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Can #ecigs / #vapes help you to #quitsmoking? Are they safe for quitting? See our plain language briefing w/ Feb 2025 search update & findings from Jan 2024 living Cochrane review @cochranetag.bsky.social @oxfordtag.bsky.social Thanks to @cancerresearchuk.org www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/research/ele...

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Like 1968 and 1989, 2025 could be year for the history books - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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FA Cup 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Portsmouth 0-2 Sunderland Jenna Dear & Emily Scarr scored the goals to send Sunderland into the #WFACup quarter finals! Sunderland are now the lowest ranked side left in the competition and the only none #WSL side left!

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🧡 On Saturday, supporters of Just Stop Oil and @defendourjuries.bsky.social held a vigil in Cambridge for GP Dr Patrick Hart, celebrating his birthday on the 5th Feb. 🔥 This April we'll be sitting in the road to Reclaim Parliament. Join us: juststopoil.org/spring-2025 Photo credit: Derek Langley

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🏭 Come celebrate the career of Tim Strangleman, DePOT co-investigator and author of many books on the sociology of deindustrialization. Tickets available here:

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Join me in complaining to OFCOM about GB News homophobia 🌈

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If you put it, privately, to GB News that they were trying to import the racism and hatred of Trumpism into the UK I doubt they'd disagree. We need to stop them - now. action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

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www.newstatesman.com/environment/... "As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe." good piece by Caroline Lucas and Rupert Read

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Coventry University is in crisis: 👉 300 jobs at risk 👉 Severe cuts across faculties Yet the vice-chancellor: 👉 Received an £80,768 bonus on £300k+ salary 👉 Rewarded with position at the DBT Sign the petition, urge the govt to rescind his role 👇 bit.ly/4aL7iAN

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Butler predicted MAGA in 1993, also a US/Canada war...

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V. useful new and up-to-date handbook on the link between inequalities and crime edited by @stephenfarrall.bsky.social and @susanmcvie.bsky.social and a lot of good people in between! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

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Oxycontin settlement: drug that generated US opioid crisis and billions of dollars for the Sackler family www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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My lovely @astonpress.bsky.social MPH students have graduated! I'm so proud of you all 💕

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The University of Leeds has become the first Russell Group university to officially announce that it is quitting Elon Musk’s social media site X. It will, however, be alive and well on Bluesky. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Unpaid internships support employability - but only middle-class students can afford to take them up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Prison not HIV main risk factor for Latin America rising TB rates #AstonMPH www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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🚨 BREAKING: GAIE RECALLED TO PRISON FOR CHRISTMAS Gaie Delap, a 77 year old retired teacher, has been arrested and taken to a prison in Bristol after being told her wrists were too small for an electronic tag.

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In today's episode of "Your Victorian Pharmacist is Trying to Kill You"👇 Heroin was first synthesized in 1874. Bayer commercialized the drug & began mass producing it in 1898. The drug was promoted as a cough suppressant as well as a better and safer substitute for morphine and codeine. #histmed

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I keep telling MPH students not to use MDPI, Frontiers In, Hidawi etc. So hard to teach literature review when 90% of published work is utter bilge www.timeshighereducation.com/news/finland...

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Not a high bar 😄

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🧡 Wish Ella and Anna Happy Birthdays! ⛓️ They'll be spending their birthdays in prison at the end of the month - Ella on remand, and Anna sentenced for throwing soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'. ⬇️ Comment Happy Birthday wishes below and we'll send your messages on.

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Alas poor Durham 😭

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@profbambra.bsky.social

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For new #publichealth followers, please follow @cphjournal.bsky.social for latest papers - we're celebrating 1st year since our departure from commercial publisher!

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Let's go Durham, let's go! 🥁https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c30nqjl5lv1o

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Just get rid of the orange cremes, nobody likes them www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...

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Join me in supporting the DEC Middle East Humanitarian Appeal via The Big Give and your donation will be doubled! donate.biggive.org/middle-east-...

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Anger at broken US healthcare system may have led to murder www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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On structural violence ⏬ “They're not mentally ill, their lives are just shit”: Stakeholders' understanding of deaths of despair in a deindustrialised community in North East England T Price, V McGowan, S Visram, J Wildman, & @profbambra.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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#ARCadvent day 6️⃣: Coastal, rural & areas in the North of England are less able to withstand/recover from adverse events, according to research led by academics @healthequitynorth.bsky.social, The University of Manchester, @hope-uom.bsky.social & @arc-gm.bsky.social arc-gm.nihr.ac.uk/news/news/NE...

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If you can please donate to @lymphomaaction.bsky.social all donations by Monday will be matched by @biggive.bsky.social Lymphoma is the most prevalent cancer in young adults donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

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I want the vector socks 😄 #MPH

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Congratulations to Economics for Health who have announced their rebrand from #Tobacconomics. We look forward to continuing to work together to support public health and economic wellbeing on an international scale. Learn more at: www.economicsforhealth.org

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This weekend is the first time all games in the WSL and Women’s Championship are being played in main stadiums 🎉 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Mixed performance by AI-detector tools leaves academics with no clear answers. #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3wk6kuX

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