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@aekay.bsky.social
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Formerly in clinical research at the University of Oxford. Now working in mental health. Passionate about health, science and accurate information!

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Vaccines do not cause autism. Keep saying things that have been demonstrated by robust science and are the subject or organised disinformation. Don’t just ignore the attempts to brainwash. #academicsky
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
“Masks don’t work”? Or “Cochrane methodology applied in the absence of common sense will mislead”? Looks like it’s the latter. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
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What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Analysis?
The Cochrane Library, a trusted source of health information, misled the public by prioritizing rigor over reality
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A very personal story from me about why it makes sense to vaccinate boys as well as girls against Human Papillomavirus "I was surprised to learn, in later life, that cervical cancer is one of the few cancers caused primarily by a virus – a cancer you can 'catch'". buff.ly/3CPpa0p
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Why it makes sense to vaccinate boys against HPV
In the light of more good news about declining rates of death from cervical cancer, why do we vaccinate boys against the virus that causes it?
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I discuss how what we post on social media helps manipulative disinformation actors exploit us to spread their message virally and to use us for their financial, emotional, power, or physical gratification goals. Based on micro-targeting research from Prof David Stillwell. youtu.be/NhAzUBOLd0g
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Disinformation Campaigns: how are they structured, what are the incentives, and when are they used?
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Fabulous thread exposing the naivety of the XX/XY GC biological sex argument.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing: A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for. I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
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Prof Samantha Thomas @docsamantha.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great to see the papers in our Special Issue on the Commercial Determinants of Health already getting media attention! @inquisitivegyn.bsky.social You can read all the papers in the special issue here: academic.oup.com/heapro/issue... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Learning CPR on manikins without breasts puts women’s lives at risk, study finds
Analysis of training models on global market found all had flat torsos with just one having a breast overlay
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Royal Society for Public Health @rsph.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
How can we get more people talking about mental health at work? That's what our training programme, Making Every Contact Count (MECC) for Mental Health, aims to do 🤝 The programme has started 38,500 conversations about mental health every two weeks 👇 🔗 www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...
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New report highlights success and future potential of mental health training
A new report published today by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) shows the profound impacts of a new mental health training programme for healthcare staff.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (19th century): one who pays great attention to trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
This is why I’m here: 🧵Trigger warning: suicide I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice. Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Why isn’t the government doing more to avert disaster this winter? Overcrowding and long waits in A and E departments are not just an inconvenience - they cost many patients their lives🚨🚨🚨 We will hold our next EveryDoctor MP meeting on Thursday. We need change! www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments
Royal College of Emergency Medicine warns of ‘unacceptable risk’ posed by lack of funding to NHS
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
perfect
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Kate Ardern@KateAlvanley @ardernkate.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This #poverty is the most fundamentally important determinant of health and in the case of our children their future life chances .. this should be the government’s number one #publichealth priority if we’re serious about reducing health inequalities.. needs action not rhetoric!
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello! If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) ⭐️💙
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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Part of the problem of the “Make America healthy again” campaign is that it contains nuggets of truth (& chicken McNuggets) within a larger false narrative. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The appointment of Robert F Kennedy has horrified public health experts. Here are his three most dangerous ideas | Devi Sridhar
He says his goal is to “Make America healthy again”. But behind the laudable slogan there’s a morass of conspiracy theories, says Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 18/11/2024
94% of A&E doctors believe patients are coming to harm because of conditions inside NHS emergency depts. We know overcrowding leads to at least 300 excess deaths a *week*. The government’s response? Tumbleweed and silence. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments
Royal College of Emergency Medicine warns of ‘unacceptable risk’ posed by lack of funding to NHS
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Prof Linda Gask @suzypuss.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
www.madinamerica.com/2024/10/what... Food for thought from Hel Spandler
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"What Matters to You?" – An Antidote to "What's Wrong" and "What Happened"
Both ‘what’s wrong with you?’ and ‘what’s happened to you’ risk sidelining people’s own understandings and solutions.
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Jo Bibby @jobibby.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Health and health inequalities Updated with some of the new arrivals ⬇️⬇️ go.bsky.app/H8D78hv
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Before the porridge moralists jump in, pls note, that the report found poorer households would have to *double* their food spend to be able to eat a healthy diet. Poverty sickens society. Raise benefits & minimum wage, for cost effective benefits to society. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK’s unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, report finds
Exclusive: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission added up cost to NHS and economy of diet-linked disease
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Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan @drrageshri.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Tomorrow! Still time to register for a free ticket 👇🏽
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Lesley Goodburn @lgoodbu.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Pancreatic cancer presents so many barriers vague symptoms the fact that 45% people are diagnosed at accident and emergency that people go to and fro to the GP and the symptoms are not recognised please share the symptoms to make more people aware #sethslegacy #PsotItPurple4Seth
Signs and symptoms of pancreatic cancer Purple road barrier
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
After many dozens of children died preventable deaths of measles in Samoa, a vaccination campaign was successful. Families hung signs saying "Help!" "I want to live!" RFK Jr fueled the anti-vaxx mvt there & now he's in a much more powerful position here. www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/w...
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‘Why My Baby?’: How Measles Robbed Samoa of Its Young (Published 2019)
When the virus arrived on its shores, the Pacific island nation was grievously unprepared. It had left the door to contagion wide open, and thousands of children have suffered.
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hello! Looking for new bluesky gang who care about the NHS! Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Medical historian here to remind you of the benefits of #vaccines! This is the final stage of tetanus when nerves fire continuously & body contorts into agonizing posture known as opisthotonus. The mastication muscles clamp down to form the hallmark lockjaw. A vaccine didn't appear until 1924. .
A painting depicting a nude man, his back is arched and his fists are clenched. He stares up at the ceiling.
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 10/11/2024
Let me be clear. This claim from RFK Jr. is flat-out false. Scotland just reported finding no cervical cancer cases in vaccinated women -- zero, zilch, zip. This man's advice has been hurting people for years, but this lie will especially harm women. publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/ja...
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