VERY EXCITED to be doing our first live podcast with @xandvt.bsky.social - after six years !! Hope you can join us - tickets will be selling fast !

Only 7% of the world lives in spaces with open civic spaces. Activism remains the only way to build a world where health for all is actually possible. So, today we announced a new @thelancet.com commission on Activism & health - read more below www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The return from maternity leave is slower the second time around. How is it 2026 already!

🎙️ “The point of public health is to create a place where people can live life in their fullest extent…” @admbriggs.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social In our latest episode of #PublicHealthDisrupted, we are reminded that public health is about enabling life, not restricting it.

Our event is today - a research symposium exploring Indigenous people's health and wellbeing in the context of anthropogenic climate change, hosted at @ucl.ac.uk

We're looking for UK men aged 40-65 to give us some paid feedback on a video featuring 2 men talking about experiences of #suicidal thoughts. We want to know if it will be helpful for other men, even if they have never felt suicidal. Up to 1 hour of your time to help in our #suicideprevention work.

As it's in the news again - this is the post I wrote a few months ago on why the disability benefits bill has been going up. Essentially, you can't remove need by removing support - it just pops up as a cost somewhere else. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

While the world watches Israel's war with Iran, Netanyahu's extremist government continues to starve and massacre Palestinians in Gaza. Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.

The hijacking of the press conferences by right wing propagandists, at the leaders debates, tells you all you need to know about electing Poilievre. He's already promised to limit access to legitimate news by defunding #CBC but is happy to answer Rebel Media questions. #Canada #cdnpoli #elxn45

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It's really not that hard. We understand that Labour had a difficult inheritance. It's more that, since taking office, Labour has (it sometimes feels deliberately) stuck its middle finger up at almost everything Labour voters care about. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth

308 lives ended in one night. #Gaza

This kind of violence is sickening. The purposeful act of not seeing. It is vile. Designed to make us feel insane. We are not insane. They got one thing right - it’s not war. It’s genocide. Israel is committing genocide.

The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Despite early concerns, research shows most “pandemic babies” are developing normally. What does this teach us about childhood resilience and the importance of support systems during global #crises?

Want to support civilian-led mutual aid networks in Sudan AND learn from and with amazing organizers, poets, scholars and artists? Sign up for our Workshops4Sudan at sudansolidarity.com. The line up includes Ruthie Gilmore, @williamcson.bsky.social @raniawrites.bsky.social, Safia El Hillo…(1/2)

I’m creeping out from maternity leave, and really fighting the urge to creep back in.

Fantastic news. More countries should do the same.

Roses are red, RFK was confirmed, Instead of setting policy He should be dewormed 🪱 #HealthPolicyValentines

What I would like to see, are all the countries that trump is bullying build a collective that excludes him entirely. because that is what he is. A bully. We have over relied on the US for too many things for too long.

Reminder to colleagues working in critical public health to submit to the community owned diamond OA journal when they can! We know not everyone has the academic capital to publish in new journals, but if you can, please do!

The Telegraph has now published not one but *three* separate corrections of its repeated false claims about "illegal immigrants in London". The latest one is of Lord Frost's bizarre and ignorant rant here: archive.ph/HBZLF

The academy is full of people who think you must be hard, to be critical. A mentor, Suman Fernando passed away recently, and with him an era of kind, gentle deeply thoughtful scholar activism. I am honoured to have known him. If you are a race or mental health scholar his work is essential.

Update. The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects. However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.

not to brag but my teaching slides for international economic law are 🔥🔥🔥

Home for the holidays. ❤️New life goal: be invited back to do the Alchemy lecture. And meet Christina Sharpe.

May 2025 bring the end of empire. The end of genocide. A free Palestine.

My conversation with TDR #Globalhealthmatters on all things #developmentaid #powerdynamics and #inequalities and of course, our book on #whitesaviourism in #internationaldevelopment. Its more than just #globalhealth :-) @madhupai.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social tdr.who.int/global-healt...

I’m in good company now @seyeabimbola.bsky.social

mahmoud almadhoun, a palestinian chef who ran a soup kitchen in gaza, was murdered yesterday by an israeli drone.

Hey bluesky 🦋 Can you do us a favour? Can you please keep resharing? Our NHS is too precious to be vandalised and sold off 💙 go.bsky.app/QSu8Fdi

When I think of how horribly the state has treated the windrush generation, I am incandescent with rage. That comes across in this paper I am sure. I won’t stop till justice is realised. we move. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

reviewer 2 told me to be humble today and I have now decided that I will never be humble again.

Petro #COP29 seems a joke but here’s a serious Africa climate & health analysis by Tolu Oni & co examining how decolonisation, democratisation & decarbonisation are linked www.bmj.com/content/387/...

The Palestinian struggle for liberation will never be a “single issue.”

A quite amazing crew of epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, other public health and clinical experts assembled during COVID to fight back against bad policy and misinformation starting in 2020. Well, we're putting the band back together.

We will not target military sites say The Wicked we will kill thousands And we will expel people; All the people. And when others follow rules of war and hit our military bases, in revenge for our killing We will unleash a hell on the world Like you never saw.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,050,734! ❤️❤️❤️

Netanyahu seems prepared to destroy anything and anyone to preserve his political career and avoid prosecution. He does not act in Israel's interests, only in his own.

My Kufiya arrived from Palestine today. An honour to explain to my son the significance of the scarf, and the importance of resistance and hope. Made by Hirbawi, the last factory in Palestine producing the garment, this weave and colour honours olive tree farmers. Read more: kufiya.org/our-mission/

I have not advertised the publication my book, because more important things are happening. But if I had to pick one accomplishment for 2023 it’s this. I hope the world finds some use for it. taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon... Also: Free Palestine, and Ceasefire now.

Today in @thenation.com, Nadia Taha on something I have been wanting to scream about: reporters in Gaza are doing some of the most heroic and dangerous work in the *history* of journalism. At the VERY least, we should acknowledge that and act accordingly. www.thenation.com/article/soci...