Bertie’s having a whale of a time with his stocking gifts. 🎁

Recently seen a few companies on Instagram citing our research as a basis to sell fancy honey for treatment during cold season. A reminder our results showed normal honey can support management of URTI symptoms; you don’t need ‘designer’ honey ebm.bmj.com/content/26/2... @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

Saturday morning coincidence- 1. Comedically huge amount of tranexanmic acid arrived in the post 2. An equally comedically huge wooden chopping board falls & bounces off my foot TXA odds were in my favour Today.

Systematic review screening going slower than it should because my research buddy just wants chin tickles right now.

Prof Sam Vanderslott kicks off what promises to be a great day thinking about vaccines, vaccinations, and the role of the social sciences. @medsci.ox.ac.uk

If you work in communication and primary care then please do consider submitting original research to BMC primary Care's “Communication in Primary Care” Collection. I’m delighted to guest edit this collection alongside Prof Russel Rothman, and we’ll be accepting submissions until 30th July 2026 👇

If you work in communication and primary care then please do consider submitting original research to BMC primary Care's “Communication in Primary Care” Collection. I’m delighted to guest edit this collection alongside Prof Russel Rothman, and we’ll be accepting submissions until 30th July 2026 👇

It's nearly time for CA day! I'm so:::::: looking forward to the **18th** year of #EMCA @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social having made a tragic diary error last year and missing it. Here's the registration link and terrific programme: darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...

Conversation analysts can you help me out with a response to reviewers? Plz share any evidence that training developed from CA can (a)change healthcare professional behaviours (b)change health outcomes PLUS (c) any references of ‘good practice’ identified through CA being absent from guidance. 🙏

A fantastic fireworks display last night at @somervillecollege.bsky.social . They do this every year, but I’ve missed the last 4 since joining the college as I’m usually away at conferences. Great to finally be able to attend this year and definitely worth waiting for. 🎆🎇

Thank you to everyone who has taken part in our 2025 Hedgehog Survey! We have had a wonderful response to the survey so far and it has been lovely to see so many photographs of healthy hedgehogs across our patch 🦔 To take part please visit www.durhamwt.com/hedgehog-sur...

Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more? Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026. Talks, group work & data sessions with experts. Registration (£45 or £90) is now open. More information here emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin... #EMCA

Trying to explain article processing charges to anyone who doesn’t conduct research

GPs need training to spot perimenopause-related #MentalHealth issues - new research by Jo Burgin et al. published in @bjgp.bsky.social. Both patients and doctors frequently miss the connection between mood changes & hormonal shifts during #perimenopause, the study found. News: tinyurl.com/mpnv2j2d

Our 10-week online course on Conversation Analysis starts today. Each week a new module with video lectures, readings, and activities is released. You can enrol for another two weeks (and catch up on the earlier weeks) and you'll still get personalised feedback on your activities from me!

The Global Tipping Points Report is clear: without urgent climate action, damage to nature could be irreversible. 🚨 But it's not too late to stop the destruction. Tell your MP we need action at #COP30 - for the Amazon, for nature, for our world. 🌎👉 https://ow.ly/C9nB50X9Fjg#COP30

This report should be a wake-up call. 🚨 The #ClimateCrisis is already having a devastating effect on some of our world's most precious habitats. Action must be taken now to protect what we have left, and turn us away from these dangerous tipping points.

"What about body language?" #EMCA

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

🚨NEW SPECIAL SECTION Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective - 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties) - 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication - 1 expert clinical discussant doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social

⚠️NEW "Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations" Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers. doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Connecting with nature is a great way to take care of our mental health 🌿 On #WorldMentalHealthDay we have some suggestions to help. 💚 www.durhamwt.com/blog/katie-armstrong/mental-health-awareness

It's #WorldMentalHealthDay today so we're sharing this excellent video by Professor Courtenay Norbury explaining how language impacts on mental health. youtu.be/-orJLnCgGJw?... And of course #DLDday is coming next week! Friday October 17th. radld.org #DevLangDis

And a quick reminder about this DPhil position in the Sustainable Healthy Food Group @oxprimarycare.bsky.social! Happy to hear from anyone interested in applying

⏰ Tomorrow! 💻 Join our Research Conversation: Improving care for women living with endometriosis ♀️ 🕔 5-6pm, online 🗣️Take part, get involved, give feedback! arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/research-con...

How about approaching this from the other side- how do we incentivise employers to make the adjustments necessary to help people with disabilities into work. Rather than suggesting that if sick people just tried a bit harder they could not be sick, which is what this looks like

Maybe invest properly in the scheme which already exists... www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...

My thoughts on job advisers in GP surgeries. As you might guess, I'm not a fan. Will make anxious patients worse. How about incentivising employers instead of telling patients to try harder.

The relationship between UPFs and the environment is miles more complicated than this. UPFs are a hugely diverse category, but this article pretends they are all like M&Ms. What about plant-based meat and dairy alternatives?

If you have problematic #menstrualbleeding, or care for someone who does, we need your help deciding the top 10 questions to focus future research in this area. buff.ly/JPCiB06  #MedicalResearch #HealthPolicy #Surveys

Exciting to be able to celebrate the opening of the new home for the @ox.ac.uk Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics today with great food, great company, and beautiful surroundings!

Climate and food scientists: Hey everyone, here's a massive report showing how we need to make radical changes to our diet to avoid environmental catastrophe, but if we did it we could have amazing health benefits! UK media:

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🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

We are just rewriting our surgery timetable, cancelling GP F2F appts so we can process all the requests that come in online - because our contract now demands we keep online access open all of core hours. This is silly and inefficient and means we will offer a worse service to pts who needs us most.

September Sunday with neighbours, pooling the apples from all of our trees, picking the last ones together, and making juice. 🍁🍎🍏🍂

Photo comp! Send us your entries. The theme is Our Nature Reserves & we're looking for 12 striking images that showcase the wild beauty of our nature reserves. Here's fab inspiration from previous years from 📷 R French, P Boyland, S Stones, MJ Vickers, A Owen & J Lauper More here buff.ly/M0y20Fq

‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live

Join us for a guest lecture with Professor Jeremy Howick: The History and Philosophy of Placebo Treatments in Clinical Practice and Clinical Trials. 🗓️13 October, 5:15-6pm (UK time) 📍Rewley House, Oxford Free and open to all. Booking required. 🔗 Learn more & register: bit.ly/4gscMTH

More pears (and apples) than I know what to do with... I’m afraid everyone will be getting chutney for Christmas. 😬🍐

Our last residential week on the Oxford International Primary Care Leadership programme. Cohort 15 has been an absolute joy. I’ve learnt so much over the last 3 years from the teaching & my cohort. I can’t believe we’ve come to the end of the programme already & will be joining next time as alumni.

The evenings are getting a little darker, but it's still warm! Wildlife that will hibernate in colder weather is still out and about, and more at risk on our roads. If you are driving on these darker evenings, please be vigilant and protect your local wildlife 🦔🦡🐸 📸Toad © Peter Brooks

Clive, a former trawlerman, knows first-hand the devastation that bottom trawling inflicts on the seafloor. Now, he's calling for urgent protection of our marine havens 🪸 Recovery IS possible, but only if we ACT NOW! Have you say 👉 only.one/act/uk-mpa-c... 🙏 Picture Book Media & Sussex Underwater

Don’t go chasing waterfalls – unless you’re a grey wagtail that is. After restoration work, Pulham Falls at Sheffield Park and Garden, East Sussex are now flowing daily to help oxygenate the connected lakes. This supports a thriving aquatic ecosystem, and has birds flocking to feast at the falls.

Skirts With Pockets, perfect for foraging acorns and cherry plums. 🍁

Thrilled to present at #BAAL2025, the biggest conference in Applied Linguistics! I shared research on advice giving in primary care, co-authored with my brilliant mentors @charlottealbury.bsky.social and Miriam Meyerhoff. Grateful for the chance to contribute @baal2025.bsky.social

People with MLTC often face fragmented care and have many appointments – some nearly 30 in just two years. Managing multiple meds (polypharmacy) adds complexity. Learn more in our #MLTCinsights series: 📺 YouTube: youtu.be/7cdgra-Wrfk 🎧 Spotify: tinyurl.com/mtwt5ajy

Austerity measures to reduce access to and generosity of working age, disability, and childhood benefits have failed to increase growth or curtail rising debt — but have contributed to widening health inequalities, @plancommonsense.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Welcome to Bluesky @liliiabespala.bsky.social - Liliia is a linguist and Marie Curie Fellow at @oxprimarycare.bsky.social and @somervillecollege.bsky.social who researches language use in primary healthcare interactions. #ConversationAnalysis #Linguistics www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/liliia-...