Ben Furber

**Waves**

that's silly, it's not going to work, trains are too fast for that

The most important thread on Bluesky.

I'm perhaps naively hopeful that big news stories about AI hallucinations wiil make more people check sources.

But wouldn’t the state of ED be improved if primary care and secondary care had the resources they needed? Emergency is just caught trying to pick up the slack. (Sorry about your experience.)

What can you tell me about your training schedule? Maybe there’s something in your pre-season practices that could help your match game performance?

We asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to respond to the opinion "Working with organised crime to improve health: a modest proposal" from our #BMJChristmas Issue 2025.

Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Advancing migration policy requires intersectoral collaboration Governments need to ensure meaningful inclusion of the health sector Migrant integration, asylum policy, and immigration border control remain at the centre of political and public debates. Policies ...

Advancing migration policy requires intersectoral collaboration.

“[Migrant] worker protections are absent from national preparedness and response plans.”

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Screenshot of an article The Clinical Teacher / Volume 23, Issue 1 / e70315 RESEARCH Article 🔒 Open Access Investigating Death by PowerPoint: Do Medical School Lecturers Adhere to the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning in Their Slide Design? Rajin Le Blanc, Nicola Cooper First published: 10 December 2025

First ever research publication!

Ever been bored to tears by walls of slide text? Then this is for you.

I have no shame - please share widely.

(Thanks to @profnicolacooper.bsky.social for her support as co-author.)

#MedSky #MedEd #EdSky

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International migrant workers, heat exposure, and climate change: a systematic review of health risks and protective interventions - BMC Global and Public Health Background International migrant workers, representing 170 million people globally, often face hazardous working conditions, including extreme heat exposure. These increase their risk of occupational ...

My first publication credit!

A great paper from Lara, et al on identifying the health risks associated with occupational heat exposure among international migrant workers.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Not the bit where they’re at the top of a skyscraper but there’s no wind?

I went to THE IMAX to see this hoping it was going to be so bad it was good. And occasionally it was, but mostly I was bored.

Have you picked the perfect colour for the numbers on the screen and/or how angry are you that you have to spell colour incorrectly?

Wait until you get into code design theories later on. It’s a whole world of art pretending to be science.

Pre-geriatrics?

Med school achievement of the week: I can definitely probably spell pneumonia right on the first try now.

Very chuffed the distinction for my Global Health MSc from @citystgeorges.bsky.social has finally been ratified. A lot of hard work went into that and it was a perfect year easing back into education.

Very excited for Philip Pullman's The Rose Field to be released later this week. Though considering the amount of tears I've shed for Lyria over the years, I'm also pretty apprehensive that this really could be the end of her story.

You did great!

I would bet that most boards agree and have something like this at the same ‘should do’ level as 50 other things. My concern is that it falls for the same efficiency traps @samfr.bsky.social highlights in the article. Comms tech improvements have to be triaged like everything else.

On the edge My week in the NHS

A great article here from @samfr.bsky.social on his recent NHS experience. I’ve been wondering how staff could feel these kind of challenges for themselves. Following patients (rather than be based in departments) would be valuable experience for us.
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A LOT of time in tech is spent on ‘quick wins’ or ‘low hanging fruit’ like this. One problem I experienced with this approach is that there’s often a systemic reason a specific thing is weird/wrong so you end up fighting for something less valuable rather than tackling the fundamental problems.

I was VERY annoyed this morning to learn that, on second watch, one of my professor's lectures is much more reasonable in terms of content, detail and context than I felt it was a few weeks ago.

Damn you, Professor A, don't you know I've got feels of inadequacy to misplace as frustration at you!

I'm on reddit so much less for this exact reason!

For a Sunday morning especially, some thinking was required to appreciate this, but I’m glad I invested in that 30 seconds. Thanks.

@stevensenior.bsky.social Social determinants of health klaxon. Clinical skills on cardiovascular risks.

One thing I love about the Traitors is you really get a very profound insight into a country culture, and we really do love to kill the clever ones.

Screenshot from BMA email. Says: "Dear Medical student, We all know that being professional is an essential part of studying and practicing medicine. However, students across the UK have told us that they feel professionalism standards can be weaponised against them. We’ve heard from many peers whose confidence is negatively impacted by the misuse of professionalism and fitness to practice standards by medical schools. Some students even feel unable to raise concerns for fear of reprisal."

Na. I show up on time to the things I'm asked to attend and don't talk over others - seems to do the trick.

A large yellow van, bearing the words RUBBISH TAXI.

Yeah, it doesn’t look quite right as cabs go, but this is no way to boost its confidence.