A good day for Wales and the health of the people of Wales! 🎉 #MUP has saved hundreds of lives in Scotland, also averting thousands of hospital admissions But MUP alone is not enough. Governments must take action on the marketing and availability of alcohol.

"It's not just PIP" I've written an overview of the government's disability benefit plans - covering not just PIP and the Timms review, but also Universal Credit, contributory ESA and statistics around PIP reviews - and what's being voted on when www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Looking forward to speaking at workshop 'Navigating hidden methodological challenges in health-related research' as part of Healthier Futures Fortnight @manchester.ac.uk tinyurl.com/4mscpnst @healthierfutures.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social @drdon.bsky.social @ruthbromley.bsky.social

Good. Personal and institutional accountability at last. The arrogance displayed in the inquiry was disgusting.

Looking for help designing #QualitativeResearch? Join this free webinar with @nihr.bsky.social Research Support Service #qualitative experts on how to write good research questions: #ResearchMethods #ResearchHelp #AcademicSky www.quahrc.co.uk/training-sem...

Evidence shows that parenting programmes have a positive impact on babies and young children's development - but they're not reaching enough families. Today, we're publishing new research on the market for parenting interventions, based on our analysis of 135 programmes across the UK ⤵️

Don't miss the final national #ARCseminar of 2025 Wed 9 July - Creative arts for #dementia eventbrite.com/e/creative-a... Short talks explore the impact of music therapy, singing & dancing interventions for people with dementia & using creative arts to involve people with dementia in research.

Oh, this sounds interesting. "An oral history podcast capturing the untold stories of Irish women who moved to London in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Through their voices, the series explores themes of migration, identity, faith, racism, and belonging."

Groundbreaking project gives a voice to people with learning disabilities www.channel4.com/news/groundb...

DEIprograms shape more than just numbers. AnjaAbendroth and I show: in workplaces with gender quotas&mentoring for women, employees hold significantly more egalitarian gender beliefs. At a time of global backlash, this is a reminder of why such policies matter 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Change for the better happens when people stand together and demand it. Scotland needs that change. Too many of us are are struggling to afford the essentials. We can and must do better. Join us in the march for all of us on 25 Oct in Edinburgh #WeDemandBetter

Perfect day for a swim in the tidal pool at St Monans. Gorgeous to see and hear the Fife coast as you glide along. #StMonans #Scotland #OutdoorSwimming

Monty, enjoying the catio. #Cats #Pets #SunnyScotland

My Queen of the Night tulips have finally opened. These are liberally dotted around the garden, but I have regrets that I didn’t plant more. Next year! #tulips #SpringFlowers #Gardening

Cleaning Up Auld Reekie: Dr Henry Littlejohn and the Public Health of Edinburgh Edinburgh has historically been known as 'Auld Reekie,' owing to the fact that for most of its existence it smelled awful. Ailsa Fraser explores how Dr Henry Littlejohn, the city's first Medical Officer, helped to…

Some of my tulips were really tulipping today. #tulips #flowers #spring #garden

📰 Fantastic to see this trial of the new REMEDY machine, following research by @oohgpwales.bsky.social during her DPhil in our department. The REMEDY machine will provide urgent prescriptions to patients with no access to an out-of-hours pharmacy following a 111 call 💊

If you are considering reading "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD: A Survival Guide" (my book) but are worried it might just tell you to "eat better", I named one of my chapters "Not Another Yoga Session" and that probably tells you everything you need to know

my website for searching all SAGE Covid-related documents is now complete: sagesearch.info Contains over 900 documents from Jan 2020 to Feb 2022, filterable by document type, categories covered and date. There are AI-generated summaries of every doc. You can also free-text search summaries

Delighted to say that lamb racing season has started. Just the most joyous thing to watch.

'Still life with Kettle,' (1977) is a painting of a beautiful object surrounded by other beautifully painted objects. I've always admired Lennart Anderson's skill for knowing what to look for when painting these subjects, which is not as obvious as it may seem.

Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips

Putting the work-place conflict I’ve experienced into perspective…..

Sign of the day…Chicago

📚 Bookshelf coincidence in Oxford today?

Gorgeous to have a day in the sunshine gardening. Star jasmine threaded through the rusty garden arch I inherited. Begonias, purple ranunculus and anemone tubers and bulbs planted. Roses and clematis relocated and attached to trellis. Fave daffodils are blooming #GardeningSky #Garden #SpringSunshine

New paper from us on community action to encourage healthcare staff to move to and stay in rural and remote areas. Full @nihr.bsky.social report will follow soon. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Amazing—the arrogance of Labour MPs, especially the frontbench, in thinking they understand mental and physical health, behavioural science, risk, and what it would take to rebuild trust in the DWP better than ALL disabled people, health organisations, and researchers combined.

"It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021) #WomensArt

Thanks for the lovely comment. I make that particular argument more fully in the following paper "Whose Credibility is it Anyway: Professional authority and relevance in forensic nurse examinations of sexual assault" heinonline.org/HOL/LandingP... More to come on this next year as well.

**Save the date** Beyond the archival turn: Making & using sociological archives. 30 June, Leicester. tinyurl.com/3fuducmm. Exploring the rich archival resources that exist within sociology and how creative methods can be used to make the past anew and help us to imagine different kinds of futures.

Every month is women's history month on #womensart1 ! 💙

This paper is such a good read. Superb analysis 👌, laying bare the assumptions made about credibility based on what happens during forensic examinations. Beware of friendly forensic examiners making chit chat about your history. It may be noted down and used as evidence.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️

Our MedSoc 2025 call for abstracts is now open. Visit www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... to find out more and submit your abstract. Closing date, 2nd May. We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

Solidarity with anyone under the age of 22 with a disability that makes it impossible to work. Not all of them will have parents or a supportive network to support them financially. The terror they must be feeling. #SpringBudget #RachelReeves #Labour

Breaking news - government sleight of hand over poverty figures. Actual increase in poverty from their cuts to health related benefits is closer to 400,000 📢

NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."   The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

About two-thirds of the welfare cuts announced today are concentrated among households in the bottom half of the income distribution, while the Government’s own impact assessment says that 250,000 people will fall below the poverty line as a result of these measures.

imagine being accidentally added to a second, slightly smaller group chat where they're talking about how to handle this scandal

Recovery (and the services needed to help that) and support back into employment is not factored in. You can’t just cut off income without those systems in place.

My report to the Thirlwall Inquiry offers a detailed analysis of the challenges relating to warning signs in healthcare settings. thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk/evidence/inq...

Transplanting daffodils and tulips from winter pots to the beds around the garden is so good for my soul. 🌼 It’s not crazy busy with work over the next month, so I’m hoping to spend a little bit of time in the garden every day. 🌷 #Gardening

This is a fiercely sad and damning piece about the reality of one of our most admired professions. What a terrible fate for a dedicated man www.the-londoner.co.uk/nhs-doctor-s...

My article for @uk.theconversation.com on plans to abolish NHS England. In summary: the policy centre does need rationalisation, but this sudden axing of NHSE together with halving staff in integrated care boards risks a distracting & protracted reorganisation. theconversation.com/abolishing-n...

“The majority of people who are forced to come to our food banks are disabled.. there is an incredible level of hardship out there & we are appalled the government looks at that situation & appears to be deciding to make huge cuts to the support people get" Helen Barnard @trusselluk.bsky.social

The word is that the majority of NHSE staff found out about this via Starmer’s news briefing.