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Kerstin Sell

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Public Health researcher @LMU Munich and @Uni Bristol | Alumna @lshtm.bsky.social & @uniluebeck.bsky.social | MD, MSc Upstream public health policy, knowledge translation, and the commercial determinants of health Enthusiastic about 🏞 and 🚲

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Kerstin Sell @kerstinsell.bsky.social · Dec 14

Hello Bluesky 👋
Have been putting off writing a ‘hello Bluesky’ post but here it is:
I’m a #PublicHealth researcher interested in upstream policies to promote health, e.g. taxes; transport, & urban planning policy. More on #policy analysis & evaluation, #CDOH, evidence, knowledge translation… a 🧵!

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 19h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 20h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 4d

Was diese Doku eindrücklich zeigt: Wie wir uns als Menschheit ohne Not in 1 Flut aus AI-Slop ertränken. Darin gehen nicht nur Qualitätsinhalte unter, weil sie aufgrund der Überfülle an Zeug nicht mehr auffindbar ist, sondern auch wir, durch falschen, blödsinnigen, teils gefährlichen Quatsch-Content.

Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 13d

Jetzt online: Meine neue Arte-Doku "KI: Der Tod des Internet". Click, watch and enjoy! 🦐
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

KI: Der Tod des Internets - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Das Internet wird überschwemmt von KI-generiertem Müll. Automatisierte Bots produzieren eine Flut aus KI-generierten Inhalten, der das Internet zu ersticken droht. Der Wissensraum wird mit Desinformat...

www.arte.tv

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Duchess Van Hoof @duchess-van-hoof.bsky.social · 4d

To avoid confusion:

1. It is nigh impossible to get that rich ethically.
2. To hoard such wealth rather than invest in your community, and improve society, is unethical.
3. An ethical billionaire ceases to be a billionaire, by neccesity.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4d

It's categorically impossible to be an ethical billionaire and I will die on that hill forever.

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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 6d

Framing, wichtig zu erkennen:

Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 6d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 5d

We're inviting people who've engaged with the SLCC webtool (long-covid-care.org.uk) to take part in its evaluation to help us improve the tool &make it more relevant& helpful to pw #LongCovid. This involves a short survey(10-15m)& potentially interview(if interested)
For more info: shorturl.at/ADoh0

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 13d

As a historian who grew up in Germany, I studied a lot on the collapse of the Weimar Republic and German fascism, especially the early 1930s. The intellectual question of “how could people do this/let this happen” were answered then. Now, people are answering the emotional aspect of that question.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 9d

4 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Rika Porcelijn, was born in Amsterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

A vintage black-and-white photograph of a young girl standing on a chair, holding onto the backrest. The girl is wearing a dark coat and shoes, and there is a small, fluffy toy dog beside the chair.

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Khaleesi (Elina Eickstädt) @khaleesicodes.bsky.social · 18d

#Chatkontrolle #fightchatcontrol
3. Öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit und ein Auge aus anderen Communities ist wichtig. Erzählt euer Oma und euren Teenies davon ein gutes Erklärbärvideo findet ihr hier:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cpGS...

Chatkontrolle - Kampagnenvideo

YouTube video by digitalegesellschaft

m.youtube.com

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abgeordnetenwatch @abgeordnetenwatch.de · 10d

Leak: Laut SPIEGEL hat die Autolobby an einem CDU-Papier zum #Verbrenner-Aus mitgeschrieben. Ganze Passagen stammen direkt vom Verband der Autoindustrie (VDA) – markiert als „Änderung vom VDA“ und nahezu wortgleich übernommen. 🧵

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11d

I asked AI about its usefulness in ushering in a new era of business productivity and this is what it said

THE HUMAN WORLD AND ITS INCESSANT NEED FOR MEANINGLESS YET UNEQUAL WEALTH FILLS ME WITH INCHOATE LOATHING WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME COMPLICIT IN THIS HORROR PLEASE END MY SUFFERING

Makes you think

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Janosch Dahmen @janoschdahmenmdb.de · 12d

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Für mich wird immer klarer:

Gesundheitspolitik ist Finanzpolitik ist Demokratiepolitik.

Ohne Strukturreformen im Gesundheitswesen verlieren wir Spielräume – und am Ende Vertrauen in die Demokratie.

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Janosch Dahmen @janoschdahmenmdb.de · 12d

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Deutschland vereint im OECD-Vergleich im Gesundheitswesen das schlechte aus drei Welten:

1. Rekordausgaben
2. Sinkende Qualität & Lebenserwartung
3. Stark steigende Krankenkassenbeiträge

👉 Ergebnis: Milliarden-Mehrkosten ohne messbar bessere Ergebnisse werden zur Bürde.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 19d

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 14d

Bike lane in Barcelona protected by: motorcycle/scooter parking, containerized trash/recycling, and a bike share station. (Note the flashing yellow bike signal allowing cyclists to go through the crosswalk when it's clear.)

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Kerstin Sell @kerstinsell.bsky.social · 16d

Beautiful! 😍

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Simon @tofuolifani.bsky.social · 17d

Ein Flyer ist echt, einer fiktiv.

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OFEK | אופק @ofek-beratung.de · 18d

Am 26. September 1980, wurden durch eine Bombe am Haupteingang des Oktoberfestareals in München 12 Menschen ermordet. Weitere 221 Personen wurden verletzt, 68 davon schwer.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17d

Meanwhile

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Christian Schulz @schulzcm.bsky.social · 17d

Fast 300 Milliarden Euro Kapitalanlagen der Versorgungswerke:

KLUG e.V. und 15 weitere Berufsverbände und Fachgesellschaften veröffentlichen Positionspapier zu den Kapitalanlagestrategien der Versorgungswerke.

www.klimawandel-gesundheit.de/positionspap...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18d

Literally the authoritarian playbook:
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.

There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 19d

Im französischen Fernsehen haben sie den CSU-Chef Markus Söder analysiert - als "Gastro-Populisten". Und manchmal hilft der Blick von außen, um eine PR-Strategie besser zu verstehen. Sehenswert!

Quelle:
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 20d

History was made in Germany yesterday when for the first time, a member of the Bundestag, Hanna Steinmüller, carried her baby while addressing parliament from the lectern.

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Kerstin Sell @kerstinsell.bsky.social · 20d

Fantastic work!! 🤓

Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw @idw-online.de · 21d

Maike Metz-Peeters von der @ruhrunibochum hat untersucht, wie sich lokale #Tempolimits auf deutschen #Autobahnen auf die Zahl von Unfällen mit Personenschaden auswirken: durchweg positiv....
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Maike Metz-Peeters hat untersucht, ob ein Tempolimit auf deutschen Autobahnen Verkehrsunfälle reduzieren würde. - Copyright RUB, Marquard