Jon Hopkins 💙🇺🇦

When I see the glass as half-empty, I simply see the opportunity to fill it, rather than being satisfied with being half-full 🍺 Likes/Retweets ≠ endorsements

[The Royal College of Radiologists @RCRadiologists]

Our 2023 census reports should act as a wake-up call for the next government 🚨

They reveal dangerous shortages in doctors essential in the diagnosis and treatment of #cancer.

Read our three-point plan to recruit, train and retain the doctors we need: https://t.co/Bz6qpO8gXf

[John Pitchford🌹💙 @Johnnypapa64]

A groundbreaking programme from 1975 which attempted to remove the stigma of adult illiteracy & Bob Hoskins first major acting role, it was also part of a nationwide campaign with viewing figures of over 17m….On The Move

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Happy National Doctor's Day! Thank you for keeping us healthy and cared for. We love you! 💛💚 #NationalDoctorsDay

[David Oliver @mancunianmedic]

My joint column with @DrLKVaughan in @bmj_latest. Please do make sure you respond to the GMC "Consultation" on it's "Vision" for future medical training
The GMC’s future vision for medical training must be challenged https://t.co/i9FyqBgnML

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

If you enjoyed the brilliant ITV drama #MrBatesVsThePostOffice (and even if you missed it) read the full story of the Post Office scandal in our Special Report here:

https://t.co/7efd2oBl5O

[Devan Sinha @DevanSinha]

Doctors pay dispute is only one, though totemic & overwhelming, of many serious issues affecting working conditions & unattractiveness of the NHS to doctors.

Once started listing issues to express problems doctors face:

XVI Theses on UK Postgraduate Doctors’ Discontent😬

[Alison Moore @alijanemoore also on Bluesky @AliJaneMoore]

This is a very good explanation of some of the idiocies of the training pathway for junior docs. creating more training places should be a priority to avoid further consultant shortages in a decade's time. So why isn't the government doing it?

[Simon Smith @smithsmm]

Just read of the sad loss of Sir Tim Brighouse.

This list has been on the wall of my class then Office for ever and was and is the most important list I’ve ever had. It’s constantly reminded me that teaching is more than what happens in lessons and that it’s about being human.

[Neil Prendeville @NeilRedFM]

Enniskillen pub Charlie's has released a Christmas advert that puts John Lewis in the hapenny place.

[The British Society of Interventional Radiology @BSIR_News]

Now #BSIR2023 has passed - we look at the highlights (and what we can learn) and look forward to #BSIR2024 Brighton. Thank you to everyone who made it along - be it for a few sessions, the Gala or the full lot! Here are a few pics from the day!

#IRad #medstudent #radiology

[Hans-Ulrich Laasch @stentmeister]

Thank you everyone for all the incredible feed-back after the Wattie-Fletcher lecture #BSIR2023. I never had a standing ovation.
The resonance left me speechless.
I hope it might help some people to start talking about "things".
@BSIR_news @IR_juniors @TraineesBSIR

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot 🌍

Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

-- as mentioned in Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

📷1990 photograph of the Earth captured by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, courtesy of NASA

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

The usual suspects are using the Lucy Letby case as a reason to suggest bringing back the death penalty. It’s as though they have never seen Ian Hislop destroying Priti Patel’s argument in favour of it.

[Test Match Special @bbctms]

It's more than just a game. Thank you Patrick.

Listen to the emotional message that has everyone sharing their own stories.

#bbccricket

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

1/3 IMPORTANT: Welcome confirmation from @hmrc that *those impacted by the McCloud remedy* will *not* be required to report a 22/23 AA charge via Self Assessment in the normal way (i.e. deadline 31st Jan 2024)

https://t.co/wj7B1iF4Nj

[Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond]

If ever we needed more evidence of how appalling the NHS can be at acting on the legitimate concerns of staff who are morally, professionally and legally obliged to blow the whistle, this is it. The mother of all cover ups, until it was too big to deny. https://t.co/eBGBi9ZmRF

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Which square do you see most clearly: orange or yellow?

Normally yellow is the most visible colour: it grabs our attention and we can see it from far away.

Hence warning signs, high-vis jackets, road markings, police tape, school buses, and taxis are almost always yellow.

But yellow isn't always the most visible colour. See, orange is *more visible* in one specific context: when it is contrasted with blue.

That's because orange and blue are complementary colours. This means that, when mixed, they cancel each other out. But, when placed alongside one another, they create a powerful, luminous, highly visible contrast.

And this fact is important because... lots of the world is blue: the sky and the ocean.

Hence lifeboats and lifebuoys and liferafts all around the world are orange — rather than yellow, the usual colour of safety equipment. If you pay attention, you'll notice that most objects relating to safety and caution around the ocean are, indeed, orange.

It's why the Golden Gate Bridge was painted orange — a particular shade which has come to be known as "International Orange" — so that it would stand out more clearly against the water and in heavy fog.

And it's also why astronauts wear orange suits during lift-off and ascent, and when they return to Earth; this makes them much easier to spot if they land in the ocean.

The "black box" recording device in aeroplanes is not actually black; they are legally required to be painted bright orange because that makes them much easier to find when planes go down over water.

The fact that orange and blue are complementary colours was also exploited by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists of the late 19th century.

Think of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night or Café Terrace at Night, in which he contrasted oranges and blues to create his famously vivid swirls of colour and light.

Claude Monet, too, in his paintings of Haystacks and of Venice, frequently used the complementary contrast between orange and blue because of the clarity and luminosity they produced.

Many things in the world are a coincidence, but the fact that lifeboats, space suits, the paintings of Vincent van Gogh, and the Golden Gate Bridge are all orange is not one of them.

[England's Barmy Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎺 @TheBarmyArmy]

The time Mark Wood sing Jerusalem to an empty stadium as it was COVID and no one was allowed in.

#MarkWoodDay

[Mark Toshner @mark_toshner]

Are you sitting on Twitter wondering why doctors are on one hand complaining about being understaffed & simultaneously incandescent with rage about mushrooming non-doctor roles? 🧵 for you.