Reposted by Trish GreenhalghGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comPalantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George MonbiotTom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 541560802
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 22hyes there's a lot of speculation but the evidence (including mechanistic) hasn't been synthesised to my knowledge 100
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 22hI can't comment on that but I am about to start a systematic review of evidence on transmission of airborne/droplet borne infections via the eye. 120
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 22hI don't know. But the main route of covid infection is inhalation. 100
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghProPublica @propublica.org · 13/10/2026Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.propublica.orgEctopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ... 6218011047
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026That guy with the gilet in Devil Wears Prada II and how Meryl Streep looks at him... 020
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026My student was a man, and as it happens, both examiners were men. This is about intellectual humility, nothing (in this case) to do with gender stereotypes. 061
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Best ever PhD viva feedback. "You passed with no corrections, not because your thesis was perfect (it wasn't), or bc your answers were 100% correct (they weren't), but bc you were humble in responding to our critique." Doctoral study is about intellectual virtues as well as research skills. #PhDchat 1999
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghNuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 12/10/2026England's adult social care system is an outlier amongst comparable countries. 🌍 @theweek.com summarises our analysis of how adult social care works in Denmark, Australia, Japan and Germany.theweek.comHow other nations pay for careGermany and Australia among the nations who could offer inspiration for bolstering England’s ‘threadbare’ care system 11612
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026There's a good 'sociologist meets Joan Armatrading and doesn't recognise her story' in this one. (NB I once lived in a collective house with a cat called Joan Armatrading...). 0103
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghJ. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026There's a diphtheria case in NY. Let's hope it's a one-off; diphtheria is deadly (1 in 10) & highly contagious (transmission is respiratory or cutaneous - via skin contact), but very rare in the US - just 10 cases in the last 20 years. The last respiratory case... 🧵 www.btpm.org/local/2026-1...btpm.orgErie County Health Department reports case of diphtheria in local school districtDiphtheria cases are extremely rare but officials in the West Seneca Central School District are acting “out of abundance of caution” to alert families. 45143
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghRuthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I am not going to share that disgusting cartoon that was in the Daily Telegraph. Suffice to say that it was disgusting and deeply offensive. Here is Jewish and Muslim Greens' joint statement on the matter, and a call to the DT to withdraw it - jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/10/11/j... 1/10jewishgreens.greenparty.org.ukJoint Statement from Muslim Greens and Jewish Greens Condemning Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Anti-Palestinian Racism in The Daily Telegraph - Jewish GreensMuslim Greens and Jewish Greens stand together in unequivocal condemnation of the deeply offensive cartoon published in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday 10 October 2026. The cartoon, illustrated by Blo... 8259116
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghOle Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Exciting Associate Professor opportunity in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, with access to state-of-the-art neuroimaging and stimulation at OHBA/OxCIN: MEG, OPM, 3T/7T MRI, TUS, TMS & more. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSQ831/a...jobs.ac.ukAssociate Professorship of Experimental Psychology at University of OxfordSearching for an academic job? Explore this Associate Professorship of Experimental Psychology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs. 25551
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Wonderful piece. Seems to be free online right now. Have passed to ecologist son. 230
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026That is a good idea. Maybe I need to do a boilerplate paragraph that I can cut and paste in... 010
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Journal editors, please give me another button to choose from when you ask me to review a paper. As well as ‘agree’ and ‘decline’, there needs to be ‘how did this AI slop get past the desk editor?’. 110711
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Any donation to help get this student out of Gaza would be appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-hamza...gofundme.comDonate to Help Hamza Continue His Education, organized by Carter EwersMy name is Hamza AlHelou, a student from Gaza. For the past three years, my educati… Carter Ewers needs your support for Help Hamza Continue His Education 01711
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghEivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026📚 Our book Beyond the Bedside is now available open access! @monabaker11.bsky.social and I explore how storytelling shapes medical evidence through cases of IVF, puberty blockers & abortion. #AcademicSky @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/b... 0104
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A friend just wrote me about what is happening right now with AI decompiling games and applications (e.g., Adobe Photoshop) and it has really shaken me because the implications for the free market are staggering Basically closed source software is over forever and it happened overnightheise.deOpen-Source Guru Raymond: AI Ends Closed-Source SoftwareOpen-source co-founder Eric S. Raymond explains closed-source software is effectively over thanks to AI-powered reverse engineering. 62537263
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghCraig Nikolic @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 09/10/2026The flu season is properly here now. Go get your flu shots. If you’re NHS, just book it at your community pharmacy if you can’t get one via work. 21715
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghMary Dixon-Woods @marydixonwoods.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Organising perioperative care so structures and processes are optimised for the best outcomes is not easy. This consensus-built indicator set can help assess and monitor how organisations are doing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 222
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Fiji son wishes you all a Happy World Octopus Day. 314425
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghPhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026New on the Archive: Greenhalgh, Trisha (2026) Interrogating Evidential Pluralism: A Critical Comparison of Approaches to Incorporating Mechanisms in Evidence Synthesis. Philosophy of Medicine, 7 (1). pp. 1-26. ISSN 2692-3963 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/… 083
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Got mine tomorrow, it’s costing me £99. 150
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Looks like there’s an mRNA vaccine against pneumonic plague. Eat your heart out, RFK Jr. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.comNovel Bivalent mRNA‐LNP Vaccine for Highly Effective Protection against Pneumonic PlagueThe study investigates mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccines targeting Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. Combined F1+LcrV mRNA vaccination elicited robust immune responses and protected mice.... 26648203
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Waiting for the WHO tweet “FACT: plague is not airborne; keep washing hands”. (Plague is airborne) 921141
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 04/10/2026The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t goodlawproject.org/is-this-the-firs…goodlawproject.orgIs this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government? | Good Law ProjectThe Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t 11413173
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is the dean who didn’t have a medical degree himself, rhymes with fryer? 100
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghClaire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Call for Papers open until 29 October. digitalgood.net/conference-2...digitalgood.netConference: What does a good digital society look like? - ESRC Digital Good NetworkDigital technologies should be good for people, societies and the planet, but there is ample evidence that they are often not. Social scientists, humanities scholars […] 074
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m a bit out of the loop on that one sorry. 120
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My new paper, just out: Interrogating Evidential Pluralism: A Critical Comparison of Approaches to Incorporating Mechanisms in Evidence Synthesis #philippic philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/arti...philmed.pitt.eduView of Interrogating Evidential Pluralism 24214
Reposted by Trish GreenhalghAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools. 46857290
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Good blog on AI cheating. yoshuabengio.org/en/blog/why-...yoshuabengio.orgYoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped thei... 82717