Alison McCallum
@alisonkmcc.bsky.social
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On the One Health & Research day of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, we highlight how people, animals and the environment are all part of tackling AMR.
Researchers and professionals are sharing how they’re addressing AMR and why awareness is vital.
#WAAW2025 #OneHealth
Researchers and professionals are sharing how they’re addressing AMR and why awareness is vital.
#WAAW2025 #OneHealth
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
On the One Health & Research day of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, we highlight how people, animals and the environment are all part of tackling AMR.
Researchers and professionals are sharing how they’re addressing AMR and why awareness is vital.
#WAAW2025 #OneHealth
Researchers and professionals are sharing how they’re addressing AMR and why awareness is vital.
#WAAW2025 #OneHealth
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📢 Submissions are open for the 2026 Behaviour Change Conference!
A fantastic opportunity to share your work & connect with delegates worldwide - all working toward a healthier, sustainable world 🌍
🗓 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
👉 ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/conference
#BCConf2026 @be-change.bsky.social
A fantastic opportunity to share your work & connect with delegates worldwide - all working toward a healthier, sustainable world 🌍
🗓 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
👉 ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/conference
#BCConf2026 @be-change.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
📢 Submissions are open for the 2026 Behaviour Change Conference!
A fantastic opportunity to share your work & connect with delegates worldwide - all working toward a healthier, sustainable world 🌍
🗓 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
👉 ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/conference
#BCConf2026 @be-change.bsky.social
A fantastic opportunity to share your work & connect with delegates worldwide - all working toward a healthier, sustainable world 🌍
🗓 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
👉 ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/conference
#BCConf2026 @be-change.bsky.social
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‘If asylum is framed as illegality, and settlement is reshaped into a privilege that must be endlessly earned, then our understanding of equal membership – the idea that those lawfully in the UK should enjoy stability and a clear path to full inclusion – is fundamentally altered.’
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
‘If asylum is framed as illegality, and settlement is reshaped into a privilege that must be endlessly earned, then our understanding of equal membership – the idea that those lawfully in the UK should enjoy stability and a clear path to full inclusion – is fundamentally altered.’
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Evidence suggests COVID vaccine can reduce the numbers of infection, hospitalisations, and deaths...
And let's not forget the impact of Long COVID on individuals, on families, on the NHS and care homes, on businesses, on the wider community, and on the economy.
Click: www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
And let's not forget the impact of Long COVID on individuals, on families, on the NHS and care homes, on businesses, on the wider community, and on the economy.
Click: www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Sign the Petition
Make COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Available in the UK - Free of Charge
www.change.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Evidence suggests COVID vaccine can reduce the numbers of infection, hospitalisations, and deaths...
And let's not forget the impact of Long COVID on individuals, on families, on the NHS and care homes, on businesses, on the wider community, and on the economy.
Click: www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
And let's not forget the impact of Long COVID on individuals, on families, on the NHS and care homes, on businesses, on the wider community, and on the economy.
Click: www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
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“Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men. This holds when controlling for characteristics of the presenter, paper, and audience. Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters.”
Gender Differences in Economics Seminars
(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...
www.aeaweb.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men. This holds when controlling for characteristics of the presenter, paper, and audience. Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters.”
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The dates for the next Migration Winter Academy are official!📌 And early bird applications close on 5 October
👉 For policy analysts, private sector professionals, international organisation officials, civil servants, NGO and representatives, researchers, and journalists.
loom.ly/UA6vlfE
👉 For policy analysts, private sector professionals, international organisation officials, civil servants, NGO and representatives, researchers, and journalists.
loom.ly/UA6vlfE
October 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The dates for the next Migration Winter Academy are official!📌 And early bird applications close on 5 October
👉 For policy analysts, private sector professionals, international organisation officials, civil servants, NGO and representatives, researchers, and journalists.
loom.ly/UA6vlfE
👉 For policy analysts, private sector professionals, international organisation officials, civil servants, NGO and representatives, researchers, and journalists.
loom.ly/UA6vlfE
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The poem 'Dangerous Coats' by contemporary Irish writer Sharon Owens #womensart
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt
October 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The poem 'Dangerous Coats' by contemporary Irish writer Sharon Owens #womensart
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt
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🚨In this new systematic review in BMJ JECH, most of the 18 studies reported dynamic associations between lifecourse socioeconomic change and dementia risk. Highest risk for those born poor who stay poor.
Eleanor Williams, @ilk21.bsky.social , Carol Brayne @cph.bsky.social
Eleanor Williams, @ilk21.bsky.social , Carol Brayne @cph.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
🚨In this new systematic review in BMJ JECH, most of the 18 studies reported dynamic associations between lifecourse socioeconomic change and dementia risk. Highest risk for those born poor who stay poor.
Eleanor Williams, @ilk21.bsky.social , Carol Brayne @cph.bsky.social
Eleanor Williams, @ilk21.bsky.social , Carol Brayne @cph.bsky.social
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As Finland got its first set of Soldiers of Odin, a counter group formed called Loldiers of Odin. The Finnish rapper Paleface even did a music video about how we will not submit to fear or being afraid, and Loldiers is a big part of that.
youtu.be/-0lht7PZLac?...
youtu.be/-0lht7PZLac?...
Paleface - Emme suostu pelkäämään
YouTube video by PalefaceVEVO
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
As Finland got its first set of Soldiers of Odin, a counter group formed called Loldiers of Odin. The Finnish rapper Paleface even did a music video about how we will not submit to fear or being afraid, and Loldiers is a big part of that.
youtu.be/-0lht7PZLac?...
youtu.be/-0lht7PZLac?...
@derrymick.bsky.social be interesting to see interactive maps of the movement of people from your work
My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️
Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available
Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death
teams-medieval.org
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
@derrymick.bsky.social be interesting to see interactive maps of the movement of people from your work
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My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️
Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available
Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death
teams-medieval.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️
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Sir Hamid Patel, Star Academies - National ventilation standard for schools.
"there is a need to retrofit a solution"
"mechanical ventilation upgrade/ HEPA filters"
"disadvantaged areas are the ones that often have a poor infrastructure"
"link the Co2 data with learning outcomes"
#COVIDInquiry
"there is a need to retrofit a solution"
"mechanical ventilation upgrade/ HEPA filters"
"disadvantaged areas are the ones that often have a poor infrastructure"
"link the Co2 data with learning outcomes"
#COVIDInquiry
October 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Sir Hamid Patel, Star Academies - National ventilation standard for schools.
"there is a need to retrofit a solution"
"mechanical ventilation upgrade/ HEPA filters"
"disadvantaged areas are the ones that often have a poor infrastructure"
"link the Co2 data with learning outcomes"
#COVIDInquiry
"there is a need to retrofit a solution"
"mechanical ventilation upgrade/ HEPA filters"
"disadvantaged areas are the ones that often have a poor infrastructure"
"link the Co2 data with learning outcomes"
#COVIDInquiry
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Vaccination coverage in some areas of London has fallen quite low but for UK as a whole, the 6 in 1 coverage at 5 yrs is over 93%. Varies a little but most of us remain quite sane- fortunately.
www.gov.uk/government/s...
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Quarterly vaccination coverage statistics for children aged up to 5 years in the UK (COVER programme): April to June 2025
www.gov.uk
October 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Vaccination coverage in some areas of London has fallen quite low but for UK as a whole, the 6 in 1 coverage at 5 yrs is over 93%. Varies a little but most of us remain quite sane- fortunately.
www.gov.uk/government/s...
www.gov.uk/government/s...
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The ECHR was designed to serve as a protection of the rights of the individual against the power of the state. Many of its articles were direct answers to the abuses of the Nazi era.
🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The ECHR was designed to serve as a protection of the rights of the individual against the power of the state. Many of its articles were direct answers to the abuses of the Nazi era.
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You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper
Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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VERY EXCITING
launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews
first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener
find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...
please sign up and come
launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews
first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener
find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...
please sign up and come
September 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
VERY EXCITING
launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews
first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener
find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...
please sign up and come
launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews
first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener
find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...
please sign up and come
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Bergen looking for more presenters at this conference. Interdisciplinary group seeking to 'change the narratives' around pandemic preparedness. #healthpolicy
www4.uib.no/en/research/...
www4.uib.no/en/research/...
Conference Preparing for health crises in a changing world:
Pandemisenter UiB Pandemic Centre Bergen University of Bergen Annual conference new nattatives for health crises
www4.uib.no
August 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Bergen looking for more presenters at this conference. Interdisciplinary group seeking to 'change the narratives' around pandemic preparedness. #healthpolicy
www4.uib.no/en/research/...
www4.uib.no/en/research/...
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UK Public Health Science Conference 🌱
📍 Newcastle | 📅 21 Apr 2026 (ECR event 20 Apr)
Abstracts welcome on any UK/Ireland public health research.
✅ Published in JECH | ⏳ Deadline: 17 Oct 2025
More info: jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
#PublicHealth #UKPHS2026 @socsocmed.bsky.social
📍 Newcastle | 📅 21 Apr 2026 (ECR event 20 Apr)
Abstracts welcome on any UK/Ireland public health research.
✅ Published in JECH | ⏳ Deadline: 17 Oct 2025
More info: jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
#PublicHealth #UKPHS2026 @socsocmed.bsky.social
UK Public Health Science conference 2026: a call for abstracts
We are delighted to invite you to the 2026 UK Public Health Science (UKPHS) conference held in collaboration with our new partner, the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health (SSMPH). Previo...
jech.bmj.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
UK Public Health Science Conference 🌱
📍 Newcastle | 📅 21 Apr 2026 (ECR event 20 Apr)
Abstracts welcome on any UK/Ireland public health research.
✅ Published in JECH | ⏳ Deadline: 17 Oct 2025
More info: jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
#PublicHealth #UKPHS2026 @socsocmed.bsky.social
📍 Newcastle | 📅 21 Apr 2026 (ECR event 20 Apr)
Abstracts welcome on any UK/Ireland public health research.
✅ Published in JECH | ⏳ Deadline: 17 Oct 2025
More info: jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
#PublicHealth #UKPHS2026 @socsocmed.bsky.social
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📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!
Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:
🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:
🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
June 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!
Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:
🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:
🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Congratulations! #TimorLeste has been certified malaria-free by WHO.
Since gaining independence in 2002, the country has made remarkable progress to #EndMalaria, reducing cases from a peak of over 223 000 in 2006 to zero indigenous cases from 2021 onwards. 👉 bit.ly/3UqU04X
Since gaining independence in 2002, the country has made remarkable progress to #EndMalaria, reducing cases from a peak of over 223 000 in 2006 to zero indigenous cases from 2021 onwards. 👉 bit.ly/3UqU04X
July 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Congratulations! #TimorLeste has been certified malaria-free by WHO.
Since gaining independence in 2002, the country has made remarkable progress to #EndMalaria, reducing cases from a peak of over 223 000 in 2006 to zero indigenous cases from 2021 onwards. 👉 bit.ly/3UqU04X
Since gaining independence in 2002, the country has made remarkable progress to #EndMalaria, reducing cases from a peak of over 223 000 in 2006 to zero indigenous cases from 2021 onwards. 👉 bit.ly/3UqU04X
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This is absurd. The mpox/monkeypox vaccines are already paid for & there are major outbreaks in several African countries. Couldn't they just hand the doses over to WHO or GAVI or Gates Fdtn or some other entity to distribute?
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Hundreds of thousands of US taxpayer-funded vaccine doses may expire, lawmakers say
Hundreds of thousands of doses of mpox vaccine that the United States had promised to send to African nations are in danger of going to waste, dozens of congressional Democrats said in a letter to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com
July 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is absurd. The mpox/monkeypox vaccines are already paid for & there are major outbreaks in several African countries. Couldn't they just hand the doses over to WHO or GAVI or Gates Fdtn or some other entity to distribute?
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Unfortunately for Americans who want to not experience things like "bubonic plague," we also can't write NIH or NSF grants about this kind of thing anymore. I dunno, seems important
Now is the time that I remind you that, while plague has been endemic in the western United States for 70+ years and this is a normal occurrence, our work does seem to strongly suggest climate change is increasing spillover risk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
July 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Unfortunately for Americans who want to not experience things like "bubonic plague," we also can't write NIH or NSF grants about this kind of thing anymore. I dunno, seems important
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Yep - plague.
Want a deep dive? Plague webinar next week! 🐀
Public health: never not relevant. Often historically infectious.
Thanks @fledertier.bsky.social for the webinar tip!
Want a deep dive? Plague webinar next week! 🐀
Public health: never not relevant. Often historically infectious.
Thanks @fledertier.bsky.social for the webinar tip!
WHO EPI-WIN Webinar: plague in the 21st century: new evidence to control a re-emerging zoonotic disease
The objectives of this WHO EPI-WIN Webinar are to present an overview of the WHO global strategy for plague control, illustrating current technical guidance on surveillance, laboratory diagnosis, clin...
www.who.int
July 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Yep - plague.
Want a deep dive? Plague webinar next week! 🐀
Public health: never not relevant. Often historically infectious.
Thanks @fledertier.bsky.social for the webinar tip!
Want a deep dive? Plague webinar next week! 🐀
Public health: never not relevant. Often historically infectious.
Thanks @fledertier.bsky.social for the webinar tip!
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🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
July 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.