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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 1d

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 3d

🚨 BREAKING: Reports say the UK is preparing to hike #NHS drug prices - a move pushed by Donald Trump & Big Pharma so they can pocket even bigger profits.

If this goes ahead, more NHS funds will be siphoned from care to corporate greed.

Take action now: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ke...

Keir Starmer: stand up to Trump’s attacks on our NHS!

Donald Trump is using global tariff threats to force countries to gut the protections that keep medicine prices in check. The UK has agreed to review the pricing of drugs on the NHS in order to strike...

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 1d

💊✨ JOIN OUR BOARD ✊💊

We’re looking for new Board members to help guide the next chapter of Just Treatment’s fight for health justice.

Find out more and apply by 26 October ⬇️
justtreatment.org/news/2025/10...

Join our board — Just Treatment

We’re recruiting new Board members to help guide the next chapter of Just Treatment’s fight for health justice.

justtreatment.org

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Medact @medact.bsky.social · 2d

Medact is recruiting a Fundraising Manager: Trusts & Grants! Join the fight for health justice. This is a part-time, fixed term contract, to help Medact secure essential funding over the next year. Applications close on 10th November. www.medact.org/2025/blogs/f...

Fundraising Manager: Trusts & Grants - Medact

Apply now to be Medact's Fundraising Manager.

www.medact.org

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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 5d

Hoping to come along to some of these if I can! Thanks for organising :)

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 8d

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078...
I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!

Lauren Berlant: A Michaelmas Reading Group - CRASSH

In an early talk about Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant describes their critical object: namely, the “desire”, which they perceive as endemic to capitalism, “to have a cluster of feelings in lieu of hav...

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 6d

"In many ways, UKVI and Home Office policy pushes universities towards the sorts of risk management practices that consumer law was designed to rule out.

But [universities may also over-recruit] on terms that attempt to ensure they are protected, while students are not."
wonkhe.com/blogs/visa-o...

Visa oversubscription at UCL may be more than just a PR problem

Jim Dickinson explores how UCL’s oversubscription crisis has left hundreds of international students in limbo - raising fresh questions about whether UK universities are operating within consumer law

wonkhe.com

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 15d

10 days until the #CFP deadline for the online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*.

We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

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www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 13d

"[Kafka's] parables [..] [ask] whether [..] we can still expect justice from the law, or whether legal process diverges so dramatically from the path of justice that we can only now tell stories about how the expectation of justice is vanquished by legal proceeding"
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley

The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

www.thenation.com

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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 25d

This looks great!

Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · Jul 25

CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.

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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sounds great - is there a link to the job advert, Angela?

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our Sociology of Health & Illness editorial team is advertising for a PGR RA to drive our social media strategy. Apply with a CV + 1 page letter outlining your skills and approach by 26th September 5pm to Prof. Janice (dot) McLaughlin (at) Newcastle (dot) ac (dot) uk.
Come join us!
#medsoc #medhums

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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · Sep 10

Really like Christina's interrogation of the terms "town hall" and "circus" in this piece on listening exercises and the question of who is able to speak / who can be heard #DisabilityMatters

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Sep 5

Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters' upcoming 'Online Town Hall Circus' event which will take place on the 19th of September.

thepolyphony.org/2025/09/05/t...

Transforming Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Through Disability

Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters’ upcoming ‘Online Town Hall Circus’ event which will take place on the 19th of September.

thepolyphony.org

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Sep 9

A brief 🧵on the UK's cynical and conveniently shifting position on this.

news.sky.com/story/israel...

Israel not committing genocide in Gaza, but casualties and destruction are 'utterly appalling', says UK government

Israel has strongly denied that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide, but is being challenged on the issue in a case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

news.sky.com

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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · Sep 9

Such a cool CfP! #MedHums

Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Sep 5

CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Aug 26

And the winner is …. UCL that increased its u/g offers by 65%. Where are you going to put all these students, UCL?!

These Russell Group unis are letting in way more students - and other unis aren't happy

One London uni is accepting 65 per cent more students than it did five years ago

thetab.com

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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · Aug 28

SRO is still accepting proposals for their next special issue!

The proposed special issue can be on any theme and should offer an exciting contribution to emerging sociological debates.

Submit by 24 September 2025. Details below.
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26923/...

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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congratulations, Harriet!

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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hi Laura, sorry - just seen this as I've been logged out for several weeks. I think the booking link is open now :)

Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · Aug 2

I'm reading it too! It's so good. And there's a reading group on it coming up in September: www.feministduration.com

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The BMA @bma.org.uk · Jul 10

No doctor today is worth less than they were 17 years ago, as Dr Melissa Ryan told Newsnight.

That’s why resident doctors in England have voted for industrial action.

There’s still time for the Government to listen and avert the strikes.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Jul 10

Massacre after massacre, day after day - the deliberate annihilation of an entire civilian population.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says

Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed when a queue for nutritional supplements was hit in Deir al-Balah.

www.bbc.co.uk

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jul 11

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025

History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jul 2

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.

"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.

Here's the trailer:

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · Jul 1

In Parliament today I spoke about the truth behind rising welfare costs - and why I cannot support the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, which does not address these roots causes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap3x...

Labour MP explains why welfare costs are really rising (and why he's voting against cuts)

YouTube video by Clive Lewis

www.youtube.com

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