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Kerstin Sell
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Public Health researcher @LMU Munich and @Uni Bristol | Alumna @lshtm.bsky.social & @uniluebeck.bsky.social | MD, MSc

Upstream public health policy, knowledge translation, and the commercial determinants of health

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Kerstin Sell @kerstinsell.bsky.social · Dec 14
Hello Bluesky 👋
Have been putting off writing a ‘hello Bluesky’ post but here it is:
I’m a #PublicHealth researcher interested in upstream policies to promote health, e.g. taxes; transport, & urban planning policy. More on #policy analysis & evaluation, #CDOH, evidence, knowledge translation… a 🧵!
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junge.bsky.social
Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof und das kleine Schleswig-Holstein machen es vor: Eine Ablösung von BigTech, hinter denen mitunter lupenreine Faschisten wie Elon Musk und Peter Thiel stehen, ist möglich. Aber auch äußerst dringend nötig.
taz.de/Digitale-Sou...
Digitale Souveränität: Die digitale Abhängigkeit jetzt durchbrechen
Irgendwer muss irgendwo mal anfangen. Mit einer internationalen Allianz, Open Source und klaren Regeln für US-Konzerne könnte sich Europa von BigTech lösen.
taz.de
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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politicalbeauty.bsky.social
BREAKING: Eine der besten Reden, die zum AfD-Verbot im Parlament gehalten wurden! 🔥
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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bojerlanski.bsky.social
🧵Es gibt ein überraschendes Urteil aus München: Die Gema – also die Organisation, die in Deutschland die Rechte von Songwriterinnen und Songwritern verwaltet – hat OpenAI verklagt, weil ChatGPT komplette Liedtexte ausgeben kann.
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social
Ein 350 Millionen schweres Steuergeschenk für die Luftverkehrsindustrie raushauen, das Bahnfahrende mit der Verteuerung des Deutschlandtickets querfinanzieren. Chapeau: Das ist Robin Hood rückwärts bei gleichzeitiger Klimazerstörung.
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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uwiworks.bsky.social
Das Finanzministerium unter Christian Lindner hat weitgehend heimlich ein noch unter Schäuble gestopftes ("Lizenzschranke") Steuerschlupfloch für US-Großkonzerne wieder geöffnet. Dank an @steuergerecht.bsky.social für diese Recherche!
www.zeit.de/geld/2025-11...
Finanzministerium: Wie das Finanzministerium US-Konzernen Milliarden schenkt
Damit Apple, Amazon und Co. hierzulande Steuern zahlen, ersann der Fiskus eine spezielle Regel. Die soll nun leise verschwinden. Ein teures Geschenk an die Tech-Branche.
www.zeit.de
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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christophbautz.bsky.social
Die Union redet von Demokratie & Klimaschutz, aber:

- bricht in Brüssel die Brandmauer nach rechtsaußen um Klimaschutz & Menschenrechte zu kürzen

- senkt im Bund Steuern für Luftfahrtkonzerne, während Deutschlandticket für alle teurer wird

Gut, dass wir gegen diese Heuchelei auf die Straße gehen
fridaysforfuture.de Fridays for Future Germany @fridaysforfuture.de · 8d
Heute gehen wir in mehr als 75 Orten in Deutschland auf die Straße - weltweit protestieren dieses Wochenende Menschen für bessere Klimapolitik - für eine Politik, die endlich die Ungerechtigkeit der Klimakrise ernst nimmt und entsprechend handelt!

Wir sehen uns 📣
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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jamilaschaefer.bsky.social
Falsche Prioritäten: Die Koalition legt in der Bereinigungssitzung 0€ bei der Humanitären Hilfe drauf – die Kürzung um rund 1 Mrd € bleibt, trotz eskalierender Not in Sudan, Gaza und Ukraine.

Aber fürs Fliegen gibt’s plötzlich 350 Mio € neue Subventionen. Es ist so falsch und absurd!
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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ias.org.uk
In yesterday’s House of Lords debate on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, Lord Lansley argued that government should partner with the vaping industry to co-regulate.

Lansley suggested this could mirror the 'success' of partnering with the alcohol industry 🧵

hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-1...
Tobacco and Vapes Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Tobacco and Vapes Bill' on Thursday 13 November 2025.
hansard.parliament.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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kathrinkuehn.bsky.social
Im Raum der weltweiten Klimadiskussion steht ein großer, gefräßiger Elefant 🐘, um den erstaunlich viele still herumschleichen: Künstliche Intelligenz und ihr enorm steigender Energiebedarf. Wir haben hier gestern in einem kleinen Schwerpunkt hingeschaut: www.deutschlandfunk.de/gefraessige-... 1/4
Gefräßige KI - Wie Künstliche Intelligenz den Energiebedarf in die Höhe treibt
Der weltweite Energiebedarf steigt. Der Hauptgrund: Künstliche Intelligenz. Jede einzelne Anfrage verbraucht Energie. Was können Nutzer und die Politik tun?
www.deutschlandfunk.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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janoschdahmenmdb.de
Mit Ozegowski verliert das Gesundheitsministerium eine der wichtigsten Digitalexpertinnen für E-Rezept & ePA.

Sie während der Elternzeit in den Ruhestand zu schicken, zeigt: Als Ministerin schwächt Warken Digitalisierung, als Vorsitzende der Frauenunion Frauen in Führung!
TABLE MEDIA: Susanne Ozegowski, Abteilungsleiterin für Digitalisierung und Innovation im Bundesgesundheitsministerium, soll zum 1. Dezember in den einstweiligen Ruhestand versetzt werden. Das erfuhr Table.Briefings aus Ministeriumskreisen. Damit trennt sich Ministerin Nina Warken (CDU) von einer anerkannten Digitalexpertin, die unter Karl Lauterbach die bundesweite Einführung des E-Rezepts und der elektronischen Patientenakte auf den Weg gebracht hatte. Ozegowski (41) war noch im Frühjahr 2025 mit dem „Managerin des Jahres“-Award des Thieme Verlags ausgezeichnet und für ihre Verdienste um die Digitalisierung des Gesundheitswesens geehrt worden. Ein oder eine Nachfolger(in) wurde bisher nicht benannt. Michael Bröcker
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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corporateeurope.org
💸 Do you know how much money Big Tech is spending on lobbying in Brussels? How has this amount been increasing? On what is the money being funnelled to and what can we do about it?

📻 Listen to our new #podcast episode to find out 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/t...
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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ias.org.uk
Raising alcohol duty by 2% above inflation for 5 years would bring an extra £3.4 billion into the Treasury.

This would pay the salaries of 37,000 NHS nurses over the period.

Try out the @aha-uk.bsky.social calculator to see the economic benefits of a duty escalator: ahauk.org/alcohol-duty...
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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paulcairney.bsky.social
We are recruiting five Postdoctoral Research Fellows and one Research Partnership Manager for the University of Stirling FORTH2O project

paulcairney.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/w...
We are recruiting five Postdoctoral Research Fellows and one Research Partnership Manager for the University of Stirling FORTH2O project
These posts will help to deliver key tasks for the FORTH2O Policy Innovation Partnership at the University of Stirling. For a thorough description of the project and its progress, please see: A ren…
paulcairney.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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volksverpetzer.de
Steinmeier: Wir sollten vielleicht darüber reden, demokratiefeindliche, verfassungswidrige und rechtsextreme Parteien zu verbieten.

AfD: Da fühlen wir uns natürlich angesprochen!
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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meisnerwerk.bsky.social
„Leider ist der Bundespräsident kein Demokrat“, schreibt die #Welt. Und die #NZZ spricht von einer „Grenzüberschreitung“ Steinmeiers.

Zwei einst relativ angesehene Zeitungen machen Nazis salonfähig und werden zu Helfern der AfD
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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uk.diplo.de
The Deutschland-Ticket provides unlimited travel on regional public transport across Germany for a low monthly fee (currently €58/month).

The German parliament has voted to secure ticket’s funding until at least the end of 2030.
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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arcwessex.bsky.social
If you are struggling with #long-covid or know someone who is there is help online long-covid-care.org.uk
Please let us know what you thought of the online help afterwards by filling out this survey southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social @nisreenalwan.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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isabellamweber.bsky.social
“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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askaubry.com
Helpful
Rape Prevention Tips If someone is drunk or asleep, DON'T RAPE them. When you see someone walking by themselves. LEAVE THEM ALONE. Use a BUDDY SYSTEM! If it is difficult for you to stop yourself from raping someone, ask a trusted friend to accompany you at all times. Carry a RAPE WHISTLE. If you find that you are about to rape someone, blow that whistle until someone comes to stop you. HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. When asking someone out, don't pretend that you are interested in them as a person. Tell them straight up that you expect to be raping the later, If you don't communicate your intentions, they make take it as a sign that you do not plan to rape them. PIA Age
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
kerstinsell.bsky.social
This is a really excellent thread
monkemma.bsky.social Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20d
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?

After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.

Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨

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1/22
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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misernyc.bsky.social
This is my main take away from this election. Urbanism and Micromobility are a main consistency in NYC now. We've fully burst through to the mainstream and can deliver for candidates, like we did for Zohran. Politicians and the media might want to take note
2avesag.as Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 17d
The Times parsed the vote using similar categories and again found that the single most determinative factor economic-like factor in the election was "commute by transit" vs "commute by car." It edged out renters vs. homeowners. There's still outstanding data but I expect these trends will hold.
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
kerstinsell.bsky.social
Recently, whenever I read 'intricate' on a scientific abstract or other published work I immediately think 'AI'... #AcademicSky
November 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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mcsquared.bsky.social
Based guerrilla media
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
credible modeling from impactcounter.com shows that trump and musk have killed nearly 600,000 people with their illegal cuts to date.

nearly 400,000 of them were children.
Deaths caused by Funding Discontinuation 187,151 Adult Deaths 389,227 Child Deaths
October 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM