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Sharon Greenwood @sharongreenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Always love a new workplace setting 😅 @bhauteshjani.bsky.social @jimlewsey.bsky.social

HEHTA @uofghehta.bsky.social · 2d

🚧Prof. Jim Lewsey & SHW colleagues led interactive sessions with Multiplex workers on substance use, wellbeing & safety in construction.

👷The talks explored how drugs & alcohol impact health & performance, & highlighted key support services.

➡️https://tinyurl.com/2yembwhn

Group of construction workers in hi-vis listening to talk.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 8d

If you are a @uofglasgow.bsky.social staff or student interested in intersex, non-binary and trans studies join us for our GLINTS launch event later this month on October 21st: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glints-lau... also enjoy this image of some our publications (books and zines!) from our stall.

A stall featuring books and zines written by co-directors and members of GLINTS. Also features our own zine beautifully crafted by Kirstie Ken. The table also has a trans flag on.

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Yuan-Tao Huang @ythqual.bsky.social · 17d

Calling all UK Qualitative researchers working with Health-related Trials! We’d love your insights in a survey exploring your experience of the pace and timing of the qualitative research, as well as your experience of working with the trial team. 🔗 uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Sharon Greenwood @sharongreenwood.bsky.social · 9d

Aww, Navneet is an MPH alum from a few years back!

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Ingrid Young @ingridkyoung.bsky.social · 13d

We are hiring 5 new postdocs (for 5 years) to work on our Wellcome project in Edinburgh. Deadline next week. For more info on the jobs & the project, head to our website www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org/blog-posts/j...

Please share widely!

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Scottish Recovery Network @scotrecoverynet.bsky.social · 14d

🌟 We’re looking for a Communications Officer to join our team!

Full time (37.5 hours)
£34,043 – £38,824

Are you passionate about bringing people, services & organisations together to create a mental health system powered by lived experience?

scottishrecovery.net/were-looking...

We're looking for a Communications Officer to join our team! - Scottish Recovery Network

Are you passionate about bringing people, services and organisations together to create a mental health system powered by lived experience.

scottishrecovery.net

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Sharon Greenwood @sharongreenwood.bsky.social · 15d

✨ Please repost!! ✨

Calling all qual researchers working in clinical trials! Can you help? Fill in a short questionnaire for my wonderful PhD student @ythqual.bsky.social. Any questions, give him a shout!

Yuan-Tao Huang @ythqual.bsky.social · 17d

Calling all UK Qualitative researchers working with Health-related Trials! We’d love your insights in a survey exploring your experience of the pace and timing of the qualitative research, as well as your experience of working with the trial team. 🔗 uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 16d

Vaccines cause adults
Tylenol causes pain relief
Neurodiversity is good

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Tony Robertson @tonyrobertson82.bsky.social · Aug 28

As part of The Scottish Wellbeing Economy Strategy Group, we are launching a new webinar series aiming to generate energy and discussion around the concept of a #WellbeingEconomy and what this means for Scotland. First up will be
@gerrymccartney1.bsky.social

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Aug 22

"nobody should be under any illusions as to what [MAHA] is—a dangerous pseudoscientific programme of work that supports a corrupt & unscientific wellness industry, seeks to discredit mainstream medicine, & portrays institutions & experts as enemies, not partners." #IllnessPolitics

The Lancet @thelancet.com · Aug 22

The week beginning Aug 4 was the most dangerous, tragic week of RFK Jr’s tenure yet.

A Lancet Editorial outlines why—unpacking a movement that seeks to discredit mainstream medicine and portray institutions and experts as enemies, not partners. tinyurl.com/4zppw6ay

Cover of The Lancet's August 23, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads: "Either through incompetence or disinformation, the actions of this movement pose the greatest threat to the health of Americans and millions of people globally."

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Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social · Aug 19

Next month I am running a 4 half day training on designing survey questions surrounding sex, gender and sexuality for @instats.bsky.social . If your interested check it out here:

instats.org/seminar/surv...

Surveying Sex, Gender and Sexuality - Live-streaming:

This Instats seminar on Surveying Sex, Gender and Sexuality taught by Kirstie Ken English will help you take your research to the next level. Sign up today!

instats.org

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Sharon Greenwood @sharongreenwood.bsky.social · Aug 10

Good short read to understand university financing. It’s baffling to me how many folk who work in HE are completely unaware of things like this (see also: admissions, targets, marketing) 🙃

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · Aug 10

Very few people seem to understand university finances and, distressingly, this includes many academics and most policymakers. This is an attempt to condense the key points you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/profseri...

Understanding University Finances

... a very short guide

open.substack.com

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University of Liverpool News @livuninews.bsky.social · Aug 7

NEWS | New findings from @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @uofglasgow.bsky.social show socioeconomic inequalities in children’s mental health are already evident by age five and persist throughout childhood and adolescence.

Read more⬇️

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/08/06/r...

@livunihls.bsky.social

Dr Yu Wei Chua, lead author and Research Associate in the Health Inequalities and Policy Research Group at the University of Liverpool, and NIHR Researcher at the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Consortium said: “Our findings show that the mental health gap is already firmly in place by age five, regardless of whether we use income or maternal education to index socioeconomic disadvantage.”

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Prof Andy Gumley @andygumley.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Please consider participating in this fab DClinPsy study.

Clinicians and researchers talk about relapse in psychosis but there is no agreed definition and certainly not one that includes the perspectives of people with psychosis or their supporters.

Cartoon advert of four people signalling that we want to encourage getting involved in a study aiming to develop a consensus definition of relapse in psychosis

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Sharon Greenwood @sharongreenwood.bsky.social · Aug 1

Carrying on the tradition of adding new things to my signature for the new academic year…🥰

Screengrab of an email signature. Text says:

Dr Sharon Greenwood (She/her)
PhD, MEd, MRes, MA (hons), DipHE

Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Programme Lead for Masters in Public Health (MPH) – on campus
Deputy Director of Education for School of Health and Wellbeing

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Sharon Greenwood @sharongreenwood.bsky.social · Jul 4

Sorry to hear this, but excellent advice. It gets easier 🤞

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Jul 1

A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.

The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

www.thelancet.com

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Sharon Greenwood @sharongreenwood.bsky.social · Jun 27

Four Tet at Glasto on the BBC red button 🥰

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Sharon Greenwood @sharongreenwood.bsky.social · Jun 27

Congrats!

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Sharon Greenwood @sharongreenwood.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congrats!

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Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · Jun 25

📣 In our new blog on LGBT+ wellbeing for #PrideMonth, Mohasin reflects on the need for researchers, service providers & support organisations to take an intersectional approach to LGBT+ inclusivity & why, illustrated using this powerful quote:

Link: gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...

Quote: Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexual orientation; sexual orientation folds on top of race (…) everything finally piling into a single human body.

- Eli Clare in Exile and Pride Disability, Queerness and Liberation (p. 143)

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · Jun 11

Peter Krykant kept the lives being lost to drugs in the public eye & shamed the Scottish gov into action. His van prevented overdoses & and continues to so as, without it, The Thistle wouldn’t exist. It was a privilege to know him. I hope he’s at peace. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/peter-k...

Peter Krykant dies suddenly as tributes paid to pioneering Scots drugs reformer

Krykant, who battled addiction issues, was found dead at home in Falkirk. He inspired many to regard addiction as a health issue and paved the way for state-backed safe drug consumption areas

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jun 9

On hold

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Sue Campbell @histnurse.bsky.social · Jun 6

As part of the Glasgow Science Festival, Nursing and Healthcare School staff and students from UofG will be at the Riverside Museum Saturday 7th June 11am – 3pm raising the profile of the pioneers of community nursing in Glasgow. www.glasgowsciencefestival.org.uk

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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · Jun 5

This month sees the 'Best Practice in Social Sciences Teaching Conference 2025', organised by colleagues here in the School of Social and Political Sciences, including our own @litots.bsky.social...

Best Practice in Social Sciences Teaching Conference 2025

Second annual conference, showcasing class activities which demonstrate imaginative teaching.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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