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New paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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They took their time .... And they created unnecessary misery and confusion with their previous ill thought through statements. Next we need to reform all the poorly worded equality legislation to make it fit for a world that can be brave enough to embrace diversity and inclusion. #EHRC #Equality

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Oxford trying out a congestion charge is worth a shot in 2025 I am quite honestly fed up with the negativity and hypocrisy around it. It's time to make the positive case 👇 [10 minutes and a ☕ may be needed] cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/from-city-...

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Looking at what's happening with #PalestineAction and thinking about how successive governments have suppressed (largely) peaceful protest. Recalling what they did to #UKuncut and #Greenpeace. How did we get here? www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme....

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Really enjoyed giving my inaugural lecture at @education.ox.ac.uk this evening! Good to share work that I’ve been doing with @johannawaters.bsky.social over the past few years on post-Brexit student mobilities Thanks to everyone who came along - in person or online 😊

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

More Dipex international conference - Lisa Zuidema from Netherlands, researching menstruation, pain and shame. Linking with Sharon Dixon to do some exciting cross country analysis. @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

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Dr Sharon Dixon at Dipex international reflecting on being a medical doctor and (genuinely lovely) human, trying to research the experiences of young people and period pain. @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

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The inspirational Dr Tori Ford - medical herstory founder - talking at Dipex international conference about her work on Recurrent Thrush which is now on our health experiences website hexi.ox.ac.uk/Recurrent-Vu... #hexi @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

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Great to see our collaborative work on widening patient engagement for clinical drug trials and trial design shared with patients with IPF www.actionpf.org/news/the-pow... @cjpope.bsky.social @actionpfsteve.bsky.social

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And as predicted, they are finally fighting www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Bad start to my morning, feeling worried and sad for Polish family and friends. apnews.com/article/pola...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This is scary ... A real knife edge vote. I'm hoping Poland will put their trust in #Trzaskowski

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Very proud of this piece honouring a quiet voice in UK sociology and the many of us who owe so much to John Solomos.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

This is so awful and sad - and where they feel silenced, we who have less to lose must speak up for our US scientific colleagues “The lived experience of a scientist [in the US] right now is terrifying” www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 47 days ago • 10 comments

Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.

submitted 51 days ago • 15 comments

No surprise that the federal data grab continues to fuel the AI race. And also no coincidence that this occurred within days of the Librarian of Congress being fired without cause. The Office of the Register of Copyrights sits within the Library of Congress. Keep fighting @morelle.house.gov.

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

"The Trump administration has directed agencies to stop estimating the economic impact of climate change when developing policies and regulations.... In his memo, Mr. Clark doubted the scientific consensus that pollution... is heating the planet." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/c...

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments

We need to be absolutely clear about the human cost of this policy. More ambulances stuck outside A&Es. More patients dying in hospital corridors. More suffering. More misery. More patient harm. Because Starmer has chosen to prioritise cheap headlines above improving society. Way to go, Labour.

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

1 in 5 of the UK’s care workforce have a non-British passport. Starmer would have us believe these carers are the “squalid” result of a “failed experiment”. I say they do vital, necessary, humane, skilled work and they are worth their weight in gold.

submitted 47 days ago • 33 comments

No he hasn’t. Reform now represents the Tory Brexit wing while the Lib Dems are hoovering up the conservative soft-Remainy Home Counties vote. Badenoch’s Brutus will negotiate an electoral pact with Farage and Labour will converge with the Lib Dems and Europe. Two-party politics by any other name.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Feeling duped... belatedly discovered that #AbeBooks second hand #bookseller turns out to be another dreadful fake company that's really #Amazon.

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

It’s #WorldImmunizationWeek Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute. A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives. #VaccinesWork bit.ly/wiw2025

submitted 66 days ago • 13 comments

I’m extremely excited about receiving the Sociology Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence 2025! Many thanks to the judges and the editors of Sociology journal for selecting my paper. This is an honour for me and an important step in my professionalisation. Photocredit: Melody Zhang #britsoc25

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

💥 BREAKING: Levi Strauss shareholders voted today to reject a proposal calling on the company to cease / abolish all DEI efforts (tally TBD). LEVI Board: “Diversity and inclusion principles are critical in ensuring that our products reflect and are relevant to our diverse global consumer base.”

submitted 66 days ago • 1028 comments

The presidents of 200 US colleges declare: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Good! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

submitted 68 days ago • 13 comments

Widening Patient Engagement for Rare Disease Drug Trials: The Perspectives of Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis on Participating in Clinical Drug Trials & Drug Trial Design @jufrost.bsky.social, @cjpope.bsky.social et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Professors are standing up to attacks on higher education & democracy. I believe this is the 5th or 6th* of the Big 10 universities (of which there are 18...) to pass a mutual defense resolution started by Rutgers (see WeAreHigherEd.org/campus-specifics) *I heard Nebraska did too but no link so far

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Trumponomics, markets, and delusional Grand Narratives. My latest www.242.news post: twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/hes-not-th...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

As all who know me will attest I know f*ck all about sport but a US visitor explained the Big 10 to me this week. So this #university resistance pact seems big...and in a very English way I want to yell "Go #Indiana" "Go #Big10". Keep being #brave. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Just found out that Berkeley is advising non-citizen employees to avoid travel and to essentially eliminate their social media presences. All of this is understandable, but it's heartbreaking and so frustrating that there doesn't seem to be anything that the university can do about it.

submitted 73 days ago • 11 comments

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

submitted 74 days ago • 240 comments

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

submitted 74 days ago • 89 comments

Horrified by the UK supreme court decision on biological sex. Sending morning hugs to my trans family, and will be singing a lot of Grace Petrie and being quite angry...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 73 days ago • 275 comments

Feeling a tiny glimmer of hope. Thank you Harvard, Yale and Stanford for standing up. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

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