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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 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

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

We’d bend over backwards 😊

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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 · Jun 30

They are!

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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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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · Jun 30

Ouch!

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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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Dec 17

Another painting to share. "Donegal Cloud" was a very small painting of a very big sky, and it came from a time when I had a dog and she and I would sit underneath it in silence. #SpeirGorm #ArtAdventCalendar

Landscape format is loosely painted acrylics. Horizon is one third way up from the bottom, with all of the foreground being bog in dark maroons and oranges. Past it is a strip of low green hills and along the horizon is a lilac mountain mass with a pale blue mass further away to its right. Top half is sunset sky of one large billowing green-grey cloud with white edges surrounded by pinks, oranges, lilacs, sky blues, and white near the mountains at the horizon. Signed bottom left in light blue: Liam Daly

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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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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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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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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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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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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · Jun 9

💬 What happens when you give a group of citizens control over €25 million?

This Wednesday, @franziskadbacher.bsky.social will discuss a citizens' council charged with deliberating wealth inequality and redistribution.

Join the QSS-CLS seminar from 13:00! www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Advertisement for the QSS-CLS seminar on Wednesday 11th June, 13:00-14:00 at 55-59 Gordon Square, London and online. The title is "The Good Council: Deliberating Inequality in a Field Experiment" and the speaker is Franziska Disslbacher from WU Wien. An image of Dr Disslbacher also appears.

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jun 4

“Swedish health inequality is fueling a national-regional funding battle”

www.euractiv.com/section/heal...

Swedish health inequality is fueling a national-regional funding battle - Euractiv

Swedish parliamentarians are demanding the formalisation of regional healthcare norms to reduce health inequalities. Services targeted include breast cancer, and the number of hospital beds per capita.

www.euractiv.com

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