Delighted to start 2026 with my first PhD paper published 🎉 This review maps 35 UK complex intervention studies to improve access to healthcare for ethnically underrepresented groups. Promising approaches, but gaps in effectiveness & equity remain. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Health service access for ethnically underrepresented communities: A scoping review of complex interventions

Background The aim of this scoping review is to systematically map the existing evidence of complex interventions used to improve access and/or engagement of ethnically underrepresented communities wi...

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Great to present @ukri.org funded work on stratified rehab after hip fracture at @gerisoc.bsky.social Belfast. Great to see colleagues old and new!

🔊 🔊🔊 CALLING ALL NHS MUSCULOSKELETAL PHYSIOTHERAPISTS/ SERVICE MANAGERS 🔊 🔊🔊 Please complete survey to inform programme of research on community appointment days at link 👉 forms.office.com/e/eBFWf5rsmk or QR 👇 Please share widely to your networks @thecsp.bsky.social @tobysmith.bsky.social

Fragility Fracture Network Global Congress Porto 0ct 1-4 2025 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN: fragilityfracturenetwork.org/2025-congres...

New perspective in NEJM pitching for improved access to FLS Coordinating Multidisciplinary Care — Improving Outcomes after Fragility Fractures www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Coordinating Multidisciplinary Care — Improving Outcomes after Fragility Fractures | NEJM

Making integrated fracture liaison services a routine part of postfracture care could help reduce disparities in care — and may offer a useful model for the management of other chronic diseases.

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The value of healthy #ageing: Estimating the #economic value of #health using time use data 👉 Healthy older people create economic value by engaging in non-market activities #Prevention #Aging #Care #PublicHealth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The value of healthy ageing: Estimating the economic value of health using time use data

Economic arguments in favour of investing in health and health care are important for policy making, yet demonstrating the potential economic gains as…

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#ARCadvent day 5️⃣: @unibirmingham.bsky.social researchers funded by Birmingham BRC & @arc-wm.bsky.social developed a toolkit to guide representative & equitable inclusion in clinical research. REP-EQUITY describes 7 key questions to consider when planning & recruiting arc-wm.nihr.ac.uk/rep-equity/

Useful tips for those interested in Supported Self Management The 16 communication skills of top performers youtu.be/oe64JcjUVnk?... via @YouTube #SelfmgtLIVING-Works

The 16 communication skills of top performers

YouTube video by Rather

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An interview by Bart’s Life Sciences with @proflizsampson.bsky.social and me about our proposed work at the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing bartslifesciences.org/transforming...

Transforming Healthy Ageing: Insights from the Pioneers Leading the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing - Barts Life Sciences

Welcome to this special interview with two of the three distinguished professors who have been appointed as Professorial Chairs for the newly established Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA) at B...

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Just published in Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls: About Falls Efficacy: A commentary on “World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative” Great work by Shawn to lead this discussion! Free to read here: www.jfsf.eu/Article.php?...

So many fantastic workshop suggestions coming through! If you are interested/have an idea and want to be linked to like minded people across the globe to develop a workshop....then drop me a message (k.sheehan@qmul.ac.uk). Very keen to bring new faces to the Fragility Fracture Network!

Katie Sheehan@katiejsheehan.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 📢 FRAGILITY FRACTURE NETWORK WORKSHOPS CALL Global Congress Porto Oct 1-4 2025 Workshops call open! Jan 15th deadline. Share your work to support patients with fragility fractures globally Proposal form and guidance at link 👇 fragilityfracturenetwork.org

🌟Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow🌟 🔊 Closing Dec 11th 🔊 ▶️ At NIHR BRC, Barts Health & @qmul.ac.uk ▶️ 50:50 clinical: academic 🌟 Post 1: Ortho inpatients + research supported by me 🌟 Post 2: MSK outpatients + research supported by Dylan Morrissey ▶️ Apply 👇 qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

📢4 days left📢 until our webinar introducing the CONSULT e-learning on trials involving adults with impaired capacity to consent - plus an opportunity to ask our expert panel about the key challenges you encounter! 📆5th Dec 🕑2-3pm 🔗register tinyurl.com/2s3nmbz7 #InclusiveResearch #ClinicalTrials

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Daniel van Strien@danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 2y ago

First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋 📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API 🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions 🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗 huggingface.co/datasets/blu...

🌟🌟JOB ALERT 🌟🌟 Predoctoral Clinical Academic Fellow in Hand Therapy 40% research 60% clinical Work with field leader Dr Lisa Newington to develop and lead your own projects, & access our clinical academic training programme! come join us!! apply 👇 qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

🧪 Struggling to explain correlation? Consider using some examples from www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...

Spurious Correlations

Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables.

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Re-upping this excellent article pointing out the many problems with a 'Barriers and Enablers' approach. It's binary, reductionist, atheoretical, doesn't take sufficient account of context, and is ill suited to #complexity. 👎 #AcademicSky #MedSky #MedEd journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Is sharing our writing a thing here? 😊 Proud of this piece because it represents the work of so many trying to make medicine and communication better for our patients. #MedSky www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/action/showP...

We created a resource for people with #dementia, carers and health and social care professionals including social prescribers #dementiasupport www.forwardwithdementia.org/en/

Feel better prepared › Forward With Dementia [uk]

Find your way forward after diagnosis...

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And that's a wrap on @adamgordon1978.bsky.social's presidency at @gerisoc.bsky.social as he hands the chain of office to @jkdhesi.bsky.social. #BGSconf

📢 📢 Job alert: Orthopaedic Lead Research Associate, Barts Health! Join a fab team with national recognition for excellence in delivering research in MSK/Orthopaedics. Work closely with our team at Bone & Joint Health, QMUL Open to AHP/Nurses (B7) Apply 👇 www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/jobs/#!/job/...

Job vacancies at Barts Heath NHS Trust

Job vacancies at Barts Heath NHS Trust

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E-learning tool available via learninghub.nhs.uk for all staff working with older adults to develop awareness and recognition of depression as well as talking to older adults about depression ##BGSConf

How concerns of falling can affect your gait and balance #BGSConf

📢 📢 FRAGILITY FRACTURE NETWORK WORKSHOPS CALL Global Congress Porto Oct 1-4 2025 Workshops call open! Jan 15th deadline. Share your work to support patients with fragility fractures globally Proposal form and guidance at link 👇 fragilityfracturenetwork.org

🌟 🌟 🌟 JOB OPPORTUNITY 🌟 🌟 🌟 Research Assistant/Postdoctoral Research Assistant APPLY 👇 Come join a fantastic team Barts Bone & Joint Health @QMUL to work on a @UKRI_News rehabilitation and fragility fractures research programme! Deadline 05/12/2024 qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/candidate...

🥳🥳🥳JOB OPPORTUNITY -2 POSTS! 🥳🥳🥳 Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow (MSK/Orthopaedics) with @BartsBRC 50:50 research:clinical (up to 8a) Come join a fantastic team!!! apply 👇 qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

I have the conversation a lot in my day job! Trying to invest in prevention (ideally in community) while responding to crisis (and subsequent government targets/metrics) #bgsconf #gerisky #choosegeriatrics #frustrating

So I’ve a created another starter pack! Please let me know if i’ve missed an account to follow. #PharmSky you know what to do 🪄 go.bsky.app/B74j3LM

Looking forward to running this webinar on 3rd December, looking at physical mobility issues in dementia, current challenges for mobility support in dementia and how we might address this through a socio-ecological approach. Link below if you’re interested! search.app/dsZi5p4Scovb...

Real-world mobility recovery after hip fracture 5,909 observation days Median daily total walking duration ⬆️ until 36 weeks reaching 40 min Daily sit-to-stand-to-walk transfers plateau after 6 weeks with <40 transfers academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...

Real-world mobility recovery after hip fracture: secondary analyses of digital mobility outcomes from four randomized controlled trials

AbstractBackground. The main focus of rehabilitation following hip fracture is to regain mobility.Objectives. To estimate the progression of real-world mob

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