Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD

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Thank god this was never a thing in Australian academic recruiting

Please read. -YB. All proceeds from the GoFundMe will go to cover funeral costs and as temporary replacement of loss of income.

This is YB, @stuffhedoes Leslie’s spouse. I am sad to share with you the tragic news of his passing on Monday, November 10th, aged 43. Leslie Lee III was a beloved husband, son, brother, uncle, cousin, nephew, and friend. He left us much too soon. I appreciate your kindness at this time, while we process our grief. If you wish, you can donate directly to his gofundme linked in his profile, any later news I will post from this account. A private service for family is being held this week with a memorial service to be held at a later date in NYC. He was to me, my everything. He was an advocate for others with Long COVID. He was an amazing writer and passionate podcaster.

i'm sorry to have to relay this, but Leslie Lee III has passed away. if you can help with his family's expenses, please read on. they need the help right now.

Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!

Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

Does he have any plans to clean the air? (Thought not)

Ultimately, public health agencies encouraging people to take whatever steps they can to improve their health will have a dramatic effect during the next pandemic. Whether simply by stopping smoking, controlling hypertension or diabetes, or getting up and walking more, anything that makes the population healthier will prepare us better for the next pandemic. The best pandemic preparedness playbook for the United States is making America healthy again.

Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.

Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.

It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans.

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If AI is inevitable then why does it need so much government support and why are they constantly worried

Rhetorical RHETORICAL

Same goes for academic researchers who let GenAI summarise other people’s research for them

The Epstein Email Cache: 2,300 Messages, Many of Which Mention Trump An analysis of documents released this week by Congress shows President Trump was mentioned in more than half of the messages.

Incredible piece of data journalism here from @wsj.com.

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🚨🧵by @michaelryan756 on Twitter, highlighting three reasons why the book chapter linked below is worth reading

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Link to the FREE book chapter (PDF) 👇 which is from the book edited by Prof Deborah Lupton
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#Covid #LongCovid #SocialAspects

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.

Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

Very glad to have a chapter in the Long COVID and Society book curated by D. Lupton.

In my chapter, I show how #LongCovid patient-driven advocacy-research was critical in 2020-1 to identifying LC as a novel multi-system disease entity, and achieving recognition from policymakers and WHO

The Social Aspects and Impacts of Long COVID This chapter provides a substantial introduction to the book, giving an overview of the social, cultural and political aspects and impacts of Long COVID. Drawing on perspectives and theories from heal...

Here’s the direct link to my introduction chapter to ‘Long COVID and Society’, open access and free to read for all, either directly online or downloaded as a PDF

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

And probably fewer people getting the flu vaccine too - this is what happened in Australia in our winter this year

We need to start calling misrepresentation of COVID-related harms as due to "lockdowns" what it is: fraud, and a breach of academic integrity.

There's room for good research, but studies that ignore direct effects and mindlessly attribute e.g. changes in mental health to mitigations are dishonest.

"Well guys, you're gonna have to learn his f*cking name now."

I went on a rant at the Zohran Mamdani event last night, against billionaires who spent millions to try and stop a guy whose name they refuse to correctly pronounce.

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Resist GenAI

Citizen-led pollution monitoring persists in Louisiana, despite law that limits its use • Louisiana Illuminator Communities around Louisiana are taking environmental data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their findings can be used to enforce regulations.

Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
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Black and gray poster for talk by Kauna Malgwi on the hidden cost of AI.

For those in Atlanta, TIME 100 in AI honoree and mental health activist Kauna Malgwi will be gracing us with her presence at Georgia Tech tomorrow as part of our @aiainetwork.bsky.social Distinguished Speaker Series / IPaT Brown Bag crossover event. Info here: research.gatech.edu/ipat/fall-20...

I used to wonder
if people would take this virus
seriously again
if evidence emerged
that it increases the risk
of heart attack and stroke,
but now that researchers
have found just that
I find myself wondering
what more it will take.

flow chart showing how vaccination may reduce long covid by decreasing infections and severe infections. There is a graphic of a syringe and vial of vaccine.

Teens need access to COVID vaccinations to help prevent Long COVID as well as acute COVID infection.

➡️New study shows 36% reduction in Long COVID for teens who had been vaccinated prior to infection. buff.ly/oaW4SIA

#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.

Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.

Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.

Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.

Our position statement rejecting the use of GenAI for reflexive qualitative research can be found here

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The Social Aspects and Impacts of Long COVID This chapter provides a substantial introduction to the book, giving an overview of the social, cultural and political aspects and impacts of Long COVID. Drawing on perspectives and theories from heal...

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"Throughout this book, narratives of lived experience demonstrate the sheer devastation—physical, psychological and emotional—that is integral to life with #LongCOVID in a society in which the condition is neglected, ignored,

@dalupton.bsky.social

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

White background with large bold black and teal text reading: “7 Things Everyone Should Know About Long COVID.” The words “Long COVID” are highlighted in teal. The bottom right corner includes the logo “whn.global.”

Here are 7 things you should know about Long COVID.

Don’t get me started on how digital media studies academics ignored the digital sociology some of us began in the 1990s

Maybe we should call it No Czars.