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Professor of Paediatrics and Evidence Synthesis at University of York / Hull-York Medical School, and Consultant in Paediatric Oncology, and proud Dad of grownups ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ (he/him)

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Magnificent

22.09.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m trying โค๏ธ

02.09.2025 17:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Torbrennan is life goals

02.09.2025 17:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Haerials

31.08.2025 11:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hantennae

31.08.2025 11:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hantlers

31.08.2025 11:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cartoon face with hair drawn into buns on either side at the top of the head

Cartoon face with hair drawn into buns on either side at the top of the head

What would you call the amazing bobbly bits of this hairstyleโ€ฆ poll in the comments to count via โ€œlikesโ€?

31.08.2025 11:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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3 persistent symptoms, 3 GP visits or 3 weeks of unexplained symptoms? We want #HealthcareProfessionals to consider: 'Could it be cancer?'

#ChildCancerSmart Dissemination Lead, @drbobphillips.bsky.social, explains more about our evidence-based approach.

๐Ÿ”— bit.ly/4lno0Kh

19.08.2025 08:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I still don't understand how ostensible experts are saying we're only a few years away from true AGI (or even superintelligence). Analytical AI/ML is ultimately just statistical modeling and analysis, and generative AI is just auto-correct amped up a bunch.

10.08.2025 02:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 133    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Today, weโ€™re launching #ChildCancerSmart alongside campaign ambassador @dramirkhangp.bsky.social - an evidence-based public and professional awareness campaign to improve #EarlyDiagnosis of cancer in children and teenagers aged up to 18 ๐Ÿฉต๐ŸŽ—๏ธ

Find out more at cclg.org.uk/childcancers...

07.08.2025 12:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

The bastards in this world are doing everything they can to destroy the arts and silence voices. Your support of Uncanny Magazine can mean a 12th year of the stories, poems, essays, interviews, podcasts, and covers that folks need. COMMUNITIES FIGHT THE DARKNESS TOGETHER, SPACE UNICORNS!

01.08.2025 18:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Are you a parent/carer of a young man who has had cancer?

We are keen to hear your views on a new resource designed to raise awareness of the ways in which cancer treatment can affect fertility.

Interested? Contact d.musson@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Please share!

28.07.2025 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a superb publication thatโ€™s very worth reading (and it makes the world a better place while itโ€™s doing it).

Subscribe for a year for less than the cost of a round in a city centre pub.

28.07.2025 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a blurred image of a woman dancing in a room Alt: Ozzy dancing

Worth remembering that one of Ozzy's last acts was to raise ยฃ104 million for charity

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need

#Ozzy

22.07.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Ryka Aoki, Mark Ayres, Jane Espenson, Hana Lee, Nilah Magruder, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Una McCormack

Ryka Aoki, Mark Ayres, Jane Espenson, Hana Lee, Nilah Magruder, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Una McCormack

We are SO CLOSE to funding Uncanny Magazine Year 12! Just look at the solicited essayists for next year! YOU WANT THIS TO HAPPEN, SPACE UNICORNS!! buff.ly/JkF7S7F

22.07.2025 14:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Shelf with a โ€œbook of pooโ€ book, a Disney cruises mug, a pin badge with โ€œItโ€™s Prof actuallyโ€ on it and a small pink painted watercolour of a smiling unicorn

Shelf with a โ€œbook of pooโ€ book, a Disney cruises mug, a pin badge with โ€œItโ€™s Prof actuallyโ€ on it and a small pink painted watercolour of a smiling unicorn

Unicorns hand painted add to a collection of priceless items #paedsrocks

21.07.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Weirdly, one of the best bits of being a teens cancer doctor is saying things like โ€œYour scan is really dull. Nothing medically exciting at all.โ€ before wishing them a (clinically) tedious time until we meet again.

21.07.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Funding to support Year 12 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!

70% funded. 20 days left.

Uncanny Magazine is on its way to another year of incredible storiesโ€”and Iโ€™ll be right there voicing them for your ears.

Help us keep the magic (and space unicorns) alive ๐Ÿฆ„

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17.07.2025 20:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Funding to support Year 12 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!

๐ŸŽ‰ Weโ€™re officially over halfway to our $50K goal! ๐ŸŽ‰
Thanks to everyone who's joined the journey so far. If you love sci-fi & fantasy, nowโ€™s the perfect time to jump in and help us cross the finish line to Uncanny Magazine Year 12!

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10.07.2025 21:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you're having a bad day, here's some otters on a water slide to make your day better #bluesky ... ๐Ÿ˜Š

08.07.2025 01:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4246    ๐Ÿ” 688    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 75    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53

Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! @kickstarter.com has made the Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Kickstarter a โ€œProject We Loveโ€! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

07.07.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Snail on a tarmac path. Looking supremely unconcerned by the world.

Snail on a tarmac path. Looking supremely unconcerned by the world.

The original version of van life.

07.07.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals - Episode 1 - The Hunt - BBC Sounds May 1945 and the leading Nazis have gone to ground all over Europe.

Even if youโ€™ve listened before, now might be a very good time to go through this series and remember the banality of evil, look out for it, and resist. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

05.07.2025 10:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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16.5 hours in and these guys are still going STRONG. Alternating between stitching and swimming they have rocked Splash and Stitch. Itโ€™s not too late to sponsor them and help us fund essential research into palliative care: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

21.06.2025 07:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you think it canโ€™t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

20.06.2025 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25902    ๐Ÿ” 8778    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 496    ๐Ÿ“Œ 270

Prof Cole makes stats meaningful, understandable, and has improved child research massively over the last decades

16.06.2025 19:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Tomatoes turning green to red

Tomatoes turning green to red

Growth and development

10.06.2025 20:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fascism is for losers.

08.06.2025 05:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 365    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Shifters with the Roll For Good crew was special and brilliant and couldnโ€™t have happened if you hadnโ€™t written it and GMd it โค๏ธ

06.06.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You need to point your QR at the opposite wall, do a cha cha slide, then pirouette while saying โ€œdividendโ€, and 1/5 times itโ€™s going to register.

03.06.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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