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Health Inequalities Policy Research Group @livunihipr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Inaugural Lecture Professor Ben Barr @benjaminbarr.bsky.social The Epidemiology of Money How money - and what governments do with it - shapes health and health inequalities 08 Oct 2026; 5.30-7pm BST, Central Teaching Hub; University of Liverpool free to attend register online: tinyurl.com/3djwvpjx

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Need to study the work of people doing serious work on how to move beyond the financialised rentier economy. Forget debating various superficial policies. Even EU

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And how much of the rest of the economy is dominated by stock market gambling?

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An FDA advisory panel voted in favor of a new blood test that screens for 50+ cancers. The idea is great, but the test has lots of false negatives & false positives, so use w/ caution, & it shouldn't replace conventional screening. Read more: jenndowd.substack.com/p/a-new-bloo... #medsky #episky

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A New Blood Test to Screen for Cancer: Hope or Hype?

As usual, it’s complicated.

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apply by Oct 4 2026 to the ISI Pipeline Program. There may be more fun ways to spend the weekend, but they don't provide you with 1 year of mentoring by a great scholar, funding for an international research visit & workshop, and 5,000 EUR in research funds! www.isi-munich.de/en/programs/...

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Programmes at ISI — Pipeline — Research & Funding

Our pipeline program combines research, funding, and exchange on global inequality. Find out more about projects and fellowships now.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One in 5 (20%) children have special needs even when mother was not depressed?? Good grief . Have I misread that?

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nightmare vision of AI-generated epidemiology research. As if the literature wasn't already reinventing wheels hand over fist.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great! They can pay the ground rent, service charges, council tax etc. Be my guest.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Who is going to provide this intensive support? They will need to be trained, paid, given pensions eventually, etc.

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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

9 out of the 10 poorest regions in Europe are in the UK, 7 of those in England. (None in Scotland). Yet the richest area in Europe is London. Better Together? Source - Eurostat.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Does anyone ever think about how the name for the "standard model" of cosmology s called "LAMBDA CDM" where Lambda means dark energy and DM means Cold Dark Matter. Neither of which anyone claims to understand.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 01/10/2026

What a collection of racists, grifters and far-right ghouls.

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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That 1980s boom he’s talking about is because we sold off the family silver, which lead to decades of the highest energy & rail fares in Europe plus sewage in rivers.. oh and being held to ransom by fat cats warning that if we want anything to improve we need to pay all over again. Fuck off Simon.

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Ian St James @ianstjames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just sharing this to debunk myths, lies, and disinformation. I noted that when BBC News at One did its extensive piece on the triple lock ‘adjustment’ (it’s not being abolished) the polling didn’t get a mention. I wonder why 🤔

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Emma Wilkinson @emmajourno.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wonder where we'd be now if Sure Start was never disbanded in the first place... (vaccine uptake, child mental health, obesity, etc, etc) www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Healthy Babies programme to be expanded across England

Scheme will follow principles of Sure Start, helping families with infant feeding, mental health and bonding with babies

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Come on podcasters, let's have an angle on Burnhams speech that is not bought & paid for by the super rich.

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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Exactly this. This is an aside, but I am still angry at when Ch4 exposed Reform buying and manipulating polls, there was no media outcry. It was simply buried and forgotten - the point being, most RW misbehaviour is.

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Trevor Stables 🇫🇷🔶🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @trevor0257.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Abolishing the #triplelock to index state pensions purely to CPI would save the UK government an estimated £2 billion/ year but completely abolishing higher-rate tax relief on private pension contributions would yield a significantly larger £10 billion to £15 billion per year for the Treasury.

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Do you use Health trends in England fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-repor...? We are looking to replace it with a new integrated service for public health data and we're running a survey with users at the moment to understand what they currently use it for. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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Health trends in England

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🤔 Ending the triple lock in order to finance Burnham's new care plan (if that is the plan as some have suggested) effectively means taking money off the pre-care home elderly to give to the care home elderly. Again, no mention of taxing the rich to pay for this... #WealthTaxNow #FromWealth2Health

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 29/09/2026

It’s so funny, but I think even a lot of us liberal arts folks wouldn’t mind downing our education if it wasn’t so helpful for understanding life. My comp-sci classes were fine but Sociology of Business, Modern Russia and the Chechen Wars, History of England Ancient to 1688, Economics of Baseball? 🤌🏻

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Max Weber postdoc program at @eui-eu.bsky.social has its deadline 16 October, for a September 2027 start: www.eui.eu/en/academic-...

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Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies

Making a Difference in Global Academia

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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With elections coming up it's a good time to know how your Congressional district is doing under the current regime. How healthy are your neighbors? www.congressionaldistricthealthdashboard.org

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Congressional District Health Dashboard

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How strange that the same people who want to keep all their wealth & live forever also promote policies that will destroy the planet?

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Frankie Shrapnel @frankieshrapnel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Houses can be built on floodplains despite failing safety test, says high court Can’t believe we are still doing this! The elderly owners of the 3 houses on the old flood plain where I live have been flooded twice and now can’t sell or get affordable insurance. Madness.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why is the govt releasing violent prisoners? Jails are full of people who are not at all violent.

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Nason Maani @spidermaani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New Money Power Health essay with @sandrogalea.skystack.xyz in our Ideas about Ideas series! This one entitled "The limits of technocratic thinking". All essays are free and ad-free, subscribe with your email to receive new ones straight to your inbox: nasonmaani.substack.com/p/ideas-abou...

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Ideas about Ideas: The limits of technocratic thinking

What are the limits of expert evidence-based analysis?

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is revealing. The people standing of the far right depend on racism among voters to help them implement policies favouring the super rich. That is the whole point.

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ethelredaunready.bsky.social @ethelredaunready.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

'To face Kuensberg questioning". What is she - the Gestapo? What a ridiculous heading. The BBC is so up itself nowadays - and fails to present us with news of import. Their website is all about football, it seems, which is of little interest to a great many people. How are the mighty fallen.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All it would take is a glance at the Health Surveys for England & Scotland to see how many people with long standing illness have jobs. For pity's sake Health Survey for England - NHS England Digital share.google/6aBumdz3H1kl...

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Health Survey for England - NHS England Digital

We’re the national information and technology partner to the health and social care system using digital technology to transform the NHS and social care

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The big rise in economic inactivity in UK started in the Thatcher years of deindustrialisation . Unemployment fell back, but inactivity just went rising.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How is it possible that buying a 1st home is still referred to as "getting on a ladder". The long property boom in UK is surely over.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heathrow Expess fares are daylight robbery.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why not just build council houses?

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