Sarah Hemsley

[Harshi Peiris, Ph.D. @Neuroscope_mp]

🚨 BREAKING:

German researchers treated 15 severe lupus patients with CAR-T therapy.
All 15 went into complete remission.
Many stopped ALL medication.

Now a larger trial just confirmed it — across 3 autoimmune diseases.

This might be the biggest shift in autoimmune medicine in decades. ��

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Farage wants to privatise the NHS, he always has.

Can we retweet this video 10,000 times so everyone can see it?

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

A story that will not make the front page of the Times, Telegraph or Mail ..

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Current NHS starting salaries:

Junior doctor £32.4k
Nurse £28.4k
Paramedic £28.4k
Midwife £28.4k
Radiographer £28.4k
Healthcare assistant £22.8k
Physiotherapist £28.4k
Dietician £28.4k
Occupational therapist £28.4k

Are you actually *trying* to destroy the NHS, @JamesCleverly?

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Glass sculpture by Japanese artist Niyoko Ikuta #WomensArt

[Forbes @Forbes]

Eating heavily processed foods—particularly artificial sweeteners and artificially sweetened drinks—could increase the risk of developing depression, study finds: https://t.co/sovCmv9rO9

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Under explicit pressure from Rishi Sunak, judges have closed the door on legal challenges to PPE procurement.

They’ve said, remarkably, that there is no public interest in how public money gets spent.

But we think there is.

Agree? Support us here:
https://t.co/rnmZ3orHvn

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Heartbreaking video coming from Palamas Kardista in #Greece this morning. One resident says.....

"Since 4 o'clock in the morning, the village bells have not rung, 112 has not been called. People have been overwhelmed in their homes. Right now I'm calling for help from the other side. My house is high and I have gone up high. Residents from the surrounding houses have come to my house. People have died, drowned. Directly in the opposite house, a man lived inside alone. I couldn't help him. His house fell, he was overwhelmed. I can't go find him. The dam of the Cross has been broken, the water is coming with enormous speed. Every 10 minutes you hear a house collapsing. Many people are trapped. I have asked for help, they told us in 2 hours they will send a boat. Right now it's like there's an endless sea."

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateActionNow #Κακοκαιρία #Παλαμας #Καρδιτσα

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

“A Good Law Project investigation found that the company running the illegal coal mine has chosen to pay out £49.89m in dividends and royalties, while the restoration fund faces a shortfall of at least £60m.”
https://t.co/AuyDjwQGa4

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

There have been so many scandals and so much corruption under this lot that this kind of story barely registers any more. And that is a real danger … Villiers had £70,000 in Shell shares while environment secretary | Theresa Villiers | The Guardian https://t.co/64geYXNS97

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

🚨NEW: We can reveal that Theresa Villiers MP had at least £70,000 worth of shares in oil and gas giant Shell whilst Environment Secretary- and this is according to records only just published today.

https://t.co/R9fketK6Sn

[Sarah Hemsley @s_hemsley]

@DrJaninaRamirez am loving your book, Femina, and delighted to see more discoveries spotlighting the role of women as warriors and important figures in history

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

I wrote about the Bryher grave in my book #Ancestors - an Iron Age burial containing a mirror and a sword. And now we know it is the grave of a woman: https://t.co/inuYfImESc

[Roshana 🦴 @RoshanaMN]

The Consultants of Dorset hospital have written a letter to @SteveBarclay

They strike tomorrow

This letter is incredible

I challenge anyone to refute a single point in it

Worth a read for you too @wesstreeting

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Junior doctors just want to be able to afford today what they could afford in 2008.

Is that really too much to expect?

[richard taylor-jones @rtaylorjones]

18months ago I approached @Quinn_Estates to ask them to plant several wildflower strips and dozens of native hedgerows around one of their new build estate. Now it’s happened and this is a glimpse of one area. Why can’t more developers do this? If you like pls RT…

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 75 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight.

Please take just two seconds to show you care.

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

this is terrible news

[Andrew Allcock @andyaphotos]

Not something
you see everyday
#glastonburyfestival
#Glasto

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

Shoutout to this magical device that heats up mosquito bites really hot and denatures the proteins that make them itchy