Ah, Apple providing the perfect metaphor for what’s happening to the creative arts & humanities, and then mistakenly thinking it’s a good look for an advert

Gastrointestinal symptoms are common in both acute and long covid, with gut issues often persisting long after initial infection.

What do we know about covid-19’s effects on the gut?
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Great piece from Matt. As someone who forced his dad to take me to the London premiere of this as a teen, this is pure nostalgia.

'Too often I’ve found in the last two and a half years that the answer system leaders in the NHS reach for is more money.'

My interview with Wes Streeting MP on his plans for the NHS, resolving the junior doctor strike & tackling this winter👇

The BMJ
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This looks great. Also can finally watch shitamachi rocket!

After the confusion of 2020, WHO has finally changed its definition of how diseases can spread through the air.

But what is the new definition—and what needs to happen next? Mun-Keat Looi reports
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#CRYMUN

The Okayama Fire Department has shared this video telling people to please stop taking photos and videos for social media inside ambulances. Rescue can't do their jobs properly when people are trying to take ambulance selfies for Instagram or Twitter.

Last call for ABSW #events !
Register until May 3

👉 Interview Skills Workshop with Alok Jha, science and technology editor at The Economist
📆 May 14, 2-6 pm, King's College London
💷 Discounted registrations to ABSW members and students
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Last call for ABSW #events !
Register until May 3

👉 Special event with Professor Dame Angela McLean, Government Chief Scientific Adviser
📆 May 9, 7-8 pm, Science Museum, London Science Museum Events
💷 Members only. Free
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What do we know about covid-19’s effects on the gut? buff.ly/3y2xPdC
Katharine Lang

Paediatricians are urging the UK government to stop selling arms to Israel.

In an open letter to Rishi Sunak, they say the UK is “indirectly perpetuating the decimation of this generation of Palestinian children'.

13,000 children have been killed so far

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📢Sign up for the #AcceleratorAward webinar on 8 May @ 1430 BST 🗣 Wellcome 📢

On Wednesday, 8 May 2024, at 1430 BST, we will host a webinar to discuss the most frequently asked questions and answer some of your questions about what we are looking for.

OMG. MatsuJun! Nagasaki Masami! In London! 😱

Plans to expand medical assistance in dying measures have been postponed by the Canadian government.

People with disabilities and advocates say this is proof that the proposal to include mental illness is flawed, Sammy Chown reports
#MAID
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Disability community feels ignored in Canada’s assisted dying expansion buff.ly/4dfvTyv
Sammy Chown

'There is an official campaign against science and thinking.'

Argentina’s healthcare system is under threat from the dengue crisis and its president’s systematic dismantling of science.

Martín De Ambrosio reports
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Very happy to see this boozy piece from Mosaic (RIP) is still being cited, nine years later. And I'm sober now so there's that...

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In general, our understanding of what drives incompetence is low and understudied.
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