A great article bringing Audre Lourde’s insights to the U.K. AMR National Action Plan! Part of a growing conversation about the appropriateness of drawing on necessity as the mother of invention as a policy resource

Agata Pacho and I published an article on self care and UTIs/AMR this week! In Sociology of Health and Illness: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social

More practice-based messaging ! This time around UTI from @UKHSA and antibiotics not even mentioned- even better in my book

TODAY: Find out how expanding antibiotic supply to pharmacies without a prescription is impacting #AMU, #AMR, antibiotics and patients in England! 12:45 online here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Can’t believe I’ve not read this article before Timmermans and Haas, 2008 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18564975/

Sociology of Health & Illness is recruiting three new Editorial Board members, with particular interest in quantitative sociology, global contexts and health inequalities. Please do help us get the word out: closes this week (Fri 2nd). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Enjoyed Lorenzo Servitje’s new piece on bacterial (rather than the more familiar viral) pandemic literature - including a case of UTI read.dukeupress.edu/the-minnesot...

Maybe in a sense just another vote against trimethoprim given the effect was limited. But faced recently with an obstetrician telling me I risked late term miscarriage for not treating asymptomatic bacteriuria (not blaming her given the evidence!), it’s another strike in balance of harms for me

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Woohoo registered for BSAmedsoc! 2/3 success rate for being employed by the host institution, my own bed adds a lot to my conference experience

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Think this is the first and only time I’ve seen a AMR practice-based message in the wild #uti

@jameslindalliance.bsky.social priority setting survey for UTI, looking for responses from patients, clinicians and stakeholders. Pls help share to ensure a representative sample #UTISKY @jennyrohn.bsky.social @angelahuttner.bsky.social @gpollara.bsky.social www.surveymonkey.com/r/UTI_PSP

Great time to get involved in some stroke QI work www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Alanis Morisette’s song ‘Thank U’ a rare reference to how long term antibiotic use can be implicated in depression and pain. Such funny little drugs

Quick plug for an event I'm speaking at tomorrow on forensic nursing. I'm specifically talking about past work on the introduction of FNEs into sexual offence interventions, but I'm sure I'll also comment on police custody. @kentishscribbler.bsky.social www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

My ~new to stroke~ research mind is still blown by the data availability in acute stroke! A very sharp and eye opening contrast from UTI in primary care

What is the clinical and cost-effectiveness of screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Pregnancy? @nihr.bsky.social is offering funding to answer this... check out the call and share with networks please 🙏🏼 So important for #AMR & #AMS🤰💊👶 #IDsky #ObSky www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/asym...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? There is no such thing as "biological sex"

Excited for a day full of diagnosis! Welcoming lots of amazing researchers for a workshop on the sociology of diagnosis @newcastleuni.bsky.social as part of my Mildred Blaxter Fellowship @fshi.bsky.social

My favourite part of this discussion was @angelahuttner.bsky.social clearly explaining the worry about antibiotic use is causing resistant organisms which might later harm *the same* patient. But wow, how far we’ve come with this kind of attention for UTI! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Very exciting day on the Tyne and Wear metro!! First new trains since the network opened in the 70s I believe

I hope clinicians see this as a threat to their professionalisation as much as PAs are. But it possibly tells us a lot about professionalisation that this issue is rarely raised in that way

Whenever I come across stories of people who suffer a UTI *every* time they have sex (which is a lot), I can’t help feeling that US medicine is light years ahead of us in thinking about what might help

Oh no…have become obsessed with Elisabeth and Franz Joseph via Netflix. Knowing there must be a corner of Bluesky which could answer my questions about what they ate for dinner etc!

A big THANKS to @bbcworldservice.bsky.social & @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for spotlighting #UTI! Recorded #TheEvidence last night w/the inimitable @claudiahammond.bsky.social as host. And after, BBC let me & @gpollara.bsky.social play w/the microphones! Episode airing 18 Jan #UTISky #IDSky #AMR

I can vouch for the fact that any budding researcher would be *extremely* well guided through the PhD process by this research team. You really couldn’t get better mentors and a fantastic project to boot

⚠️Calling the #AMR #SocSci and #humanities communities⚠️ Interested in the future of #antibiotics, #AMR & #microbial justice? Then submit a paper to our special collection on "Antimicrobial Resistance: Just Transitions for Shared Futures" with CUP Public Humanities: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great to hear Professor Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social speak on such a cold winter’s evening!

I think I’d have a breakdown if I had to do Thanksgiving this close to Christmas. Every year !!!

Back from house move and marathon of sanding floors to see that I’ve missed a lot UTIsky ! New wiki guidelines and @cmicomms.bsky.social paper on MDT UTI clinics

New blog - "Microbes, Science and Society" - @judegreen.bsky.social examines a post-antibiotic future. Dedicated to the memory of Catherine Will, whose own research was influential on the sociology of a post-antibiotic future #sociology #publichealth #microbes www.cost-ofliving.net/microbes-sci...

For new #publichealth followers, please follow @cphjournal.bsky.social for latest papers - we're celebrating 1st year since our departure from commercial publisher!

Wow my phone has not stopped buzzing the last 48hrs with folks leaving the other place! So excited for #IDSky and esp #UTISky (still not sure if # required 😅).

🔥In Case You Missed It🔥 Our NEW WikiGuidelines A stellar cast of auth🌟rs 54 members , 12 countries The Third WikiGuidelines After OM,IE Guidelines for the Prevention Diagnosis,and Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Pediatrics & Adults #idsky #JAMANetworkOpen jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Today is European #Antibiotic Awareness Day & start of World #AMR Awareness Week Latest data presented by ECDC today: between 2019-2023, antibiotic consumption in the European Union 📈 by 1%, moving away from the 20% reduction target for 2030 #PublicHealth #IDSky EpiSky MedSky 🩺🧪 @ec.europa.eu

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

I was so sad to lose Twitter. I made many meaningful relationships on there as part of 2019-2022 covid PhD cohort!! Looking forward to a safer place here