Alison McCallum

Sign the Petition Make COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Available in the UK - Free of Charge

Evidence suggests COVID vaccine can reduce the numbers of infection, hospitalisations, and deaths...
And let's not forget the impact of Long COVID on individuals, on families, on the NHS and care homes, on businesses, on the wider community, and on the economy.
Click: www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars (Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...

“Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men. This holds when controlling for characteristics of the presenter, paper, and audience. Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters.”

The dates for the next Migration Winter Academy are official!📌 And early bird applications close on 5 October

👉 For policy analysts, private sector professionals, international organisation officials, civil servants, NGO and representatives, researchers, and journalists.

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The poem 'Dangerous Coats' by contemporary Irish writer Sharon Owens #womensart
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt

🚨In this new systematic review in BMJ JECH, most of the 18 studies reported dynamic associations between lifecourse socioeconomic change and dementia risk. Highest risk for those born poor who stay poor.

Eleanor Williams, @ilk21.bsky.social , Carol Brayne @cph.bsky.social

YouTube video by PalefaceVEVO Paleface - Emme suostu pelkäämään

As Finland got its first set of Soldiers of Odin, a counter group formed called Loldiers of Odin. The Finnish rapper Paleface even did a music video about how we will not submit to fear or being afraid, and Loldiers is a big part of that.

youtu.be/-0lht7PZLac?...

@derrymick.bsky.social be interesting to see interactive maps of the movement of people from your work

Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

Sir Hamid Patel, Star Academies - National ventilation standard for schools.
"there is a need to retrofit a solution"
"mechanical ventilation upgrade/ HEPA filters"
"disadvantaged areas are the ones that often have a poor infrastructure"
"link the Co2 data with learning outcomes"
#COVIDInquiry

Quarterly vaccination coverage statistics for children aged up to 5 years in the UK (COVER programme): April to June 2025

Vaccination coverage in some areas of London has fallen quite low but for UK as a whole, the 6 in 1 coverage at 5 yrs is over 93%. Varies a little but most of us remain quite sane- fortunately.
www.gov.uk/government/s...

The ECHR was designed to serve as a protection of the rights of the individual against the power of the state. Many of its articles were direct answers to the abuses of the Nazi era.

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

VERY EXCITING
launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews
first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener
find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...
please sign up and come

Bergen looking for more presenters at this conference. Interdisciplinary group seeking to 'change the narratives' around pandemic preparedness. #healthpolicy

www4.uib.no/en/research/...

UK Public Health Science conference 2026: a call for abstracts We are delighted to invite you to the 2026 UK Public Health Science (UKPHS) conference held in collaboration with our new partner, the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health (SSMPH). Previo...

UK Public Health Science Conference 🌱
📍 Newcastle | 📅 21 Apr 2026 (ECR event 20 Apr)

Abstracts welcome on any UK/Ireland public health research.
✅ Published in JECH | ⏳ Deadline: 17 Oct 2025

More info: jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
#PublicHealth #UKPHS2026 @socsocmed.bsky.social

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

Recommended by other friends as well. Not seen it yet but a pal recommended Ohio - navigating the experience of familial disease causing hearing loss as a musician and so much more. Thought you’d like it.

A large yellow ribbon with a star is displayed on the right side. Text reads: "Timor-Leste is officially malaria-free." Below it is the hashtag: #EndMalaria.

Congratulations! #TimorLeste has been certified malaria-free by WHO.

Since gaining independence in 2002, the country has made remarkable progress to #EndMalaria, reducing cases from a peak of over 223 000 in 2006 to zero indigenous cases from 2021 onwards. 👉 bit.ly/3UqU04X

Hundreds of thousands of US taxpayer-funded vaccine doses may expire, lawmakers say Hundreds of thousands of doses of mpox vaccine that the United States had promised to send to African nations are in danger of going to waste, dozens of congressional Democrats said in a letter to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday.

This is absurd. The mpox/monkeypox vaccines are already paid for & there are major outbreaks in several African countries. Couldn't they just hand the doses over to WHO or GAVI or Gates Fdtn or some other entity to distribute?

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Unfortunately for Americans who want to not experience things like "bubonic plague," we also can't write NIH or NSF grants about this kind of thing anymore. I dunno, seems important

WHO EPI-WIN Webinar: plague in the 21st century: new evidence to control a re-emerging zoonotic disease The objectives of this WHO EPI-WIN Webinar are to present an overview of the WHO global strategy for plague control, illustrating current technical guidance on surveillance, laboratory diagnosis, clin...

Yep - plague.
Want a deep dive? Plague webinar next week! 🐀

Public health: never not relevant. Often historically infectious.

Thanks @fledertier.bsky.social for the webinar tip!

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.

Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

Israeli Int'l Law Scholars on Plan to "Concentrate" Gaza Population Israeli international law scholars send urgent letter to Israel’s Minister of Defense, the IDF Chief of Staff, the Attorney General.

‘The plan is manifestly illegal, and if carried out would amount to a series of grave international crimes’ - Israeli intl law scholars on plans by Defence Minister Katz to “concentrate” population of Gaza in a so-called “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah www.justsecurity.org/116904/israe...

Gonorrhoea vaccine to be rolled out in England from August The treatment will be offered to those most at risk from August after a record number of cases.

The UK will become the first country to offer a vaccine program against gonorrhea.

It will use the MenB vaccine, which is caused by a close genetic relative to gonorrhea, and offers some ‘cross-protection’ against it.

Efficacy is moderate, but could prevent 100k infections over the next decade.

Interim Evaluation of Respiratory Syncytial ... This report describes RSV-associated hospitalization rates among infants and young children during the 2024–25 respiratory virus season.

New RSV vaccines & antibodies have reduced infant hospitalizations.

Among the youngest infants, hospitalisations for RSV were halved in the US.

But only around half of eligible infants received the vaccines last season. With higher vax rates, hospitalization rates could be reduced even more.

Toxic clouds: the mounting vape waste crisis As vape pollution spirals, volunteers will rally in York on 12 July to demand action and enforcement of ignored recycling laws

Toxic clouds: the mounting vape waste crisis

As vape pollution spirals, volunteers will rally in York on 12 July to demand action and enforcement of ignored recycling laws

By Miki Storey

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Horticulturalists Blessed are the Peacemakers Whose vision exceeds a fickle and cowardly law Blessed are the singers and the secateurs. Blessed are those who gather to break bread in places of state sanctioned terror. Blessed are mothers.against genocide Blessed are grannies against the bomb. Blessed are their ancestors; The Helens and Ellens The Martins and the Sallys The Tutus and Mandelas Theirs are the names recalibrating the moral compass. They are the horticulturalists of the just peace that will come.

Horticulturalists

Professional Diploma in Participatory Health Research.

The Participatory Health Research Unit at @unioflimerick.bsky.social has launched a new Postgrad Diploma in Participatory Health Research.
If you're interested in advanced participatory research methods to support Implementation Science, this course is for you.
More info: lnkd.in/dr5uEquC
#ImpSci