Pauli Math the polymath's son - & grandson.

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 5d ago

Oh, and I was also a chartered accountant. I’m not any more, as my knowledge is very out of date. I ask a current accountant if I need to know anything detailed!

Just been in a brilliant webinar for teachers (mostly) with four other authors and Anna Lise Gordon (host) from St Mary's Twickenham talking about children's books about grief and bereavement.

I'm confident nobody will share this.

We can’t keep preaching about diet quality as if it’s a free choice once the information is provided. This is out of touch. In the most deprived fifth of the population families need to to spend 70% of their disposable income to afford healthy foods guidelines. foodfoundation.org.uk/press-releas...

Dietary inequalities worsened in last two years as healthier foods grew more expensive

The Broken Plate 2025 report is the Food Foundation's flagship annual report about the state of the food system

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I've been at both ends of the stethoscope. Over-reliance on record leads to unhelpful assumptions. Not reading them leads to missing important stuff. Expecting patient to remember date & name of operation + pathology findings is unrealistic. I'm sure you do read notes. Surprised how many don't.

Dr Steve Taylor@drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

They don’t have access But you are the expert in you. What they need is a summary, the test results & you. Not everything. Too much reliance on a record leads to assumptions Things change & you change It’s vital as a clinician I start with you now, look at what we already know & then plan more

I'm looking for good recent article, by a human, in reputable journal about how docs (hospital or GP) approach patients in last year of life dying from causes other than cancer or dementia. Ideas? Names to look out for? I know how to use medline, but most of what I find is on cancer.

Think about this. It is important. And a bit boring.

Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Politics should be boring, not a series of endless media frenzies.

Lots of "commentators" are rewarded for spreading lies and convincing you that everything is getting worse and you should be afraid. The good news is it's not: homicides at their lowest level in 50 years and killings involving a knife are at their lowest recorded level www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Knife killings down by 21%, figures show

The annual ONS crime data also shows overall recorded homicides have fallen.

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Tired of the spin on Palantir and the NHS? The Shadow Contract - a new investigative podcast from @goodlawproject.org - cuts through the noise. Our CEO Dr Julia Patterson features in Episode 1. All four episodes are out now. Listen: goodlaw.social/a87e02

But: "[The figures] cannot mask how far away services are from meeting the standards patients should be able to expect."

‘NOT THE NHS AGAIN!’ We debunk Palantir in the #NHS Email your MP to ask them to come to the April 16 debate on Palantir & the FDP 👇🏻 www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/pa... Full episode here youtu.be/Uosu3R4Q5gY?...

There is an argument that it always has been. Deterence only works as a strategy if the very few people with real power are bothered if civilisations are destroyed

Shimanti | Human Consequences@humanconsequences.com · 5mo ago

A nuclear armed United States is now an existential threat to the rest of the world

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Seems to me we all bear the conseqences of the war, even those who opposed it. We may not feel responsible - but our energy costs rise as does pollution. Refugees require our support. Net zero becomes less possible. We're at greater risk in any future war because rules no longer apply. All of us.

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You start a war, the consequences are on you.

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security

Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...

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Across the UK, millions provide unpaid care for family and friends—often alongside work, family life, and their own health needs. New analysis from the Health Foundation talks about the growing pressures on carers and why better recognition and support are so important: tinyurl.com/79nvhnb4

You are right it is not quite the same, but the history is worth remembering when we ralj about now. Because the UK Government's admiration & suppirt fir the USA's policies, whether they are right or wrong is longstanding.

Jenny Bone@jenny-bone.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Not the same. We were more dependent on the US in the days of Harold Wilson than now. Because of our "special relationship" and being allies, the US has had bases here (1942) and Diego Garcia. I am talking about now, because our Prime Minister is not acting in the best interests of the UK.

Well, it worked. Enough for seven and a half hours sleep, anyway! 🙂

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Quick question: does hot chocolate before bed really help sleep, or am I just looking for an excuse to have hot chocolate?

Paperback publication day! Have a good read. Things changing far too slowly for #womeninSTEM

People with a learning disability were among the first groups of people to be targeted during the Holocaust – sterilised and murdered under the Nazi’s Aktion T4 programme that killed an estimated 300,000 disabled people. 2/3

Thank you. I look forward tk reading the blog.

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Yeah I’m annoyed about this. Mea culpa for agreeing to write a book chapter without checking if open access. I will blog it at the weekend!

Many of those who most need to understand this are individuals and small organisations who may not have access to Institutional Libraries. I will see if I can get it via the public Library. @nigelmorson.bsky.social any ideas?

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our new chapter 'Understanding emerging digital health disparities'. Sadly, paywalled (but available through most institutional libraries). #digitalhealth #healthpolicy #qualitativehealthresearch www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Don't tell him. He will be after Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa.

Kit Yates@kityates.bsky.social · 7mo ago

How much do we think Trump's desire to "own" Greenland is a result of the distortions of the Mercator projection? #MapsMatter

It is surely possible to make a bad thing worse. Expansion of Bernal's first law.

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Anyone who starts with 'botched Brexit' has already lost. As though there could be a 'non-botched Brexit'.

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Talking about Loss - Supporting people when someone has died

This training is for anyone supporting people in Leeds . It's about how you can support people with learning disabilities when someone dies.

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So sorry to read this. I worked with him in the Community Team for people with learning disabilitirs back in the 1980s. C9ndolences ti the family.

Ramandeep Kaur@mumof3amigos.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Jim was a lovely man and will be sorely missed. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Help needed from human being to human being struggling with Word. How do I get a web address to copy across as hypertext NOT as hyperlink with curly brackets. "A child of 5 coukd do it - pkease send a child of 5" .

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Adapting Psychological Therapies for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review

The aim of this systematic review was to identify how psychotherapies have been adapted to suit the needs of people with intellectual disabilities. A comprehensive literature search garnered 39,777 s...

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Great thread about one person's experience of cochlear implants.

Elias Jahshan@eliasjahshan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A bit late, but Monday this week (Jan 5) marked two whole years since I had my cochlear implant “activated”. To say it has been life-changing, in all the best ways possible, would be an understatement.

Does anyone even know what a neighbourhood is? A village? A town? Area within walking distance 9f a school/shop/ surgery? Population 1,500? Population 250,000? Word seens to mean different things in different parts of DOH/NHS-E speak. Not to mention ordinary human being speak.

Helen Salisbury@helensalisbury.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Does anyone know what neighbourhood health is? There is no coherent rationale for it, no structure, no funding, no staffing, no premises. This ill thought-out plan is meant to be fleshed out through grassroots involvement, but there is little understanding & even less enthusiasm in general practice