Mel Bartley

@zetkin.bsky.social

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🇪🇺🦔🦡🌹🕊Emeritus prof of medical sociology UCL. Posting on social inequality in health , work & health, commercial & political determinants of health. Relationship between research & policy. Sometimes post about badgers, trams & trains. Oublagea .. more

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Melanie Jane Bartley FBA is a medical sociologist and retired academic. She was Professor of Medical Sociology at University College London from 2001 to 2012.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 17h

Who would ever have thought it🧐

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 17h

The US media dont want to bring Trump down the way UK media want Starmers blood.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 17h

Epstein gave Noam Chomsky $230,000?? Good heavens, I know grant money is hard to come by these days but.....

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 18h

Nect thing you know we will hear that the Swiss Federal Council are pals with Jeffrey Epstein.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 19h

To be fair, if UCU treated end of every short term contract as a "case" it would be too much. UCL brags on its website about making 400 redundancies a year (that was 15 years ago)

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 19h

I was a UCU branch officer at TCRU for 2 years. But the branch didnt fight on short term contracts. When mine ended, I was gone.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 19h

Another perverted word. I'm starting to expect them
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 20h

The redundancy I remember best (they all tend to run together in my head) was from Goldsmiths College. I was good pals with the people in the computer centre who were shop stewards. They were really sympathetic but said they were powerless.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 20h

I used to have to grit my teeth to pay my UCU subs. I was a faithful member through 6 redundancies, none of which they did anything about.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 22h

Full article: The rise and fall of Britain’s Golden Cohort: how the remarkable generation of 1925–1934 had their lives cut short by austerity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The rise and fall of Britain’s Golden Cohort: how the remarkable generation of 1925–1934 had their lives cut short by austerity

The British born between 1925 and 1934 experienced exceptional improvements in their annual mortality; earning them the title ‘the Golden Cohort’. They were the goldilocks generation; almost all to...

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 23h

Good point. However are the wonderful British birth cohorts being used for such anodyne research for example.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 23h

Ooohhhh, thank you🙏🙏

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 23h

But at any hint of policies that would really help working class people, the powerful get their knives out.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 23h

So MacSween (I never heard of him before last week) is a sexist, racist Brexiteer who doesn't care if the planet burns? Surely not.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 23h

Ferrari is abysmal.