Hatfield 2026 : Call for Abstracts - ISOP Explore

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As a member of the Scientific Committee for the ISOP Mid-Year Pharmacovigilance Conference, I'd like to invite you to attend.

• Abstract submission deadline: 7 March 2026
• Notification of acceptance: 26 March 2026
• Presenter registration deadline: 14 April 2026

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Some research from an excellent PhD student on developing assessments for safe prescribing:

Alhossaini, R.M.; Cox, A.R.; Pontefract, S.K. Feasibility of Script Concordance Test Development: A Qualitative Study of Medical Educators’ Experiences. Int. Med. Educ. 2026, 5, 8. doi.org/10.3390/ime5...

Revealed: Police quizzed wrongfully arrested Jewish mother over her faith - The Jewish Chronicle MPs blast ‘unacceptable’ interrogation and urge the force to explain itself

How did the UK get like this?

We are 25 years post Deborah Lipstadt beating David Irving in court, when it seemed like everyone was on the same page about this stuff.

Since, we have progressively crept into a very dark place.

www.thejc.com/news/uk/reve...

The Police have now accepted this was an unlawful arrest and paid £20k to the parents.

Liberal bias? Us?! What we learn from a leaked report on the BBC

Mark Urban 'the BBC can’t find an effective way to thrash out questions of bias internally, then it’s in big trouble.'

markurban.substack.com/p/liberal-bi...

'Clumsy error'.

Hilarious misrepresentation of what happened. Trump isn't even the biggest editorial failure.

People like Rusbridger, Yelland, Aaronovitch, Campbell etc are going to damage the BBC through their tribalistic ignorance of bad practice, and hand the BBC over to its enemies.

Yeah, was not contesting the Open AI claim though.

Don't you have a pension? I think it has bubble qualities, but I would rather it did not.

No, but I did. It was this one in case you didn't see it first time.

People in bubbles of their own making.

Interesting post on self-isolation:

'I’m warning today’s Centrists that hiding themselves away from voters in Leftist sinkholes and treating the views of the voters’ outside with contempt will give them exactly the kind of government they profess to be terrified of'

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You say acetaminophen , I say paracetamol Let's call the whole thing off

A quick post about the whole paracetamol thing, and can people stop saying there is 'no evidence'.

There is, but the balance of evidence and the strongest studies don't show a link.

www.anthonycox.uk/p/you-say-ac...

Excellent piece in the BMJ on the Assisted Suicide bill. I use that term because of this text in the piece. blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/...

What a bleak view of the lives of others. It perhaps says more about the inner life of the writer than the wider world.

When reading how anti-human movements like eugenics became normalised in the past, you wonder how people let it happen. But it can happen.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

There are no rules, the UK is now just following the law that was already in place.

Following the Equality Act 2010 to enable sex-based rights for women is not going to make global fascism stronger.

Last I looked we had far too many people arrested for speech acts. The pendulum needs to swing to free speech, not further away from it.

Done, seems fine. I can now get live translations of Americans.

Have people read the replies and QTs to this post? bsky.app/profile/jay....

People should spend less time on X and Bluesky, because they are both causing brain rot and bubble thinking.

OK, when Reform win do we get their hate speech laws?

I feel like Mehdi may be taking the wrong lesson from this.

The moment of a Russian UAV strike on Kharkiv today. The Russians hit the building of the National University of Pharmacy.

Please Stop Sharing This Viral But Misguided Free-Speech Comic (Unlocked) xkcd is great but it really whiffs on this one

Well @jessesingal.com was right in the end.

'We should recognize that while we do, in a very real way, dominate most cultural and educational institutions (even if we’re pathetic at gaining political power), you never know who will control things tomorrow.'

jessesingal.substack.com/p/please-sto...

A young boy riding a bicycle down a cobblestone street.

15 September 1931. | A Dutch Jewish boy, Joseph Karel Vos, was born in Kempen.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 26 November 1942 in a transport of 709 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was among 667 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

Some e-bikes need to be called E-Motorbikes.

New Zealand shows why UK politicians must be wary of assisted dying reassurances I strongly encourage British parliamentarians to look at what has happened in New Zealand since the introduction of assisted dying.

There isn't a slippery slope with assisted dying, there's a ratchet. Once you cross the line, the line keeps being pushed.

www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Agree, although I have concerns that the condescending manner in which some of these people communicate about ‘the masses’ may radicalise people more.

Kirk Shooting Suspect Held ‘Leftist Ideology,’ Utah Governor Says

Seems that he may be from that community now. GIFT LINK. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

MPS: Stop doing stunts.

Ed Davey:

It was more a rhetorical point, than directed at your good self.

We spent 15+ years incentivising victimhood and sectarianism, and we are expressing surprise that the group who was never meant to use this tool is using this tool?

A return to classic liberal values (as part of a shared identity) would be a good idea, but I worry we are too far gone now.