Excellent and important special issue of @biosocieties.bsky.social just out! Have a look: "Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice", guest edited by Raffaele Ippolito, Anna Lora‑Wainwright, Beth Greenhough & Maaret Jokela‑Pansini link.springer.com/journal/4129...

We still want to speak with hospices about supporting men's wellbeing at the end of life. We found that some men who try hospice services say it is "not for me". But hospice men's sheds were described as "an essential part of the service". Find out how to start a shed below! #Hospices #PEOLC

Researchers – Three new commissioned research calls are open for application (below) The aim is for evidence from these projects to inform our policy and campaigns activities. Calls close Friday 12th December 2025 at 5pm. Details can be found on our website - www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

Delighted to announce that we will launch the Palliative Care Journal Club Toolkit resource for #PalliativeCare professionals. The event will take place on at Liverpool Science Park, on Wednesday 3rd December 2025, from 1000 - 1500. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-... #hapc

🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work? Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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%

"Something as simple as breathing in shared indoor spaces has become a barrier to accessibility and inclusion for millions of people, and it's time to change that!"

🚨🚨🚨The CfP for the 2025 BSA #Death, #Dying and #Bereavement symposium is now open! This year's theme is #Care and #Caring, and the University of Nottingham is hosting us. Please submit your abstracts by Tuesday 30th September to [email protected]. We're looking forward to reading them!

Are you interested in death, dying, loss, grief, and related topics, from historical studies to current issues? Then I'd recommend following @openthanatology.bsky.social and keeping an eye out for resources it shares.

The relentless contempt, disgust, even hate that successive UK governments exhibit for the country's (hitherto) wildly successful HE sector remains one of the most baffling sub-plots of a generally insane age.

I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Was asked today to comment on how professionals learn about palliative care, & was struck by how the tensions I wrote about a decade ago still resonate with current trainees. Like how to 'care' but 'not too much' and wanting to still 'fix' something in the face of death. Links to papers in comments

The new LeDeR report is now available. The 2023 annual report analyses the deaths of 3,556 people with a learning disability & autistic people who died in 2023. The work is part of efforts to reduce health inequalities. Access here: kcl.ac.uk/research/leder

Easy read and accessible versions of the LeDeR 2023 report are available to ensure findings reach everyone. These materials make research accessible to people with a learning disability, their families, and carers. Here is the video made by the Staying Alive and Well Group youtu.be/qRUdWqz20jg

“It’s very important that people read this report”. Find it here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/leder

Be one of the first to order. Launching today! (UK only - other countries can still freely download and print at home) Order link is in this short video. Please share! youtu.be/VrntRIJCdXY?... @andreabruun.bsky.social @mariecurieuk.bsky.social

Do join us for a discussion about death hosted by Bethan Michael-Fox and me www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-up-gr...

Worth noting this is a *hybrid* conference - and one of the best I have attended online too. Might just be a coincidence that a conference on dying and death is so practically attuned to the diversity, climate and airborne disease challenges facing academia 👀 #DDD17

Improving hospital discharge is one of the Top 24 JLA priorities for palliative and end of life care research - mariecurie.org.uk/blog/researc... It is also a key part of our recent Research Grants Scheme - www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

The government's 10 Year Health Plan for England highlights the need to shift care from hospital to community. Discharge from specialist palliative care in hospital to community services and primary care is a poorly understood transition. Yet it is a key part of the end of life experience for many.

Dr Katharine Weetman, Marie Curie Associate Professor Dr John MacArtney and team have recently published findings on the challenges posing current discharge processes, identifying patient experiences and highlighting suggestions for healthcare professionals, summarised below.

Latest paper with Katherine Weetman et al. on improving specialist palliative care discharge: bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @nihr.bsky.social @warwickmed.bsky.social @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social @mariecurieuk.bsky.social @hospiceuk.bsky.social @nhscovwarksicb.bsky.social 1/

Latest paper with Katherine Weetman et al. on improving specialist palliative care discharge: bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @nihr.bsky.social @warwickmed.bsky.social @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social @mariecurieuk.bsky.social @hospiceuk.bsky.social @nhscovwarksicb.bsky.social 1/

🎯🎯🎯 article on #Covid's impact on the immune system, written by @nicktsergas.ca in TheBMJ: Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2 | The BMJ (Aug 19, 2025) www.bmj.com/content/390/...

The CSA is pushing for mandatory respirators in healthcare settings, something which should have happened years ago. Covid changed the game, and we must adapt. Once upon a time handwashing wasn’t standard in hospitals. Gloves weren’t standard until the HIV/AIDS pandemic. 🧵

This is what the audience for a Long COVID conference looked like today. Notice anything? 😷

If you’re still wearing a mask, thank you Thank you for standing in solidarity with disabled & high risk people Thank you for practicing community care Thank you for following the science & seeing the value in breaking chains of transmission Thank you protecting your health Thank you.

Do you use #ventilation (bipap/trach/NIV)? Are you interested in theatre? Are you within reach of London? Would you like to work on, or star in, a new adaption of Romeo & Juliet while adding to research on what it means to be ventilated? Find out more at www.cripticarts.org/R&J

Very sad to learn that long-standing colleague Mike Bury has passed away. RIP

Data is collected on several healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) posing significant threat to public health. We think government should ensure policy on management of HCAIs is extended to include recording data on COVID infections spread within hospitals. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

4. Chronic illness is an economic category as much as a medical one. Every diagnosis comes with a price tag: who pays, who profits, and who is left to ‘manage’ themselves. The market extracts from our sickness while calling it ‘care.’

When you do history of medicine it's every other retired doctor and it is both wrong and tedious

This is why I remind people that 90% uptake is still very high (just not, epidemiologically, high *enough*). Because we need to remember the vast majority of parents comply *when vaccination is made accessible and health professionals have the time to work with parents who might have concerns*.

“COVID-19 infection had a significant impact on patients with cancer, and risk factors for hospitalization and mortality were identified.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Anyway, every day's an Ian Hacking day: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

Big fan of social science that's, like, "there are seven kinds of person."

New article in Social Theory & Health, co-authored with @judegreen.bsky.social, open access. In a nutshell we argue that that lived-experience research is not the same as qualitative sociology in health research. The difference exists and matters. Read here: rdcu.be/evZ7F

Student antiracist activists working with Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social& Anna Numa Hopkins in Warwick Sociology, have created an online archive of student-led #antiracist activism, to pass on experiences and knowledge to future generations in #HigherEducation : warwickantiracism.org

I am THRILLED to have a new article with Emma Kirby in @societyandspace.bsky.social Focused on Queering the Map, we analyse how people contribute to this queer mapping of life – and become cartographic queers 📍💜 Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @emmawatsonkirby.bsky.social

Missed our conference opening plenary with @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social and @johnmacartney.bsky.social? You can now watch it here ⬇️ www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/mo...

Resources and recordings now available for our recent event on advance care planning. You can find them in the Open Thanatology Resources repository doi.org/10.21954/ou....

If you are a GP and would be willing to help a Master's student with their research project please read below! It is a really interesting topic and one I think participants will enjoy exploring! 😊 #PEOLC #PrimaryCare

Visit the toolkit -https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and-policy/research/mens-shed And if you're interested in starting a Men's Shed in your hospice, please email [email protected]

@johnmacartney.bsky.social and Research Nurse Rachel Perry have shown the benefits of Men's Sheds in hospices. Their funding will allow them to share their toolkit and host workshops to help hospices set up their own Men's Sheds.

🏅Announcing our awarded Research Impact Grants - 6/6 An essential part of the service: Increasing the impact of Hospice Men's Sheds to benefit men’s wellbeing

If you a clinician working in palliative care and concerned about how the issues discussed in this excellent presentation 👇 are affecting the quality-of-life left of people with life-limiting illnesses... Drop me a line (email or DM)

Check it out at: ddd17.sites.uu.nl/programme/

In BMJ Global Health, open access: epistemic preparedness. We argue for the social sciences and the humanities - expanding the category of expert - in preparing for the next pandemic! #pandemic #epidemiology #histstm #histmed #sts @nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social @acmedsci.bsky.social @apha.org