Dr Katie Larner (she/her)

Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name We use cookies where necessary to allow us to understand how people interact with our website and content, so that we can continue to improve our service.

Men who abuse their power are the real threat to women, not trans people.

If you're a woman and you agree, sign the petition to show your support for the trans community. 🏳️‍⚧️🔽
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u

I didn’t know that! I may have to look into alternatives. (I had noticed the demotions aspect, and not a new fan of the new ‘max’ plan)

Started with learning Italian and practicing my German. Now onto learning Japanese! Here’s hoping I get to practice it in country at some stage…

Postdoctoral position in Population Genetics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University Postdoctoral position in Population Genetics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

We have a postdoc position in Human Population Genetics available at the Center for the Human Past. Closing date 31 Jan. Please circulate and apply! More info and application available here:

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Lindisfarne, 793 AD.

Not going to pretend to be surprised about this because I wrote a book about January 6. But yes—if you were wondering—the most malevolent criminal in US political history is about to be POTUS in 6 days. It's an unimaginable situation, essentially a living nightmare, and very few fully comprehend it.

You've got to hand it to Elon Musk - getting 71% of British people to agree on anything is impressive

Meanwhile in the other place

This sums it up, yes.

I’m being told by some people that ‘we’ll never have a healthcare system like the US’. Why do you think this?

Think tanks are aggressively pushing the case to dismantle the NHS model, and private healthcare is expanding rapidly, as politicians neglect the NHS. This is how things collapse 🚨

Male Bias in Science and Ways to Counter it: Gender Imbalance of Images in a Science Textbook in Irish Secondary Education.
Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os...
Published article: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
#EducationalResearch #ITeachPhysics #EduSky #AcademicSky

Introduced our cat to higher up the Christmas tree. The look of wonder and mischief in her eyes as she saw all the baubles she could steal.

#Medsky🧪 #IDSky #immunoSky Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is mainly treated with anti-tuberculosis drugs. Globally, tuberculosis remains a major public health threat & is the second biggest #infectiousdisease killer after #COVID19 pandemic

Today's ONS stats illustrate the devastating impacts of poverty on life expectancy.

Most areas across Great Britain have experienced a fall in life expectancy. 📢

With some of the most deprived areas having the lowest expectancy. 1/3

Vaccines against cancer are becoming a reality.

I wonder if the antivaxers will cry about these too...

medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine...

Hundreds of potentially toxic road runoff outfalls polluting England’s rivers Exclusive: No regulator is monitoring scale of impact of dangerous chemicals on wildlife or public health

Our article on road runoff pollution in @guardian featuring the very lovely Jo Bradley of Stormwater Shepherds

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Framing matters. It’s not a “refugee crisis”, it’s a humanitarian crisis. Refugees don’t create the problem, inhumanity does.

oh no poor little Jeremy, not the unsparing criticism

Hey friends,

I made my first starter pack! You can’t go wrong following these 150 fun and smart science communicators. For some reason there’s no men in there? Weird.

Please don’t be mad if you’re not on there — I ran out of slots even though many are still missing 😬

go.bsky.app/JKv3BWU

How to Apply and Funding Opportunities Details of the application process and funding opportunities.

There is still time to apply for a funded PhD at UCL but funding deadlines are approaching fast.

I am keen to supervise students on Palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoecology, ZooMS, stable isotopes, radiocarbon dating projects. Get in touch soon!

www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...

Scientists as political advocates Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

Scientists should stop arguing about whether science is political and get on with defending science against increasingly powerful attacks on it, which, yes, means scientists should be political advocates 🔥🔥
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

University job cuts to ‘hit 10,000 by year end’ despite fee rise English fee rise does little to relieve pressure on institutions, with increased staff costs likely to swallow additional funding

"Sector leaders expected more than 100 of the UK’s 140-odd universities to be making redundancies by the start of 2025, in what has been described as a “cataclysmic” situation where “everything is on the table”."

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

Absolutely nothing more depressing than clicking “Read the full article here” only to be redirected to a “Log in via your institution”. Inaccessible science helps no one.

Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Hospitalized AECOPDs Secondary to SARS-CoV-2 versus Other Respiratory Viruses To compare clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD)s secondary to SARS-CoV-2 versus other respiratory viruses amongst a highly vaccinated populatio...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

AO Trauma Course—Managing Pediatric Fractures

Chairpersons:
David Emery (United Kingdom), Anna Clarke (United Kingdom)

Advanced Course

🗓 February 12–13, 2025
📍 Leeds, United Kingdom
🔊 English

Register now
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Hey health reporters! I made a starter pack for journalists and bloggers covering health care policy. Please let me know who else belongs on this list!

(I do not belong on this list but can’t figure out how to take myself off 🫣)

go.bsky.app/4BnB6v9

Global Health 2050: The Path to Halving Premature Death by Mid-Century During this event, the authors of the Global Health 2050 report will discuss the path to strengthening health systems to deliver key interventions targeting priority conditions, mobilizing financing, ...

The world is on fire

Amidst the challenges, there's at least one domain where great progress is possible: driving down premature death

We just published a Lancet report on cutting premature death in half by 2050

Join us on Thurs Nov 21, 11.30am-1pm ET, to hear more

www.cgdev.org/event/global...

ICYMI our starter pack of Clarke Award winning & shortlisted authors on Bluesky 🦋🚀

go.bsky.app/NSxJh7L

List very much a work in progress, and HAL is updating as we go.

Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments Royal College of Emergency Medicine warns of ‘unacceptable risk’ posed by lack of funding to NHS

Emergency doctors have sounded the alarm over an approaching winter crisis that they say is already putting patients in overstretched A&E departments at risk
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...