Anne Marie Cunningham
@amcunningham.bsky.social
GP, Digital health. Living in the Mournes in Co. Down with Chris and Bonny the sprocker. Working for a sustainable, equitable society. Always learning. Previously 20 years in lovely Wales :-)
Heard the @thenewsagents.co.uk comments and was taken aback.. Good to see this rebuttal
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 6d ago🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.
oh so a while back I used to run these fun interviews with MPs for Parliament's in-house magazine - did one with John Healey, which I really enjoyed at the time, and you may like also: www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
There's a tattooed child dressed as an elf who is completely killing any sort of atmosphere or energy. What is going on?
Familiar to Chelsea fans: a Tuchel side sitting very deep for the last 10. Unfamiliar to Chelsea fans: Enzo having that many shots on target.
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Prob the main thing on lots of people's minds re: AI just now is "is it making me more stupid?" Am having regular conversations about that with nearly everyone I have a work meeting with. (The answer is: probably, yes.) With that in mind, is fascinating to sit in the barbers and watch them at work
It is a universal truth that if you want to know how things are actually going at a by-election count, find the Liberal Democrat huddled over a laptop entering data.
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2mo ago(The by-election cheat code is always to ask the parties who aren’t in contention - but who are sampling - to give you the real story)
The right-wing arsonists claim that violence is spiralling because of migrants. That is a lie. On every single measure, violence has steeply fallen in Britain over the last 20 years.
You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.
This might feel a bit after the fact - who talks about COVID response now? - but I wanted to record the story of the team who built our vaccination software for Wales #fundteamsnotprojects open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin...
The Team Was the Infrastructure
How Wales built its COVID vaccination system.
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A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.
What is healthy life expectancy and why has it fallen? open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin... I built an interactive dashboard
What the data tells us about why healthy life expectancy has fallen in the UK
Data analysis with Claude (of course)
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Tradeoffs are already happening in healthcare but some are not so visible open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin...
We need to talk about opportunity cost
The trade-offs are already happening. The question is whether we can see them.
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The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.
Down may have lost today but here's a great piece by Peter Makem about their 1st All-Ireland win in 1960. It's absolutely brilliant. www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...
When Down’s 1960 All-Ireland victory brought down barriers
Protestants and Catholics travelled to Croke Park and celebrated side-by-side in Newry
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@robdykedotcom.bsky.social @helensalisbury.bsky.social @amcunningham.bsky.social @bengoldacre.bsky.social @doctorow.pluralistic.net There is an open letter keepthingsopen.com Please share and sign - let's send a strong message.
An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.
Code paid for with public money should, by default, be open to the public.
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Marcus Baw@marcusbaw.com · 3mo ago#NHSEngland in the act of showing how little their leaders really understand #Cybersecurity, #technology, or #opensource. Sure, hide the source code. Break all kinds of stuff. You know that #Mythos doesn't need the source code to find a vulnerability, right? www.newscientist.com/article/2524...
Had a couple of interactions in last couple of weeks (one with @amcunningham.bsky.social ) which reminded me how much I used to like the bird place so I thought I’d try dropping in here a bit. So hello! I have a new puppy
Not a win for the UK....paying more for drugs :-(
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible.
Stick it in a massive Excel spreadsheet, stick that in PowerBI, generate a map with heatmapping. There you go, saved you £15,000,000, with probably <1hr of a competent tech's time. It'd take probably 15 extra mins of finding it and adding it to add in demographics and all other useful stuff too.
The Register@theregister.com · 4mo agoUK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown
Oh my days ...Craig just saved £150m
Craig@craig.nikolic.co.uk · 4mo agoMaking a brew before a meeting, so decided to have a go while brewing. This took me 5 mins to get Feb 2026 data from the data.police.uk website, stick into PowerBI, and add a filter. This is all crime reports with weapons in Suffolk with a heatmap filter. 2nd pic is zoomed in a bit and all crimes.
Always good to see scientists replicating previous famous findings.
New essay: Why hospitals always get bailed out. A Hungarian economist already knew. A French sociologist explains why. And it turns out they were both reading the same German. amcunningham72.substack.com/p/why-hospit...
Fighting deprivation requires 2 things mainly: a long term plan, and significant investment in that long term plan. That's why nothing ever happens
Jay@jaycoyle.bsky.social · 4mo agoHeavily invest in deprived areas. Education, facilities, drug rehabilitation, housing etc. and you reduce crime. It requires a lot of investment and a lot of time and there are precious few votes in it. Which is why we are where we are.
