David Colquhoun 🇺🇦 💙 @david_colquhoun Twitter profile

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David Colquhoun 🇺🇦 💙

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4 years

It is really very sad to see Corbyn supporters doing their best to ensure that we never get another Labour government. We have covid, brexit, climate, but they spend their time vilifying Starmer. Tragic.

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@JuliaHB1 There is nothing quite as dimwitted as "just get on with it". It's complicated dammit

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4 years

. @maitlis was terrific tonight.

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4 years

👇This is journalism. More of this please.

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7 years

I'll get slaughtered for this. Nobody disliked Blar & Campbell more than I. But on brexit they are dead right. Nobody is wrong all the time

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6 years

@DMReporter I'm reminded of this immortal tweet from @RosiSexton

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4 years

When I wrote this, on June 13th, I thought I was taking my life in my hands. In fact I gained more than 300 followers. It's a problem, and not the only one, that crosses the old left-right divide.

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4 years

So I made it to 84, past my sell-by date, but more-or-less in one piece. It's raining, and the only party will be on Zoom. But I did get a lovely fruit cake.

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1 year

Neil Oliver "criticised the drive to vaccinate children in the UK against COVID-19,[11] and likened the fight against government anti-COVID measures to the fight against Nazi Germany." So the BBC thinks it's fine to put him on in place of football. You truly couldn't make it up.

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1 year

Good grief! In place of MOTD Women's super league, BBC has substituted a programme by that well-known impartial GBNews presenter, Neil Oliver, They must be kidding!

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4 years

One thing I love about twitter is the instant wit. The story about how Cummings drove to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight will surely run and run,

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4 years

Well known epidemiologist, @JuliaHB1 , offers her reliably wrong opinion. Ferguson predicted ~500k deaths if unmitigated. We are rapidly approach 100k deaths with a stack of mitigation. That seems pretty good to me.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

@JuliaHB1

4 years

There's a statistically significant chance that EVERYTHING Prof Neil Ferguson says is a load of absolute nonsense. His models have been proven wrong about everything every time. Boris Johnson would get more accurate and useful advice from a faith healer using crystals and prayer.

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@drjulie_b @Jessica12uk How can that possibly be read as "supporting eugenics"?

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4 years

We will never live in a democracy until we get rid of FPTP

Femi

@Femi_Sorry

4 years

Today Labour got a taste of what it's like living in a two-party FPTP system. 2 options you don't fully support, but feel compelled to support one of them to avoid the other causing a disaster, with a fair number of you so put off by the choice you don't vote at all. #BrexitBill

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4 years

The hazards of filling in web forms quickly. Milkman delivered 42 pints, not 2. (Once I got 37 Waitrose fruit jellies too).

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3 years

@chrischirp Brilliant. Again. If only someone in government understood this XKCD, or read

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9 years

"Germany has publicly warned Saudi Arabia against further financing religious radicals"

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2 years

Well, well. I have made it to 86! That's six years past my sell-by date. Not entirely intact, but very happy.

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1 year

Well well, Today I have beaten the odds and made it to 87. I've been asked to talk to students in Strathclyde U in October, but I'm recording it for YouTube, just in case.

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2 years

Please meet Inna Khomenko. Her house was bombed by Russians, so she has come to live with us for a while.

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6 years

@bengoldacre

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7 years

Not good for hill starts

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4 years

@jburnmurdoch Is it coincidence that the top four all have rather extreme right wing governments?

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4 years

"Gove’s new border plan: the longest suicide note in history?" from @YorksBylines

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2 years

W ow! Dr Rosena Allin-Khan,MP (Lab) for Tooting, and A&E doctor, has gone to Lviv to give medical help. @DrRosena is a real hero.

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4 years

I expected that I'd lose some followers by tweeting this. But actually I've gone over 15k for the first time. Thank you.

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This is the day that I think back to 1988. I was 52 then and did it under 4 hours. Now I can barely walk to the village "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" #LondonMarathon

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3 years

Our dishonest PM nailed again

Peter Stefanovic

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3 years

Why are UK News Shows incapable of presenting facts like this? It’s not difficult, simply place the Prime Ministers lies beside the truth. The country will wake up in a week

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2 years

It certainly isn't true in this household that "the UK is against Harry and Meghan". Why ask the opinion of the poisonous Mail columnist, Sarah Vine? @bbcpaddy

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3 years

I feel guilty enough for eating bacon. The idea that 20,000 pigs have been slaughtered because of brexit is just appalling. #BrexitIsNotWorking

Rob Dunsire

@Erisnud

3 years

BBC Countryfile today ‘20,000 Pigs culled and 40 Farms closed so far’. 70% of workers were from the EU before Brexit. This is the worst disaster ever faced by British farmers and the 6 month visas for European farm workers are inadequate 😱😱😱😱😱😩😩😩😩😩😭😭😭😭😭

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1 year

The #IEA is a (very bad) joke. In an article "How to abolish the NHS", Richard Wellings says "the compulsory licensing of medical professionals should be abolished. Anyone should be at liberty to practice as a doctor or nurse, . . ."

Paul Schleifer (@[email protected])

And now they’re even saying it out loud! https://iea.org.uk/blog/how-to-abolish-the-nhs/

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6 years

@ijsimo @JuliaHB1 Oh yes. Because it would probably stop brexit. That's the only simple solution. There's no shame in 't can say "we tried,but it turned out that we are better off in"

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4 years

@drphilhammond Hey I'm 83 (so ~15% chance of dying if I get #COVID -19). I still have papers to write. So I don't like that comment (and I'll bet you change your mind when reach 79 you change your mind)

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9 years

OMG (as it were). South Bank University students ban poster of the flying spaghetti monster

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2 years

Watford Gen Hospital was magnificent! Ambulance arrived in 10 min, rapidly moved to bed in A&E resusc, 5 mg bisoprolol + Mg infusion HR back to normal range. Everyone friendly and kind. Even brought coffee and biscuits while waiting, briefly, for ride home

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6 years

@smg1664 @GrumpySod50 @mitsyarty @alistairbarron @sonofr My mother in law (who died in March, aged 96) voted Remain because she'd lived in London during the blitz. She knew the value of international collaboration.

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4 years

Just had my first dose of vaccine, in Stevenage. Superbly well organised. Thank you NHS. (It was Oxford/AZ. I'd have preferred Pfizer/BioNtech, but fingers crossed).

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6 years

@CarolineFlintMP NO. We need to #StopBrexit . There is nothing quite as unpleasent as Labout leavers. Even Momentum is trying to persuade @jeremycorbyn to see sense

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4 months

Wow -explosive revelations about the #PostOffice scandal on @Channel4News "Paula Vennells lied to parliament" -Arbuthnot

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Covert recordings obtained by C4News prove Post Office covered up scandal for years

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4 years

@gorskon @jk_rowling I think that you should treat serious and difficult medical questions a bit more seriously :-(

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8 years

I put some thoughts about normalisation of extremists on my FB page

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3 years

Please watch @IndependentSage on YouTube. Another superb dispassionate summary of latest data from @chrischirp and good Q&A.

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1 year

@PennyMordaunt It's hard for people to believe that after you no-platformed @DanKaszeta

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6 years

@montie Being anti-Trump is being pro-American.

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10 months

"I was not considered faculty quality, because I didn’t have a first author publication in Nature and didn’t have an Ivy League education." Katalin Karikó (Nobel prize) -yet another example of the stupidity of metrics

Katalin Karikó: «Women should have a career and a happy family»

Scientist Katalin Karikó’s work didn’t get the attention it deserved until the start of the pandemic in 2020, when suddenly her area of expertise, mRNA, became the most important subject of research...

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8 years

Prof Zhang published no paper since 2001. In UK he'd have been fired. Now proved the “bounded gaps” conjecture

A Huge Discovery About Prime Numbers—and What It Means for the Future of Math

Last week, Yitang “Tom” Zhang, a popular math professor at the University of New Hampshire, stunned the world of pure mathematics when he announced...

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7 years

@PeteNorth303 Yet more false memories of the "good old days". Bring back ration books, I say

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7 years

Sigh. A reviewer has just been critical because I supply code in a form that's easy to use because it it could be used "thoughtlessly" You can't win! Try it thoughtlessly at

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6 years

and how about @carolecadwalla ? She's won a shelf-full of awards for her journalism, but the BBC seems petrified of her. #bbcqt

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Great! How about putting an MEP on Question Time? You know, Britain’s representatives in Europe..

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@LoftusSteve @RSPBEngland @RishiSunak @michaelgove @theresecoffey Your defence of the water companies was very weak, I thought, "other countries have s**t on the beach" is not an excuse,

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5 years

@LenMcCluskey @paulmasonnews But, Mr McLuskey, it's your support for brexit that's part of the cause. You have betrayed your members and those who used to vote Labour.

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7 years

WOW. As of 5 am, I'm a grandfather. Her name is April :-)

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2 years

Pulse 135 bpm this morning, Feeling weak but still here :-) Nice lady on 111 had obv never heard of the word 'atrial'. But soon got a call back from a Dr. He's arranged for an ambulance to do ECG at home -4 hours. NHS is wonderful, despite gov't efforts to destroy ir.

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2 years

@pritipatel Your instinct for cruelty is unrivalled. You bring shame on the UK

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8 years

Once again, I'm reminded of @stephensenn 's aphorism

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5 years

It seems that @BorisJohnson is a threat to the security of the UK.

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5 years

The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Cressida Dick warned that losing legal instruments such as the European Arrest Warrant and membership of agencies such as Europol could potentially pose risks to the public.

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@michaelgove I think you'll find that refused to debate you because you are not the leader. If you are dishonest about such small things, why should we trust you about big things?

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6 years

@gareth_snell "what I'm hearing on the doorstep" is almost invariably wrong. You won't be forgiven if you back brexit. You'll destroy @UKLabour for a generation. I have usually voted Labour (never Tory) but I certainly won't vote for a party that goes into lobbies with Rees-Mogg

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Wow -we are grandparents again. Another granddaughter born at 7 am this morning. All is well :-)

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4 years

This is incredible - "A-levels: Exam regulator ignored expert help after statisticians wouldn't sign non-disclosure agreements" Orwellian

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4 years

Wow. Ofqual turned down the offer of advice from the Royal Statistical Society on its algorithm because the RSS refused to be silent about any flaws it might find.

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Make no mistake -our government is more in league with the far-right than at any time in history.

Byline Times

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Michael Gove’s Lobbyists at the Heart of White Nationalist Trumpworld – Byline Times

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@Anna_Soubry So it's a pity the @Conservatives are firmly in the grip of the hard right

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3 years

PCR test came back negative. Mysterious fever and neck pain receding. Looks as though I live to fight another day.

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@LPerrins If the lockdown had started 2 or 3 weeks earlier, then it could have ended by now and thousands of lives (and millions of ££) would have been saved

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"Research, stretching back to 1870 shows that far-right parties and populist politics are always the great beneficiaries of any financial crisis. 2008 lit the fuse." Spot on, from @Otto_English

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@gareth_snell You seem determined to lose the next election. You won't be forgiven quickly for that.

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Son just sent me this. Too true.

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@RishiSunak To say that the Labour party is on the same side as criminal gangs is obviously defamatory and untrue. You really must be desperate to resort to such tactics. It's a bit pathetic.

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4 years

In March the government acted 3 weeks too late. This time they are 5 weeks too late. That's how to maximise the economic damage (and deaths). Calling them incompetent is too kind.

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4 years

Apart from this quite obviously coming too late; the government really briefing this on a Friday night? To test the waters? Whilst creating panic & speculation over the weekend? Grow the hell up, make a decision & announce it properly. Country is run by incompetent fools

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6 years

Excellent! The world is in your debt

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8 years

When I began my investigation of research cheat Andrew Wakefield, he was a doctor and I wasn't.

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I've tried to reconstruct the 1993 Fenn lecture by Prof Sir Bernard Katz, For those of us lucky enough to have known him, it's amazing to hear his voice so clearly. #physiology #biophysics @ThePhySoc

Bernard Katz, the Fenn lecture 1993

Professor Bernard Katz delivers the Wallace Fenn lecture at the 1993 meeting of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, in Glasgow. Thanks to Rich...

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@gsoh31 but remainers have got somewhere else to go. Corbyn will probably lose the next election against the worst government in my lifetime. Well done.

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