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Prof Christina Pagel
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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/

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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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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4h
I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed.

1. The Aesthetics

Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 8h
Breaking down some of the anti Vax stuff going at the CDC *before* this week's ACIP meeting on childhood vaccines.

Notably their "finding" on COVID vaccines and children and a recent appointment...

youtube.com/shorts/AR97l...
Why the FDA memo on COVID vaccine risk is nothing to worry about
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 18h
"Bradley told lawmakers that the orders he received from Hegseth were to kill the individuals on the approved target list, which included everyone on the boat, then destroy the drugs and sink the boat, those sources said."

They were civilians.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling ve...
www.nbcnews.com

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Steve Peers, Christina Pagel

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d
No surprise that Ed West thinks you have to be white for London to be "your city", but still shocking that the *London* Standard prints this stuff.

[NB 1/2 of Londoners born in 2000 were not "white British"]

www.standard.co.uk/comment/gen-...
If you’re a Briton born in 2000, and especially if you’re from London, you will also be strongly aware of a loss of patrimony. You are now priced out of your own city, which has become notably alien, declining from being over 70 per cent white British at the time of Blair’s election to just over a third today.

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Thomas House @tah-sci.com · 1d
This article is always worth reading in the context of any vaccine safety discussion. Nothing is 100% safe, and if several hundred million people do almost anything then there will be deaths - but vaccines are much *safer* than the infections they work against.

theconversation.com/andrew-bridg...
Andrew Bridgen: how anti-vaccine misinformation hampers the conversation about genuine vaccine injuries
Suspended MP Andrew Bridgen’s comments are a prime example.
theconversation.com

Reposted by James Connelly, Christina Pagel, Steven H. Seggie

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d
I think fundamentally the "women's safety" aspect has been superseded by "they're not women" absolutism, such that anything that treats trans women as women - or indeed as anything other than men - is regarded as surrender to lies. So this is where it is now - scorched earth.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”

The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.

It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.

Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d
Good morning

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d
It's a difference in usage between US and UK. In UK typically use "highest" grade which is prof but in the US more common to use Dr for all academics.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d
Letting trans and non-binary just live our lives in peace and without harassment isn't going to turn everyone either trans or non-binary. This is just like the "gay panic" of the 80's/90's.

The ECHR draft guidance was so poor and illiterate they had to delete it.

www.thetimes.com/article/3d81...
Baroness Falkner of Margravine, whose term as the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission ended last week, told The Times that Labour had lost touch with its “fundamental values". She said the government's failure to publish statutory guidance after a Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces was because ministers were "terrified of their MPs" who wanted “trans self-identification” across all of society. The Equality and Human Rights Commission sent its guidance three months ago but it has still not been published. Bridget Phillipson, the women and equalities minister, has said that the delay is because the government is taking the time to “get this right". Falkner said: "We've had external counsel, internal counsel, everybody's looked at it. I mean, I'm so certain of the lawfulness of our code that I don't think I've ever been so certain about anything before.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d
Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.

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Will Newcomb @willnewcomb.bsky.social · 1d
Crazy: here in Changsha China PM2.5 pollution is ALWAYS way above WHO safe guidelines during winter. They want USA to replicate China with all the commensurate health problems???

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.

They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d
That’s another horrendous ACIP meeting on the books. This clown show did a lot more than weakly recommend delaying the HBV birth dose and compare vaccines to planes.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/say-hello-...
Say Hello to Hepatitis B, Baby
Anti-vax ACIP are bumbling their way to higher rates of pediatric liver cancer...and worse
rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1d
What is wrong with these people
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The "War on Christmas" is coming from inside the house.

Get ready for the official government videos of Santa on Christmas Eve deploying cutting edge Palantir technology to distinguish between the children asleep in their beds who are naughty/deportable, and those who are nice and can stay.
ORARTMAy Department of Homeland Securi... is in North Pole. • Follow 2h • ••• X YOU'RE GOING HO HO HOME. POLICE POLICE POLICE CHRISTMAS

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David Mac Redmond @davidmacredmond.bsky.social · 1d
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Scott L. Greer, Christina Pagel

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d
The "War on Christmas" is coming from inside the house.

Get ready for the official government videos of Santa on Christmas Eve deploying cutting edge Palantir technology to distinguish between the children asleep in their beds who are naughty/deportable, and those who are nice and can stay.
ORARTMAy Department of Homeland Securi... is in North Pole. • Follow 2h • ••• X YOU'RE GOING HO HO HOME. POLICE POLICE POLICE CHRISTMAS

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 1d
They're going to kill a lot of people and a lot of those people are going to be kids.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d
Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa".
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d
"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 2d
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
the fifa peace prize trophy with zombie-like hands holding up a crumbling earth

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2d
🚨🚨 Politically significant decision by @ec.europa.eu to impose a €120 million fine on Elon #Musk’s #X, the first-ever penalty issued under the EU’s flagship content moderation law, the Digital Services Act. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US
US vice president says EU should not be ‘attacking American companies over garbage.’
www.politico.eu

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Ken Tegtmeyer, MD @pccmdoc.bsky.social · 2d
I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.

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Deborah @deborah-c.bsky.social · 2d
The "particularly those in areas with higher air pollution" at the end hides a lot of what's going on here, of course.

People living in areas close to industrial sources and power stations, or in inner cities where vehicle pollution is most relevant, are predominantly BIPOC and/or poor. 1/

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d
FIFA really is the most corrupt organisation in the world

www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Donald Trump awarded controversial Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw
The US president, who was beaten to the Nobel Peace Prize by Venezuelan democracy campaigner Maria Corina Machado, was presented with Fifa’s hastily arranged new award
www.independent.co.uk

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d
PS here is the news story link
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s EPA moves to abandon tough standards for deadly soot pollution
EPA had previously said rule reducing fine particle matter from vehicles and industrial sources could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year
www.theguardian.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d
Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA politics. Hard to overstate how disgusting and embarrassing for our country it is for the US Secretary of Defense to be doing this:

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reneedodson.bsky.social @reneedodson.bsky.social · 2d
When you gut the EPA (over 200 times his first round) it saves the polluters over 1 trillion a year in fines and compliance fees. That’s 1 trillion we don’t collect.

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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you, Dr. Pagel, for drawing attention to this. Everyone talks about climate change, but not nearly enough are talking about air pollution. It's a major killer!