Israel is a top 10 global arms exporter. In 2024 arms exports rose to $14.9 billion, with 54% of those purchases made by Europe (MOD data). The UK spends millions of pounds each year on “battle-tested” arms from Israeli companies. This 👇 is what "battle-tested means".

Having built my career on trying to get IR and global health to talk to each other, I am so up for joining @jocalynclark.bsky.social and the team @bmj.com as a guest editor of a new series on Global Health Geopolitics! Read & share Call for Papers published in The BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/392/...

*Medicine Under Attack: Testimonies from Gaza* Dr Guy Shalev - Physicians for Human Rights Israel Dr Said Eid - Recent graduate from AlAzhar Medical School, Gaza 📅Tue 10th Feb ⏰6.15pm-8pm GMT 📍Arts Two Lecture Theatre, QMUL *In person and online* www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980939912...

After many, including Joe Biden, challenged the Gaza health ministry's death toll, The IDF finally accepts its toll of over 71,000 killed in direct result of war, not including those still buried under rubble and those killed from indirect impact. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

Minneapolis says no to ICE.

Two weeks left to apply for a postdoc position on my project! I'm looking for historians, anthropologists, STS and Global Health researchers with a broad interest in #Brazil, #rural populations, #health, #medicine, and #zoonosis. For more information👇

Despite yesterday’s clumsy face saving attempts from HHS: the unethical baby-liver-disease-spreading clinical trial funded by US govt will NOT go forward—latest from @melodyschreiber.com

Just empire doing empire things

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

These evil, spiteful ghouls thought they’d score an awesome Supreme Court victory and then society would salute their bravery, and rise up to enforce their fucknut politics. That hasn’t happened and it won’t happen, so now society will be *forced* to comply in a blizzard of squillionaire litigation.

For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.

I wrote an article reflecting on how i bring plants to the classroom for @sociologyjnl.bsky.social. “Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination” is now available free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🌱

The Love Tank urges continued mpox vaccination uptake as new European cases identified. www.thelovetank.info/news/mpox

A great paper on the redistribution of UK aid towards in-country refugee costs, capture of those funds by outsourcing firms, and rampant profiteering. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Deleted my account. Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.

The Greens could be polling at 40% and all we’ll read about is the rise of Reform

Snapshots podcast: episode nine - Professor João Nunes from Universidad Pontificia Comillas 🎉 With @bisa-global-health.bsky.social and hosted by Christopher Long Snapshots reveals the nature of work and life in global health 🌎 Listen here 👉 buff.ly/8zCIffZ @apapamichail.bsky.social

Oh come the fuck on

Next stop, lodging motions welcoming the publication of Daily Express website subscriber polls.

All aboard the bullshit machine!

Reading this, who can honestly say Gaza is not a concentration camp, w Israel engineering mass death by starvation.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

This is absurd. The mpox/monkeypox vaccines are already paid for & there are major outbreaks in several African countries. Couldn't they just hand the doses over to WHO or GAVI or Gates Fdtn or some other entity to distribute? www.reuters.com/business/hea...

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out. In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing. Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

Excited to share my article on the rise of a commercial market for pandemic intelligence. I analyze tech startups’ influence on public policy and the implications for WHO’s traditional authority in public health intelligence. Open access in Global Policy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

At a time when the world is unmoved in the face of the mass #starvation of #children in real time, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social's report on 'Starvation and the right to food, with an emphasis on the Palestinian people’s food sovereignty' has never been more relevant docs.un.org/en/A/79/171

“We are concerned at the unjustified labelling of a political protest movement as ‘terrorist’,” the experts said. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism” - UN Experts

Firefox extension for those who are interested.

"Maersk will cut ties with companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank, the Danish shipping giant has said....Its shipments have come under scrutiny as part of an international campaign led by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)" www.yahoo.com/news/shippin...

If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong. This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today

So it will be illegal to belong to or even express support for a group engaging in non violent direct action to stop a genocide But it will still be legal to volunteer for the armed forces committing the genocide, and to express support for them (as most in Westminster and Fleet St do)

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

Peer-reviewed study finds "methodological flaws and unsubstantiated claims" in research that Cass Review is based upon. Labour should suspend legislation and rules based on report, which demeans and excludes trans community, and start comprehensive and independent scientific review.

Systematic peer-reviewed assessment showing the fundamental flaws of the Cass Review. Many in politics and beyond have used the Cass report to justify the erosion of gender-affirming care. This study is a litmus test for those who claim to "follow the science" on the topic.

as @timschwab.bsky.social , Lindsey McGoey and others point out, Gates Foundation initiatives have prioritised partnerships with companies such as Coca-Cola and Monsanto, reflecting a broader misalignment between their philanthropic activities and global health priorities

Looking for 2 x guest lecturers (paid) to give research led talks within a new course 'Rethinking IR' for final yr UGs on ontological security, bodies/embodiment, emotions/affect, biopolitics/necropolitics, or visual global pol in the Fall 2025 semester. Pls DM/email expressions of interest 🙏

Congratulations to Stella Maris, Rector of St Andrews, who has won her appeal against dismissal from the governing body: a vindication of her, and anyone's, right to condemn genocide and apartheid. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries. 1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration

Since the 2nd of March, Israel has been preventing food from entering the Gaza Strip.

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

A Sector in Freefall www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

Since we are back at work in the UK today - it's a GREAT time to email your MP about the Supreme Court ruling and the threats to trans people as a result. I used this helpful guide to write to my MP. You should too. www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...

I have created a Starter Pack for British Trans Activism Let's start organising and making the UK a better place. We've been on the defense for too long 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️✊ go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F

Classic 'bad apple' defence from a conveniently unamed military source www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Like hell he is. He blindly followed the discredited Cass Review, knowingly pushing for the ban despite all evidence of the harm it would cause. If Streeting was "genuinely sorry" he'd be making sure trans young people could get the care and support they need. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

In a few days time that number could match the Palestinian death toll from the entirety of Operation Cast Lead (1,166–1,417). When you consider the extent to which Cast Lead shocked and appalled global civil society in 2008-09, it underlines how the current genocide is on an utterly different scale

This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.