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LSHTM AMR Centre @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social · 48m

🚀 Exciting news!

Our Centre Director @katholt.bsky.social will be speaking at #AMR2026 on “AMRrules: Interpretive Standards for AMR Genotypes.”

Don’t miss her insights🧬✨

📅 23–25 March 2026
🔗 bit.ly/3SWzJUm
#MicroSky #AMR #Genomics

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 2h

A powerful letter to UK ministers from the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, warning strongly about curtailing human rights for trans people in a bogus 'zero-sum game'.

It's clear the Commissioner is deeply worried that ministers are already on this path.

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 5h

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 5h

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 42m

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1h

Guess we’ll have to wait another week to get a win on the board

LFC Blog @lfcblog.bsky.social · 1h

Michael Oliver has been appointed as the referee for the Liverpool vs Manchester United clash.

What’s your thoughts?

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WHO @who.int · 7h

New WHO report finds 1 in 6 bacterial infections were resistant to antibiotic treatments.

Data from over 100 countries warns that rising resistance to essential antibiotics poses a growing threat to global health.

Read more 👉bit.ly/438Ta1u

The text reads: “Resistance to antibiotics is widespread and increasing, threatening treatment of common infections. 1 in 6 bacterial infections worldwide were resistant to antibiotics in 2023.”

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 16h

A young trans girl DIED by her own hand, in part over feelings of desperation that trans healthcare was unobtainable.

And Graham Linehan wrote THIS!!! 😤🤬

Save this and post it in response to journalists writing “trans people ruined my marriage” articles about him in the future!!!

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 13h

It's that wonderful time of the year where all of #IDSky, #IDEpi, and #MicroSky need to update their reference list to include the new WHO GLASS Report

What's clear from this report is that AMR is a global issue and no one entity can prevent or respond to this ever growing issue.

WHO warns of widespread resistance to common antibiotics worldwide

One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing common infections in people worldwide in 2023 were resistant to antibiotic treatments, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) r...

www.who.int

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 14h

This is fucking insane. I know we have other stuff on but I feel like this is something the UN could sort out if they put their minds to it.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15h

The thing about emergency vet bills is this. Here is the thing about them. Where are we on the whole communism thing

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 16h

I think I like it?

This Is Anfield @thisisanfield.com · 1d

NEW: New Liverpool Adidas kit leak – black and gold shirt set for limited-edition release #lfc

New Liverpool Adidas kit leak - black and gold shirt

Read here.

www.thisisanfield.com

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 23h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 19h

Good luck in your new role! I’d be interested to see what you find.

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 19h

Do you think the left-right tribes are a consequence of the SNP promoting civic nationalism?

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 7d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 1d

Missing Values were dropped;
Mean Imputation was applied;
Data available on request;
Code available on request;

#rstats

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone was wondering what goes on now on X… The terfs are grieving for nonces

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

the living fuck and who and why and now?

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

A hate crime. We shouldn't have surrendered in whatever century bore such consequences as food this icky. The crown must save them from themselves

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 1d

replies are disabled. everyone enjoy my sandwich in silence

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

That's not food surely

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Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

I do love swiss cheese, well, any cheese. Are you sure it's cheese or American standards say cheese? 👀 Regardless, though! I appreciate italian meats, not that I'd ever eat them, but I see @cr-wford.bsky.social eat them every now and again. I blame him, he doesn't like them so pale :')

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

A what and when would that happen?

Shaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so confused tho, is that meat? Is it cabbage? I can't tell

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