New article out in Third World Quarterly on the gendering of community health in pastoralist Kenya. It’s not what you think… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

💰 “The rich had a very good pandemic,” says @michaelmarmot.bsky.social While billionaires’ wealth rose, 165 million people fell into poverty. Inequality doesn’t just divide — it weakens pandemic response itself. ⚕️Inequality is a public-health risk multiplier. @panaction.bsky.social @unaids.org

If interested in life history approach to studying health, join us Tuesday 9am GMT, 11am CAT, 12pm EAT

“Do or do not. There is no try" 🙄

Urgh, recognise Palestine as a state because it is a state, not as a bargaining chip. Everyone, including Israel, knows it is a separate state (why else use the language of right to self-defence and of war rather than policing its own territory)

This is the nub of this scandal: grooming gangs (of any race) are not policed because deep down the police think these young victims are garbage too

Quite right. Govt, tabloids be like ‘why on earth are they striking now, spoilt brats’. One article suggested they knew what their pay would be on entering medical school (!). Doctors be like, what else works?! Pay me what I was worth in 2008 NHS is unjust and more unsafe without pay restoration

“if anybody should be awarded for excellence in journalism, it is all of those Palestinian journalists in Gaza who have risked their lives to live stream a genocide” – @dianabuttu.bsky.social on journalists like @Anas al-Sharif covering Israel’s genocide in Gaza Full report ▶️ youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU

I have a new publication out: a Fanonion analysis of community health volunteers’ place in yellow fever response in Kenya. Open Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For a few short years, DFID became more about justice. Now aid is back to Victorian era ‘pity for the poor’ while building a personal brand

Meanwhile the people of Gaza are starving

Article accepted today! A Fanonian analysis of the Yellow Fever response in Isiolo’s 2023 outbreak. Friday news I can get on board with after a grim year professionally. Watch this space!

Advertising new @unistrathclyde.bsky.social PhD studentship (covers fees + stipend), as part of new ESRC Centre @equalise.bsky.social. We've kept the application as broad as possible as we're keen to support someone to undertake research that they have designed: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... 1/2

Yes - Kenya has deemed its rich elites a no go for taxation since independence, leading the administration recently to tax in unjust ways that caused mass protests and violent crackdown. The money is there, often off-shored (in which Britain is complicit) - Ruto just doesn’t want to go there

As of next week, I’ll be @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for about a year. Up for new connections, conversations and collaborations (voluntary labour, state-making, non-state actors, China in Africa, legitimation, critical global health - an’ aw that)

How on earth has it taken me so long to read this

🚨Post-doctoral researcher opportunity @gvagrad.bsky.social with the FamilEA project For a candidate in political science or related disciplines, interested in family-related public policy in Kenya and Uganda More information about this exciting opening tinyurl.com/297jxwnc Deadline: 20 March

JOB ALERT: I have two vacancies for fully-funded, 4 year PhD positions in my European Research Council Project “Countering Jihadi Insurgencies in Africa”; one on Nigeria, one on Mozambique. Closing date for applications 15 March 2025, start in Sept. 2025 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Call for papers open for the Centre for Security Research annual conference, with theme of ‘Futures of International Security.’ Join us for it in May in Edinburgh. All welcome, expecting a great gathering of security scholars. Details below.

So, after 10 year enquiry, will have up-to-date evidence across all police forces that, as you’d expect, majority of group-based sexual exploitation perpetrated by whites. Some groups marginally over-represented but will prove frustratingly low for Musk, Robinson and Badenoch (who will be long gone)

I used to think being interdisciplinary was hard because too many options: journals, conferences, associations. And too much reading. Now I realise it’s hard because you open too many fronts for attack by others, plus don’t have a tribe to defend you. I’m not sure any more there is such a thing!

Where else but in academia do you have a spring in your step for the week when your manuscript reviews are found to be ‘generally favourable’. Happy days

I don’t think we should be listening to Elon Musk about anything except areas of tech but I understand the case for it. But why on earth does UK mainstream TV keep interviewing his parents? It’s just helping to build his cult. What a joke our public discourse has become #gmb #itv

Well, good and important coverage but nothing new for UK academics. I’m interested why File on 4 has deemed this a national scandal now, given most (including MPs) have shrugged off idea universities are a public good and worthy of govt rescue. Genuine question… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

♟ #AutocraciesWithAdjectives No.31 ♀️ Authoritarian states do not necessarily become more democratic by including women in politics, even if women gain real power 💥 in their cabinets, write @keremoglu.bsky.social & @jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social of @rhulpirp.bsky.social. ➡️ bit.ly/3OB2Ry3

One thing missing from this is that, to urge people stay on X to fight the good fight, is to urge that they stay in horrendous toxic environment (for many it’s for work) regardless of effect on wellbeing. It’s as much workplace safety issue. Don’t guilt ppl to stay www.politico.com/news/magazin...

A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.

For anyone in the UK, If you text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 when you are in a dark place or suicidal, a trained crisis volunteer will text you back. This is great If you find talking on the phone challenging. It’s completely free 24/7. Please Repost, you never know who might need this support

Heat pump starter pack just dropped. go.bsky.app/KCLxmj9

The owner of the Guardian has been urged to pause the sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media by five former editors and one ex-editor in chief of the title. pressgazette.co.uk/news/observe...

Papers authored by Black, Hispanic or Asian economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those by White scholars. The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group). www.nber.org/papers/w33150

‘Staff are not a burden on the University—they are the core of its educational mission….’ Really important piece of work from UCU Edinburgh critically evaluating the Uni’s statements about its financial position (tl;dr there is money in the banana stand) www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/2eppzf7...

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project - "Wildlife can recover, and quickly, if we just give it a little space and let nature work her magic" #RestoreNature www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

Come work with me! I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations. www.queensu.ca/research/res...

Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.

New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

So yesterday we put up essentially identical posts on Twitter/X and Bluesky and the difference in engagement was... stark. 🤔 Perhaps someone could kindly share this with the #FCDO Comms team? I would have loved to have been able to tag them in our Bluesky post.

Researchers have found that more than 4,000 patients in England could be dying annually due to the loss of staff. The labour government must be doing more to retain nurses and doctors in the NHS & ensure safe patient care. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/nhs-...

You did very well on that show. I enjoyed listening to you and learning about the dynamics in this increasingly important and contested area of our health care system.

A year ago I did podcast w/ @kamauwairuri.bsky.social on community health labour. I re-listened and remain proud (especially as nervous speaker!). It didn’t get huge amount of play so if interested in community health, Kenya or voluntary labour give it a listen! www.thekenyanist.com/dispossessio...

🔴PPE COVID Cash Carousel: Documents Expose Government’s Struggle to Recover £520 Million Lost to Dissolved and Bankrupt Firms Hundreds of millions were wasted on contracts with zombie companies which vanished before any taxpayers’ cash could be recovered, @mc00.bsky.social reports

You can imagine breakfast is a blast

Most people don’t know this. Heat pumps REDUCE gas consumption even if running 100% on electricity from a gas fired power plant. More here in my piece for @carbonbrief.org 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18...

I kinda hoped joining here I wouldn’t have to see endless content of people I don’t follow, like the old days. I came here for some tailored peace and quiet. Yes, I share their views but I don’t want them screaming at me for next 4 years

🚨Palantir - a US spy tech company currently facilitating war crimes in Gaza - should be nowhere near our health data. Yet @labouruk.bsky.social & NHS England are now mandating the rollout of their Federated Data Platform. Urge your #NHS Trust to oppose this ⬇️ actionnetwork.org/letters/nhs-...