Andy Conway Morris
@andymoz78.bsky.social
Associate Prof /ICU Dr @Cambridge, UK
nosocomial infections, pneumonia, neutrophil biology & sepsis immune dysfunction
Medical director for Sepsis Research FEAT.
orcid.org/0000-0002-3211-3216
https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-andrew-conway-morris
nosocomial infections, pneumonia, neutrophil biology & sepsis immune dysfunction
Medical director for Sepsis Research FEAT.
orcid.org/0000-0002-3211-3216
https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-andrew-conway-morris
Pinned
H3N2: Rapid clinical update and implications for this Winter
Preparing intensive care for Winter 2025.
ics.ac.uk
Influenza has come early this year, and with the H3N2 being especially virulent amongst older people, hospitals and ICUs are under pressure. Join us tomorrow (27th November) to learn about flu in ICU this winter. With @ics-updates.bsky.social @rajlaz.bsky.social @shond.bsky.social and Brij Patel
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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A new paper estimates 5.5M deaths in 2019 from cardiovascular disease caused by lead—that's more than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined.
How reliable is that number? @leecrawfurd.bsky.social says the causal evidence suggests it may be plausible:
https://go.cgdev.org/4p01Q37
How reliable is that number? @leecrawfurd.bsky.social says the causal evidence suggests it may be plausible:
https://go.cgdev.org/4p01Q37
Does Lead Exposure Really Kill Five Million People Per Year? (Probably, Yes)
Two years ago we did a deep dive into the evidence on lead exposure and children’s cognition, ultimately convincing ourselves that the evidence is causal, and what the size of the effect is. But a rec...
go.cgdev.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A new paper estimates 5.5M deaths in 2019 from cardiovascular disease caused by lead—that's more than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined.
How reliable is that number? @leecrawfurd.bsky.social says the causal evidence suggests it may be plausible:
https://go.cgdev.org/4p01Q37
How reliable is that number? @leecrawfurd.bsky.social says the causal evidence suggests it may be plausible:
https://go.cgdev.org/4p01Q37
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
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Funny to think a year ago, most Tory MPs thought Starmer had a clever but cynical plan to bank the changes Sunak made on immigration and declare victory, rather than to keep holing himself under the waterline.
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer
Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.
www.standard.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Funny to think a year ago, most Tory MPs thought Starmer had a clever but cynical plan to bank the changes Sunak made on immigration and declare victory, rather than to keep holing himself under the waterline.
Will no one think of the super-rich?
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Will no one think of the super-rich?
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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‘Unthinkable’: Fmr. Natl. Security official knocks White House-Kremlin call
www.ms.now/chris-jansin...
www.ms.now/chris-jansin...
Leaked transcript of White House-Kremlin call published by Bloomberg ahead of peace talks in Moscow
Bloomberg says it has reviewed a leaked conversation between presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and senior Kremlin advisers. This comes ahead of a meeting in Moscow next week to discuss a possible Ukrai...
www.ms.now
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
‘Unthinkable’: Fmr. Natl. Security official knocks White House-Kremlin call
www.ms.now/chris-jansin...
www.ms.now/chris-jansin...
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I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.
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The government figuring this out slowly over the coming two years is going to be quite something to behold.
I think the government meant to cut net migration but have accidentally overshot the target by a lot. They haven’t realised this yet.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The government figuring this out slowly over the coming two years is going to be quite something to behold.
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Looking forward to the 2029 general election campaign, when the incumbent government will run on "Public services haven't improved, those tax rises we announced years ago just kicked in, and now we have to increase immigration because it went too low and we are skint again."
The government figuring this out slowly over the coming two years is going to be quite something to behold.
I think the government meant to cut net migration but have accidentally overshot the target by a lot. They haven’t realised this yet.
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Looking forward to the 2029 general election campaign, when the incumbent government will run on "Public services haven't improved, those tax rises we announced years ago just kicked in, and now we have to increase immigration because it went too low and we are skint again."
I mean who wouldn’t trust Putin? Sure a signature on a document would mean he’d never attack another country (well, this week…maybe)
⁉️ Putin says Russia can put in writing it will not attack Europe
Putin says Russia can put in writing it will not attack Europe
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has been ready to state in writing that it does not intend to attack Europe.
www.pravda.com.ua
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I mean who wouldn’t trust Putin? Sure a signature on a document would mean he’d never attack another country (well, this week…maybe)
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Labour migration policy, a tale in four parts.
Well racists, I hope you’re glad there will be fewer doctors (and nurses, social care workers, teachers, engineers, farm workers and many more) to see you now.
Well racists, I hope you’re glad there will be fewer doctors (and nurses, social care workers, teachers, engineers, farm workers and many more) to see you now.
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Labour migration policy, a tale in four parts.
Well racists, I hope you’re glad there will be fewer doctors (and nurses, social care workers, teachers, engineers, farm workers and many more) to see you now.
Well racists, I hope you’re glad there will be fewer doctors (and nurses, social care workers, teachers, engineers, farm workers and many more) to see you now.
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So we are already back to the levels of migration of the early 2010s and declining faster... let's hope all those new restrictions, based on previous higher numbers, don't make Britain massively unattractive to those migrants the government DOES wish to attract.
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
So we are already back to the levels of migration of the early 2010s and declining faster... let's hope all those new restrictions, based on previous higher numbers, don't make Britain massively unattractive to those migrants the government DOES wish to attract.
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Ukrainian lawmakers, soldiers, and experts told the Kyiv Independent that the leak proves Witkoff could be a tool of the Kremlin rather than a neutral mediator.
'Teaching murderers how to talk to Trump' – Ukrainians react to bombshell Witkoff leak
An explosive leak implicating top U.S. negotiator Steve Witkoff in shady dealings with Russia has sparked shock and astonishment not only in the U.S. but also in Ukraine.
According to conversations l...
kyivindependent.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ukrainian lawmakers, soldiers, and experts told the Kyiv Independent that the leak proves Witkoff could be a tool of the Kremlin rather than a neutral mediator.
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A late-night act of vandalism turned out to be something much bigger, and Moscow knew exactly what it was doing.
Red Hands in Paris: A Small Act of Vandalism in a Big Russian Strategy
On the afternoon of May 11, 2024, two men arrived at a modest hotel in Paris. One of them, identifying himself as Mircho Angelov, presented a Bulgarian ID
warontherocks.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A late-night act of vandalism turned out to be something much bigger, and Moscow knew exactly what it was doing.
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Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Ed Davey on #BBCBreakfast talking plain sense once again, mainly about the damage Brexit has done and continues to do, and what Labour 'should' have done in the budget. Easily the best party leader in Westminster right now.
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Ed Davey on #BBCBreakfast talking plain sense once again, mainly about the damage Brexit has done and continues to do, and what Labour 'should' have done in the budget. Easily the best party leader in Westminster right now.
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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If the state of Delaware prohibited companies incorporated there from spending on elections in any way, Citizens United would be dead in the water.
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If the state of Delaware prohibited companies incorporated there from spending on elections in any way, Citizens United would be dead in the water.
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.
It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
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PUBLISHED TODAY: ‘Noise & Nuance: What the public really thinks about immigration’ – new findings from the British Future/Ipsos Immigration Attitudes Tracker, which has studied public opinion on immigration and asylum since 2015 [🧵]
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
PUBLISHED TODAY: ‘Noise & Nuance: What the public really thinks about immigration’ – new findings from the British Future/Ipsos Immigration Attitudes Tracker, which has studied public opinion on immigration and asylum since 2015 [🧵]
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The X platform now has a new tool that promotes scrutiny about the origin of X accounts.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The X platform now has a new tool that promotes scrutiny about the origin of X accounts.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
Farage is right…..his politics reflect his racism, and I dislike both
Is Farage right to claim that racism allegations are response to a dislike of his politics?
Reform UK leader has again denied allegations about his behaviour as a schoolboy but what are the facts?
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage is right…..his politics reflect his racism, and I dislike both
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This week's issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine has arrived!
A transcriptional signature could inform smarter antibiotic use in newborns with sepsis, an approved medication boosts anti-malaria immunity in volunteers, and more. https://scim.ag/43PsmE6
A transcriptional signature could inform smarter antibiotic use in newborns with sepsis, an approved medication boosts anti-malaria immunity in volunteers, and more. https://scim.ag/43PsmE6
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This week's issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine has arrived!
A transcriptional signature could inform smarter antibiotic use in newborns with sepsis, an approved medication boosts anti-malaria immunity in volunteers, and more. https://scim.ag/43PsmE6
A transcriptional signature could inform smarter antibiotic use in newborns with sepsis, an approved medication boosts anti-malaria immunity in volunteers, and more. https://scim.ag/43PsmE6