Lucy Abel

Writing to my MP to tell him that, in my professional opinion, the government are being idiots.

Exhausting that successive governments continue to push the narrative that the way to create good health in a population is to threaten sick and disabled people with poverty.

More colleagues in Primary Care at Oxford UK standing up in #solidarity today with our friends in the USA.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk

#StandUpForScience

Solidarity from the UK! We've had discussions in the office today about what we can do to help. It's not much, but every person counts.

5/11 ⚠️ Notably, we found no evidence that physician associates add value in primary care or that anaesthetic associates contribute positively in anaesthetics. If you add cost of supervision, which the studies don’t, it’s very unlikely they are cost-effective

First, this is facism. It's not 'on the path' or 'a worrying precedent'. It's just facism.

Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc.
That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.

Reflecting on what makes academia viable as an ECR, and for me it has literally been senior colleagues looking out for me and making sure I had a job. Without that I wouldn't still be here, and certainly wouldn't have had the space to find my own funding.

All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict

Refreshing piece by Amy Fleming in The Guardian, where I joined scholars to unpack misconceptions that disempower parents & young people around tech. Evidence doesn’t support fear—our approach shouldn’t either. Let’s pause panic & do better for families in 2025!

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I mean, around 2009, when I was 19, many of my friends thought Britain would be best off under a benevolent dictatorship headed by Stephen Fry. So maybe let's not panic quite yet.

with apologies to the neighbours, etc etc, but also I can now bash out some simple Christmas tunes with my family and it makes everyone so happy!

One of the great joys of learning an instrument as an adult is realising how much happiness you can create even when you're not very good. Art does not have to be good to be valuable!

Ah, why isn’t Margaret McCartney on here 😢

Have the new prostrate screening procedures talked about on #r4today really made such a difference to the risk/benefit analysis as was implied? I want to know! Because for now: #medtwitter

a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park Alt: Meme of man with a mustache

Waiting for my institution to join Bluesky

The IHEA conference lists 42 subfields of health economics. A similar list must exist for every other academic field. I am an amoeba.

Staring into the abyss this morning (reviewing the list of subfields for an abstract submission and being overawed by how little I actually know)

Ouch. Nope, absolutely not. New goal for the next HESG meeting, I guess.

Oooh thanks!

Everyone's "just trying this out" messages are so awkward I love it

Trying to find all my old mutuals - on the hunt for health economists in the wild.

Why is November always such a terrible month?