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Laura Gallagher

@lauragallagher.bsky.social
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PhD Researcher @ Ulster Uni School of Psychology investigating unintentional childhood injury using the Millennium Cohort Study. Interested in injury prevention, mental health, health inequalities, social determinants of health. She/her

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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Same re Polanski. I read a hopeful comment on Reddit that at least these being the council elections, Reform will have ample time to demonstrate their incompetence directly to their voters. Also I had no inkling so many Labour voters would be so comfortable with voting for blatant bigotry.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The figures so far are very alarming. I should know better by now not to put so much faith in the British electorate.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I always tell people I went to school with Martin Sheen. He was in my English and Philosophy classes at NUI Galway in the late 2000s. I used to see him at work out in Salthill too and he was genuinely lovely to everyone.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Well that's disappointing to say the least. I relished teaching Chomsky in psychology after falling in love with his work on propaganda in the 2000s. It just confirms what intersectional feminism has always known about so-called progressive men.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“The best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote to Epstein. “That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder.”
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Ecstatic that CLS featured my research into ethnicity and childhood injury. I found the results so interesting and I'd love to hear what others think!
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I was just coming here to say the same thing! It's been the same in previous seasons too. So depressing to see it playing out over and over.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
How about that I passed my viva and finished my PhD! 🥳🥳
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I was just thinking how apt it is that the FF candidate is a literal thieving landlord too
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
💡While cultural & behavioral differences exist between ethnic groups, these didn't statistically explain injury variation. We need more research on mechanisms behind minority ethnicity and first-generation migrant families' protective factors! 🧵4/4
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🌍 KEY INSIGHT: The protective effect was mainly explained by maternal migration status in Pakistani and Bangladeshi families - children whose mothers were born outside the UK showed lower injury rates. What explains the protective effect of first-gen migrant parents? 🧵3/4
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
METHODOLOGY: Longitudinal analysis of 12,717 children from the Millennium Cohort Study, measuring injury outcomes at age 5. Used logistic regression to examine socioeconomic factors, ethnicity, migration status, parenting factors & household composition. 🧵2/4
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🚨🧪 NEW STUDY ALERT: Read it here: rdcu.be/eD7c6 Children from Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black African & other minority ethnic backgrounds in the UK are LESS likely to suffer unintentional injuries than white children, despite facing disproportionate disadvantage.🧵1/4 #PsychSky #MedSky #AcademicSky
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I hope this doesn't get in the way! There doesn't seem to be any update about what happened at all.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I hope Martine Croxall faces consequences for her petty, discriminatory, and unprofessional behaviour. If 'woke' presenters must face disciplinary action after expressing their views while not at work, it's surely even less acceptable for a newsreader insert their opinion into an on-air news piece.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
As a *very* pregnant woman, I just want to reiterate that the inclusive term 'pregnant people' takes absolutely nothing away from me and the fact that other people who aren't women can also be pregnant doesn't mean I'm not a woman. Also, are women not people?
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I love Leo Varadkar's optimistic view that NI would shun a Reform government in Westminster for a progressive one in Dublin. It's cute and all but holy moly is this his first time visiting?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/06/2025
The Madleen, launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, is one of several Gaza-bound vessels intercepted by Israel.
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Freedom Flotillas: A history of attempts to break Israel’s siege of Gaza
The Madleen, launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, is one of several Gaza-bound vessels intercepted by Israel.
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Extinction Rebellion UK @xrebellionuk.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
URGENT: UK MUST ACT TO PROTECT THE MADLEEN & ITS CIVILIAN CREW 🚨Greta Thunberg & other peaceful protestors have been abducted by Israeli forces from the UK-flagged aid ship Madleen on intl waters It was delivering life-saving supplies to Gaza This is a violation of intl law and UK sovereignty...
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I think it's just such a reality check too! Why have governments been indulging this madness for so long, allowing Israel to so blatantly eschew international law. It's so important in so many ways.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Such courage!
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Something's in the air!
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Feeling strangely hopeful for humanity between tracking Madleen and seeing so many people stand up to the likes of ICE and attending anti-genocide protests across the world. I don't know if it's just my echo chamber but it feels like we're approaching some kind of tipping point.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Old white men: How can we get young women to have more babies? Young women: Generous paid shared parental leave; affordable, high quality childcare, a decent living wage; and affordable housing. Old white men: What about a medal?
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
women celebrating embedding in law of biological determinism which is used to reinforce gendered hierarchies, & embracing the hetropatriachal binary which has negatively impacted the lives of all women are not feminists despite their claim to be,they are transphobic handmaidens of the patriarchy.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We - the Socialist Lawyers Association of Ireland - have released a statement on the UKSC’s ruling today.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
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Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
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Tina O'Toole @isdoighliom.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Posting in solidarity with friends and colleagues in the UK today 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. It should be that simple. It will take a while for all the practical implications of today's ruling to shake out but for now, from this cis woman and feminist, I'm thinking of everyone affected by today's ruling.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I loved it! I listened to the audiobook and thought the voice actor really added to it. It wasn't what I was expecting at all.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
She likes her lunch really fresh!
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Some good news! I just found out that our systematic review is among the top ten cited articles for Child: Care, Health and Development for 2023! Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #TopCitedArticle #psychology #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky @wiley.com @ulsteruni.bsky.social 🧪
Certificate from Wiley for top cited article in Child: Care, Health and Development
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The question remains - why is this government stripping vital support away from millions of people when a 2% wealth tax on multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise many, many times more? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Up to 1.2m disabled people will lose thousands in UK welfare overhaul, experts warn
Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, laid out plans for £5bn savings but faces rebellion from some Labour MPs
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What a depressing day in the news. More evil airstrikes on civilians by Israel. A return to austerity by the tories in red, making the most vulnerable in a deeply unequal society pay the price for a failing economy that's already reduced their quality of life.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
St Patrick was once enslaved in Ireland and, in the ultimate act of vengeance, gave us Christianity.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The embellishments were a surprise for sure!
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
My favourite use so far was uploading my own work to NotebookLM where it turns papers into podcasts. I wanted to get a fresh perspective on it and it worked. Because it was my own work it didn't feel exploitative.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I'm getting so many Daily Mail anti vax articles on Facebook! And that is definitely not based on my personal algorithm.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I dont think Ireland has any chance of getting anything meaningful out of pandering but I'd be worried about petty retaliation. I think you're right that boycotting would be the morally right thing to do though.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I've been thinking about this a lot and I genuinely don't know what the right thing to do is. It's important to have a voice but Trump has no regard for the opinions of anyone else anyway.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We have to stop thinking that the far-right are simply uninformed or misguided. They are extremely informed and are experts at manipulation. Look at the glee Farage expressed when Starmer started his rhetoric about deportations. The left are walking right into the traps the far-right are setting.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Specifically Black African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi families! There's frustratingly little research in this area.
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Any time! I'm looking at determinants of unintentional injury in children and the relationship between childhood injury and adolescent mental health. One of my findings is that children from minority ethnic groups in the UK are less likely to be injured and others have found the same!
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
@ccriadoperez.bsky.social I just noticed ITV has billed the rugby as the 'Men's Six Nations'. Don't know how long its been like this but a positive development!
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Holy moly I just saw the list you posted a few days ago! Thank you!
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I'm looking to follow Black and other minority ethnicity academics in the UK too but can't find a list anywhere! I've just been trawling people's following list when I get a chance but it's very inefficient!
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵
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A Single-Dose Breakthrough: PfSPZ-LARC Vaccines Offer Transformative Protection Against Malaria – Sanaria
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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It's very reassuring to see all the negative Civ 7 reviews because in this stage of life I won't have time to play for literal years. I was feeling left out.
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Why is girls' mental health getting worse? And why are they suffering more than boys? There are no easy answers – and simply blaming social media or Covid doesn't add up, experts tell Zofia Niemtus in our investigation ⬇️
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What’s really going on with teenage girls?
There is a gender divide when it comes to students’ mental health, with girls more likely to experience challenges. Zofia Niemtus tries to find out why
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