Professor Joanna Semlyen
@joannasemlyen.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology and Equality
Health inequalities |
EDI in Research |
Diversity in Research Culture |
Wellcome Trust PI - IDEA |
MRC IAA PI - EDIT |
Bystander Intervention
Papers: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=pvdMECUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Health inequalities |
EDI in Research |
Diversity in Research Culture |
Wellcome Trust PI - IDEA |
MRC IAA PI - EDIT |
Bystander Intervention
Papers: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=pvdMECUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Pinned
Creating a Culture of Inclusion: Increasing Diversity and Equity of Access - IDEA | Wellcome
wellcome.org
Hello to all of my followers. I’m leading a no. of research and research culture projects, including a £1m grant on EDI within research culture funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social
I would be v pleased if any of my new followers would like to collaborate and connect. wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
I would be v pleased if any of my new followers would like to collaborate and connect. wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
Pleased to announce our latest paper is out
#openaccess #delay #qualitative #endometriosis #healthcareprofessional
Karavadra Thorpe Morris and Semlyen
Exploring delay to diagnosis of endometriosis, a healthcare professional perspective
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
#openaccess #delay #qualitative #endometriosis #healthcareprofessional
Karavadra Thorpe Morris and Semlyen
Exploring delay to diagnosis of endometriosis, a healthcare professional perspective
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
November 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Pleased to announce our latest paper is out
#openaccess #delay #qualitative #endometriosis #healthcareprofessional
Karavadra Thorpe Morris and Semlyen
Exploring delay to diagnosis of endometriosis, a healthcare professional perspective
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
#openaccess #delay #qualitative #endometriosis #healthcareprofessional
Karavadra Thorpe Morris and Semlyen
Exploring delay to diagnosis of endometriosis, a healthcare professional perspective
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
Nothing changes
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Nothing changes
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I have since worked with some people I consider to be real geniuses. What marks them out is an ability to grasp, immediately, the many facets of a problem and a gift for explaining it simply. /3
October 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I have since worked with some people I consider to be real geniuses. What marks them out is an ability to grasp, immediately, the many facets of a problem and a gift for explaining it simply. /3
Reposted by Professor Joanna Semlyen
Reposted by Professor Joanna Semlyen
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The Trump administration has stopped funding of PubMed, not considering a vital service.
Your doctor will not know the newest information that affects your health. This will cost lives.
Your doctor will not know the newest information that affects your health. This will cost lives.
October 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Yes, I did say “oh I hope they play that” when it went past in the chart #TOTP
They should have played this, it's a stone cold banger #TOTP
Godley & Creme - Under Your Thumb (1981) • TopPop
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October 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Yes, I did say “oh I hope they play that” when it went past in the chart #TOTP
October 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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New episode: @annabull.bsky.social joins The Sexual Violence Research podcast to explore rates of #GBV in higher ed settings.
"One of the reasons for this being seemingly so prevalent..is the lack of professional boundaries between staff & students."
Listen bit.ly/4p0WhC8
@thesvri.bsky.social
"One of the reasons for this being seemingly so prevalent..is the lack of professional boundaries between staff & students."
Listen bit.ly/4p0WhC8
@thesvri.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
New episode: @annabull.bsky.social joins The Sexual Violence Research podcast to explore rates of #GBV in higher ed settings.
"One of the reasons for this being seemingly so prevalent..is the lack of professional boundaries between staff & students."
Listen bit.ly/4p0WhC8
@thesvri.bsky.social
"One of the reasons for this being seemingly so prevalent..is the lack of professional boundaries between staff & students."
Listen bit.ly/4p0WhC8
@thesvri.bsky.social
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Here's my take on new data on sexual violence and harassment released today from England's Office for Students.
wonkhe.com/blogs/what-o...
wonkhe.com/blogs/what-o...
What OfS’ data on harassment and sexual misconduct doesn’t tell us
Anna Bull explores the latest OfS findings on the prevalence of harassment and sexual misconduct — and why they're only one piece of a puzzle on student safety.
wonkhe.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Here's my take on new data on sexual violence and harassment released today from England's Office for Students.
wonkhe.com/blogs/what-o...
wonkhe.com/blogs/what-o...
Reposted by Professor Joanna Semlyen
Reposted by Professor Joanna Semlyen
It was to see some many friends in Philadelphia for the @comm4rigor.bsky.social meeting a couple of weeks ago. Together we are developing free online materials for researchers interested in doing rigorous science.
The first units are coming soon at c4r.io.
Photos: Eric Sucar
The first units are coming soon at c4r.io.
Photos: Eric Sucar
September 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
It was to see some many friends in Philadelphia for the @comm4rigor.bsky.social meeting a couple of weeks ago. Together we are developing free online materials for researchers interested in doing rigorous science.
The first units are coming soon at c4r.io.
Photos: Eric Sucar
The first units are coming soon at c4r.io.
Photos: Eric Sucar
Reposted by Professor Joanna Semlyen
Oh my God this is so wonderful. Bra-fucking-vo UCL
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Oh my God this is so wonderful. Bra-fucking-vo UCL
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
September 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
When you text using voice +microphone and say how much you’d like to cocreate with a fellow academic but your phone writes procreate.
September 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
When you text using voice +microphone and say how much you’d like to cocreate with a fellow academic but your phone writes procreate.
There we are. Kent and Greenwich to merge into the UK’s first super university (as predicted in quoted tweet below). Who will follow next?
bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com/news/article...
UK HEI sector changes ahead:
A clear steer towards -university sector cost saving through digitation and
-institutional mergers.
A clear steer towards -university sector cost saving through digitation and
-institutional mergers.
University cooperation stymied by competition, says UUK taskforce chair.
England’s universities have been pushed towards competition at the expense of collaboration, setting up “roadblocks” to cost savings, says Nigel Carrington.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
England’s universities have been pushed towards competition at the expense of collaboration, setting up “roadblocks” to cost savings, says Nigel Carrington.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
September 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
There we are. Kent and Greenwich to merge into the UK’s first super university (as predicted in quoted tweet below). Who will follow next?
bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com/news/article...
Trumps’s gilt.
The White House is slowly, like a disease of gold, morphing into the Grand Kremlin Palace….
August 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Trumps’s gilt.
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America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs
MRNA saved 20M lives, a million+ in US, reduced hospitalization & deaths, lowered long covid risk
mRNA
can be adapted for new viruses & is being tested for cancer vaccines, autoimmune therapies -
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
MRNA saved 20M lives, a million+ in US, reduced hospitalization & deaths, lowered long covid risk
mRNA
can be adapted for new viruses & is being tested for cancer vaccines, autoimmune therapies -
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
Opinion | America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs
MRNA saved 20M lives, a million+ in US, reduced hospitalization & deaths, lowered long covid risk
mRNA
can be adapted for new viruses & is being tested for cancer vaccines, autoimmune therapies -
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
MRNA saved 20M lives, a million+ in US, reduced hospitalization & deaths, lowered long covid risk
mRNA
can be adapted for new viruses & is being tested for cancer vaccines, autoimmune therapies -
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
Reposted by Professor Joanna Semlyen
USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
Reposted by Professor Joanna Semlyen
When I was a medical resident in South India in the 1990s, I rarely saw kids with measles. And I did not see much of polio or diphtheria or whooping cough either. None of this was a matter of luck. It was because vaccination coverage in that region of India was high
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
Public Health Success Is Fragile - The Return Of Measles Is Proof
Measles is surging and vaccine hesitancy is up. In his book "Booster Shots," Dr Adam Ratner explains why measles is back and how we can control this deadly infectious killer.
www.forbes.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
When I was a medical resident in South India in the 1990s, I rarely saw kids with measles. And I did not see much of polio or diphtheria or whooping cough either. None of this was a matter of luck. It was because vaccination coverage in that region of India was high
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
Reposted by Professor Joanna Semlyen
God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.
Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers
Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.
Reposted by Professor Joanna Semlyen
I am so extremely tired. Those poor, poor girls.
Police officers ‘also abused’ Rotherham grooming gang victims
One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a South Yorkshire Police officer in a marked police car.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I am so extremely tired. Those poor, poor girls.