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Professor of Public Health. Southampton, UK. Citizen of the world☀️ Posts are my own personal opinions not those of any organisation. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements. Anti-war, anti-discrimination, pro-equity, pro-feminism, pro-nature, pro-science.
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Don’t mean to be the semantics police but have to flag this: Multivariable model: one dependent variable, multiple independent ones (covariates) Multivariate model: multiple dependent variables. So commonly, my dear colleagues and students, you say multivariate when you mean multivariable. Ta :)

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“Friends The old word is dead. The old books are dead. Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead. Dead is the mind that led to defeat.” Syrian poet: Nizar Qabbani

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Racist ideas of 2-tier citizenship pumped out in the UK too from all the usual channels. & the Labour govt are playing into it too - moving to reduce access to stable, long-term status in the UK for migrants, following the trend of short-term, precarious visas for all. Disastrous on all fronts.

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It’s surreal watching this horror film unfolding in the US.

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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

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Agree, extremely worrying.

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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

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Think of Others By Mahmoud Darwish

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Think of Others By Mahmoud Darwish

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Mindblowingly awful, given the historial precedent of associating particular ethnicities with particular types of wrongdoing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.” Carl Jung

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Below, from earlier today, confirmed @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/n...

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'“If we’re going for going to mobilize, it’s going to be the most prominent, the most well-endowed, the most privileged and protected of us in civil society who have to take the lead,” Levitsky said.'

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Important read. School staff are worrying about combating child poverty in all sorts of ways. Educational attainment is one of the strongest markers of health across the lifecouse but how can it be nurtured if children’s basic life needs are not being met? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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DHS now threatening *all* of Harvard's international students with loss of legal status. Just beyond the pale. #edusky #academicsky #phdsky #highered

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I wrote about foreign academics being in danger in the US last week. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att... This week the Canadian Association of University Teachers advised against non-essential US travel. I meet 2 criteria - never thought I'd be scared to go to the US. horrible.

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Sharing this for my US journalism colleagues because I'm certain many of us will soon be labeled "unpatriotic" www.thelongmemo.com/p/ill-leave-...

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Palantir (Wes Streeting's partner of choice for your private medical data) is helping Donald Trump draw up a list of targets for deportation. Are you still relaxed about it holding your medical data? www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

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Every now and then it hits me that this isn’t just about 1 inhuman act or another, but a bigger picture. That the entire democratic experiment in America is falling apart in front of our eyes. It’s historic in that sense. Which then makes me wonder why all media stories aren’t framed this way.

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Harvard’s defiance of Trump’s ‘authoritarian incursion’ supported by over 70 past and present college and university presidents - Fortune fortune.com/2025/04/15/h...

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time.com/7278236/univ...

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I can’t stress enough how important these actions of resistance are for the whole world. Academic institutions should live up to their raison d'etre and that is FREEDOM not grant funding.

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I can’t stress enough how important these actions of resistance are for the whole world. Academic institutions should live up to their raison d'etre and that is FREEDOM not grant funding.

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A large study in Sweden found levels of autism *symptoms* were constant over time, even as autism *diagnoses* increased (implying broadening diagnostic criteria rather than real underlying increase) www.bmj.com/content/350/...

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Not the best at art but it’s the message that counts here 😄

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Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

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In a country of Columbia Universities, be a Harvard cc: @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @harvard.edu

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Harvard University statement: “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.”

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Tulips are happyness :)

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I just love that now -because of my social media activity- people think of me when they come across lovely flowers or nature and message me their photos of the beauty they see. Gotta remind myself of this when I feel down and senseless. That is it really. I won in life!

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Trust yourself to rest as much as much as you trust her to work and worry.

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Trust yourself to rest as much as much as you trust her to work and worry.

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Every day I want to do more so I end up doing less. Instead, I’m opening up the day to possibilities. Yes, I have an agenda but I’m shamelessly attentive to distractions.

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Every day I want to do more so I end up doing less. Instead, I’m opening up the day to possibilities. Yes, I have an agenda but I’m shamelessly attentive to distractions.

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A truly great opportunity to be part of our transdisciplinary team collaborating on a transformative work focusing on the health and health equity impacts of low carbon transport interventions. A 4-year Research Fellow job! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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Sounds like a fantastic job👇

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A truly great opportunity to be part of our transdisciplinary team collaborating on a transformative work focusing on the health and health equity impacts of low carbon transport interventions. A 4-year Research Fellow job! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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Come and work with us!!!

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Come and work with us!!!

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Long day with back to back meetings but managed to steal a yellow sunny moment outside:

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Seeing marvel in the ordinary is a gift not to be underappreciated.

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Seeing marvel in the ordinary is a gift not to be underappreciated.

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Exactly this. Terrible headline from @thetimes.com RN’s efforts at falsely framing their deliberate defrauding of EU funds (therefore taxpayers) of multi million Euros as “victimhood” - done through a network of fake contracts should be called out by RESPONSIBLE journalists.

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Congratulations to you and me. We live to see another morning! ☀️

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Eid Mubarak 🌙 Thinking of the people who can’t celebrate because of war, violence, poverty or fear, particularly children. Sorry my thoughts aren’t of much use but they are with you.

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