Happy #WorldMicrobiomeDay Eve to all those who celebrate 🦠😉

Ireland’s reliance on multinationals extends ‘far beyond’ corporation tax, warns watchdog

‘The evils are uncontrolled’: Marx’s Capital as a form of witnessing for child public health  Myles Balfe academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...

"Novo Nordisk provided a grant and Eli Lilly and Company Limited provided sponsorship to the BDA to support costs of the development and production of this obesity management resource material." 😫 #CDoH #COI #Obesity #WebOfInfluence #CorporatePlaybook www.bda.uk.com/food-health/...

"Practical implementation remains limited & constrained by barriers such as time, funding, & tokenism. Addressing these challenges requires institutional commitment, resources, & cultural change." link.springer.com/article/10.1... @ppi-ignite-net.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social #PPI #PPIE

Unpacking the black box-a questionnaire study of how medical journals identify & manage conflicts of interest of editors & peer reviewers Christoffer Bruun Korfitsen, Helena Van Beersel Krejčíková, Camilla Hansen Nejstgaard, Isabelle Boutron, Lisa Bero et al www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... #COI

Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice Noah Ivers, @jgrimshaw.bsky.social et al www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

‘If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution(s)’: On being together in and outside of the academy @traceycollett.bsky.social, Gayle Letherby - grateful for you, & your work ❤️🙏✊ www.autobiographyreview.com/index.php/ab... #Neoliberalism #Academia #ActsOfResistance #Carefullness

Watch this space... #CDoH #Obesity #ConstituencyBuilding (eg see AV Room Briefing last week!) #CorporatePlaybook #COI www.thejournal.ie/significant-...

Lots of interesting talks in the upcoming Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) Summer Seminar Series discourseresearch.ie/summer-semin...

Bad influencers: How social media imported US-style drug advertising to the UK Deborah Cohen @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/393/... #CDoH #COI #Pharma #CorporatePlaybook

‘Anything that We Can Do to Help, It's Got to Be Good’: The Everyday Pragmatism of NHS Charities Francesca Vaghi www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

This is an unbelievably cruel ad www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

"It's not your fault, it's a disease" very handily functions to obscure "it's not your fault, it's systematic/political". Disease-blaming keeps the focus downstream on the individual, enabling pharma to capitalise on their new products (see also Prozac and the "chemical imbalance" claim).

"Medicine & Health Products (ANSM) has ruled that the campaigns led by Novo Nordisk & Eli Lilly, which were presented as awareness initiatives, amounted to promotion of their products. Such advertising is forbidden in France" www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a... #CDoH #Obesity #COI #CorporatePlaybook

Absolutely fuming that Eli Lilly held an AV Room Briefing on obesity for Oireachtas (Parliament) members last week. This should not have happened. How can people ignore the huge #COI? [Also-Lilly is one of Ireland's biggest corporate tax payers] #CDoH #WebOfInfluence #CorporatePlaybook #Power

To be clear, I’m not especially for or against GLP-1 inhibitors as a product, it’s just fascinating to me how something that has been so stigmatised and attributed to personal blame for the last 100 years, is now on a completely different strategic narrative, driven by the scientific company

As someone who works in pharmaceuticals and studies history of science, I could write a series on the new Eli Lilly advert ‘Obesity is a disease’ Now a product is available, the narrative around obesity has entirely shifted, to the much more biological ‘it’s not your fault’ ‘it’s a disease’ trope

Strengthening women’s leadership in health systems through innovation and intersectionality Augustus Osborne & Morie Vandi link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨NEWSFLASH 🚨 Implementation Science journal is removing the checklist requirement for qualitative research submissions. - Less rigidity -Greater methodological/analytic diversity -Shift away from deductive framework approaches. Editorial explaining all this 👇👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The potential for adverse events or harms are not routinely assessed or reported in evaluations of public health interventions Luke Wolfenden, Courtney Barnes, Alix Hall, Sam McCrabb www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Coca Cola still running its marketing scheme via communities in Ireland 😫 #COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook www.activelink.ie/community-ex...

Dr Therese Leahy is representing the #PLRG_SPRINGproject Team @ the #HSEspark Summit 2026 @ the Royal Dublin Convention Centre on 16 June Do check out her poster & say hi if you're there! ℹ️ www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy... @lauralinehan.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @hse-spark.bsky.social

The open letter regarding industry and applied bias in Research Ireland's strategy is still open for signing ... openletter.earth/concern-abou...

An updated list of sponsors of the International Congress on Obesity 2026, broken down by who is paying for what re mobile charging stations, lanyards, etc. #Pharma #COI #WebOfInfluence #CorporatePlaybook #Marketing And plenty of #CDoH researchers involved icocongress.com/sponsors/

Also I feel very much like I was just at an Enterprise Ireland announcement, not a Research Ireland one. Major focus on industry, commercialisation of research, turning scientists into entrepreneurs, creating a talent pipeline for industry, and an overriding theme of fairly ill-defined "scale".

The leaders of Ireland's new Rinn national research network. I can only assume from this line-up that women in STEM initiatives are failing to produce results.

Depressing

We're really excited to be participating in the Feminist Miscarriage Project Conference in London next week The programme is stellar! feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference Huge thanks to Victoria Browne, Susie Kilshaw & all involved for bringing it all together @miscarriageproject.bsky.social

When you see a paper title and you just know who has funded/conducted the study.... you guessed it, Novo Nordisk [see Authors, Acknowledgement, Funding & COI statements] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #CDoH #Obesity #WebOfInfluence #Framing

📣 Call for Papers for Special Collection @healthpromint.bsky.social: Power, Equity & the Health of Women & Girls 📆 Submission deadlines: Abstracts - 30 September 2026 Full papers - 01 March 2027 More information: academic.oup.com/heapro/pages... @docsamantha.bsky.social

Statement from @researchireland.ie in response to open letter... www.researchireland.ie/news/stateme...

Some of the narrative here is quite misleading & not without harm Private consultants giving public consultants a dig-out? Focus on individuals (politicians, etc) & whether they have received private/public maternity care? Who is really being served here? www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Ireland's consumer watchdog has warned parents that pillows marketed as sleeping aids for babies can cause death through suffocation or overheating

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Did a project in this in national school. Really hope someone decent takes it on & restores it (here's looking at you OPW)... So much untapped potential in Ardfinnan, a village steeped in history 💙💛 www.independent.ie/lifestyle/ho...

Rotunda Hospital’s clash with Coalition over private maternity care deepens www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/... @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social #MaternityCare #UniversalHealthCare #Slaintecare #Equity

Rotunda facing questions amid phasing out of private care www.rte.ie/news/2026/06... @fergalbowers.bsky.social #MaternityCare #UniversalHealthCare #Slaintecare #Equity

This is just awful... #HousingCrisis #RightToHousing

Minister for Health casts doubt on Rotunda insurance in row over private maternity care www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Prestige or patient choice? Rotunda resists plan to stop public-only consultants offering private maternity care

Great to hear Prof @conorom.bsky.social acknowledge the value of various & all forms of research & knowledge being generated across the College of Business & Law (& University) @ today's Research Showcase ✊👏 @uccresearch.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

How power is conceptualized & operationalized in evidence-based intervention implementation-scoping review Shoba Ramanadhan, Jennifer Cruz, Nadia Safaeinili, Savannah Alexander, Matthew Lee, Elaine Jeon, Prajakta Adsul, @drrachelshelton.bsky.social, Megan Stanton link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Better Together: Tools to Aid #PPI in Evidence Synthesis & the Need for Consensus... Eugenie Evelynne Johnson, Fiona Pearson, @daniellepollock.bsky.social, Jack Nunn, Richard Morley, Sophie Staniszewska, @andreatricco.bsky.social, Alex Todhunter-Brow onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Health Minister warns Rotunda to get in line with public-only contract @padraigrice.bsky.social, Sara Burke, @mcculld.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #MaternityCare #SlainteCare #UniversalHealthCare #SDoH #PublicGood

Fintan O'Toole: Rotunda’s defiance of public policy shows us how some are born more equal www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... #SDoH #MaternityCare #PublicGood

The Rotunda maternity hospital has been warned it could have its funding pulled if it does not withdraw permission for consultants on public-only contracts to practise privately on its premises. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

‘health committee chair Pádraig Rice, who is a Social Democrats TD…said “the Rotunda, or any other hospital, cannot take it upon itself to unpick the public-only consultant contract”.’ www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Good to see @nwc.bsky.social calling this out ✊ #MaternityCare #Equity #PublicGood #Slaintecare