BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
Paul Dijkstra
@drpauldijkstra.bsky.social
Sport and exercise medicine physician; DPhil Evidence-Based Health Care
Waiting for the WHO tweet “FACT: plague is not airborne; keep washing hands”. (Plague is airborne)
My new paper, just out: Interrogating Evidential Pluralism: A Critical Comparison of Approaches to Incorporating Mechanisms in Evidence Synthesis #philippic philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/arti...
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Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
"We watched it on TV. And it's like, 'That's our son. That's Alex. And they killed him' ... trying to help someone" -- Alex Pretti's dad
Donald Trump signed an executive order this week that will require the MMR vaccine to be delivered in separate doses. US policies are making a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases inevitable www.bmj.com/content/394/...
Ah yes, that fully objective, unassailable scientific instrument: the randomised controlled trial. I’m joking of course. But look how “EBM” is the cover for this scam. Via @jvipondmd.bsky.social
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew reporting reveals Ohio Republican Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to. This scheme boosted Ramaswamy's company stock price and generated a $1.4 B IPO, where he then cashed out before the stock tanked.
A potential environmental disaster is unfolding off Oman, where a grounded tanker is leaking sanctioned Russian crude oil in a protected marine area. The tanker carrying about 1 million barrels of oil has created an oil slick estimated at 2,000 square kilometres.
GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy says Donald J. Trump’s executive order on vaccines is “wrong.” “I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The President does not have the expertise to make these changes. Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.”
“Fauci has devoted more than 50 years to public service, leading NIAID and the US through the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the 2001 anthrax attacks, SARS, pandemic influenza, Ebola, Zika, & other infectious disease threats.” Thanks @gavinyamey.bsky.social for honouring this hero. www.bmj.com/content/394/...
Fauci’s Senate hearing riled up the MAGA base—but at the cost of damaging public health
The vilification of Anthony Fauci by Senate Republicans will erode trust in science, curtail international research collaborations, and deter scientists and health experts from entering public service...
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Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.
Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says
LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance
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Devolving power in the NHS is long overdue. UK has the most centralised, top-down health service in the world. Thanks Nuffield for this timely paper! #healthpolicy
Nuffield Trust@nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 3mo agoBurnham has promised to “take power out” of Downing Street and devolve more power to local areas. But how should the new Health Secretary navigate bringing the devolution agenda to the #NHS? Read our blog 👇
No. Someone did a TINY trial on 47 overweight people, 26 of whom had restricted eating hours. They presented their non peer reviewed findings at a conference. Science journalists who should know better bigged up the press release. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Restricted eating hours may reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find
Preliminary study shows older people who avoided food four hours before bed did better in problem solving tests
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Go see Life Support. Healthcare workers bearing witness to genocide in Gaza. #medsky lifesupportfilm.co.uk
Life Support – The Film
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Nothing Andy Burnham does will work unless he bins Brexit and applies to rejoin at least the EU's Single Market. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
I don’t know why this post doesn’t give his name, but it’s Jo Nagai. This is a true story. medium.com/@zehraanjum2...
How a 10-Year-Old Boy’s Butterfly Experiment Silently Rewrote What We Know About Memory
In the world of science, breakthroughs often come from state-of-the-art labs with million-dollar equipment. But sometimes, they begin in a…
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WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?!!!!@the13thpanther.bsky.social · 3mo ago
Important new paper from Martin, Tiago and Christina. Europe must learn from America's assault on science.
Martin McKee@martinmckee.bsky.social · 3mo agoEurope must learn from America’s assault on science @chrischirp.bsky.social @tiagocorreia.bsky.social & I warn in Eur J Public Health that what is happening there could happen here, with catastrophic consequences @eupha.bsky.social academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...
Oooh, we're entering the era of academic journals dropping their "qualitative checklists". Well done, Implementation Science. Maybe I'll send you a paper now. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Embracing complexity by reducing rigidity: guiding principles for the intersection of implementation science and qualitative research - Implementation Science
In this editorial we reflect on recent contributions that have focused on how researchers should involve qualitative research in implementation science. Implementation science as a discipline has firm...
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Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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Read Michelle Obama’s full speech at the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening. #Pinks www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/h...
'Hope is all we have': Read Michelle Obama's full speech at Obama Center grand opening
Michelle Obama spoke directly to her husband when she stepped up to the podium -- then proceeded to bring him and members of the audience to tears.
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The Obamas just unveiled their first-ever commissioned portrait together which is located in the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library. Beautiful.
In a week of deeply depressing news at home and abroad, take five minutes to be inspired by Tala and Farah’s grit and tenacity. Tell your kids what they achieved, from a tent in a bombed-out city. Gaza sisters win prize for turning rubble into reusable bricks www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gaza sisters win prize for turning rubble into reusable bricks
Displaced teenagers Farah and Tala wanted to 'turn destruction into something useful'.
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I hope I live to see the day when this is sung at Westminster. #Rejoin.
Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 5mo agoHungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.
Looks like we need to remind ourselves of this graph. Few cases doesn’t mean nothing to worry about. I’m not saying there’s a pandemic round the corner, I’m saying we need to think smart and act fast, just in case.
When a King and direct descendent of King George III has to remind the American government about the utmost importance of checks and balances, you know we're in deep trouble.