Anna Comerford

Bring it All Back is a 10/10 banger no notes #totp

adjusta*

Cannot believe what I have just witnessed in the #FigureSkating. Shooketh.

No, this was a total splatfest of unprecedented proportions.

OK now I see what a meltdown is :/

Important not to focus only on misinformation and parents not consenting for their children to be vaccinated. Access, funding, service delivery issues, structures etc. all likely matter as well.

After his stint in the SAS (Special Army Soldiers) he'd have been perfect.

I think it's nice that the olympics scheduled the most romantic sport (doubles luge) for right before valentine's day

Ah I see, thanks. Now you mention it the lack of falls is quite remarkable.

Out of interest what does a total meltdown entail?

Out protesting triple axels brb #figureskating #MilanoCortina2026

bbc two should put on ice skating on every night irregardless whether it is the olympics or not

People in a lecture theatre in front of slides saying 'Advances in Disease X preparedness'

Here at @lshtm.bsky.social for a seminar on Disease X epidemic preparedness

Excellent. Thanks to OUP for making this happen.

Selfie of creepy-looking woman with portrait of Dr John Snow. Text "homeboy working class lad made good Dr John Snow father of modern epidemiology destroyer of miasma theory" and "me".

Pilgrimage

If it helps at all I paid £3.3k and it took two years. But that was in Leeds in 2014 so by the time you factor in inflation + London it's probably about right...

8 grand tho!!!

Had exactly these in my mid twenties and showed em off at a lot of academic conferences. You get used to it tbf

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is wearing a necklace that says hmm . Alt: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is wearing a necklace that says hmm .

Mona Lisa Saperstein was a Vengaboy?! #totp

Please Rebecca she was 75

I was not expecting the head Stereophonic to look like that. #totp

Tune klaxon #totp

Going out to protest the death of Catherine O’Hara

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

Catherine O’Hara and John Candy, circa 1978

😭

Starting this #totp evening very sad about Catherine O'Hara, so Tender as an opener feels apropos

William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89

In 1966, Dr. William Foege and his team built a ring of vaccination containment around the initial outbreak of smallpox in Nigeria, halting the spread of the disease.

It was a strategy that later led to the global eradication of smallpox.

He has died aged 89.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

i can think of maybe a handful—like, five—people who have saved more human lives than bill foege. he deserves a couple minutes of your time to read about and remember.

A team of researchers in Dublin believe they have found a way to stop whooping cough not only from making people sick, but from spreading quietly through communities at all. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a serious infection caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Modern vaccines have saved

I usually keep commentary to Top of the Pops on here, but my goodness this is wild. Wild.