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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · 2h

My new podcast "A Perspective on Crime" offers a weekly in-depth look at a recently published academic study from the field of criminology.

The first three episodes are now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other major platforms.

Link: linktr.ee/APerspective...

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 2d

Just toured the OG Antifa HQ: Churchill’s War Rooms. We shall never surrender.

Historic conference tables and chairs with a world map on the wall behind Churchill’s chair.

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · 1d

New podcast project - A Perspective on Crime - launches on Thursday 16th October.

A look at newly published criminology research.

spotify.link/5ZWFjygysXb

Trailer - Launches 16th October 2025

spotify.link

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 14d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Sep 13

It would also be the most sensible thing to do. Stella is too good for Pip the Drip.

Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Jun 22

Looks like @theguardian.com gave David Lammy a promotion on the live politics blog today.

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · May 30

... And those who cannot find a way to.

Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · May 30

I hope everyone who can has watched Louis Theroux’s The Settlers on BBC iPlayer.

Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · May 21

Frost/Nixon

Alien Vs Predator

When Harry Met Sally

An oncologist and a pathologist have a chat.

DXRX: The Diagnostic Network® @dxrx-labnetwork.bsky.social · May 21

The latest Better Testing, Better Treatment #podcast episode, The Pathology-Oncology Connection: Labs in Action, is now live!

Grab your favourite relaxing spot to listen to our latest episode, with guest speakers Dr. Chandler Park and Dr. Sameer Talwalkar.

Listen now: www.dxrx.io/articles/pod...

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Apr 24

His dad went mental when he said he wanted to be a farmer...

What would he make of him getting together with a scouser?

#thearchers

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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · Apr 24

www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy

“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

www.science.org

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Apr 24

Casefile set the standard for true crime podcasting.

If you work in the field of CDx, oncology or pathology this is the casefile for you.

DXRX: The Diagnostic Network® @dxrx-labnetwork.bsky.social · Apr 24

Get your Deerstalker hats on and microscopes at the ready for our #LabWeek mystery case. 🕵️‍♀️🔬

Can you help Dr. Mariani solve this case?

Case file continued in comments!

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DXRX: The Diagnostic Network® @dxrx-labnetwork.bsky.social · Apr 22

Meet our diagnostic detective for Lab Week!

Dr. Rachel Mariani has helped us identify clues in patient cases in the past, but now she faces new cases and needs your help.

Will you be able to identify the mystery disease? Keep a lookout for this in the coming days...

#labweek

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Apr 22

Meant to say, there's a new episode out.

I really must pay attention to promotion.

If an episode of a Derbyshire and Peak District true crime podcast is released without fanfare, does anyone listen?

It seems so, as I got a record number of downloads in the first 48 hours!

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DXRX: The Diagnostic Network® @dxrx-labnetwork.bsky.social · Apr 21

In the world of precision medicine, molecular pathologists and clinical scientists are the ultimate sleuths, cracking the code of our DNA to solve the mysteries of disease.

This Lab Week, we are placing a spotlight and celebrating these wonderful professionals.

#Labweek #ASCP

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Apr 18

Today I made the choice to leave.

I'm going to ghost it; stop posting, delete the app and pretend it never happened.

Have I done the right thing?

I don't know.

What I'm confident of is that I can't engage with X anymore.

To do so feels like I'm the wrong sort of collaborator.

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Apr 18

I've a podcast. It's true crime... focused on my little patch of the world... Derbyshire and The Peak District.

Like most creators with a conscience, I have been conflicted whether to retain a presence on X.

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Mar 16

I'm just stunned that he's gone from a seven or eight year old who sounded like they'd just learnt to speak to an articulate and thoughtful teenager.

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Mar 16

Well this is the best thing I've read in a while.

Chris Houston @chrishouston.ca · Mar 16

The U.S. is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders

by @lauraosman.bsky.social and @aimlo.bsky.social of @thelogic.co

thelogic.co/news/canada-...

The U.S. is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders - The Logic

Since October, U.S. customs officers have made 3,768 seizures of bird and poultry-related products, including eggs, compared to 352 fentanyl seizures.

thelogic.co

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Mar 14

For a moment I imagined the service Henry could have done us all by running over Pat, Tony & Helen in the tractor. If Tom had run out and been caught-up in the carnage all the better.
#TheArchers

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Mar 14

Eddie's character has taken quite the turn to shit-housery recently. He's always been a chancer but age seems to have exposed a particularly nasty side.

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Mar 11

"Traitor" Sen Kelly on Musk.

"Look, he can go to war behind his keyboard all he wants... It's a free country. But I've launched into orbit 4 times, I flew 39 combat missions in Desert Storm, and I held my wife's hand in the hospital after she was shot... I don't really care what he thinks of me"

Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Mar 9

Forgot to say, a new episode of my UK true crime podcast dropped last week.

Give it a listen if you fancy.

linktr.ee/peaktruecrime

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Mar 6

Sometimes you start an article knowing nothing about someone and by the end want to know everything...

This is one of those.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

‘The palace called and I heard myself saying yes’: how Errollyn Wallen went from Top of the Pops to Master of the King’s Music

Written off in her youth, the unstoppable Belize-born musician has overcome indifference, mockery and abuse to become one of Britain’s most acclaimed composers. You have to hang onto your own worth, s...

www.theguardian.com

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Feb 27

It turns out that there's more to BRCA than one first thought!

DXRX: The Diagnostic Network® @dxrx-labnetwork.bsky.social · Feb 26

Less than two weeks to go until our next LabTalk!

🧬 Variant interpretation in cancer susceptibility genes 🧬

Date: 11th March
Time: 2pm GMT / 9am ET

Register here: www.labroots.com/ms/virtual-e...

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Peak True Crime @peaktruecrime.bsky.social · Feb 26

From the other place.

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