Belfast is ready to welcome our global harm reduction community. 💙 A city that has navigated conflict through dialogue and reconciliation, a powerful reminder of the importance of resilience, reform, and self-determination. Join us at #HR27Belfast! 👉https://hr27.hri.global

It's not too late to weigh in on the proposed OMB rule, which would put ALL federal grant making in the hands of political commissars. www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/cri...

Critical action needed: Stop OMB's political review of federal grants | Defend Public Health

A proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) seeks to take expert review of federal grants out of the hands of experts and put it into the hands of political appointees. This rule co...

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BBC News: Partner of journalist Lyra McKee hopes her death haunts her killer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lyra McKee: Partner of journalist hopes her death haunts her killer

Sara Canning described the gunman who killed Lyra as "pathetic" and believes there will never be justice.

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The verdict in the murder trial of Lyra McKee was a "kick in the teeth" to her loved ones, the journalist’s partner has said

Lyra McKee verdict a 'kick in the teeth', says partner

The verdict in the murder trial of Lyra McKee was a "kick in the teeth" to her loved ones, the journalist's partner has said.

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No justice for Lyra. Heartbroken www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

No stone will be left unturned to get justice for Lyra McKee, sister says

The family of Lyra McKee have said “no stone will be left unturned” to get justice after three men were found not guilty of her murder.

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More than a quarter of UK musicians lost all EU work since 2021, report finds. Average tour earnings down 45%, with nearly three-fifths of musicians saying touring in Europe is no longer viable. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... @theguardian.com

More than a quarter of UK musicians lost all EU work since 2021, report finds

Average tour earnings down 45%, with nearly three-fifths of musicians saying touring in Europe is no longer viable

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Emma Vieira presented her latent class analysis study: "The role of gender in understanding clusters of young adult's drinking; health, and harm outcomes" We both received brilliant feedback from @gwshorter.bsky.social 😇 @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social #KBS2026

Pleasure to present today in a #KBS2026 session on Heavy Drinking: Drivers and Consequences - my PhD paper: Traditional and Emerging Gendered Heavy Drinking Norms and Experiences of Intoxication Among Young People 📷 @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social 🎓 @capraustralia.bsky.social 🏫 @latrobe.edu.au

KBS26 @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social in Kaunas is on! Brilliant opening by President Gillian Shorter @gwshorter.bsky.social

It 100% harms AHSS, but as a bonus, it also harms STEM. Curiosity driven, investigator led research drives innovation where there isn't a more immediate commercial incentive, and industry already pursues research where there is. Universities exist for the public good, not to subsidize industry.

Justin Carville@justinmcarville.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AHSS research is already massively underfunded in Ireland, proposals to restructure funding models and prioritise commercialisation of research will disproportionately impact the humanities - Irish academics, post-docs & post-grads past, current and future please add your voice in opposition 👇

Today is the 25th birthday of the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Sydney. Thank you to Marianne Jauncey and her extraordinary team for continuing to meet people where they are at. Harm reduction in the every day. More of it. youtu.be/EmvXY-o3FNk

25 years ago, they said we should not open.

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The latest UK alcohol death stats are out - but it’s easy to get lost in the year-to-year changes. To really understand what’s going on, we need to zoom out. Fair warning: lots of charts ahead 📊🧵 This first chart shows how many people have died from alcohol-specific causes (mostly liver...

RTÉ’s boycott of this year’s Eurovision goes beyond simply not sending a contestant to Vienna, as the broadcaster will not be showing any of this week’s shows. Instead, RTÉ2 will broadcast the classic Father Ted episode A Song for Europe during the usual Eurovision timeslot.

In response to Simon Dudley's (Reform UK) comments on Grenfell:

Open Letter: Defunding of all Supervised Consumption Sites in Ontario “Effective law and policy must be grounded in evidence, and shifting funding from SCS elsewhere is not supported by evidence or the public at large.” #onpoli #cdnpoli drugpolicy.ca/open-letter-...

OPEN LETTER RE: DEFUNDING OF ALL SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION SITES IN ONTARIO - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition

March 31st 2026 The Honourable Doug Ford, MPPPremier, Minister of Intergovernmental AffairsVia email: premier@ontario.ca | doug.fordco@pc.ola.org The Honourable Sylvia Jones, MPPDeputy Premier, Minist...

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“Exclusion of LGBTQ+ people from the UK's alcohol and other drug-related death response” by Dean J. Connolly and colleagues (2026) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…interesting viewpoint! Thoughts? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #DrugPolicy

Our crises are shared: Doug Ford’s government to defund safe consumption sites, drive toxic drug crisis death toll. Supervised consumption sites save lives. open.substack.com/pub/policeov...

Our crises are shared: Doug Ford’s government to defund safe consumption sites, drive toxic drug crisis death toll

Supervised consumption sites save lives

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Why the people running London's soon-to-close supervised consumption site say it works. Province gives operators 90 days before funding ends on June 13. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Supervised consumption site closure in London will leave gap in services, operator says | CBC News

Ontario's surprise decision to stop funding supervised consumption sites resulting in their closure will leave a gaping hole that will put people's lives at risk, according to the operators of London'...

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It is THE fundamental problem. To survive and prosper we must make billionaires history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Lovely to be at Klara Gurzo's public defense today at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social - brilliant presentation and response

New PhD studentship opportunity! Research and write the history of Release, supervised by me and @alexmold.bsky.social! bloomsbury.ac.uk/drugs-civil-...

Drugs, Civil Rights and the Alternative Society: A History of Release

Principal Supervisor: Professor Toby Seddon (UCL) Co-Supervisor: Professor Alex Mold (LSHTM) Project Description Background Described as the oldest independent drugs charity in the world, Release w…

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New on Talking Drugs: www.talkingdrugs.org/how-internat... Summary of our recent article on how and why consensus fractured at the 2024 Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

How International Drug Policy Is Increasingly Fragmented - TalkingDrugs

The international drug policy landscape has been disrupted in the past couple of years, with two main moral groups emerging in the aftermath.

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An important test case for harm reduction. Well done to the service concerned. May you have many more years of serving your community ahead!

ACLU@aclu.org · 6mo ago

Harm reduction services, including syringe service and fentanyl testing programs, are proven to save lives. As a federal court recognized, people with substance use disorder have a right to these services under disability law.

B.C. cancelled its drug decriminalization pilot, saying it hadn’t “delivered the results” they wanted. Its results: fewer drug users arrested and traumatized by cops. @desmondcole.bsky.social explains that when governments cave to moral panic, we lose good policies. breachmedia.ca/decriminaliz...

Decriminalization worked. B.C. killed it anyway ⋆ The Breach

The province’s drug decriminalization experiment lowered arrests and reduced harm—but it failed a different political test

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Delighted to share the final paper from my PhD which explores how Athens’ Drug Consumption Facility operates and is experienced by people in the local community. lnkd.in/eVymq_kH

Hey Sacramento PD, stop stealing all of my patients stuff - including their medications - and throwing it away. I'm really sick and tired of our folks not being able to find them because of sweeps and then when we do, they haven't had their medications in weeks because y'all threw them away.

An important story from N. Ireland. UK Gov is choosing not to fund NI according to need. Almost 10 x times as many people died on hospital waiting lists in 3 yrs in the North vs 30 yrs of conflict. 'Many people are spending their final days in pain & discomfort, without the treatment they need.'

‘Something has gone fundamentally wrong with health service’ as 32,000 die while on waiting lists since 2022

Figures revealing up to 32,000 people have died while waiting on procedures in Northern Ireland since 2022 are a sign that “something has gone fundamentally wrong” with our health service, an Oppositi...

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Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

Samuel Horti@samuelhorti.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...

Important publication (by @ginnybraun.bsky.social and co-authors) to add to any critical AI reading list. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025

Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

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Our coverage of the closing of a local hygiene center last month spurred a philanthropist to buy the property for $2M. Donors in WA & other states chipped in remaining $500K to secure the land. Thanks, @ricksteves.bsky.social Thanks @a-rlnt.bsky.social for reporting mltnews.com/thanks-to-ri...

Thanks to Rick Steves, Lynnwood Hygiene Center has a permanent home | MLTnews.com

‘If this place wasn’t here I don’t know how I would’ve survived’ -- Sherman Gillins The Jean Kim Foundation’s (JKF) Hygiene Center in Lynnwood is here to

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