Lucy Abel
@littlerlabel.bsky.social
Health economist at the University of Oxford
Writing to my MP to tell him that, in my professional opinion, the government are being idiots.
March 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Writing to my MP to tell him that, in my professional opinion, the government are being idiots.
Exhausting that successive governments continue to push the narrative that the way to create good health in a population is to threaten sick and disabled people with poverty.
March 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Exhausting that successive governments continue to push the narrative that the way to create good health in a population is to threaten sick and disabled people with poverty.
Reposted by Lucy Abel
More colleagues in Primary Care at Oxford UK standing up in #solidarity today with our friends in the USA.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
#StandUpForScience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
#StandUpForScience
March 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
More colleagues in Primary Care at Oxford UK standing up in #solidarity today with our friends in the USA.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
#StandUpForScience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
#StandUpForScience
Solidarity from the UK! We've had discussions in the office today about what we can do to help. It's not much, but every person counts.
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
March 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Solidarity from the UK! We've had discussions in the office today about what we can do to help. It's not much, but every person counts.
Reposted by Lucy Abel
5/11 ⚠️ Notably, we found no evidence that physician associates add value in primary care or that anaesthetic associates contribute positively in anaesthetics. If you add cost of supervision, which the studies don’t, it’s very unlikely they are cost-effective
March 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
5/11 ⚠️ Notably, we found no evidence that physician associates add value in primary care or that anaesthetic associates contribute positively in anaesthetics. If you add cost of supervision, which the studies don’t, it’s very unlikely they are cost-effective
Reposted by Lucy Abel
First, this is facism. It's not 'on the path' or 'a worrying precedent'. It's just facism.
Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc.
That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.
Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc.
That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
First, this is facism. It's not 'on the path' or 'a worrying precedent'. It's just facism.
Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc.
That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.
Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc.
That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.
Reflecting on what makes academia viable as an ECR, and for me it has literally been senior colleagues looking out for me and making sure I had a job. Without that I wouldn't still be here, and certainly wouldn't have had the space to find my own funding.
January 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Reflecting on what makes academia viable as an ECR, and for me it has literally been senior colleagues looking out for me and making sure I had a job. Without that I wouldn't still be here, and certainly wouldn't have had the space to find my own funding.
Reposted by Lucy Abel
Refreshing piece by Amy Fleming in The Guardian, where I joined scholars to unpack misconceptions that disempower parents & young people around tech. Evidence doesn’t support fear—our approach shouldn’t either. Let’s pause panic & do better for families in 2025!
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Refreshing piece by Amy Fleming in The Guardian, where I joined scholars to unpack misconceptions that disempower parents & young people around tech. Evidence doesn’t support fear—our approach shouldn’t either. Let’s pause panic & do better for families in 2025!
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I mean, around 2009, when I was 19, many of my friends thought Britain would be best off under a benevolent dictatorship headed by Stephen Fry. So maybe let's not panic quite yet.
More than half Gen Z think authoritarian leader better for UK than democracy, poll suggests – UK politics live
More than half Gen Z think authoritarian leader better for UK than democracy, poll suggests – UK politics live
Polling finds 52% of Gen Z thought UK would be better place if ‘strong leader did not have to bother with parliament and elections’
A persistent slowdown in activity among private sector firms could weigh on economic growth over the coming months, with…
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I mean, around 2009, when I was 19, many of my friends thought Britain would be best off under a benevolent dictatorship headed by Stephen Fry. So maybe let's not panic quite yet.
One of the great joys of learning an instrument as an adult is realising how much happiness you can create even when you're not very good. Art does not have to be good to be valuable!
"AI art is democratizing creation" creation is already democratic pick up a pencil homie
December 18, 2024 at 12:45 PM
One of the great joys of learning an instrument as an adult is realising how much happiness you can create even when you're not very good. Art does not have to be good to be valuable!
Reposted by Lucy Abel
Ah, why isn’t Margaret McCartney on here 😢
Have the new prostrate screening procedures talked about on #r4today really made such a difference to the risk/benefit analysis as was implied? I want to know! Because for now: #medtwitter
Have the new prostrate screening procedures talked about on #r4today really made such a difference to the risk/benefit analysis as was implied? I want to know! Because for now: #medtwitter
November 14, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Ah, why isn’t Margaret McCartney on here 😢
Have the new prostrate screening procedures talked about on #r4today really made such a difference to the risk/benefit analysis as was implied? I want to know! Because for now: #medtwitter
Have the new prostrate screening procedures talked about on #r4today really made such a difference to the risk/benefit analysis as was implied? I want to know! Because for now: #medtwitter
Reposted by Lucy Abel
Waiting for my institution to join Bluesky
a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park
Alt: Meme of man with a mustache
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Waiting for my institution to join Bluesky
The IHEA conference lists 42 subfields of health economics. A similar list must exist for every other academic field. I am an amoeba.
November 14, 2024 at 11:51 AM
The IHEA conference lists 42 subfields of health economics. A similar list must exist for every other academic field. I am an amoeba.
Staring into the abyss this morning (reviewing the list of subfields for an abstract submission and being overawed by how little I actually know)
November 14, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Staring into the abyss this morning (reviewing the list of subfields for an abstract submission and being overawed by how little I actually know)
Everyone's "just trying this out" messages are so awkward I love it
November 12, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Everyone's "just trying this out" messages are so awkward I love it
Trying to find all my old mutuals - on the hunt for health economists in the wild.
November 12, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Trying to find all my old mutuals - on the hunt for health economists in the wild.
Why is November always such a terrible month?
November 7, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Why is November always such a terrible month?