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Mel Bartley
@zetkin.bsky.social
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🇪🇺🦔🦡🌹🕊Emeritus prof of medical sociology UCL. Posting on social inequality in health , work & health, commercial & political determinants of health. Obsessed with social justice. Also sometimes post about badgers, trams & trains. Oublagea .. more

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Melanie Jane Bartley FBA is a medical sociologist and retired academic. She was Professor of Medical Sociology at University College London from 2001 to 2012.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2h
Not a low score but still quite pleased with this one
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2h
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2h
Thats not a bad idea in fact.
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2h
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2h
Sounds great. I love the Fiesole campus as well.
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 3h
Clever!

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 3h
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Reposted by Mel Bartley, Dave O’Brien, Miles Corak

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 4h
With the Inequality Cluster, Alex Ludwig (EUI Economics), Francis Vella (Georgetown U), and I organize a one-day conference on Social Mobility. www.eui.eu/events?id=58.... Looking forward to welcoming speakers @pengzell.bsky.social @xisong.bsky.social, Jo Blanden, Kjell Salvanes and Mikael Lindahl>
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Organised jointly by EUI scholars Alexander Ludwig and Herman van de Werfhorst, together with Professor Francis Vella (Georgetown University), this event offers a unique forum for dialogue across disc...
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 4h
Racism is expensive
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 4h
Good for you 😕
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 5h
But it is amusing, as the Tory party declines, to watch BBC trying to decide whether to put their full weight behind Reform.
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 5h
I suddenly realized I now have a special costume for having injections.
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 7h
At least she is a conservative
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 7h
Jeez
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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 7h
Council Tax arrears in England increased during the pandemic.

Arrears continued to rise during the cost of living crisis - with £445 million added to England’s stock of arrears between 2023-24 and 2024-25. This is much greater than the rise seen after the financial crisis.
Chart showing real-terms stock of Council Tax arrears at fiscal year-end: England Total Council Tax arrears in England in 2024-25 stood at £6.7 billion in today’s prices, a 48 per cent real-terms increase since 2019-20

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 7h
Council Tax arrears in England increased during the pandemic.

Arrears continued to rise during the cost of living crisis - with £445 million added to England’s stock of arrears between 2023-24 and 2024-25. This is much greater than the rise seen after the financial crisis.
Chart showing real-terms stock of Council Tax arrears at fiscal year-end: England Total Council Tax arrears in England in 2024-25 stood at £6.7 billion in today’s prices, a 48 per cent real-terms increase since 2019-20
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zetkin.bsky.social
Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
Good heavens. I had no idea.
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
The underlying issue is the disappearance of stable, reasonably paid jobs for lower-educated men (according to Angus Deaton anyway).
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
I agree. Grumpy old lady maybe👩‍🦳
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
Bit better today
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
I learned a hard lesson. If you don't push yourself, no one else is going to, and you may regret where you end up (in terms of income etc).

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
How interesting you should say that David. I have recently (well, last 5 years or so) had conversations with colleagues who ask: what happened to the research of the 1980s & 1990s? Not just the physical papers but the ideas?
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
A very great loss to social epi
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
That was my impression. I was lucky to have Peter as a guide
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
If everything is made by robots, no one has to pay the robots admittedly. But does this mean everything will be free? I guess it better be as no one will have any wages. Sorry for free-associating.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
I vaguely remember some surprise at Brexiteers who were people of colour. I could see a lot of it was based on racism. But this makes sense
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
Did they really say that? Goodness.
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
They have figured that if they post words with lots of repeated letters, starting words with common letters in them become less useful.
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d
Great work by @clscohorts.bsky.social ! I see the 1946 cohort still restricts access, which is a shame. They dont gain anything by it as no one uses the data much any more.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 1d
"Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service"
cls.ucl.ac.uk/research-on-...
Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS
Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.
cls.ucl.ac.uk

Reposted by Mel Bartley, Philip N. Cohen

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 1d
"Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service"
cls.ucl.ac.uk/research-on-...
Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS
Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.
cls.ucl.ac.uk
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