Mel Bartley
@zetkin.bsky.social
🇪🇺🦔🦡🌹🕊Emeritus prof of medical sociology UCL. Posting on social inequality in health , work & health, commercial & political determinants of health. Relationship between research & policy. Sometimes post about badgers, trams & trains. Oublagea
Hah! You remind me of the kind friend who enlightened me to the fact that papers didn't get published because they were original or even good. Choose your journal & write it for that.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Hah! You remind me of the kind friend who enlightened me to the fact that papers didn't get published because they were original or even good. Choose your journal & write it for that.
Great in theory. But managers need to somehow learn the way to bring out the capabilities in every person. It's amazingly effective if you can do it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Great in theory. But managers need to somehow learn the way to bring out the capabilities in every person. It's amazingly effective if you can do it.
Nice orderly progression
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nice orderly progression
Astonishing, really. Though I've noticed the same thing in my own intellectual backyard for some time.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Astonishing, really. Though I've noticed the same thing in my own intellectual backyard for some time.
*Country-level* multi lingualism? You have got to be kidding
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
*Country-level* multi lingualism? You have got to be kidding
Right wing? Jeez. After the last year of relentless attacks on the new Govt. Including continuing to refer to it as "Labour" as if it were still the opposition.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Right wing? Jeez. After the last year of relentless attacks on the new Govt. Including continuing to refer to it as "Labour" as if it were still the opposition.
This is what happened during Thatcher's attacks on the heavy industries. Ironic, as heavier jobs were abolished, more people became economically inactive.
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This is what happened during Thatcher's attacks on the heavy industries. Ironic, as heavier jobs were abolished, more people became economically inactive.
Very good points in your post. "Custom & Practice" in the steelworks used to provide less arduous jobs for injured steelworkers. All abolished in the 1980s .
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Very good points in your post. "Custom & Practice" in the steelworks used to provide less arduous jobs for injured steelworkers. All abolished in the 1980s .
Lucky you. It is such a beautiful place
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Lucky you. It is such a beautiful place
I hardly can bear the BBC news & current events programs any more.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I hardly can bear the BBC news & current events programs any more.
In the years before smartphone music players, didn't some people play their radios out loud on public transport? Admittedly, not very often. I take loud music to be a form of attention seeking.
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In the years before smartphone music players, didn't some people play their radios out loud on public transport? Admittedly, not very often. I take loud music to be a form of attention seeking.
This is why some characteristics appear to be "genetic"
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is why some characteristics appear to be "genetic"
That looks like a Mosquito?
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
That looks like a Mosquito?
That's too bad. I took up strong coffee in my old age in order to hasten a heart attack.
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
That's too bad. I took up strong coffee in my old age in order to hasten a heart attack.