Welcome the UK's introduction of a Public Interest Test for procurement contracts over £1m and requiring "insourcing" strategies from larger departments.

@positivelyuk.bsky.social Such a great way to foregound the women's experiences within what is often rather an impersonal, and also impersonally-assessed, field.

Phenomenon work from Jen Curtin and team 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

NGOs - pay illustrators, photographers and designers. Not doing so is both unethical but backfires on communication intentions. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...

www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... Really useful report here [email protected] and colleagues...

#OnThisDay in 1932, South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She died in 2008. Photo by Paul Weinberg. #BOTD #MusicSky #MiriamMakeba

We're currently recruiting for the role of UK AIDS Quilt Project Manager! Full-time 36 hours per week – one year fixed-term contract, £43,260 pa + 6% employer pension contribution. Closing date: 23rd March, 5pm. Find out more and apply here - www.positiveeast.org.uk/work-with-us/

Calling all people living with HIV - join us at the National Conference of People Living with HIV in June! Apply for one of the 200 places at positivelyuk.org/conference-2... Places are limited, so we won't be able to offer a place to everyone who applies.

📰News!📰Community pharmacies are a promising site for expanding access to HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), according to a recent study. This is a highly effective medication can be used to reduce the risk of getting HIV. More ▶️ tinyurl.com/ysn6kkkh @arc-west.bsky.social @jhorwood.bsky.social

Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/

Check out our new website! (Here’s the page for my project: liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/projects/... )

Good to speak to Liza Featherstone the other day about how repression increases as legitimacy decreases. Here's her resulting article: A Truth From Iran to Minneapolis: Weak Governments Kill Protesters newrepublic.com/article/2059... via @newrepublic.com

Find out what's happening at Positive East in February including our regular support groups, bodywork physiotherapy, digital skills and art workshops and the East London Queer Fest to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month! ⭐ Find out more here - www.positiveeast.org.uk/events/

We've published this month's newsletter! Check it out at ishortn.ink/jan-news You’ll find all the usual: 🧡 New project announcements 🧡 Highlights from the month 🧡 Upcoming event information Stay updated, stay inspired, and be part of the Positively UK community.

Help improve online sexual and reproductive healthcare services! Complete the survey here - forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Announcing spring 2026 public programs! Join us in person or online - reserve now: www.gc.cuny.edu/public-progr... Feat. journalist Frank Rich, former FTC chair Lina Khan, Nobel winner @pkrugman.bsky.social, author @elijahwald.bsky.social, designer Qween Jean, singer Rocío Márquez & more! @cuny.edu

Brilliant new article by Yasmeen Narayan on the endless reimaginings of the human that flowed from the translation houses of Islamic Iraq to the Ṣufi practices of medieval Timbuktu to turn provision grounds of the plantation Caribbean www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

POLIO. Deadly, crippling, preventable. My first tricycle was passed on by the next door neighbours, whose kid couldn't ride it any more because of polio. I was three years younger, caught the vaccine window.

📣 Call for Papers, Panels and Workshops | IRIS 2026 Conference: Unsettling Communities superdiversity.net/2026/01/23/%...

Reminder: Coming up on Friday! Register by tomorrow - Thursday - should be a great discussion! @uob-policystudies.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social - ZZUK collective is the 'Our stories told by us' authors ourstoriestoldbyus.com

'Who gets the final word? Narrating stories of harm & justice' Online presentations & discussion, Fri 21.11.25 1-2pm UK. @uob-policystudies.bsky.social w Assn of Narrative Research & Practice, Natasha Carver, Natasha Mulvihill, Monica Sanchez Hernandez, ZZUK & Molly Andrews. Book here: rb.gy/lsvmos

Conversation analysts: #academicsky

🚨 On 4 Oct, our colleague Dan + a brilliant team are running a 50km ultra-marathon to raise funds for young refugees 🏃‍♂️💨💙 Education is life-changing and every mile they run is helping to create brighter futures. 🌍📚 Why not cheer them on and support here 👉 https://ow.ly/aaaa50X3wFU

was really pleased to be invited to be a part of this celebration :) Can't quite believe it's 10 years. Huge congrats to the whole team! @drwilln.bsky.social Marc, Rich & the rest! @thelovetankcic.bsky.social

New @theconversation.com article by Aisha K Gill, Professor of Criminology at SPS, on ensuring the proposed new grooming gangs inquiry is the last. Full article ➡️ theconversation.com/how-to-make-...

New UK guidelines for prescribing doxyPEP for syphilis prevention launched today by @bashhuk.bsky.social The Love Tank played a key role in community engagement for the guidelines, with @benvyle.bsky.social and @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social on the writing group. www.thelovetank.info/news/doxysyph

⬇️Our new co-production toolkit offers practical guidance for anyone designing more equitable, person-centred services Based on learning from @commonambitionbs.bsky.social co-producing #SexualHealth services with African & Caribbean hertiage communities 🛟 #CoProduction #STISky #HealthEquity

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

I'm excited to share that SSAHE will be holding a joint book launch for myself and Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson on 5 June at 5pm online, with Umut Erel as discussant! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borderingm....

Prides in London, Brighton, Manchester and Birmingham suspend political party participation in their Pride events. ‘We will not stand by as the dignity, safety, and humanity of our trans siblings are debated, delayed, or denied.’ 💜 www.attitude.co.uk/news/london-...

We spoke to dozens of sex workers in Gauteng about their struggle to access health services, particularly antiretroviral treatment, in the wake of US funding cuts Read groundup.org.za/article/how-... by Kimberly Mutandiro

Coming up tomorrow: Sarah-Jane Boden on 'success' discourses among middle class urban South African women - important work!

Are you a healthcare professional in the UK caring for people living with HIV aged over 50? What are the important issues for you & your patients? We are creating a bank of research questions to bring to a workshop to prioritise research in this area. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...

@tcru-ucl.bsky.social+Association of Narrative Research+ Practice grad seminar 6.5.25-5.30 UK: Sarah Boden @witwatersrand.bsky.social: Success for What? Success for Who? Success discourse & lived experiences of women in South Africa’s managerial classes. Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/anrp-tcru-...

🏥 British Medical Association resident doctors are speaking out: They’ve condemned the Supreme Court’s trans ruling as “scientifically illiterate.” When law ignores science, real lives suffer. 🏳️‍⚧️Trans rights are human rights.

Positive East were thrilled to win the 'Give Volunteering a Go' award at the Queen Mary Students' Union volunteering 24/25 awards! Thank you so much to QMSU for this award and to the students for their time and wonderful feedback! Find out more about volunteering - www.positiveeast.org.uk/volunteer/

You'd never know it from some media and politicians but "The UK is among the countries with the least anti-immigration views in Europe. While in 2002-03 only 27% of the public felt immigration had a positive impact on the economy, this jumped to 66% in 2023-24." theconversation.com/what-britons...

@refugeeeduk.bsky.social @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social @breakingbarriers.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @uob-policystudies.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @hepi-news.bsky.social @theaccessproject.org.uk @intouniversity.bsky.social @cghe.bsky.social please come along if interested - and repost!

Report and discussion: Challenges & possibilities for refugees' HE access with @mirabdullahmiri.bsky.social Holly Rooke, Ann Singleton, Bnar Sardar, Annie Karuimbo, Nick Gill, Maryam Taher, Rebecca Murray and Lydia Nyachieo, Friday 4.4.25, 3pm UK - register here! www.eventbrite.com/e/its-not-ju...

Congratulations to Cynthia Carr, whose biography of the transgender actress Candy Darling won a National Book Critics Circle Award! Carr worked on “Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar” as a fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/b...

Good piece on the self-destructive plans announced at Bristol recently. www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

Activists, many of whom were instrumental in the fight for free antiretrovirals for those living with HIV two decades ago, are once again picking up the baton. This comes amid rising concerns over the life-threatening impact PEPFAR-funding cuts Read groundup.org.za/article/will... by Liezl Human

A comment that shouldn’t need making about the estimated 400m globally with #LongCovid: just because we don’t have an agreed diagnostic test, your GP hasn’t made the diagnosis, you weren’t hospitalised with severe COVID19, doesn’t mean your condition is *psychosomatic*. It’s real pathophysiology

CONGRATULATIONS to my lovely friend @tristanjbarber.bsky.social who is an amazing advocate for people living with HIV, a brave doctor who shared their own HIV status, and a personal friend who always has words of compassion and wisdom for me. A tough act to follow @profygilleece.bsky.social tho ;)

Small grants are available for local organisations to develop projects to improve knowledge and access of local services around PrEP, HIV and STI screening and contraception in City and Hackney. For more information please contact Euriza at [email protected]

Very excited to see this out, by some of our greatest urbanists. Especially lovely to see Michael Keith’s inspirational thinking made accessible. Sample chapter titles: “The propensity of lychees”, “How do you consume a deleted future?” @politybooks.bsky.social @compasoxford.bsky.social

Aidsmap is back and you can get their insightful coverage of CROI2025 directly to your inbox.  Sign up to the new mailing list ✉️

🚀 We're looking for 2 Assistant Professors to work at the new Bennett School of Public Policy. They'll play a leading role in helping to establish a new M.Phil in Digital Policy & also in relation to the existing successful M.Phil in Public Policy. Apply by 10 March '25 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50248/

Pharmacies could play a vital role in helping to end new #HIV transmissions by 2030, by offering education, reducing stigma, and increasing access to #PrEP Our research provides insights into what support pharmacies need for PrEP delivery in the UK arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/research/pro...