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Had the most uplifting lunch with our patient advocates yesterday! Wonderful conversations, lots of laughs, and a powerful reminder of why this work matters. Grateful for their honesty, insight, and partnership. 💙 #CLOCS2#DataForGood#CancerAwareness#PatientAdvocacy #ResearchCommunity

Self-Care Behaviors of Ovarian Cancer Patients Before Their Diagnosis: Proof-of-Concept Study Background: Longer patient intervals can lead to more late-stage cancer diagnoses and higher mortality rates. Individuals may delay presenting to primary care with red flag symptoms and instead turn t...

🛒 Shopping data for cancer research? Yep!
CLOCS‑1 showed people often self‑treat early symptoms long before seeing a GP.
Your basket might hold early clues to symptoms you didn’t realise were symptoms!
Find out more here:🔗 cancer.jmir.org/2019/1/e10447

#CLOCS2#EarlyCancerDetection#DataForGood

Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month 💙
Early signs are easy to overlook: bloating, indigestion, fatigue, back pain, feeling full quickly, or a sense that something isn’t right.
Our work shows people often self‑manage for months.
Awareness leads to earlier diagnosis.

#CLOCS2 #DataForGood #CancerAwareness

This is really interesting!

Be part of life-changing research Find out how you can take part in health and care research through Be Part of Research #BePartofResearch

Thinking of joining CLOCS‑2, but not sure how?

Here are the steps 💙
1️⃣ Register on Be Part of Research (bepartofresearch.nihr.ac.uk)
2️⃣ Search “CLOCS‑2”
3️⃣ Sign up
4️⃣ Look out for an email invite with your survey link (check spam too!)

#CLOCS2#DataForGood#EarlyCancerDetection #CancerAwareness

Big Boost for CLOCS-2 🚀
We were featured on BBC Morning Live (0:00–2:09 mins) and picked up by The Mirror!

Join the conversation and help us keep this energy going 💙

Find out more: x.com/BBCMorningLi...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

#CLOCS2#EarlyCancerDetection#CancerAwareness #DataForGood

After the first week of recruitment we have our first participants.

Exciting!!!

Let’s get that ball rolling.

I received this email too, and promptly ignored it. If it looks like spam, and smells like spam…..

If it’s legit, they have gone about it very badly.

In 2024 I published a scif short story called “The Automotive Revolution”

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“Art imitates life”

All good ideas arrive in fiction. I published a short story on this idea

365tomorrows.com/2024/07/12/t...

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County Championship Division One 2025 Statistics | ESPNcricinfo Take a look at all the County Championship Division One 2025 Statistics. Discover County DIV1 Statistics on player records, team performances, and more on ESPNcricninfo

Why not start here with your current best players…. It baffling why this isn’t the norm.

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It’s happening soon! Follow @clocs-team.bsky.social if you want to see updates on our CLOCS study.

Using shopping data for early #cancer detection.

Photo of sand descending in an egg timer published by openDemocracy.

The fifth #SPSFC is about to close for entries and we're looking for a few more judges:

spsfc.space/2025/11/07/l...

Come for the free books. Stay for the Discord community full of self-published authors and avid science fiction readers.

All You Need To Know About the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) — Allison Alexander Key details about the contest for self-published sci-fi novels founded by Hugh Howey.

I'm excited to be a judge for this year's Self-Published Science Fiction Competition! If you write and self-pub sci-fi, you should submit. #SPSFC #SPSFC5 #SciFi #ScienceFiction www.aealexander.com/blog/spsfc

Very excited to be a judge for #SPSFC5 this year!

Go on sign up, submit your fantastic Sci-fi. I want to read it!

👀 look here!

This makes me so happy I could cry. Black Sky, Blue Earth - my aching story about climate collapse & personal rebirth - is the lead story in this year’s @oysterriverpages.bsky.social. It has a lot of my soul in it. Please read it & all of Oyster River’s work

www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

I STRONGLY encourage all educators to read this amazingly well-researched article from @themarkup.org about the issues of AI-detection software and who really benefits from it (spoiler: it is not our students): themarkup.org/artificial-i...

#AI #GenAI #HigherEd

HT @jessifer.bsky.social

NIH-funded science must now be free to read instantly: what you should know US biomedical agency’s public-access policy kicks in on 1 July. Nature talks to specialists about how to comply.

Starting July 1, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health will be required to make their scientific papers available to read for free as soon as they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. Nature asks experts what researchers need to know about the NIH policy. #Academicsky 🧪

Europe Is Recruiting Academics Disenchanted With America The U.K., France and other countries have set up funds to help U.S. researchers relocate to the continent.

Gift Article
#Econsky
#Academicsky

www.wsj.com/world/europe...

This is a damn good story to read, I got stuck in the endless loop…

Preparing devices for travel through a US border US border searches of electronic devices put journalists’ work at risk. But there’s a lot you can do to be prepared

A joint project of @freedom.press and @eff.org: Journalists have been asking us about how to prepare devices for travel. We put together a checklist of things you can do: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

A neon sign says 'Toad Shade Zine Volume Three'. Underneath the sign is a deranged theme park mascot in overalls wearing overalls. There is a sign next to the mascot the reads 'You Must Be This Tall To Die!'.

Issue #3 is ready! Check out stories by @sharkiatwrites.bsky.social, @rworauthor.bsky.social, Zee Coonen, Irina Verene, and Kay Northbridge. Art by @jartravian.bsky.social, @beingcam.bsky.social, Melissa Yskamp, and Denny Marshall.

Head to ToadShadeZine.com to get yours!
#payforart #FuckAI #zine

🏆 I won the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Award! It's the first win for a story centering an African refugee woman.

Read here: www.jerryjazzmusician.com/short-fictio...

💬 Please leave a comment at the bottom of the publication page.

#WritingCommunity #ShortStory #WritersOfBluesky

Twisted Teams - A Writing Competition with a Twist Join Twisted Teams - A Writing Competition Balancing Individual Creativity with Team Collaboration

Ready to test my writing skills in the Twisted Teams challenge "Twisted Teams 1"! Looking forward to the creative prompts and team collaboration. Any other writers joining me? twistedtournament.com/homepageteams #TwistInTaleContest #writingcontest

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