Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Lurching to the right on immigration will never get Reform supporters to vote Labour again but it will push progressive voters towards the Greens and Lib Dems. As well as being morally grotesque, truly baffling Starmer’s team don’t get the electoral maths of today’s speech.

As a cis woman I will never understand how self-defeating and dumb you have to be to see trans people, and not patriarchy, as the enemy. You dumb fucking bigots just gave the patriarchal state even more power by inviting it to adjudicate the status of our bodies and selves.

"Inequalities in health reflect the inequalities in society at large: they are closely related to personal and socio-economic factors, such as income, education, housing, gender, age, ethnicity, disability, geography and social inclusion". 👇
@holmepaul.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social

More good history things to watch!

I’m pleased I’ve watched this. I fear historians will think with parts of it though: modern British histories, trans histories, affective histories, communal histories etc but my hope is that they can think with all of it. It’s mind bending, beautiful and goes beyond disciplinary bounds.

So, today, the world will pretend that it has learned the lessons of the Holocaust, and every other day this year, it will go on demonstrating, with hate-filled rhetoric, oppressive acts, and piles of corpses, that it has not.

So! The new paper, what's in it? Firstly, this is about the interactions of hookworm, environment, society and economy. It's also about extinction (1/9)
doi.org/10.1017/ext....

NHS flu vaccine available until 31 March 2025. See If you’re eligible

If symptomatic *please* don’t mix with others. Work will wait

Simple things help:

• masks
• aerating rooms
• hand hygiene

Can that meeting be online?

Packing up my house for a new year move and my neurodivergent brain has me going from one room to another, adding the odd thing to a box, putting lots in bin bags to throw out, then lying down in denial.

‘It turns out that computers can learn to code far quicker than humans can. They can easily be taught how to ace exams in maths and science. But even the most sophisticated generative AI struggles with English literature papers. There’s a clue here.’
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

🧵Unpaid carers provide support that is equivalent to 4 million paid care workers. But are these carers getting the support needed to care for their loved ones & themselves? This #CarersRightsDay we look back at our report into caring in a complex world. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

An incisive pushback on oversimplied explanations of youth mental health trends:

“If political questions such as structural discrimination, economic precarity, exposure to violence and opioid use are not regarded as shaping our wellbeing, what motivation remains for taking action?”

bit.ly/4918hvz

On world children's day, my @thekingsfund.bsky.social colleague Jessica Holden argues that children's health needs to be much more of a priority as part fo the shift to prevention.

www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

I’m getting tired of all of this narrative. You look after yourself when you’re looked after by others & when you’re not struggling with poverty, social isolation & discrimination. The state has a pivotal role in preparing the soil. Whether that’s NHS or beyond.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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!

What a headline. AI positioned as researcher rather than tool. Qualitative research reduced to interviewing. Interviewing reduced to survey (with emotive prompts)🤔

First post! I’m Laura, former modern British history PhD, now in healthcare analytics. I love my job, love qual methods, and love the impact my work has. But I also kinda miss my old work too. Life isn’t always either/or so I’m here for all my interests. I just wanna scroll and read cool stuff.