Speaking to the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners today about the findings from our Police Custody Healthcare project and what PCCs can do. Going to advise them to request data of how frequently custody suites have embedded healthcare as better staffing is a good first step.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Have deleted my academia.edu account (long overdue to be honest). Thread below explains how to do so and why, and I can confirm this method works, even if, like me, you've forgotten your password.

Great and important thread.

An unnamed senior colleague of mine had a strategy of completing a research project and then applying the funding after the fact. In this way the bid could clearly articulate the RQs and what he would "expect" to find. This process needs priming and so begins with, so-called "hobbyist" research.

Nykelharperists sampling governmental alerts. youtu.be/Gc8wvD2ouaE?...

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

I was discussing this with @shelleyjwalker.bsky.social yesterday and how YOI staff maintain "discipline" in regions in Australia. I sincerely hoped that we would be more humane, but clearly not. PAVA shouldn't be deployed anywhere, but especially not on young people.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

I need help from the Bluesky collective. I'm looking for recent (2020+) research on whether Brits are willing to travel abroad to get medical care and also if they are willing to go into debt to pay for it. I can only find research from 2014 and back. #MedSky #Health #Healthcare #MedicalTourism

Fabulous job (STS/sociolegal studies of medical disinformation) in a wonderfully collegial, intellectually stimulating research center: Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh share.google/yRbrFbrn4DyT...

When I was interviewed by BBC about our project they asked me why we should be interested in police custody healthcare, as it only impacts "bad people". As I said then, any of us could end up in custody (and of course, "bad people" generally also refers to most vulnerable, so there's that as well).

How a playground for corporate parasites was constructed …

Adding this to the Christmas list. Looks a fascinating text on marginalised and/or controversual knowledge claims. Less studiously, as someone who likes watching Ancient Aliens to see how the "experts" patchwork various kinds of evidence together, this looks right up my street. Fascinating stuff!

The thing I'm proudest of delivering as Degree Programme Director was a robust Support to Study process in our department. It took a lots of time and was pretty much all I did in my final year, but had large impacts on the students with additional mental health needs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Involving families in their loved ones’ care helps to keep people safe and healthy in prison. Our new paper with @centreformh.bsky.social calls on the criminal justice system to do more to involve families in prison healthcare. 🔗 Link below. #MentalHealth #PrisonReform #CriminalJusticeReform

I defy anyone to play the Prologue Chapter of Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 and say that video games cannot be works of art. A beautiful, immersive and emotive opening. I'm going to enjoy this.

This is what frustrates me about the current Labour Party. They are doing some good things but we very rately hear about them. Instead they prefer to broadcast Thatcherite policies like this. BBC News - Stop being negative about savers buying shares, Reeves says www.bbc.com/news/article...

Our President, Professor Dame Julia Black, sat down with @financialtimes.com. Describing the government's approach to universities as "confused, if not incoherent", she calls for regulatory reform and a cross-party commission to look at the future of higher education www.ft.com/content/3162...

Not a bad little place to be parkrun volunteering this morning. #parkrun #JesmondDene

Remember learning about the Scopes trial as an undergrad on a module about science and expertise. Was case studies like this (and Inherit the Wind) that have ended up with me researching the intersection between science, medicine and law.

@ctmccartney.bsky.social following up on our earlier discussion of online sampling kits.

Post a song from the year you turned 12. youtu.be/Bge-YbKLnI8?...

Picked up a copy of Recalibrating Stigma after a fantastic launch event in Edinburgh last week. Very much looking forward to reading the chapters and drawing on the analysis in my own work. Great work @gmthomas.bsky.social, @oliwilliams.bsky.social, Tanisha Spratt and @amychandler.bsky.social.

What happens when someone in police custody has urgent health needs? Dr @gethrees.bsky.social explains how healthcare is currently delivered in custody suites and sets out recommendations for change. Read the article here >> bit.ly/3ZxQysu

It's a busy time on @d-liveability.bsky.social! We are hiring a 12 month #postdoc Research Fellow to contribute to #qualitative analysis of suicide prevention policies + parliamentary debates: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Received three highly supportive anonymous reviews for a book proposal today. Feeling a little overwhelmed by the positive comments from peers. I'm sure some, if not all three of you, are on here, so just posting to say thanks very much, completely made my day.

Quick plug for an event I'm speaking at tomorrow on forensic nursing. I'm specifically talking about past work on the introduction of FNEs into sexual offence interventions, but I'm sure I'll also comment on police custody. @kentishscribbler.bsky.social www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Our Director @debcoles13.bsky.social spoke to The Law Show at BBC Radio 4 about preventing avoidable deaths. Listen to the full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The brilliant @ctmccartney.bsky.social speaking about prosecutions failing due to missing evidence. Interesting that NPCC suggests inability to get medical experts is the reason. Definitely something for me to reflect on in my forthcoming fellowship. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This has jumped to the top of my "To Read" pile. Saw a great presentation on this at the @fflm.bsky.social conference last year. Definitely a space where the construction of forensic medicine is a little too close to the criminal justice pole.

RCPsych, joined by leading health and social care organisations, is calling on MPs and the UK Government to reject plans to extend police powers - to detain and restrain people in crisis - to medical practitioners, under reforms of the Mental Health Bill in England and Wales.

@deecooke.bsky.social and I ran the Edinburgh Marathon Fest Half Marathon this morning. Didn't get the ambitious PB I'd hoped but still a PB (1:45:46). Have another half lined up in July where I'll try and dip under that 1:45 mark.

Excellent piece from @dralexispaton.bsky.social on both the moral and ethical problems with chemical castration (not to mention the fact that approaches like this fail to understand the underlying causes of GBV!!!).

Our handbook of Disability, Crime and Justice is out today, what a privilege it was for Steve and I to work with so many amazing authors to create this www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Incredibly proud of this new podcast with @robbiejourno.bsky.social and the Big Light. Young people are demonised on the street but what happens if we look through the stereotype and listen instead?

Brilliant project that I am loosely associated with, exploring the impacts on people's health of being engaged with criminal justice. Well worth keeping an eye on.

Created a podcast with Lesley McMillan, Andrea Quinlan and @jazzmoose.bsky.social on our project investigating forensic and support service responses to GBV in rural and remote areas. Found lack of anonymity and resourcing crucial to poor outcomes for survivors podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

Canny run in Sunderland with the Town Moor Bench Runners for the Sunderland 10k. Goal race is the Edinburgh Half Marathon in a fortnight so this was just a tune up race. Still only a minute off my 10k PB, which means I'm in good form for two weeks time. strava.app.link/5TlvqzzzhTb

What about the research talent we already had but are losing due to the thousands of job losses in UK universities?

Delighted to have been selected for one of these Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships.

Wow, what an incredible archival resource. Huge thanks to @inquest-org.bsky.social for compiling and making it publicly available.

Great to see this powerful report continuing to attract media attention @gethrees.bsky.social Watch our What is ‘Equivalence’ in Custody Healthcare? animation in full here > avstudios.com/project/heal...

Join us next week to hear from Amy Van Zyl from Her Circle and @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social in a workshop about how marginalised women can be better heard by decision makers. Book your free place at our #WomanOfTheNorth Summit on May 7 – visit www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/woman-of-the...

The From Newcastle Blog asked me to prepare a contribution based on the end of project report for our police custody healthcare project. The blog post can be found here: from.ncl.ac.uk/quality-heal... Thanks again to @altviewstudios.bsky.social for the amazing images and animation.

How's that pandering to racists and reactionaries to defeat the far right working out for you? How many times do we have to warn about the damage this does to those at the sharp end, any sort of opposition, and democracy itself. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...