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Katharine Wright

@wrightkatharine.bsky.social
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Freelance ethics consultant - global health, research ethics & climate and health. Interests include ethics, human rights, politics and anything to do with saxophones. Accidental dog owner.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The scientific community and the public owe these plaintiffs a debt of gratitude. Thanks as well as @aclu.org, @aclu-norcal.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org @cspinet.org & @danjacobson40.bsky.social for leading the lawsuit. protectdemocracy.org/work/researc...
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Researchers challenge NIH screening of grants for disfavored viewpoints - Protect Democracy
Today, researchers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) policy of blocking grants in order to censor views it disagrees with, on everything from DEI to ge...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.
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Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good news for real farmers.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I said this years ago. It's been obvious. It remains obvious. It's a tragedy for our country.
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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our government has been unable to come out and unequivocally condemn the racist things attacking the RNLI. I really cannot understand the 4D chess you have to be playing in order to take that approach.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OMG this story from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s ‘Men Explain Things to Me’! www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-soln...
He said, in the way you encourage your friend's seven-year-old to describe flute practice, "And what are they about?"
They were actually about quite a few different things, the six or seven out by then, but I began to speak only of the most recent on that summer day in 2003, River of Shadows:
Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, my book on the annihilation of time and space and the industrialization of everyday life.
He cut me off soon after I mentioned Muybridge. "And have you heard about the very important Muybridge book that came out this year?"
So caught up was I in my assigned role as ingénue that I was perfectly willing to entertain the possibility that another book on the same subject had come out simultaneously and I'd somehow missed it. He was already telling me about the very important book-with that smug look I know so well in a man holding forth, eyes fixed on the fuzzy far horizon of his own authority.teach." Still, there are these other men, too. So, Mr. Very Important was going on smugly about this book I should have known when Sallie interrupted him to say, "That's her book." Or tried to interrupt him anyway.
But he just continued on his way. She had to say, "That's her book" three or four times before he finally took it in. And then, as if in a nineteenth-century novel, he went ashen. That I was indeed the author of the very important book it turned out he hadn't read, just read about in the New York Times Book Review a few months earlier, so confused the neat categories into which his world was sorted that he was stunned speechless-for a moment, before he began holding forth again. Being women, we were politely out of earshot before we started laughing, and we've never really stopped.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We’ll be waiting a very, very long time White male professors get a pass for their wrongdoing!
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I really think this sort of state conduct should result in a termination of the EU pathway to joining. Why let in another Orban type government? They know where it leads.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.
‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Katharine Wright @wrightkatharine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
An excellent thread - thank you @spockresists.bsky.social !
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Katharine Wright @wrightkatharine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m looking forward to the same wall to wall coverage by the BBC of the Lib Dems conference
Screenshot of BBC news politics page - first 7 items about Reform
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hmmmmm … no arrests made. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"I experimented with a conspiracy to launder illegal donations but I didn't inhale" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘I wasn’t even listening,’ Farage says of donations scandal meeting
Reform UK leader maintains innocence in overseas funding controversy on last day of party conference
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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beaubodor.bsky.social @beaubodor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Spontaneous departure of spontaneous protestors from Dover Priory Train Station, marching to catch a spontaneous train arrival. Kent Online www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/l...
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Katharine Wright @wrightkatharine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This has made my day. I’ll be marking Rice Truck Day in my calendar …
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Katharine Wright @wrightkatharine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My reaction entirely - Farage was filmed and clearly in the picture about the proposed donation. Why is this not the primary focus?
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 04/09/2026
Three senior Reform figures were involved in those Channel 4 revelations we saw last night. Two have been kicked out. The third is Nigel Farage. Farage should be suspended while this matter is investigated. He has very serious questions to answer.
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics.
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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Given the sort of attention devoted to accusations of plagiarism one assumes that some people will be very exorcised about another Cambridge academic appearing to be involved in *actual crime*
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't remember a clearer smoking gun than that Channel 4 News footage. Nigel Farage and his senior aides all filmed discussing apparent plans to break the law by funnelling foreign money into British politics, plans which at least partly went ahead. A criminal investigation surely must follow
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Mosquitoes that can carry #chikungunya, #dengue and #Zika virus breeding in UK 🦟 Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes and larvae found in residential properties in east London. LSHTM experts explain current risk to humans is low but action is needed. 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Aedes aegypti, a mosquito with black and white markings on its legs.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton
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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Half an hour well spent watching this
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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It appears that plagiarism only matters to The Times if it’s done by black professors
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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Katharine Wright @wrightkatharine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I have been ranting about this for years - WHY can’t students be treated separately in the figures? It’s such an easy win!
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Change. Governance. In. UK. Universities. Now. NOW. It’s a shambles and absolutely everyone from other sectors thinks you’re just making shit up when you spell out how decisions are made in universities.
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Maebh Ní Fhallúin @maebhnif.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“The field you’re entering... was designed, deliberately, for you to have as little impact as possible on equity & justice... It’s designed to keep you busy doing nonsense. Your job is to see through that & do your very best to resist.” globalhealthotherwise.com/why-global-h...
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Why global health research must stop treating communities as data sources and start honoring them as knowers - GHO
Professor Seye Abimbola joins us for the Expert's Voice where he discusses epistemic injustice, the stubborn legacies of colonialism in academic global health, and why meaningful change requires us to...
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Gavi @gavi.org · 28/08/2026
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Andy Burnham is set to ban goods from Israeli West Bank settlements. The UK has few other diplomatic options as the Netanyahu govt destroys prospects for a two-state solution through settlement expansion & enabling violent settlers to rampage through Palestinian areas. Good to discuss on i24News.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/08/2026
London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership
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London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership
Campaigners say ‘seismic shift’ follows years of pressure to sever ties with oil and gas firm The London Science Museum has ended its decades-long partnership with the oil and gas company BP in what has been described as a “seismic shift” for the museum. The Science Museum Group academy, which was established in 2018 to provide training and resources, announced on Friday that it would be ending its partnership with BP. In a statement, the director and chief executive of the Science Museum Group, Sir Ian Blatchford, said the partnership had “drawn to a close at the end of the current contract term”. Continue reading...
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Kristof Decoster @kristofdecoster.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Jeremy Farrar to leave WHO - Lancet World report. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Jeremy Farrar to leave WHO
The unexpected departure of the Assistant Director-General of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Care has prompted concerns over leadership at WHO. Faith McLellan reports.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Settlements are pure business decisions. If Meta was willing to pay $18 billion, imagine how guilty they must’ve been, how big they feared the real damages would be, and how insanely profitable it was to do this wrong in the first place.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just as some hotels don’t have a Floor 13, journals shouldn’t have Reviewer no 2.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union.
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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To underscore why this is especially awful for those who may not know, the measles vaccine is usually given at 12 months. Newborns rely on community immunity to prevent exposure, which until recently we have had in the US. This quite literally could be anyone's newborn. None of this had to happen.
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Kristof Decoster @kristofdecoster.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
CEPI faces huge Ebola vaccine funding shortfall www.devex.com/news/cepi-fa...
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CEPI faces huge Ebola vaccine funding shortfall
CEPI’s Dr. Richard Hatchett says the organization already borrowed $100 million from its existing programs to advance the research and development of several potential Ebola vaccine candidates. But th...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/08/2026
Health Ministry warns of 'complete collapse of the basic necessities of life' in Gaza as Israel's attacks continue aje.news/q9er2c
Health Ministry warns of 'complete collapse of the basic necessities of life' in Gaza as Israel's attacks continue
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Gavi @gavi.org · 26/08/2026
In rural Mozambique, one midwife can be the nurse, vaccinator, counsellor and emergency responder all at once. For many families, these “all in one” health workers *are* the health system, delivering babies, giving vaccines and providing care when doctors are too far away to access. bit.ly/4gicT5W
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Katharine Wright @wrightkatharine.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Wexford harbour at sunset
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is Orwellian censorship It’s not possible to train students in public health or global health if we are banned from teaching about structural racism, social determinants of health & health inequities, & other core competencies that MAGA/MAHA condemn as “DEI” www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/p...
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Accrediting body considers changes to racism curriculum standards for public health schools
The accrediting group for schools of public health is weighing the removal of language that specifically requires programs to teach about structural bias and racism.
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