Agnes Ayton 💙 (@agnesayton) 's Twitter Profile
Agnes Ayton 💙

@agnesayton

Consultant psychiatrist - Chair 2019-23 @RCPsychEDFac, re-elected as vice chair 2023-2027, #EPSIG, Proud IMG. All views are my own. @agnesayton.bsky.social

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Prof Katherine Sleeman (@kesleeman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You might wonder why a paediatric palliative care specialist was speaking at an event on the Leadbeater Bill, given it would restrict assisted dying to people aged 18 or over. 🧵

Anaesthetists United (@anaesunited) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We fought for safety. But we still need to pay the lawyers who fought for us. We are about £15,000 short. The reasons are at anaesthetistsunited.com/we-fought-for-…

We fought for safety.

But we still need to pay the lawyers who fought for us.

We are about £15,000 short.

The reasons are at anaesthetistsunited.com/we-fought-for-…
val 💌 (@glowyaquarius) 's Twitter Profile Photo

currently writing an essay & doing research on how the 1918 flu directly led to the rise of fascism in italy & germany & eugenic legislation even in america and how we are repeating it all right now with covid and this shit is wild y’all….we really never learn from history

Harry Eccles (@heccles94) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's #AlcoholAwarenessWeek The vast majority of addiction in the UK (and worldwide) is alcohol. 'oh, why aren't you drinking' 'oh go on, just one!' 'oh, don't be boring' Alcohol kills more than any other drug. It's time to end the stigma. Links below for support.

Robert Howard (@profrobhoward) 's Twitter Profile Photo

(3/n) take on with supervision of PAs is something completely different. It isn’t really “supervision” as we know it. This is a much more extensive and deeper checking of the quality and safety of all assessments and decisions made by relatively untrained colleagues. How are we

Prof Kamlesh Khunti (@kamleshkhunti) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🫀🧠 2025 ACC Scientific Statement: Management of Obesity in Adults With Heart Failure Obesity is not just a comorbidity-it’s a modifiable treatment target in heart failure. 🔹 Calls for integrated HF & obesity care pathways jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… #HeartFailure #Obesity

🫀🧠 2025 ACC Scientific Statement: 

Management of Obesity in Adults With Heart Failure

Obesity is not just a comorbidity-it’s a modifiable treatment target in heart failure.

🔹 Calls for integrated HF & obesity care pathways

jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

#HeartFailure #Obesity
Dr David Unwin (@lowcarbgp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My article in The Daily Mail today highlights how a low carb diet reduces appetite & increases GLP-1 hormone naturally instead of the jabs Also showcases DoctorTro paper His patients lost as much weight low carb as people paying for Wegovy 👍 dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

My article in The Daily Mail today highlights how  a low carb diet reduces appetite &amp; increases GLP-1 hormone naturally instead of the jabs Also showcases <a href="/DoctorTro/">DoctorTro</a> paper His patients lost as much weight low carb as people paying for Wegovy  👍 dailymail.co.uk/health/article…
Children's Commissioner for England (@childrenscomm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Every time I got [food packages] the food was always out of date and mouldy...I know I’m poor but I’m not going to eat mouldy food.” – Boy, 15 Children have shared their experiences of poverty with me, read my full report👇 childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/resource/growi…

“Every time I got [food packages] the food was always out of date and mouldy...I know I’m poor but I’m not going to eat mouldy food.” – Boy, 15

Children have shared their experiences of poverty with me, read my full report👇
childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/resource/growi…
Roshana 🦴 (@roshanamn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

20 years of training 1 marriage 👰🏽‍♀️🤵🏻 2 children 👦🏽👦🏽 12 Hospitals 🏥 16 exams 📈 5 city moves 2000 operations+ 🛠️ Many tears Convincing myself not to quit Fighting for my & other rights Today Completion of training early CCT ✅😭: Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery

20 years of training

1 marriage 👰🏽‍♀️🤵🏻
2 children 👦🏽👦🏽
12 Hospitals 🏥
16 exams 📈
5 city moves
2000 operations+ 🛠️

Many tears 
Convincing myself not to quit 
Fighting for my &amp; other rights

Today 

Completion of training early CCT ✅😭:

Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
CLaE (@leafs_s) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nature Neuroscience Human thalamocortical structural connectivity develops in line with a hierarchical axis of cortical plasticity nature.com/articles/s4159…

Royal College of Psychiatrists (@rcpsych) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Call for symposia! Submit your session abstract for the Faculty of Eating Disorders Annual Conference 2025: forms.office.com/e/bYzE5vf5LW

Call for symposia!

Submit your session abstract for the Faculty of Eating Disorders Annual Conference 2025: forms.office.com/e/bYzE5vf5LW
Elizabeth Roberts (@docrobertsdiet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New metreleptin improves #anorexia psychopathology paper from Hebebrand. Case report: Metreleptin rapidly improved anorexia nervosa related and comorbid psychopathology in a patient with high endogenous leptin levels adjusted for body mass index - PubMed pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40616697/

Howard Luks MD (@hjluks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As a surgeon, you don’t remember every patient who came through surgery and did well. You remember the handful who didn’t. The uncomplicated cases fade. The ones who healed fast, walked out smiling, got back to life—you’re happy for them, but they don’t haunt you. The ones who

Lorna Collins (@sensinglorna) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The 2nd in the provocative trilogy of papers on #madness, #creativity & #sense I wrote with Roxana Baiasu is out in Italian philosophy journal “Iride”. We find meaning and sense in #madness (both vulnerable and resilient). This is #ACreativeTransformation. rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1414/11…

The 2nd in the provocative trilogy of papers on #madness, #creativity &amp; #sense I wrote with Roxana Baiasu is out in Italian philosophy journal “Iride”. We find meaning and sense in #madness (both vulnerable and resilient). This is #ACreativeTransformation.
rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1414/11…
Robert Lufkin MD (@robertlufkinmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Artificial sweeteners have no calories but they are not benign. They induce microbiome-dependent glycemic alterations and alter the gut microbiome. Best to avoid sugar and sugar substitutes. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Artificial sweeteners have no calories
but they are not benign.

They induce microbiome-dependent 
glycemic alterations and alter the gut microbiome.

Best to avoid sugar and sugar substitutes. 

cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
louis appleby (@proflappleby) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tragic to hear. Suicidal crises are individual but there may be common threads in feeling trapped, humiliated or unjustly treated. Esp in face of financial, legal or reputational threat. Courts, creditors, banks, regulators & many more need to learn this. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

Frank Lipman MD (@drfranklipman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A major study has found that people taking acid reflux drugs known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) for more than 4.4 years face a 33% higher risk of developing dementia. ow.ly/YyjH50WmCvN

Neuroscience News (@neurosciencenew) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Astrocytes Take the Lead: Hidden Stars of Brain Rhythms Revealed Astrocytes, star-shaped glial cells, play a much more active role in brain function than previously thought, according to a new computational study. Researchers used machine learning to analyze how astrocytes

Astrocytes Take the Lead: Hidden Stars of Brain Rhythms Revealed

Astrocytes, star-shaped glial cells, play a much more active role in brain function than previously thought, according to a new computational study. 

Researchers used machine learning to analyze how astrocytes