@aekay.bsky.social
Formerly in clinical research at the University of Oxford. Now working in mental health. Passionate about health, science and accurate information!
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Vaccines do not cause autism.
Keep saying things that have been demonstrated by robust science and are the subject or organised disinformation. Don’t just ignore the attempts to brainwash.
#academicsky
Keep saying things that have been demonstrated by robust science and are the subject or organised disinformation. Don’t just ignore the attempts to brainwash.
#academicsky
January 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Vaccines do not cause autism.
Keep saying things that have been demonstrated by robust science and are the subject or organised disinformation. Don’t just ignore the attempts to brainwash.
#academicsky
Keep saying things that have been demonstrated by robust science and are the subject or organised disinformation. Don’t just ignore the attempts to brainwash.
#academicsky
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“Masks don’t work”? Or “Cochrane methodology applied in the absence of common sense will mislead”? Looks like it’s the latter.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Analysis?
The Cochrane Library, a trusted source of health information, misled the public by prioritizing rigor over reality
www.scientificamerican.com
October 18, 2023 at 10:36 AM
“Masks don’t work”? Or “Cochrane methodology applied in the absence of common sense will mislead”? Looks like it’s the latter.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
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A very personal story from me about why it makes sense to vaccinate boys as well as girls against Human Papillomavirus
"I was surprised to learn, in later life, that cervical cancer is one of the few cancers caused primarily by a virus – a cancer you can 'catch'".
https://buff.ly/3CPpa0p
"I was surprised to learn, in later life, that cervical cancer is one of the few cancers caused primarily by a virus – a cancer you can 'catch'".
https://buff.ly/3CPpa0p
Why it makes sense to vaccinate boys against HPV
In the light of more good news about declining rates of death from cervical cancer, why do we vaccinate boys against the virus that causes it?
buff.ly
December 2, 2024 at 8:01 AM
A very personal story from me about why it makes sense to vaccinate boys as well as girls against Human Papillomavirus
"I was surprised to learn, in later life, that cervical cancer is one of the few cancers caused primarily by a virus – a cancer you can 'catch'".
https://buff.ly/3CPpa0p
"I was surprised to learn, in later life, that cervical cancer is one of the few cancers caused primarily by a virus – a cancer you can 'catch'".
https://buff.ly/3CPpa0p
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I discuss how what we post on social media helps manipulative disinformation actors exploit us to spread their message virally and to use us for their financial, emotional, power, or physical gratification goals.
Based on micro-targeting research from Prof David Stillwell.
youtu.be/NhAzUBOLd0g
Based on micro-targeting research from Prof David Stillwell.
youtu.be/NhAzUBOLd0g
Disinformation Campaigns: how are they structured, what are the incentives, and when are they used?
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
youtu.be
November 30, 2024 at 6:57 AM
I discuss how what we post on social media helps manipulative disinformation actors exploit us to spread their message virally and to use us for their financial, emotional, power, or physical gratification goals.
Based on micro-targeting research from Prof David Stillwell.
youtu.be/NhAzUBOLd0g
Based on micro-targeting research from Prof David Stillwell.
youtu.be/NhAzUBOLd0g
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Fabulous thread exposing the naivety of the XX/XY GC biological sex argument.
In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
November 26, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Fabulous thread exposing the naivety of the XX/XY GC biological sex argument.
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1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
November 26, 2024 at 7:05 AM
1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
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Great to see the papers in our Special Issue on the Commercial Determinants of Health already getting media attention! @inquisitivegyn.bsky.social
You can read all the papers in the special issue here:
academic.oup.com/heapro/issue...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
You can read all the papers in the special issue here:
academic.oup.com/heapro/issue...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Learning CPR on manikins without breasts puts women’s lives at risk, study finds
Analysis of training models on global market found all had flat torsos with just one having a breast overlay
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Great to see the papers in our Special Issue on the Commercial Determinants of Health already getting media attention! @inquisitivegyn.bsky.social
You can read all the papers in the special issue here:
academic.oup.com/heapro/issue...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
You can read all the papers in the special issue here:
academic.oup.com/heapro/issue...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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How can we get more people talking about mental health at work?
That's what our training programme, Making Every Contact Count (MECC) for Mental Health, aims to do 🤝
The programme has started 38,500 conversations about mental health every two weeks 👇
🔗 www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...
That's what our training programme, Making Every Contact Count (MECC) for Mental Health, aims to do 🤝
The programme has started 38,500 conversations about mental health every two weeks 👇
🔗 www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...
New report highlights success and future potential of mental health training
A new report published today by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) shows the profound impacts of a new mental health training programme for healthcare staff.
www.rsph.org.uk
November 21, 2024 at 5:06 PM
How can we get more people talking about mental health at work?
That's what our training programme, Making Every Contact Count (MECC) for Mental Health, aims to do 🤝
The programme has started 38,500 conversations about mental health every two weeks 👇
🔗 www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...
That's what our training programme, Making Every Contact Count (MECC) for Mental Health, aims to do 🤝
The programme has started 38,500 conversations about mental health every two weeks 👇
🔗 www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...
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Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (19th century): one who pays great attention to trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones.
November 21, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (19th century): one who pays great attention to trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones.
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This is why I’m here:
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
November 9, 2024 at 10:34 AM
This is why I’m here:
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
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Why isn’t the government doing more to avert disaster this winter? Overcrowding and long waits in A and E departments are not just an inconvenience - they cost many patients their lives🚨🚨🚨
We will hold our next EveryDoctor MP meeting on Thursday. We need change!
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
We will hold our next EveryDoctor MP meeting on Thursday. We need change!
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments
Royal College of Emergency Medicine warns of ‘unacceptable risk’ posed by lack of funding to NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Why isn’t the government doing more to avert disaster this winter? Overcrowding and long waits in A and E departments are not just an inconvenience - they cost many patients their lives🚨🚨🚨
We will hold our next EveryDoctor MP meeting on Thursday. We need change!
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
We will hold our next EveryDoctor MP meeting on Thursday. We need change!
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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This #poverty is the most fundamentally important determinant of health and in the case of our children their future life chances .. this should be the government’s number one #publichealth priority if we’re serious about reducing health inequalities.. needs action not rhetoric!
This is absolutely appalling, but sadly not at all surprising www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high
Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:07 PM
This #poverty is the most fundamentally important determinant of health and in the case of our children their future life chances .. this should be the government’s number one #publichealth priority if we’re serious about reducing health inequalities.. needs action not rhetoric!
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Hello! If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) ⭐️💙
November 18, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Hello! If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) ⭐️💙
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Part of the problem of the “Make America healthy again” campaign is that it contains nuggets of truth (& chicken McNuggets) within a larger false narrative. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The appointment of Robert F Kennedy has horrified public health experts. Here are his three most dangerous ideas | Devi Sridhar
He says his goal is to “Make America healthy again”. But behind the laudable slogan there’s a morass of conspiracy theories, says Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Part of the problem of the “Make America healthy again” campaign is that it contains nuggets of truth (& chicken McNuggets) within a larger false narrative. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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94% of A&E doctors believe patients are coming to harm because of conditions inside NHS emergency depts.
We know overcrowding leads to at least 300 excess deaths a *week*. The government’s response? Tumbleweed and silence.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
We know overcrowding leads to at least 300 excess deaths a *week*. The government’s response? Tumbleweed and silence.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments
Royal College of Emergency Medicine warns of ‘unacceptable risk’ posed by lack of funding to NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:00 AM
94% of A&E doctors believe patients are coming to harm because of conditions inside NHS emergency depts.
We know overcrowding leads to at least 300 excess deaths a *week*. The government’s response? Tumbleweed and silence.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
We know overcrowding leads to at least 300 excess deaths a *week*. The government’s response? Tumbleweed and silence.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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November 16, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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Before the porridge moralists jump in, pls note, that the report found poorer households would have to *double* their food spend to be able to eat a healthy diet.
Poverty sickens society. Raise benefits & minimum wage, for cost effective benefits to society.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Poverty sickens society. Raise benefits & minimum wage, for cost effective benefits to society.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK’s unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, report finds
Exclusive: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission added up cost to NHS and economy of diet-linked disease
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Before the porridge moralists jump in, pls note, that the report found poorer households would have to *double* their food spend to be able to eat a healthy diet.
Poverty sickens society. Raise benefits & minimum wage, for cost effective benefits to society.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Poverty sickens society. Raise benefits & minimum wage, for cost effective benefits to society.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tomorrow! Still time to register for a free ticket 👇🏽
Good morning! I’m really excited to be giving the keynote at this Saturday’s Medical Herstory Feminist Conference. Get a free ticket and join us online for what looks like a brilliant afternoon! (The times are EST so add on 5hrs for GMT)
www.eventbrite.com/e/fhc-2024-u...
www.eventbrite.com/e/fhc-2024-u...
November 15, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Tomorrow! Still time to register for a free ticket 👇🏽
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Pancreatic cancer presents so many barriers vague symptoms the fact that 45% people are diagnosed at accident and emergency that people go to and fro to the GP and the symptoms are not recognised please share the symptoms to make more people aware #sethslegacy #PsotItPurple4Seth
November 10, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Pancreatic cancer presents so many barriers vague symptoms the fact that 45% people are diagnosed at accident and emergency that people go to and fro to the GP and the symptoms are not recognised please share the symptoms to make more people aware #sethslegacy #PsotItPurple4Seth
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After many dozens of children died preventable deaths of measles in Samoa, a vaccination campaign was successful. Families hung signs saying "Help!" "I want to live!"
RFK Jr fueled the anti-vaxx mvt there & now he's in a much more powerful position here. www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/w...
RFK Jr fueled the anti-vaxx mvt there & now he's in a much more powerful position here. www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/w...
‘Why My Baby?’: How Measles Robbed Samoa of Its Young (Published 2019)
When the virus arrived on its shores, the Pacific island nation was grievously unprepared. It had left the door to contagion wide open, and thousands of children have suffered.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:03 PM
After many dozens of children died preventable deaths of measles in Samoa, a vaccination campaign was successful. Families hung signs saying "Help!" "I want to live!"
RFK Jr fueled the anti-vaxx mvt there & now he's in a much more powerful position here. www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/w...
RFK Jr fueled the anti-vaxx mvt there & now he's in a much more powerful position here. www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/w...
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Hello! Looking for new bluesky gang who care about the NHS!
Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙
Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙
November 13, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Hello! Looking for new bluesky gang who care about the NHS!
Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙
Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙
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Medical historian here to remind you of the benefits of #vaccines!
This is the final stage of tetanus when nerves fire continuously & body contorts into agonizing posture known as opisthotonus. The mastication muscles clamp down to form the hallmark lockjaw.
A vaccine didn't appear until 1924.
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This is the final stage of tetanus when nerves fire continuously & body contorts into agonizing posture known as opisthotonus. The mastication muscles clamp down to form the hallmark lockjaw.
A vaccine didn't appear until 1924.
.
November 14, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Medical historian here to remind you of the benefits of #vaccines!
This is the final stage of tetanus when nerves fire continuously & body contorts into agonizing posture known as opisthotonus. The mastication muscles clamp down to form the hallmark lockjaw.
A vaccine didn't appear until 1924.
.
This is the final stage of tetanus when nerves fire continuously & body contorts into agonizing posture known as opisthotonus. The mastication muscles clamp down to form the hallmark lockjaw.
A vaccine didn't appear until 1924.
.
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Latest🏥data @NHSEngland
2,576 COVID-19 patients in hospital, in 7 days to 31 Oct 2024.
248 COVID deaths in England in 7 days to 01 Nov 2024, latest @ONS
This wave may be over, but all deaths matter.
🤷Meanwhile, COVID cases reported appear to be fewer than those in hospital - how can that be so?
2,576 COVID-19 patients in hospital, in 7 days to 31 Oct 2024.
248 COVID deaths in England in 7 days to 01 Nov 2024, latest @ONS
This wave may be over, but all deaths matter.
🤷Meanwhile, COVID cases reported appear to be fewer than those in hospital - how can that be so?
November 14, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Latest🏥data @NHSEngland
2,576 COVID-19 patients in hospital, in 7 days to 31 Oct 2024.
248 COVID deaths in England in 7 days to 01 Nov 2024, latest @ONS
This wave may be over, but all deaths matter.
🤷Meanwhile, COVID cases reported appear to be fewer than those in hospital - how can that be so?
2,576 COVID-19 patients in hospital, in 7 days to 31 Oct 2024.
248 COVID deaths in England in 7 days to 01 Nov 2024, latest @ONS
This wave may be over, but all deaths matter.
🤷Meanwhile, COVID cases reported appear to be fewer than those in hospital - how can that be so?