Right but Oxford and Cambridge are allowed to enter by college, not by university. Which is why I guess Manchester make this claim….not to say they would not be the winners anyway!

This must be one of joys of living in LA! Great to see new life springing up

Agree. I met Alice several times and she was always exceptionally kind and generous. Her work on hereditary ovarian cancer was an important contribution to the field. I hope there will be an appreciation in one the genetic epi journals.

Fair enough!

The duduk for Armenians!

A study published in JAMA found acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.

JAMA Deputy Editor Linda Brubaker, MD, MS, spoke with senior author Brian Lee, PhD, about the study’s findings. ja.ma/4nugLSF

Available in his Selected Poeems

Tony Harrison, the great Yorkshire poet, died a few days ago. Here’s one of my favourites.

Anyone else riding a vintage bike from Bell St Bikes? (located near London’s Paddington Station but out of business for years). I had my 1985 bike rebuilt recently by the great team at C and L cycles in Montreal, and it is riding like a dream. The BSB 400 logo is just about still visible.

@who.int remains committed to end AIDS in our lifetime, and calls on leaders to:

Embrace meaningful partnerships — esp. with people living with #HIV;
 
Support HIV research;
 
Prioritize HIV prevention;
 
Protect human rights;
 
Reject the politicization of science and scientific institutions.

“The principle of a tax-funded single-payer model is the most efficient and effective way of running a healthcare system.”

Canada won’t become the 51st US state – but could it join the EU? Donald Trump’s extraordinary threats have angered Canadians and Europeans, and the idea of a new kind of transatlantic alliance is gaining traction

Canada, the UK, and Ukraine all at once — after a Canuk enlargement, the EU would be the global economic powerhouse.
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The End Of The Day Song Karin Krog & Bengt Hallberg · Two Of A Kind · Song · 1982

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Happy Birthday to the great Norwegian singer Karin Krog!

ASHG Organizational Comment on FY 2026 President’s Budget Request President’s Proposed Budget Insufficient to Support Biomedical Research “Today, the Trump Administration released a proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2026 that cuts the National Institutes of Health (NI...

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What next? This is so out of control.

Yes. It could be a completely rational decision but in the current climate there is justified paranoia.

Agree Paul. But what was the process that led to this decision? Rational review or ideologically driven decision making? How can we know?

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

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Astral Weeks followed by Moondance seems a reasonable candidate!

ChatGPT chat interface. The prompt is “draw a pedigree illustrating second cousins” and the response is a nonsensical pedigree including sibling consanguinity between a pair of brothers

Reckon we still have a while before ChatGPT replaces genetic counselors

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Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡

Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

Cover of The Lancet, March 15, 2025 issue. Quote: “Although attention is understandably focused on issues of identity and sovereignty, Canada must not lose sight of the other issues at stake—not least, the integrity of its cherished universal health-care system.”

🆕 ‘Health in Canada: a pivotal political moment’

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Calling all healthcare providers and researchers! Join us at #BRCA 2025, the 10th International Symposium on Hereditary Breast and Ovarian #Cancer, from May 6-9th 2025
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From Tom Nichols in The Atlantic today—- Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy, the beginning of a long-term disaster that every American, every U.S. ally, and anyone who cares about the future of democracy will have to endure.

Musk is personally complicit in destroying scientific institutions and data and livelihoods. He is promoting dangerous disinformation and conspiracies. His comments have endangered at least one scientist personally.

"But look, we can't be political."