Trish Greenhalgh
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Prof of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.
The Fiji coral spawning video has dropped. Son says this is the best spawning in 8 years. Coral normally spawns in the dark of night but this happy reef is so fecund it carries on spawning in the daylight! Give it a like on YouTube if you back marine conservation!
youtu.be/t4RKai4e2h0?...
youtu.be/t4RKai4e2h0?...
Coral Spawning 2025
YouTube video by Drawaqa Marine Conservation Trust
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The Fiji coral spawning video has dropped. Son says this is the best spawning in 8 years. Coral normally spawns in the dark of night but this happy reef is so fecund it carries on spawning in the daylight! Give it a like on YouTube if you back marine conservation!
youtu.be/t4RKai4e2h0?...
youtu.be/t4RKai4e2h0?...
PHEW
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
PHEW
Conversation analysts:
#academicsky
#academicsky
It's nearly time for CA day!
I'm so:::::: looking forward to the **18th** year of #EMCA @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social having made a tragic diary error last year and missing it.
Here's the registration link and terrific programme:
darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...
I'm so:::::: looking forward to the **18th** year of #EMCA @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social having made a tragic diary error last year and missing it.
Here's the registration link and terrific programme:
darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Conversation analysts:
#academicsky
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Wagner did the trick
Suggest music to put on for my Sunday night wrestling session with Reviewer 2. Wrong answers only.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Wagner did the trick
Suggest music to put on for my Sunday night wrestling session with Reviewer 2. Wrong answers only.
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Suggest music to put on for my Sunday night wrestling session with Reviewer 2. Wrong answers only.
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I just donated. Oxford people, join if you can.
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I just donated. Oxford people, join if you can.
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If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
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This essay is wonderfully written, and lays bare the media’s impoverished understanding of objectivity, i.e., reporting on “both sides”—which the right manipulates to its advantage.
A charming essay by the former chair of Africana studies at Bowdoin College about the New York Times crafting elitist propaganda.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This essay is wonderfully written, and lays bare the media’s impoverished understanding of objectivity, i.e., reporting on “both sides”—which the right manipulates to its advantage.
I just donated. Oxford people, join if you can.
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I just donated. Oxford people, join if you can.
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I want my babelfish. I would prefer it as a phone app though so I can fire it through my hearing aid…
This would be legend grade tech for me.
This would be legend grade tech for me.
Spectrum Editor @gwendolynrak.bsky.social doesn’t speak Japanese, but she wanted to learn about new technology at Japan’s biggest #tech expo, so she tried out Timekettle’s translating earbuds.
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I want my babelfish. I would prefer it as a phone app though so I can fire it through my hearing aid…
This would be legend grade tech for me.
This would be legend grade tech for me.
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Marine biologist son sends pictures of annual coral spawning in his adopted country. Fiji. Family loyalty divided as 🏴 prepare to play 🇫🇯 in rugby tomorrow.
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Marine biologist son sends pictures of annual coral spawning in his adopted country. Fiji. Family loyalty divided as 🏴 prepare to play 🇫🇯 in rugby tomorrow.
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It’s a new immunology 101 to brighten your weekend cos your weekend can’t get started until you have marvelled over monoclonal antibodies. Its a reach I know but still hope you find time to read and enjoy 🧪
Immunology 101: Monoclonal antibodies
What monoclonals are and how we use them therapeutically.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It’s a new immunology 101 to brighten your weekend cos your weekend can’t get started until you have marvelled over monoclonal antibodies. Its a reach I know but still hope you find time to read and enjoy 🧪
Marine biologist son sends pictures of annual coral spawning in his adopted country. Fiji. Family loyalty divided as 🏴 prepare to play 🇫🇯 in rugby tomorrow.
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Marine biologist son sends pictures of annual coral spawning in his adopted country. Fiji. Family loyalty divided as 🏴 prepare to play 🇫🇯 in rugby tomorrow.
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🇦🇺 Academy of Science
#IndoorAir #IAQ
The science of indoor air
& Pathways to improve
Indoor Air Quality
In Australia
November 2025 Report
www.science.org.au/supporting-s...
#IndoorAir #IAQ
The science of indoor air
& Pathways to improve
Indoor Air Quality
In Australia
November 2025 Report
www.science.org.au/supporting-s...
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🇦🇺 Academy of Science
#IndoorAir #IAQ
The science of indoor air
& Pathways to improve
Indoor Air Quality
In Australia
November 2025 Report
www.science.org.au/supporting-s...
#IndoorAir #IAQ
The science of indoor air
& Pathways to improve
Indoor Air Quality
In Australia
November 2025 Report
www.science.org.au/supporting-s...
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Moles! How do they work?
Clearly they have crazy physical adaptations (outward-facing giant shovel hands, etc), but it's super hard to study the behaviors of animals that live underground. So scientists had to get creative...
(Shoutout to @tomlumperson.bsky.social for the fossoriality episode)🧪🦊
Clearly they have crazy physical adaptations (outward-facing giant shovel hands, etc), but it's super hard to study the behaviors of animals that live underground. So scientists had to get creative...
(Shoutout to @tomlumperson.bsky.social for the fossoriality episode)🧪🦊
How moles destroy your lawn: the forelimb kinematics of eastern moles in loose and compact substrates
Summary: The combination of stereotypic movements of the shoulder joint and flexibility in the elbow and carpal joints makes eastern moles extremely effective diggers in both loose and compact substra...
journals.biologists.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Moles! How do they work?
Clearly they have crazy physical adaptations (outward-facing giant shovel hands, etc), but it's super hard to study the behaviors of animals that live underground. So scientists had to get creative...
(Shoutout to @tomlumperson.bsky.social for the fossoriality episode)🧪🦊
Clearly they have crazy physical adaptations (outward-facing giant shovel hands, etc), but it's super hard to study the behaviors of animals that live underground. So scientists had to get creative...
(Shoutout to @tomlumperson.bsky.social for the fossoriality episode)🧪🦊
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Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
September 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
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I've never really understood the logic of "targeted vaccination".
Of course, money is a huge issue and we seek to get the most out of every £ spent.
Of course COVID and flu waves would be far worse without it.
But, what doesn't sit well for me is the following...
Of course, money is a huge issue and we seek to get the most out of every £ spent.
Of course COVID and flu waves would be far worse without it.
But, what doesn't sit well for me is the following...
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I've never really understood the logic of "targeted vaccination".
Of course, money is a huge issue and we seek to get the most out of every £ spent.
Of course COVID and flu waves would be far worse without it.
But, what doesn't sit well for me is the following...
Of course, money is a huge issue and we seek to get the most out of every £ spent.
Of course COVID and flu waves would be far worse without it.
But, what doesn't sit well for me is the following...
More on Mamdami.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty
For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous ends, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
More on Mamdami.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Long-term cancer survivor here. Not sure I want to be forgotten but I'd like my cancer to be forgotten. In my case, the stats showed it was either going to kill me quickly or I'd go on to die of something else. Would be good for my insurance premiums to reflect that I made it into the latter group.
People who have recovered from cancer still face barriers to insurance, credit and mortgages – even years after treatment.
The ‘right to be forgotten’ aims to change that.
📖 Read more: www.healthpolicypartnership.com/life-after-c...
#CancerSurvivorship #RightToBeForgotten
The ‘right to be forgotten’ aims to change that.
📖 Read more: www.healthpolicypartnership.com/life-after-c...
#CancerSurvivorship #RightToBeForgotten
Life after cancer: why the ‘right to be forgotten’ matters
The right to be forgotten is not about compassion – it is about evidence and justice.
www.healthpolicypartnership.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Long-term cancer survivor here. Not sure I want to be forgotten but I'd like my cancer to be forgotten. In my case, the stats showed it was either going to kill me quickly or I'd go on to die of something else. Would be good for my insurance premiums to reflect that I made it into the latter group.
Today’s bias feedback on an AI- generated student click-through exercise: “Gemini made everyone who is in a role like a porter or cleaner a person of colour but not the doctors/higher earning staff.”
Good job we hire humans to check these things… 🙄
Good job we hire humans to check these things… 🙄
November 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Today’s bias feedback on an AI- generated student click-through exercise: “Gemini made everyone who is in a role like a porter or cleaner a person of colour but not the doctors/higher earning staff.”
Good job we hire humans to check these things… 🙄
Good job we hire humans to check these things… 🙄
Lovely to wake to the news that Zohran Mamdani won the New York Mayor election!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Zohran Mamdani: meteoric rise of New York’s visionary new mayor
Charismatic and relatable, the 34-year old energized voters – and provided a blueprint for other progressives to follow
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Lovely to wake to the news that Zohran Mamdani won the New York Mayor election!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
PS he's 78. Got his scholarship to Oxford a few years back in open competition against >50 other applicants. Recruited ballet dancers from around the world. Wrote a thesis that's going to improve how clinicians care for injured dancers. A privilege to work in a job where I meet people this good.
Congratulations to Snow Scholar Jeremy Leslie-Spinks passed DPhil ‘Damaged Dancers’. Thanks to examiners Sue Ziebland and Moira McCormack. Over to the Royal Oak!
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
PS he's 78. Got his scholarship to Oxford a few years back in open competition against >50 other applicants. Recruited ballet dancers from around the world. Wrote a thesis that's going to improve how clinicians care for injured dancers. A privilege to work in a job where I meet people this good.
Congratulations to Snow Scholar Jeremy Leslie-Spinks passed DPhil ‘Damaged Dancers’. Thanks to examiners Sue Ziebland and Moira McCormack. Over to the Royal Oak!
November 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Congratulations to Snow Scholar Jeremy Leslie-Spinks passed DPhil ‘Damaged Dancers’. Thanks to examiners Sue Ziebland and Moira McCormack. Over to the Royal Oak!
Congratulations to Lidia Morawska, the Aussie scientist who alerted the world to the airborne nature of COVID-19. Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. I’ve learnt so much from being a (very minor) part of Lidia’s team. Brilliant, incisive, generous.
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
www.industry.gov.au
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Congratulations to Lidia Morawska, the Aussie scientist who alerted the world to the airborne nature of COVID-19. Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. I’ve learnt so much from being a (very minor) part of Lidia’s team. Brilliant, incisive, generous.
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
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A reminder that we are still accepting applications to this funded DPhil post! Deadline 2nd Dec, though we recommend getting in touch before then.
Do please share!
Do please share!
We're are now accepting applications for an exciting DPhil at the @oxprimarycare.bsky.social, *FUNDED* by the THRIVING Food Futures research hub!
The project is about divisive policies, supervised by me, Dr Rachel Pechey @petescarbs.bsky.social @ashakaur.bsky.social
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Pls share! ✨
The project is about divisive policies, supervised by me, Dr Rachel Pechey @petescarbs.bsky.social @ashakaur.bsky.social
lnkd.in/eezGaZZ3
Pls share! ✨
Crowd-pleasers or food fights? Exploring UK public support and objection to divisive policies that aim to reduce the environmental harm caused by the food system
www.phc.ox.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A reminder that we are still accepting applications to this funded DPhil post! Deadline 2nd Dec, though we recommend getting in touch before then.
Do please share!
Do please share!