Belinda

Always curious. Applied psychology researcher and mindfulness teacher. BAMBA registered. 2025 published research:

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Here's my final image of the year- a detailed true color portrait of The Great Orion Nebula. Visible to the naked eye to the entire world during winter months, this is a gorgeous target for astronomers of all skill levels.

Happy new year!

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

Indonesia is clearing 5 MILLION ACRES of one of the world’s most biodiverse, important and intact forests in Papua… for sugarcane.
We are losing Birds Of Paradise, Birdwing Butterflies, Rainbowfish all for nothing… 😤 https://t.co/OCIg1CyrAV

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Oh look, it rained.

Areas of the country where water companies are currently dumped sh*t into rivers and on to beaches.

Brown, currently dumping sewage.
Red, has been dumping sewage within the last 24 hours.

[John Sutherland @policecommander]

I am the son of a vicar.
I was raised in the church.
I have spent 55 years wrestling with my faith.
And this leaves me cold.
They said their event was not about politics or division, then they draped his name with a flag…

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

386,849 people waited over six weeks for a NHS diagnostic test for cancer, heart problems & other serious conditions in September. Even *when* a scan gets done, there are still delays because there aren’t enough radiologists to interpret the scan images.

But here’s the part the public never gets told: In 2025, 4,011 doctors applied for just 356 radiology training posts. That’s 11 doctors competing for each radiology job.

Thousands of doctors want to train to report and read these scans. The NHS is turning them away due to Government imposed caps on training posts.

So patients wait longer. Diagnoses come later. Treatment is delayed - all while highly trained doctors are blocked from progressing into the roles the NHS desperately needs.

This is the result of years of failed workforce planning by successive governments.

And it’s exactly why all grades of resident doctors in England are being reballoted from 8th December to 2nd February: to fix a system that caps training places, recommends real terms pay cuts, and pushes doctors out of the NHS.

Doctors want to work. Patients need care. So why isn’t the Government meaningfully addressing the workforce crisis?

[Belinda @B_wildacre]

@ehj03151767 @Marikacobbold But it’s not all houses, plenty have decent heating.

[Belinda @B_wildacre]

@ehj03151767 @Marikacobbold Relatively temperate climate with culture of wearing warm layers indoors. Lots of v old housing stock not made for modern central hearing, and now ludicrously expensive fuel prices whatever kind of house you live in are a few possible reasons. V little aircon either.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

In 30years I have never been this upset with the words coming out of Government

This includes a plethora of Tory Health Secretaries

I am not part of BMA leadership

I am just a GP who gives up his time freely to advocate for patients, the NHS & make sure the facts are correct

[Anisopoikilocyte @Anisocyte]

@RupraRoshan I speak less as a doctor and more as a patient when I say that the U.K. Govt has to be held responsible for the incomprehensible fact that we have soaring waiting lists and patients unable to access medical care, but also have unemployed doctors

This is massive Govt incompetence

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

How does this happen in a country with any kind of police force?

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

You just can’t explain 1985.

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

🚨 SHOCKING 🚨

A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime.

Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river.

We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW.

Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

Medical students are finishing with £100k debts and we have a monopoly employer and controller of medical student places. You cannot abrogate responsibility as a government when you control all of those factors. Unless you want medicine to be a deeply unpopular career of course.

[ali 🍃💚🍃 @aligreen9999]

I feel disgust for this Labour government, that promised to protect nature when they were in opposition, and are now determined to destroy environmental protections.

No-one voted for this.
@UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @EmmaforWycombe @NaturalEngland @SteveReedMP

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

30,000 doctors applied for 10,000 training places. Government caps leave many stuck on the sidelines and unable to progress, while patients face long waits for care.

It’s one of the reasons we’re on strike; this unemployment crisis is a political choice.
https://t.co/53enQRhV8w

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Doctors are striking because Labour's Wes Streeting is mismanaging the NHS

5,399 doctors applied to become surgeons last year, but only 630 training jobs were available

Similarly, Labour say they're hiring more GPs, but we have fewer now than we had in 2015, instead we have thousands of PAs instead

Support your striking doctors because Labour is weakening the NHS and none of us should ever be in a position where we need a doctor and there isn't one, because of Labour's bad policy making

[Robert Howard @ProfRobHoward]

Solidarity with our medical brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, over the next 5 days. I really admire the courage and commitment of the current generation of resident doctors and their struggle for better conditions and a sustainable future for the NHS.

[Belinda @B_wildacre]

I am furious for these brilliant young doctors who have worked so relentlessly, are shouldering huge student debt and just want jobs to go to, and we as patients desperately need them in our NHS

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

Dr Brown spoke with the BBC at our picket.

She wants to become an A&E Consultant.

However, last year 14 doctors applied per A&E training place and she was unsuccessful.

It is a disgrace that patients are waiting hours in A&E, when doctors like Poppy are locked out of training.