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Charlie Witzel

@tcwitzel.bsky.social
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Accidental academic, PhD public health. Social science, barbecue, beer, scuba & sexual health. Closet avgeek. Neurodivergent. Amateur brewer. Bangkok based. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...
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Ingrid Young @ingridkyoung.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
We are hiring 5 new postdocs (for 5 years) to work on our Wellcome project in Edinburgh. Deadline next week. For more info on the jobs & the project, head to our website www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org/blog-posts/j... Please share widely!
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 17/09/2025
No words.
The lives of those living in Gaza are deemed less important than maintaining relations with Israel and, by proxy, the US. At the personal level, on Labour's doorsteps, this approach plays out in the most callous of ways. Dalloul al-Neder is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who was a constituent of the former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.
He got to know her, meeting several times: she visited his takeaway shop in 2019 and posed for pictures, declaring "Palestine must be free". She took him on a tour of parliament.PHOTO: Dalloul al-Neder, who lives in Manchester, with an image of his late mother - he has lost several family members in Gaza bombings. 
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Within weeks of the genocide beginning, in October 2023, his mother, brother, sister-in-law and two young nieces were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Desperate to evacuate his wife and four-month-old daughter - who had been buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks - he emailed Rayner twice to seek help evacuating his family. He says received no response.In January 2024, he attended a Labour fundraiser in Stockport addressed by Rayner and her colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, and got to his feet, clutching pictures of his dead mother, begging her to support a ceasefire, emotionally declaring "I lost my family in Gaza". The whole tawdry episode is on camera: he was aggressively ejected from the meeting and on to the street. Rayner did nothing, except to say "thank you, you've made your point". She then unfollowed him on social media. Days later, she was interviewed by Sky News' Beth Rigby, who framed the incident as an example of the threats politicians face, linking it to the murder of the MPs Jo Cox and David Amess.
Since then, so many of Neder's relatives have been slaughtered by the Israeli state that their names take up three pages of a notebook.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration. Closing date 02 Oct 2025. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Fellow LGBTQ
The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a 5-year postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medici...
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Gonz @gonz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”"
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British HIV Association @bhiva.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
New BASHH/BHIVA guidelines on the use of #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis ( #PrEP ) 2025 are out 💊🧬 They include new sections on equity and risk assessment, shifting away from clinical trial-based eligibility criteria. This aims to reduce barriers and expand access. LINK: bhiva.org/clinical-gui...
Decorative image: The BHIVA logo.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
In Hackney & attended chillouts this year? After a successful launch of our peer-led programme we’re looking for more queer people to help lead the way! You don’t need to be an expert to take part - bring your experience & a commitment to community care. Sign up at tinyurl.com/tltaqct
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Luis Guerra @lguerrac.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The Rainbow Map 2025 offers a stark snapshot of where Europe stands on #LGBTI human rights. From #1 to #22, UK recorded its biggest fall in the ranking. #LGBT rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org
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Europe's LGBTI Rights Rankings 2024
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Dr Richard Ma PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🕺⚕️🩺🎓 @richard-ma.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
******** The survey ends next Saturday, 17th May! ********* Good responses so far, so thanks! Just need responses from East of England, Northern Ireland, and Wales, and we got UK covered!
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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We are collecting data about awareness, interest, and use of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (DoxyPEP) among gay and bi men and trans people in Ireland. If you can, please participate! If not, please share with those who can. Thanks! Check out the survey at eu.surveymonkey.com/r/doxypep
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Tristan J Barber @tristanjbarber.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
www.gofundme.com/f/tydhu-medi...
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Donate to Medical Help Needed Urgently, organized by Jo Gattenberg
Hi, my name is Kabanda Abel, and I’m a 26-year-old LGBTQ refugee and activist. I’m reaching… Jo Gattenberg needs your support for Medical Help Needed Urgently
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British HIV Association @bhiva.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
BHIVA is very concerned to learn that Gilead has made a decision to close its individual access scheme for #lenacapavir, which in combination with other antiretrovirals, can be lifesaving for a small number of individuals with very limited HIV treatment options. 1/1
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Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Here’s some anecdata for you @fphuk.bsky.social I mentored 12 people thru the Public Health Speciality Training programme application process this year. • 4 medics: 100% got an offer • 8 non-medics (5-20yrs PH work experience): 25% got an offer The exam (assessment center) was the main barrier.
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Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Research like this is how we'll get DoxyPEP on the NHS?! Please take part of you can
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/03/2025
this is obviously bleak and horrid and I know it's a petty thing to point out but: god we fucking told you so, lesbians and gay men who decided to become transphobic for no apparent reason, we told you the entire LGBTQ community would end up getting screwed over, this was always going to happen
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Tristan J Barber @tristanjbarber.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
now nearly half way there... anything you can donate would help, huge thanks
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UCL Institute for Global Health @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The NIHR HPRU in Blood-Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections at UCL, in collaboration with UKHSA, is launching a newsletter! 📰 Stay informed about the latest research, innovations, and developments in the field of blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections. Subscribe now!
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NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections
NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections Email Forms
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Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A must read for anyone interested in gender dysphoria in kids ⬇️
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Will Nutland @drwilln.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I know this web resource has helped people navigate health care, employment, immigration advice, and how to find community. I’m honoured to be part of the crew that created it.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/01/2025
BREAKING: LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand register their marriages on the first day of the law giving them equal status. The enactment of the Marriage Equality Act makes Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia and the third place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, after Taiwan and Nepal.
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LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand register their marriages on the first day of law giving them equal status
Hundreds of LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand are expected to make their wedded status legal on the first day a law takes effect granting them the same rights as heterosexual couples.
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Charlie Witzel @tcwitzel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
One of the (very few) downsides of Bangkok life is the pollution. This week it’s so bad we’re meant to stay indoors whenever possible and work from home. Definitely feels like a lockdown throwback.
Bangkok skyline covered in hazeA chart saying pm2.5 levels at 170 in red with the words unhealthy written beside.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."
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Charlie Witzel @tcwitzel.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy New Year from BKK 🍾
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Charlie Witzel @tcwitzel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Last weekend I went to a rave two nights in a row and it was amazing but also wow I am too old for such things.
Two guys standing in front of a sign that says Wonderfruit. Three guys posing for a photo in a tower lit up in pink. An umbrella made of grass in front of a pond lit up in neon Four guys standing in front of neon lights.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
every time i see that there’s a movie called Juror #2 i wonder if the juror in it is Rural
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Research from @kspoon.bsky.social & ... "“People don’t want to be in a workplace if they feel disrespected, if they feel like their work isn’t valued, if they feel like they’re not seen,” she notes. “And I do think that in many, many academic workplaces, that is the experience that women have.”"
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Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/12/2024
Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...
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Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
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Charlie Witzel @tcwitzel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I was asked to peer review a paper two days ago and if I accept the report is due immediately? Thank you, but also no.
Peer review system showing a due date of 0 days after accepting.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A machine that allows street drug users to check the composition of what they're about to use within 15 minutes has been a game changer for those using it at London's supervised consumption site. #onpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Drug-testing machine a 'game changer' for users, advocates say | CBC News
A machine that allows street drug users to check the composition of what they're about to use within 15 minutes -- and doesn't destroy the sample -- has been a gamechanger for those using it at London's supervised consumption site.
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Ryan Whitacre, PhD @rwhitacre.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The first research article from our ongoing study on #forced-displacement and #transactional-sex, spotlighting the hardships and survival strategies of #queer-refugees. academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...
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Liminality and transactional sex among queer refugees: Insights from Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, and Switzerland
Abstract. People of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions who have been forcibly displaced (hereafter referred to as ‘queer refug
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Charlie Witzel @tcwitzel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Really exciting post doing mixed-methods research on HIV and mpox with @sarapaparini.bsky.social. Details here: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - QMUL Jobs
ID: 4324. Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate. Application Deadline:
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If there is one thing I can be proud of, it’s my work in starting this global initiative - and for the sixth year running, let’s piss off a lot of people in and out of STEM just by being our unapologetic selves. #queerinstem
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Charlie Witzel @tcwitzel.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Going to try to get in the habit of using this more but for now my parents are visiting us and it’s the best.
Charlie, his partner and parents sitting outside a restaurant in Thailand just after sunset.
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Charlie Witzel @tcwitzel.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Am a big, big fan of Taiwan.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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BlueSky Invites for "Global South" scholars form
This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for Blue Sky which do not seem to be reaching "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in th...
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