survival between 2025 and 2100: tinyurl.com/342wzbj5 #21stCenturyThreatsToHealth @ihmeuw.bsky.social @unfpa.org
Promotional card for The Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to health. Text on card reads '17 catastrophic threats. One shared framework for action.' There are also icons representing each of the 17 threats, e.g. a thermometer for Climate Change and a brain for Poor Mental Health.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The real lesson from Nazism youtube.com/shorts/tRN1q...
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The REAL Lesson of Nazism
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Nizam Mamode @nizammamode.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In the 1980’s I spent a lot of time on anti- apartheid campaigns. I was often told that Nelson Mandela was a ‘terrorist.’ Now he is ( rightly) revered as one of the most inspirational figures of the 20 th century. Terrorist is a word often used against those who challenge the status quo.
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Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Happy to confirm: attendees receive 16 European CME credits Malta, 19-21 Nov 😊 Great faculty (@gurujosh.bsky.social @steventong.bsky.social David Paterson, others) Register www.escmid.org/event-detail... Organized by @clarityinitiative.bsky.social @cmicomms.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social #IDSky
Screenshot of the postgraduate education course flyer with the title of the course "Clinical trials: from generating the initial idea to reporting final results and everything in between" and a pretty picture of Valletta from the sea
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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Be more Shetland pony 🐴
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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A little story about flowers, folklore and wool 🐑 #Shetland #Shetlandwoolweek
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 02/10/2026
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) affects more than 300 million people worldwide—yet it remains under-recognised, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. A new Editorial discusses a Lancet Series aiming to address this major health burden: spkl.io/633207pL2I
Promotional card for The Lancet's October 3, 2026 Editorial. Image is of a Doppler ultrasound for ankle-brachial pressure index. Text reads 'Editorial: Peripheral arterial disease: counting what matters'.
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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A wee video about Shetland sheep for Shetland Wool Week #Shetland #Shetlandwoolweek
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Nizam Mamode @nizammamode.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Talking to the Italian Transplant Society about ‘Transplants, War and Politics’, as well as novel methods of data analysis and use of AI. Plus nice people, great food and dancing!
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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today I found my first seabean. This seed has travelled a long way to reach #Shetland. Starting it's journey in a tropical forest, travelling with ocean currents and washing up with our first autumn storms. A little piece of luck and joy to hold onto as daylight fades and winter approaches.
Heart shaped seed with blue sea behind
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Danny Tommo has been arrested... Happy Friday! BUT.. while we're enjoying that very reasonable Friday treat, the AI hate machine that radicalised his base is still running. Fully funded with nobody stopping it. My new piece below… marinapurkiss2.substack.com/p/one-bellen...
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One Bellend, A Knife, And The Machine Behind Him
On the man caught on camera slashing a dinghy who still pleaded not guilty - and the AI hate machine that nobody's stopping.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Science fiction writers often call humanity a “carbon-based life form” & we are… but it’s not just our anatomy that’s based on carbon. It’s the whole of our life support system. My Gresham Lecture tmrw will be all about where Earth's carbon is & what it's up to. Listen in at 6pm (free online)!
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Carbon: Our Flexible Friend that Built the Natural World
Carbon used to be something that was only mentioned in school chemistry classes, but now it seems to be everywhere: on the news, in political debate, in discussions on health, and as a framework for t...
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Nizam Mamode @nizammamode.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In lovely Padua, with old friends, teaching the next generation of surgeons…
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Natalie Berry @natalie-berry.com · 22/09/2026
My Appalachia Journal story on Mountain Seed Foundation's climbing therapy sessions for children of military families in Ukraine is a finalist in the Banff Mountain Book Awards. Thank you to the International Women's Media Foundation for supporting my reporting in Ukraine.
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"This is an opinion column. It usually runs to 1,000 words. Eight hundred of them have been spent naming ordinary things Israel has illegally denied the people of Gaza. I could fill another column and still not exhaust the list.”
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esottransplant @esottransplant.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Applications are open for the ESOT Machine Perfusion Masterclass 2027. Expert teaching + hands-on laboratory training + mentored project work across abdominal and thoracic organs. 📍 Madrid | 11–12 Feb 2027 ⏳ Apply by 1 Nov 2026
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Machine Perfusion Masterclass 2027 • ESOT
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I can't believe a landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save the Glenelg - Skye ferry!
This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but the ferry's operator says its futur...
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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform MP defends billionaire donations, says Reform is a “disruptor” and compares Reform to Jesus.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A Reform councillor is appearing in a comedy show funded by Nigel Farage. Top investigative reporting by @mrhenrymorris.substack.com For more details on this shocking show : rosieholt.seetickets.com/tour/rosie-h...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I just signed this open letter to RNLI volunteers saying that Britain values their service. In case anyone else wants to sign act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A pro-Palestine protester is arrested for holding a poster reading “I oppose genocide I support Palestine Action” Over 3,500 arrests have been made since Palestine Action was labeled a “terrorist organization” by the UK.
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 09/09/2026
A genetically modified pig kidney kept a man off dialysis for nine months before a successful human kidney transplant, according to a world-first report in The Lancet. Read now: spkl.io/633247RJgK
Figures showing (A) Total daily urine output (mL) during the first week after xenotransplantation. (B) Serum creatinine and eGFR throughout the xenograft period. Note that scales on y axes differ between plots. Vertical dashed lines indicate for-cause kidney biopsies—key histopathological findings are annotated: day 14, Banff IIA TCMR; day 176, MVI with endothelial injury; day 264, TMA with transplant glomerulopathy. (C) Serum sodium. (D) Serum potassium. All panels share a common x-axis representing days relative to xenotransplantation (day 0). eGFR=estimated glomerular filtration rate. MVI=microvascular inflammation. TCMR=T-cell-mediated rejection. TMA=thrombotic microangiopathy. Copyright: 2026 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved.
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esottransplant @esottransplant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
5 𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗱𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻 Mobility Grants (Europe) 🎯 𝘛𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 European transplant professionals of all disciplines. 🏆 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 ESOT will cover up to EUR 4.000. APPLY TODAY 👉 go.esot.org/EGP27_00
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Private equity is turning long NHS waiting lists into private profit. Our new investigation revealed that 81 NHS trusts paid nearly £300M to private equity-backed firms, using NHS staff inside NHS hospitals to make millions. Read our full report: everydoctor.org.uk/reports/prof...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Reform claim to protect women and girls. Yet when peaceful climate protestors were violently attacked at Reform Party conference, politicans mocked the victims. Reform have a woman problem.
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Nizam Mamode @nizammamode.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
One of my favourite places….
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Nizam Mamode @nizammamode.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
He murdered 8000 in cold blood, including boys as young as 13…. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Ratko Mladić, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, given hero’s funeral in Serbia
Fanfare at Belgrade funeral of man convicted of genocide raises questions from EU over Serbia’s membership plan
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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I have a few more sets of seaglass earings available. All made from #Shetland seaglass. Hooks for ears are 925 silver with hypoallergenic wrapping on glass.
Green, blue and yellow seaglass earings
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Nizam Mamode @nizammamode.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As she says, nobody would get away ( rightly so) with saying these things about Israelis. Why is nothing said when Palestinians are dehumanised and killed? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ben-Gvir posts Palestinians on conveyor belts to detention camps. The world is silent | Arwa Mahdawi
Ben-Gvir did not come into power in a vacuum: he was helped into his position by an international community that has afforded Israel complete impunity
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Nizam Mamode @nizammamode.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/09/2026
UK must end all trade with Israel, says co-founder of BDS movement
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UK must end all trade with Israel, says co-founder of BDS movement
Exclusive: sanctions against ministers and settler groups are ‘smoke and mirrors cop-out’ says Omar Barghouti Britain’s legal and ethical obligation to stop a genocide in Gaza requires it to take bigger steps than halting trade with illegal Israeli settlements or imposing further sanctions, Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has said. He described sanctions against individual settler groups or extremist ministers as a “smoke and mirrors cop-out and distraction” from the UK’s legal obligation under international law to end all support for Israel, including arms exports, trade deals and academic relations that “may directly or indirectly enable Israel’s illegal occupation” of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Continue reading...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 31/08/2026
British peace activist Finn Joughin was simply trying to uphold international law. The Foreign Secretary must act to protect British citizens and hold those responsible for violence in the occupied West Bank to account.
Graphic featuring Green MP Ellie Chowns. Her quote reads: “It is an outrage that British peace activist Finn Joughin was detained by armed settlers in the West Bank and handed over to Israeli police. This comes as the commander who ordered strikes that killed three British World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza says he is ‘not sorry’.”
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Nizam Mamode @nizammamode.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Agreed- I was amazed to find posters of him and other war criminals in houses in Serbia a few years ago. The Serbian govt’s statement says a lot. Unlike Germany and Austria, Serbia has never come to terms with its crimes. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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‘The butcher may be gone, but to many he is a hero’: victims condemn glorification of Mladić
Architect of Srebrenica genocide is dead but those scarred by his atrocities say his ideology is still shockingly pervasive
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Children holding signs reading, “Stop the suffering: life is still worth living in Gaza,” and “Water is an essential right, not a luxury” held a protest in Jabalia, Gaza this week, where access to clean drinking water is a daily struggle.
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Hillwoman @hillwomans.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Good morning Bluesky. I happened upon this and was blown away! I hope you enjoy it. It was the BEST way for me to start my day! (a breathtaking cover of Neil Young’s After the Goldrush) youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?...
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Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)
YouTube video by Don Giller
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esottransplant @esottransplant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲? It means ensuring the systems behind transplantation are prepared to adapt, respond and continue delivering high-quality care – even when faced with disruption. Read the report 👉 esot.org/esot-action-... #ESOTaction #Transplantation #Glo
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 26/08/2026
POV: You got elected as a Reform councillor, but the group chat keeps getting smaller every three days.
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Danleofer @danleofer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Bonjour tout le monde
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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My latest article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense, says chair of global public health at the Universit...
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Volcanoes! How do they influence Earth, what do we know about them, what swanky new tech lets us spy on them, and how should we live in a world where a colossal volcano could (but is unlikely to) erupt at any moment? It's all in the latest Rare Earth. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... )
Tom Heap and Helen Czerski in a radio studio with a large lump of volcanic lava in front of them
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I was a Labour member for donkey's years. I never left them. They left me. When I realised the party that once represented fairness, decency and a chance for working people was gone beyond recall, I joined @greenparty.org.uk. I've never regretted it. I can hope again, for me, and for our planet!
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One day, people in power will be asked what they did during the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians… And they’ll be able to say …we kept sending Israel arms, trading with them and issued a joint statement.
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Nizam Mamode @nizammamode.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Surely if donations are with mo expectation of quid pro quo, they should go to the party, not the individual? As they clearly have that expectation it is difficult to conclude this is anything other than corruption, which should be banned- also the Clacton conman. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham declares almost £350,000 in donations in months before becoming PM
MPs’ register of interests shows hospitality and trips worth more than £12,000 and contributions from longstanding Labour donors
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Nizam Mamode @nizammamode.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Brilliant episode of ‘Saving Lives at Sea’. Dungeoness RNLI were incredible in helping to rescue 62 people in the water from a small boat crossing - ‘ no one deserves to drown, whatever country they come from.’ If only Reform and their ilk had the bravery and compassion of the RNLI
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17/08/2026
The future of Gaza should not be decided over the heads of Palestinians by the likes of Blair, Trump and Kushner. Any lasting peace must put Palestinian rights, self-determination and justice at its heart.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 16/08/2026
Don't light fires. No new oil and gas.
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