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Professor Joanna Semlyen

@joannasemlyen.bsky.social
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Professor of Psychology and Equality Health inequalities | EDI in Research | Diversity in Research Culture | Wellcome Trust PI - IDEA | MRC IAA PI - EDIT | Bystander Intervention Papers: scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user…

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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I cannot stress the importance of hospice care funding. I am experiencing my partner die surrounded by the care, attention, experience expertise, compassion, and kindness found in such a place. We are blessed to be here. #palliative #hospice #dying petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Fully fund Specialist Palliative Care provided by hospices
Hospices provide vital care yet are dependent on fundraising. Palliative care costs are lower in a hospice than hospital. UK hospices are in financial crisis, having to drastically reduce specialist s...
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Vic Clarke (she/her, they/them) @vicclarke.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Very exciting that our paper on qualitative researchers' experiences of the peer review process has struck a chord and is the third most downloaded article from an APA journal in 2025! @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @jeffnz.bsky.social @andrealamarre.bsky.social @joannasemlyen.bsky.social
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Wordle 1,650 2/6 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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ref2029.bsky.social @ref2029.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
REF 2029 publishes updates and resumes criteria setting following pause All updates are now live on our website: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/ref-202...
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Am I the only one that’s appreciated the segue from shakey to Chaka? #totp
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Tune! #chakakhan #totp
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Time to top up my glass. Popping to kitchen #shakin #totp
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Definition of a one hit wonder #kanegang #totp
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Will there be a key change? #totp #chicago
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 25/11/2025
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Pleased to announce our latest paper is out #openaccess #delay #qualitative #endometriosis #healthcareprofessional Karavadra Thorpe Morris and Semlyen Exploring delay to diagnosis of endometriosis, a healthcare professional perspective link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
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Exploring delay to diagnosis of endometriosis, a healthcare professional perspective
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Nothing changes
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 19/10/2025
I have since worked with some people I consider to be real geniuses. What marks them out is an ability to grasp, immediately, the many facets of a problem and a gift for explaining it simply. /3
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#A_NewHope ✊
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Yes, I did say “oh I hope they play that” when it went past in the chart #TOTP
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Olivia newton johns trousers! #dollar #totp
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
That hair! #totp
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
What’s with all the guns, legs and co? #Totp
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Department of Education @uoyeducation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New episode: @annabull.bsky.social joins The Sexual Violence Research podcast to explore rates of #GBV in higher ed settings. "One of the reasons for this being seemingly so prevalent..is the lack of professional boundaries between staff & students." Listen bit.ly/4p0WhC8 @thesvri.bsky.social
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Dr Anna Bull @annabull.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Here's my take on new data on sexual violence and harassment released today from England's Office for Students. wonkhe.com/blogs/what-o...
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What OfS’ data on harassment and sexual misconduct doesn’t tell us
Anna Bull explores the latest OfS findings on the prevalence of harassment and sexual misconduct — and why they're only one piece of a puzzle on student safety.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south
‘Not enough of anything’, says surgeon, as Israel’s assault forces injured, sick and hungry people to leave Gaza City
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/09/2025
It was to see some many friends in Philadelphia for the @comm4rigor.bsky.social meeting a couple of weeks ago. Together we are developing free online materials for researchers interested in doing rigorous science. The first units are coming soon at c4r.io. Photos: Eric Sucar
Carl Bergstrom, laptop in lap, gesturing to Konrad KordingRené Vidal talking with Carl BergstromConference attendees gather for a group portrait on the steps of Philadelphia's Second Bank of the United StatesCarl Bergstrom speaking at the C4R meeting
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Oh my God this is so wonderful. Bra-fucking-vo UCL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 20/09/2025
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
When you text using voice +microphone and say how much you’d like to cocreate with a fellow academic but your phone writes procreate.
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
There we are. Kent and Greenwich to merge into the UK’s first super university (as predicted in quoted tweet below). Who will follow next? bbc.com/news/article...
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Trumps’s gilt.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs MRNA saved 20M lives, a million+ in US, reduced hospitalization & deaths, lowered long covid risk mRNA can be adapted for new viruses & is being tested for cancer vaccines, autoimmune therapies - www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
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Opinion | America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/08/2025
USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
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A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
When I was a medical resident in South India in the 1990s, I rarely saw kids with measles. And I did not see much of polio or diphtheria or whooping cough either. None of this was a matter of luck. It was because vaccination coverage in that region of India was high www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
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Public Health Success Is Fragile - The Return Of Measles Is Proof
Measles is surging and vaccine hesitancy is up. In his book "Booster Shots," Dr Adam Ratner explains why measles is back and how we can control this deadly infectious killer.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.
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Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers
Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I am so extremely tired. Those poor, poor girls.
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Police officers ‘also abused’ Rotherham grooming gang victims
One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a South Yorkshire Police officer in a marked police car.
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
lilys. oh dear #totp
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The continued oppression of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban beggars belief and yet the world stays silent. Please consider helping get food to women who if no man in their lives cannot leave their houses (I can’t believe I had to type that sentence) www.gofundme.com/f/support-af...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
British politics in all its diversity on display this morning
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Our latest paper now out #openaccess #qualitative #Endometriosis Karavadra, B., Semlyen, J., Morris, E. et al. ‘I don’t know what normal has been’: a grounded theory exploration of the journey to endometriosis diagnosis. BMC Women's Health 25, 319 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s129...
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‘I don’t know what normal has been’: a grounded theory exploration of the journey to endometriosis diagnosis - BMC Women's Health
Background Diagnosis of endometriosis in the United Kingdom takes on average eight years, with delay to diagnosis contributing to physical, psychological and social burden for women experiencing endom...
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
What fresh hell Is this? #totp #instrumental
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Brian Ferry cool as f #totp
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I used to dance to Dr Beat by Miami Sound Machine at the wharehouse in Camden #totp It used to come on at about 2 am every Saturday
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Ooh bluesky and live #totp commentary This is the content I need.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 19/06/2025
The #StandUpForScience wave is rising - and Trump & his anti-science cronies are losing ground. The people want research, not repression. Truth - not tyranny. We're flooding the streets, inboxes, and timelines. Are you with us? Join our #SummerFightForScience here ⬇️ zurl.co/be4zC
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Stand Up For Science where you are!
Join or create Stand Up For Science local actions! The more people who get involved across the country, the more powerful our movement will be.
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🧵 NIH - research ethics
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
UK’s share of global research outputs falls. China and India growth challenges traditional research-intensive nations, UK government analysis finds. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
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UK’s share of global research outputs falls - Research Professional News
China and India growth challenges traditional research-intensive nations, UK government analysis finds
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I see women shrinking themselves all the time. It’s not modesty, my friends. If we’re gonna do it, let’s call it what it is: fear of disturbing familial, institutional or societal expectations. But faking smallness makes one more invisible to self than to others. This is a risk worth fearing more.
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Via Prof Steve Keen Free four week course from the University of Leeds ‘Climate Action: Tackling the #Climate...' - an online course from @uoldigital on @FutureLearn. Join now: futurelearn.com/courses/climat…
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This.
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
It was only a matter of time. #EDI #DEI
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