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Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025) Critical Metabolism: Towards a Metabolic Justice? Stephen Hinchliffe et al journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

UK sociologist of health? Next call for @fshi.bsky.social awards closes 30th october www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/

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

It is a massive problem in public health that the profession skews middle class - contributes to lack of insight into how many policies will land. Wider access to med school is needed

Finally made it over here... kinda like going to a grocery store you never been in, trying find smthn real quick, only to find that not everyone agrees where the bouillon, gouda, tomato paste, soy sauce, [ ], [ ] should be kept, & now you done missed kickoff, your bus/train, [ ], [ ] ...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

📢 We’re looking for a Research Fellow (with a strong qualitative research background) to work on an NIHR-funded project exploring additional roles in primary care in England and Scotland. You will be working with a great team @kathcheckland.bsky.social @damianeh.bsky.social tinyurl.com/dnr6djtk

Online first! New paper from @kat-lauber.bsky.social, Nason Maani, Olivia Brown & @rebeccaglover.bsky.social on the pros and cons of 'crisis' framings journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

🧵1/ In Serbia, students are leading a powerful movement for health, justice, and democracy. After a tragic building collapse in Novi Sad, young people mobilised nationwide, turning grief into civic action.

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In defence of metaphor & why plain speaking about death can also obscure www.cost-ofliving.net/on-the-inequ...

"Why do we have to leave? What have we done wrong?" A child’s question from inside the hotel. A powerful first-hand account from an asylum seeker besieged in Diss. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Co-op & community org search tool for UK consumer goods that don't contribute to capitalist wealth inequality. 💚 Find new orgs to support 💚 Submit links for local orgs 💚 Search tags & categories 💚 Search by postcode community-change-directory.netlify.app In development: feedback appreciated

Oh no, I'm late to news of Tom Lehrer's death -how sad. Our Dad played his records endlessly - poisoning pigeons in the park is the theme of my childhood

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Critical Public Health is now included in the Directory of Open Access Journals! #DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social

Solidarity to the editors resigning in protest at sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

We are delighted to publish @colinlorne.bsky.social & Michael Lambert's paper on place-based reform, Wigan, & rejecting the politics of responsibilisation for 'left-behind'places - now on online first: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

www.bmj.com/content/390/... A heat map of diabetes does not improve access to nutritional food or reshape the commercial landscape promoting ultraprocessed foods in low income areas. A wearable heart rate monitor tracking variability cannot counter harms of exploitative labour or precarious housing

New article in Social Theory & Health, co-authored with @judegreen.bsky.social, open access. In a nutshell we argue that that lived-experience research is not the same as qualitative sociology in health research. The difference exists and matters. Read here: rdcu.be/evZ7F

Happy to see this out in one of my fave journals - led by @crismontenegro.bsky.social We unpack distinct contributions of PPIE & qual sociology, suggest why they are at times conflated, and why they shouldn't be.

Unable to register on AJPH submission site without a fax number. #academicsky

This is great news! Hopefully the UK can follow suit by funding similar collaborations between diamond university-based publishers, such as those affiliated with @oipassoc.bsky.social #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Interesting - on rise of flowery AI generated language in biomedical abstracts - which those not writing in their 1st language less likely to spot and edit I guess.

It's the fourth anniversary of that time I tweeted the wrong Sisters Of Mercy

Exciting news: @univie.ac.at created new Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna! We’ve just opened our first call for applications — for both senior and junior fellows. If you’re working on something bold, interdisciplinary, and timely, take a look: vicas.univie.ac.at

New River - built in 17th C.- not most scenic of waterways, but a welcome oasis seconds from just the North Circular, on a hot London day.

With a 3y critical social science post doc working with fab people! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNN846/p...

📢 The Net Positive Centre website is live! 🌍Focused on advancing climate-health research & real-world solutions — from urban design to food systems.Funded by @UKRI_News led by a partnership @exeter.ac.uk @ukhsa.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @forestresearchuk.bsky.social netpositivecentre.com

This paper is a much-needed critique of place based approaches in public health- noting problems of scale and sidelining of power relations

Could there be a more timely call? We are offering up to £300k for international research projects on a series of transnational and planetary challenges including digital technology, global health and earth system governance. Please spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/know...

New report on recent trends in mortality in England out today fingertips.phe.org.uk/documents/re...

Thanks to Somatosphere for adding relevant JCPH papers to their ever useful 'In the Journals' round up! somatosphere.net/in-the-journ...

Hello 👋 I'm a PhD student at Exeter seeking to understand what helps early years services to meaningfully involve their local communities in service design, using realist methods. Read more about the need for this research in a blog I wrote last year, and follow for updates! 👇 tinyurl.com/33bxb2dh

We now have 'on line first' listings! And first up, a great paper from Ian Hudson, Anupam Das & Mark Hudson on how higher unionisation rates are associated with lower mortality rates in Canada journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

What happens when reading books gets positioned as a health intervention? And what does this case tell us about the wider landscape of austerity therapeutics? I'm glad to have contributed to a new paper addressing these questions, led by Hayley Redman. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An important life skill to develop is the ability to not have an opinion on a thing. This is because there are many things which it is not necessary for you to have an opinion on. A related skill is recognizing that the list of things on which an opinion is required is different for everyone.

All using/interested in evaluating natural experiments in #publichealth and #hsr welcome!

All using/interested in evaluating natural experiments in #publichealth and #hsr welcome!

This webinar will introduce the updated MRC/NIHR framework for the conduct and use of natural experimental evaluations. Fri 23 May, 1200 to 1315 BST Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f01e66...

6k euro to publish a paper in Lancet Public Health Let’s just sit & think about that Students & post docs need these publications for their career Our institutions, who don’t fund us properly, want us to publish in these journals We raise the cash, do the research & reviewing for these journals

So happy to share this hot off the press paper. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken as part of Humanising Healthcare, I write about the ways in which #clinicians can show up as #allies to people with learning disabilities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join us for the Transitions Project Launch - 25 June | 16:30 | King’s College London. Researchers, policy experts, and advocates will discuss the historical development and contemporary debates about of psych deinstitutionalisation in Latin America. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/proje...

It was a disgusting thing to say. And a betrayal of thr electorate who voted for a Labour govt to row back from nastiness, not embrace it

Streatham campus @uniofexeternews.bsky.social particularly spectacular ATM, though plant outside office perhaps trying a bit too hard

BREAKING: "Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029." #ICA25

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

Didn't know this either