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And if you haven’t spent hours on the front line in healthcare or AI, how can you feel so confident about your positions on these topics?

My question to @rory-stewart.bsky.social is just how much time have you spent working in public health, healthcare and AI? I agree with you on many subjects, but in these areas - where I am one of Gove’s hated experts - I often disagree (hopefully agreeably) with your positions.

@therestpolitics.bsky.social as a Brit in the US, I very much enjoy Leading and the Rest is Politics and thought the interview with Michael Gove very entertaining. I was interested in Rory’s line of attack re Gove’s stance on Israel, focusing, in part, on how much time he’s spent in Gaza etc.

I didn’t know he was a bare knuckle boxer! One for you @oispooky.bsky.social

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I would have also liked to have seen members of the public involved in these panels too so it wasn’t just a normative process. We did this with our scientific studies (eg ucl-virus-watch.net) and their insights were always so important and pragmatic

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?

After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.

Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨

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😫 sorry. Found it. No idea what happened. Will reply. And thanks for checking in on me!!

Eh? Really, where did you send it? I have 6000 unread emails on my UCL account…sorry! Love you still, promise.

Yes, it was a great event and the start of a cool collaboration!

Yes!

Can’t wait to read the book, especially as my great great grandfather (according to family legend) was something of a bare knuckle fighter around that time in North + East London!

Any tips on how you think I could find out more about him and add some facts to the family history would be amazing!

Well, I never said it was actually going to be funny and not niche

I was going to make a joke about stepwise regression but I see you have that covered in the first paragraph

Also make sure you remove the AI prompt responses (I’ve found them…)

SAVE THE DATE: The 2026 IEA European Congress of Epidemiology and 70th @socsocmed.bsky.social Annual Conference will take place in London, UK on 8th-11th September 2026!

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The problem of fake academic citations: a scholar's concern | Helen Pineo posted on the topic | LinkedIn Fake academic citations are a problem, but I'm not sure what the real problem is. While reading existing research about residents' experiences of temporary accommodation, I came across a nice article ...

Helen wrote an interesting piece over on LinkedIn about fake citations. The comments were also thought provoking www.linkedin.com/posts/helen-...

USA public health origins can be found in the marine hospital services around 1798 so quite a bit before 1918 influenza epidemic

That why I love the rest is history.

Interesting to call it a journal in public health given none of them actually trained or worked in public health.

Many grant proposals are submitted against a background of 'ticking clocks' (i.e. contracts or studentships coming to an end). These aren't new calls – they're ones that people may well have already submitted 100+ page applications for. Even delays could prove extremely damaging to early careers...

Cochrane on Communism: the influence of ideology on the search for evidence In his seminal work Effectiveness and Efficiency,1 Archie Cochrane asked why, despite their enormous potential, randomized trials were much less widely use

What happens when ideology trumps (pun intended) science? My 2006 Cochrane lecture « Cochrane on communism ». Spoiler: it doesn’t end well

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For all new BlueSky joiners - here is a starter pack i did a couple of months ago and have just updated!

For anyone interested in UK current affairs and political commentary

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I was very happy to discover @onisillos.bsky.social on here. Keeping me grounded to my London routes too.

I’m willing to place a bet that, unlike Barry Marshall, his self experimentation will not result in a Nobel prize.

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We've just posted three new job openings; all will focus on disease burden estimation for #NTDs. More details in each of the job descriptions linked below.

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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Professor (and Head of Department) The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

Open Recruitment of a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Dynamics: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Good research culture, friendly colleagues, inspiring public health leaders, great connections across epi & PH, & very dedicated students.

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#Bellogate trends after pranksters target UCL students' email Students take to Twitter after being subjected to thousands of spam messages from membership lists and porn sites

We had a similar event at UCL in 2014 and it was wild for a while. It even made the news. We didn’t have onions though www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Miss you guys! Looks like a lot of fun. Didn’t know about Jo’s musical talents!

How to Counter Public Health Myths and Elevate Science Now

How to Counter Public Health Myths and Elevate Science Now

www.frameworksinstitute.org/articles/how...

This was an absolutely amazing webinar from @frameworks.bsky.social @frameworksuk.bsky.social

The link to the seminar itself is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVC-...