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I also think this, at least if we go somewhere above median but well below 'the 1%'. As well as genuine problems of inequality and hardship, I think there's also a problem of unnecessary and unsustainable consumption being quite widely taken for granted and regarded as a fundamental right.

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Great opportunity for a communications professional to work at the heart of our new research centre seeking to bring about health equity. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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1/9 🧵Pleased to have played a small part in this new @thelancetph.bsky.social paper showing just how bad UK life expectancy has been doing since 2010 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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📣ICYMI: Our latest #UofGSpotlight podcast on austerity and health inequalities with Dr David Walsh & Prof. @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social. Host @kezdugdale.bsky.social joined by CPP colleague @drcmacrae.bsky.social for the discussion. Almost 5,000 downloads already... tune in 🎧 uofgspotlight.com

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Why Our Beliefs About Mental Illness Are Making Stigma Worse A new study finds that biological explanations for mental illness are linked to increased stigma, while attributing struggles to sociopolitical turmoil reduces it. By Richard Sears

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"‘Publish or perish’ is misleading: academics perish if they are not cited." Be cited or be blighted? (Might have to cite this in my upcoming bibliometric analysis)

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Heard from THREE business owners this morning that these clickbait exaggerated weather reports are affecting business. One said she lost a block-booking worth £2,000 over snow that didn’t happen. They’re telling me it’s harming local businesses so I’ll continue calling it out.

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Badly spent tax money, like, maybe, all those subsidies BrewDog received for their “lost forest” project?

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Might talking about "wealtherty" usefully direct attention to the top end of the social gradient? In my PhD research I noticed the constant policy focus on 'disadvantage' and never on 'advantage'. The gaze is always directed one way. Seems a bit clunky as a term... but I agree with the premise 👍🏻

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New 3.5yr PhD opportunity at UCL with @equalise.bsky.social supervised by myself, @yvonne-kelly.bsky.social, @baowenxue.bsky.social & @profkatsmith.bsky.social on inequalities in pathways to employment in young people. Closes 25th Feb www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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NEW CHP BLOG by Sepinoud Siavoshi, Julia Rodgers, and Prof Patrick Fafard. 'Navigating Independence and Influence: The Role of Chief Medical Officers in the UK and Canada' 🇨🇦🇬🇧 tinyurl.com/34x7p2p9

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Population mental health has, until recently, been a rarefied concern in medicine, public health and academia, with genuine dialogue, engagement & co-production in this space with communities & those with lived experience of mental health difficulties rarer still. 1/2

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If you want to hear more about what @nisreenalwan.bsky.social and I have been up to over the last few years on food insecurity and diet, mental health outcomes, join this webinar!

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Interesting article on what call 'the survival of the ideas that fit', showing the influence of the 'politics of familiarity', not just on use of evidence in policy-making, but on what knowledge is even considered to be reliable evidence.

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Fabulous opportunity to apply for funding around the built environment and population mental health ⬇️ . We will be inviting successful applicants to bid for up to £10k to support innovative ideas. Deadline soon !

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More evidence that school-based MH interventions might generate emotional distress in young people many months later. Very important for preventive policy intentions.

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Behind this astonishingly impressive £30k. / month savings (amazing for a health system in crisis) is also an increase in people leading healthier lives, experiencing fewer episodes of poor health, and material steps to closing wide gaps in health inequalities.

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"A child poverty “strategy” that is silent on the needlessly cruel two-child limit would be a mockery.. it would also raise the question – again – of what this Labour government is for." spot on from @guardianheather.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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GP working 30 yrs in a mixed urban area, rich & poor Rarely seen people abuse the benefits system Seen lots of the health, social & wealth systems fail those in most need The healthy & wealthy always making the decisions Compare how the UK spends with similar nations inews.co.uk/news/pip-sic...

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What flexposts say: "We could use steel bollards but a bollard might scratch a car and that would be a tragedy. So, we're going to use these instead — things literally designed to be run over — because protecting even one car from a scratch is worth thousands of pedestrian deaths every year."

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This is effectively a ban on sociology. Banned words include "inequality" (and "inequalities" just in case), "socioeconomic," "status," "gender," "race and ethnicity," "institutional," "systemic," "biases," "polarization," and even "sense of belonging." Is there any subfield left?!

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49% of Britons support introducing proportional representation, with just 26% backing first past the post PR: 49% FPTP: 26% By party voted for in 2024 Green: 72% PR vs 15% FPTP Reform UK: 67% vs 20% Lib Dem: 61% vs 20% Labour: 53% vs 27% Conservative: 39% vs 42% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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A 🧵about research on #poverty & #inequality in relation to current events: Here’s a report on “The Extent and Nature of Absolute Poverty Final Report to DFID” from 2007 By David Gordon, Michelle Kelly-Irving (me), Shailen Nandy & Peter Townsend globalfactcheck.org/documents/20...

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Super exciting opportunity to work within the THRIVING Food Futures project, leading reviews and stakeholder interviews to identify policy priorities for healthy, sustainable diets.

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This is desperate, our children can’t be expected to thrive physically and mentally under these circumstances. When you wonder why some children’s mental health is deteriorating, read this report and you will have one very clear answer - poverty! Thanks to @jrf-uk.bsky.social for such vital work. 🙏🏼

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"The Food Foundation found that 1,000 calories of healthy food such as fruit and veg costs £8.80, compared to £4.30 for the equivalent amount of less healthy food, such as ready meals and processed meats." Your health is shaped by what you AFFORD to eat. #PublicHealth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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It's unconscionable that the Labour Party have kept the two-child limit. All the evidence shows that scrapping the cap would lift hundreds-of-thousands of children out of poverty and reduce the depth of poverty for hundreds-of-thousands more. 4.3 million children in poverty should be unacceptable.

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Temporary housing linked to deaths of at least 74 children | www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Research on #HealthInequality & #HealthEquity funded by the #NIH is under threat We need to rally international solidarity to support scientists & communities under attack

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The idea of a poverty line - below which people can't meet their basic needs - is widely accepted & valued Given the negative social, economic & environmental impact of inequality & concentration of wealth, should we have a shared measure of how much is too much? Really worth a read 👇

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What happens when ideology trumps (pun intended) science? My 2006 Cochrane lecture « Cochrane on communism ». Spoiler: it doesn’t end well academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

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If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

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www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/why-... Why you should all care about inequality if we really want to make Britain feel better, we need to get inequality down as well as getting growth up

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Low-to-middle income households in the UK have much lower incomes than their European counterparts. Despite having a similar GDP per capita, typical households in the UK are 9% poorer than French households, and our low-income households are 27% poorer than their French counterparts.

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People will only "see the truth" if it is widely and accurately described

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Really looking forward to the end of January for a wide range of reasons. But one of them is this! I'll be presenting on January 29th 1pm at Edinburgh Uni with @haylesben.bsky.social on our work on Lived Experience As Evidence tinyurl.com/4hu3x76w

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This is obviously funny, but a serious concern I have about it is this government in general is the tendency to go “we will do a good thing - it will unlock growth”.

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Had a few DMs from people sharing experiences of false positives with unnecessary & anxiety inducing clinical cascade. Asymptomatic people having ECGs leading to A&E attendances; nervous weeks off work to explore incidentalomas. But we tend to hear the stories about how this test saved my life

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Car brain is a terminal illness

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