Sex is disgusting. Come find out why. This week’s piece is about bodies, fluids, shame, HIV, dating apps, the word clean and why we need to think more about disgust. #SexualHealth #PublicHealth #HealthPsychology open.substack.com/pub/comeagai...

I wrote about Sex and the City, Queer as Folk & the politics of who gets what outcomes when it comes to sex on TV. It tells us a lot about what sexual consequences television was willing to make visible and for who. #SexualHealth #PublicHealth open.substack.com/pub/comeagai...

This week I’ve written about the sometimes blurry line between being at risk and posing a risk in healthcare. It sounds subtle, but it shifts how people are understood and how they’re treated. #PublicHealth #SexualHealth #HealthPsychology #Healthcare #Risk open.substack.com/pub/comeagai...

Great to collaborate again with @davidjjfield.bsky.social on our latest article in Nursing Standard With rising rates of syphilis in many, there is a clear need for nurses to feel confident in recognising it journals.rcni.com/nursing-stan... #Nursing #SexualHealth #STI #NurseEducation #syphilis

I’ve written a bit about my… sometimes complicated relationship with behaviour change in sexual health this week. #SexualHealth #PublicHealth #HealthPsychology #BehaviourChange open.substack.com/pub/comeagai...

We’re very comfortable labelling things as “risky”. Much less comfortable unpacking what that actually means. Started writing about that here: open.substack.com/pub/comeagai... #STISky #PublicHealth #SexualHealth #HealthPsychology

New paper out in Psychology & Health. IPA study on how gay men in Ireland conceptualise sexual health–related risk. Evidence once again that lived experience doesn’t always behave nicely for our theories. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HealthPsychology #SexualHealth #CriticalHealthPsychology

Delighted that our paper on Awareness, Attitudes & Early Use of Doxycycline PEP in Ireland was published in Sexually Transmitted Infections today! 💊🦠 #SexualHealth #PublicHealth #STISky #IDSky sti.bmj.com/content/earl...

🆕 First PhD Publication! Delighted to have the first paper from my PhD published today in Culture, Health & Sexuality! We used a novel data saturation approach to conceptualise “risk” related to STIs & HIV for gbMSM. #SexualHealth #STI #HIV #STISky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It’s #WorldSexualHealthDay! Wearing this vintage 1980s health promotion badge today but now we have more options than ever for STI & HIV prevention: U=U, PrEP, PEP, vaccination, Doxy-PEP Good sexual health is being empowered to enjoy the safe, pleasurable sex you want, without shame & stigma.

🚨New Publication🚨 Delighted to see our paper on the healthcare experiences and preferences of LGBT people published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing today! #AcademicSky #LGBT #Nursing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

People will literally run for the presidency of Ireland instead of going to therapy

Having a great time at the International Society of Critical Health Psychology conference in Galway. Presented some of my research at today’s “demedicalisation of sexual health” symposium. #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #SexualHealth #HIVSky #PsychSky #ISCHP25

As Dublin Pride Festival is in full swing, here's a timely message from @davidjjfield.bsky.social about looking after your sexual health. A list of clinics are available at sexualwellbeing.ie/sticlinics Check out more helpful resources at proudandprepared.ie #Pride #SexualHealth #Condoms #HIVPEP

***Save the Date *** The 22nd annual Gay Health Forum will take place on Friday 26 September at the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Further details at gayhealthnetwork.ie/ghf25 #GHF2025 #GayHealthForum #SexualHealth #LGBTQ

Having a great day at @bpsofficial.bsky.social, psychology health & medicine annual conference in Queens Uni, Belfast. #SexualHealth #PublicHealth #LBGTQ #STI #HIV

Currently doing some work on #DoxyPEP in #Ireland (more info below). Take part here: eu.surveymonkey.com/r/doxypep #SexualHealth #STIs #IDSky #InfectiousDiseases #PublicHealth

As our investigative series on transgender healthcare comes to an end, I'd just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who shared their story with me. You are heard. You are listened to.🏳️‍⚧️ If you missed any parts, the full series can be found here: www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

If my rights as a trans woman are able to be removed in an instant, yours can too In today’s independent: m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Happy Easter to this great post

Sexual health research grants (HIV and STIs) are dropping like flies. HIV research is especially being targeted. The field is being decimated and I can't begin to explain how bleak the mood is, and the fear of what comes next after this #IDSky #HIVSky #SaveHIVFunding

🚨 New publication 🚨 Delighted to see our Mpox paper published today. #SexualHealth #PublicHealth

One of the top 5 global antimicrobial resistance threats, Neisseria gonorrhoeae is not to be messed with. We have newer treatment options but still pharyngeal infections are hardest to treat. A reminder to do extragenital site testing and a test of cure for pharyngeal infections at 14 days #STISky

“Anyone who has ever spent time searching for an apartment online will know that many Irish landlords don’t even feel the need to make their traditional rentals especially liveable — which does not augur well for a situation that is less liveable to begin with.” This week’s Surrealing in the Years:

Austerity kills

"You're not my surreal Dad!"

Join the Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare in Ireland (PATHI) and President of Trinity College Dublin Students' Union Jenny Maguire to discuss how universities can understand trans healthcare better. To register your attendance, click here: forms.office.com/e/nKyHgXZp64

The CDC is removing data sets that researchers widely rely upon because they include information on sexual orientation and gender identity. “It feels like they’re trying to will us out of existence,” one researcher tells @theresagaff.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...

STI Treatment Guidelines are down, for now go to nnptc.org where our group has housed STI and HIV PrEP guidelines #HIVSky #STISky #IDSky

Frankie knows the traitors didn’t actually kill all those people right? #TheTraitors #Traitors

Re: #TheTraitors Finale. #Traitors #TraitorsUK

Charlotte is somehow playing both Caesar and Brutus?? 🎭 #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #Traitors

A nation once again.

Delighted to attend this lecture, “Art, Sex and Anarchitecture” by Prof. Jack Halberstam in DCU today. So much to think about but one of the notes I took was; “Do not seek to become part of of a system that requires your exclusion” which feels very now. #AcademicBlueSky #Academia #LGBTQ

Ireland’s governing coalition got off to a rattled start today as its new member, a loose-cannon group of rural independents, insisted on holding positions in both the government and the opposition.

Charlotte has become the traitor supreme but at what cost?? 😂 #TheTraitors #Traitors #TraitorsUK

Inauguration Day (Part 2)

Cass Review. New article in the New England Journal of Medicine, founded in 1812 and amongst the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals. Its 2023 impact factor was 96.2, ranking it 2nd out of 168 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal".

Health warning for homophobia! Sara Pinillos-Franco & Ichiro Kawachi find evidence that holding homonegative attitudes is associated with poorer self-rated health even after controlling for several sociodemographic variables. doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Quote with your fav from X-men

Minah going for gold in the mind game Olympics! 🥇❤️ #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK

All these players are like Carrie at the prom except Joe who got a few drops on his cape 😅 #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK

Linda is too much 😂 #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK

DoxyPEP—a dose of doxycycline after sex—helped reduce bacterial STIs in San Francisco & surrounding cities, according to real-world studies. Chlamydia & syphilis notably declined, though there was less effect on gonorrhea. My latest for @pozmagazine.bsky.social www.poz.com/article/doxy...

"What about the safety of those sleeping rough? What about their concerns? If you’re scared to walk down O’Connell St at night, then what of the people who have to spend all night, every night, on those same streets, cold, hungry and possibly in pain?" Surrealing: www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

Excellent paper by Dr Finn Mackay in the British Journal of Psychotherapy “A tiny group - trans people - have been made a vessel for ongoing cultural anxieties about power relationships between men & women & the stability of the institution of heterosexuality” #translivesmatter #transrights

Bono is accepting a human rights award from Biden on the same day that Biden has announced another 8 billion of weapons for Israel. Perhaps Bono will have something to say about Gaza and the West Bank? Perhaps not.

Lack of funds, and staff shortages caused by restrictions on recruitment. #Ireland #HSE #FFFG thejournal.ie/hse-says-staff-s…

Imagine if we had an article every time a migrant, refugee, queer person, disabled person or woman felt unsafe. #SpeirGorm