Sally Burn, PhD

1 in 10 of the top 100 ‘best’ scientists are named Michael or Eric, but only 3% are female, according to @guide2research. Putting aside the obvious flaws of the H-index, these numbers are disheartening. Thanks to @mbeisen for sharing. research.com/scientists-ran…

@kIopptimistic Don’t leave us hanging! What happens in the second half of @welovepulp?!

what the FUCK

#PressRelease Caris Life Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jeffrey Vacirca (@_vacirca), CEO and Chairman of the Board of New York Cancer & Blood Specialists, to our Board of Directors. Learn more: ow.ly/opXe50UbhMl

I’ve gone to @bluesky. I can’t take the random, unsolicited, far right hatred filling up my feed here. Find me at @sallyburn.bsky.social. It’s nice there; feels like Twitter back in the day. My feed is already full of cats and science again 😃

@therealnickbank Coming to see you guys play is going to be a lot easier now because this is expediting me moving back to Blighty…

America. What have you done!?!? Jeez. #USA #Election2024 #Trump

@britpopreunion @AcrylcAftrnoons Second encore. Works very well 😊

@AcrylcAftrnoons Are they playing those last three as the second encore or just slipping them in throughout the set as I can't see how you can go anywhere after playing Common People. Cheers Andy Starkey.

Pulp debut another new song at their first of three LA concerts. Titled ‘Farmers’ Market’, it’s a slow-paced love song which Jarvis dedicated to his wife.

@imwithpulp @KingsBklyn @welovepulp Happy birthday! It’s mine too today (a fact that tickled me silly as a teenager). See you during O.U., yeah?

It’s great to be back in NYC after so many years. Spendjng my birthday at @KingsBklyn tonight, if you’re free … #partyhard

@kingsizekiller @welovepulp $116.50 each for the seated tickets in lower orchestra 9/13. $136 pit 9/14. That’s what they cost including all the stupid fees.

@SallyingAbout @welovepulp can’t dm but what are the $s at face value?

I have two spare seated tickets for @welovepulp tonight and one spare pit ticket for tomorrow. I’m still going (with bells on!) but a combo of ticket buying cockups (me) and COVID (not me!) means I have spares. Selling face value, message me!

@AcrylcAftrnoons @imwithpulp @Pulpitude @pulpkeepcalm @pulpliveworld @therealnickbank For the algorithm: Pulp, tickets, Brooklyn, NYC

@AcrylcAftrnoons @imwithpulp @Pulpitude @pulpkeepcalm @pulpliveworld @therealnickbank

This is Bruno. Words have little effect on him… until now. Thank you Trump for finally giving me control of my errant pussy! Catching Bruno with a popcorn packet in his jaws, I yelled, “Bruno! I’m going to send you to Springfield!” And he dropped it 😱 #TheyreEatingTheCats

They're eating the cats in Springfield !

new meme unlocked #Debate2024

Who is eating cats?! Is it the same people who execute newborns? #Debate2024

CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election. It was a Disgrace to our Nation! Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again. We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T! Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.

@kIopptimistic There is a very good chance we were on the same flight today! We were on the 16:30 to Newark from Heathrow. Are you going to the Brooklyn shows?

well here we bloody go then!

Heading back over the pond next week and seeing @welovepulp the day before and on my (and @imwithpulp’s) birthday in NYC. I would sacrifice all manner of creatures and possessions to see O.U. live. Please, please, PLEASE play it!

Incredible tribute to phospholipids

On this #InternationalCatDay I’m celebrating all the wonderful moggies I’ve shared my adult life with! From the fosters to the main team to the holiday romances. I really do like cats quite a lot…

I was interviewed for this documentary about the trial of Lucy Letby on Channel 5 at 9 pm tonight. channel5.com/lucy-letby-the… To answer the specific question in the title, I do not know whether she is guilty but I strongly believe we need to reform our justice system so science and statistics are more fairly represented in trials of this complexity, so the jury can hear the complete picture. I am reposting my further thoughts below to avoid any confusion. I would also point out that I’ve been in contact with Dr. Dewi Evans, the chief expert witness for the prosecution, and have asked him to explain in each of the 14 cases of murder or attempted murder, why he believes she is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. I hope to publish this in Private Eye in due course, with commentary from other experts in this area who believe more natural causes or human error were more plausible. I hope this will then provide the balance that should have been provided in the trial. My first @PrivateEyeNews column on the trial of Lucy Letby is now available online. private-eye.co.uk/special-report… My second column on Letby is in the current issue of @PrivateEyeNews For those who don’t have time to read it, I would make the following points. 1. The UK doesn’t have a death penalty anymore, but we have served the most severe sentence we can to Letby - incarceration for life - so we need to be absolutely sure we’ve got it right. 2. Getting it right in a legal context means being sure beyond reasonable doubt. 3. Numerous credible experts across multiple scientific disciplines have expressed reasonable doubts about the verdicts after the trial, arguing that the deaths and harm more likely happened from natural causes in an overstretched unit. 4. The proper place to hear such expert evidence was in the trial, but for reasons that are undetermined, the prosecution fielded six expert witnesses and the defence fielded none. 5. The expert evidence the jury heard was unsurprisingly very one-sided. Although experts are supposed to be independent whoever they work for, it is very hard to be unbiased when your livelihood depends on putting forward a side of the science that supports your client, and makes it more likely you’ll be employed in future. 6. For the jury to hear the whole picture of the science and statistics of a trial, it should be mandatory for equivalent experts to be funded and appear for either side. 7 Even better, in my view, a team of the best practising experts in trials of this importance should be provided on behalf of the Court, not one side or the other. They should read the evidence first and provide a written report for the CPS. If the case proceeds to trial, they appear purely on behalf the Court and can be cross-examined by both sides. 8. I cannot say whether the Letby is guilty or innocent. But on the basis of expert opinion that has emerged after the trial, I think there are reasonable doubts about murder in some or all of the cases that the jury should have heard from experts for the defence. On that basis, I think she should have an appeal with the science and statistical evidence being heard in its entirety. 9. The verdict may still be the same, with the opinions of seven paediatricians who worked alongside her being very persuasive. But she was never caught in the act, there is no Internet evidence of her researching the varied and unusual methods of murder and she maintains her innocence. So I think an appeal is in order, however painful and expensive it may be.