Thanks Charlie for the mention 🙏

The em dash has been used for literally hundreds of years

Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

Born in Bradford group

Can a research study change a city’s health?

Professor John Wright, doctor and epidemiologist, shares the ongoing work of Born in Bradford – an 18-year study that aims to create a healthier city for future generations. Find out more in #Commentary📖

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Some welcome positive news!

Portrait of Tim Draycott

Many of you will have seen our recent tribute to Professor Tim Draycott (1964–2025), a global leader in maternity safety whose work has saved countless lives. Today, we want to share how we at THIS Institute plan to ensure Tim’s vision lives on.

THIS Space 2025 Why is improving timeliness so hard and what can we do about it? 25 November 13:00-13:50 Online conference

Timeliness matters, but treatment delays are common, complex & tough to tackle. Join @drcjohn.bsky.social @rosielindsay.bsky.social @janekohara.bsky.social as they explore why delays in treatment persist, and what can be done to address them. Register now: ths.im/4nGd5wJ

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Wish I could be there!

Was the smurf photo a veiled reference to my height, David....? 😉😂

(had to delete previous post as predictive text changed smurf to surfer!)

A copy of the book 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' edited by Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, and Amy Chandler. The front cover of the book depicts a person out at night, lit by the light from a lamppost and looking at posters pasted onto a brick wall that are in the style of the 'WANTED' posters famously associated with the Wild West era of American history. The word 'UNWANTED' has replaced the word 'WANTED'.

We started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection.

It is available as a free e-book and in paperback:

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...

Love this! Looking forward to hearing about it in October 😊

The core role of the university in society is the generational transmission of knowledge and rare skills. This has been already long forgotten by administrators who have prioritised rebranding universities as publicly-funded job-training centres in recent decades.

Will they never learn? Reorganisation of NHS structures and management rarely delivers expected benefits or savings, but instead caused ‘redisorganisation’, as @kieranwalshe.bsky.social David Hunter I wrote about for @bmj.com in 2001…. www.bmj.com/content/323/...

I often stay right by there, when I'm in Cambridge! Love Mill Road.

And isn't it glorious? ❤️

This is England. They don't hate. They don't rage. They don't riot. They stick together. This is England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Yup - just wall to wall brilliant stuff!

This is such a feel good thing.

There is NOTHING that's negative about this.

Let's just make the most of this feeling.

The lionesses are an absolute force.

England football team European Champions. All the players

It’s come home. Again.

She's SO brilliant. And so brilliantly confident. She's an inspiration for girls and women everywhere!

Go #Lionesses! So proud of the team, and to win on penalties. Love Chloe Kelly's pride, and confidence too. A win for England and for women!

Britain isn't broken We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand

More perspective from @samfr.bsky.social - Britain Isn't Broken

'72% thought the sentences for those convicted of rioting last year were either fair or not harsh enough... 87% said the people who cleaned up after the riots represent “the real Britain” '

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

Yep. I'm married to a clinical neuropschologist, so we regularly have the discussion about this issue!

I just skimmed it again now. 12 years later, it's still brilliant!

The science of human factors: separating fact from fiction Background Interest in human factors has increased across healthcare communities and institutions as the value of human centred design in healthcare becomes increasingly clear. However, as human facto...

It's here: qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/22/1... See Table 1!

As a human factors technique, it only really works if knowledge was the problem to begin with. Otherwise, it's pretty useless. There was a great paper on this about a decade ago. I'll try to dig it out...

Beautiful! Mine are all outside, and are cropping well, but not ripe yet...

New opinion piece in @bmj.com
by me and @janekohara.bsky.social: whither patient and staff voice in the NHS post-Dash? Decluttering the safety landscape is necessary but will NHS organisations listen to patients and staff without independent advocacy? www.bmj.com/content/390/...

I once could not submit a research funding bid because of some glitch between sites that I needed to link ahead of submission, due to the apostrophe. That was a stressful hour of my life (I only had about three hours ahead of the deadline!)

From a fellow apostrophe owner...solidarity 👊