Andreas Papamichail

Deleted my account.

Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.

The Greens could be polling at 40% and all we’ll read about is the rise of Reform

Snapshots podcast: episode nine - Professor João Nunes- Global Health (GHWG) | BISA - Global Health (GHWG) Working Group

Snapshots podcast: episode nine - Professor João Nunes from Universidad Pontificia Comillas 🎉

With @bisa-global-health.bsky.social and hosted by Christopher Long Snapshots reveals the nature of work and life in global health 🌎

Listen here 👉 buff.ly/8zCIffZ

@apapamichail.bsky.social

Oh come the fuck on

Next stop, lodging motions welcoming the publication of Daily Express website subscriber polls.

All aboard the bullshit machine!

Congrats Alvina!!!

Reading this, who can honestly say Gaza is not a concentration camp, w Israel engineering mass death by starvation.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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...

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out.

In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.

Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled"

Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

Excited to share my article on the rise of a commercial market for pandemic intelligence. I analyze tech startups’ influence on public policy and the implications for WHO’s traditional authority in public health intelligence. Open access in Global Policy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

At a time when the world is unmoved in the face of the mass #starvation of #children in real time, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social's report on 'Starvation and the right to food, with an emphasis on the Palestinian people’s food sovereignty' has never been more relevant docs.un.org/en/A/79/171

UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.“We are concerned at the unjustified ...

“We are concerned at the unjustified labelling of a political protest movement as ‘terrorist’,” the experts said. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism” - UN Experts

Firefox extension for those who are interested.

Shipping giant Maersk divests from companies linked to Israeli settlements Move follows campaign accusing Maersk of links to Israel’s military and occupation of Palestinian lands.

"Maersk will cut ties with companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank, the Danish shipping giant has said....Its shipments have come under scrutiny as part of an international campaign led by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)"

www.yahoo.com/news/shippin...

If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong.

This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today

So it will be illegal to belong to or even express support for a group engaging in non violent direct action to stop a genocide

But it will still be legal to volunteer for the armed forces committing the genocide, and to express support for them (as most in Westminster and Fleet St do)

Massive Palestine march in London today

Two men wearing keffiyeh scarfs in front of Big Ben and Palestinian flags

Palestinian flags in front of Big Ben

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:

"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

Critically appraising the cass report: methodological flaws and unsupported claims - BMC Medical Research Methodology Background The Cass Review aimed to provide recommendations for the delivery of services for gender diverse children and young people in England. The final product of this project, the Cass report, re...

Peer-reviewed study finds "methodological flaws and unsubstantiated claims" in research that Cass Review is based upon. Labour should suspend legislation and rules based on report, which demeans and excludes trans community, and start comprehensive and independent scientific review.

Systematic peer-reviewed assessment showing the fundamental flaws of the Cass Review. Many in politics and beyond have used the Cass report to justify the erosion of gender-affirming care. This study is a litmus test for those who claim to "follow the science" on the topic.

as @timschwab.bsky.social , Lindsey McGoey and others point out, Gates Foundation initiatives have prioritised partnerships with companies such as Coca-Cola and Monsanto, reflecting a broader misalignment between their philanthropic activities and global health priorities

Looking for 2 x guest lecturers (paid) to give research led talks within a new course 'Rethinking IR' for final yr UGs on ontological security, bodies/embodiment, emotions/affect, biopolitics/necropolitics, or visual global pol in the Fall 2025 semester. Pls DM/email expressions of interest 🙏

St Andrews rector stripped of powers over Gaza row wins appeal Stella Maris will resume her role as head of the university’s governing body after a successful appeal against the institution.

Congratulations to Stella Maris, Rector of St Andrews, who has won her appeal against dismissal from the governing body: a vindication of her, and anyone's, right to condemn genocide and apartheid.

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries.
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration

Since the 2nd of March, Israel has been preventing food from entering the Gaza Strip.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."

Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.

Ethical violation as POLICY.