@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
deffo. I took a long time to finish my doctorate. Kids got in the way for a bit. Never regretted putting them first.
Oh heck. As if there isn't enough apartheid in academia.
IgNobel?
YES
Some of the most important threats to democracy do not make the biggest headlines - especially (and understandable) given the new war in Iran. This 4 min update looks at actions weakening the rule of law, reducing oversight, expanding executive power, and making voting harder.
youtu.be/DzHg-TbhdfQ
Ugh. We also got malt extract. My older bro got a double dose cos he was shorter than me. Crazy times.
Rose Hip Syrup? I got a spoon of that AND one of cod liver oil before school on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. And look at me now.
been there
Time to start giving your kids their medication as tablets instead of liquids? Link to academic paper in article. By @oohgpwales.bsky.social
theconversation.com/kids-can-tak...
At the Open University we used to receive Commonwealth Scholarships for up to 20 students in east Africa to study the MSc in Environmental Management; this year just 5; as climate change hits the most vulnerable..
Heartbreaking. Like this too...
Explainer: UK government has announced a suspension on student visa applications from nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. Details here www.gov.uk/guidance/vis...
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
1/ After examining Epstein's corpse, Baden was convinced he died by homicide.
Baden said he has never seen 3 fractures in a suicidal hanging as a medical examiner for 25 yrs, nor while serving for decades as NY state commission that oversees prison deaths.
www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
A little shameless self promotion here.
Was honoured to be asked to write the environmental health chapter for the MedSci 101 textbook Core Concepts in Health (5th Ed).
It came out last week.
Definitely a stretch for me, something I've never done.
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Would have loved to come but will have to wait for the link to the recording!
Tomorrow I'll be giving the inaugural Nick Black Annual Health Services Research Lecture, taking a look at what AI in health might mean and how we can deal with some of the potential pitfalls. It is at 5.30pm at LSHTM and all are welcome - no registration required
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
All wars create unexpected second and third-order effects. One of the appalling things about the Trump administration is that they don’t seem to have thought through the expected effects either. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
Is there a support group for academics who are at the bottom of the learning curve for AntiGravity? Asking for a friend. #academicsky
I've always fancied myself as a non-sectarian Thought for the Day speaker. Decades ago I got into correspondence with Rabbi Lionel Blue and he agreed we should have some non-religious 'thoughts' in that slot.
A good day to give thanks for fire and rescue personnel in Glasgow, and around the world
“human-derived mathematical proofs have always been [to some extent] social constructs — about convincing other people in the field that the arguments are right”
Fab Substack on AI ‘proofs’ from @kityates.bsky.social
‘Spread’ seems like a good word
Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
• More hardline than father
• He’s the IRGC candidate
• Relatively young: 56
• Avoids public
• Trusted by father, clerics
• Was in military during Iraq-Iran war
• His wife, Zahra, killed in Israeli airstrike w his father
Though I do always turn off the recorder at the end and ask them if there’s anything else they want to share! Can often charm them into letting me turn it on again and them saying the gem again
Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”
Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?”
Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power”
#bbclaurak
Epstein File Search
@epsteinsearchin
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Feb 13
Someone had to make all the Epstein documents actually searchable.
So I did.
epsteinsearch.info
My response to those who view AI in qualitative research in polarised terms.
I argue for the AI enthusiasts and the conscientious objectors to meet in the middle and deliberate.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SNHUC...
"He seems to have had no idea that the Gulf would be a target. … He professed that Iran’s attacks on American allies were 'probably the biggest surprise'—despite the fact that just about every country in the region had warned that Iran would surely attack them in retaliation."
No.