Lizzy (she/they)
@diddyscott
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Former Archaeologist, Therapy Radiographer, Sometime Athlete 🦴 ☢️ 🏃♀️ 🌱 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Leeds, England
Joined March 2009
We are in the next wave of Covid. There are now consistently 5-6 waves a year. It’s not seasonal. Unless you mean every season. Just because we are doing what Trump suggested¬ testing, doesn’t mean it is not there. Future generations Are going to look back at this as madness
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In 2019, Caster Semenya was told she could no longer participate in sport unless she took hormone suppressants. As a doctor, I find this unacceptable. Medicine is prescribed for the benefit of the patient's health - not because a sports committee dictates it. Genetic
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Only capitalism could turn unlimited free electricity into a problem.
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Here's how the future is going to play out... (Long - please expand the tweet.) 1. The Tories will keep on wrecking things faster and faster as the GE approaches. They'll act like irresponsible teenagers who know they don't have to clean up in the morning after a wild drunken
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Don't worry about getting us a birthday card to celebrate #NHS75... Instead, we'll be more than happy with you getting an organ donor card for registering to become a donor for the first time. Confirm your organ donation decision today ❤️ https://t.co/6CaXmcHhh3
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‘At the Seed Vault’s tenth anniversary celebrations, water had to be pumped out of its foyers after another warmest month on record melted the permafrost that was the whole reason the vault had been built in Longyearbyen.’ Sam Kinchin-Smith on Svalbard: https://t.co/Zef0wO6P44
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Earlier this year, two ice cores 125 metres long were drilled out of the Holtedahlfonna icefield and flown to the Ice...
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This simple Norman church, St Mary's in Kempley, Gloucestershire, contains some of England's best-preserved medieval wall paintings. Those in the chancel are particularly rare, from the early 12th century, and are the most complete set of Romanesque frescos in northern Europe.
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Everyone has noticed how the anti-trans mob are now openly coming for absolutely anyone and anything LGB too right? We all knew it would happen but the speed is unreal. Same reason you see so much racism from them too. They are just bog standard fascists. #PrideMonth
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“Inflation has been caused by corporate profiteering, not wage increases. The OECD looked at whether workers, business or governments had contributed most to inflation, & data revealed in the UK business was most to blame”. Spot on @OwenJones84 👇
theguardian.com
All the evidence is there: corporate greed is the culprit, but policymakers daren’t take on big business, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Do you really know how to examine your breasts? Let me teach you how a breast surgeon does it and show you what a breast cancer feels like 👇 https://t.co/QD1EjSxz1a Please share this with everyone you know, and subscribe to my YouTube channel so you don’t miss my next video
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Our Founder was on Not Your Grandma's Cancer Show again for @Shinecancersupp with with @TatumDeRoeck and @diddyscott! Check it out. #LTTcancer #lgbtqia #cancer #cancerawareness #CancerSupport
#CancerCommunity #CancerAwareness #Community #sex #queersex #sexwithcancer
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That Jeremy Clarkson can write things like that, and publish them unashamed, tells us all we need to know about the way Rupert Murdoch has poisoned and rotted our public life.
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I have watched in dismay the managed deterioration of the #NHS and public services. The consequences for the UK aren't, in my view, about private healthcare or not, they are about whether there will be any healthcare at all for all but the rich. Here's why... 🧵 1/n
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@LeeRberger team find widespread use of controlled fire for light & cooking in the Rising Star Cave System, attributed most likely to the small-brained ancient hominin species #Homonaledi
https://t.co/l7OSWIwqps
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@ThereAreNoStars @LeeRberger Here's a talk he gave the other day. He found fire pits at the opening of every chamber, coal, ash, soot, and burnt animal bones. More will be definite in a few years when all the soil can be studied and after carbon dating.
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I'm recruiting participants to be involved in my PhD project on cervical screening for trans+ people! Please click this link https://t.co/SpY1SraTx4 for more information. Feel free to contact me via DM or email (ggreaves2@sheffield.ac.uk) to ask any questions. Thank you🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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And here’s my long read, which goes more into the daily reality of long covid and the simple things that can make a big difference https://t.co/rvLv8qpkII
news.sky.com
Sky's technology correspondent Rowland Manthorpe has suffered with long COVID for more than 18 months, and documented his continued struggle.
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Here’s the film I made about this experience. Watch till the end! I promise it will be worth it https://t.co/8mmbTZlcBM
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