"ongoing need to examine femtech’s role in shaping global dynamics of reproductive, labor, & environmental justice, in addition to neoliberal approaches to healthcare more broadly" Danica Facca, Jodi Hall, Gail Teachman, Joanna Redden, Lorie Donelle journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #FemTech

Public narratives about menopause are framed by a range of stakeholders, who contribute to shaping women's experiences of and attitudes towards menopause. Our new study sought Australian women's opinions about increased public attention to menopause. 🧵/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘I’m Just Doing Something!’ Navigating the Messiness of Participatory Research With 3 and 4-Year-Old Children in Early Childhood Care and Education Settings in Ireland Mary Moloney and Alicja McCloskey @ijqmonline.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder quits, accusing Unilever of silencing social mission 😏 (where to start!) www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Finding refuge, making connections: #ISCHP2025 in Galway, Ireland Siobhán Healy-Cullen and Jessica Tappin ischp.net/2025/09/17/f... @ischp.bsky.social @chris-noone.bsky.social

Tense concepts: obstetric violence, structural injustice and moral injury @drrchadwick.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

It's that time of year again... #PostdocAppreciationWeek #NPAW2025 #StructuralDeterminantsofHealth #ResearchCareers #Academia #HigherEd #JoinAUnion

Latest issue now out! Editorial here from editors @judegreen.bsky.social & @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

What is the point of environmental licensing of pollution when the implications for breaches are so incredibly weak - like a few thousand euros donation to the local angling club.

New political science analysis of the renewed push for preventive health: ‘Can it be any different this time around? doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

TASC is hiring a Researcher to join its Climate Justice Stream www.activelink.ie/vacancies/co... Apply by COB on Wednesday 17 September 2025 @tascireland.bsky.social

The Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) is recruiting a Research Lead to guide the development of Good Practice Guidelines for Working with the Traveller Community Application deadline: 5pm on Friday, 3 October 2025 www.activelink.ie/vacancies/te...

Commercial Impacts on Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Scoping Review M. Wiersma, I. Kerridge, S. Gallagher, K. Hammarberg, R. J. Norman, L. Rombauts, J. Savulescu, C. Stewart, A. Yazdani & W. Lipworth link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pregnancy Loss Associated with COVID-19 Infection: Associations with Detection of Viral RNA in Placental and Fetal Tissue Ansa Mehreen, Erica Price, Vivien Wang, Sunitha Suresh, Kathy Mangold, Linda Sabatini, John Lee, and Linda Ernst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📺 Tune in to Ireland AM @virginmediatv.bsky.social @ 08:15 this morning! 🗣️ Laura Guild from Ectopic Pregnancy Ireland will be discussing her own story & the work of the charity 🆕 National information booklet: www.ucc.ie/en/media/res... @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @hselive.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Shocking allegations of suspected embezzlement at the fertility industry's peak body have been revealed just days before Australia's health ministers meet to decide the future of how the organisation self-regulates the IVF sector.

Pleased to share our new paper on linked reproductive health data in the UK Looking forward to discussing it further at the ADR UK (Administrative Data Research UK) conference next week in Cardiff! @adruk.bsky.social

"...corporate donations that have been made public suggest money is often provided to pay for the priorities of donors..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Important new study in BMJ Open. "A wide range of claims is made for HRT (MHT) for menopause. Conflicts of interest are common but may not be highly visible. Information free of commercial interests is relatively uncommon." bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9...

The @miscarriageproject.bsky.social looks fantastic! Looking forward to following developments @vbrowne.bsky.social & Susie Kilshaw feministmiscarriageproject.org

Caution is prescribed for American Academy of Paediatrics’ guidelines on weight loss medications for childhood obesity Luc Hagenaars, Lisa Bero, Bibian van der Voorn, Laura Schmidt www.bmj.com/content/390/... #COI #CDoH #Obesity [3 separate ads for a menopause drug on this page-really @bmj.com?]

The American Academy of Pediatrics issues guidelines that shape child health nationwide. But critics say its conflict-of-interest policies fall short of global standards.

How big is the medical writing industry? Why it matters Maud Bernisson, Sergio Sismondo @healthpromint.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... #CDoH #Pharma

When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:

We're going to see a lot of bullshit in the coming days and weeks about "causes of autism", and most will be based on flawed, over-interpreted observational studies (1/n)

📸 Co-author Vivian Welch, PhD, broke down the STROBE-Equity guidelines at @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social. #PRC10 🔗 ja.ma/45QBGZH

HPRA said Irish law controlling the advertising of medicines included an exemption for “disease awareness campaigns” 😏 #COI #CDoH #Obesity #WebOfInfluence www.thejournal.ie/obesity-adve...

Call for tenders: Equality Proofing and Evaluation Project of HSE Social Prescribing | Enabling Access to Women Who Need It Most @nwc.bsky.social Budget: €30,000 incl VAT 18-month project, key milestones from Q4 2025 – Q1 2027 Submission DL: 5pm, Wed 8 Oct 2025 www.activelink.ie/vacancies/te...

Seriously, journals (& the rest!!!) need to take a long hard look at themselves & how they provide a halo effect for pharmaceutical companies that have been santioned by their own self-regulatory bodies #CDoH #COI #Obesity health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Ethical reflexivity: A critical examination of ethics in public health intervention research Marie Broholm-Holst and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen #CriticalPublicHealth (in every sense of the word) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Using Timelines to Uncover Women’s Invisible & Complex Narratives 1 Challenging stories 2 Chaotic stories 3 Untellable stories 4 Producing acceptable stories 5 Invisible stories 6 Unheard stories Joanne McGrath & Monique Lhussier journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Good, careful review justifying calls for action on alcohol marketing – and also noting that in some areas such as sport and sporting events, gambling exposure and advertising were even more common than alcohol. As so often, predatory industries use similar strategies.

#JobFairy: Kerry County Council Healthy County Coordinator €60,011- €78,015 Closing date: 04 Sep 2025, 05:00 PM localgovernmentjobs.ie/jobs/Kerry-C... #HealthyIreland #HealthPromotion

The British Dietetic Association is still partnering with Danone?! 😫 #CDoH #COI #Nutrition #Dietetics #TrustADietitian 😏 www.bda.uk.com/events/calen...

Critical discourse analysis of social media advertisements for GLP-1 receptor agonist weight loss drugs: implications for public perceptions and health communication J. Rad & G. J. Melendez-Torres bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

How Gender Equity Schemes Might Inadvertently “Gender-Wash” Universities, Provoke Backlash, and Propagate Inequality Gail Crimmins, Sarah Casey, Kate Carruthers Thomas, Maria Tsouroufli onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

VERY EXCITING launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi... please sign up and come

Why do obstetrical terms all sound like they were invented by an alien who had just arrived on earth?!

"Cervical ripening"... another one of those terms that needs to be archived!

Objects acquired thru British colonial activities are being returned. Collections have been investigated, but there are still numbers of items where not sufficient is known to classify them. The key thing is, valid requests will be returned & efforts continue, to see if other items should also be

Dairygold: "Sustainability is not just a policy for Dairygold – it is a culture that is engrained throughout our entire organisation." Also Dairygold: Palm oil is the second largest ingredient in our "Perfectly churned, deliciously creamy, dairygold taste" "churned cream" #CDoH #Greenwashing

A flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Irish poet Sarah Clancy, is due to leave from Barcelona today to try to "break the illegal siege of Gaza", organisers said

I know i’m not meant to ‘diet’ but is it ok to lose a few pounds while pregnant? A qualitative analysis of Mumsnet discussion forum posts Mackenzie Fong, Erin Kelly, Sarah Gregory, Catherine Talbot & Maria Raisa Jessica Aquino #WeightStigma bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

‘Consider a Less Risky Alternative’: Navigating Ethics Approval in Suicide Research Joanna Brooke, Caroline Lenette and Jack Shipway journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This should now become a criminal investigation and charge of environmental damage and hazard to all life forms www.rte.ie/news/regiona.... why did IFI release without comment??

Walking a tightrope: Empowerment discourses in a sexual and reproductive health intervention Cassandra Robertson-Ormston www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDDh... Ping #PLRG_SPRINGproject #CriticalPublicHealth #HealthPromotion

The Tension Between Enhancing Reproductive Autonomy and Carrier Responsibility: An Empirical Ethics Analysis of Preconception Expanded Carrier Screening Sofia Morberg Jämterud journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Women’s health: who cares? Reproduction, resistance and reckoning Sabina Dosani mh.bmj.com/content/51/3...

Menopause misinformation is harming care www.bmj.com/content/390/... "Routine hormone panel testing in the management of menopause symptoms is not supported by current evidence and does not improve care..." Normalisation of testing part of "larger problem: the commercialisation of women’s health"

We really need to address #COI & #CDoH across the board And most especially in women's health/menopause nowadays Just look at the pharma sponsorship of the MSI Conference 2025 😩 It is possible to advocate for women's health AND not have industry COI www.menopausesocietyireland.ie/become-a-pat...