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Charlotte Albury @charlottealbury.bsky.social · Mar 4

Our new interactive training tool supports healthcare professionals to develop skills to have positive & well received conversations with patients living with obesity.

tinyurl.com/7ubu7nz2

#WorldObesityDay
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@designscience.bsky.social
@rachaeldrewery.bsky.social

Image of a the new training tool open on a laptop above university of oxford and CPD logos.

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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 2h

Our 10-week online course on Conversation Analysis starts today. Each week a new module with video lectures, readings, and activities is released. You can enrol for another two weeks (and catch up on the earlier weeks) and you'll still get personalised feedback on your activities from me!

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WWF UK @wwf.org.uk · 4h

The Global Tipping Points Report is clear: without urgent climate action, damage to nature could be irreversible. 🚨

But it's not too late to stop the destruction.

Tell your MP we need action at #COP30 - for the Amazon, for nature, for our world. 🌎👉 https://ow.ly/C9nB50X9Fjg

Image collage depicting key impacts of climate change: bleached coral reefs in shallow tropical waters, a massive whale swimming through a warming ocean; melting polar ice sheets breaking into the sea; barren stretches of land showing severe deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The accompanying text reads: “Warm water coral reefs are suffering more damage than ever before. Polar ice sheets are melting. Atlantic Ocean currents are heading toward collapse. The Amazon rainforest faces devastation.”

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WWF UK @wwf.org.uk · 4h

This report should be a wake-up call. 🚨

The #ClimateCrisis is already having a devastating effect on some of our world's most precious habitats.

Action must be taken now to protect what we have left, and turn us away from these dangerous tipping points.

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 4h

"What about body language?"

#EMCA

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

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Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

retractionwatch.com

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Laura Jenkins @laalaajenkins.bsky.social · 2d

🚨NEW SPECIAL SECTION
Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective

- 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties)
- 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication
- 1 expert clinical discussant

doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social

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Laura Jenkins @laalaajenkins.bsky.social · 2d

⚠️NEW "Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations"

Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers.

doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social

Screenshot of Patient Education and Counseling article titled: Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations: A conversation analytic study. Available here in text form: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109284

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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Durham Wildlife Trust @durhamwildlife.bsky.social · 3d

Connecting with nature is a great way to take care of our mental health 🌿
On #WorldMentalHealthDay we have some suggestions to help. 💚

www.durhamwt.com/blog/katie-armstrong/mental-health-awareness

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RADLD-Raising Awareness for Developmental Language Disorder @radld.bsky.social · 3d

It's #WorldMentalHealthDay today so we're sharing this excellent video by Professor Courtenay Norbury explaining how language impacts on mental health.

youtu.be/-orJLnCgGJw?...

And of course #DLDday is coming next week! Friday October 17th.
radld.org
#DevLangDis

Why is language important for mental health?

In 'WORDS FOR WELLBEING ANIMATION' Professor Courtenay Norbury talks about the connections between Developmental Language Disorder and social, emotional and mental health difficulties. And…

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Hannah Forde @hannahforde.bsky.social · 3d

And a quick reminder about this DPhil position in the Sustainable Healthy Food Group @oxprimarycare.bsky.social! Happy to hear from anyone interested in applying

Hannah Forde @hannahforde.bsky.social · 21d

We're are now accepting applications for an exciting DPhil at the @oxprimarycare.bsky.social, *FUNDED* by the THRIVING Food Futures research hub!
The project is about divisive policies, supervised by me, Dr Rachel Pechey @petescarbs.bsky.social @ashakaur.bsky.social
lnkd.in/eezGaZZ3
Pls share! ✨

Crowd-pleasers or food fights? Exploring UK public support and objection to divisive policies that aim to reduce the environmental harm caused by the food system

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NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West @arc-west.bsky.social · 7d

⏰ Tomorrow!
💻 Join our Research Conversation: Improving care for women living with endometriosis ♀️

🕔 5-6pm, online
🗣️Take part, get involved, give feedback!
arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/research-con...

Research conversation: Improving care for women living with endometriosis - ARC West

About the event Endometriosis affects around 1 in 10 women and those assigned female at birth. It can cause severe pain, heavy periods, fatigue, and difficulties with fertility, yet it often takes yea...

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 4d

How about approaching this from the other side- how do we incentivise employers to make the adjustments necessary to help people with disabilities into work. Rather than suggesting that if sick people just tried a bit harder they could not be sick, which is what this looks like

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe invest properly in the scheme which already exists... www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...

Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition

Get help at work, including an Access to Work grant, if you have a disability or health condition - eligibility, how to apply.

www.gov.uk

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 4d

My thoughts on job advisers in GP surgeries. As you might guess, I'm not a fan.
Will make anxious patients worse. How about incentivising employers instead of telling patients to try harder.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 4d

The relationship between UPFs and the environment is miles more complicated than this. UPFs are a hugely diverse category, but this article pretends they are all like M&Ms. What about plant-based meat and dairy alternatives?

The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’

Industrially made foods involve several ingredients and processes to put together, making it difficult to examine their true cost

www.theguardian.com

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Nuffield Dept. of Women's & Reproductive Health @oxfordwomenshealth.bsky.social · 4d

If you have problematic #menstrualbleeding, or care for someone who does, we need your help deciding the top 10 questions to focus future research in this area.

buff.ly/JPCiB06

#MedicalResearch #HealthPolicy #Surveys

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Charlotte Albury @charlottealbury.bsky.social · 5d

It’s the new Schwarzman
Centre for the Humanities that’s just opened. But right by Green on the observatory quarter. Was great to get a first look inside today 😀

Charlotte Albury @charlottealbury.bsky.social · 5d

Exciting to be able to celebrate the opening of the new home for the @ox.ac.uk Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics today with great food, great company, and beautiful surroundings!

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 9d

Climate and food scientists: Hey everyone, here's a massive report showing how we need to make radical changes to our diet to avoid environmental catastrophe, but if we did it we could have amazing health benefits!

UK media:

a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background

ALT: a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 13d

Oh.

Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 13d

Gov to reintroduce maintenance grants for some poorer students, but not if they want to study the arts and social sciences!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14d

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history

The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 13d

We are just rewriting our surgery timetable, cancelling GP F2F appts so we can process all the requests that come in online - because our contract now demands we keep online access open all of core hours.
This is silly and inefficient and means we will offer a worse service to pts who needs us most.

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Charlotte Albury @charlottealbury.bsky.social · 14d

September Sunday with neighbours, pooling the apples from all of our trees, picking the last ones together, and making juice. 🍁🍎🍏🍂

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 20d

Photo comp! Send us your entries. The theme is Our Nature Reserves & we're looking for 12 striking images that showcase the wild beauty of our nature reserves.
Here's fab inspiration from previous years from
📷 R French, P Boyland, S Stones, MJ Vickers, A Owen & J Lauper
More here buff.ly/M0y20Fq

photos of green twisted branches in a wood, a fox looking alert, a bright green lacewing bug against a red background, two oystercatchers, one on a post, one landing, two kingfishers fighting, an ant with some aphids

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