"If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout, the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively Increasing the ventilation rate from 1 ACH to 6 ACH reduced the infection risk. ." FYI NSW Health & @racgp.bsky.social et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some thoughts on this thing, which I've seen pop up a lot of times today. I'm often confronted with nervous, insecure adolescent students who are early on their musical journeys, have been bitten by the bug a little and have now become intimidated by the idea that they expect something of…

Britain could have joined Erasmus five years ago; an agreement on funding was completed between negotiators but vetoed “at the very last minute” by Boris Johnson. From Stefaan de Rynck’s book

Masks on everyone.

For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.

Nothing wrong with having help for childcare, I wish everyone could. Definitely something wrong with being a billionaire snake oil salesman and pretending that the human help you rely on for childcare is actually done by your snake oil

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.

Overall, the combination of tax rises and giveaways since last year’s Budget is progressive. Incomes for households in the bottom half of the distribution have increased by 1.0 per cent and incomes for households in the top half fell by 0.7 per cent.

Overlooked infertility care should be part of national health services, says WHO reut.rs/48grjzH

God help me, I'm gonna actually defend "AI" a bit here: this stuff is like tracer dye revealing how corrupt and decrepit so many of our institutional processes already were long before this garbage came along.

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

So we are clear welfare spending in this country is NOT “out of control”. It’s risen very little in 10+ years. Small increase due to ageing & ill population. But benefits to working age families & children have been cut severely. Over 70% of children in poverty live in working families #Budget2025

Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society

I am very grateful to all the library assistants of the world and especially to Francesco at Welwyn Garden City Central Library

'The [Vitae] survey of over 13,000 staff from 53 institutions found that while 94 per cent of research and teaching staff hold permanent contracts, only 46 per cent agree that their future is secure. 1/2

I find the conclusion line of UK's covid inquiry poor - "be more prudent next time" has zero actionable value - Rationale put forward relies on counterfactuals and does not include that measures only delay never avoid However, most of the report's critique is equally poor 1/

Odd coverage of the #covidinquiry by the Today Programme.

Interested in doing a funded PhD at the Open University? We have an opportunity to explore what dying well means to people living with dementia. Please see the link below for more information and don't hesitate to get in touch to discuss further! wels.open.ac.uk/sites/wels.o...

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

The volunteers were at Parliament today to hear the government announce that our beautiful memorial is to be made permanent. It was an emotional day, as we have fought so long and hard to ensure that our beloved dead are not forgotten. We are grateful and happy. ❤️

Sometimes, Curlew nest are so well hidden that even the other local wildlife gets a surprise! 😄 📷 James Wellock Note: this Curlew nest was fenced off from grazing dairy cows

We’ve joined 100+ others in calling for the gov to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the gov can deliver a decisive shift in children’s opportunities, and in the UK's potential. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...

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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

Please consider answering this government consultation re extending bereavement leave to all #pregnancyloss including #termination for foetal anomaly #TOPFA/ medical reasons #TFMR. Not perfect, but could support many people + reduce the cliff edge of viability threshold + reduce #abortion stigma.

UK | Open consultation - Make Work Pay: leave for bereavement including pregnancy loss www.gov.uk/government/c... Ping #PLRG_PLACESproject

At the UK Covid Inquiry this morning, Boris Johnson testified under oath that, when he was PM, he was '‘trying to avoid a significant number of casualties'...

Awesome public health news: Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of 1. mother-to-child transmission of HIV, 2. Syphilis and 3. Hepatitis B www.who.int/news/item/13...

'Use of unusual capitalisation or punctuation when writing your name does not change this'...

10/10 No notes, @dalupton.bsky.social!

Just had a manuscript submission (to a Springer Nature journal) bounced because I had not provided a 'State' in the address of my affiliation. 1) We don't have states in the UK 2) Why is this kind of utterly trivial time-wasting bullshit required before peer-review?

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

This is bonkers. The antiabortion movement has put a full court press on FDA to restrict mifepristone, and everyone is on edge that it will do so. So what does FDA do? It approves a new generic mifepristone without changing anything about the restrictions. Thank you RFK? ?!?!

This is a truly remarkable finding: 17 years after introduction of the HPV vaccine, there was a decreased prevalence of HPV infection (and therefore decreased cancer risk) in both vaccinated AND unvaccinated individuals. Cancer prevention through herd immunity!!!

Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The #ChildPenalty is the drop in #women’s paid work and earnings after having a child. The childcare stretches long beyond the hands-on care required for early-years to being "on call" for teenagers – Almudena Sevilla @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social.

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HHS Secretary RFK Jr. opened an investigation into the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, as the anti-abortion movement continues to push the administration to restrict access through lawsuits and policy.

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

New paper from the SIMCA project: Moral Regime of Midwifery Continuity of Carer Implementation in England. Discusses the consequences of a moral regime for an NHS maternity care intervention, & links evidence use to moral & truth regimes in healthcare. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Please: if you have Indefinite Leave to Remain and are eligible for citizenship, apply now. In 2015, I went through a terrible divorce. I was on a marriage visa, and my ex reported me as illegally in the UK in order to get me deported. It was VERY scary. Your rights can disappear in a flash.

who knew?

Also the e-book version of my book Invisible Labours is always free! :)