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Prof Christina Pagel

@chrischirp.bsky.social

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Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/

Christina Pagel FMedSci HonFFPH is a German-British mathematician and professor of operational research at University College London (UCL) within UCL's Clinical Operational Research Unit (CORU), which applies operational research, data analysis and mathematical modelling to topics in healthcare. She was Director of UCL CORU from 2017 to 2022 and is currently Vice President of the UK Operational Research Society. She also co-leads, alongside Rebecca Shipley, UCL's CHIMERA research hub which analyses data from critically ill hospital patients. .. more

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 2h

This is an important filing. The world will be watching.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 9h

Why does Marco Rubio care about our immigration policy?

the US is trying to export its nationalism to its allies.

youtube.com/shorts/CYn48...

Why does Marco Rubio care about your country's immigration policy?

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 12h

How AI has made my life better (FREE TO READ!)

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How AI has made my life better

And why is my experience so different to everyone else?

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12h

Breaking news: The European Commission has proposed a loan that would leverage up to €210bn of Russian assets immobilised by EU sanctions to fund Kyiv, which would not have to repay the loan until Russia pays reparations on.ft.com/4iFKUNi

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 13h

Other members are anti-vaxxers and Covid contrarians that came up with RFK Jr.
The group has less power now bc experts, scientists and doctors don't take them seriously, but it can still do harm ... mostly for America's poorest children. The public meeting starts tomorrow. www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-...

RFK Jr.’s pick to reshape the childhood vaccine schedule embraces Covid conspiracy theories

Dr. Kirk Milhoan compared vaccination efforts during the pandemic to the Holocaust and called mRNA technology “the biggest threat to humanity.”

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 13h

Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13h

Over 100k of the increase in British nationals emigrating is to Poland, Romania (and Bangladesh). Good work from Freddie Sayers on Unherd in checking the assumptions behind some of the "we all know why" commentary on the online right
unherd.com/2025/12/are-...

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 13h

When I was at an Oxford college whose library for some reason has a copy of Reeves’ BA thesis, I was separately approached by two different people asking for help to get hold of it. The obsession with taking down her intellectual credentials is revealing - and absolutely mental.

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13h

You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion.

This is getting utterly ridiculous now

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 14h

Delhi records 200,000 acute respiratory illness cases amid toxic air. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Air pollution: Delhi hospitals saw 200,000 respiratory illness patients in three years

More than 30,000 people with respiratory illnesses had to be hospitalised in Delhi between 2022 and 2024.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15h

Christmas at CORU has begun!

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 15h

You know what? I really don't think it is. Great domestic political posturing, but Labour have no plans to go beyond the 'reset' agenda, certainly none the EU are likely to accept. This will be talk to little if any action.

George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 2d

Starmer declaring “we have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU” is a significant moment.

Reflects transformation in public opinion + need for economic growth.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 15h

profoundly sad www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April

Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman

www.theguardian.com

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 15h

Surely you’d type this number, this initial line, and you’d think “hang on a moment, what on earth am I claiming here?”

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d

Don't want to tell anyone how to do their job, but if you want to attack Rachel Reeves, there's quite a lot of really good ammunition from this century, indeed from the last month, right there on the table.
thecritic.co.uk/how-comforta...

Giving evidence to Parliament’s Treasury committee on Tuesday morning, Miles went as far as a senior British official ever does at saying out loud that they’re furious. Did the OBR suspect the Treasury of leaking its interim forecasts? “We were aware that information was getting into the press.” Was that a problem? “It wasn’t terribly helpful.” As bad as that. Wow. Was anything said? “There was no formal complaint.” That left quite a lot of space for some very memorable informal words.

As for the government’s £4 billion surplus, Miles was dismissive. “It was wafer-thin,” he said. “A sliver.”

This was all tremendous ammunition for the opposition: a Treasury in chaos as the Budget approached, selectively leaking about OBR’s work to justify its reverses, and a fiscal situation that was a cigarette paper away from disaster. Except that, for reasons that it cannot be emphasised strongly enough make absolutely no sense, the Tories are arguing that the government is actually flush with cash and raising taxes for the LOLs

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 1d

There will come a point where Farage realises he needs non-dregs defectors to look vaguely respectable and Tory frontbenchers realise a pact is the only way they get to carry on being MPs. Then there will be deal.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

FT Exclusive: The Reform UK leader told donors he expects a deal or merger between his party and the Conservatives ahead of the next general election, suggesting he does not believe he can sweep to power alone. on.ft.com/44xlHi0

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them.

Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.

“Make America Healthy Again.”

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

www.nytimes.com

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

FT Exclusive: The Reform UK leader told donors he expects a deal or merger between his party and the Conservatives ahead of the next general election, suggesting he does not believe he can sweep to power alone. on.ft.com/44xlHi0

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack

French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza

<article data-history-node-id="432218" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title"> French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two French journalist unions filed a legal case against Israel for obstructing the work of their journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, AFP reported on Tuesday.</p> <p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the French Journalists' Union filed the complaint with the Paris anti-terror prosecutor's office last week, accusing Israel of "obstructing the freedom to inform".</p> <p>The complaint mentioned a journalist being pursued by around 50 Israelis armed with "guns, cans of petrol and sticks" while reporting in the West Bank, all in the presence of the Israeli army.</p> <p>Israel has not allowed international journalists into the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October 2023, except when embedded with Israeli forces.</p> <p>IFJ general secretary Anthony Bellanger said, "For more than two years, the IFJ has been calling for the borders to be opened to the foreign press so that they can relieve our colleagues who are exhausted by two years of war."</p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

With so much abuse from cis men still covered up , with so much misogyny rife , with anti trans activists starting to turn towards abortion rights - well done to all the bigots who decided relentless abuse of trans kids was the solution #translives

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The Guardian @theguardian.com
Trans girls banned from joining Girlguiding
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The Guardian
Amnesty UK Feminists @amnestyf... • 4m
No00000000!!!!!!!! Girlguiding was always so wonderfully trans inclusive and this development is truly chilling. Sending solidarity to the trans community. We love you!
AMNESTY FEMINISTS

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Pete didn't know about the second attack having to do with two people. I guess Pete would have to speak to it. I can say this. I want those boats taken out. And if we have to, we'll attack on land also."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1d

Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Rebecca McKee @rebeccamckee.bsky.social · 1d

New from @alexgathomas.bsky.social and I on the missed opportunity of the covid inquiry's module 2 report to dig deeper into how decisions were made in government during the pandemic

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/covi...

The Covid Inquiry has missed vital lessons on how to make better decisions | Institute for Government

We have not learnt much that is new from the inquiry’s Module Two report.

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 1d

The Trump administration’s military strategy in Latin America breaches long-established legal rules and norms in three key ways.

US accused of killing Venezuelan drug boat survivors – Trump’s military agenda is based on impunity

The Trump administration’s military strategy in Latin America breaches long-established legal rules and norms in three key ways.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Does he also believe in the Tooth Fairy? That, and other questions raised by this excellent piece: www.ft.com/content/cc83...

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, someone is coming for the Norwegians, and not a moment too soon

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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 2d

Pause for a moment and think…
10,743 russian drones attacked Ukraine over the past two months🤬