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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I used to find it so unrealistic that The Simpsons had the same lawyer representing *all* the bad guys, rich guys and corrupt corporations but the more I read the news the more I realize that, no, that just happens.

Blue haired lawyer from the Simpsons standing beside a projector

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Nicolas Berrod @nicolasberrod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🇺🇸 Non seulement le nombre de cas de #rougeole sera record depuis plus de 30 ans aux États-Unis, mais il dépassera très largement le précédent record de l'année dernière. Déjà près de 3 200 cas cette année, contre 2 300 au total l'an dernier. 1/4

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yup, many countries still care about science and public health! Kudos to Thailand for eliminating rubella as a public health problem! 👏

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Climate crises, health inequalities: both suffer from same political strategy to avoid tackling their root causes (political, commercial, corporate determinants): place the onus upon and blame individuals... which exacerbates inequalities

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Does the new shingles vaccine (Shingrix) protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Yes, according to a new 'natural experiment' study in @natmed.nature.com. But the truth is sadly far less convincing! Pull up a chair and let's examine another peer review failure in a Nature journal. 1/10 🧵

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

While in an infernal login loop nightmare on the European tenders platform trying to find out if our project was funded or not… I’m choosing to experience this as a “Schrödinger's cat” moment rather than think about the balance of probabilities

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“Olga in Paris Why are there so few Ukrainian refugees in France?” from 2023 by European stability initiative An excellent description of how French administrations (deliberately?) remain inaccessible to people outside & within France applicable beyond asylum system www.esiweb.org/sites/defaul...

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“The price that has to be paid - The world needs new tax rules. The UN might soon decide whether multinationals and the super-rich will pay their fair share” www.ips-journal.eu/topics/econo...

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The price that has to be paid

The world needs new tax rules. The UN might soon decide whether multinationals and the super-rich will pay their fair share

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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I’m fascinated by some of the folks in this article who keep repeating the boogeyman claims but who I know for a fact (1) rarely teach Intro to Sociology and (2) don’t talk to many people who do teach Intro to Sociology. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Essay | Is It Time to ‘Liquidate’ the Study of Sociology?

Sociology has long been tasked with investigating society’s most pressing challenges. But these days, sociologists’ greatest obstacle may be themselves.

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Well this is a frankly terrifying read from @peteapps.bsky.social about the risk of e-bike fires, in particular from illegal ones and conversion kits. Also there is a Brexit angle here, as we are now a "dumping ground" for unsafe imported e-bikes www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/the-...

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The risk of e-bike fires: ‘Don’t have them in your bedroom, don’t have them in the means of escape’

A new investigation by Inside Housing reveals that e-bike fires have grown 13-fold in the past five years, and they are already leading to deaths. How can social housing providers manage the risk?

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Dr. Aubrey Tauer (Chaos Art Studio LLC) @draubreytauer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I’m watching one by one the countries I have lived in & loved & always consider still my homes in Africa during my wildlife veterinary epidemiology career fall prey to white US Evangelical meddling to severely criminalize queer relationships & identity. I’m talking the death penalty in some.

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Some thoughts about health inequities research, intersectionality, social power systems, social epidemiology & public health #episky #publichealth

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This paper 👇 has me thinking about quantitative approaches to #intersectionality, where we use micro-level variables (sex, occupation, ethnicity) to represent macro-level systems (gender, social class, racism) - to what extent are we making conceptual leaps & estimation errors about those systems?

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Nicolas Berrod @nicolasberrod.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

👨🏻‍⚕️ Gros changement de braquet de la HAS, qui recommande désormais de rendre la #vaccination contre la #grippe obligatoire pour tous les professionnels de santé. Seuls 20% sont immunisés en Ehpad et à l'hôpital : "Il y a urgence !" ⤵️ Le Parisien 1/10 www.leparisien.fr/so...

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Can you point me to cutting take-downs of that abomination of our times of a world cup half time “show” my kids made me stay & watch last night, now seared into my brain… I keep thinking about it in the context of global politics, & I can’t cope

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Brief historical overview of #healthinequalities in Europe, especially useful for students or people less familiar with the field 👇 "The evolution of health inequalities in the western world: From early origins to modern times" by E Lahelma journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

How I feel right now:

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Weber defined 3 types of social stratification: status, class & party, ie. politics- which are poorly considered in social epi While the data in this paper are on political preferences at the indiv level, could patterns reflect structural/ systemic aspects of power? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour

Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study finds that conservatives in the USA experienced worse health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. No significant gaps ...

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“Intersectional parental health inequities one year after childbirth: ethnicity, sex/gender and social class in the elfe birth cohort” Latest from the #Gendhi project #Episky #healthinequities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) @sllshome.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

REGISTER NOW! 👇 SLLS Annual International Conference 2026 'Structure and Change in Critical Times: Implications for the Life Course' Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles 29 June - 1 July www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-... www.sllsconference.com

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'm still mulling over the awful Guardian reporting of the Oxford longevity study. Thankfully Jennie Popay sent a letter back But now I've read their report.... and even more peeved. I'm mulling over a retort to their "recommendations" - anyone interested or should I drop it?

Photo of headline from the Guardian reading "At least 80% responsibility for ill health in old age down to individual, study says;
UK report argues people have greater control over longevity than widely understood, but others say claim is simplistic"
with a picture of two older people out for a run in the countryside

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

If you're interested in the history and philosophy of randomization in all its forms I'm co-organising a *FREE* conference in glorious Bristol 2-3rd July wth the legendary Samir Okasha, registration is here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/randomizat... If you think it looks interesting please advertise

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Randomization in Science, Society and Nature

Exploring the role of randomization across decision theory, clinical trials, politics, evolutionary biology and genetics

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RugbyCOmics @morganedbg.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Bon bah focus sur les chaussettes … #jyvoisrien #FRAvENG #crunch

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

Whose bright idea was it to have both teams wearing white? 😵‍💫 #rugby #FRAvENG

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Annals of Epidemiology @annalsofepi.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Congratulations, Dr. Meena Kumari, PhD winner of the 2025 overall best paper award. lnkd.in/euUyrnag It is our pleasure to announce Meena Kumari, PhD as the winner of the 2025 Overall Best Paper award. Co-authors on the paper are Elise Whitley, Michaela Benzeval, and Michelle Kelly-Irving.

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

🧵1/ Global health is under attack, and not just by pathogens. Governments are walking away from international law, blocking humanitarian access, and even targeting health workers. We need a principled response, which @tiagocorreia.bsky.social & I set out in an editorial in Eur J Public Health

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

📢 TRUTH 🔽 "Our politics is dominated by people who have never lived on a low income and know little of what such a life involves. There are remarkably few ways for people to truly shape government decisions that will determine their own lives." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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We have allowed poverty to become normalised in our country | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to deepening poverty in the UK and ways to address it

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I’m still not sure if enough Americans fully understand how they have subjected the rest of the world, and themselves to this… by voting for it Twice

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

#HealthInequalities are exacerbated in the health system when women’s symptoms are considered to be “atypical” or explained-away as being not ‘true’ physical symptoms. When building research projects on health this issue needs to be addressed in the design phase

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A couple of recent observations regarding knowledge about #HealthInequalities among scientists as I work with diverse sets of colleagues preparing grants for the Horizon Europe sex/ gender & cardiovascular disease

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Heres how the “let’s roll back public health” #MAHA experiment is going in the US “Hundreds of children across more than 20 schools in the Upstate portion of South Carolina were quarantined for the measles, health officials reported on Tuesday” www.wbtv.com/2026/01/27/h...

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Hundreds of students quarantined from South Carolina measles outbreak

Hundreds of children across more than 20 schools in the Upstate portion of South Carolina were quarantined for the measles, health officials reported.

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Inés Escobar González @escobargonzalez.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Hello! I’m looking for rich ethnographies of the recent feminist movements in Latin America around abortion rights, femicides, and/or “buscadoras” and the disappeared. Can someone please help? Much obliged #anthrosky #anthro #socialscience #sociocultural #academicsky #academicchatter #acwri

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

On the one hand, "The British government said... it had recruited a team of AI specialists to build AI tools to improve transport, public safety & defence, using funding from Meta" On the other hand Meta is "Meta allowed minors access to sex-talking chatbots despite staff concerns, lawsuit alleges"

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 27/01/2026

Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I replaced my final assignment this semester at the last second because I felt like I couldn't LLM-proof it, and told my students as much. I got this back on my course evals. The kids are alright

This is a P.S. that doesn't really fit anywhere else: Dr. Carlson, I know you are resigned to the fact that the use of AI is inevitable and that you cannot avoid getting submissions from students that have used AI. I can't speak for everyone, but I want to say that I don't think you should give up on the idea of an AI-free classroom. I'm not sure if you had already looked at assignments when you spoke about this, and I obviously do not know what other people submitted, but I know that among myself and my friends, using AI is very frowned upon. I'm a bit of an older student. I finished college before AI became a popular tool the way it is now, so maybe I'm biased and the youths actually will make AI adoption inevitable... But I don't think it has to be, and I think much of the push for the idea that it's not going anywhere comes from huge tech investors. My key takeaway for you here: stick to your AI policy that you told us on the first day of school. You don't have to expect AI submissions. Students do better when there are people expecting better from them, especially such a respected instructor. I am very pro failing students who use AI for assignments (outside of spell check and such) and I know many other people are too. Those of us who don't use AI don't want to be in the public health field in 20 years and see that no one is able to do anything without it. It's honestly a very weird and kind of scary time to be someone in academia, and the AI of it all is making it so much worse. I really respect your policy and strong stance that you outlined on day 1, and I think it's more than fair. So TL;DR: please don't expect us to use AI, punish those who do, and know that your strong anti-AI stance is making a positive impact in our educations.

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Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Voting is a stronger social determinant of health than education #Vote #SDoH #EpiSky #SocialEpi #PublicHealth #HealthEquity

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Wishing you a happy women’s little Christmas! To all the amazing women in our lives Nollaig na mban shona! www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

So the Top Trumps reality game here is that each time evidence of his connection to Epstein hits the headlines a country will be attacked, the military might deployed, and assets will be stripped

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

That Christmas 2020 2nd wave, I posted on twitter asking for any restaurants in her area that would deliver a Christmas dinner to her because she refused to go to shops as she was working with 200covid patients wearing plastic apron, gloves and paper mask, a stranger messaged me and brought her this

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was this trap cam which allows me to see the creatures I share the garden with. Here’s a badger foraging beneath a persimmon tree

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Martin Bauer @martinmbauer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously? It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus 1/12

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Once again, great stuff from Rolling Stone on the enshittification of the science publication system www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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