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Rainer Golombek

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research manager, change manager, knowledge broker, compulsive fixer-of-things

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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest column on healthy ageing: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britons are not ageing healthily – we need to learn from countries that have made it a priority | Devi Sridhar
Although we’re living longer, the data on healthy life expectancy in the UK isn’t good. Andy Burnham must reverse this trend to protect the NHS and social care, says public health academic Prof Devi S...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I like #geography and think I'm pretty good at it. But had my mind blown today to learn that #Canada literally has a land border with #Europe. Look up "Hans Island."
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And there you have it. Google Maps is calling Lake Ontario Lake America, despite having NO obligation to do so. Cowardly, unnecessary, corporate capitulation.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjfT...
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Dolly Parton adapts her song Jolene as she receives Covid-19 vaccine she helped fund
YouTube video by Guardian News
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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026
Wie dieser Clip in weniger als 2 Minuten die Mär der "Technologieoffenheit" vom Tisch räumt und aufzeigt, was der Verbrenner wirklich ist: haushoch dem E-Auto unterlegen. Genial!
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
And some people want to include clinical trials in prediction markets… what could possibly go wrong? www.npr.org/2026/08/07/n...
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Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly'
Researchers warn betting on clinical trials could incentivize insider trading and interfere with drug development. But Kalshi and Polymarket say they provide valuable information to patients.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is fore-edge painting: a scene hidden in a book's gilded edge, invisible until you fan the pages just right. Here it meets Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“Fauci has devoted more than 50 years to public service, leading NIAID and the US through the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the 2001 anthrax attacks, SARS, pandemic influenza, Ebola, Zika, & other infectious disease threats.” Thanks @gavinyamey.bsky.social for honouring this hero. www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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Fauci’s Senate hearing riled up the MAGA base—but at the cost of damaging public health
The vilification of Anthony Fauci by Senate Republicans will erode trust in science, curtail international research collaborations, and deter scientists and health experts from entering public service...
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 29/07/2026
Excellent news: the UK’s return to the Erasmus+ programme is something I have long championed. It will create new opportunities for young people to study, train and gain experience abroad. A huge win for London and the next generation.
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Overview of the Erasmus+ programme
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Another excellent @monkemma.bsky.social debunks on that shameful Telegraph Article twisting a scientific paper to climate denying end. And the clue that they knew that what they were doing was misleading lies in their final little statement. monkdebunks.substack.com/p/heatwaves-...
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Heatwaves Caused by Fall in Pollution? Not really...
What a study on European warming actually found and how it got twisted into a climate-denial talking point.
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920. Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51). She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel. 🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM
Cartoon of Franklin with a microscope, while Crick and Watson drink beer and expostulate, at a bar stylized as a double helix. By Quentin Blake.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is a really good short primer on the social care issue www.ft.com/content/c314...
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Why is England unable to fix social care?
The failure of successive governments to confront the problem carries a heavy political cost
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Termites and ants are natural enemies, yet these two colonies negotiated a border. Each side lines up its own guards. Neither crosses. Pure evolutionary math.
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padresalsa.bsky.social @padresalsa.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Yeah!!
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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
And the same for authors and books
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Nice one @libdems.org.uk 👍
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/06/2026
Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
💥 97,500!💥 This Rejoin petition is so close to completion. Let’s tip it over the 100,000 mark to force the government to respond. Given the party in power now realises they need the pro-EU base - are they really going to refuse a debate in parliament on this? Let’s find out! Sign and share!
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Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
For those sharing outbreak info, thank you. Two things are still considered good science & etiquette, plus one new one: 1️⃣ Provide a link, whether to the site or the post. 2️⃣ Tip your hat to someone else's idea that you're now using. 3️⃣ Acknowledge your use of AI.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
There will be lots of understandable scepticism about this, but Burnham really has been a long time advocate of electoral reform. Would be a big step forward if he follows through www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham to back electoral reform if he becomes prime minister
Labour’s Makerfield byelection candidate wants to make politics ‘less point-scoring, more problem-solving’
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I keep getting asked: "When can I watch The Last Class at home?" Today's the day. Rent the film about my final semester of teaching now. www.thelastclassfilm.com
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 16/05/2026
One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.
White text on a black background reads “Hate is loud.” at the top and “Love is louder.” at the bottom, with the Mayor of London logo centred between the two lines.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11/05/2026
WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."
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High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications
Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It was a real privilege to deliver the Annual Lecture for the Centre for Personalised Medicine @cpmoxford.bsky.social on 28th April 2026. Apparently it was booked out! Here's the recording for those who couldn't make it. "Personalised medicine - a view from Primary Care".
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 05/05/2026
The studies found serious side effects caused by the COVID and shingles vaccines were rare.
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FDA Blocked Studies That Found COVID, Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
The studies found serious side effects caused by the COVID and shingles vaccines were rare.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thinking a lot at the moment about what it is to create technology that treads lightly. My go to is always the idea of "just enough", which is really what I want EF Schumacher's "appropriate technology" to be - and how the obsession with end-to-end digitisation/automation gets in the way of that
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Journalists of the world, unite!
You have nothing to lose but the cowardice/apathy of your corporate overlords. Something has to change.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.
A powerful narrative portrait of Julie K. Brown, the Miami Herald investigative journalist celebrated for her "Perversion of Justice" series, which exposed the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and led to her 2026 Pulitzer Prize special citation. Brown sits in the heart of a newsroom, leaning forward with her hands clasped over the back of a vibrant lime-green chair. Her expression is steady and resolute, a faint, knowing smile playing on her lips. She has shoulder-length, strawberry-blonde hair and wears a crisp, white short-sleeved linen top. Her look is punctuated by bold, artistic accessories: a long necklace featuring large, multi-colored geometric beads and matching statement earrings. The background is filled with the tools of her trade: Dell computer monitors and large wall-mounted screens displaying blurred news segments, including one featuring her own likeness. The composition is balanced and centered, capturing a mood of quiet authority and tireless determination. This image stands as a tribute to Brown’s historical significance in journalism, marking her as a champion for victims whose reporting forced a global reckoning on power and systemic failure.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This is good, on Westminster’s “drinking culture”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My advice to Hannah Spencer? Before calling out MPs’ boozing, try to understand the reasons behind it | Gaby Hinsliff
The new MP is right that parliament’s drinking culture is fundamentally weird. But to change it, we need to reset the whole institution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
NASA has unveiled one of the closest images ever captured of Jupiter—and the detail is truly stunning. CREDIT:NASA
NASA has unveiled one of the closest images ever captured of Jupiter—and the detail is truly stunning.

Swirling cloud patterns, enormous storms, and chaotic bands sweep across the planet, each one far larger than Earth itself. These massive systems have been active for centuries, and many are likely to persist for generations.

A powerful reminder of how intense and ever-changing our Solar System truly is.

#Jupiter #NASA #SpaceExploration #SolarSystem #Astronomy #PlanetaryScience #SpaceFacts
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joysters5.bsky.social @joysters5.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org
Poster of free downloadable video books sites
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
All the talk is of a blue wave in the 2026 Midterms. But Republicans do not need to get more popular to hold the House - they just need to stop enough Democrats voting in key seats. I've done a deep dive in my latest post. christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-republ...
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How Republicans can win the Midterms – and how to stop them
A longer analysis of why the 2026 midterms may be far closer than they look, focusing on marginal districts and voter suppression
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Conor 📎💙 #BlueCrew #ResistanceBlue #VoteBlue 💙🌊 @conormcl2026.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
#RobinWilliams #filmsky #moviesky 💔🔄 #BeKind #BeKindAlways ❤️
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
SPECIAL REPORT - Your Neighbour Canada Has Changed And You're Not Going to Like What is Happening open.substack.com/pub/american...
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SPECIAL REPORT - Your Neighbour Canada Has Changed And You're Not Going to Like What is Happening
The unvarnished truth about Donald Trump, Big Business, Big Media
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
What does it mean when 84% of almost 30,000 Daily Mail readers think we should rejoin the EU? www.dailymail.co.uk/...
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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
So here's a thing we've been thinking about: AI makes it easier to do a lot of things, which can be good on an individual level but causes capacity problems in public services that depended a bit on it being hard to do things.
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A complex system scales by decomposition and recombination, not by imitation or repetition... What propagates in complex systems is not practices but the capacity to recombine in different ways across contexts thecynefin.co/scaling/
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Scaling - The Cynefin Co
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T.S. Eliot, Choruses from “The Rock” (1934) You Cannot
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Peter Glaser @peterglaser.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
• Sie leben in 2000 Meter Meerestiefe - ein Teleskopfisch und sein Junges
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Long Sunday read 👉👉 open.substack.com/pub/mikegals...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The past terrifying week has caused me to wonder: How the hell did we get here? And how do we change course? Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Steelmaid @jazira.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Man muss kein Fan sein, um Herbert als Künstler und Mensch zu achten. Happy Birthday! www.n-tv.de/leute/Auf-de...
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Auf der Überholspur immer Mensch geblieben
Hit-Garant und Herzensmensch: Herbert Grönemeyer zählt zu den erfolgreichsten deutschen Sängern. Der Rockpop-Poet aus dem Ruhrpott steht für klare Worte und einprägsame Sounds. Nun wird er 70.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/04/2026
Don’t look at who voted to call the slave trade ‘the gravest crime’, look at who didn’t | Kenneth Mohammed
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Don’t look at who voted to call the slave trade ‘the gravest crime’, look at who didn’t | Kenneth Mohammed
The UK and EU countries who abstained when Ghana’s UN resolution was adopted may soon find it harder to sustain the same old script on reparations
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/04/2026
Doctors need to stop pretending to have all the answers. ‘I don’t know’ does not mean ‘I have nothing to offer’ | Ranjana Srivastava
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Doctors need to stop pretending to have all the answers. ‘I don’t know’ does not mean ‘I have nothing to offer’ | Ranjana Srivastava
Far from losing faith or questioning what kind of ‘proper’ doctor would admit they are ‘not sure’, patients seem to appreciate my vulnerability
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
William Dalrymple wins 2026 Mark Lynton History Prize for The Golden Road timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/s... Download the TOI app now: timesofindia.onelink.me/mjFd/toisupe...
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William Dalrymple wins 2026 Mark Lynton History Prize for The Golden Road - The Times of India
In a moment of pride for the literary and historical community, Bloomsbury India has announced that acclaimed historian and author William Dalrymple h.
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