Often come back to a talk by @jlynch13.bsky.social on how social policy is a mechanism for “containing inequality”… How much, for whom, under which conditions. Our tolerance for inequality reflects something about society, values, ethics.

I’m over the moon to share that yesterday I completed my DPhil @dspi-oxford.bsky.social 🎉 There are so many thank yous, but firstly to my amazing and unbelievably supportive supervisors @gwshorter.bsky.social @bchrisinger.bsky.social @dkhumphreys.bsky.social 1/4

🚨 Proud supervisor alert 🚨 One my 1st PhD students just passed his viva! Give @ben-scher.bsky.social a follow for rigorous qualitative + participant-centered #HarmReduction research. s/o to amazing co-sup team @gwshorter.bsky.social @dkhumphreys.bsky.social @dspi-oxford.bsky.social 🛟 #academicsky

Very excited to share our new paper in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social 🎉 In this paper we look at experiences of people who use drugs in public and semi public drug consumption environments and the need for OPCs in England.

🇺🇸 Non-MAGA Americans - listen up! At the Bylines Network (UK), we've a new project to amplify non-MAGA American voices at a time when US media are not adequately capturing the chaos, fear & disruption in people's lives. But we're collecting the stories. This is citizen journalism. Take a look. 👇

If you are in the Oxford area and interested in drug policy, come catch @gwshorter.bsky.social who will be giving a guest lecture on the evidence-base surrounding overdose prevention centres 🎉 🗓️ Thursday 1st of May ⏰ 6pm-7pm 📍Wolfson College www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/event/from-s...

The DOJ has cancelled millions of dollars in grants for gun violence prevention, victim advocacy, and addiction support. This will hurt local governments and grass-roots organizations doing life-saving work. The assault on public safety continues. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Excited to share my first #PhD paper, now published in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social 📝 #scopingreview #gunviolence Read more: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https://a...

📢 New Research in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social Read more: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https://a... #GunViolence #PublicHealth #TheLancet @dspi-oxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Hi to all of the new faces on here 👋🏼 We are accepting new participants for our research study! Please share widely 🧡 #gunviolence #survivorship #GVP #AcademicSky #SocSky

To staff at CDC and everyone working in public health: we’re with you.

This is really important work IMO - great to have been involved.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

To start off Black History Month, resharing this exploration of early 20th-century Black physicians. These medical pioneers overcame great odds to enter the field of medicine, including barriers erected by established medical societies, universities, state and local governments. 🛟 🩺 HistMed

Still recruiting for our study on the ripples of #gunviolence! Are you 18+? Have you experienced firearm violence in the U.S.? Click here to learn more: forms.office.com/e/7HphbRnfQJ

We need good journalists more than ever. Here are some great ones working in the climate space. Follow them. Amplify them. Support them if you can.

🔴 NEW 🔴 A US climate denial group with close ties to Donald Trump has been working with far-right politicians to undermine EU green reforms. 📝 My @desmog.bsky.social story with the Guardian 👇🏻

Trump stops health agencies from communication on health & vital statistics www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

We are looking for a data scientist to help us process and combine GPS and PA data, could it be you or someone you know? Deadline 18 Feb www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49988/

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

BREAKING: We’re only two days into the Trump-Vance Administration, and they have seemingly disbanded the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention already—making it clear this Administration works for the gun lobby, not the American people.

Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome) or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?

🟢 31 Reasons to read DeSmog in 2025 #1: Hazel Healy, Editor-in-Chief Subscribe to read stories from @hazelhealy.bsky.social! loom.ly/0yZWfJ8 #climatejustice

A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access. Causal inference is hard: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We reflect on the force that was Gemma Carey and how she brought us together with Power to Persuade www.powertopersuade.org.au/blog/the-pow...

This figure, borrowed from Public Health Scotland, is an interesting comparison of the alcohol-specific deaths situation in Scotland and England - looking at the ratio between the two. It highlights how big the gap was in the early 2000s, but also how it's fallen since Minimum Unit Pricing in 2018

Excited to share our new paper describing DCRs as ‘inclusion health interventions’! Thank you to @bchrisinger.bsky.social @dkhumphreys.bsky.social @gwshorter.bsky.social for their guidance on this piece. Link: harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

Our research team, led by Dr. Jessica Hamilton at Rutgers, is recruiting NJ teens for an ongoing longitudinal study to learn more about social media use, mental health, and gun violence exposure. $200+ compensation available. See flyer below for full details. Please share widely!

Three years ago today, four students were killed and seven were injured at Oxford High School in Michigan. Local leaders worked the next two years to pass historic gun safety reform. They must continue to honor the lives lost with action. #mileg

Linking theory with research, choosing a theoretical framework and developing alternative explanations www.raulpacheco.org/2020/12/link... In this post I discuss the importance of establishing theoretical expectations, alternative explanations and linking theory with empirics. #RPVSky

Final reminder that we're growing our team at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center (@njgvrc.bsky.social)! We're looking to hire 3 postdoctoral fellows to start in Summer 2025. We begin reviewing applications 12/1 - more information in the doc and QR code! acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?...

I am so tired

The mad, mad world of British Higher Education. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Today is International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day. Did you know that most #firearm deaths in the U.S. are by #suicide? Thinking of the many lives taken, families forever changed, and communities experiencing the ripples of suicide today. 🧡

What are the big debates in quantitative sociology methods right now? Stuff that we really are still debating the answer to? Lots of debates in causal inference, I know, and definitely in the Age-Period-Cohort area too. Anything in sampling methodology? Measurement?

Feels like working in the British coal industry in 1982. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

cc'ing the tenure and promotion committee #academicsky

A reminder that in 2023 Matt #Gaetz introduced the National Stand Your Ground Act (2023), a bill that codifies a “Stand Your Ground” law at the federal level, eliminating any duty to retreat when threatened with violence... 1/2

Feeling like we are going to need all of the effective health and science communication we can muster for the next while.. LET'S GO!!!! go.bsky.app/DV3dLBw #episky

Some good tips here on giving good conference presentations, most of which I'd strongly endorse. I'm not entirely convinced about the point about fewer slides being unambiguously better though. www.addiction-ssa.org/career-resou...

Hello new followers! I've been reposting older blog posts as a sort of re-introduction on this site, and here's another neat one: Here are a bunch of ways to deal with map-related overplotting with #rstats and {sf} #dataviz www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/07...

One more way of looking at just how bad Scotland's drug deaths crisis is - here's the drug misuse mortality rate for every local authority in the UK. Scottish authorities are in blue. Blackpool is a significant outlier compared to the rest of England (and Wales and NI), but not compared to Scotland

New in #AJPH: more perspectives on how #SNAP matters, and why nutritional restrictions are the wrong approach to tackling health disparities. 🛟 🩺 #academicsky #publichealth

NEW: Sure Start, the national programme which provided universal, holistic support during the early years, significantly reduced serious youth crime. Read our new report, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, on children’s behaviour, youth offending and social care contacts: https://buff.ly/4eSRptk

"Reading and conducting instrumental variable studies: guide, glossary, and checklist" - nice new paper in the @bmj.com from @tfeend.bsky.social and colleagues! #EpiSky #StatsSky www.bmj.com/content/387/...