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Henry Scowcroft

@oh-henry.bsky.social
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Science, music and dad jokes. You will be laughing 65% more of the time. Guitars in @thisisdogunit.bsky.social.

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wrote this for @thelancetoncol.bsky.social, about what surveys show about trust in cancer research over the years. Tl;dr - thanks to research, we're less worried that cancer's biology is insurmountable, and more worried that the healthcare system won't surmount it. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Cancer's new anxiety: not a death sentence, but delay
Throughout the history of cancer research, hyperbole has never been in short supply—whether it be Richard Nixon's war, Joe Biden's moonshot, or Cancer Research UK's 2023 declaration of a golden era. D...
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Right fuck this. I have reported Danny Tommo’s YouTube video and I implore others to do the same. They are platforming a man who live streamed himself essentially committing a crime and he will be making money off of it as well. Please please report the video www.youtube.com/live/lkeZbk8...
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bluesky / Twitter
Nikola TeslaA Tesla Cybertruck, sinking
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some fun stuff coming up in 2027...
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Huge news! 👇
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I learned via @sliderulesyou.bsky.social that the drought means spiders are dying off (and regardless of my personal feelings about them, I know they matter) so just spent a rewarding hour misting as many webs as I could find. Each time the occupant ran out for a drink. Moisten a spider today!
A small garden spider in the middle of a web festooned with droplets of waterA small brown spider on a misted web against some wooden struts
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If you're feeling angry about the way the media hounded Jason Arday, or just want to understand exactly what happened, then here's something excellent you can read, and do, about it. Please reshare. newscord.org/editorials/j...
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Jason Arday told the press he was at his limit. It answered with 188 more articles. He is dead at 41.
A full census of the 249 articles fifteen national outlets published about Jason Arday in 22 days, with the last day reconstructed hour by hour. Every article listed and linked.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is a fabulous thread on AI, by the man who observed and then coined the phrase "enshittification."
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I think for some people it is more comforting to believe that there is a vast conspiracy to hide the truth than that sometimes the best scientists in the world sometimes don’t know what’s happening
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 23/07/2026
*walks into room of mathematicians* Have you considered DOING A BREAKTHROUGH.
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In which @iandunt.bsky.social beautifully captures all the messy contradictions of loving the World Cup as a not-football person. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Football, England and the triumph of modernity
Beaten on the pitch. Victorious off it.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 07/07/2026
We're all going to be watching the James Graham play about Binface vs. Farage in five years time.
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Gady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Good thread for cis people like me to get some grasp of life for trans people in the US right now
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Scary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Sun comic from a couple of years back. We do not get on.
six panel diary comic drawn in felt tips. 

Panel one: small pink naked person wakes up and it's already too hot. 

Panel 2: ANGRY STARING SUN

Panel 3: Small pink person is less naked now and goes out to tell the sun they hate it. The sun says it hates them more. 

Panel 4: SCREAMING SUN

Panel 5: The sun says fuck you

Panel 6 The sun says FUCK YOU ALL. 

Side panel running the full length of the page: Angry sun face and flames radiating down the page. 

Dear reader, I know the sun can't hate me and that climate change is a human problem. But when it's 35+ out there and you haven't got air conditioning it sure feels like the sun hates you.
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Starmer - a cricket analogy: He was the stodgy opening batter in a one-day match, who's grafted hard to blunt the new ball bowling on a tricky wicket, but whose team now needs a big score to avoid defeat - and he just doesn't have the shots.
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"Saying 'AI' is not the same as having a plan." Good critique of that Blair intervention.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This weather!
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
So, I wrote a big feature for The Crick Magazine, about @nmoris.bsky.social's super-cool work on embryo models, and the ethical questions they raise. Read it here: www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03... @crick.ac.uk
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The missing four weeks
The events within a crucial four week period of human development have long eluded scientists. Stem cell models are finally revealing them – and raising new ethical questions.
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 08/05/2026
This is so much a continental European election result it’s almost funny. True Britain Democrats (PfE) 26% Ecology/Planet Action (G-EFA) 18% Christian Democrat Union (EPP) 17% Socialist Workers Revolutionary Party (S&D) 17% Europe Liberalism! (Renew) 16% Others 6%
Election results in the UK
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
They re-enacted Red Dawn and seized control of the state government
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 21/04/2026
Tweet by “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth:
“The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force.
We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.”
Below there is a video of the announcement for his many, many illiterate fansBehind Hegseth’s big stupid face, a painting can be seen. The painting is of George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is by Emanuel Leutze. An article from the National Parks Service: Smallpox,
Inoculation, and the Revolutionary War
Boston National Historical Park
During the 1700s, smallpox raged through the American colonies and the Continental Army. Smallpox impacted the Continental Army severely during the Revolutionary War, so much so that George Washington mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers in 1777. Just fifty-six years earlier, in 1721, Bostonian doctors and clergy introduced the procedure to the American colonies.
Without the vision and determination of these early Bostonians in normalizing inoculation, Washington may not have made the decision to mandate inoculation for the Continental Army. Though it was a controversial action, many historians credit the medical mandate with the colonists' victory in the Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States of America.
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
No *you've* got ABBA stuck in your head.
Poulet Rouge, aha (aha) aha (aha)
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Common Sense Oncology @csoncol.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Are you an oncologist, caregiver, patient, or patient advocate? Take 10 minutes to help empower future patients to have the information they need for decision-making by filling out this survey: tinyurl.com/ywxmms4u #CommonSenseOncology #CancerCare
Text reads: Navigating a cancer diagnosis is complex. 10 minutes of your time could help empower patients. Pictured: a doctor provides care to a patient. Common Sense Oncology, Queen’s University, and CDA-AMC logos.
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Show me what democracy looks like (this is what democracy looks like)
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Kaplan-Meier p0rn thread.
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Really insightful analysis.
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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator... stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app
stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app
Allister Heath Headline Generator
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Tim Allan has resigned' to people who never knew Tim Allan was employed" - GK Chesterton
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.
Get in. We're messing up Melania's Amazon search results.
This weekend, Amazon is premiering it's $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It already seems to be a flop.
But we're going to take it one step further by messing up Melania's Amazon search results. Specifically, we're going to amplify the paranormal erotic thriller, Melania: Devourer of Men so it ranks higher than her movie.
The book is perfect: it's absurd, the cover is ridiculous, and it's free, so we're not giving Amazon any money.
We need people to:
1. "buy" the book (it's free)
2. Share this post and get other people to buy the book.
That's it. Then we can celebrate as an erotic novel about a bat monster Melania Trump becomes a higher and higher search result on Amazon.
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Not the 9 o'clock news
News/UK Politics Live: I feel like I've come
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Big D energy from the BBC this morning.
Two push alerts from the BBC. The second is a correction of the first, but with a capitalised 'd' in the word 'Digital'.

The alert reads: Chris Mason: Digital ID U-turn is yet another climbdown for government
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Cyco @cyco1414.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.
caillou en forme de manette xbox
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
So, the Ashes has been utterly fucking miserable - turns out We Couldn't Still Win This, After All. However, @barneyronay.bsky.social's writing has been a bright light throughout the series. "A voice you only get to hear if you've been following the conversation" is just a perfect line. Read him:
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Shit.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
You will be visited by three spirits
The Three Amigos
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Elyon113 @elyon113.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party
media.tenor.com
a white goose with a red beak is surrounded by two other white geese
Alt: a white goose with a red beak is surrounded by two other white geese but weird
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Think I've jinxed the 3rd Test.
A broken mug that reads "WE CAN STILL WIN THIS". A mended mug that reads "WE CAN STILL WIN THIS" next to a tube of superglue.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid. A pissed off thread using data. Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A piece I wrote got published 👇🏼
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
WE CAN STILL WIN THIS
Crawley: c Khawaja b Starc, 0
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