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 :-)
Women academics, this is how to acknowledge your husband in your magnum opus. Mary Douglas ‘Purity and Danger’ (classic text on the anthropology of dirt), 1966. #academicsky
New blog post: Are you a smartwatch "power user"?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/are-you-a-smartwatch-power-user/
What do you use your smartwatch for? A few weeks ago, I overheard a conversation between someone on the Pixel Watch team and a woman I know. He was quizzing her at a party about …
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now.
But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June.
Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing.
This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uofguelph.bsky.social - that's the University of Guelph, Canada, which is in Ontario, I find
Its been a university since 1964, growing out of older colleges
If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!
🧵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...
🚨 LAST DAY TO APPLY 🚨
More than 500 people have now applied for a ticket for the first ever @policycamp.bsky.social, taking place at UCL on Thursday 23 July
Applications close TONIGHT at 11.59pm - the ballot takes place over the weekend
Last chance to apply for a ticket: policycamp.org.uk
Opportunity at Uni of Oxford: Professorship of Global Primary Health Care. Working in our vibrant department with many international links. Clean slate to develop your own programme of research. Global South applicants especially welcome.
#academicsky#healthpolicywww.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW338/d...
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.
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.
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 #fundteamsnotprojectsopen.substack.com/pub/amcunnin...
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...
#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
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...
On the pod with @marcusbaw.com - talking about money, power and Palantir and there NHS, and observing the similarities with MOD contract which @davidallengreen.bsky.social explored
A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped:
FDP and Palantir - The Fall? - with Anne-Marie Cunningham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovdBfYtcPgI
As Mandy and Randy Andy's Epstein connections have been publicly unpicked - still ongoing at the ...
A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped:
FDP and Palantir - The Fall? - with Anne-Marie Cunningham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovdBfYtcPgI
As Mandy and Randy Andy's Epstein connections have been publicly unpicked - still ongoing at the ...
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/...