#Science changes the world every day. Curing #diseases, designing #supercomputers, building #greentechnology, creating wearable #nanotechnology... You may know what science can do, but what do you know about the people who become a #scientist? thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/becom…

Many congratulations Dr Simone Webb is away hiking 🍂 on this fantastic achievement - so well deserved and very proud of you 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Great thread to read from Dr Simone Webb is away hiking 🍂 in her post 👇🏾

Children’s vision screening is an important part of childhood. All children in the UK should have access to school vision screening at age 4-5 years old as a standard. #NationalEyeHealthWeek BIOS UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

This is really worrying - whole population childhood vision screening at 4-5yrs is a key Public Health intervention, and a driver of equitable outcomes gov.uk/government/col… Linda Hindle OBE Office for Health Improvement and Disparities

We asked UCL Institute of Ophthalmology's Senior Research Fellow Dr Michael Crossland about the value of keeping kids' and teens’ eyes healthy. Michael Crossland #NationalEyeHealthWeek #eyehealth #VisionMatters

Want to improve Paediatric nephrology trials? Join the International Society of Glomerular Disease today for ‘The Big Conversation’

.Dr Lola Solebo 💙👶🏾👁️👩🏾‍💻 highlights #HealthVisitors' crucial role in child #EyeCare. Working with Professor Jungoo Rahi, Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist, they've produced resources for iHV to help identify and manage childhood #vision problems. 👉rsbc.org.uk/eyes-on-the-fu…

📣 Announcing our next keynote speaker: Dr Lola Solebo Dr Lola Solebo 💙👶🏾👁️👩🏾‍💻 📣 Sharing her insights on clinical academia and translating research into changes in practice and policy Friday 22nd November Engineers House, Bristol tinyurl.com/2632zesb

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Exciting news! Thrilled to see the CLUSTER Champions Viewpoint paper calling for trial designs in #JIA to better serve the needs of children and young people highlighted in The Lancet Rheumatology editorial. 🎉 #MedicalResearch #Rheumatology #JuvelineIdopathicArthritis

Are you a #PhD student seeking a 3 month internship? You're eligible for our Grants & Programmes internship if: ✅ Your funding includes a mandatory internship placement ✅ Your application is supervisor-endorsed For full criteria visit: ow.ly/2FqX50TkW04 Deadline 7/10/24

How wonderful is this? From Adrian Liston and his team issuu.com/adrian.liston/…

No And Less than the lost workforce / negative impact on public health would cost. (I know, I know, completely fell for it but engaging with the article was useful)

This #BlackHistoryMonth, meet Karel, a Medical Photographer who is making healthcare imagery more inclusive. The University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS FT project addresses a crucial gap in healthcare imagery – the shortage of photographs available to clinicians that show conditions on darker skin tones.

Important study from the Elson lab Crohn’s Patients and Healthy Infants Share Immunodominant B Cell Response to Commensal Flagellin Peptide Epitopes #IBD

Black women in London who want to learn to swim!

Loved this. The old Twitter - with positive community building and cool science - is still there but ooof what you have to wade through to find it

The patient voice needs to get behind this. Without clinical academics we won’t get new & better treatments

If someone asks me why we are learning math, I will print this image and throw it to that person. 🦸‍♀️

Thought-provoking article by scientists with disabilities about contributions and barriers they face. Lisa M Meeks, PhD, MA Mytien Nguyen Karina Pereira-Lima Zoie Clarise Sheets, MD, MPH Rylee Betchkal Bonnielin Swenor PhD The DocsWithDisabilities Initiative Trends in Molecular Medicine paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…