I’ve had a brilliant day at the British Science Festival #BSF25. Thanks so much for inviting us to share our @medcanproject.bsky.social research!
10.09.2025 17:05 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Stuart George - Susan Hanks sits in (21/08/2025) - BBC Sounds
News, information and advice with Susan, plus 'What's the Year?' from 1pm.
Dr Sandra Fawcett, lecturer in skin physiology, spoke yesterday on BBC radio #Stoke about #skin #cancer and the ABCDE approach to keeping track of your moles. Her part starts right after David Bowie www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
22.08.2025 13:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Get your free tickets for the British Science Festival In Liverpool!
The whole programme looks absolutely amazing!! I’ll be there sharing my research on the experiences of cannabis patients too! #BSF25
11.08.2025 12:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks so much to @lisa-white.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social for organising a fab writing retreat and creating space for bid-writing, publishing and supportive conversations. Good start to the week! #AcWri
24.06.2025 17:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two researchers next to conference poster
Really enjoyed the poster session at @issdp conference today.
Great papers too & many fascinating conversations on cannabis policy with delegates from New Zealand, Canada, Uruguay, Germany and more… #ISSDP25
12.06.2025 19:21 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
8 years. 8 f**king years and still nothing. #grenfell💚 #grenfelltowerfire
14.06.2025 05:33 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Fabulous cross stitch exhibition by Dr Lisa Williams @issdrugpolicy.bsky.social conference. I love this! #ISSDP25
13.06.2025 07:59 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Poorer children more likely to age faster than affluent counterparts, study finds
Biological disadvantages may be shaped in first decade of a child’s life depending on family affluence
🧬🧒 Poverty leaves a mark – even in children’s cells
A new study finds kids from poorer families show signs of faster biological ageing, linked to stress and shorter telomeres – even before age 11.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
#SciComm #ChildHealth #Inequality 🧪
10.06.2025 04:19 — 👍 73 🔁 35 💬 5 📌 8
Historian here, holder of multiple degrees, previous holder of RA posts, co-author of book, journal articles, numerous essays and book reviews - attributes and skills seemingly unwanted by most employers. Seeks freelance work, writing, editing, researching, etc, in pursuit of paying bills.
24.05.2025 11:35 — 👍 48 🔁 31 💬 3 📌 1
Two sisters in front of mountain scene
Home from amazing USA visit to bring together these two long lost sisters! All started with a DNA test kit we gifted my mother-in-law one Christmas. Now her extended USA family gathered from six states to greet us. Unforgettable experience! #genealogy #DNA
23.05.2025 21:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
Advance article (open access): Stigmatised and stressed: UK cannabis patients living in the context of prohibition by Lindsey Metcalf McGrath and Helen Beckett Wilson
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
22.04.2025 16:30 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
88% of low-income households who receive disability benefits were going without the essentials in the 6 months to Oct 📢
59% had to take out a loan to cover the cost of essentials. 53% were in arrears.
Our COL tracker: www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi...
Anushka Asthana on @itvpeston.bsky.social
23.01.2025 09:48 — 👍 143 🔁 95 💬 2 📌 33
Started the week right with a Monday morning Shut Up and Write with my @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Writer’s Group. Coffee and friendly faces resulted in two productive hours #acwri #suaw
10.03.2025 13:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Conferences
CALL FOR PAPERS Voluntary Action History Society’s 8TH International Conference: ‘New Ways of Doing Voluntary Action History? University of Liverpool, UK, 2-4 July 2025 The Voluntary Action History…
🚨Call for papers on voluntary action history. 🚨
The Voluntary Action History Society 8th holds its 8th International Conference at the University of Liverpool, 2-4 July 2025.
Abstract deadline 15 March 2025. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.vahs.org.uk/events/confe...
18.02.2025 09:28 — 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Big ‘Blue Sky’ welcome to @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation & Social Exclusion (CCSE) - my research centre at LJMU
24.02.2025 16:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A vibrant painting titled The Icknield Way (1912) by Spencer Gore. It depicts a rural English landscape at sunset, with bold brushstrokes of pinks, oranges, and purples in the sky. Rolling green fields and winding paths stretch into the horizon, framed by rows of trees and distant hills.
🎨🌄 Today’s haiku:
golden streaks of light
roll through patchwork fields,
tracing ancient paths anew
Inspired by The Icknield Way (1912) by Spencer Gore
#Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets
18.01.2025 07:31 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Sounds brilliant!
17.01.2025 17:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ISSDP
The International Society for the Study of Drug Policy
Really honoured to be part of the organising committee for this year’s Int Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) in Manchester. Hosted by Manchester Met (who madly made me a visiting professor ☺️). Call for abstracts opened www.issdp.org
11.12.2024 14:34 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
And… my research sabbatical comes to an end. Grateful to @ljmu for supporting me to spend a whole semester 100% focused on my @medcanproject.bsky.social research. It shows no signs of slowing down. Looking forward to the new teaching semester next week, alongside my research writing!
17.01.2025 17:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
For clarity, ours is the “2024 study by researchers at Liverpool John Moores University” cited. Can’t take credit for MedCan Family Foundations new Open Secret report that underpins the news coverage this week focused on children with epilepsy.
17.01.2025 16:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Please Share 📣: I am a 2nd Year PhD student researching the experiences of victimisation and the Criminal Justice System among autistic people.
If you would like to share your experiences, please click the link below. (Must be 18+and live in the UK).
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09.12.2024 12:01 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
Heartbreaking stories of parents facing awful dilemmas because of the barriers to legal cannabis medicines in the UK #cannabis #epilepsy #NHS
14.01.2025 20:29 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
File on 4 Investigates - Cannabis Kids: The parents breaking the law to help their children with epilepsy - BBC Sounds
An investigation reveals children are being given illegal cannabis to treat epilepsy.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
One of these children has been treated with a range of anti epileptic drugs some of which are not licensed for children. She has also been given phenytoin and ketamine with very little effect. This is national disgrace.
14.01.2025 11:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. Fighting for a nicer industry since 1884. #societyofauthors
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training https://linktr.ee/societyofauthors
Writer, sociologist. Yoga & mindfulness teacher. Gaza & Colonial Aphasia https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251333918
A collective of sociologists in Britain calling on sociologists and professional bodies to use their platforms to stand with Palestinians
socispal@proton.me
https://socispal.wordpress.com/about/
Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Class. Working on class, cities, evictions and gentrification. Trade unionist, Living Rent member, part of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive collective and editor at The Sociological Review
PhD candidate. LJMU Public Health Researcher. Drug sociologist. Lived experience. Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion. LGBTQIA+ 🌈Mother of Cats😻
Reporting on Drugs/Psychedelics/Subculture/Society @vice @wired @rollingstone @guardian @latimes @ukesquire Repped: @aevitas_creative
Vancouver, BC
Associate Professor of Psychology, researcher, writer, wronger, psychedelic Indiana Jones..
The national alliance of charities that provide drug and alcohol treatment and recovery services in England. https://www.collectivevoice.org.uk/
CBE / Psychiatrist and Founder, Club Drug Clinic/ Hon Prof, UCL/ Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists/ Chair, ACMD/ President, Society for the Study of Addiction/ Policy Fellow, CSaP, Uni of Cambridge/ Personal views only
Artist, activist & author of 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' 📚 Resisting the urge to tweet since 2008
ellieharrison.com/book
An exploration of the lifecycle of (corona)viruses and how scientists design drugs to fight them, using movement and play!
Debuting at the #BSF25 in Liverpool September 2025
Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University | Experimental Psychologist | Social Neuroscientist | Researching Pain, Touch, Anxiety, Depression.
You'll find an exciting range of degree courses available in Pharmacy and Biomolecular sciences. Our programmes include placement options, field work opportunities and are accredited by professional bodies to ensure you receive outstanding teaching.
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Intersectional feminist journal of language + art since 1992. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction & visual art exploring gender, race, class & sexuality.
Lecturer in Criminology at RGU; Visiting Lecturer at Newcastle Sociology. I write and research on hauntings, ghosts, graveyards, the wilderness, and other sundry death things. Book forthcoming with MUP.
Lecturer. Sociologist. Pall & End-of-life care. BSA ECF Convenor. #TheArchers (mega) fan. Friend to Crows.
Supporting sociologists navigating the mid-career stage.
Practical solidarity, peer connection, and shared strategies for research, teaching & leadership.
Run by BSA Mid-Career Forum convenors.
Lecturer in Criminology. Interested in prisons, arts and care.
Reader in Criminal Justice @ljmuofficial.bsky.social and Project Lead on ESRC-funded Rehabilitating Probation Project @probationres.bsky.social
The Liverpool Autism Hub based at University of Liverpool
Aim: to disseminate research findings, generate community-led research and provide networking opportunities.
