🥖 Fresh Sociology of Knowledge!🥖 tinyurl.com/bdfa2375 I interviewed 45 health researchers in 12 disciplines about 'good' research & interdisciplinary struggles. "Disciplinary difference" reflected different *kinds of knowledge*, pursued for different reasons, and judged by different criteria.

Our research found that young people have incredibly low self-esteem. They believe that long term unemployment is more likely and success will be harder to find. They have lost faith in their futures and their own ability to change their outcomes. www.ippr.org/articles/bri...

Britain’s broken social contract: Young people have lost faith in their future | IPPR

For much of the post-war period, Britain offered young people a basic promise: if you work hard and do the right things, you can expect greater security an

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My analysis of 2017-2022 policy docs from Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the Scottish Government, showed a strong tendency for GMCA docs to emphasise the health disadvantages of GM residents c/w England; whereas SG almost never mentioned Scotland's health disadvantage c/w England's. Why?

.@allybrown.bsky.social critiques "Manchesterism" and devolution through an equity lens   journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Are we asking health literacy to explain too much? This paper introduces the concept of ‘health literacy reductionism’ and challenges the tendency to frame complex health communication problems as individual health literacy deficits. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Patricia Kingori’s work on the “shadow scholars” of Africa is fascinating: “One Kenyan writer told me he applied for a job at an Ivy League university. When the rejection came through, he wrote back to say thanks, then added: “Just so you know, I’ve written all these papers for your institutions””

Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry

Sociologist Patricia Kingori is helping to expose contract cheating by scholars in high-income countries.

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Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · last wk.

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New issue 3(3) published: check out latest research from leading scholars in critical #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

almost word for word

Alexander Brown@alexofbrown.bsky.social · last wk.

Robert Jenrick tells Times Radio Nigel Farage wasn't part of the donations scandal as he just had lunch. He said: "You can't criticise a leader for saying thank you over lunch to someone. I know a lot of slings and arrows are thrown at Nigel Farage, but being polite is not a crime these days"

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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www.maptap.gg September 3 100🎯 96🔥 98🔥 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 992 😎 my best ever!

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

This isn't new or anything, but I don't think I've ever seen it put quite so delightfully:

Universities rarely use research evidence in their decision-making, so why do they expect anyone else to? - LSE Impact

Despite universities’ important role as evidence-producing organisations, they rarely draw upon research evidence for internal decision making, why?

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If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.

As Hopkinson put it: “The question for pro-pollution campaigners is ‘why do you hate children?’” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?

Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against them

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Good example of how diagnosis implies disease, which promotes drug use, even in the absence of medical mechanisms. A diagnosis converts "poor exam results", in primary school, into a medical symptom, justifying treatment by daily amphetamines.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 4w ago

In the Guardian’s review of ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’, Lucy Mangan writes that the mother of a boy featured in the documentary “decides to keep him off the drugs”. In the end credit sequence of the programme, it says she put him back on the medication “after poor exam results”.

'What is diagnosis For?' - Nikolas Rose, 2013 nikolasrose.com/wp-content/u...

In a briefing out today, we make 7 recommendations towards building a prevention-focused nation through Public Sector Reform, based on our work over the last few years. Read it here: buff.ly/UWV1fZL

<literally thousands of social and historical studies precisely explaning a phenomenon> Psychiatrists: no one understands this phenomenon 🤷 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Rising number of people seeking ADHD diagnosis without treatment, say experts

Psychiatrists in Channel 4 documentary argue it is more a ‘social construct’ than a medical condition

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Why Evidence Is Not Enough: Power, Politics, and a Strategy Shift for Public Health Jonathan Heller onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Why Evidence Is Not Enough: Power, Politics, and a Strategy Shift for Public Health

Policy Points Public health has lost political influence because of a mismatch between the forms of power primarily deployed in this field—knowledge and moral authority—and the forms of power tha...

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This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

Good god. This was, at best, an HR issue that merited a few lines on p.27 of the local news. Shame on everyone who stuck it in the national headlines for three fucking weeks.

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · last mo.

🔺 BREAKING: Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor, has been found dead, police have said Mr Arday was pronounced dead after being found “unresponsive” at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon Read more 👇

My favourite moment of @nataliaortega.bsky.social's talk was when she said you can find a nutrition meta analysis to support whatever argument you want to make about diet and health!

Georgia Tomova@georgiatomova.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Recording now available if you've missed it:

NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:

NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy

US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.

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The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans

Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford

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The Conservatives are capitalising on a real sense of unfairness around housing, but they are directing that anger at the wrong people. Britain’s housing shortage is not caused by migrants in social housing. This is a discriminatory response to a housing supply problem. 1/5

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

Tory plan to ban foreign nationals from social housing condemned as ‘divisive’

📢 New research suggests health inequalities in coastal communities are driven more by deprivation and migration patterns than coastal living itself. Study by Equalise members Stephen Jivraj and Emily Murray 🔗 bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/3/... #HealthEquity #PublicHealth @ucliehc.bsky.social

THREAD: How do the dynamics of devolution and the politics of health inequality interact? My new paper in @cphjournal.bsky.social explores the differentiation function of area-health comparisons. 🚨Contains Andy Burnham content!🚨 journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc... 1/9

I did not know that Andy Burnham was a When Saturday Comes @wsc.co.uk contributor in the late 1990s

That explains a lot

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · last mo.

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...