Have you been given a woke badger fiver? Don’t submit to this intolerable affront! Send it to me and I will recycle it free of charge.

Hideous and unacceptable.

On international jazz impressions show tonight on outreach radio uk and on catch up, a review of 2025 releases, including music from Kokoroko, Brian Jackson, Florence Adooni, GoGo Penguin, Chip Wickham, The Circling Sun, Moses Yoofee Trio, Kassa Overall, Sven Wunder and Oreglo #jazz #jazzontheradio

Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.

On International jazz impressions tonight and on catch up, amazing music from Bird, Miles Davis, Kassa Overall, Audrey Powne, Gerry Mulligan, Dezron Douglas and Brandee Younger, Myele Manzanza, Yazz Ahmed, Mark Kavuma and Charles Stepney. #jazz #jazzontheradio

What do the immigration figures for the UK really show? Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974

What do the immigration figures for the UK really show?

Coming up at 10pm and on catch up, Show 12 🎷🎺🎇 on @outreachradiouk with music from: Guru, Donald Byrd, 4Hero, James Ngonda, Nikki Yanofsky, Fela Kuti, Chick Corea, Art Pepper and a new one from The Circling Sun. #jazz #internationaljazzimpressions

NHS calls for 200,000 new blood donors as supplies run low The health service issued an

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

Please donate if you can.

Coming up at 10pm and on catch up, music from Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Okvsho, Berlioz, Stan Tracey, Makaya McCraven, Young Disciples. Sonny Stitt, Jazztronik, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims, and a new track from Georgia Cecile. Boom
#jazzontheradio #jazz outreachradiouk

Coming up later at 10pm and on catch up, International Jazz Impressions, with music from Wayne shorter, Village of the Sun, GoGo Penguin, Hugh Masekela, Hiatus Kaiyote, Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, Yussef Dayes, Finn Rees, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Chet Baker. #jazz #jazzontheradio on Outreach Radio

Poem response to Starmer's Farage/Powell cosplay - full text in the link

Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Coming up at 10pm and on catch up, music from Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Ezra Collective, Courtney Pine, Roy Ayers, Incognito, Jairo Inagaki, and new tracks from Emma-Jean Thackray and Reid Hoyson!
#jazzontheradio #jazz Listen on Outreach Radio UK

Coming up on International Jazz Impressions at 10pm on outreachradiouk Music from Cymande, Jasmine Myra, JDilla, Freddie Hubbard. The Circling Sun, Ego Ella May, Miles Davis, Gilberto Gil, Oliver Nelson and a track from the latest Kamasi Washington album.
#jazzontheradio #jazz

Supporting medical science in the USA The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr, the Trump-appointed interim ...

Supporting medical science in the USA - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Farage:

"7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts".

Well here's another cold hard fact - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born.

The NHS would completely collapse without workers from abroad.

Chuck Feeney here who died in 2023.

A man who made an estimated €8 billion out of Duty Free and then gave it all away to make the world a better place.

A modest man too. Which is why you may never have heard of him.

www.forbes.com/sites/steven...

Photos of plastic rings from bottles & containers and birds with these caught over their beaks.

Thank you to Farmers Way for sharing these images reminding us to snip plastic rings on bottles and cans. We recently had a duck in the park caught like this which we caught and freed. But if can ve deadly. #SnipThoseRings

New paper published today in Digital Health
Howes et al (2024) The effectiveness of digital tools to maintain physical activity among people with a long-term condition(s): A systematic review and meta-analysis.
doi.org/10.1177/2055...

Our paper on the impact of living with multiple long-term conditions on everyday life: a qualitative evidence synthesis. The 'work' is not only around medications and healthcare use, it is also emotional & financial with lots of learning & adaptation
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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#MS at #Christmas!

Always loved a map. A visit to @stanfordstravel.bsky.social in London could take hours! Amazing to be able to browse sooooo many maps and travel books from around the world.

Why birdsong matters more than you think | Natalia Zielonka and Simon Butler Our natural soundscapes are falling silent as bird populations decline. To improve our lives, we must invest in conservation Imagine you’re walking across rolling hills that stretch for miles, with warm sunshine and the chirping of birds all around.…

Why birdsong matters more than you think | Natalia Zielonka and Simon Butler

58 Jazz Musicians Were Photographed for ‘Harlem 1958.' Only One Remains. (Gift Article) Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny Rollins, 94, looks back at the historic picture.

The New York Times just published an incredible interactive piece on the iconic 1958 photo of jazz & swing legends in Harlem. ✨

So much history woven together!

This link gets past the paywall:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#jazz #jazzsky #music #musicsky #jazzhistory #musichistory #harlem #nyc

Just a reminder:

All vaccines used in public health have been rigorously tested. Their benefits greatly outweigh their risks. While a few people have a medical reason for not taking vaccines, most people (and the population overall) will benefit. Doctors who claim otherwise are irresponsible.

Oddly enough, “stop running down the public services in which they work and stop hateful misinformation campaigns against them just for doing their jobs” does not feature as a proposed solution.

Time to write is a necessity, not a nice-to-have How a project for academics to carve out writing time has grown from ‘power hours’ to writing retreats, community, increased well-being and higher-quality papers

Great new article from colleagues about the importance of having time to write and some of the opportunities offered at Southampton to do so.
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/time-...

Democracy For Sale A survey into people's attitudes to the health of British politics from leading investigative journalists who write about lobbying and dark money

Worried about #ElonMusk buying his way into UK politics? Think we need to take money out of our democracy?

Help #DemocracyForSale's people-powered plan to #SafeguardDemocracy by taking this short survey: democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard Please share. Thanks!

Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric. It's been 84 years meme #AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD

Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:

We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!

We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.

Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.

Let's get into it!

This is an excellent piece.

@gillespeterson.bsky.social @worldwidefm.bsky.social
Great to see you on Bluesky
Loved the 6 Music show yesterday.

Hopefully see we out here on here too soon.