Ross Bailey

I should say: cutting US funding for Gavi is a tragically misguided decision that can and should be reversed.

First, jab more babies As aid shrinks, donors and recipients should focus more on health

"As aid gets less generous, policymakers will have to decide what matters most. Jabbing babies is a good place to start"

www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Dude, She’s (Exactly 25 Percent) Out of Your League A massive new study finds everyone dates aspirationally—and offers seven other lessons about digital romance.

I'd like to understand their desirability ranking more but this article on what big data analysis shows on millions of dating messages is both fascinating and kinda predictable.

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

I do think the trend slightly ignores that we read masses more of short articles/blogs/tweets and that reduces need to read 280 page single issue books but broadly agree otherwise.

At UN, Trump's domestic policies enter international arena US voted against a series of resolutions at the UNGA that support development and diversity

Wow, the US no longer affirms the Sustainable Development Goals?

What fresh hell is this??

www.voanews.com/a/at-un-trum...

USAID official dismissed after detailing ‘failure’ to give lifesaving aid Nicholas Enrich, USAID’s acting assistant administrator for global health, said that “political leadership” has resulted in an unknown number of deaths — and in tallying the impact, he estimated milli...

We seem to have now moved onto the stage that reporting on the impact of cuts is now a dismissal act.

The willful cruelty of this destruction of USAID is staggering.

www.devex.com/news/usaid-o...

That's the level I am working up to! Hope you are keeping well otherwise.

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Tried three posts about the situation with UK aid. They took on subjects such as diminished trust in the UK populus, the power of the right wing media and my fears for massive disease resurgence showing we've learnt nothing from Covid-19.

But just going to post this synopsis of my general mood.

Super pleased with what our team and our partners have done with this work. Chimamanda and the young people in this video are telling an important story of how malaria holds back lives.

Give a bit support and repost this if you like it (not least as I need to show folks that BlueSky is real !!)

clever campaigning by the TUC here

a line that could age so horrendously that you're almost rooting for it

They are in the NHS and Home office which worries me a lot more.

Digital Solutions Help Catch and Contain Outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by The Global Fund Français Deutsch The Kinshasa-based National Centre for Epidemiological Intelligence seems a world away from the mega city’s notoriously chaotic streets.Although unassuming from the outside, this building...

Love this new piece by the Global Fund and DRC ministry of health on how the fund is supporting better disease surveillance through digitising workflows

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

Just as WHO is under attack, Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

www.science.org/content/arti...

In Myanmar, healthcare and disease prevention are neglected casualties of war Junta restrictions on the delivery of basic medical supplies are leading outbreaks of infectious diseases like tuberculosis, and even HIV, to soar.

The military junta’s restrictions on basic medical supplies has led to increased outbreaks of diseases like malaria, while mosquito nets sit in warehouses awaiting distribution: ⬇️

Trump suspends US foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews President Donald Trump has signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals...

Trump suspends U.S. foreign aid for 90 days, saying aid is “antithetical to American values” and serves to “destabilize world peace.”

apnews.com/article/trum...

Pham on PEPFAR in 2016:

"Even some of the best-intentioned efforts, like [PEPFAR]...while lifesaving for the more than eight million people currently supplied with anti-retroviral treatments, and obviously popular abroad, are simply unsustainable"

F***

Can someone start up a website that tracks all of the I TOLD YOU SO MOMENTS that will happen over the next 4 years? Thanks.

Today, the global gag rule is expected to go back into effect

"The harm of the gag rule to reproductive health is far-reaching and long-lasting"

www.guttmacher.org/report/evide...

Excellent idea

For any new BlueSky joiners lamenting the lack of bookmarks, try deck.blue. It's a great client and allows you to separate between likes and bookmarks.

C'mon @bsky.app tho' - how hard can it be to bring bookmark functionality into the platform !!

No, not yet. And yes, it would take that level of figure tbh. I imagine we won't see them until some folks retire realistically.

There is one for the UK that goes deep into the detail of how legsilation was brough through but it's written from quite a specific perspective !!

HI BlueSky hive mind. I'd like to read a book on the big picture behind global health response to Covid-19. Also open to somethign more specifically focusedon UK govt response. Be grateful for any recommendations !!

Sharing because this is

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2) Shamelessly - I'm in it .....
3) Love that lists are making a come back. My concerns with Elon are myriad but suspect i'm in the few thousand who also find it very annoying that he killed free Tweetdeck and thus made lists almost pointless

Starting to make headway with using Notebook LM for my work. Somewhat surprised that it can't work with Excel - surely that's the easiest form of data to understand and respond to queries on ?

I don't massively get the difference between starter packs and lists tbh. But being on others starter packs seems to be quite important to growing a following.

Btw, if you get a lot of spam followers at start, BlueSky are working quite hard to stop this.

For those INGO twitter refugees who have been waiting, Duncan Green arrives .... bsky.app/profile/dunc...

This Is the Best Way to Find People to Follow on Bluesky Bluesky might be the new Twitter, but without an algorithm, it can be hard to find people to follow there. That's where Bluesky Directory, a searchable database of more than 45,000 starter packs, can ...

@duncangreenlse.bsky.social hi Duncan. Welcome to BlueSky.

I've been using DeckBlue which is similar to the old tweetdeck and allows really good list viewing and bookmarks.

Here's a good article on finding individuals

lifehacker.com/tech/best-wa...

This is an incredibly good article. It's well worth a read.

If you were wondering when the 21st century started, it's probably really aroudn now.