SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk Spokes, the Lothian Cycle Campaign:
fights for better conditions for everyday journeys by bike, particularly Edinburgh & Lothian. Also lobby Scot Gov.
We also encourage more councils, govt depts, politicians, professionals etc to move to bsky!
Emily Fridenmaker @emilyfri.bsky.social Wife | Mom | Appalachian | MD | Pulmonary & Critical Care
🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike https://edi.bike - Edinburgh’s weekly cycling digest, covering local campaigns, path progress, events & more.
Tag posts with #EdTravCyc to share route, road and path issues and follow our custom feed: https://bsky.app/profile/edi.bike/feed/edtravcyc
@euanbaxter.bsky.social @euanbaxter.bsky.social
Edward Tissiman @edtiss.bsky.social From Forres. Live in Edinburgh. Finished the Munros in 2021. Care about cycling and other stuff.
https://medium.com/@edward.tissiman
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Author of How to Design a Universe. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Sarah Gorey @sarahgorey.bsky.social
👩🏻⚕️ Geriatric Medicine Fellow 🇮🇪 in 🇺🇸, 🧠Stroke Research & PhD candidate UCD Dublin, 💻MSc NUIG Galway, YSPR committee European Stroke Organisation 🇪🇺
EdmontonStroke @edmontonstroke.bsky.social Official account of Edmonton Stroke Program
@sean9n.bsky.social @sean9n.bsky.social
Roshana @roshana.bsky.social Mum 👦🏽👦🏽✨| NHS Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon 🧜🏽♀️(Eternal LTFT Registrar) | @theHWF Chairwoman | Twitter @roshanamn
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh @rcpedin.bsky.social Standard-setting & professional membership organisation representing over 14,500 Fellows & Members
Taylor Swift Updates @tswiftupdatess.swifties.social Your source for all Taylor Swift news and updates! Not affiliated with Taylor, just a fan account 🦋
Lara Mitchell @laramitchdr.bsky.social Geriatrician. Syncope & Cardiovascular health. National clinical lead acute at Healthcare Improvement Scotland.
Passionate about QI & Design
Scottish Quality & Improvement Fellow
And all things books & bikes
#frailty #syncope #QI #CardioSky
Shane O'Hanlon @drohanlon.bsky.social Geriatrician. Healthy ageing, dementia, medicolegal, informatics, humanities
#HeForShe
Kenneth Rockwood @krockdoc.bsky.social Newfoundlander, Geriatrician, frailty advocate. Clinician scientist. Looking for better ways to provide frailty care at scale.
Stephen Makin @stephenmakin.bsky.social Most northerly geriatrician on the UK mainland. Has a Newfoundland dog. Lives in a lighthouse.
Lyndsey Dunn @lyndseydunn7.bsky.social Clinical Services Manager| Fife HSCP|
Chair @ Nurse & AHP Council British Geriatrics Society @gerisoc.bsky.social #NurseAhpcouncil
Volunteer at Age UK|
Frailty Specialist.
Shelagh O’Riordan @shelaghor.bsky.social Consultant geriatrician, NHSE clinical lead for virtual ward/hospital at home. President elect UK Hospital at Home Society.
Dan Lasserson @danlasserson.bsky.social Professor of Acute Ambulatory Care, University of Warwick|Acute Medicine/ Hospital at Home |University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust | acute medical care out of hospital | point of care diagnostics #POCUS |patient experience
Zoe Wyrko @geribaby.bsky.social Loitering geriatrician, now doing housing rather than health. Would always rather be in my garden.
Rowan Wallace @rowanwallace.bsky.social Consultant Older People’s Medicine NHS Ayrshire and Arran. National Specialty Advisor Geriatric Medicine to CMO Scotland. Interests are Hospital at Home, ‘front door frailty’ and Pre-op assessment.
UK Hospital At Home Society @ukhahsoc.bsky.social Welcome to the UK Hospital at Home Society, which supports the development of Hospital standard, Acute care in patients’ own homes.
https://www.hospitalathome.org.uk
Tash Masud @tashmasud.bsky.social Geriatrician, interest in osteoporosis, falls, medical education. President Elect European Geriatric Medicine Society. Past President British Geriatrics Society. Love ancient history
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Erin Gourley @erin-gourley.bsky.social Doctor - Psych CT3 | Warwickshire | Good enough mother to 2 boys | BMA West Mids & UK Resident Dr Committees | WM RCPsych PTC | Views my own
Interests in old age psych, medical care in pts with SMI & advocacy for better working conditions for doctors.
Clare Collins @clarecollins21.bsky.social My own random thoughts/other people’s. Nowt to write home about. Certainly not in any professional/job capacity. Give anaesthetics.
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
Rebecca Lawrence @rebecca99.bsky.social Writer, patient, psychiatrist, amateur violinist.
https://doctor-and-patient.com
Author of ‘An Improbable Psychiatrist’ published by Cambridge University Press https://theguardian.com/profile/rebecca-lawrence
Lucy Henshall @drlucyhenshall.bsky.social Clinically retired GP, offering bespoke support to GPs reassessing their career after time out: www.welcomebacktowork.co.uk
And exploring what else my own life has to offer now I have more time to explore and play 😎
What lights you up? Find your #Ikigai
Abi Rimmer @abirimmer.bsky.social Editor and reporter @bmj_latest
https://www.bmj.com/careers-articles
Email arimmer@bmj.com
Mary Doherty @autisticdoctor.bsky.social Autistic anaesthetist, ADHD, Clinical Associate Professor UCD School of Medicine, autism researcher, parent, founder Autistic Doctors International
Jess Morgan @jessmorgan.bsky.social Non-clinical paediatrician, educator, passionate about improving the wellbeing of doctors, writer, TEDx speaker.
Love a single shot latte in a bookshop.
My TEDx talk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yvYou5qwEQ0&t=2s&pp=ygUTZHIgamVzcyBtb3JnYW4gdGVkeA%3D%3D
The Association of Anaesthetists @assocanaes.bsky.social Every anaesthetist aims to keep their patients safe. We aim to safeguard every anaesthetist.
Follow our journal @anaesjournal.bsky.social. Monitored 9:00-17:00, Mon-Fri
Royal College of Physicians @rcphysicians.bsky.social
The professional home of physicians. Supporting our membership community, setting standards and using our voice to improve patient care. Together we're shaping the future of medicine.
Royal College of Anaesthetists @rcoanews.bsky.social The RCoA is the professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the UK. Please DM for enquiries.
The BMA @bma.org.uk We’re the trade union and professional body for UK doctors and medical students.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Neil Macey @nmacey.bsky.social GP @stowhealth.
Suffolk LMC representative.
#QCommunity.
Lucky husband.
Proud father to 4 brilliant children. Sondheim. Theatre. Film
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Clare Eliza @clare-eliza.bsky.social internet cas girl
Mike @thefourthcraw.bsky.social On the quiet side. Somewhat peculiar.
A good companion, in a weird sort of way.
🏴🏳️🌈He/Him
London
Geek stuff, X-Men, theatre, photos
Paediatric sleep doctor, that's over here: https://bsky.app/profile/drmikefarquhar.bsky.social
Dr Mark Taylor @drmarktaylor.bsky.social Smallholder with sheep. Geriatrician/Frailty specialist at Royal Lancaster Infirmary. Passionate about service development, med education, family, MUFC and Sale Sharks Rugby Club
David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social NHS Acute Hosp Dr 37 y. GER/GIM. Ex DH Nat Clin Dir. Lapsed Academic. Policy Think Tanker. Ex BGS/RCP Pres/VP
Med Journalism. Byline: @BMJ_latest. Columns: health press newspapers. @mjauk
Manc-in-South. MCFC. Craic, Schlock, Sharing, Learning, Friends
Dr Kathryn Mannix @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social Former palliative care doctor
Campaigning for better public understanding & conversations about dying
Writer: With The End In Mind & Listen
Speaker
Hopeful despite the circumstances.
www.kathrynmannix.com
Jugdeep Dhesi @jkdhesi.bsky.social President British Geriatrics Society, Geriatrician POPS GSTT, Hon Prof Geriatric Medicine KCL, Deputy Director Centre for Perioperative Care, Clinical Lead NHS Elect POPS network
A Returning Doctor @returningdoctor.bsky.social Consultant Anaesthetist • NHS • Returned to medicine after a long career break • Mum • Introvert • Runner (slow & happy) • Coffee (always) ☕
#Anaesthesia • #MedSky • #AnSky • #CareerReturn • #ReturningDoctor 🩺
Gabriel Beecham @gbeecham.bsky.social Language lover, anaesthetist, politics junkie. Dubliner on exile in London. Sé/é, he/him. 🇬🇭🇮🇪
Women Speakers in Healthcare (womenspeakersHC) @womenspeakershc.bsky.social The UK's largest database of women speakers for health and social care events. Sign up as a speaker, ally or request a speaker at www.wsih.co.uk. #genderbalance
Founders
Greta McLachlan
@katieknight
@rosespenfold
Nada Al-Hadithy
Lucia Magee
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Thomas James @sas-gas-thomas.bsky.social Proud to be a jobbing SAS Anaesthetist. Trying to be less cynical. Happiest in the mountains
No one’s opinions are every truly their own
Jamie Read @profjread.bsky.social Dean of the Lincoln Medical School. Proud SAS doctor. Researching professional identity and psychological safety. Passionate about excellent patient care.
David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social York academic, chemist, gay widower, and (now) single adoptive Dad. Science, education, politics, life. Views personal. Award-winning food writer. (He/him) 🏳️🌈
Latest Cookbook: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1739967038
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social Geriatric medicine registrar and PhD student researching care trajectories and geriatric syndromes. Small details and big pictures. Based in Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders.
Mark Garside @mjgarside.uk Consultant stroke physician in the NHS.
I live and work in North East England.
Aoife Abbey 📟 🩺 ⚕️ @whistlingdixie.bsky.social Consultant Intensivist | Author Seven Signs of Life @ Vintage Books | Section Editor @ Intensive Care Medicine Journal | Person centred conversations matter | She/Her | ☘️
Dr Liz O’Riordan @lizoriordan.bsky.social Professional Speaker - Author - Breast Surgeon with Breast Cancer
www.liz.oriordan.co.uk
Huma Naqvi @humanaqvi.bsky.social Geriatrician, interests include Medicine older adult care, perioperative care. Very passionate about the NHS. Senior Medic Well-being lead SWBH, TPD WM Geriatric Medicine. views are my own
Likes dark chocolate as well!
Anna Batchelor @annabatchelor.bsky.social Refugee from the bird place. Still fascinated by ICM but doing more gardening and slow running these days
Gillian Lever @gillybean712.bsky.social Yorkshire-based anaesthetic registrar, long-suffering cannulation servant & jazzy crocs enthusiast ♻️🌍 trying to be green! She/Her
Dr Andreas Sotiriou @hasyourregtried.bsky.social Anaesthetic resident doctor (ST7/PGY10) in SE London. Interests: regional anaesthesia, echocardiography, ultrasound, coffee, research.
Elected member Association of Anaesthetists Trainee Committee, views my own.
Clonidine/Magnesium stan account.
Tanya Selak @gonggasgirl.bsky.social Kiwi-Aussie Anaesthetist.
Your CV is the least interesting thing about you.
#MedSky #MedTwitter #AnSky
Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social Doctor / Academic | Specialist (SAS) Anaesthetist | Clinical Associate Professor | UK | He / him | FRCA | Award winning irreverence | "non-sea lion" | Part of @SAScollective.com | #SASsix | #PERUSEbeforeYouInfuse
Opinions many, all very much mine!
Sethina Watson @sethina.bsky.social Tea drinking Consultant #Anaesthetist & mum. Interests: EDI, regional anaesthesia, obstetrics, PHEM, cakes. Former writer & publicist & founder MomMD & Medica Media. #CysticFibrosis parent. #Medsky #AnSky @morefluids on X 🇬🇭🇬🇧🇺🇸
Dave Jones @welshgasdoc.bsky.social Ex-medical student
Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety
📰 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/shaun-lintern
📝 DMs open
📨 shaun.lintern@sundaytimes.co.uk
Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social Doctor, writer, Canadian Spice, lasso of truth, I speak for no one but me. 2X NYT bestsellers. More thoughts at TheVajenda.com
Mark Lander 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @drmarklander.bsky.social Work: Acute Med Consultant
Life: Gardening | Cats | Musicals | Gym | Queer books
Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social Ophthalmologist. Comedian. Speaker. Jonathan.
The Eras Tour @tstheerastour.bsky.social Follow for uptades about Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour 🫶
Partha S Kar @parthaskar.bsky.social Done a few things in Diabetes care
Loves Dogs, Bollywood; Comic books; Whiskey
Failed Tebbitt Test 🏏
Kloppite forever ⚽️
Motto?
“Dance lightly with life”
Keelin O’Donoghue @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social Obstetrician & MFM | Lead @ Pregnancy Loss Research Group | Professor, UCC | PI, INFANT | Lead, Guidelines @ NWIHP
https://www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancyloss/
#PregnancyLoss
#FetalMedicine
#ReproductiveHealth
#MedSky
Jo Poole @jopodr.bsky.social Anaesthesia. ICM. Mitochondria. Evolution. Once slept in a museum.
Jon Bedford @jonbedford.bsky.social Intensive care doctor
Vicki Cherry @orthocherry.bsky.social Trauma and Orthopaedics; mum of girls, collector of tattoos, lifter of heavy things. She/they; my views are my own and do not represent my institution
Bethan John @msbethanj.bsky.social Neurosurgeon turned General Practitioner. Taking the scenic route through medicine. Welsh.
#MedSky #GPSky #TeamGP
Wendy Burn @wendyburn.bsky.social Consultant Psychiatrist, Leeds. Past President RCPsych.
Dr Ben @ben-hock.bsky.social Consultant Paediatric and Adult Anaesthetist
Elected Member, Board of the Association of Anaesthetists @assocanaes.bsky.social
#LGBT
Patrick Lillie @pjlillie.bsky.social ID doc (TB / haem-onc) bit of research on the side, fell walking when chance allows
Paul Howard @paulhoward.bsky.social Consultant in Palliative Medicine (Isle of Wight, UK); Palliative Care Formulary Editor (neuropharmacology sections)
Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social Palliative Medicine Consultant 🩺
in North East England,
NIHR Doctoral Fellow,
PhD on #Inequalities in lung disease, #Mesothelioma #LungCancer #COPD #ILD🫁
🏳️🌈 #LGBTQ 💪🏻 #WomenInMedicine
Book/coffee/travel/photography enthusiast
☕️📚📷 🌊⛰️
Tony Duffy @pallyscot.bsky.social Palliative care doctor, Gomez the Griffon, guinea pigs, loud music, cars
⭐️Ben Allen⭐️ @benallengp.bsky.social Sheffield GP, NHS leader, convener, innovator, OD, QI, large scale change. Releasing potential for joyful & effective teams. Open to challenge! Views my own
Rebecca Payne @oohgpwales.bsky.social Rotational island GP NHS Orkney (Hoy). Clinical Senior Lecturer Bangor University. Reuben-Clarendon Scholar, Oxford University, working on tele-consultations and what comes next...
Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social @doctor_katie on X
Chair @BMA_GP England & UK
Seconded from CEO at Cambs LMC
GP Hailey View Surgery
Views my own
RT ≠ endorsement
Retired quizzer; devoted mother; loves a good pair of slippers; The Divine Comedy; bleak humour & synthpop bangerz.
Dr Nóra Murray-Cavanagh #HealthInequalities @noramc.bsky.social Wester Hailes GP & GP Lead #HealthInequalities @NHSLothian | Dep Chair ScotCouncil @BMAScotland| Equality Equity NHS #DeepEndGP #breastfeeding @GP_IFN #ACEs Positivity! #littlefreelibraries @intedalumni #poetry
Russell 🏳️🌈 @medicrussell.bsky.social your favourite doctor’s favourite doctor • passingly funny (community) emergency medicine specialist • #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️🌈🩺 he/him
Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social Peds hematologist oncologist, mother, dreamer, pacifist, justice seeker. Retweeted by Wonder Woman #HemeSky #MedSky #CakeForBreakfast #IronMatters http://www.HCWvsHunger.org
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social Physician. Honorary Professor of Geriatric Medicine. Delirium. Dementia. Quality improvement. Book lover. Northerner. Mum to daughter with PKU.
British Geriatrics Society @gerisoc.bsky.social The BGS is the UK's first and only membership organisation of multidisciplinary professionals with an interest in improving healthcare for older people. https://www.bgs.org.uk/
Livvy Swann @livvyswann.bsky.social Using data to put child health at the heart of housing policy
Paediatric Infectious Disease and Data Science
Wellcome Early Career Fellow
https://tinyurl.com/3k8kywff
https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/olivia-swann
Prof Susan Shenkin @susanshenkin.bsky.social Professor of Healthcare for Older People, University of Edinburgh. Geriatrician. Always trying to build bridges & learn from other disciplines. Interested in everything, esp dementia, delirium, care homes, data, technology
Claire Dow @clairedow1.bsky.social Consultant Geriatrician, Divisional Director for Medicine / ED, Whipps Cross University Hospital
Nye Bevan cohort 31 alumnus
Strictly and Eurovision fan
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social Geriatrician who gets to write stories. Celebrating longevity, tackling delicate questions. She/her. https://linktr.ee/lucypollock #TheGoldenRule #TheBookAboutGettingOlder Proud patron @AgeUKSomerset
Sandy Thomson @drsandythomson.bsky.social Geriatrician, @RCPhysicians Censor & @NWAmbulance CFR. Interests: Movement Disorders, Medical Education & Gerontology. Delirium obsessive.
Adam Gordon MBE @adamgordon1978.bsky.social Professor of Care of Older People at University of Nottingham. Immediate Past President of British Geriatrics Society. Clinical Academic. Interests in frailty, dementia, care homes, pre- and periop geriatrics and clinical education.