Danny Healy-Rae railing against the minimum wage being increased. Don't allow these millionaires to fool you into thinking they're on your side. They're not. They're on their own side.

1144 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 684 days since they banned women from university. Afghanistan is the ONLY country on earth where girls are forbidden from learning. How much longer will we allow this cruelty? #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

who would connive in civilized outrage at sectarian killing and sacrifice, yet understand the exact and tribal, intimate revenge.

Paul Weller called Starmer out as being no better than the Tories. Here now Paul Weller asks of genocide all that matters: “I would ask you one question. There is no grey area. Are you for genocide or are you against it.” It is that simple. 💚🇵🇸

What a brilliant letter.

The war put all men mad, horned, horsed, or roof-posted, the boasting and the bested.

Jesus **Christ*** @timeshighered what is this image meant to be?!

Here’s just a few examples of Daily Mail headlines that have fanned the flames of hate and normalised Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric #GMB

RT if you think the Greens quadrupling their seats should have as much media attention as Reform!

Leadership , a document written by ⁦@JamesTCobbler⁩ and brilliantly he is now a Minister of HM government dept of justice. Grown ups doing grown up jobs , remember that ?

Hi twitter I've 20 funded places on this summer camp in @MaynoothUni . It teaches skills while highlighting our excellent women in computer science- who will teach the camp. School is out so we cant give them to @STEMPassport - please message me if you know anyone needs this.

One post-doctoral position at the University College, Dublin - IRC project on the role of women in Muslim resistance movements: ucd.ie/spire/newsandevents/l…

I spent a lovely few days reading & creating a picture/graphic of when women 'leak' out of academia & why! It's not just about women needing mentoring or confidence. ..we need structural changes!

"Citation is feminist memory" by @SaraNAhmed feministkilljoys.com/2015/12… #IWD2024

I have just read a paper titled “Menopause and hormone replacement therapy in the 21st century” and wanted to share two quotes from the paper that are particularly important: “Despite the numerous published articles on the myriad CV protective roles played by oestrogen in the premenopausal woman, it remains entrenched in the medical management of menopausal women that HRT, if prescribed at all, should remain a short-term solution, using the lowest dose possible to minimise night sweats, and only be considered for systemic use to address night sweats and hot flashes, rather than to maintain optimal CV function. The unintended legacy of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), which tested the wrong ‘hormones’ (not human-identical and given orally), on the wrong subjects (too old), must now finally be ended.” “The time has arrived to shelve the WHI and its limited applicability to the lives of menopausal women. Human-identical transdermal estradiol and micronised progesterone should be offered to most menopausal women, particularly at the menopause initiation. Menopause has a powerful negative impact on the CV health of women. They deserve to be offered HRT, using hormones identical to those produced by human ovaries, and the hormones should be prescribed in the most physiological manner possible.” There continues to be controversy regarding the use of HRT and this is primarily due to the misleading results published following the WHI Study. Many of you will have heard me talk before about the WHI study before (which is now over 22 years old) but for those of you who haven’t - it was a study done looking at women who take HRT. The media misinterpreted the results from the study and presented the risk as far greater than it actually is, which meant a lot of women now feel confused and anxious about HRT. As it says in the paper I am sharing with you today, it is time to shelve the misleading findings from the WHI study and start focusing on some of the beneficial effects of body identical natural hormones in the HRT we prescribe today - which show us that not only can HRT provide effective symptom relief, it can also reduce your future risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, clincial depression, osteoporosis and dementia. You can read the paper here: heart.bmj.com/content/heartj…

A few years ago the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published this article entitled “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomised controlled trial” (1) in which they concluded that a parachute is no more effective than an empty backpack at protecting you from harm if you have to jump from an aircraft. Of course, this is quite a misleading conclusion as it leaves out the vital information that this was only when participants were jumping from a small aircraft already on the ground. I think this is really interesting to share because, yes, randomised control trials can be very useful in guiding clinical practice but they do have their limitations. This quote (2) is a great summary: “Randomised control trials (RCTs) are usually considered to be gold standard building blocks for recommending treatments. Increasingly, treatment guidelines require their presence as a condition for determining the medical necessity of a treatment. But depending on how they're used, RCTs can either be unhelpful or be the most important tool in a clinical researcher’s toolkit. Sometimes they're just exercises in methodological precision with little or no clinical value.

A scholarship (tuition fees & stipend) for Black Britons has been set up at Edinburgh University in the name of my late, great friend, the novelist Andrea Levy. Please share. Good luck. 1/2

Worth sharing with any English students / parents of students

I will be speaking at @niscifest about leadership and gender inequalities, myths and issues in conversation with @KariseKc on 17th Feb. See you there