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Jack 🦠

@jack-d-barber.bsky.social

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🧬 PhD student in Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦠 Linking antimicrobial resistance and structural inequality 💊 (he/him) 💖💜💙 Deprivation, migrant health, env justice + AMR 🤝

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Aug 13

reintroduction time!!

hi 👋 im jack

im an interdisciplinary PhD student combining quantitative #microbiology & #criticaltheory 🦠🤝

my aim is to unravel how the political, economic & social structures undergirding our society determine the unequal impacts of the antimicrobial resistance crisis #AMR

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 1d

🥹 #PhDSky #AcademicSky

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 5d

i actually did get raptured the other day btw but they said my thesis is so novel and innovative that i have to finish it off first and they sent me back down 🤷

#PhDSky #AcademicSky

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European Health Forum Gastein @gasteinforum.bsky.social · 7d

📺 Live now at #EHFG2025

✅ Addressing the inequalities of #AMR in Europe: ehfg.live/stage/kursaa...

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EHFG 2025 - Live streaming

Join us at the hybrid EHFG 2025 from 30 September - 3 October, and let's explore together how we can heal Europe's fractured social contract for health and well-being!

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 6d

whoever told me the honours students would ease in for a few weeks before booking up all the equipment you LIED to me

#PhDSky #AcademicSky 🧪

suspicious cat looking at you next to a video of two boys kissing from challengers the movie

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 9d

hes gonna get me this time 🥹

jigsaw the puppet from the saw film franchise

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 9d

saw trap but all i have to do is get a STEM researcher to understand why being "apolitical" isnt a good thing 🥀

#PhDSky #AcademicSky

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 15d

october next week... time flies when youre having fun 💕

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 20d

Canadian antimicrobial resistance threat assessment highlights role of health equity

Canada's priority pathogens list shows 45% of the assessed AMR pathogens disproportionately affect marginalized populations and those with structural barriers to health.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

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Rhys White @rhystwhite.bsky.social · 28d

🚨Call for abstracts

#OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium 2025

📍Wellington + online
🗓️2–3 Dec 2025

Submit an abstract by 30 Sept

Themes: #AMR, #Zoonoses, #HealthEquity, #TeAoMāori, #ClimateHealth & more

More info👉 onehealth.org.nz/one-health-a...

📩[email protected]

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#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
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One Health Aotearoa Symposium 2025 - One Health Aotearoa

Our 11th annual symposium will be held on 2-3 December 2025 at the University of Otago, Wellington campus and online. Registrations will open soon! Venue Information Nordmeyer Lecture Theatre – Univer...

onehealth.org.nz

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 27d

why is there a PI in the lab? go write a grant or something??

#PhDSky #AcademicSky 🧪

suspicious side eye orange cat in front of food bowl

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 28d

great paper! would be really interesting to find out whether these positive results conceal an exacerbation of problematic antimicrobial underprescribing in First Nations children 🤔

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 29d

ill be offering free haircuts from next week 😒

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 29d

pov: youre a final year phd student and one of the new first years asked how your project is going

#PhDSky #AcademicSky

aunt gladys laughing (screenshot from the movie weapons)

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Sep 8

happy to share i've been invited to bring my expertise on antimicrobial resistance and inequality to @amiposts.bsky.social roundtable on the world health assembly #AMR global action plan update 🫡 looking forward to getting stuck in 💪💪

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Sep 4

welcome to my office, come in and take a seat

#PhDSky #AcademicSky

childs booster carseat on the floor. its pink and reads "princess" in sparkly letters

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Sep 2

🥹🥹 my shaylaaaa

#MicroSky #PhDSky 🧪

single e coli culture in an otherwise totally empty incubator

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Aug 29

ah not what i was looking for but tysm for the suggestion!

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Aug 29

if it helps i think there were two authors named

tagging #geosky #socsky #envhum

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Aug 29

so im looking for a misplaced reference wondering if anyone can help me

i came across a cool-looking theory called "geographies of [something]" used to explain why environmental injustice occurs, might have seen it in an urban studies paper that i also cant find now

not much to go on sorry!!

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Aug 27

ai this, ai that.... how about you invent a microwave that melts my agar perfectly first attempt

#MicroSky #PhDSky 🧪

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Aug 26

💀💀 noooooooo

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Aug 26

#PhDSky #AcademicSky 🧪

cat meme with caption: me checking my surroundings after typing c1v1=c2v2 calculator into google just to be sure

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One Health Trust @onehealthtrust.bsky.social · Aug 22

Did you know?

750,000 AMR-related deaths could be prevented each year in low- and middle-income countries with existing interventions!

Improving treatment access, infection prevention & addressing #antibiotic misuse can control #AMR.

Learn more: onehealthtrust.org/publications...

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Aug 21

2 of my cultures didnt grow now i meed to come in on the weekend

#PhDSky #AcademicSky #MicroSky

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Aug 14

clocking in for my shift at the dream factory (laminar flow cabinet)

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