Striking from the #ntsummit session on Continuing Health Care is the amount of lived experience in the room - & quite how complex people with atypical expertise in the intracicies of health and care funding have found it. Even without data, suspect inequities of uptake are huge.

By using the word 'men' St John Ambulance England cannot pretend the dehumanising language they've used for women is about inclusivity. What we're witnessing is orgs etc now persuaded there's stigma attached to the word woman unless it is being used to describe men, too.

This is an astonishing graph - quite apart from the issue of desirability, I think there's a big question of feasibility (and the scale of work required to try to make it happen).

Not once have I ever seen or heard one of us 'Far right Fascist Bigot Terf Nazis' call for the death/murder of trans people. Yet for years we've needed protection, bouncers, Police advice. And here's a union-sponsored rally against women's rights to our own spaces with threats...

We've been looking forward to this! Niels Peek's THIS Institute / Homerton College lecture has begun.

Spam e-mails from predatory journals are getting racy.

Paper drafting phase 1: Write beautiful, closely knit sentences linking related ideas together through the judicious use of semi-colons. Paper drafting phase 2: Delete all the semi-colons and replace them with full stops.

Signs you are an academic, an occasional series: You try to swipe the word 'stopcock' into your phone as you text a plumber, and it autocorrects to 'sociocultural'.

To my surprise, this piece—“The ‘Impossibility’ of working in the current NHS: sacrifice to a primitive god”—has become the most read article ever published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. I was trying to articulate something I had felt for a long time: that the NHS is now

Job opportunity - deputy director of the Geller Institute for Ageing and Memory at the University of West London, working with Katie Featherstone and colleagues: jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT550/dep…

New opinion piece in The BMJ by me and Jane O'Hara : whither patient and staff voice in the NHS post-Dash? Decluttering the patient safety landscape is necessary but will NHS organisations listen to patients and staff without independent advocacy? bmj.com/content/390/bm…

Exciting research fellow role at the University of Edinburgh working with Martyn Pickersgill and colleagues on a timely and fascinating-sounding project on how health (mis)information is regulated across countries: jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/res…