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Graham Scambler

@grahamscambler.bsky.social
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Sociologist: philosophy, theory, politics, health & sport. #sociology #health Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UCL Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, UK New: ‘The Sociological Theory of Margaret Archer’ (Routledge, 2026) www.grahamscambler.com

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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 1h
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A Sociological Autobiography: 86 – Lecturing on Death and Dying
From the early 1970s until I retired in 2013 I lectured on ‘death and dying’ to medical students, initially at Charing Cross HMS, then the Middlesex HMS, and finally at UCL Medical School (strange …
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h
We’ve seen that American capitalism is one of the harshest forms of capitalism on the planet. How did it get so bad?
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 4h
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 6h
I visited the Amazon rainforest a year ago ahead of the cop conference in Belem. Historically the only thing that has stopped deforestation has been electing Lula da Silva has Brazilian president. www.economist.com/the-americas...
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 4h
Cases of bowel cancer rising in young people as study to explore link with diet www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 15h
www.theguardian.com/education/20... Very disturbing.
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Thousands of child-on-child sexual offences reported at schools in England and Wales
Exclusive: Average of nearly five sexual crimes a day against under-13s were reported to police between 2021 and 2025
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 04/10/2026
The final results are in and 2026 came in 2nd place behind 2023 for the total number of days with global surface temperature above 16.0°C. 2023: 128 days 2026: 126 days Don't fret. There's always next year ...
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Student Evaluations
I got my first university teaching appointment in 1978. Student feedback was more-hit-or miss affair then. Perhaps relatedly, university tenure was understood to be a tangible thing rather than a v…
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The real two-tier justice no party wants to abolish ... There are more benefit inspectors chasing claimants stealing a pittance than HMRC tax inspectors chasing super-rich fraudsters & tax dodgers living a life of luxury on their criminal loot worth £millions meme via The UK Against Hate
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And how much of the rest of the economy is dominated by stock market gambling?
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... Thoughts?
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Half of UK wants to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Finally able to share a bit of exciting professional news - I will be one small part of a big new team headed up by @olliheath.bsky.social taking over the @britishelectionstudy.com from next year. Lots of exciting stuff to come soon! www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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New team, led by Royal Holloway, awarded leadership of the British Election Study to understand British democracy
Royal Holloway, King's College London and the University of Manchester have been awarded £4.9 million by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to lead the British Election Study (BES).
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 02/10/2026
🚨Big news for doctors in London🚨 The next stage in the campaign demanding fair London Weighting will begin on 19 October, when you’ll have your chance to vote in an indicative ballot on BMA London's next actions. For more info and to join the campaign👇🏼 www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign...
BMA graphic styled as a board game. Headline reads: “London doctors: it’s our move”. A central card states: “Our indicative ballot opens Monday 19 October. All doctors living or working in London, regardless of grade or employer, can take part in the indicative ballot.” At the bottom, text reads: “Together let’s demand a fair turn.” Background includes board game pieces and game cards.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super-rich UK energy/food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises Working-class face soaring prices, worsening climate impacts. Billionaires owning food/energy companies profit from hardship The same class funds political parties, uses tax havens, preaches low wages to workers.
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Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Apparently the Green Party now wants us to abandon terms like ‘mother’ and ‘father’. Don’t really want my parents ‘cancelled’. Ffs.
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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One in five resident doctors keep silent when witnessing unsafe clinical practices, study finds - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association
One in five resident doctors have kept silent when witnessing unsafe clinical practices, often for fear of repercussions for their career, new research has found. Researchers surveyed more than 1,100....
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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FSHI Book Prize 2026 - Winner Announcement - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association
We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize are Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/09/2026
The more you know. The global oceans are warming by the equivalent heat of about one million Hiroshima bombs per day. If wishes were fishes, they'd all be suffocating about now.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sending you some inspiration to stand by your ideas in the face of criticism
Plaque with Darwin’s photo and an excerpt from his letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker: As for the old fogies in Cambridge it really signifies nothing. I look at their attacks, as a proof that our work is worth the doing. It makes me resolve to buckle on the armour...
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Letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 15 May 1860, referring oa
meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society On y May 1860
at which his theories concerning the origin of species had been denounced.
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Which also fits Sweeney’s characterisation of Farage interestingly.
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Working on a chapter with Sasha Scambler on critical realism and health, and the odd poem. #cafesociety
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They/we need some evidence.
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Follow thread.
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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today's news that evidence on 20 companies and 54 individuals relating to the Grenfell Tower fire, which resulted in the deaths of at least 72 people in 2017, has been handed to the CPS, is a welcome step towards justice.
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Grenfell fire: Response to evidence files being handed to CPS
Project for Peace and Justice, founded by Jeremy Corbyn. A hub for discussion and action, building solidarity and hope for a more decent world.
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Impeachment Calls Grow as Dems Say Up to $20 Million in Taxpayer Funds Were Used for 'Illegal' Pro-Trump Ads www.commondreams.org/news/donald-...
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Impeachment Calls Grow as Dems Say Up to $20 Million in Taxpayer Funds Were Used for 'Illegal' Pro-Trump Ads | Common Dreams
Democrats in Congress demand answers and accountability for Trump's misuse of taxpayer dollars for "illegal" ads.
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham’s dad wasn’t a toolmaker by any chance was he?
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rugby World Cup winner Lawrence Dallaglio forced to sell medal following bankruptcy.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There wasn't a social care crisis when local authorities provided the service free of charge. Then Thatcher privatised it and private equity bosses started charging £8000 a month.
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love Grimshaw.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Three girls (1932) by Amrita Sher-Gil. Then, Amrita Sher-Gil, influential Hungarian-Indian painter #WomensArt
Portrait of three Indian girls dressed in pink or green saris facing left
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PLOS Global Public Health @plosglobalpublichealth.org · 24/09/2026
Researchers Helen Walls and @martinmckee.bsky.social with @lshtm.bsky.social discuss the structural drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition – taking a closer look at corporate power and wealth inequality. 💡 Read the essay: plos.io/46HCPCo
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Power and entitlement: Addressing the structural drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition
The world produces enough food for all, yet it falls short of providing a nutritionally balanced diet, and what it produces is extremely unevenly distributed, with high levels of undernourishment and…
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looks like a great job
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"This explains why most MPs don't have a clue about what it is like for The Working Class, for normal people who are living and struggling in the real world ....." via Angel Stroyan
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Hegemonic logic
"If you can defeat a strategic enemy not using any US troops you're at the acme of professionalism." – General Keith Kellogg
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Enforced hymn-singing? Sounds like the Reformation all over again
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love this photo of my father, probably from the 1930s.
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Follow thread.
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Seán Hanley @drseanhanley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wrote this more than 12 years ago - in 2014. I’ve been wrong about many things, but this stands up pretty well. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/2014/0...
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Will the West become the East? | UCL SSEES Research Blog
UCL Homepage
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 28/09/2026
There is a worldwide crisis of burnout in the medical profession and doctors need to work together to find solutions. Doctors at the International Conference of Physician Health are hoping to identify ways to combat some of the challenges contributing to ill-health among healthcare professionals.
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Doctors seek solution to burnout
US, UK and Canada-organised conference hears of healthcare staff struggling to look after themselves and consequently their patients owing to stress
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Labour still can’t call out genocide and condemn the Israeli gov without attacking Hamas. All words and no deeds. In the pocket of the Zionists. And they all bang on about Russian interference in our politics!
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.
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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Follow thread.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beneath the Weeping Canopy By Jeff Stanford
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The UK has no strategic food reserves, imports more than 40 percent of its food, and grows most of the rest in parts of the country most prone to serious drought in the years and decades to come We are not - to say the least -in a good place www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Most of UK’s essential food supply grown in drought-risk areas, report warns
Keys crops such as cereals, potatoes, sugar and oils grown in areas with moderate to very high risk
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sobering paper on the US health crisis jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Avoidable Mortality Across US States and High-Income Countries
This population-based, cross-sectional study investigates avoidable mortality trends and health care spending in all US states compared with member countries of the European Union and Organisation for...
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Employers must stop their dangerous substitution of doctors by advanced practitioners. Read our letter to the Government and @england.nhs.uk
A letter to Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, and Sir Jim Mackey, on the unsafe substitution of doctors by employers, from BMA chair of council Dr Tom Dolphin.
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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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