@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #genderbasedviolence

This is very powerful and disturbing as a an academic: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

The first much needed step towards better terms and conditions for GPs in NI.

🧵 Every year, an international survey, of how LGBTQ ppl are treated in Europe, is carried out. This year, the UK has been marked out as the least tolerant country in NW Europe [ranked 22nd]. Significantly less tolerant than Ireland [14th], France [15th] or Germany[18th] [1]

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

Our government is still arming Israel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

GPs in Northern Ireland 📣 ❗ It's time to REJECT the government contract offer. Please vote online before 11 May using the link you have been emailed today. Referendum is open to members AND non members. MORE INFO: linktr.ee/bma_ni #SaveGeneralPracticeNI

Sooo interesting on many fronts. Neuroimmune communication increases inflammation and lesion size, plus a potentially massive impact of the new migraine drugs #cgrpinhibitors #gepants #endometriosis

May's BJGP 'CANCER' issue: PSA testing, cancer in pregnancy, AI early detection of lung cancer, secondary care and ethnic disparities in diagnosis, and cancer recurrence. Plus, Lynch syndrome, and is NICE failing to prioritise environmentally sustainable health care? bjgp.org/content/75/...

I’ve signed this letter. If you teach at a UK uni you come into contact with many trans students; they’re no different, apart from the higher barriers to inclusion they face. If you teach queer history, you know that gender diversity is a simple fact. We have to resist this harmful moral panic.

We are looking for trans men and non-binary people assigned female at birth to discuss their experiences of getting/using hormonal contraceptives. Please contact Jess Madden if you are interested. #research #trans #LGBTQ #contraception #focusgroup #AcademicSky #STEM

Off grid recovering from major surgery. So much news that is hard to manage but glad to see the @bsky.app community has still not gone the way of the one formerly known as twitter.

A little forward progress in women's health provision. Much more needed particularly in NI #womenshealth #endometriosis www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

📣Join us at the BJGP Research & Publishing Conference 2025 @ the Lowry Hotel, Manchester on Fri 21 March. Workshops, presentations, networking, and keynote speakers Kath Checkland and Rageshri Dhairyawan. Programme: rcgp.my.site.com/s/lt-event?i... Tickets: rcgp.my.site.com/s/lt-event?i... #BJGPRC

Please join me and Rory Stewart 8pm UK time for a @therestpolitics.bsky.social LIVESTREAM on the Trump Zelensky meeting and what it might mean for the future x.com/RestIsPoliti...

Countdown to #BJGPTop10 starts 29 January. Find out the Top 10 most read research published in 2024. #PrimaryCare bjgp.org

The Hidden Workload Study is live! St Georges University & @gppact.bsky.social are exploring often unseen work #clinicians do beyond patient consultations in #generalpractice. Join them in uncovering the hidden workload! 🩺 🔗 Learn more: gppact.org/the-hidden-w... @georginaspcr.bsky.social

Husband left at 6.30 to get to work before red warning #GPoncall

Belfast in the firing line right now and for a few hours yet. Image is a screenshot from earth.nullschool.net which provides great visualisations of weather events like this, and helps me understand the mechanics of them (i.e. makes them a bit less scary!). #StormEowyn #WeatherSky

Crazy and scary winds here beside Belfast Lough. Surely this severity must be climate change 😥. Hope everyone can stay safe and cosy #stormeowyn @profgerryg.bsky.social @janetlys.bsky.social @nigelhart.bsky.social

Small signs of hope in the garden! 🌸

Getting back into this classic! #AcademicSky

The latest from my team in Nature Medicine. We comprehensively mapped the benefits and risks of GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1) (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound). By @Biostayan, Taeyoung Choi and me A 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Expert @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on authoritarianism. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

One of my favourite lyrics and apt for the day that’s in it @nigelhart.bsky.social

Passed to me by a friend. Don’t forget about this.

all i have to say about today, i guess. we all gotta take up *playing* Woody's guitar, somehow...with our voices & our hands. be safe out there. may we all continue to believe our world can be more decent & just than we see, here & now.

Saw A Complete Unknown today and found the 60s protest songs moving and prescient on inauguration day. There is so much to stand up for still. #ThisLandIsYourLand #TheTimesTheyAreAChanging

BIG NEWS. I have left the Post. Corporate and billionaire media are failing to meet the moment. With @normeisen.bsky.social I'm launching @contrariannews.bsky.social. We'll have politics but also cooking, humor, film and even pets. Please subscribe and join the fight. contrarian.substack.com

The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the United States, has adopted the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system.” www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/aha...

The study suggests more than 64,000 traumatic injury deaths occurred in the Gaza Strip between October 7 2023 and June 30 2024, 41% higher than the number of deaths reported by the Palestinian MoH. 2/3 🔗 bit.ly/42frMz8

🌳| Dr Matt Lee has put together ourhealthourplanet.co.uk for healthcare professionals and the public - a comprehensive guide to the relationship between climate change and health #ourhealthourplanet

Sparkling new diary- small pleasures of the first week back #january

Frosty garden sunrise #irishwinter

Interesting to see, by country, the downloads of our book which is free to download, read & share. These metrics are transparently displayed per book & per chapter by @openbookpublish.bsky.social on their site. Holding thumbs that OA will impact on our intentionality being realised.

Delighted to see this in print and #openaccess. Proud to have co-authored ch 5 'Hidden Legacies of the Troubles: Post-conflict Pedagogy as Resistance in Northern Irish Medical Education' with @helenreid.bsky.social and Dr Mairead Corrigan #criticalpedadogy #decolonisingcurricula #reparativepedagogy

Classic example of the type of epistemicide that #decolonisation in education is trying to counter

Promoting division over inclusion to maintain vestiges of colonial hegemony. What on earth is Paul Givan thinking?! @niassembly.bsky.social @naomilong.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My doctorate research explores healthcare professionals training & experiences of menopause in practice. We are seeking healthcare professionals to consider taking part in the 15minute survey linked below. If you are a HCP we would so appreciate your participation 🙌🏻 ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We’re hearing a lot about the pressures on A&E depts in NI at the moment.What is the impact of this? We previously examined the RCEM claim that there was strong evidence that almost 1500 people died in NI in a single year as a result of wait times in A&E. Read more: factcheckni.org/articles/did...

Worth noting that Troubles trauma and poverty lead to high morbidity and early mortality in NI. Important factors contributing to median age. #DeepEndGP #PostConflictSociety #SocialHealthDeterminants

No words. This is systemic hate speech 😢

Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.

Lovely workshop to start the year from @janetlys.bsky.social and Dr Declan McLaughlin. Lots of really helpful discussion re accessibility for staff and students #EDI #abilitynotdisability #neurodiversity #socialjustice