Prof Christina Pagel
@chrischirp.bsky.social
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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Sat in for this interview (as a tech) and was utterly fascinated by the conversation. The fact that we so often think of democracy/not-democracy as a binary is at the core of why we rarely see authoritarianism coming.
It's time to wise up. Thank you @srd.bsky.social for such a wise explanation.
It's time to wise up. Thank you @srd.bsky.social for such a wise explanation.
It was my great pleasure to speak to @srd.bsky.social about competitive authoritarianism and what it means for our age. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Are we living in an age of competitive authoritarianism
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 11/11/2025 · 47m
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November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Sat in for this interview (as a tech) and was utterly fascinated by the conversation. The fact that we so often think of democracy/not-democracy as a binary is at the core of why we rarely see authoritarianism coming.
It's time to wise up. Thank you @srd.bsky.social for such a wise explanation.
It's time to wise up. Thank you @srd.bsky.social for such a wise explanation.
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I did not have insider knowledge. I have just been around Brussels negotiations for a long time...
EU agrees a mandate for UK negotiations as I predicted. With the bonus that the future path becomes clearer - if you pay you can have more. www.politico.eu/article/uk-s...
EU agrees a mandate for UK negotiations as I predicted. With the bonus that the future path becomes clearer - if you pay you can have more. www.politico.eu/article/uk-s...
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I did not have insider knowledge. I have just been around Brussels negotiations for a long time...
EU agrees a mandate for UK negotiations as I predicted. With the bonus that the future path becomes clearer - if you pay you can have more. www.politico.eu/article/uk-s...
EU agrees a mandate for UK negotiations as I predicted. With the bonus that the future path becomes clearer - if you pay you can have more. www.politico.eu/article/uk-s...
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Visualize your data.
It's important to understand that the average linear rate of increase might not be a good summary of the individual trajectories.
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Visualize your data.
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The effort to keep this information out of public view has reached a level of intensity where the American people are clearly entitled to "adverse inference", i.e. you're allowed to assume the worst.
PANIC SETS IN
Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Todd Blanche, and others, plan on holding an EMERGENCY MEETING today on the Epstein Files as the discharge vote nears.
Rep. Boebert will reportedly be there.
It appears there is an all hands on deck effort to try to prevent a vote on the Epstein Files. (CNN)
Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Todd Blanche, and others, plan on holding an EMERGENCY MEETING today on the Epstein Files as the discharge vote nears.
Rep. Boebert will reportedly be there.
It appears there is an all hands on deck effort to try to prevent a vote on the Epstein Files. (CNN)
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The effort to keep this information out of public view has reached a level of intensity where the American people are clearly entitled to "adverse inference", i.e. you're allowed to assume the worst.
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New - I understand angry MPs this afternoon spoke to Starmer at PLP committee to ask he sack whoever was briefing against Streeting or who authorised any attacks.
He refused to say he would sack anyone or that there would be consequences.
MPs said they took this as backing McSweeney.
He refused to say he would sack anyone or that there would be consequences.
MPs said they took this as backing McSweeney.
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
New - I understand angry MPs this afternoon spoke to Starmer at PLP committee to ask he sack whoever was briefing against Streeting or who authorised any attacks.
He refused to say he would sack anyone or that there would be consequences.
MPs said they took this as backing McSweeney.
He refused to say he would sack anyone or that there would be consequences.
MPs said they took this as backing McSweeney.
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
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Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
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Professor Christina Pagel
I'm Professor Christina Pagel at University College London. My research is in health systems. I'm passionate about science, public health, supporting diversity in the sciences, and protecting liberal ...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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you saw it/still see it very clearly with this place - I'm happy to be here but many people have stayed on Twitter, even while admitting that Twitter is now rubbish, because the idea of purposely spending *hours and hours* curating a follow list from scratch just feels completely alien to them
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
you saw it/still see it very clearly with this place - I'm happy to be here but many people have stayed on Twitter, even while admitting that Twitter is now rubbish, because the idea of purposely spending *hours and hours* curating a follow list from scratch just feels completely alien to them
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whereas you know - I still vividly remember once spending something like seven straight hours rewriting the full HTML of my blog from scratch, just because I fancied a change - our experiences of the internet have been so different that we're essentially different species now
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
whereas you know - I still vividly remember once spending something like seven straight hours rewriting the full HTML of my blog from scratch, just because I fancied a change - our experiences of the internet have been so different that we're essentially different species now
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"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy."
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
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November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy."
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A good example of someone using "economically inactive" to mean "available for work but choosing not to" and forgetting it covers students, early retirees, carers, severely disabled people, parents with very young children etc...
What on earth is this nonsense from a Blue Labour MP?
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A good example of someone using "economically inactive" to mean "available for work but choosing not to" and forgetting it covers students, early retirees, carers, severely disabled people, parents with very young children etc...
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What on earth is this nonsense from a Blue Labour MP?
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What on earth is this nonsense from a Blue Labour MP?
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
asking for volunteer: have recently branched out into youtube & tiktok on Trump.
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I really need marketing/video social media help to improve video content and video editing tips/skills!
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Professor Christina Pagel
I'm Professor Christina Pagel at University College London. My research is in health systems. I'm passionate about science, public health, supporting diversity in the sciences, and protecting liberal ...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
asking for volunteer: have recently branched out into youtube & tiktok on Trump.
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I really need marketing/video social media help to improve video content and video editing tips/skills!
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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Jeffrey Epstein mentioned Donald Trump by name multiple times in private correspondence over the last 15 years with an associate and an author in Trump’s orbit, according to newly released emails from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Jeffrey Epstein mentioned Donald Trump by name multiple times in private correspondence over the last 15 years with an associate and an author in Trump’s orbit, according to newly released emails from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...
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"In one email, Epstein told Maxwell, 'I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.' He added that an unnamed victim 'spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.'"
“'I have been thinking about that,' Maxwell wrote back."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
“'I have been thinking about that,' Maxwell wrote back."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"In one email, Epstein told Maxwell, 'I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.' He added that an unnamed victim 'spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.'"
“'I have been thinking about that,' Maxwell wrote back."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
“'I have been thinking about that,' Maxwell wrote back."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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“They are focused most intensely on Covid-19 shots, but are also looking at vaccines more broadly. Prasad wants to make it more difficult for vaccine makers to tell doctors they can offer their shots together, something providers have done for decades to more efficiently protect people from disease”
How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“They are focused most intensely on Covid-19 shots, but are also looking at vaccines more broadly. Prasad wants to make it more difficult for vaccine makers to tell doctors they can offer their shots together, something providers have done for decades to more efficiently protect people from disease”
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Donald Trump is coming for the BBC and for your wallets.
I urged the Prime Minister to stand up for the 23.8 million licence fee paying households, and tell Trump he won't get a penny.
I urged the Prime Minister to stand up for the 23.8 million licence fee paying households, and tell Trump he won't get a penny.
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Donald Trump is coming for the BBC and for your wallets.
I urged the Prime Minister to stand up for the 23.8 million licence fee paying households, and tell Trump he won't get a penny.
I urged the Prime Minister to stand up for the 23.8 million licence fee paying households, and tell Trump he won't get a penny.
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Ed Davey is Starmer's conscience.
Lib Dem Leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Ed Davey is Starmer's conscience.
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Minister Sir Chris Bryant on Politics Live: "I don't think that there is a leadership challenge going on, I've seen absolutely no evidence of it"
Says he read about supposed texts from Wes asking ministers to resign, says he's "outraged I haven't had such a message, don't know any minister who has"
Says he read about supposed texts from Wes asking ministers to resign, says he's "outraged I haven't had such a message, don't know any minister who has"
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Minister Sir Chris Bryant on Politics Live: "I don't think that there is a leadership challenge going on, I've seen absolutely no evidence of it"
Says he read about supposed texts from Wes asking ministers to resign, says he's "outraged I haven't had such a message, don't know any minister who has"
Says he read about supposed texts from Wes asking ministers to resign, says he's "outraged I haven't had such a message, don't know any minister who has"
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Just re sharing this as it comes to light just how vulnerable the BBC is to capture by anti democratic forces ...
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Just re sharing this as it comes to light just how vulnerable the BBC is to capture by anti democratic forces ...
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“I’ve come to this anti-vax conference with a message: that we need to be more boldly anti-vax,” said Mark Gorton, the head of the MAHA Institute…(he) called for the elimination of the childhood vaccination schedule & removal of vaccines from the market.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
‘God is an anti-vaxxer’: Inside the conference celebrating RFK Jr.’s rise
An anti-vaccine conference in Austin celebrated Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rise to political power, highlighting his influence in Trump’s Washington.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“I’ve come to this anti-vax conference with a message: that we need to be more boldly anti-vax,” said Mark Gorton, the head of the MAHA Institute…(he) called for the elimination of the childhood vaccination schedule & removal of vaccines from the market.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Bombshell report reveals Trump 'loyalty test' hidden in interviews of judge nominees
Bombshell report reveals Trump 'loyalty test' hidden in interviews of judge nominees
A new report from Demand Justice revealed Tuesday that dozens of President Donald Trump-nominated judges had used "nearly identical” language in an attempt to dodge questions on the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and the results of the 2020 election, with the group's president labeling the findings as a...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Bombshell report reveals Trump 'loyalty test' hidden in interviews of judge nominees