Professor Ruth Parry

I’m trying to decide if I‘ve accidentally taken acid, or if it’s reality itself that’s breaking down.

COVID 💉age criteria:

💉65+
Of these 9 countries, 8 recommend COVID-19 vaccination for all aged 65 and above:
✔️United States
✔️France
✔️Canada
✔️Australia
✔️New Zealand
✔️Japan
✔️Germany (technically 60+)
✔️Italy (60+)

💉75+
Only one country of these 9 recommends COVID-19 vaccination for 75 and above:
❌UK

When the Words Don't Work "Now the words don’t work, they just make things worse - but I know I’ll hear some sense again.” by "The Actual Nerve Of It"

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Really excellent essay

Brexit benefits keep on coming. #wato

A family member of mine who started out merely as a rather extreme clean eating fan has turned conspiracy theorist thanks to that dangerous idiot.
I know she’s one of many

‘Who voted for this?’: Why the migration debate needs more honesty, and a plan Labour promises cuts to migration – but without a plan, care homes, hospitals and families will suffer

Labour promises cuts to migration – but without a plan, care homes, hospitals and families will suffer.

By The Bear

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Ineligible, inept and unspeakable Reform UK Ltd’s councillors, are already proving they are unfit or unwilling to serve

🔥 "The Reform company, sorry party, has already seen four of their new cohort announce that they can’t or won’t represent them in the council chamber, decisions that in some cases will cost local government tens of thousands of pounds."

Bosses of hospitals that spend too much or treat too few will not get pay rise Health secretary instigates ‘carrot and stick’ policy for England that will award bonuses for cutting waiting times

Bosses of England hospitals that spend too much or treat too few will not get pay rise.

Populist claptrap, not real analysis.

NHS lacks capacity, staff.

Discharging patients prematurely and subsequent readmission boosts treatment stats but is dangerous and achieves nothing.

Fund the NHS.

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A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

It's a squalid contribution that's doing incalculable damage to the quality of the debate and to people who have chosen to make their homes here.

He still said immigration caused incalculable damage. Which is, to put it mildly, a surprising thing for a Labour leader, and leading human rights lawyer, to say.

I've only been speaking English since 2004 or so, but "incalculable damage" and "squalid" are not positive words when referring to immigrants, right?

It’s the “could be heard as” that is the key thing.
Abstract analysis interesting. But what’s actually key is how meaning and understanding work in real world interactions
Potential hearings of what he said include the Enoch Powell connection. He and speech writers know that.
#EMCA

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...

But you literally are an integral part of ‘the government’

#EMCA
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Sino Nasal Outcome Test
SNOT-22
Well played #ENT researchers
Best outcome measure acronym ever
Rehab has things like the FIS and the FIM.
Do share if you know anything you think beats the SNOT
@clinicalrehab.bsky.social
@mancunianmedic.bsky.social
@trishaelliott.bsky.social
#MedicalBSky

Sir Keir Starmer in Albania to tackle 'revolving door' of migration Working with officials in Albania is seen as a success story in stopping migration at source, partly due to the actions of the previous Conservative government which Sir Keir will build on.

Waves hand from the back 👋: "You can only call the Albanian returns deal a "success" if you ignore how it created a shift in routes, increased exploitation and embedded the cycle of human trafficking".

Starmer should be scrapping the deal not expanding it.

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“The NHS has one of the lowest levels of capital intensity in the OECD, with just 2,300 hospital beds per million people- 2000 fewer than OECD average-and a backlog of £13.8 billion in maintenance, including £2.7 billion deemed ‘high risk’.”
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Cecilia Paredes, Peruvian photographer noted for her images of camouflaged bodies against patterned surfaces #WomensArt #Tuesday

This advice also applies to position statements and skeleton arguments

Signs of dementia or normal forgetfulness? How to tell the difference Some memory lapses are nothing to worry about, but getting help for early warning signs can reduce the risk of them progressing

Err… hello… @theguardian.com … a whole article on when to worry about forgetfulness and you forgot to include even one mention of (peri)menopausal brain fog, which more than half of all women suffer from? Help for that sort of brain fog is available, and women should know they can ask for it.

Ordinary, law-abiding, clever, compassionate women who are regularly insulted & intimidated by angry men (whether in woman-face/dress or not) don’t deserve employers and colleagues deludedly pandering and fawning to aggressive / entitled men via their communications
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Woman's Hour - Eni Aluko, For Women Scotland, An Army of Women documentary, Bad Friends. - BBC Sounds Susan Smith of For Women Scotland, with her reflections on the UK Supreme Court’s ruling.

Absolute cracker of an interview with @ForWomenScot Director Susan Smith. First item.
Better late than never I suppose but how much better would this have been if the powers that be had listened to women from the get go.
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Britain wakes up every day, aims the gun at its feet and pulls the trigger. Just a prolonged exercise in meanspiritedness and self-harm.