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Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Apr 9

Great to present @ukri.org funded work on stratified rehab after hip fracture at @gerisoc.bsky.social Belfast.

Great to see colleagues old and new!

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Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Feb 18

🔊 🔊🔊 CALLING ALL NHS MUSCULOSKELETAL PHYSIOTHERAPISTS/ SERVICE MANAGERS 🔊 🔊🔊

Please complete survey to inform programme of research on community appointment days

at link 👉 forms.office.com/e/eBFWf5rsmk or QR 👇

Please share widely to your networks

@thecsp.bsky.social @tobysmith.bsky.social

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Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Feb 6

Fragility Fracture Network Global Congress Porto 0ct 1-4 2025

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN:

fragilityfracturenetwork.org/2025-congres...

2025 congress abstracts - Fragility Fracture Network

fragilityfracturenetwork.org

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Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Jan 15

New perspective in NEJM pitching for improved access to FLS

Coordinating Multidisciplinary Care — Improving Outcomes after Fragility Fractures

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Coordinating Multidisciplinary Care — Improving Outcomes after Fragility Fractures | NEJM

Making integrated fracture liaison services a routine part of postfracture care could help reduce disparities in care — and may offer a useful model for the management of other chronic diseases.

www.nejm.org

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Matteo Cesari @macesari.bsky.social · Dec 11

The value of healthy #ageing: Estimating the #economic value of #health using time use data

👉 Healthy older people create economic value by engaging in non-market activities

#Prevention #Aging #Care #PublicHealth

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The value of healthy ageing: Estimating the economic value of health using time use data

Economic arguments in favour of investing in health and health care are important for policy making, yet demonstrating the potential economic gains as…

www.sciencedirect.com

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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · Dec 5

#ARCadvent day 5️⃣:
@unibirmingham.bsky.social researchers funded by Birmingham BRC & @arc-wm.bsky.social developed a toolkit to guide representative & equitable inclusion in clinical research. REP-EQUITY describes 7 key questions to consider when planning & recruiting arc-wm.nihr.ac.uk/rep-equity/

NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research
#ARCadvent
Top ARC stories of the year
Day 5
Seven key questions for more equitable & representative research

Main image: A man smiling whilst sitting at a desk in front of a laptop

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Pete Moore @paintoolkit.bsky.social · Dec 7

Useful tips for those interested in Supported Self Management

The 16 communication skills of top performers youtu.be/oe64JcjUVnk?... via @YouTube

#SelfmgtLIVING-Works

The 16 communication skills of top performers

YouTube video by Rather

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Adam Gordon MBE @adamgordon1978.bsky.social · Dec 5

An interview by Bart’s Life Sciences with @proflizsampson.bsky.social
and me about our proposed work at the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing bartslifesciences.org/transforming...

Transforming Healthy Ageing: Insights from the Pioneers Leading the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing - Barts Life Sciences

Welcome to this special interview with two of the three distinguished professors who have been appointed as Professorial Chairs for the newly established Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA) at B...

bartslifesciences.org

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Christopher McCrum @chrismccrum.bsky.social · Dec 3

Just published in Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls:

About Falls Efficacy: A commentary on “World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative”

Great work by Shawn to lead this discussion!

Free to read here: www.jfsf.eu/Article.php?...

Screenshot of article title: About Falls Efficacy: A commentary on “World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative”

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Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Dec 4

So many fantastic workshop suggestions coming through!

If you are interested/have an idea and want to be linked to like minded people across the globe to develop a workshop....then drop me a message ([email protected]).

Very keen to bring new faces to the Fragility Fracture Network!

Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Nov 20

📢 📢 FRAGILITY FRACTURE NETWORK WORKSHOPS CALL

Global Congress Porto Oct 1-4 2025

Workshops call open! Jan 15th deadline.

Share your work to support patients with fragility fractures globally

Proposal form and guidance at link 👇

fragilityfracturenetwork.org

Home - Fragility Fracture Network

fragilityfracturenetwork.org

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Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Dec 2

🌟Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow🌟

🔊 Closing Dec 11th 🔊

▶️ At NIHR BRC, Barts Health & @qmul.ac.uk

▶️ 50:50 clinical: academic

🌟 Post 1: Ortho inpatients + research supported by me

🌟 Post 2: MSK outpatients + research supported by Dylan Morrissey

▶️ Apply 👇
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Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow X2 - QMUL Jobs

ID: 4158. Title: Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow X2 . Application Deadline:

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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Dec 2

📢4 days left📢 until our webinar introducing the CONSULT e-learning on trials involving adults with impaired capacity to consent - plus an opportunity to ask our expert panel about the key challenges you encounter!

📆5th Dec
🕑2-3pm
🔗register tinyurl.com/2s3nmbz7

#InclusiveResearch #ClinicalTrials

Flyer for upcoming webinar to launch CONSULT Training 5th Dec 2-3pm

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · Nov 26

First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋

📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗

huggingface.co/datasets/blu...

bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

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Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Nov 27

🌟🌟JOB ALERT 🌟🌟

Predoctoral Clinical Academic Fellow in Hand Therapy

40% research
60% clinical

Work with field leader Dr Lisa Newington to develop and lead your own projects, & access our clinical academic training programme!

come join us!!

apply 👇

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Predoctoral Clinical Academic Fellow in Hand Therapy - QMUL Jobs

ID: 4490. Title: Predoctoral Clinical Academic Fellow in Hand Therapy . Application Deadline:

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Alison Hoens @physioktbroker.bsky.social · Nov 24

🧪 Struggling to explain correlation? Consider using some examples from www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...

Spurious Correlations

Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables.

www.tylervigen.com

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · Nov 26

Re-upping this excellent article pointing out the many problems with a 'Barriers and Enablers' approach. It's binary, reductionist, atheoretical, doesn't take sufficient account of context, and is ill suited to #complexity. 👎

#AcademicSky #MedSky #MedEd
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Rana Awdish MD @ranaawdish.bsky.social · Nov 19

Is sharing our writing a thing here? 😊
Proud of this piece because it represents the work of so many trying to make medicine and communication better for our patients. #MedSky
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/action/showP...

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Greta Rait @grait.bsky.social · Nov 19

We created a resource for people with #dementia, carers and health and social care professionals including social prescribers #dementiasupport
www.forwardwithdementia.org/en/

Feel better prepared › Forward With Dementia [uk]

Find your way forward after diagnosis...

www.forwardwithdementia.org

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Sally Greenbrook @sallygreenbrook.bsky.social · Nov 22

And that's a wrap on @adamgordon1978.bsky.social's presidency at @gerisoc.bsky.social as he hands the chain of office to @jkdhesi.bsky.social. #BGSconf

Professor Adam Gordon places the chain of office over Professor Jugdeep Dhesi's head.

Professor Jugdeep Dhesi speaks at a lectern. She wears a silver chain of office.

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Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Nov 21

📢 📢 Job alert: Orthopaedic Lead Research Associate, Barts Health!

Join a fab team with national recognition for excellence in delivering research in MSK/Orthopaedics.

Work closely with our team at Bone & Joint Health, QMUL

Open to AHP/Nurses (B7)

Apply 👇

www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/jobs/#!/job/...

Job vacancies at Barts Heath NHS Trust

www.bartshealth.nhs.uk

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Claire Dow @clairedow1.bsky.social · Nov 21

E-learning tool available via learninghub.nhs.uk for all staff working with older adults to develop awareness and recognition of depression as well as talking to older adults about depression
##BGSConf

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Claire Dow @clairedow1.bsky.social · Nov 21

How concerns of falling can affect your gait and balance
#BGSConf

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Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Nov 20

📢 📢 FRAGILITY FRACTURE NETWORK WORKSHOPS CALL

Global Congress Porto Oct 1-4 2025

Workshops call open! Jan 15th deadline.

Share your work to support patients with fragility fractures globally

Proposal form and guidance at link 👇

fragilityfracturenetwork.org

Home - Fragility Fracture Network

fragilityfracturenetwork.org

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Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Nov 20

🌟 🌟 🌟 JOB OPPORTUNITY 🌟 🌟 🌟

Research Assistant/Postdoctoral Research Assistant

APPLY 👇

Come join a fantastic team Barts Bone & Joint Health @QMUL
to work on a @UKRI_News rehabilitation and fragility fractures research programme!

Deadline 05/12/2024

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Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Research Assistant - QMUL Jobs

Description

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Katie Sheehan @katiejsheehan.bsky.social · Nov 20

🥳🥳🥳JOB OPPORTUNITY -2 POSTS! 🥳🥳🥳

Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow (MSK/Orthopaedics) with
@BartsBRC

50:50 research:clinical (up to 8a)

Come join a fantastic team!!!

apply 👇

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Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow X2 - QMUL Jobs

ID: 4158. Title: Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow X2 . Application Deadline:

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