Dr Susie Henley

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

No. It isn’t “absolutely right”
These protests are the result of endless disinformation and a wholly prejudiced debate on immigration as well as govts’ refusal to take responsibility for their own failure to support communities, clear the backlogs and argue firmly for the benefits of immigration.

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP

This is the important bit: float to live. Teach your children this.

How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️

In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

North Lawndale Art Center Offering Weekly Summer Programs Through September Saturday’s workshop at the Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center will feature African drumming and storytelling. Following weeks will focus on clay face mask making and a musical jam session.

A West Side art center highlighting stories of social justice and the work of Black women artists is offering free programs all summer.

UK sickle cell patients ‘get worse care than sufferers of similar disorders’ Study commissioned by NHS finds that sickle cell disease care lags behind that for conditions such as cystic fibrosis People living with sickle cell disease face substandard care as its treatment significantly lags behind advances relating to other genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis, a report has found. The study, commissioned by the NHS Race and Health Observatory and carried out by researchers at Imperial College London, analysed various measures of care for sickle cell disease between 2010 and 2024, including clinical trials, approved drugs and reviews of existing studies. Continue reading...

UK sickle cell patients ‘get worse care than sufferers of similar disorders’

Reading all the responses is an excellent way to start the day. Also, we have a winner:
Whoever is running the passport office should clearly be knighted and put in charge of running the country.

Policymakers who think AI can help rescue flagging UK economy should take heed | Heather Stewart Healthy scepticism is needed because flaw is that large language models remain prone to casually making things up

‘“because the models are not set up to solve problems, or to reason, but to predict the most plausible-sounding sentence based on the reams of data they have hoovered up, a better word for their factual hiccups is not “hallucinations” but “bullshit”.’

#AI

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Two things almost everyone misunderstands about AI:

1) They can't visit a particular web page, so it's useless pasting a URL into the chat.

2) They know nothing reliable about how they themselves work.

But because they've been designed to please, they are likely to hallucinate answers to 1 and 2.

Cancer Research UK today published a report which highlights changes in cancer survival rates over the last 50 years.

Many headlines (like this one from the Guardian) have chosen to report the ‘doubling of cancer survival rates’ since the 1970s.

But that's misleading...

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Thank you - interested to know if research is looking into whether tech like AVT has a negative impact on clinical outcome ever? Do we lose clinical insights into our patients if we only edit AI summaries of consults and haven't had to think through the issues to write them in the first place?

How to Expect the Unexpected | Cheltenham Festivals From predicting economic downturns to preventing terrorist attacks, we’ve been making predictions since the dawn of humanity. But for as long as we’ve been

I’m excited to be speaking at this year’s #CheltSciFest (3-8 June 2025)

Tickets are on sale now: www.cheltenhamfestiv...

View the full line-up here: www.cheltenhamfestiv...

@cheltfestivals

Lib Dems launch ‘Reform watch’ to monitor party in local government Exclusive: Ed Davey says Labour and Tories too scared of Reform threat to hold Nigel Farage’s party to account

Liberal Democrats will be holding Reform’s feet to the fire and standing up for our communities.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Brain and Climate Change, a powerful new short film from @futureneuro.bsky.social, RCSI and @ilae-epilepsy.bsky.social explores how rising temperatures impact brain function and why it matters for those living with neurological conditions.

Watch the trailer below ahead of the 19 May launch ⬇️

An open package, with a handwritten message from the company that says "Remember, you are capable of amazing things ..." next to a stick figure holding a red heart-shaped balloon.

I'm boycotting a large online retailer so I ordered a gift from www.sensorytoys.co.uk - it cost a little more, and took a little longer to arrive, than its big competitor, and it was so very worth it 😊

3) Please sign my petition here: www.alexbrewer.uk/campaigns/re...

This. I rely on our service managers, IT team, HR, OH, cleaners, security, and others so much. And we need more support with our new electronic patient record system whilst we're on the subject ...

After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵

A study investigating building design approaches that promote health and wellbeing in #dementia care environments is looking for participants. 

Read More: buff.ly/1KXdg6x

Hey! I really felt the weight of everything last week, and I wanted a way to talk through it... so I've been working on (maybe the first???) choose your own adventure game set up directly *in* Bluesky. And here it is!

Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me?

Enter the garden.

Loved this, thank you. I'm going to come back tomorrow and walk a different route through it ⚘️🌳

Ijaz Hussain, grandson of WW2 veteran Sgt Mohammad Hussain, conveyed this message from his grandfather:
“Unity it is what enabled us to defeat Germany in 1945, despite our differences in background - so we must reject efforts to divide people today”

Print looking up to tbe sky at the silhouette of a large bird as it flies in the gap of the canopy of a forest

'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary UK artist and printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt

A banner saying "One team, many nationalities" and listing around 80 places staff at the hospital come from around the world

Lovely to see @frimleyhealth.bsky.social celebrating the cultural and geographical diversity of their staff - and the ones I met this morning were wonderful

RSPCA East Winch Wildlife Centre needs salt to help treat seals The charity says a tonne of salt is used by a wildlife centre every few days to treat the animals.

Salt wanted urgently to help treat injured seals.

Can you help ?

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No One Left Behind: Anti-racist Healthcare Conference 2025 Defining the priority actions and quality solutions needed to ensure the highest quality care for all.

📣 Due to high demand, we have released additional delegate places for our anti-racist healthcare conference on 15 May in London.

☑️ Hear from over 20 speakers and campaigners
☑️ Attend interactive breakout sessions
☑️ Discuss challenges, key actions & solutions

Don't miss out 👇

We're proud to announce a webinar with the author of Minority Ethnic Voices in Healthcare Professions, Heena Mahmood, taking place on 12th May 2025.

To register,visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...

The webinar is open to all, so please share & forward to colleagues & networks

#NHSMuslimWomen

We have a lovely full-time permanent 8a #psychologist job in our #Haematology service @gstt-nhs.bsky.social .
We are friendly & value diversity & creativity. This varied role includes outpatient, inpatient, MDT, supervision, audit & service development - and it could be yours! #psychologyjobs