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Dr Kathryn Mannix @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My first thought as the UK fire risk alert rang out was for those (mainly) women suffering domestic abuse who keep a hidden phone. You can opt out: remember to renew after any update. Helpful opt-out info ⬇️ Tell your friends. You can't guess who's hiding a phone. GOV.UK share.google/VhnlflzNe2Ip...
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Opting out of emergency alerts
Opting out of emergency alerts
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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As Ebola kills thousands in DRC, a perfect storm is making the virus hard to stop | Devi Sridhar
New species and regional instability are factors – but decisions made in the US and Britain are also costing lives, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
North Tyneside folk, there’s now a petition to contest the closure of High Borrans - please do sign and share: democracy.northtyneside.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Quite a lot of people lost someone, maybe an elderly relative, during the heatwave. My Aunt Barbara, very ill with advanced dementia, died yesterday aged 91. She was unmarried, no kids and I had been taking care of her affairs for the past few years. That’s the least interesting thing about her. 1
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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NHS patients face worst drug shortages on record, say pharmacists and GPs
Supply problems pose risk to health, with common painkillers, epilepsy medication and HRT affected
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The correct analogy is in Alice: "Why, the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and, if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore she comes, to—"
Tenniel illustration of cards and rosebush
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Richard Hesketh @richardhesketh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Goodbye to my daily happiness from the wonderful David Hockney. From A Bigger Splash to the Photo Montages. His genius with colour and light. No longer on the planet. But always in our selves.
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
RIP David Hockney
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Chris Avanti @chris4nature.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Noticing Barn Swallow on the roof of the RNLI with North Pier in the background #Cullercoats #Birds #UKWildlife
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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Today's Guardian: on how far we've come in cancer treatment, yet how far we still have to go towards a 'cure'
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Dr Kathryn Mannix @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Tyneside folk: #CompassionateGateshead is asking for your experience of workplace support (or lack of), while caring for someone terminally ill or after their death. Responses before 12th June please. This questionnaire takes ~5mins. Please pass it on. forms.gle/aYf6DiD6TU5q...
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Supporting Employees through Bereavement and Caring Responsibilities
Compassionate Gateshead is exploring how employers in Gateshead can be better supported to help employees returning to work after bereavement or during periods of (caring for someone with) a terminal ...
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
www.timesnownews.com/health/ebola... @timesofindianews.bsky.social
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Internationally Acclaimed Virologist And Vaccine Scientist Prof. Peter Hotez Explains Why Ebola Won't Become A Pandemic
Viral disease expert Professor Peter Hotez says that Ebola won't spread like other viral diseases - he added it won't spread like influenza or measles. , Health, Times Now
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Sensible balanced review
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Cancer is now a story of the good, the bad and the ugly – but also hope | Devi Sridhar
It’s natural to focus on breakthroughs, but there are many challenges in Britain and around the world. There is no magic bullet, but there’s room for optimism, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global publi...
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Kyiv. Near Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square). A bookstore. I am here, filming how russians destroy our culture.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
National Art Museum in Kyiv after the attack. Closed for an uncertain period. According to photos published by the Ministry of Culture, there is much more damage inside. My heart is bleeding.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Kyiv. City centre. A woman clearing the damage from the night attack near the antique bookshop. We won’t give up. I know. I see.
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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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Chris Avanti @chris4nature.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Noticing this gorgeous Hare, excited to watch it explore its field and then stop to watch me before going on its way at #Northumberland #UKNature 🐾
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
#ScienceUnderSiege But #TheForceIsWithUs
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Wonderful!
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Ian McKellen ‘emotional’ as he opens County Durham theatre space
Actor says Ensemble 84 in Horden, employing local talent, is how a professional repertory company should be
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🌍 The Horn of Africa is in mourning. Farms are barren, deserts are advancing, rivers are drying, pests are spreading, and crops are dying. Climate change is not a distant threat,it’s here. #ClimateAction #HornOfAfrica #ClimateCrisis
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Why are we seeing so much early-onset colorectal cancer? The correlation with pesticide exposure and its epigenetic signature, adjusted for all known risk factors. (doesn't establish cause and effect) nature.com/articles/s41...
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Epigenetic fingerprints link early-onset colon and rectal cancer to pesticide exposure - Nature Medicine
An analysis of exposome traits in patients with early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) (<50 years) compared with late-onset CRC (≥70 years) based on epigenetic markers shows that pesticide usage, in p...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Schrodinger's strait, neither open nor not open.
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 15/04/2026
Today, the UK and the EU signed the legal text in Brussels today to formally bring the UK into Erasmus+ in 2027. This marks a monumental milestone for young people across the UK, whom, from 2027 onwards, can experience transformative opportunities with Eramus+.
UK and EU finalise agreement to bring UK into Erasmus+ in 2027. Over 100,000 people are expected to benefit in the first year alone. Source: Department for Education, 15 April 2026.
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
🚨 Toxic pesticides banned in other countries are still being sold freely across Africa and traces are turning up in our food. Sign this petition to demand the African Union ban them now: 👉 act.gp/427FrqN
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Ban toxic pesticides across Africa
We are quite literally being poisoned in the name of profit. Add your voice now, demand that African leaders ban the production, trade, and use of toxic pesticides across the continent.
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
At the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. annual Hunky Jesus extravaganza in Dolores Park, the festivities began by canonizing three locals on the stage where the pageants would take place later. I was one of them and my saint name as you can read here, is Esperanzapedia.
Me, with a big old picture hat, black of course, adorned with artificial roses, and a billowing black gown, holding my proclamation of sainthood from the Sisters.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Greetings from Kyiv. I rarely write at this time. A russian drone hit a residential building in Odesa at night. Three people were killed. A mother and her 2-year-old were among them. People may still be under the rubble. 💔
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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Happy Easter one and all. I hope the sun is shining wherever you are 🌞 "Daffodils", painted by granddaughter Alice, aged 2 and a half.
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
5/ Circa 2026 "This low grade inflammatory state can also lead to autoimmune disorders, some of which may affect the skin many months post-infection": www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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How does covid-19 affect the skin?
Unexpected chilblains, unusual rashes, and flareups of existing conditions— Katharine Lang asks experts how the skin can react to covid infection “Covid toes”—swollen and itchy red or purple toes, or...
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
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All and Nothing review – inspiring tale of the Chinese artist who cultivated a grassroots scene in Cumbria
In 1972, Li Yuan-chian set up the LYC Museum in a ramshackle farmhouse – and this inventive documentary provides a fitting, if sparse, tribute to his legacy
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Brilliant article…. “choosing to live gently, attentively and on one’s own terms is an act of quiet defiance. The long middle is not a waiting room, nor a preamble to a finish line; it is a demanding, vibrant and profoundly human place to be alive.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle
When you are cured, the world cheers; when you are dying, it mourns. But when you are simply maintaining, the world is at a loss
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
An announcement yesterday too with details of where the £18m announced at the budget for playgrounds will go, associated here with Pride in Place. The focus very much on playgrounds though, not really on creating “safe places to play” in a wider sense. www.gov.uk/government/n...
A screenshot of a GOV UK page 

High streets revived and children given safe places to play

New initiative will support local areas to reimagine and revive their struggling high streets

From:
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and The Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP
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21 March 2026Safe places for children to play - A further £18 million will be spent ensuring children in 66 of the most deprived communities have quality play spaces, with cash earmarked to buy new or upgrade playgrounds across the country from Tyneside to Torquay.

Areas with the highest income deprivation affecting children and the poorest access to play were chosen, to ensure money goes to places that need it most.Funding for playgrounds will flow straight to Local areas, with no requirements to bid or compete against other places. Councils receiving funding will also be encouraged to consider buying British materials.• This funding package was first confirmed at the Budget by the Chancellor. The 66 communities receiving playground funding are: Sandwell, Walsall, Dudley, Salford, Tameside, Wolverhampton, Redcar and Cleveland, Bolton, Oldham, Wirral, Rotherham, South Tyneside, Stockton-on-Tees, Tendring, Knowsley, North East Lincolnshire, Hyndburn, Blackpool, East Lindsey, Thanet, Middlesbrough, Castle Point, Pendle, Trafford, Sunderland, Rochdale, Preston, Manchester,
Stockport, Wyre, North Tyneside, Medway, Hartlepool, Sefton, St. Helens, County Durham, Dover, Blackburn with Darwen, Havant, Bradford, Wigan, Bury, Doncaster, Wakefield, Calderdale, Fenland, Bassetlaw, Kirklees, Darlington, Isle of Wight, North Northamptonshire, Torbay, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Eastbourne, Mansfield, Northumberland, Ashfield, Barnsley, Wychavon, Cheshire East, Canterbury, Hastings, Halton, Lincoln, West Lancashire, Southend-on-Sea.
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Lovers of Cambridge Market, we need your help RIGHT NOW!
Lovers of Cambridge Market, we need your help RIGHT NOW!  People are needed to come to the Market Square tomorrow morning - Monday 23rd.  Meet in front of the Guildhall - at 10.45am.  We are so sorry ...
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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: More than a million teenagers across England have missed out on meningitis vaccines at school during the past nine years www.thetimes.com/article/eaa3...
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A million teenagers missed meningitis vaccine at schools
Health experts warn of a ‘terrifying’ fall in uptake over the nine years that the jab has been offered to all schoolchildren
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Dr Kate Cushing @drkatecushing.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Cluster Headache Awareness Day. To call it a headache tho I feel underplays severity of this awful condition Worst pain ever! V high Suicide rate Men > women A form of Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgia - issue w hypothalamus in brain, Trigeminal nerve to eye & face and autonomic nervous system
Ouch Cluster Headache Awareness Day - Bring Hope to those in pain. The O of Ouch is a life ring, red in colour. Image of a brain with lightening type images coming out of brain. 

Explanation of what Cluster Headache is.

Ouch uk is the charity for this awful condition. 
There are 2 types of Cluster Headache- Episodic (1 in 1000) - occurs in Spring & Autumn, each episode lasting 6-12 weeks of daily attacks.

Chronic form- rarer (1 in 10,000). This is the type I have. Happens 90% of the year!
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Follow www.nebriefing.org?internal=true https:// and watch the film where its shown near you ……….. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/19/iran-greed-oil-capitalism-regimes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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We need to be honest about Iran – and how our rampant greed for oil is causing mayhem | George Monbiot
Oil has empowered capitalism, and some of the world’s most exploitative regimes. Move away from it and we can solve some of the key issues we face, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
'One of the finest rural affairs & nature writers out there' @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk? Thank you! Great interview with @guyshrubsole.bsky.social: 'this country belongs to everybody & this is about creating a greater sense of belonging in England. That’s what true patriotism... should be.'
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
2 Meningitis deaths - Streeting ‘unprecedented’. Ongoing COVID deaths are met with silence.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Hannah Mooney, Across Ballyglass landscape II, 2016, contemporary Irish painter ☘️ #womensart
Landscape painting with flat green fields under a blue sky with cream coloured clouds
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Meningitis is back – and here is why | Devi Sridhar
After two deaths, it’s right to be concerned and to discuss investment in public health. But our system is good and it’s working, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of ...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Winifred Nicholson (1893 – 1981), Modernist British painter known for her still life work especially #WomensArt #Spring
Painting featuring a bunch of daffodils in a vase on a windowsill next to a yellow jug and blue vase, the window is partly open
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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Friendships, fishing and community clean-ups: the unseen kindness of life on the Bibby Stockholm barge
Bibby Boys photo exhibition documents experiences of the men who lived on the former asylum seeker vessel in Dorset and the local community that rallied around them
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salwalk.bsky.social @salwalk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot
The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people" - Shamsia Hassani Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay
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Harebell @harebell.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Posting one of my favourite quotes for #internationalwomensday. ' No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.' - Virginia Woolf. The courage to be the authentic you is success enough.
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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Did you see these stories from some of our female scientists recently? On #InternationalWomensDay, we thought we would reshare them to celebrate the incredible contributions women make across UKHSA. 🔬🧪
A person is standing against a blue illustrated background and holding a large photo of a child wearing a pink top. To the left, text reads ‘Lee Chan – Insight lead.’ At the bottom, a yellow text box contains a personal statement about choosing a career in applied social research in government and encouraging others from similar backgrounds to consider this path. A person stands against a colourful background with abstract shapes and holds a printed photo of an elephant next to two people outdoors. Text at the top reads: ‘Dr Alicia Demirjian – Consultant Epidemiologist and Clinical Lead for Antimicrobial Resistance and Prescribing.’ A yellow text box at the bottom contains a message encouraging curiosity, asking questions, striving for excellence, working hard, and enjoying the journey as well as the destination.A person stands against a green and blue illustrated background with science-themed icons and holds a printed photo of a child wearing a purple dress and standing outdoors. Text on the left reads: ‘Dr Marie Chattaway – Unit Head of Gastrointestinal bacteria reference unit.’ A yellow text box at the bottom contains a message about discovering a career in microbiology, being open to opportunities, exploring, asking questions, learning from failure, being brave enough to try, and moving forward without needing to have everything figured out.A person stands against a bright blue and green illustrated background with science-themed icons and holds a printed photograph of a child wearing a dress and standing outdoors. A yellow text box on the left displays the name ‘Oyebimpe Balogun’ with the title ‘International Health Regulations Strengthening Project, Nigeria – Technical Adviser for Laboratory Systems.’ A larger yellow text box at the bottom contains a message describing an early visit to a bottling company in Sokoto, Nigeria, observing young people performing quality control tests, and how this experience inspired a future career in laboratory science. The message encourages determination, resilience, and transforming obstacles into stepping stones toward success.
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 08/03/2026
I’m sorry, what? How can Chelsea & Westminster Hospital’s official charity *possibly* accept a £1 million ‘donation’ - meaning, in reality, an attempt to buy public credibility - from the Sacklers? Yes, those Sacklers, whose company, Purdue Pharma, caused >800k deaths from pumping out opioids. 1/3
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