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Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.

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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

Now on 111.5K, and still open for more signatures. Reminder: ALL UK RESIDENTS can sign. EVERY UK Citizen ANYWHERE can sign. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. CTA: NOW Lobby your MP (see @brexitrage.bsky.social for templates and advice.) petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Professor Olivia Wu will lead the NIHR's National Research Collaboration and Better Methods, Better Research programmes. @uofgmvls.bsky.social @uofghehta.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social www.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-dir...

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We're thrilled to share the date for the 18th European Public Health Conference in Helsinki! 🌍💙 This is where public health professionals unite to inspire, innovate, and drive progress. Will we see you there? Let’s shape the future of health together! #EPH2025 #PublicHealth #SustainableHealth

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

📢 Interested in EU funding? Join the EUPHA Section on HSR & EUPHAnxt for an online training webinar on EU proposal writing. 📅 27 Jan 2025, 14:00–16:00 CET ✅ Learn to interpret calls, build consortia & write proposals. 📍 Free registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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AI reflects the values of its creators... everything in our world is biased

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

🥁Abstract submission now live for this year's conference!🥁 Conference dates: Wednesday 10th - Friday 12th September 2025, with an ECR day on Tuesday 9th Where: Bradford Submit your abstract here: bit.ly/3PKGo2k Submission deadline: 23:59 GMT, Monday 24th February 2025 📷 Neil Turner

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Donald Trumps hostility towards other democracies is already clear. There will be no special relationship with him: we should look to Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 48 days ago • 65 comments

Should we worry about the headlines on UK gilts yields? A short 🧵 . As often happens when markets move, political commentators are looking in the wrong direction (1/9) “UK government seeks to soothe bond market nerves after borrowing costs soar” on.ft.com/3PrUbdJ

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

‘They were inventing a new definition of sexy’: stars and scenesters on the New York Dolls’ riotous rock

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

This is not what he said and they know it. Something very disturbing has happened to much of the British press and a fair amount of conservative politics. The extremist Musk tail wagging the formerly mainstream dog.

submitted 52 days ago • 180 comments

We shouldn't really repost this and embarrass the Health Secretary just because @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social is having a meal with Nigel Farage and GB News owner Paul Marshall, both anti NHS and Farage is a well know racist, so why should it bother us?

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Right wing bias in the media still serves its purpose - it puts a brake on progressive policies

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Working from home could harm women’s careers, Nationwide boss warns

submitted 59 days ago • 45 comments

It's been an excellent year for SSM & our members - we enjoyed meeting many of you in Glasgow, learning about your research, and seeing all of your successes 🥳 Here's to more next year! Wishing you all a lovely holiday and a Happy New Year 🎆

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Surprised that the petition about reversing Brexit hasn't yet got to 100k. The financial and business news just gets worse and worse. Please sign and most importantly share this important petition. Thank you! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Apply Now - British Council Amazonia Brazil/UK Workshop, Manaus City, Brazil, June 2025 Quantifying the environmental impact of climate change in the legal Amazon and its effects on population health: from the local to national level. Workshop dates: Monday 2nd to Friday 6th June 2025.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

In 2022, NHS England commissioned us to model the potential longer-term trends in alcohol-related deaths based on evidence about changes in alcohol consumption during the pandemic. We tested 5 scenarios as to how these changes might evolve (the lines). The reality is much worse (the dots).

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

Our new editorial "Child poverty - a political choice" now available (£0) at academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic... Governments choose how to spend money and have the tools to eradicate child poverty. Given the potential benefits - including the economic return - this would seem a no-brainer

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

The opportunity for Black UK domiciled students to undertake PhD research with us is closing soon! Applications for our Scholarships are now open for October 2025 entry – apply by 31 January 2025. #JMSPhD #UofG #WorldChangingGlasgow #WorldChangers

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

It's about 40 years since I last saw them, and a few years more than that since I first saw them, but that was some night tonight #TheDamned #Barrowland #SmashItUp @rajivsethi.bsky.social

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Our book "Multilevel modelling for public health and health services research" has now reached 150k downloads (£0) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @springer1842.bsky.social

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Total winning at picket line chic! Thank you for your support Anne Robinson 🙏💪🧡

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

submitted 87 days ago • 39 comments

Having finally made the leap over here, feels like as good a time as any to publicise this recent podcast where I was interviewed about our research modelling how #UniversalBasicIncome might influence #MentalHealth in the UK! '15 Minutes on Health Inequalities', wherever you get your podcasts 🎙

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

"[EUPHA] supports the public health professionals from all sides who are working together to build bridges to safeguard public health and build bridges towards a better future. EUPHA strongly condemns the abuse of language to delegitimize these individuals."

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Hello! Scott here from @pubhealthjobsuk on that other platform. Normal service will start here soon.

submitted 95 days ago • 4 comments

To celebrate @fryrsquared.bsky.social’s professorship at Cambridge 🍾 , here’s her brilliantly highlighting the Leonardo DiCaprio complex in - ahem - most men: m.youtube.com/watch?v=PPMs...

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Starter Packs feels a bit like making a mixtape to this 80s kid... I ran into the max number pretty fast so apologies to anyone I missed and I'll have to make a Volume II!: go.bsky.app/2ZUFQtv

submitted 101 days ago • 24 comments

Starter pack to find University of Glasgow related people... Please post if you want to be added/removed. go.bsky.app/PgJ23HK

submitted 106 days ago • 32 comments

Corrélation n'est pas causalité.

submitted 118 days ago • 59 comments

For World #MentalHealth Day here is a reminder of recent podcasts in our series that cover this topic: 4.6 The impact of #UniversalBasicIncome on mental health inequalities 3.4 Universal credit 2.4 The mental health of carers

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment

The Tory leadership contest is now between one candidate who MPs fear doesn't mean what he says and another who MPs worry, does.

submitted 142 days ago • 6 comments

On #Brexit. ITV: You told us that we should do this and you hadn't devoted any serious thought to what came next. BJ: I wanted to win an argument... What we expected was that the Cameron gov't would bring forward a white paper. Just rage-inducing. ~AA

submitted 147 days ago • 56 comments

New paper: Hospitalisations for chronic conditions among care experienced and general population children and young people with Mirjam Allik, Edit Gedeon and Marion Henderson

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

New Kings Fund report on health inequalities. 🧪 www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

This week I'm in Accra, Ghana ahead of starting a new Medical Research Foundation grant on climate change & mental health in Kenya. Read more here: www.medicalresearchfoundation.org.uk/news/underst...

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