On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the women who make up 80% of the adult social care workforce—frontline staff, leaders, unpaid carers, and those receiving long‑term care. This #IWD2026, we honour their achievements and thank them for their vital contributions
Happy #InternationalWomensDay Founded to investigate science, literature and antiquities, @ria.ie encouraged debate between scholars of diverse background & interests so long as they were male. Our blog, 'Skirting the issue', looks at the first women of the Academy www.dib.ie/blog/skirtin...
Championing health equity
Every day nurses confront the realities of:
Poverty
Exclusion
Inequality
And work to mitigate their impact on health and wellbeing.
This is leadership.
Happy #IWD
it's always nice to be reminded of how incredible a public speaker Barack Obama is. here's part of his eulogy of Jesse Jackson
Simple tests, called electrocardiograms, could identify those at risk of sudden death, say the authors of research funded by the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young
Roll up, roll up.
We have a provisional air date for series 73, programme 6 of #BargainHunt!
Fingers crossed it’s going to be Monday March 2nd. 12.15-1.15pm. BBC 1.
Who’s up for a watch party?!!!
Check out the new homelesspalliativecare.com website. It hosts the HPC toolkit, HPCN network join up link / past sessions, CoP resources, films & much more. It's fab! @burdetttrust.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social @mrsbosanquet.bsky.social @theqicn.bsky.social
🔥 Bigger conversations. Sharper thinking.
#FabStuffPodcast Series Two lands in 2026 🎧
@RoyLilley and @DicksonNiall promise less hype and more truth!
You will want to hear this 👀
https://ow.ly/Lsi050Y2V0Y
Terri Porrett Dani Gillett
I tried to say I was coming off X.
This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.
Auchincloss: "When you have a badge & gun and you are interacting with a citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment. Nobody watching that video will buy the argument that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face 3 times."
Textile artwork featuring a wintery blue icy rural landscape of hills and trees under a swirling sky
'Winter Embroidery' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #WomensArt
Lovely late afternoon walk up the River Wey with our festive doggy! Happy Boxing Day folks 🎄
As we enter the festive season, the @fonscharity.bsky.social (FoNS) will be closed until Friday 2 January 2026.
A heartfelt thank you to all our programme participants, facilitators & partners for your unwavering commitment to person-centred practice throughout this year.
A JAMA article titled "Influenza A(H3N2) Subclade K Virus Threat and Response" shows diagrams of the influenza virus, highlighting antigenic sites and amino acid changes. Labels indicate receptor-binding sites and glycosylation sites.
💬 Perspective: The rise of H3N2 subclade K may increase severe #influenza outcomes this season; available vaccines and antivirals remain important tools for prevention and treatment.
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Key findings on vitamins and dementia everyone needs to know
This just published large-scale review suggests that vitamin B complex and C could help prevent cognitive decline. The world needs personalized nutrition in dementia prevention.
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On the 6th day ...
Real and growing co-production thanks to our lived-experience co-production leads, bringing new insights to programmes & ways of working
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Excited to see where this takes us in 2026
On the seventh day of FoNS-Mas, we thank our facilitators & associate facilitators for delivering restorative support to over 550 health and care professionals
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Incredible work with such amazing feedback @graceatfons.bsky.social @sueholt2024.bsky.social
A group of care workers have recorded a new version of Robbie Williams' 'Angels' in support of #Care Workers' Charity in a bid to reach the Christmas No.1!🎄Stream & download it here & bring lots of festive cheer to our amazing care workers! https://lnk.to/AngelsHomecaresGotTalentChoir
On the 8th day of FoNS-Mas
Our programmes support nurses & nurse leaders to influence the culture of the workplace - developing psychological safety, empowering colleagues, creating learning environments & building places where nurses want to work
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title: Cheap science, real harm: the cost of replacing human participation with synthetic data author: Abeba Birhane abstract: Driven by the goals of augmenting diversity, increasing speed, reducing cost, the use of synthetic data as a replacement for human participants is gaining traction in AI research and product development. This talk critically examines the claim that synthetic data can “augment diversity,” arguing that this notion is empirically unsubstantiated, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful. While speed and cost-efficiency may be achievable, they often come at the expense of rigour, insight, and robust science. Drawing on research from dataset audits, model evaluations, Black feminist scholarship, and complexity science, I argue that replacing human participants with synthetic data risks producing both real-world and epistemic harms at worst and superficial knowledge and cheap science at best
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
Health inequalities among women from ethnic minority groups are shaped by intersecting socio-economic, cultural, and structural factors.
Early prevention, personalised care, and systemic change are key to reducing disparities.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LijjEW
📣 This Thursday, join us for The Art of Nursing: Panel Discussion. Whether in person or online, be part of this special launch event.
🖼️ Explore the new exhibition
🎤 Hear from artist nurses
🍷 Enjoy free refreshments
📍 London | Online
🎟️ Free: https://bit.ly/3IPgRFo
#ArtOfNursing
Looks like a lot of fun!
Image of the first part of the 24 Possible ways to be more inclusive document
How can we be more inclusive in our facilitation?
Our #RBCS Facilitator Network got together with Wendy Minhinnett to talk about ways to be more inclusive & came up with 24 ideas!
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Any other ideas?
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@pnamartin.bsky.social
Online ‘Open to All’ #RBCS Programme Starts Feb 2026
Suitable for #PNAs, nurses, clinical educators, #AHPs and anyone who has an interest in restorative supervision
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@patientsafetylearning.org @nursinginpractice.bsky.social @elainefrancis.bsky.social @graceatfons.bsky.social
It's been great working with you on this programme!
🔈We’re recruiting for two new members to join the Scottish Health Council and help shape the future of health and care services in Scotland.
Help us make a difference, follow the link in the comments and apply now!
📅 Closing date is Friday 5 December.
Find out more about the series, including links to videos focused on spotting the signs of sepsis in school-aged children and in children under five years old, on the hub below⬇️
www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...
