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It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

My surname makes people laugh – so I turned it into a research communication tool Having my surname is a daily trial, eliciting a range of responses from suppressed to open laughter and unsolicited comments.

Having my surname is a daily trial, eliciting a range of responses from suppressed to open laughter and unsolicited comments.

Long Covid: Unlocking the Keys To Recovery YouTube video by Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine

INIM: 'Long Covid: Unlocking the Keys To Recovery'

Dr. Klimas: "I'm going to say thank you for your taxes. You paid $1.15 billion into the Long COVID bucket at the NIH and much of what we have learned comes from that investment.."

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MP Samantha Niblett calls for 'lifelong sex education' to combat abuse The MP says the campaign focuses on education and consent in healthy relationships to prevent abuse.

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Today’s #MomentOfBeauty

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MP Samantha Niblett calls for 'lifelong sex education' to combat abuse The MP says the campaign focuses on education and consent in healthy relationships to prevent abuse.

It’s actually about life long sex education to help address sexual violence and coercive relationships:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Petition: Reinstate study visas for Sudanese students and fully protect their education The UK suspended Sudanese study visas citing a surge in asylum claims. However, we believe most students are genuine and law-abiding. We think this blanket ban denies education, punishes lawful studen...

UK people, Sudanese students have set up a petition to Parliament for reinstating their educational visas.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Today’s #MomentOfBeauty

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Child focus is biggest change to family courts in 30 years, senior judge says Sir Andrew McFarlane welcomes the government backing for the change, saying it will turn the old approach

Child focus is biggest change to family courts in 30 years, senior judge says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If the bar is set high, most students lose access. If it’s set low, the policy achieves little. The consultation invites views on a policy whose actual effect depends entirely on a framework that doesn’t yet exist.

Such an important point that the figures and graphs don't alwyas convey the horror experienced by staff who worked and kept on working with death on a scale they had never seen.

The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

Incredible substance here from @chrischirp.bsky.social. The 2nd wave of COVID-19 in the UK was a) devastating and b) avoidable. Take time to play the clip of Prof Kevin Fong who breaks down when describing the scale of death and its impact on ICU staff.
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Hope you feel better soon, and well done for getting out when you're in pain.

Dogs were man's best friend far earlier than thought - scientists A jawbone found in a Somerset cave rewrites the story of when and how dogs became our best friends.

"He then shows us his results, and we're like, '(Gosh), this guy might have actually found a dog that far back in time."

Scarsbrook's actual language was more colourful than we can publish, because he knew just how important his friend's big breakthrough could prove.

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How it’s going:

How it started:

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Why universities still struggle to make degrees accessible for disabled students Awareness of disability in higher education has improved. Disabled students’ access still depends on how reliably universities deliver support day to day.

theconversation.com/why-universi...

Meningitis is back – and here is why | Devi Sridhar After two deaths, it’s right to be concerned and to discuss investment in public health. But our system is good and it’s working, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of ...

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‘…when public health works, it’s invisible. We don’t see the outbreaks that haven’t happened. It’s also a reminder of the power of vaccines and why building up immunity in the population through routine vaccination programmes is so important.’

www.joh.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Love this. When something failed, rather than discarding, they looked at why there might be a problem and discovered something wonderful.

Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96 Habermas’ political consensus-building theory argued formation of public opinion vital for democracies to survive

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Silence is not golden when it comes to science and AI The scope of scientific inquiry is contracting as research focuses on data-rich problems

An emerging pattern: AI use improves immediate outcomes, a lot, but limits big picture thinking as there is no data for that; this in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/0c63...

Who will win the race?

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I still think about this a lot.

‘Get used to it’: Jake Tapper responds to Trump admin’s criticism of Iran war coverage | CNN Politics Responding to Trump administration criticism of CNN’s coverage of US military deaths in the war with Iran, Jake Tapper says, “It is the news media’s responsibility to cover this war, not to cheerlead ...

www.cnn.com/2026/03/08/p...

Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour | Stella Creasy We must get back to the party’s roots before it is too late. That means embracing difference, rejecting division – and fighting for opportunities for all, says MP for Walthamstow, Stella Creasy

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She can wear whatever she likes, it's her politics and policies that I'm concerned about.

Economic abuse by a partner contributes to one death every 19 days, report finds Financial abuse is a factor in more than half of deaths related to domestic abuse but is often misunderstood

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Love learning German! One of my favourite words is das Schneeglöckchen for snowdrop which literally means little snow bell.