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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 2h

COVID INQUIRY - Lead Council to the Inquiry, Clair Dobbin KC, is currently making Gavin Williamson look as stupid as we know he is...

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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 2h

News article on the hub today - NHS announces new test to be offered for all newborn babies. www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/... (via @the-independent.com)

NHS announces new test to be offered for all newborn babies

Newborn babies in England will now be routinely screened for a rare genetic condition, NHS England has announced. Hereditary tyrosinaemia type 1 (HT1) affects around one in seven UK babies annually, c...

www.pslhub.org

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Sarah Cowley @profsarahcowley.bsky.social · 2h

Good news.
Affects around seven babies annually - not one in seven, as reported above.

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Institute of Health Visiting @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social · 4h

Help shape future #research on babies’ and young children’s development:
We’ve launched a new survey to better understand what matters most for babies, young children, and their families, and we need your expertise. Please complete the survey here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/Developing...

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Sarah Cowley @profsarahcowley.bsky.social · 2h

Child poverty is a failure of the state and the economy it claims to safeguard
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Child poverty is a failure of the state and the economy it claims to safeguard

The government insists we cannot afford to lift children out of poverty, while those same children pay the price for political caution.

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Institute of Health Visiting @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social · 4d

Read gr8 Voices blog by Dr Danielle Schoenaker, University of Southampton, on the latest updates of the #Preconception Care Toolkit. It is designed to help HVs and other professionals integrate preconception and interpregnancy care into everyday practice.
ihv.org.uk/news-and-vie...
#HealthVisiting

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Institute of Health Visiting @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social · 1d

The impacts of the pandemic on babies, young children and health visiting have hit the headlines. Alison Morton, iHV CEO, joined the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme on Saturday morning (11 October 2025) in a news item on the week’s proceedings from the COVID-19 Inquiry.
ihv.org.uk/news-and-vie...

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 22h

Amazing discovery from the world of science!

“Yet the creature sits within Archaea, one of the three great domains of life – not among viruses. Phylogenetic trees place it on a deep branch so distant from known groups that the authors propose creating a new phylum.”

www.earth.com/news/scienti...

Scientists discover an organism that defies the definition of life

Scientists have discovered a unique marine microbe, sukunaarchaeum, that defies traditional definitions of life.

www.earth.com

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Supporting Healthcare Heroes UK (SHH-UK) @shh-uk.bsky.social · 2d

Long Covid Facts...

Cleaner indoor air = fewer infections = less Long Covid.

We need #SafeAir4All

#LongCovid #CleanAir #PublicHealth #longcovidawareness #longcovidrecovery

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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 2d

Blood test detecting Long Covid in kids with 94% accuracy microclots | Discussion

Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients using a microfluidic assay

Long COVID (LC) impacts one in five children after an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. Typical LC symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, pain, and shortness of breath, which can significantly impact individuals and society. Moreover, LC may impair school performance and have long-term health and develop...

www.researchsquare.com

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Sarah Cowley @profsarahcowley.bsky.social · 1d

‘You often feel alone as a young mum and not many people understand’ – Meet the west Belfast walking group helping new mums to get talking and walking
www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

‘You often feel alone as a young mum and not many people understand’ – Meet the west Belfast walking group helping new mums to get talking and walking

The Walkie Talkie Group has been running for four years and was set up between the Colin Neighbourhood Partnership and South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly. "Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans." wapo.st/3VTALll

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2d

I need a Tommy Flowers Was Robbed t-shirt. Great piece!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d

Timeline cleanse
came across tiny postman's gardens in old London where there is a wall of plaques, set up in 1900, for ordinary people who sacrificed themselves to save others...

Beautiful small garden and beautiful tributes

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2d

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

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Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe Brits can find jobs in thriving Poland… oh, wait

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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 2d

🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle

12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain

When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 2d

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic interview with Neil Kinnock. Interesting, human, insightful with some truly poignant and moving moments. It was a real conversation and so much the better for it. More of this @lewisgoodall.com, please!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Neil Kinnock on the speech that changed the Labour Party

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 10/10/2025 · 56m

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 2d

This narrative doesn't make sense. You can't blame Brexit for harming the economy ... (UK businesses, for example, lose £37bn a year due to a drop in EU trade) ... yet at the same time categorically rule out returning even to the Single Market. So Starmer needs to do a masssive U-turn or step down.

Starmer ‘planning to blame Farage and Brexit’ for budget tax hikes

Sir Keir Starmer has been ramping up his attacks on Nigel Farage in recent weeks as Labour falls behind in the polls

www.independent.co.uk

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 3d

LBC caller: “Brexit gave me freedom because I can choose my own government.”

Also LBC caller: “The EU is to blame for immigration and ID cards.”

You couldn’t make it up.
#Brexit #SaveBritishFarming

Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!
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Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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J Green @jgreen63.bsky.social · 4d

Sort yourselves out @england.nhs.uk

Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Just had a post of mine removed by the NHS for saying ‘COVID is a predominantly airborne virus’.

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