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Alison McCallum @alisonkmcc.bsky.social · 4d

@derrymick.bsky.social be interesting to see interactive maps of the movement of people from your work

Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25d

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available

Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death

teams-medieval.org

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25d

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available

Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death

teams-medieval.org

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 4d

Sir Hamid Patel, Star Academies - National ventilation standard for schools.
"there is a need to retrofit a solution"
"mechanical ventilation upgrade/ HEPA filters"
"disadvantaged areas are the ones that often have a poor infrastructure"
"link the Co2 data with learning outcomes"
#COVIDInquiry

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 5d

Vaccination coverage in some areas of London has fallen quite low but for UK as a whole, the 6 in 1 coverage at 5 yrs is over 93%. Varies a little but most of us remain quite sane- fortunately.
www.gov.uk/government/s...

Quarterly vaccination coverage statistics for children aged up to 5 years in the UK (COVER programme): April to June 2025

www.gov.uk

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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 4d

The ECHR was designed to serve as a protection of the rights of the individual against the power of the state. Many of its articles were direct answers to the abuses of the Nazi era.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 5d

🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 4d

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Sep 1

VERY EXCITING
launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews
first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener
find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...
please sign up and come

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Aug 11

Bergen looking for more presenters at this conference. Interdisciplinary group seeking to 'change the narratives' around pandemic preparedness. #healthpolicy

www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Conference Preparing for health crises in a changing world:

Pandemisenter UiB Pandemic Centre Bergen University of Bergen Annual conference new nattatives for health crises

www4.uib.no

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UK Public Health Science conference @ukphsci.bsky.social · Aug 9

UK Public Health Science Conference 🌱
📍 Newcastle | 📅 21 Apr 2026 (ECR event 20 Apr)

Abstracts welcome on any UK/Ireland public health research.
✅ Published in JECH | ⏳ Deadline: 17 Oct 2025

More info: jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
#PublicHealth #UKPHS2026 @socsocmed.bsky.social

UK Public Health Science conference 2026: a call for abstracts

We are delighted to invite you to the 2026 UK Public Health Science (UKPHS) conference held in collaboration with our new partner, the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health (SSMPH). Previo...

jech.bmj.com

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Alison McCallum @alisonkmcc.bsky.social · Aug 3

Recommended by other friends as well. Not seen it yet but a pal recommended Ohio - navigating the experience of familial disease causing hearing loss as a musician and so much more. Thought you’d like it.

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WHO @who.int · Jul 24

Congratulations! #TimorLeste has been certified malaria-free by WHO.

Since gaining independence in 2002, the country has made remarkable progress to #EndMalaria, reducing cases from a peak of over 223 000 in 2006 to zero indigenous cases from 2021 onwards. 👉 bit.ly/3UqU04X

A large yellow ribbon with a star is displayed on the right side. Text reads: "Timor-Leste is officially malaria-free." Below it is the hashtag: #EndMalaria.

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is absurd. The mpox/monkeypox vaccines are already paid for & there are major outbreaks in several African countries. Couldn't they just hand the doses over to WHO or GAVI or Gates Fdtn or some other entity to distribute?

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Hundreds of thousands of US taxpayer-funded vaccine doses may expire, lawmakers say

Hundreds of thousands of doses of mpox vaccine that the United States had promised to send to African nations are in danger of going to waste, dozens of congressional Democrats said in a letter to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jul 11

Unfortunately for Americans who want to not experience things like "bubonic plague," we also can't write NIH or NSF grants about this kind of thing anymore. I dunno, seems important

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jul 11

Now is the time that I remind you that, while plague has been endemic in the western United States for 70+ years and this is a normal occurrence, our work does seem to strongly suggest climate change is increasing spillover risk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Jul 12

Yep - plague.
Want a deep dive? Plague webinar next week! 🐀

Public health: never not relevant. Often historically infectious.

Thanks @fledertier.bsky.social for the webinar tip!

WHO EPI-WIN Webinar: plague in the 21st century: new evidence to control a re-emerging zoonotic disease

The objectives of this WHO EPI-WIN Webinar are to present an overview of the WHO global strategy for plague control, illustrating current technical guidance on surveillance, laboratory diagnosis, clin...

www.who.int

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Brian Allen @allenanalysis.bsky.social · Jul 11

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.

Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · Jul 12

‘The plan is manifestly illegal, and if carried out would amount to a series of grave international crimes’ - Israeli intl law scholars on plans by Defence Minister Katz to “concentrate” population of Gaza in a so-called “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah www.justsecurity.org/116904/israe...

Israeli Int'l Law Scholars on Plan to "Concentrate" Gaza Population

Israeli international law scholars send urgent letter to Israel’s Minister of Defense, the IDF Chief of Staff, the Attorney General.

www.justsecurity.org

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Jul 9

The UK will become the first country to offer a vaccine program against gonorrhea.

It will use the MenB vaccine, which is caused by a close genetic relative to gonorrhea, and offers some ‘cross-protection’ against it.

Efficacy is moderate, but could prevent 100k infections over the next decade.

Gonorrhoea vaccine to be rolled out in England from August

The treatment will be offered to those most at risk from August after a record number of cases.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Jul 9

New RSV vaccines & antibodies have reduced infant hospitalizations.

Among the youngest infants, hospitalisations for RSV were halved in the US.

But only around half of eligible infants received the vaccines last season. With higher vax rates, hospitalization rates could be reduced even more.

Interim Evaluation of Respiratory Syncytial ...

This report describes RSV-associated hospitalization rates among infants and young children during the 2024–25 respiratory virus season.

www.cdc.gov

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Jul 9

Toxic clouds: the mounting vape waste crisis

As vape pollution spirals, volunteers will rally in York on 12 July to demand action and enforcement of ignored recycling laws

By Miki Storey

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Toxic clouds: the mounting vape waste crisis

As vape pollution spirals, volunteers will rally in York on 12 July to demand action and enforcement of ignored recycling laws

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jul 5

Horticulturalists

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CIRcUL - Centre for Implementation Research at UL @circul.bsky.social · Jun 6

The Participatory Health Research Unit at @unioflimerick.bsky.social has launched a new Postgrad Diploma in Participatory Health Research.
If you're interested in advanced participatory research methods to support Implementation Science, this course is for you.
More info: lnkd.in/dr5uEquC
#ImpSci

Professional Diploma in Participatory Health Research.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Jun 23

"Insurance companies currently rely on ACIP’s guidance on which vaccines to cover. But if enough reputable public health groups come up with recommendations different from ACIP’s, Osterholm said, those groups could sway insurance companies on which shots to cover..."

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Outside groups organize to form unbiased, independent vaccine panel

Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the members of the CDC’s esteemed vaccine advisory panel, medical organizations and experts are looking for alternatives.

www.nbcnews.com

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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · Jun 21

LANCET Paper April 28th 2021

showing countries going for covid zero fared better heath wise,
for civil liberties

and economically

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best
outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties

Graphs showing lockdowns work g to reduce cases

Graph showi
g how many people would’ve lived if we hadn’t opened lockdown in july 2020. it had gone for. closed borders and covid zero over the summer and introduced air filtration to all workplaces and schools and transport as they did in HoC. WHO offices and Dept of Education over that summer instead of Eat out to Help out etc…Freedum Day …

Graph showing vaccination effectiveness against hospitalisation and death and what would have happened if covid zero policy had been followed

Paper showing countries going for covid zero fared better heath wise for civil liberties and economically

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00978-8/fulltext

SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best
outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties

Published Online
April 28, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1016/
S0140-6736(21)00978-8

The trade-off between different objectives is at the heart
of political decision making. Public health, economic
growth, democratic solidarity, and civil liberties are
important factors when evaluating pandemic responses.
There is mounting evidence that these objectives do not
need to be in conflict in the COVID-19 response. Countries
that consistently aim for elimination—ie, maximum
action to control SARS-CoV-2 and stop community
transmission as quickly as possible—have generally fared
better than countries that opt for mitigation—ie, action
increased in a stepwise, targeted way to reduce cases so
as not to overwhelm health-care systems.1

Miquel Oliu-Barton • Bary S R Pradelski • Philippe Aghion
Patrick Artus • Ilona Kickbusch • Jeffrey V Lazarus
et al.
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Published: April 28, 2021 •
THE LANCET

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00978-8
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