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Eleanor Kashouris

@ekashouris.bsky.social
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⚪️Qual researcher @Northumbria ⚪️Sociologist of health and illness ⚪️Work on UTI ~ AMR ~ sociology of diagnosis ~ critical public health ~ and new to stroke research!

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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Here I question the effects of a ‘superbug imaginary’ in engaging the public on AMR and the wisdom of counterposing survivors of AMR versus over-users of antibiotics
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Thanks to Wellcome, my chapter on UTI, public health and AMR is open access in this volume on epidemiological obfuscation! (eds Jephcott et al) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
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Distributed Ignorance, Tricky Cases, and Low Hanging Fruit | 3 | Targe
Uncomplicated urinary tract infection is usually understood to be easily resolved via the immune system or judicious use of antibiotics. Recently, this
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Happy to have contributed to this volume on epidemiological obfuscation (eds Jephcott et al) with a reflection on "Epidemic Corpses and Photographic Obfuscation" comparing Ebola (2014-16) to French colonial approaches to plague in Madagascar www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Epidemic Corpses and Photographic Obfuscation | 11 | Epidemiological O
The chapter examines the ways in which epidemic photography has been implicated in processes of obfuscation through an examination of photographs of “epidemic
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Foreign languages help children decode English says @susiedentwords.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/4730...
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Susie Dent: Foreign languages help children decode English
Britain’s best-loved wordsmith cautions against the decline in the study of French and German — try our quiz to test your knowledge of etymology
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Call for abstracts for monograph proposal inspired by Morrison’s Beloved, Butler’s Kindred and Gordon’s Ghostly Matters
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A great article bringing Audre Lourde’s insights to the U.K. AMR National Action Plan! Part of a growing conversation about the appropriateness of drawing on necessity as the mother of invention as a policy resource
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Rebecca Glover @rebeccaglover.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Agata Pacho and I published an article on self care and UTIs/AMR this week! In Sociology of Health and Illness: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Ah no way I just submitted revisions on an article on the ethics of patient resilience in UTI- missed this citation by days!! Will read first thing Monday morning
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
More practice-based messaging ! This time around UTI from @UKHSA and antibiotics not even mentioned- even better in my book
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Rebecca Glover @rebeccaglover.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
TODAY: Find out how expanding antibiotic supply to pharmacies without a prescription is impacting #AMU, #AMR, antibiotics and patients in England! 12:45 online here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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Impact and implementation of Pharmacy First: Interim findings | LSHTM
Do you wonder what the uptake and implementation of the Pharmacy First service has been like? Are you curious about the impact on AMU and AMR? Come along to the AMR centre's seminar where we present
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
www.england.nhs.uk/2025/08/new-...
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NHS England » New hope for bladder cancer patients as breakthrough treatment doubles survival
NHS England » New hope for bladder cancer patients as breakthrough treatment doubles survival
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Can’t believe I’ve not read this article before Timmermans and Haas, 2008 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18564975/
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Towards a sociology of disease - PubMed
We argue for a sociology of health, illness, and disease. Under the influence of Talcott Parsons, the social study of health began as medical sociology and then morphed into sociology of health and il...
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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Sociology of Health & Illness is recruiting three new Editorial Board members, with particular interest in quantitative sociology, global contexts and health inequalities. Please do help us get the word out: closes this week (Fri 2nd). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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Sociology of Health & Illness - Call for Editorial Board Members
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Enjoyed Lorenzo Servitje’s new piece on bacterial (rather than the more familiar viral) pandemic literature - including a case of UTI read.dukeupress.edu/the-minnesot...
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“They Are Increasing” | the minnesota review | Duke University Press
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I LOATHE the screening though. And very hard to avoid given they’re dipping for protein anyway
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Maybe in a sense just another vote against trimethoprim given the effect was limited. But faced recently with an obstetrician telling me I risked late term miscarriage for not treating asymptomatic bacteriuria (not blaming her given the evidence!), it’s another strike in balance of harms for me
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #UTIsky
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UTI Antibiotic Therapy and Risk of Congenital Malformations
This cohort study evaluates whether taking specific antibiotics (nitrofurantoin, fluoroquinolones, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and β-lactams) to treat a urinary tract infection (UTI) during the fir...
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Woohoo registered for BSAmedsoc! 2/3 success rate for being employed by the host institution, my own bed adds a lot to my conference experience
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Yes exactly! IPC as a field is probably more practice focused to start with. Lots of ~interesting to sociologists~ stuff about sinks and sewers and where nurses keep their water bottles on shift
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Tbf ‘wash your hands’ messaging is also this. There is so much more we could do though!
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
As in, messaging designed to modify the practices of patients/publics rather than trying to modify beliefs as a way to modify practice
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Think this is the first and only time I’ve seen a AMR practice-based message in the wild #uti
Poster with a picture of a glass of water with title ‘it all starts with a glass of water’
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
@jameslindalliance.bsky.social priority setting survey for UTI, looking for responses from patients, clinicians and stakeholders. Pls help share to ensure a representative sample #UTISKY @jennyrohn.bsky.social @angelahuttner.bsky.social @gpollara.bsky.social www.surveymonkey.com/r/UTI_PSP
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Do you experience chronic or recurrent UTIs, or care for those who do?
Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Great time to get involved in some stroke QI work www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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NHS repeatedly failing in care of stroke patients, watchdog says
Health ombudsman says number of last-resort investigations into care in England up two-thirds in four years
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Hello, I have just done so thank you.
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Alanis Morisette’s song ‘Thank U’ a rare reference to how long term antibiotic use can be implicated in depression and pain. Such funny little drugs
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
As a constituent I would like to hear your reasons for your vote on the amendment on the police and crime bill
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Geth Rees @gethrees.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Quick plug for an event I'm speaking at tomorrow on forensic nursing. I'm specifically talking about past work on the introduction of FNEs into sexual offence interventions, but I'm sure I'll also comment on police custody. @kentishscribbler.bsky.social www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Care in Custody: From police matrons to forensics | Royal College of Nursing
An online talk on the history of women in the police service and the role of nursing in forensics.
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My ~new to stroke~ research mind is still blown by the data availability in acute stroke! A very sharp and eye opening contrast from UTI in primary care
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Annie Joseph @anniejoseph.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What is the clinical and cost-effectiveness of screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Pregnancy? @nihr.bsky.social is offering funding to answer this... check out the call and share with networks please 🙏🏼 So important for #AMR & #AMS🤰💊👶 #IDsky #ObSky www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/asym...
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? There is no such thing as "biological sex"
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Just saw someone reading your book sat on a skateboard in Eldon square bus station
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Excited for a day full of diagnosis! Welcoming lots of amazing researchers for a workshop on the sociology of diagnosis @newcastleuni.bsky.social as part of my Mildred Blaxter Fellowship @fshi.bsky.social
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
My favourite part of this discussion was @angelahuttner.bsky.social clearly explaining the worry about antibiotic use is causing resistant organisms which might later harm *the same* patient. But wow, how far we’ve come with this kind of attention for UTI! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Evidence - The burning problem in women's health - BBC Sounds
Why do we know so little about one of the most common health complaints?
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Very exciting day on the Tyne and Wear metro!! First new trains since the network opened in the 70s I believe
Picture of new metro trains at the platform of monument station on Tyne and Wear metro
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Apparently the last olive harvest was fantastic compared to one before tho!! Good news for a change
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Changed my mind lol- I think you’re right- this specialism is seen as too risky esp. in private practice so is worth handing over of clinical autonomy to Wes Streeting!
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Also, hello! We met briefly at EASST right?
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I hope clinicians see this as a threat to their professionalisation as much as PAs are. But it possibly tells us a lot about professionalisation that this issue is rarely raised in that way
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Whenever I come across stories of people who suffer a UTI *every* time they have sex (which is a lot), I can’t help feeling that US medicine is light years ahead of us in thinking about what might help
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Oh no…have become obsessed with Elisabeth and Franz Joseph via Netflix. Knowing there must be a corner of Bluesky which could answer my questions about what they ate for dinner etc!
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Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A big THANKS to @bbcworldservice.bsky.social & @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for spotlighting #UTI! Recorded #TheEvidence last night w/the inimitable @claudiahammond.bsky.social as host. And after, BBC let me & @gpollara.bsky.social play w/the microphones! Episode airing 18 Jan #UTISky #IDSky #AMR
Angela and Gabriele, infectious disease doctors, playing with BBC microphone covers after recording a science show on urinary tract infection.BBC microphone covers on a table.
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I can vouch for the fact that any budding researcher would be *extremely* well guided through the PhD process by this research team. You really couldn’t get better mentors and a fantastic project to boot
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
⚠️Calling the #AMR #SocSci and #humanities communities⚠️ Interested in the future of #antibiotics, #AMR & #microbial justice? Then submit a paper to our special collection on "Antimicrobial Resistance: Just Transitions for Shared Futures" with CUP Public Humanities: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Have you! That’s good to hear. Thanks Jenny
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Great to hear Professor Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social speak on such a cold winter’s evening!
Picture of professor Tom Shakespeare speaking from a podium at Newcastle university
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I think I’d have a breakdown if I had to do Thanksgiving this close to Christmas. Every year !!!
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I think it was helpful yes! Just I’m coming to the end of my current fellowship and jobs market is a little tasty atm. So mulling on next steps…
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Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Many congratulations Jenny! My Wellcome bid (I think we were rushing to submit at same time?!) was unsuccessful so mulling over next steps. Always fab to see funded UTI work
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