Talitha Barrett

This and that, Central Vic GP

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

3 universal lessons about medical error

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

It’s an amazing report which nails how Russia’s hybrid warfare programme actually works & how Russia is explicitly & directly inciting racialised violence in UK - & working with Tommy Robinson to do so - as well as directing acts of violence
against PM.
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[Talitha Barrett @Tallyvision]

@LiangRhea Presumably you have tried the epley manoeuvre ?
If that fails - vestibular physios -can be very good
depends which semicircular canal is affected

[Talitha Barrett @Tallyvision]

'everyone thinks they're menopausal'
https://t.co/x2Xkf4HuNV

[Talitha Barrett @Tallyvision]

So so true - so many queries https://t.co/x2Xkf4HuNV

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Don’t get caught up in the Washington horse race reporting on Republican Rep. Thomas Massie losing his primary to a Trump-backed challenger. Massie lost because he worked with Democrats and Republicans to force Trump to release the Epstein Files. That’s why Trump wanted him gone.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Why is there such obsession with extending lifespan when the bigger issue is that average healthspan is 65 years and there are no data (except in super-centenarians) that longer lifespan = longer healthspan (known as compression of morbidity)?

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

Sir David Attenborough recites the iconic final lines of "The Origin of Species" amidst the halls of natural history.

Darwin’s writing reached a crescendo in his conclusion, where he describes the "grandeur in this view of life." He draws a parallel between the fixed laws of gravity and the dynamic, ever-changing nature of biology, where "endless forms most beautiful" have evolved from a simple beginning.

This passage is considered one of the most significant in the history of science. It transforms the cold mechanics of natural selection into a deeply moving and poetic narrative of our planet's history.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

The next time you hear someone say "The Australia bill did not work because many kids are still on social media!" remind them of the quote from Lao Tzu:

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. But if that first step is hard, then you should quit."

Except I'm not certain he said the second part of that.

Australia's leaders had the guts to take the first step.
Nobody expected it to work perfectly instantly, or ever.
It's the same with minimum age laws for cigarettes, alcohol, porn, and gambling.
The goals are to reduce harm and change the norms of childhood, which takes time.

As Julie Inman Grant (Australia's e-safety commissioner) put it, the true impact "won’t be measured in weeks or months but will likely be generational."
https://t.co/mgBuIUcQZ9

And actually, if you look at the graph shown below, of the % of underage teens with social media accounts before and after the law took effect, I'd say it's a very large effect size! For the law to be causing such a big reduction in its first few months is really encouraging.

Age verification technology will improve continuously, now that there's a market, in ways that increasingly protect privacy. And norms will change. And children will be less glued to their phones. For example, Australian boys are showing a "massive upsurge" of interest in fishing:
https://t.co/2zrezkVlL1

You can find the original article showing the graph here:
https://t.co/N7h3dkIzRR

[Liam Byrne MP @liambyrnemp]

Big thanks to @campbellclaret & the brilliant @RestIsPolitics team for talking to me about why populists are winning - and crucially, how to beat them

Here’s part 1 of a 2 part special - and here’s the book: https://t.co/w3T3tuMi1n

https://t.co/lTIP8hBviK

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

The UK used less coal in 2025 than they did in 1600, when Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. Source: https://t.co/nFgek3qFmp

[newsGP @newsGPau]

Only 17% of aged care residents keep their usual GP after a move to a long-term care facility, but for those who do, they are more likely to stay in better health, new research has found. https://t.co/3U2QIt1eTT

[Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney]

lots of people are making a lot of bizarre conclusions about this Cochrane review; on nurses substituting for doctors https://t.co/aavgxdrgJf. the twitter noise is mainly telling me that people aren't reading/critically appraising much and using this as drunk man lampost etc/

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

The @guardian did not approach me or my team with these claims.

Had they done so I would have said this is categorically untrue.

[Talitha Barrett @Tallyvision]

@kiityc @wesstreeting Tried in Australia too - GP training places restricted to 400 pa -in yr 2000 the impact took a long long time to get fixed.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging.
https://t.co/54eag8qsLX

[Damian Fogarty @DamianFog]

Excellent to see numerical risks. How many hours of doctor, pharmacist & nurse time wasted on advising risks for something quite small. 1 in 10,000. Identical to Metformin Associated Lactic Acidosis too!

[Richard Lehman @RichardLehman1]

Same has just happened to me...

[Lily D'Ambrosio MP @LilyDAmbrosioMP]

- Victoria has been exporting power to other states for most of the day.

- Outages are caused by bushfires and faults to the small poles and wires, not because of a lack of power.

- Victoria has had the lowest spot prices over the past 7 days.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

It's rare to get a chance to recommend a piece from the Guardian but this was an excellent article on why lessons about "mental health" can actually be bad for children's mental health.
https://t.co/EhTd224tq7