Dr Ruby Osborn

Quote from Eva Morris reading: The NHS holds uniquely rich data that, when linked and used effectively, can simply and efficiently identify missed cancers, improve training, and make diagnosis earlier and safer. We can, and should, be doing more with NHS data to save lives.

🔍Almost 70% of bowel cancers missed at colonoscopy are avoidable

This study creates the first national system for identifying post-colonoscopy colorectal cancers and understanding why they arise ➡️ buff.ly/kmsoxGh

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs

I'm not sure how many of our nation's problems can be traced back to a lack of volunteers cutting oranges at local football matches, but then I'm not in government...

Traditionally players get oranges slices at half-time of football matches (I imagine professionals get something far more sports-tech-y these days)

george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh

Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.

As if I couldn’t love him more, Ncuti Gatwa trying to explain Ribena to his American co-star is the joy we all need in the world today.
You’re welcome.

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.

Sheffield but parents are from London, English, meow

According to the floorplans there's a laboratory in the basement, so add horror/sci-fi to the list

And if they do need to see your documents in person you have a week to present them at a police station.

Obviously the answer to this question is no, but more importantly, I will not take a question like this seriously until it is demonstrated to me that the makers of LLM technology, and their boosters in business and the media, have even the slightest concern for the suffering of actual human beings.

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

Panels one and two: Two white mice make their way through a maze. Panel three: Having completed the maze, the two mice are rewarded with some fruit. Two scientists watch them. One says: “Poor little things: all that thought and effort just to earn themselves a little treat.” The second scientist looks at a clock and says: “Coffee time!” Panels four and five: The two scientists make their way through a maze of corridors to a door marked “Canteen” Panel six: The scientists look at the food on offer. One says: “Ooh, Donuts!”

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Oh yes, it was the full one! Great episode as always

Will there be a longer version? I can only see a 28min episode.

screenshot of a chat showing five voicenotes totalling around 4.5 minutes

message screenshots "Omg yay it's lesson time" "We don't take nearly enough advantage of having a science communicator as a friend 😅" "Thank you Ruby, that actually makes sense now!"

When the group chat asks you to explain a science news story 😁

I have one! Checked all 18 of my d4s and this is the only one

If only there were a clinically proven, totally safe way to prevent diseases like measles…

Various stats from our recent sector footprint infographic. £1.6 billion was invested by AMRC charities in UK medical research in 2024 (pie chart showing AMRC: £1.6bn, NIHR: £1.3bn and MRC: £0.9bn. Over 25,000 researcher salaries were funded by AMRC charities in 2024, including 9000+ early career researchers. 80% of AMRC charity research grants were awarded to UK universities in 2024. 1,212 clinical studies or trials in the UK were funded by AMRC charities in 2024. 1,216 research posts in the NHS were funded by 79 AMRC charities in 2024, including doctors, nurses and midwives.

Our annual infographic showcases the collective impact of our members and their incredible support for UK medical research.

AMRC charities invest in universities and the NHS, as well as supporting the R&D workforce from the earliest stages of their careers: shorturl.at/hocmR #CharityImpact

Small but Mighty – and honestly, just such a good day 💥 | Reena Morjaria Small but Mighty – and honestly, just such a good day 💥 I went to AMRC’s annual Small but Mighty workshop yesterday, it only happens once a year (this was the second one) but it’s already one of my f...

It's #SmallCharityWeek!

Last week we had the pleasure of bringing our #SmallbutMighty charities together at a workshop where they were able to talk, reflect and compare notes.

You can read all about it in this wonderful post from Reena Morjaria (@bowelcanceruk.bsky.social): shorturl.at/6luGj

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

A canvas tote bag, pen, lanyard and pinbadge all in BCUK branding (teal, dark teal and yellow star), and a printed copy of the BCUK Roadmap for Research strategy

Getting set up for our first Bowel Cancer UK Research Together Day! Excited to get our research grant holders together in person to share their projects and how we can best work together 💙

Black and white portrait of Charles Darwin seated and looking off to the left. He has a long, white beard, and is wearing a suit.

Photo from Darwin's notebook, with a sketch of an evolutionary tree and the words "I think" above it.

#OnThisDay in 1856, Charles Darwin noted in his journal, "began...writing species sketch." This "sketch" would form the base of his book On the Origin of Species. 🏺 🧪

Today's performative clampdown on migrants will gut our care homes of desperately needed staff.

We are *already* short of over 150k carers.

Banning foreign care workers will only exacerbate this - increasing suffering of society's most vulnerable members & pressures on the NHS.

It's madness.