Laura

Equine new graduate vet. Usually found running, cycling, or trying to find a horse to sit on

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

We're now 2 yrs into the decisive decade. Emissions should be in an unprecedented fall, instead we're seeing the 2nd biggest rise ever recorded. We're wasting invaluable time pretending we can solve this crisis without treating it like a crisis. World leaders are still in denial.

[Surrey Media Team @UniSurreyNews]

Surrey’s School of Veterinary Medicine and The British Horse Society launch new educational resource designed by third-year student https://t.co/OCv5QwNS2n @SurreyVet @BritishHorse

[George Pointon @GeorgePointon_]

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My quote of the week this week comes from April aged 4 - "You can only do a handstand if you fall down before it"

[Natalie Silvey - silv24.bsky.social @silv24]

I don’t know what to say right now.

[Laura @laupratley]

@jprgooch I'm 24 and 1yr in to work, working 1-3 nights a week on top of days and 24hr weekend shifts and constantly tired &lacking energy.
I had a month with no nights and weekends due to a changeover in night staff and felt great... Not sustainable, but little choice w this career (vet)

[Laura @laupratley]

A year since my last day at university and I have forgotten 99% of everything I was ever taught. Apart from the fact that racing pigeons have a life span of 30 years. Useful

[lucy 🇵🇸🍉 @xlucymoorex]

every woman knows it’s not all men. but we don’t know WHICH men. so we stay wary of ALL men. it’s not rocket science

[Obioma Ugoala @ObiomaUgoala]

And I’m sure it’s not YOUR
-friend
-dad
-son
-uncle

But it is always SOMEONE’S

The uncomfortable truth is those men learn that violence from SOMEWHERE

What are we doing to address it and make women feel safer rather than placing onus on them to better protect themselves?
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[Natalie Silvey - silv24.bsky.social @silv24]

Women have the right to walk home.

Women have the right to walk home at night.

Women have the right to be safe.

Stop blaming women for the actions of men.

[Laura @laupratley]

I always feel embarassed to say I dont enjoy walking home / through a city alone. But the tragic news of Sarah Everard is every reason why women feel threatened just walking down the street

[Laura @laupratley]

Just putting it out there: it's Feb, it's been -10°C (and below) with a foot or 2 of snow, for the last week and most of the horses I saw out today were completely rugless. Some in a rug without a neck. We are talking warmbloods types, not cobs or icelandics.

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

What’s been extraordinary during this pandemic is realising just how much more valuable a human life is in New Zealand than here in the UK.

[Laura @laupratley]

@MegTucksy How do people read your tweets when you always get the words wrong???

[Laura @laupratley]

Trying to be an intern (in a busy hospital) at the same time as learning swedish, cooking dinner, keeping fit, playing hockey and making time for my friends and family somehow isn't working out how I planned in my head 🤔

[Laura @laupratley]

Don't you just love weekends with only an intern and vet working AND being the only hospital in pretty much the whole of sweden to be providing non-elective surgery at the moment. With a nice cold change in weather on top 🙃

[Laura @laupratley]

Must have broke some kinda record for 4 surgical colics in 24hrs (5 in 48hrs), only one of them being straight forward

[Tye Winters, DO @tmswDO]

We're not asking for you to shoot them like you shoot us.
We're asking you to NOT shoot us like you don't shoot them.

[rufus jones @rufusjones1]

On Christmas Eve I walked through Heathrow with a passport check. Nothing else. No swab test. No checking of my Fit To Fly document. Not even a temperature check. It is harder to get into fucking Wagamama than it is to the UK.