Julie Graham @JoolsGra

A full day in London for under £10🌆💸    Start your day with skyline views at @horizon22B - a completely free viewpoint in the heart of the city. Then take a scenic walk across Millennium Bridge and on to Shakespeare's Globe where you can grab tickets from just £5 and soak up a bit of culture on the South Bank.    Finish the day at Borough Market picking up a £4.50 treat from Bread Ahead — the perfect sweet ending to a full London day without breaking the £10 mark🍩🌉    #LondonMakesItPossible #VisitLondon

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear. The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day. After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this. Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017. The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around. Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief

2 weeks ago

We need to apologize to our ancestors.

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@Jennife10651535 @ShaunLintern Some areas are much further ahead than others, often because of visionary local leadership.

Loved celebrating International Day of the Midwife with @MidwivesRCM and @MichelleWelshMP Maternity care needs reform and the RCM are working with us to shape that change Hundreds of women, today and everyday, will be grateful for their midwives service - let's celebrate them!

Delighted to have launched the Midwives' Audit Programme & today we opened it up to our obstetric nurses; auditing our own and others' work contributes hugely to patient safety. Thanks to the team for supporting this QIP for our staff, women & their families #wholeteamgovernance

When there’s no sheep to herd.. 😅

Not to mention @PembrokeOxford 😍

University of Oxford @UniofOxford

2 months ago

Sunrise over @ChCh_Oxford 🌅 📷 Instagram | Juncao_Oxford (March, 2026)

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Society “you’re too old” Artemis 2 Crew: “hold my beer”

Absolute truth 🤣

Yes! 🙌 Huge congratulations to our Women’s team 👏🎉

The CHANEL J12 Boat Race @theboatrace

2 months ago

And the Women’s Race goes to Oxford 🏆 What a performance on the Championship Course - every stroke counted, every second mattered. Congratulations to the Oxford crew on a stunning victory.

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That's us! 🌍 The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

One in three calls to Martha’s rule helplines in the first 16 months of the scheme helped NHS staff identify that a patient’s condition was deteriorating, NHS England has said bmj.com/content/392/bm…

EXCL: The Green Party plans to ditch its previous policy promoting “normal” births and seeking to reduce the rate of Caesarean sections. The party understands it is “way out of tune” with safe, evidence-based maternity care. newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

Did you know? Rates of serious adverse pregnancy outcomes are higher in pregnancies complicated by #T2Diabetes compared with #T1 diabetes Maternal glucose levels are improving during pregnancy in women with #T1D without improvement in #T2D In other news? Both outcomes were similarly poor in the past. In 2019, @NHSEngland policy greenlighted CGM use in #T1Diabetes -with start of implementation in 2021 (delay due to #COVID) In 2024, most women with #T1D (90.1%) enter pregnancy already using #CGM, with almost all (97.5%) now using CGM during pregnancy Over to you @NICEComms As #T1D moves into further cutting edge technology with #HybridClosedLoops - does #T2D risk falling further behind? @drruthannharpur @catherineroyuk @JamesTitcombe @kamleshkhunti @DanielJDrucker @OckReview

Why Goldens can’t be guard dogs.. 😂

@TfL Horror-on-the-Hill

📢 Calling UK Healthcare Professionals! I am recruiting HCPs to a study about how they understand and support women who experience infant feeding related emotional distress (sometimes described as breastfeeding grief or trauma). 👉 Take part here: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_73…

The impacted fetal head at cesarean delivery, incidence, complications... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…