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Sophie Harman @profsophieharman.bsky.social · 6d

Kindle has chosen Sick of It to be part of their 99p deal for October!

Given the first book I published back in 2010 was about £80 this is a much better deal. And cheaper than a whippy.

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 9d

Only a few days left to register for our annual #student careers panel & reception!

This is an opportunity to hear insights from panellists covering diverse fields of academia & research, the charity sector, law & consultancy in/around the #MiddleEast.

www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...

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Tiziana Leone (she/her) 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @tizianaleone.bsky.social · 12d

I am struggling to keep up with all the lecture material *rump is giving us at the moment.

Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 12d

📣BREAKING: The US blocked a landmark #UN declaration on #NCDs, objecting to language on gender, taxes, and UN “overreach.”

💪But 130+ countries still back it — with goals to cut tobacco use, expand hypertension control, and provide mental health access to 150M more people by 2030.

📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁

BREAKING: UN Declaration On Noncommunicable Diseases Fails To Win Approval After US Foils Consensus - Health Policy Watch

NEW YORK CITY - A painstakingly negotiated Political Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases with overwhelming support from UN member states failed to win

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LSE Department of International Development @lseid.bsky.social · 12d

We’re honoured to host Francia Elena Márquez Mina, Colombia’s first Black woman Vice President, for a special #BlackHistoryMonth event at LSE. ✊🏾🌍

🎟️ Free & open to the public. Register via link in bio
📅 Tue 14 Oct, 7.15–8.45pm

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 12d

LSE and @bspsuk.bsky.social are hosting a workshop on "Being an academic in population studies" on 3 November! It'll be a nice mix of methods training and career advice with great talks by @ericbschneider.bsky.social, Wendy Sigle, José Manuel Aburto, and others!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-an-a...

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Tiziana Leone (she/her) 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @tizianaleone.bsky.social · 13d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC and news agencies launch film calling on Israel to allow foreign journalists into Gaza

Israel does not allow foreign journalists into Gaza independently, citing security grounds.

www.bbc.co.uk

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 19d

Interested in exploring a #MiddleEast related career?

Join us next Thurs 2 October for our annual student careers panel featuring Eyad Hamid (SLDP), @tizianaleone.bsky.social (@lseid.bsky.social) & @cwoodcraft.bsky.social (@jbs.cam.ac.uk), followed by a reception.

www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 23d

Sad (but not surprised) to read the latest Global Health 50/50 report, amidst turmoil in global health, erosion of democracy, withdrawal from multi-lateralism, aid cuts, attacks on science, DEI, human rights

@kentbuse.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social

global5050.org/2025-report/

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Tiziana Leone (she/her) 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @tizianaleone.bsky.social · 23d

"we advance data-linked explanatory analysis – to demonstrate how nested qualitative life history interviews with survey participants can be used to account for population patterns in studies using person-centered techniques to classify health behaviors"
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Demographic Research - Unpacking the black box of latent class analysis using qualitative life history interviews: A data-linked explanatory approach examining sexual behavior in rural South Africa (V...

Volume 53 - Article 13 | Pages 343–372

www.demographic-research.org

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PLOS @plos.org · Sep 4

We have updated our editorial policy for retrospective health database studies to strengthen scientific rigor and editorial integrity.

🔗 Read more here: plos.io/4g8Jbi8

Updates to PLOS retrospective health database editorial policy - The Official PLOS Blog

Learn more about PLOS revised editorial guidelines for research using publicly accessible health and social science databases.

theplosblog.plos.org

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Signe Svallfors @signesvallfors.bsky.social · Sep 4

📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply!
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 2

“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.

Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.

EU Must Cap SUV Hood Heights Urges Report. Crash Test Body Says Not As Simple As That

Higher fronts on cars significantly increase the death rate when pedestrians and cyclists are struck, says new report. EuroNCAP says more complex than that.

www.forbes.com

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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · Aug 25

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨

Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!

Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

We're hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Demography, deadline: 30 September 2025

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)

www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)

www.lse.ac.uk

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Aug 20

“What name do we give to a policy environment that suppresses the arrival of new life?”

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Is Gaza still a place for newborn life?

10 months after a warning that Gaza's maternal and neonatal health sector was sliding from crisis towards collapse,1 fresh field reports reveal an even starker picture. In the first 6 months of 2025, ...

www.thelancet.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Aug 8

Burning contraceptives? Why? Why not use it in communities that need them??

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed

www.nytimes.com

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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · Aug 6

We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇

SOC-MISC @soc-misc.bsky.social · Aug 5

🔎 The University of St Andrews research team led by Katherine Keenan and partner in the SOC-MISC project is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on analysing Scottish public data on miscarriages.

More information in the link below :
👉 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Post-doctoral Research Fellow – AR3162

Post-doctoral Research Fellow – AR3162, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, Salary: £38,249 - £45,413 per annum, Start: Earliest December 2025 (to be confirmed), Fixed term for 18 mont...

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · Jul 21

"We prefer to die by airstrike. But not to watch our families die slowly from hunger."

The conclusion to The Foreign Gaze started and ended in Gaza; with hunger, malnutrition, and starvation on my mind; with famine on my mind.

It's very painful to watch my fears of Israel and its allies fulfilled.

The first page of the Conclusion chapter of the book "The Foreign Gaze" which opens with a quote from Palestinian journalist writing from Gaza in April 2024, about hunger, malnutrition, and starvation.

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Jul 21

We’re editing a book on reproductive justice in Latin America and invite extended abstracts (800 words) by Nov 30, 2025.

More info: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 31

Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report

Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions

www.theguardian.com

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Tiziana Leone (she/her) 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @tizianaleone.bsky.social · Jul 30

Longer reproductive period associated with lower grip strength
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38016167/

The association between reproductive period and handgrip strength in postmenopausal women: a nationwide cross-sectional study - PubMed

A longer reproductive period is associated with a decreased risk of low HGS in postmenopausal women.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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LSE Department of International Development @lseid.bsky.social · Jul 23

Latest publication from Dr Myfanwy James which explores how the inclusion of pregnant women in an Ebola vaccine trial in Goma, DRC, sparked local rumors that reflected broader ethical concerns and historical anxieties
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Medical Anthropology Quarterly | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library

The position of pregnant women in clinical research remains a topic of international ethical debate. Yet, the reflections of actual and potential trial participants, including pregnant women themselv...

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Myfanwy James @myfanwyvjames.bsky.social · Jul 29

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IPC ALERT: Worst-case scenario of Famine unfolding in the Gaza Strip

The worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip. Conflict and displacement have intensified, and access to food and other essential items and services has plummeted to unp...

www.ipcinfo.org

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Tiziana Leone (she/her) 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @tizianaleone.bsky.social · Jul 29

A little education for all my students old and incoming that have no clue who Depeche Mode are. I might put this in all my reading lists from now on. I can't face anymore entire rooms of blank faces when I quote one of their songs... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Depeche Mode: Reach Out and Touch Faith

Sasha Frere-Jones leads us on the unlikely journey of Depeche Mode’s world domination.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tiziana Leone (she/her) 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @tizianaleone.bsky.social · Jul 28

Israel would not allow the BBC to film Gaza from the sky, Thats in itself should speak volumes www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Gaza: BBC's Jeremy Bowen goes onboard a plane dropping aid

The BBC's international editor was on a Jordanian flight as it dropped supplies into Gaza.

www.bbc.co.uk

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