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...

At a time of unprecedented levels of anti-Muslim violence, it is an outrage @tellmamauk.bsky.social is having its funding cut. (One of my students has been supported by TellMama since experiencing a traumatic Islamophobic incident a few months ago; their support has been invaluable.)

I chatted with Illia Ponomarenko, a Ukrainian war reporter, about why Zelenskyy doesn't wear a suit. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

black student enrollment at the university of virginia barely cracks 7 percent and that is too much for glenn youngkin and his toadies www.baconsrebellion.com/uva-board-di...

This #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate all women living with HIV and the positive changes they have fought for. Read our blog about the experiences of women living with HIV, challenging stigma and supporting each other. https://www.tht.org.uk/news/international-womens-day-2025

Expansion of physician and anaesthetic associates should be informed by solid empirical research. We simply do not have data to support claims that these roles improve efficiency or maintain patient safety. @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

📢As network supporting professionals working with parents with learning difficulties & disabilities moves from @uob-policystudies.bsky.social to RiP, we celebrate 18yrs of work that has made a real difference to ensure rights and support for these parents: bristol.ac.uk/sps/news/2025/wtpn-2025.html

We are beginning to organise. Activists will need your support to ensure that we save lives. #HIV #USAID #Orphans Will you help? groundup.org.za/article/usai... @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Coming up this Tuesday 4th March - really looking forward to hearing about Jorge's work...

Thread with lots of resources reflecting on the last Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment webinar on labour migration and migrant labour exploitation:

Please repost @bsatheory.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social @bsaecr.bsky.social @sociologias.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @blackfemsoc.bsky.social

@uob-policystudies.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @brisblackhums.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @jdvasquez.bsky.social @au-spa.bsky.social @isa-sociology.bsky.social

For those interested in global sociology, Du Bois, and the color line... doi.org/10.1017/S174...

My paper on Du Bois, Irene Diggs, and the Sociology of the Global Color Line now has a home in Vol. 38(3) in Gender and Society doi.org/10.1177/0891...

@uob-policystudies.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @brisblackhums.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @jdvasquez.bsky.social @au-spa.bsky.social @isa-sociology.bsky.social

Really important work from Jorge Daniel Vásquez on Irene Diggs-narratives of gender & erasure in the sociology of the color line, coming up in @ANarrativeRP grad seminars, 4.3.25, 5pm UK: www.eventbrite.com/e/narratives...

This event focuses on the south-west, and people from refugee backgrounds are at the centre of it @bristoluni.bsky.social @uob-policystudies.bsky.social @gw4alliance.bsky.social @uniofbath.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @karinsmythmp.bsky.social @darrenpjones.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social

'It's not just opening the doors': Challenges & possibilities for refugees' HE access, 18.2.25 4-6pm Global Lounge, Senate House, Bristol University BS8 1TX. Come along to hear about the research &plan actions to enhance HE access for refugees - book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/challenges...

Our Women 4 Women project launched in 2021 aims to raise awareness of and increase the uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis, know as PrEP, by women of Black African and Caribbean descent. Find out more about the project here - www.positiveeast.org.uk/our-services...

Congratulations @refugeeeduk.bsky.social !