Amy Halls

Always asking questions, and using research to find the answers. Views own.

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

New paper! It shows there are many benefits to using in-situ simulation within primary care to help clinical and non-clinical staff members manage medical emergencies @SimEduLead @healthscisurrey https://t.co/7ZTCHr5DZK

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

@paracreyn I’ll investigate further!

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

@rach_dh @tony_kendrick @IngridMuller7 @AdamWAGeraghty @Flis_Bishop_PhD @PhDForum Massive congratulations!!!

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

@bethstuart97 Oh goodness! Are we blaming a cat? Is everyone safe and well?

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

Really informative thread, I once had to help guide a reversing HGV into a tiny supermarket space and that was stressful enough!

[Tom @thelorryist]

What goes into an average shift driving a lorry?

Thought I would live tweet about my shift tonight. Might be interesting, or not, either way I have few remaining opportunities to show you into a world you may not otherwise ever see.

Feel free to share if you wish 🚛

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

Important job is to decide what I want on the office wall in our new house, to be seen in the background of Teams calls. Thankfully, friends are sending excellent presents to help with this.

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

A little experiment: for our new house, I’ve set up all the utilities online and purposefully put my name first and my partner’s second. What percentage of companies will swap our names to put him first? So far, mortgage provider has kept me first, but the water company has not.

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

Important thing ticked off the Moving House ever-growing admin list.

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

Got ID’d buying gin in Tesco. Cashier said I should take it as a compliment. I definitely will! I remember being a cashier and I think the oldest person I asked for ID was 35.

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

@rach_dh It’s incredible the contribution her cells have made to medical research, and then you consider the ethics of how they were obtained.

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

A truly incredible story.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Born on this day in 1920, Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent and used to generate the HeLa cell line – the world’s first immortalised human cell line https://t.co/zTx947Lj2i

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

It's coming up to the birthday of my friends' baby who was stillborn. As I can't buy him a present, I've donated to @childsliteracy, who are doing great work at supporting children who struggle with reading and writing.

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

@rach_dh Oh goodness!! I can’t help but my fingers are crossed you get this sorted soon!

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

Starting a day of annual leave by finishing this excellent book. Highly recommend to anyone who has ever had a period, and to anyone who cares about anyone who has ever had a period. That should cover everyone, yes?

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

Looking forward to the Monday morning classic conversation of ‘what did you do at the weekend?’ when mine involved running a outdoors skills event for Girlguiding leaders. Featuring fire, popcorn, cakes in oranges, and my beloved risk assessments.

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

Couldn't agree more - working in health research, we need to find more ways to include women, and not assuming it's too difficult. It's going to be worth the effort.

[Marian Knight MBE @Marianfknight]

Letter to @thetimes today: we must recognise and tackle the systemic biases that affect women simply because they are, or may become, pregnant. Always think about the benefits of treatment and change the default to inclusion in research not exclusion @Oxford_NDPH @NPEU_Oxford

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

Vaccinated! Had some lovely chats with staff and volunteers at Portsmouth vaccination centre who are doing a grand job in the sun.

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

@rach_dh Argh! I remember reading my thesis on the train heading to my viva and it was littered with typos.

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

@rach_dh I love reading acknowledgements sections. Always the first thing I turn to.

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

I've always kept a list of the books I've read (on paper, now on Storygraph) and this is an interesting article about why people do so. @LetsDrGhio I thought of you? https://t.co/Lyl0ZPAaUv

[Amy Halls @DrAHalls]

As a child I read voraciously - my parents could afford books, but not to keep up with me! My school and the local library were key to keeping me going, and librarians recommended books to stretch and also entertain me. Libraries and their staff are incredibly important.

[Cressida Cowell @CressidaCowell]

Today, as @UKLaureate, I have written an open letter to the govt @10DowningStreet calling on them to put primary school libraries at the heart of our pandemic response, with £100m yearly investment. Read here; please share with #lifechanginglibraries
https://t.co/M7pJHvPk9R