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Health, gender and international development with a focus on communications and research uptake.

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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Visa restrictions aren't a bureaucratic inconvenience, they're a structural determinant of global health. This opinion piece argues they shape who leads, whose expertise travels, and whether localisation means anything at all. ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/resource/vis... #GlobalHealth
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In a close-knit island nation of about 930,000 people, an estimated 9,100 are now living with HIV. More than 42% of new infections in 2025 were due to sharing contaminated needles or equipment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘Children are dying’: Fiji hopes declaring an HIV emergency will help it tackle crisis
One in 60 adults Fiji lives with HIV but a recent emergency declaration may help address key issues such as syringe sharing
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At least one million women and girls have lost access to critical humanitarian support since January 2025 as unprecedented aid cuts push women's organizations in crisis zones to the brink of collapse news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Aid cuts leave at least one million women and girls without vital support
At least one million women and girls have lost access to critical humanitarian support since January 2025 as unprecedented aid cuts push women's organizations in crisis zones to the brink of collapse,...
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Global health systems are built on assumptions of relatively unrestricted mobility that no longer hold. The cumulative effects of visa restrictions on who participates, who decides, and whose expertise travels are insufficiently examined in global health governance journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Visa restrictions: A structural determinant of global health that must be confronted head-on
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Uneasy moments in fieldwork aren't just unfortunate by-products, they're data. This paper by two female migrant researchers examines how intersectional power shapes research encounters, and proposes dialogical reflection as both method and ethical safeguard. tinyurl.com/ymvauejd #ResearchEthics
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Returning the gaze: Using art to transform representations of people with albinism www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/retu...
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Returning the gaze
Using art to transform representations of people with albinism
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Amid broadening cuts to funding for development aid, programmes addressing gender inequality are amongst the hardest hit, with such funding falling to its lowest level since 2021. news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Gender equality woefully off track, new UN report reveals
At the current rate of progress, gender equality would take 171 years to achieve, a new UN report finds as institutions built to advance gains are being defunded and demobilised.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reform and Restore won't be happy until there's footage of drowning migrants daily on peak time TV. They are insatiable. The main parties need to confront and not indulge them.
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The question, then, is why would UK authorities want to stop disabled people going abroad? If it’s not just about tight budgets, why should it matter to them how an adult chooses to use their care package? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An effective ban on disabled people leaving Britain? You read that right, and we will not settle for it | Frances Ryan
This scandal shows there are many who don’t expect us to live rich lives – and that paternalism lives on in disability services, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Grace Tobin (British, b. 1993) Reflection, 2018 reduction woodcut
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In Devonshire goldenrod is called ‘farewell-to-summer’ because it blooms from August through September. It is said to grow where secret hoards of gold are hidden, and if it unexpectedly appears near a dwelling, then the inhabitants will surely have good fortune. #FlowersOnFriday
Collage of goldenrod flowering in late summer. Tall stems carry abundant arching sprays of tiny golden-yellow flowers above narrow green leaves. Close-up views show the feathery flower clusters, with a bumblebee visiting one bloom.
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The UK has its own unresolved equivalent in the Windrush generation www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror | Miha Mazzini
In February that year, the Slovenian government officially deleted 25,000 citizens, turning them overnight into illegal immigrants, says writer and film-maker Miha Mazzini
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On the urgent need for wealth redistribution www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality
More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW 📚. Participatory research projects don't end when funding does. This paper introduces three concepts - entangled temporalities, endy moments, and afterlives - to help researchers think through endings more carefully and ethically. ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/resource/end... #SciComms
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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Stories of Institutional Violence
Writing in honour of Professor Jason Arday
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Paul Klee (1879-1940) Herbstblumen Stilleben (Still Life with Autumn Flowers) 1925. Watercolour and oil on paper.
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And the question remains, when this occurs what is the process for putting things right? There is no transparency and no recourse to justice when harm is committed.
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Capt'n Amy, the Girl with the Sun in her Eyes @captnamy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I remember a time when we'd get notice of a software update. Usually distributed on a diskette. Excitment! What new cool stuff will we get. Nowadays I dread updates. What new nonsense will they force on us? What settings walked on? What nefarious new surveillance will be embedded?
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Opting out of the algorithm would be a game changer. Now go for a ban on the infinite scroll and we might be getting somewhere! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms
Draft legislation enforces digital duty of care including limiting children’s exposure to misogynistic and eating disorder content
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
NEW ETHICS RESOURCE 📚. AI adoption in academic publishing is growing fastest among researchers facing the greatest structural disadvantage, and it's not removing the bias they encounter. Reviewers have simply adapted. ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/resource/ai-... #scicomms
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are so excited for next week's Creative Methods conference in Manchester, UK. We will demonstrate how we have used photography, animation, film and collage in our work on health. Please do come and say hello! #ICRMC2026 #CreativeResearchMethods @drhelenkara.bsky.social
The background image is an abstract painting of a woman's face. The text on the flyer reads, working on health in fragile settings: What can creative methods offer
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Just under 5 weeks to go until #ICRMC26 comes to Manchester (and online)! We're looking forward to two days of creative thinking, fresh ideas, and great conversations. If you haven't booked yet, there's still time: www.creativeresearchmethods.com #CreativeResearchMethods #AcademicSky
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Creative Research Methods Conference 2026
The International Creative Research Methods Conference is an annual gathering for academics of all disciplines who are interested in using creative methods in their research.
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Searching for the body of his wife in the mud, Dil Bahadur Shrestha lamented that he did not even have a shovel left. For now, he has been using his hands to try to find her as he picks through the ruins of his house" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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After the flood: human suffering on an unfathomable scale in Nepal’s worst-hit districts
Thousands remain missing and aid is hampered by treacherous conditions in communities almost wiped out of existence
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 31/08/2026
The average Nepalese person produces 0.5 metric tonnes of CO2 per year. The average American produces 14 metric tonnes. Climate change is harming most those who deserve it least. But at least oil companies and billionaires are making record profits. 😐
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Millions of people rely on the information they obtain via a search engine corporation which just proved it would alter digital reality if instructed to do so by those in political power. That’s some crazy shit, Google.
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right political commentator, detained by ICE
A former editor of Breitbart News, Yiannopoulos has also served as an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Climate change deniers have blood on their hands www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal
Army helicopters ferry survivors from inaccessible areas to a camp at a barracks in Bidur
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Good news for women everywhere. (However, it is 2026 and we are just changing the diagnosis? Clown world) www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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New heart attack definition promises better care for women
Leading cardiovascular health groups reclassify overlooked causes and introduce sex-specific diagnostic thresholds
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Claude Debussy’s 1904 postcard to French singer Madame Bardac (Emma Debussy)
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
UNICEF has warned that Afghanistan could lose up to 5,400 female healthcare workers by 2030 if restrictions on girls’ education and women’s employment continue. As many as 9,600 health workers could be lost by 2035, the agency said. healthpolicy-watch.news/as-taliban-r...
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As Taliban Rule Enters Sixth Year, Healthcare For Afghan Women Is Being Dismantled - Health Policy Watch
Last week marked five years since the Taliban stormed back to power in Afghanistan. The country’s women have seen their rights constricted from all sides – now, shrinking healthcare services and restr...
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
every time I have to open my phone and type a code into a dual verification app, only to find out my institution does not subscribe to the resource I'm trying to access, I take psychic damage
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026
It isn’t a coincidence that many rich countries are accelerating policies to reduce immigration at the same time we are witnessing more natural disasters supercharged by climate change.
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Rest is not an easy thing for the Ebola workers to find” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Behind every case, a person’: the man leading DRC’s Ebola fight on the human cost hidden behind the numbers
Prof Pierre Akilimali, who heads DR Congo’s response to an outbreak that has so far killed more than 2,700 people, says tackling the disease requires trust and respect
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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Madonna of the Cotton Fields (1927) was painted by the British artist Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970). #Art
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton is credited in at least 37 research papers on the COVID vaccine, including the first phase I trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
IRBs protect participants, but can they also reproduce colonial epistemic frameworks? This paper argues that procedural ethics isn't enough. A research project can be fully compliant and still enact epistemic violence. ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/resource/ret... #ResearchEthics #SciComms
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank. 
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
All of us are being protected from Ebola by health staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo, risking their lives every day and not even being paid. 160 have already fallen ill and 43 have died. A global disgrace, it should be on the front page of every newspaper. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Ebola frontline workers missing wages as outbreak spreads ‘exponentially’
People fighting to contain rapidly growing outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo describe the obstacles and dangers they face
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Even when LLMs write well, the lack of variety in style is crippling. Reading the same prose in your instructions & social media & advertisements & software & PowerPoint eventually makes one queasy. Prompting & temperature only gets you so far. Real variation is needed (and under-researched)
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Every technology that allows one worker to produce what once required ten should be fantastic news. We could all work less. Instead the owner discovers he can sack nine people and keep the extra wealth. Technology isn't stealing our future. Ownership is.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
'The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer.'
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"While criticism is an inevitable part of academic life, what I have experienced has gone far beyond scholarly disagreement." A piece of art in memoriam for Prof Arday. Lost for words.
The image is of a piece of art. The background is made up of strips of hand painted tape which has been stuck to the page to create a dissonant black and white abstract. On top of this there is a quote from Prof Arday's resignation letter in white lettering. The lettering gets larger and more discordant  and messy towards the end. It is made up of a mixture of fonts with each letter individually stuck to the page. So they are slightly raised. The quote is, "While criticism is an inevitable part of academic life, what I have experienced has gone far beyond scholarly disagreement."
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Afghanistan is one of the few countries in the world where women’s suicide rates exceed men’s (globally, they are almost twice as common among males), with 75% to 80% of recorded suicide cases and attempts being women and girls www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The Taliban have built a system for enslaving women in Afghanistan | Tala Elissa
Five years on, the regime’s chokehold has left Afghan women with almost nothing, but many are still bravely fighting for their freedom, writes Tala Elissa
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Taliban have banned institutions providing nursing and midwifery training for women. There are fewer and fewer trained professionals who can help during childbirth, with disastrous outcomes www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-a...
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Meet Afghanistan’s last midwives: The women saving babies in defiance of Taliban
One of the last remaining midwifery trainers in Afghanistan describes some of the nightmares facing women in labour after a Taliban ban. Arpan Rai reports
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Pamoja Communications @pamoja.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The ethics literature on visual research is robust, the problem is researchers aren't acting on it. This editorial makes the case for better IRB guidance, more careful method selection, and recognising that visual ethics are constantly evolving. ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/resource/the...
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Erin Brockovich: "If Data Centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
👏 Impressive improvements on London children's respiratory health after emissions reduced, following introduction of Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez). 👉 "Scientists "stunned" by how quickly young children's lungs began to recover & grow after pollution restrictions" www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
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