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Sarah Stoner

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Retired NHS GP. Carving a path.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
mRNA vaccines are a game-changer. Faster to develop, generally safer, easy to modify, huge potential for wider applications (e.g. cancer). If the vaccine has been approved, it's already been thoroughly tested in randomised controlled trials. Nobody's trying to poison anyone with these vaccines.
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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
DECODE ME has published its results. Massive congratulations to @cgatist.bsky.social and team in Edinburgh. Let’s hope this is the start of a paradigm shift in how we view, research and treat this dreadful illness. www.decodeme.org.uk/initial-dna-...
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Initial DecodeME DNA Results - DecodeME
06 August 2025 The DecodeME team is delighted to announce that the initial analysis of 15,579 DNA samples is complete, and we have important news to share. Main findings from our analysis  Your genes ...
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 26/07/2025
Deeply shocked and saddened by the passing of our dear friend, colleague and @who.int Envoy David Nabarro. David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals. His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world. (1/2)
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Nature is telling us, but we aren’t listening.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I learned yesterday that my elderly parents weren't going to renew their house insurance "because it's all now online and too daunting." Suffice it to say I said I'd help them sort it, but I wonder how many elderly are losing services because the Internet is scary/impersonal to them.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
WTAF was the World This Weekend doing giving credence to climate “scepticism” just now? I thought the BBC had finished with achieving “balance” by talking to both sides of the argument on global heating.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Who’s on RFK’s new vaccine advisory group? What are their conflicts of interest? Read and weep. open.substack.com/pub/sheenacr...
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Vaccine advisory committees and transparent practices
Why changes to ACIP are concerning.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them. History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The scientists warning the world about ocean acidification – ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The scientists warning the world about ocean acidification – ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis
There’s frustration among researchers that falling pH levels in seas around the globe are not being taken seriously enough, and that until the buildup of CO2 is addressed, the consequences for marine ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2025
22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.
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Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine
The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
You couldn’t make it up - this is the same government that promised to deliver significant nature recovery - yet once again they’re slashing key nature funding & massively undermining farmers in the process. Madness
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Fund for nature-friendly farming to be slashed in UK spending review
Exclusive: Defra sources say scheme, which pays farmers to protect nature, will be targeted at ‘small farms’
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 28/05/2025
I'm usually immune to being shocked... Emissions from Land use and forestry (LULUCF) are set to nearly double, and match emissions from transport (!) in the 2030s, as forests are harvested and become a major carbon source.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
‘Staggering’ scale of injuries is ‘barbaric’, says surgeon in Gaza www.channel4.com/news/stagger...
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‘Staggering’ scale of injuries is ‘barbaric’, says surgeon in Gaza
We spoke to Dr Victoria Rose, a surgeon working in Nasser Hospital in Gaza, and started by asking her about the sorts of injuries she is seeing among the children she's treating.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.
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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@krishgm.bsky.social I would be delighted to debunk the outrageous vaccine misinformation and spin we heard from your guest here. I'm astonished that @channel4news.bsky.social felt it was newsworthy. www.channel4.com/news/rfks-ne...
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RFK’s new British medical advisor on vaccines and Big Pharma
The British cardiologist Aseem Malhotra was appointed Chief Medical Adviser to the Make America Healthy Again initiative - effectively making him Robert F Kennedy Jr's top medical adviser.
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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Everyone should watch the last 12min of BBC Politics Live. That was awful, a toe curling experience. A Labour government minister, his Tory shadow counterpart, and the BBC chief political correspondent all trying to defend the new hostile environment in the presence of a foreigner impacted by it. 1
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Chris Grumpy & Getting Grumpier @fusewiretheloud.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Michael Rosen is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist & academic, he’s a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Here narrating his own poem 👇
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
There is no other word for illegally deporting a toddler with cancer apart from evil. Not just Trump and Stephen Miller but every single person involved in doing it from start to finish.
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Sarah Stoner @sjstoner.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A brilliant article, a cut out and keep.
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Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The Great Gatsby turns 100 next week and in honor of its centenary I’ve written a piece that says something I’ve been wanting to say for a while now. www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
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How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"People will die... but we will never know." That's quite a chilling sentence when you think about it.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
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Gabrielius Landsbergis @glandsbergis.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
So I return from Munich to Lithuania with dark thoughts on my mind. And while I accept that the statements made by the US Vice President were the necessary medicine for a lethargic Europe, I just pray the cure doesn’t kill the patient.🧵17/17
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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is not a draining of the swamp or “low-productivity workers” that the Trump administration imagines filling seats at the CDC—but the future of our epidemiology infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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News: Half of CDC "disease detectives" terminated. DOGE takes aim at US disease surveillance.
Entire first-year class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service must be out by 5 p.m., sources say. Also: a major CDC contractor "just let go," and others may follow.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is not good science. It’s flawed in so many ways. There is a huge body of evidence showing that vaccines do NOT cause neuro developmental disorders.
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Our new investigation found: - Last year, the UK exported 8,500 tonnes of pesticides considered so hazardous they are banned here - Including: enough bee-killing neonicotinoid thiamethoxam to spray an area larger than England - Syngenta was responsible for 98% of these banned pesticide exports
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‘Ultimate hypocrisy’: UK exported 8,500 tonnes of banned pesticides last year
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Joe Barton @joebarton.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
One Donatello sculpture would have killed them?
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Why ‘everyone gets it wrong sometimes’ is a bad argument when assessing track records for incoming leaders in science and health. My new post: kucharski.substack.com/p/everyone-g...
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A hard-hitting and bluntly phrased article by my now very sadly former boss at Scientific American on why RFK Jr is one of Trump's biggest threats to America.
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
🚨How British companies are bolstering Vladimir Putin’s war machine🚨 A depressing thread. Originally posted in Feb. But still v relevant NOW. With some pretty shocking charts. Let’s begin with the “official” picture. It suggests UK trade with Russia has collapsed since Feb 2022. Down by 74% 🧵 1/15
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know. Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Had a tech bro tell me this morning that I need to go away and learn about the Trust Thermocline, to understand why emotive products like Twitter fail slowly then suddenly. I pointed out I am fully aware of the Trust Thermocline. On account of being the chap who created it every.to/p/breaching-...
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Breaching the Trust Thermocline Is the Biggest Hidden Risk in Business
Companies have no way back from a sudden loss of trust
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
2. Not only does this highly restrictive future availability of free vaccines completely ignore the very solid evidence that vaccination reduces the risk of the development of Long Covid and other sequelae, but also, in my opinion, reflects a deep-seated institutional belief...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
So don’t give up hope. Do not despair. That is what they want, and we shall not give them that satisfaction. In Japanese, there is a word my mother used to say to me. “Gaman, Georgie,” she’d say. It means to endure with fortitude and dignity. We all could benefit the spirit of Gaman. /5
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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Everything @doctoroxford.bsky.social says in this article, and more… On league tables (for the NHS in England) and why they really aren’t a good idea. I thought we’d decided that collaboration and communication were better than competition? #MedSky #PolSky www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Wes Streeting, you must have a better plan for ailing hospitals than public humiliation | Rachel Clarke
The plan to introduce league tables is a simplistic gimmick that will demoralise NHS staff – and sideline their incredible work, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
⚠Invalid Handel
You can't handel the truth! An illustration of composer George Frideric Handel
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The Boooook Shepherd 👻 @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I regret to inform you that I do sometimes judge a book by its cover.
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I keep seeing people respond to policy proposals by saying “but that would be illegal” and I… so??? Do people know that the legal system is just… made up…? You can simply not follow the law or you can simply change the law.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Without doubt, and I do not say this lightly given his track record, this is one of the worst things that could have come out of a Trump presidency.
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RFK Jr chosen as Donald Trump's health secretary
President-elect Trump has said Robert F Kennedy Jr will "make America great and healthy again".
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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
You ever get those nights when you can't get out of your head what mankind has done to the world and what's coming next. And the sleep that you lose is the least important thing of all.
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