"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
(because I'm a geek I did then track down the influential textbook that everyone copied the incorrect ref from)
AI would not have helped me find the journal paper that *everyone* misreferenced. Librarian came back with "I couldn't find it in 19xx (yy) but I found this in 19yy (xx)"
Also, this is why I have absolutely no time for people online who say you can't be queer and Religious/Christian.
This is the kind of thing that rhetoric enables, and it's actively harming vulnerable people in real life. Just because you can't be queer and religious, doesn't mean other people can't
Please tell me they're in liturgical colours!
(I definitely didn't choose liturgical colours for the sound system cables ... nope, complete coincidence honest)
I envy your family while you perfect this skill.
My brother was able to take tablets at a very young age, despite profound learning difficulties, so I'm not surprised. I expect dosing will be more stable too - measuring syrups is never easy!
Trans/NB friends: this is a really great opportunity to have a say on what research is needed for non surgical transition related healthcare for adults. It's a James Lind Alliance priority setting partnership, which are well regarded and used.
wp.lancs.ac.uk/transadultsp...
I am embarrassed to admit how long it took me to realise that "the Ven" was a title, and not a nickname...
Children at an Edinburgh hospital painted pebbles for the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo and will be able to watch them choose and present them to their mates via livestream.
#SundayMorning
Literal headdesk. Although not incorrect - if you don't care about accuracy then I guess AI is ... fine?
same in the UK, although masks from hardware stores are much more likely to have expiratory valves, so you don't protect other people.
I'd support an assisted dying bill if it came alongside a bill that would make sure no disabled or ill person has to worry for support or made to feel that they are a burden. I do not trust Governments who eagerly support harsh, dehumanising welfare systems to not use assisted dying for a clear out.
Wow.
Are we taking term pregnancies or ectopic? Because I can completely believe that eggs will go "Huh no uterus, guess I'll just implant in this random bit of abdomen." Going to term would be a lot more ... ambitious.
Most pharmacies here (in the UK) seem to carry at least surgical masks, and I've definitely seem FFP2s (not so much FFP3s)
Students and others, we don’t know if meningococcal disease can spread through the air. I see some of you in the outbreak zone are wearing masks. If you want to maximise your protection against a *possible* airborne threat, wear a *respirator* (FFP2 or - better - FFP3). These are ~N95/N99 in USA.
One of my students is looking at risk factors for uterine rupture after previous caesarian so that women can have better information on the risks. I'm finding it really interesting.
Petriochor
Sunshine
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When my parents bought their house (UK, built c1820), they discovered electrical wiring that was just bare wires with neat lines of perished rubber beneath, and that almost all the bedroom floor had been "patched" with flattened biscuit tins.
Firefighters lining up a ladder ready to install nesting boxes
Firefighter on a ladder installing house martin nesting boxes
Firefighters in Charlbury have installed house martin nesting boxes as part of ladder practice. The boxes were fixed below eaves awaiting the arrival of the birds later this month. Charlbury Wildlife Society reports the martins are already regulars at (the eaves of) the nearby Rose & Crown pub.
One of my USAian friends is currently dealing with the fallout of her home being coated in a delightful combination of tar, asbestos, and lead paint. Which is now degrading and needs removing in a way that doesn't destroy the load bearing material beneath.
My brother (severe learning difficulties) was switched to tablets at the age of about 2 as all the liquids were syrups and he was on a ketotic diet for epilepsy.
I (about 4) immediately learned to take tablets because I refused to let him be better than me at *anything*
Smiling man wearing glasses and a light blue shirt standing in front of the Nuffield Primary Healthcare building.
🎉🏆 Congratulations to prize-winner and recent MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) graduate, Hamid Mithoowani who has been awarded this year’s Kellogg College Gillian Nicholls Prize for best dissertation.
🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/4lhTyTf
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
We did manage to get the dept to spring for the materials for me to create them (under the guise of "teaching aids")
No, the building used to be a hospital (the Radcliffe Infirmary) and we believe they were a part of the pathology dept (for keeping samples cool). They are one of the few original internal features retained in the renovation.
When we moved in, my boss and I knew what we had to do.
A corridor. On the left hand wall is a stack of three built-in cupboards, with their doors ajar.
Two large hand-knitted goats. I knitted them. They look kind of derpy.
Was having a bad day until it became necessary to show 2 colleagues the Monty Hall problem in the office corridor.
Who called it homeopathic medicine and not dilutions of grandeur?
