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Michelle Kelly-Irving

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Health equity, social inequalities, lifecourse, embodiment Leads the Inserm #Equity team University of Toulouse, France Social Epidemiologist & quantitative social scientist Co-Author of Health Inequality, book, 3rd Ed .. more

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Nov 17

The 3rd edition of Health Inequality has kept aspects of the older two editions that @zetkin.bsky.social originally wrote & so many found to be an accessible way into understanding the complexities of health inequalities, but there are new bits too

Here's a wee thread to explain what we've done 😉

Cover picture of the book "Health Inequality" by Mel Bartley and Michelle Kelly-Irving picture depicts a spiral shaped fossil with segments of different sizes

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 8d

RIP Jane Goodall, one of my heroes who I got to meet as a girl when she visited my school. What a role model
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Sep 3

C’est le gros arnaque du siècle ces agences qui gonflent les prix, prennent l’argent public et sont mal organisés

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Ina Hallström @killedbyproxy.bsky.social · Sep 1

Nine former directors of the CDC speak out against RFK Jr.

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

www.nytimes.com

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Aug 25

My experience in discussing this topic is that there is very little interest among people about this long term catastrophe - perhaps they can’t relate to it somehow?

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · Aug 13

“No data, no problem.” — Nancy Krieger

Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · Aug 12

SCOOP: The NIH is moving to prohibit funded scientists, inside and outside the agency, from collecting data about gender, according to a draft policy I obtained. It’s part of the NIH’s aggressive crackdown on gender-identity research. www.chronicle.com/article/gend...

Gender Data Would Be Off-Limits Under Proposed NIH Policy

A draft rule would bar scientists funded by the agency from collecting data about gender identity, following other steps the administration has taken to restrict research on LGBT topics.

www.chronicle.com

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · Aug 10

Bumblebees #sleeping on/in #flowers at this time of year!
What the feck is that all about?
Lots of people asking us so here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining what’s going on.

Please #repost/#share so more are more informed.
Thanks good people.
#bees
#nature
#biodiversity
#worldbeesanctuary
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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Aug 1

Haha, no, sorry, its "The Rest is Politics" a news podcast. I guess it wasn't you then

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Aug 1

Hello, I'm a social epidemiologist. I never appear in films. But the things I work on are often mentioned in films or TV, and attributed to genetics

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Aug 1

@jowolff.bsky.social was that you mentioned on TRIP question time?

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · May 14

In France there's a "simplification" program where we shifted to a different admin accounting tool used by a wider range of institutions

Except that the tool is piece of shit wreaking havoc leading to
-Exhausted staff
-No accurate budgets since Nov 24
-Lost visibility of our indirect cost spending

CFDT Recherche EPST @cfdt-recherche-epst.org · May 13

Déclaration F3SCT INSERM
Les représentants CFDT Recherche EPST tiennent à alerter cette instance sur les risques professionnels graves générés par la mise en œuvre du logiciel de gestion SIFAC+ au sein de notre établissement.

Suite de la déclaration : cfdt-recherche-epst.org?p=39450

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · May 14

Dr Mike Ryan is dropped from WHO executive team amid ‘painful’ cost cuts

World Health Organisation has been thrown into crisis by Trump’s order directing the US to withdraw from the agency

www.irishtimes.com

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · May 15

"The social production of health inequalities: theoretical approaches & empirical data. International perspectives"

📣ERC-Gendhi conference: Paris 26th June 2025
Collège de France
Places on 1st come 1st served basis

Featuring a line up of amazing speakers!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...

La production sociale des inégalités de santé : approches théoriques et données empiriques. Perspectives internationales | Collège de France

www.college-de-france.fr

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · May 16

EXCLUSIVE: Ed Martin is leading Trump’s “weaponization” group tasked with investigating Jan. 6 prosecutors.

Martin’s nonprofit helped raise cash for dozens of violent Jan. 6 defendants, Rolling Stone has found.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's 'Weaponization' Lawyer Raised Cash for Violent Jan. 6 Militia Members

Ed Martin is leading Trump’s “weaponization” group, tasked with investigating Jan. 6 prosecutors. His nonprofit supported dozens of violent Jan. 6 participants.

www.rollingstone.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · May 20

“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.”

And it has kept growing from there.

Leadership. #Paris

Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car

In Paris, Barcelona and Brussels, authorities are adopting varied approaches to the task of reducing congestion and pollution

www.theguardian.com

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · May 31

Ending #USAID & #PEPFAR funding abruptly is leading to disabling illness & death among people in the poorest nations

This is not USA “soft power” this is hard, cruel power

#globalhealth

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · May 31

Nyawo has HIV & is doing fine due to a program that took him to clinics each month to pick up his drugs “The program lost its PEPFAR funding & Nyawo doesn’t have the money or the motivation to find his own transport to the clinic. He has stopped taking his medication”
www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. aid helped two African countries rein in HIV. Then came Trump

In Lesotho and Eswatini, treatment and prevention cutbacks are hitting pregnant women, children, and teens especially hard

www.science.org

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jul 2

I’m being trolled once again by the institutions of French research:

-on one hand I’m in the dark about my budgets & can’t spend them, have no office space, have to fix our broken doors, sinks, windows…

-on the other I am to gratefully accommodate USA researchers & figure out how to pay them

🤷‍♀️

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jul 2

But I hate being put into this impossible position, those who call for USA researchers to join us here don’t put money where their mouth is. Intellectual dishonesty all around

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jul 2

We’d bend over backwards 😊

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jun 30

They are!

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jun 30

I leave some artichokes go to flower just because the #bees love them so much 😊

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La Revue des médias @larevuedesmedias.bsky.social · Jun 30

🌡️ En 2014, Evelyne Dhéliat projettait des prévisions de températures en août 2050, pour alerter sur le réchauffement climatique.
Des prévisions alarmantes déjà devenues une réalité.
#canicule

larevuedesmedias.ina.fr/evelyne-dhel...

« Lorsque Météo France m’a envoyé les températures de 2050, j’ai dit que c’était impossible »

En 2014, Évelyne Dhéliat présente un bulletin météo qui anticipe les températures du 18 août 2050. Ce bulletin est depuis massivement partagé à chaque épisode de canicule et les températures ne sont p...

larevuedesmedias.ina.fr

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Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social · Jun 17

Judge Young said that the NIH grant terminations were rooted in discrimination against racial, sexual, and gender minority groups: “I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out.” #HealthInequity #DEI

www.science.org/content/arti...

Judge orders NIH to restore hundreds of grants cut under Trump

William Young calls terminations illegal, berates agency for discrimination

www.science.org

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jun 17

Beautiful morning at the old medical faculty in Toulouse with the swifts out hunting & their babies squeaking in their nests above my office

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · Jun 14

Appointments to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC):

publicjobs.ie/en/?option=c...

Job Details

Publicjobs.ie | Ireland's Premier Public Sector Recruitment Website

publicjobs.ie

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jun 14

‘Course it does 😉
Well done, and well said

I’ve often thought, as an apprenticeship, the PhD allows us to really settle into our introvert skills, & thereby become even less adapted to many of the activities expected of us later

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Jun 12

New study alert, just out in SER! 🚨

What really drives gendered occupational choices among adolescents?

➡️It might not be workplace characteristics (e.g., salary), but skill requirements.

academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

@sasemeeting.bsky.social, @snsf.ch,‬ @unibe.ch ern.bsky.social, @unisg.ch

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Prof Naomi Priest PhD @naomipriest.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is going to be great! ping @mkellyirving.bsky.social @ises-epi.bsky.social @kavindigamage.bsky.social

Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) @sllshome.bsky.social · Jun 9

REGISTER: Next talk in the SLLS Webinar Series ⬇️

The Early Origins of Socio-economic Inequalities in Inflammation: Existing Evidence and Recommendations for Life Course Researchers
Kavindi Walpita Gamage, MCRI, Australia

19.06.25 / 12:00 BST (21:00 AEST) / Via Zoom
www.slls.org.uk/events/2025-...

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