New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...

New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...

New Blog article - 'Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support' - Carl Walker examines the crisis at the heart of the UK food sector #food #foodpoverty #inequality www.cost-ofliving.net/systemic-bet...

New Blog article - 'Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support' - Carl Walker examines the crisis at the heart of the UK food sector #food #foodpoverty #inequality www.cost-ofliving.net/systemic-bet...

New Blog Post - "How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress" - Susan McPherson critically examines the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) survey of adults in England #MentalHealth #MentalDistress www.cost-ofliving.net/how-to-think...

New Blog Post - "Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm" - @veronicaheney.bsky.social‬ looks at the use of MadZines to challenge prevailing understandings, diagnoses and treatments of self-harm #SelfHarm #MadZines www.cost-ofliving.net/making-meani...

New Blog Post - "How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress" - Susan McPherson critically examines the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) survey of adults in England #MentalHealth #MentalDistress www.cost-ofliving.net/how-to-think...

New Blog Post - "Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm" - @veronicaheney.bsky.social‬ looks at the use of MadZines to challenge prevailing understandings, diagnoses and treatments of self-harm #SelfHarm #MadZines www.cost-ofliving.net/making-meani...

New blog - "Disinformation, vested interest and the campaign against vegan diets" - Chris Till looks at the right-wing criticism of vegan diets and uncovers vested interests, anti-environmentalism and climate denialism #veganism #climatechange www.cost-ofliving.net/disinformati...

New Palestine Museum just opened in Edinburgh on Dundas Street

New Blog Post - "Creating a Surplus" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social critically examines the concept of 'surplus' in healthcare systems and argues that it often makes people responsible for a whole set of structural conditions beyond their control www.cost-ofliving.net/creating-a-s... #policy #deathpanels

Our MedSoc 2025 call for abstracts is now open. Visit www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... to find out more and submit your abstract. Closing date, 2nd May. We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

The BSA Medical Sociology conference is now open for abstract submission. Looking forward to the usual interesting range of papers

The #BSA Medical #Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September 2025, Northumbria University, UK, *CALL FOR PAPERS* is now open www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

4/6 🛡️ We must protect the integrity of scientific knowledge. Suppression of research anywhere threatens knowledge everywhere. Solidarity with censored colleagues is crucial

In current employment systems, disclosure is required to access workplace support, but organisations can actively penalise those that disclose, while making those that don’t disclose work harder to mask or conceal their symptoms, condition or impairment 👇 @drdon.bsky.social @martievt.bsky.social

New Blog - "Reclaiming Dignity in Food Support: Addressing the Hidden Cost of Hunger" - Carl Walker reports on research revealing “hunger trauma,” where food-insecure individuals suffer distress, shame and guilt. He argues for a more dignified approach to food insecurity tinyurl.com/yzjtsukf

Thread/ Today, a devastating report from the @rcn.org.uk, based on the testimony of over 5000 NHS nurses, has rightly catapulted the national shame that is NHS 'corridor care' into the headlines once more. (1/15)

Thread on increasing lack of academic control of academic publishing - will be familiar to editors of corporately-owned journals. Do choose community led journals when you can!

Health insurers grapple with UnitedHealthcare murder—and a public short on sympathy https://buff.ly/4j8edYo

"One night this week there were 26 ambulances parked up outside Whiston Hospital. That’s 52 members of staff that are off the road, unable to respond to people who are having heart attacks, children who have been hit by cars." It's Not. About. The Narrative. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Catherine Will was a beautiful writer, generous colleague and friend. Still can't believe she's gone - I'm sure the event planned at Sussex will be a fitting celebration of her legacy to #medicalsociology #STS & more

New Blog - 'Catherine Will' - In our last blog of the year we remember Catherine Will, who died this year. Catherine was a founding member of the editorial collective and contributed numerous articles to the blog. Here is a short selection of her many articles. www.cost-ofliving.net/catherine-wi...

America: our life expectancy is terrible, we must restrict the availability of- rest of the world: guns? America: vaccines.

New Blog - 'Anxiety and Art: Uncertain Bodies' - Veronica Heney reflects on the 'Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers' exhibition and the relationship between art and anxiety and how the non-verbal can convey a sensation #art #anxiety #mentalhealth www.cost-ofliving.net/anxiety-and-...

New Blog - 'Anxiety and Art: Uncertain Bodies' - Veronica Heney reflects on the 'Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers' exhibition and the relationship between art and anxiety and how the non-verbal can convey a sensation #art #anxiety #mentalhealth www.cost-ofliving.net/anxiety-and-...

“Colston’s statue should be in the sea. I don’t think you can pay your way out of doing evil things.” – John, Leave voter Katharine Tyler and Joshua Blamire on the limits of culture war narratives for understanding Brexit voters. Out now #OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/4g9XdPc

It's two hours long, but I think this video by @acollierastro.bsky.social is SO important. Sexual harassment in academia is rife and protecting powerful male perpetrators is still pretty much normalised. (Content warnings for SA) youtu.be/8DNRBa39Iig?...

Had a first go at creating a starter pack for social policy research. I’m new here and have surely missed lots so please say if you’d like added or removed!

🔴Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer? Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government’s inheritance tax reforms, reports @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/j...

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.

I've started an extremely baby starter pack for medical sociology. Please help me expand it! go.bsky.app/KrqLzcR

Looking to connect on Bluesky with folk from the UK academic community. Simply Textbook is a free service offered to university staff in England & Wales, collecting any unwanted books and finding them a new home - NEVER in landfill. The safe way to dispose of the books you no longer read or need.

The proposed WHO Pandemic Agreement: Ambitious progress or business as usual? JCPH Editorial Alan Petersen, Monash Vol. 1 No. 2 (2024) doi.org/10.55016/ojs... #WHO #Pandemic

New Blog - "When are healthy volunteers considered to be at risk? Reflections on the 2024 Revisions to the Helsinki Declaration" - Shadreck Mwale looks at clinical trial volunteering & the risks that vulnerability of healthy volunteers face #HelsinkiDeclaration www.cost-ofliving.net/when-are-hea...

This year I’m seeing more comments on Children in Need and the impact of the portrayal of disabled children than ever before. For my take from 2014 on the @costoflivingblog.bsky.social see: www.cost-ofliving.net/children-in-...

For new #publichealth followers, please follow @cphjournal.bsky.social for latest papers - we're celebrating 1st year since our departure from commercial publisher!

'Monkeypox, where is your rage?': The racialization, sexualization, and securitization of global health Tankut Atuk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Francesca Cannon Vol. 1 No 2. (2024) doi.org/10.55016/ojs... #sexualhealth #publichealth

This is all part of #projectEPIC which is about epistemic injustice in healthcare. You can read more about us here: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org

How should we do racially just research? Learning from a qualitative study on COVID-19 pandemic experiences in the UK Tanvi Rai, University of Oxford Anna Dowrick Kaveri Qureshi Heather Munro Cervantée Wild Jenny Douglas Sue Ziebland Vol. 1 No. 2 (2024) doi.org/10.55016/ojs...

New Blog - "When are healthy volunteers considered to be at risk? Reflections on the 2024 Revisions to the Helsinki Declaration" - Shadreck Mwale looks at clinical trial volunteering & the risks that vulnerability of healthy volunteers face #HelsinkiDeclaration www.cost-ofliving.net/when-are-hea...

Fab paper from Katherine Smith and @profellenstu.bsky.social on public understanding of political underpinnings of health inequalities

Between coercion, conditionality and abandonment: A descriptive analysis of English mental health spending and provision under austerity Ed Kiely Queen Mary University of London Vol. 1 No. 2 (2024) doi.org/10.55016/ojs...

Under attack? Public accounts of health inequalities and the social determinants of health in Scotland - Ellen Stewart University of Glasgow JCPH Vol. 1 No. 2 doi.org/10.55016/ojs...

Call for Papers 📝 Medical Humanities in the 21st Century: their meaning, value, and place in academic and societal discussion 🎭🎨🎶📖💃🏻 link.springer.com/journal/4059...

bsky.app/profile/cost... ❤️ this piece by Judy Green on a post- antibiotic future, dedicated to the wonderful & much missed Prof Catherine Will

Not seen this before. Really shocking from Danny Dorling's 'Seven Children'. Average height of five-year-old boys, 1985–2020