🧵1/ Global health is under attack, and not just by pathogens. Governments are walking away from international law, blocking humanitarian access, and even targeting health workers. We need a principled response, which @tiagocorreia.bsky.social & I set out in an editorial in Eur J Public Health

📢 TRUTH 🔽 "Our politics is dominated by people who have never lived on a low income and know little of what such a life involves. There are remarkably few ways for people to truly shape government decisions that will determine their own lives." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I’m still not sure if enough Americans fully understand how they have subjected the rest of the world, and themselves to this… by voting for it Twice

#HealthInequalities are exacerbated in the health system when women’s symptoms are considered to be “atypical” or explained-away as being not ‘true’ physical symptoms. When building research projects on health this issue needs to be addressed in the design phase

A couple of recent observations regarding knowledge about #HealthInequalities among scientists as I work with diverse sets of colleagues preparing grants for the Horizon Europe sex/ gender & cardiovascular disease

In case you missed it, an article collection on the “Social uses of the body” www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Nurses in NYC holding a vigil for Alex Pretti & Renee Good www.theguardian.com/us-news/gall...

UK government, I beg you: please please ban me from using Teams

Heres how the “let’s roll back public health” #MAHA experiment is going in the US “Hundreds of children across more than 20 schools in the Upstate portion of South Carolina were quarantined for the measles, health officials reported on Tuesday” www.wbtv.com/2026/01/27/h...

Hello! I’m looking for rich ethnographies of the recent feminist movements in Latin America around abortion rights, femicides, and/or “buscadoras” and the disappeared. Can someone please help? Much obliged #anthrosky #anthro #socialscience #sociocultural #academicsky #academicchatter #acwri

On the one hand, "The British government said... it had recruited a team of AI specialists to build AI tools to improve transport, public safety & defence, using funding from Meta" On the other hand Meta is "Meta allowed minors access to sex-talking chatbots despite staff concerns, lawsuit alleges"

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I replaced my final assignment this semester at the last second because I felt like I couldn't LLM-proof it, and told my students as much. I got this back on my course evals. The kids are alright

Voting is a stronger social determinant of health than education #Vote #SDoH #EpiSky #SocialEpi #PublicHealth #HealthEquity

Wishing you a happy women’s little Christmas! To all the amazing women in our lives Nollaig na mban shona! www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

So the Top Trumps reality game here is that each time evidence of his connection to Epstein hits the headlines a country will be attacked, the military might deployed, and assets will be stripped

That Christmas 2020 2nd wave, I posted on twitter asking for any restaurants in her area that would deliver a Christmas dinner to her because she refused to go to shops as she was working with 200covid patients wearing plastic apron, gloves and paper mask, a stranger messaged me and brought her this

For you @zetkin.bsky.social 😉

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was this trap cam which allows me to see the creatures I share the garden with. Here’s a badger foraging beneath a persimmon tree

Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously? It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus 1/12

Once again, great stuff from Rolling Stone on the enshittification of the science publication system www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The thread below is horrific It’s about a violent patriarchal society where countless girls are sexually abused by men. Aware adults go to great lengths to organise this & protect each other all along the social hierarchy It’s not about rich elites, it’s about the social position of girls & women

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IVG : le Parlement adopte définitivement une loi réhabilitant les femmes condamnées pour avortement

I do think that if the main public health message from the authorities to the population is get the flu vaccine then the flu vaccine should be free and readily available for all. That’s not the case at the moment.

rediscovering that public health happens in social contexts: Good episode on vaccine hesitancy & the changes in childhood vaccine policy in the USA, astonishing that social epidemiologists & social scientists specialised in health are not part of the discussion open.spotify.com/episode/0TKc...

“Due to its gigantic capacities and capabilities alone, a hostile America that wants to dismantle the EU is much more dangerous to Europe than Russia could ever be.” www.ips-journal.eu/topics/forei...

Have you seen this Special Issue on "The Social Uses of the Body"? You can read the translated text by Luc Boltanski & a set of commentaries critically reflecting upon it www.sciencedirect.com/journal/soci...

“In a time of competing catastrophes, it seems worth delivering some good news about poverty and health inequality: poverty *can* be defeated, health inequalities *can* be reduced…” (tried to start this piece on a positive note 😉) #publichealth #HealthInequity www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...

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Seems some folks’ memories were erased: Some people are highly vulnerable to respiratory illnesses which spread more easily in winter when people are indoors & windows shut If you’re ill you can wear a mask, ensure you ventilate rooms, wash your hands more often & consider telework if possible

I honestly can’t see how the traditional science publishing model will survive the enshittification by AI. We need an alternative -what impact on science careers? -worst of all: how will this impact trust in science if those outside the field have no idea if a paper is real & has been checked?

This has infected all science & the science publishing industry- which was bad- before but now is pushing for AI “peer” review given the volumes of papers & that no one wants to review anymore What’s real science? what’s bullshit? It’s all going down the shitter www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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This is why I'm generally unimpressed by people describing how they use LLMs in academic work. Writing can sometimes be time consuming/painful because *you don't really know what you're trying to say*. The labor of thinking stuff through is part of the science and shouldn't be outsourced.

The Department of Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Southampton is seeking candidates to apply for fully funded PhD positions through the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP; @scdtp.bsky.social). 🗓️ Deadline for 2026/27 entry: 16 January 2026, 16:00 GMT More info ⬇️

In the old twitter times I used to do a lot more science communication about health inequities, doing threads and writing blogposts I was put off it, burnt by the madness of the pandemic and then the horrors of the Musk-meltdown But I do miss it, and want to engage more again...

Wonderful, ultimately uplifting podcast with Loretta Ross, who is very optimistic about the future. The “self-defeating nihilism” of eugenicists means they are very unlikely to win out in the end podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

One of my favourite things at this time of year is to wander round the Alternative Christmas market in #Toulouse which is located right outside my workplace 😊 marchedenoeltoulouse.fr/les-marches/...

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Hot off the press! See our new paper: “Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research” in the journal Biology of Sex Differences. We show how sex essentialism distorts research & propose 3 ways to avoid making these mistakes. (1/12) rdcu.be/eNcRM

It seems a stretch to describe this as a “step” unless it’s off a diving board:

Useful overview and debate on the connection between social and #healthinequalities in Europe: ⬇️ "Health inequalities in the Nordic countries: A comparative overview and update" by Johan Fritzell & Stefan Fors onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

On the topic of policy messaging inappropriately aimed at individuals, I often return to the Chief Medical Officer's 'Top Ten Tips for Health' and the... 'alternative version' written by Dave Gordon many moons ago ⬇️ the #snark is palpable www.bristol.ac.uk/poverty/heal...

100%. Public health could begin with its own role vis-a-vis misinformation. Huge lack of attention to and investment in science translation, the 'art' piece of public health. Complex but vital work in this increasingly fraught political and info enviro & individualist culture.

One of the biggest challenges in public health & environment-related fields is the miscommunication of population-scale results to the individual-level This is often caused by the desire to formulate “action” relevant to people’s lives but ends up blaming individuals for things not in their control

Recent study by Inès Malroux et al. in Population shows how gender and social-class inequalities shape early development. We also find cumulative effects from the interaction of gender and social class. @lidiapanico.bsky.social @mkellyirving.bsky.social @ehess.fr doi.org/10.3917/e.po...