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Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty” - Cost Of Living
Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty”
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New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...
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Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
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If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!
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November 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!
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New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...
Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty” - Cost Of Living
Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty”
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July 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...
New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...
Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty” - Cost Of Living
Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty”
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July 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...
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New Blog article - 'Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support' - Carl Walker examines the crisis at the heart of the UK food sector #food #foodpoverty #inequality
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Distress in Community Food Support
Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support
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July 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
New Blog article - 'Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support' - Carl Walker examines the crisis at the heart of the UK food sector #food #foodpoverty #inequality
www.cost-ofliving.net/systemic-bet...
www.cost-ofliving.net/systemic-bet...
New Blog article - 'Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support' - Carl Walker examines the crisis at the heart of the UK food sector #food #foodpoverty #inequality
www.cost-ofliving.net/systemic-bet...
www.cost-ofliving.net/systemic-bet...
Distress in Community Food Support
Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support
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July 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
New Blog article - 'Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support' - Carl Walker examines the crisis at the heart of the UK food sector #food #foodpoverty #inequality
www.cost-ofliving.net/systemic-bet...
www.cost-ofliving.net/systemic-bet...
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New Blog Post - "How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress" - Susan McPherson critically examines the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) survey of adults in England #MentalHealth #MentalDistress www.cost-ofliving.net/how-to-think...
How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress
How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress
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July 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New Blog Post - "How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress" - Susan McPherson critically examines the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) survey of adults in England #MentalHealth #MentalDistress www.cost-ofliving.net/how-to-think...
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New Blog Post - "Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm" - @veronicaheney.bsky.social looks at the use of MadZines to challenge prevailing understandings, diagnoses and treatments of self-harm #SelfHarm #MadZines www.cost-ofliving.net/making-meani...
Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm
Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm
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July 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
New Blog Post - "Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm" - @veronicaheney.bsky.social looks at the use of MadZines to challenge prevailing understandings, diagnoses and treatments of self-harm #SelfHarm #MadZines www.cost-ofliving.net/making-meani...
New Blog Post - "How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress" - Susan McPherson critically examines the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) survey of adults in England #MentalHealth #MentalDistress www.cost-ofliving.net/how-to-think...
How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress
How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress
www.cost-ofliving.net
July 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New Blog Post - "How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress" - Susan McPherson critically examines the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) survey of adults in England #MentalHealth #MentalDistress www.cost-ofliving.net/how-to-think...
New Blog Post - "Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm" - @veronicaheney.bsky.social looks at the use of MadZines to challenge prevailing understandings, diagnoses and treatments of self-harm #SelfHarm #MadZines www.cost-ofliving.net/making-meani...
Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm
Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm
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July 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
New Blog Post - "Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm" - @veronicaheney.bsky.social looks at the use of MadZines to challenge prevailing understandings, diagnoses and treatments of self-harm #SelfHarm #MadZines www.cost-ofliving.net/making-meani...
New blog - "Disinformation, vested interest and the campaign against vegan diets" - Chris Till looks at the right-wing criticism of vegan diets and uncovers vested interests, anti-environmentalism and climate denialism #veganism #climatechange www.cost-ofliving.net/disinformati...
The Campaign Against Vegan Diets
Chris Till looks at the disinformation campaigns against the adoption of vegan diets
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May 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
New blog - "Disinformation, vested interest and the campaign against vegan diets" - Chris Till looks at the right-wing criticism of vegan diets and uncovers vested interests, anti-environmentalism and climate denialism #veganism #climatechange www.cost-ofliving.net/disinformati...
New Palestine Museum just opened in Edinburgh on Dundas Street
May 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New Palestine Museum just opened in Edinburgh on Dundas Street
New Blog Post - "Creating a Surplus" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social critically examines the concept of 'surplus' in healthcare systems and argues that it often makes people responsible for a whole set of structural conditions beyond their control www.cost-ofliving.net/creating-a-s... #policy #deathpanels
Creating a surplus - Cost Of Living
Creating a surplus
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April 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
New Blog Post - "Creating a Surplus" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social critically examines the concept of 'surplus' in healthcare systems and argues that it often makes people responsible for a whole set of structural conditions beyond their control www.cost-ofliving.net/creating-a-s... #policy #deathpanels
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Our MedSoc 2025 call for abstracts is now open. Visit www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... to find out more and submit your abstract. Closing date, 2nd May. We look forward to receiving your abstracts!
Medical Sociology Conference 2025
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March 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Our MedSoc 2025 call for abstracts is now open. Visit www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... to find out more and submit your abstract. Closing date, 2nd May. We look forward to receiving your abstracts!
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The BSA Medical Sociology conference is now open for abstract submission. Looking forward to the usual interesting range of papers
The #BSA Medical #Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September 2025, Northumbria University, UK, *CALL FOR PAPERS* is now open www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Medical Sociology Conference 2025
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March 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The BSA Medical Sociology conference is now open for abstract submission. Looking forward to the usual interesting range of papers
The #BSA Medical #Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September 2025, Northumbria University, UK, *CALL FOR PAPERS* is now open www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Medical Sociology Conference 2025
www.britsoc.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The #BSA Medical #Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September 2025, Northumbria University, UK, *CALL FOR PAPERS* is now open www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
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4/6 🛡️ We must protect the integrity of scientific knowledge. Suppression of research anywhere threatens knowledge everywhere. Solidarity with censored colleagues is crucial
February 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
4/6 🛡️ We must protect the integrity of scientific knowledge. Suppression of research anywhere threatens knowledge everywhere. Solidarity with censored colleagues is crucial
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In current employment systems, disclosure is required to access workplace support, but organisations can actively penalise those that disclose, while making those that don’t disclose work harder to mask or conceal their symptoms, condition or impairment 👇
@drdon.bsky.social @martievt.bsky.social
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Blog "The fragile worker: stigma, illness and disability in the contemporary workplace" by Jen Remnant
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Disability and the fragile worker
The fragile worker: stigma, illness and disability in the contemporary workplace
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February 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In current employment systems, disclosure is required to access workplace support, but organisations can actively penalise those that disclose, while making those that don’t disclose work harder to mask or conceal their symptoms, condition or impairment 👇
@drdon.bsky.social @martievt.bsky.social
@drdon.bsky.social @martievt.bsky.social
New Blog - "Reclaiming Dignity in Food Support: Addressing the Hidden Cost of Hunger" - Carl Walker reports on research revealing “hunger trauma,” where food-insecure individuals suffer distress, shame and guilt. He argues for a more dignified approach to food insecurity tinyurl.com/yzjtsukf
Reclaiming Dignity in Food Support
Carl walker explores the concept of hunger trauma, where individuals suffer emotional distress, and feelings of shame and guilt.
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January 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
New Blog - "Reclaiming Dignity in Food Support: Addressing the Hidden Cost of Hunger" - Carl Walker reports on research revealing “hunger trauma,” where food-insecure individuals suffer distress, shame and guilt. He argues for a more dignified approach to food insecurity tinyurl.com/yzjtsukf
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Today, a devastating report from the @rcn.org.uk, based on the testimony of over 5000 NHS nurses, has rightly catapulted the national shame that is NHS 'corridor care' into the headlines once more. (1/15)
Today, a devastating report from the @rcn.org.uk, based on the testimony of over 5000 NHS nurses, has rightly catapulted the national shame that is NHS 'corridor care' into the headlines once more. (1/15)
January 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Today, a devastating report from the @rcn.org.uk, based on the testimony of over 5000 NHS nurses, has rightly catapulted the national shame that is NHS 'corridor care' into the headlines once more. (1/15)
Today, a devastating report from the @rcn.org.uk, based on the testimony of over 5000 NHS nurses, has rightly catapulted the national shame that is NHS 'corridor care' into the headlines once more. (1/15)
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Thread on increasing lack of academic control of academic publishing - will be familiar to editors of corporately-owned journals. Do choose community led journals when you can!
My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing
January 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Thread on increasing lack of academic control of academic publishing - will be familiar to editors of corporately-owned journals. Do choose community led journals when you can!
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Health insurers grapple with UnitedHealthcare murder—and a public short on sympathy https://buff.ly/4j8edYo
Health insurers grapple with UnitedHealthcare murder—and a public short on sympathy
Headlines expressed shock and condemnation of the killing of a health insurance executive in New York. But public comment has been very different. Owen Dyer reports One should not speak ill of the…
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January 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Health insurers grapple with UnitedHealthcare murder—and a public short on sympathy https://buff.ly/4j8edYo
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"One night this week there were 26 ambulances parked up outside Whiston Hospital. That’s 52 members of staff that are off the road, unable to respond to people who are having heart attacks, children who have been hit by cars."
It's Not. About. The Narrative.
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It's Not. About. The Narrative.
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'It is beyond broken' - inside our terrifying NHS crisis
Special report: Patients waiting in ambulances for 24 hours, exhausted and desperate staff feeling helpless and a health service now on life support
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January 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"One night this week there were 26 ambulances parked up outside Whiston Hospital. That’s 52 members of staff that are off the road, unable to respond to people who are having heart attacks, children who have been hit by cars."
It's Not. About. The Narrative.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
It's Not. About. The Narrative.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...