Trish Greenhalgh

Aaah. I thought it was just me!

I aspire to exude as much confidence as this little Kinesin protein strutting along a microtubule while hauling intracellular cargo.

Look at that little guy go! 🔬🧪

VERY BAD

wait, so if they don't collect the data on measles cases, they keep their elimination status? (!!!)

Why Sustainability in Health Care Cannot Be Implemented: From Implementation Failure to Ongoing Mediation Guest Talk by Prof Eivind Engebretsen Sustainability in health care is widely framed as a problem of implementation: policies are designed, evidence is assembled, and failure is diagnosed when action...

Looking forward to this guest talk tomorrow by @eivinden.bsky.social for our MSc students, part of the Sustainability in Healthcare module. Join in person or online

www.lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/events/view/...

No but looks like they tested the female partners of pregnant women. I'm still unconvinced.

cute green leaf slug

As the world hurtles towards geopolitical crisis, my marine biologist son sends photo of an underwater leaf slug from Fiji to wish us calm.

Ha, it's a non peer reviewed abstract!

I’m sure not. The embryo is tiny. It all looks like an artefact.

Pregnant women's brains shed grey matter to prime them for motherhood, study suggests It is time to move beyond the “baby brain” cliche, say scientists who scanned dozens of women’s brains.

The Incredible Shrinking Brain of the Mother-To-Be. Please do your stuff, feminist BlueSky. 🧪

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

TIL about a large number of operators/tools that can be used to make Google searches much more focused and productive
🧪 #philsci

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

The key evidence base is the bit about people not sticking to their exercise routine.And the snakes obvs.

If I ever try it, I’ll let you know!

Oh sure. But I use these people as a warning. And as an example to newbies: this is a troll, here’s how to call them out.

Well hello troll. I stand by my statement. Bring your evidence and refute it.

Fantastic lecture, recommend! 🧪 #academicsky

Bless. I just did a review for JAMA on a paper (about the very latest developments in medical technology) and was asked to update my details. Apparently I need to supply my FAX NUMBER.

I’ve seen some bizarre exercises online. If I were an influencer, this is the one workout I’d recommend | Devi Sridhar Forget snake yoga. All it takes to increase your life expectancy is factoring a set of simple exercises into your weekly routine, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the Universit...

Sensible, evidence based advice here from Devi.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed and his body has been found, reports Reuters, citing Israeli media reports.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/s9152d

hey how did you do that awesome frog?

pal in Doha says there have been bangs but these are from missiles being intercepted

Opinion | Why Have You Started This War, Mr. President?

Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...

The New York Times has released a satellite image showing damage to a compound in Tehran reportedly linked to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following a missile strike. His current whereabouts remain unknown.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/d0rujr

Researchers praise ‘stunning’ results of new prostate cancer treatment Early trials of the drug VIR-5500 showed it shrinking tumours in some patients

This trial looks very promising of a new type of immunotherapy for cancer that shrunk prostrate tumours 🧪🧵

Have I got this right? Farage bemoaning the Greens win as a result of "family voting" means he thinks loads of Muslim women wanted to vote Reform but their husbands stopped them 😂

Starmer, son of toolmaker: we can win in G&D
Hannah, actual plumber: hold my wrench

What we have seen in Gorton and Denton is what we saw in Caerphilly in October.

A lot of people really don’t want the hateful politics of Reform and will work hard and smart to try and keep them out.

Labour must now listen to this and stop the grim attempts to mimic Farage.

Also deserving of some praise: tactical voting websites. #gortondenton

Gorton and Denton by-election result:

GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)

Green GAIN from Labour.