Jocalyn Clark
@jocalynclark.bsky.social
International Editor, The BMJ. Former editor The Lancet, icddr,b and PLOS Medicine. Adjunct faculty UofT and UCL. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. Views mine.
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Sharing our newly published @bmj.com Analysis! As IMGs, we support credible pathways for UK graduates 🇬🇧—but IMGs’ career progression must be planned together 🌏 Otherwise, brain gain 📈 risks becoming waste, strain and drain📉. Co-authored with Mo Al-Haddad. doi.org/10.1136/bmj-... #IMG #NHS #MedEd
Brain gain, waste, strain, and drain: international medical graduates after UK medical training legislation
Jun Jie Lim and Mo Al-Haddad argue that credible career pathways for international medical graduates must be maintained after legislation to prioritise UK graduates for specialty training The UK’s M...
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Attention scholars of IR: check out the BMJ as a source for analysis of contemporary geopolitics … ( (Now, how to encourage global health scholars to read IR journals…)
The BMJ@bmj.com · 4d agoThe #GlobalHealth reform agenda has made strides – but has its limits. Read why a future multipolar world is an illusion. NEW in The BMJ: https://bit.ly/3Toq2kY Part of the series on the Geopolitics of Global Health: https://bit.ly/44OGptD
Recent legislation prioritises UK medical graduates for training. If the NHS continues to recruit IMGs for service delivery while limiting their access to training, it has the potential to lead to a cycle of brain gain, waste, strain, and drain, argues Analysis
Brain gain, waste, strain, and drain: international medical graduates after UK medical training legislation
Jun Jie Lim and Mo Al-Haddad argue that credible career pathways for international medical graduates must be maintained after legislation to prioritise UK graduates for specialty training The UK’s M...
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Fascinating. Whole UAE series in FT is fantastic and informative journalism.
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · yesterdayFT: UAE's imperial push into Africa UAE is now a bigger investor in Africa than China,UK,France,US! UAE's dark king MBZ is supporting/extracting from african actors (particularly in north africa) with investments in logistics, gold, copper, arms, farming www.ft.com/content/a4c6...
New Review A review of Bundibugyo virus and the 2026 outbreak: lessons for epidemic preparedness www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A review of Bundibugyo virus and the 2026 outbreak: lessons for epidemic preparedness
The ongoing 2026 outbreak of Ebola virus disease caused by Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has renewed attention to one of the least studied human-pathogenic...
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The #GlobalHealth reform agenda has made strides – but has its limits. Read why a future multipolar world is an illusion. NEW in The BMJ: https://bit.ly/3Toq2kY Part of the series on the Geopolitics of Global Health: https://bit.ly/44OGptD
The more football associations fight to push Infantino out at FIFA, the more likely this “inconceivable” nightmare scenario for next UN secretary general Yes the deadline has passed for candidates & the selection process is underway - but it’s widely thought that 🇺🇸 may try to parachute someone in
Trump ‘backing Gianni Infantino for UN boss’
The president is said to believe his friend is ‘respected around the world’ — yet the head of Fifa is unlikely to surmount the conventions in his way
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Having raised concerns about the ways in which doctors & science leaders helped 'healthwash' Epstein... www.bmj.com/content/392/... I'm pleased the news team at @bmj.com have covered the findings (& limits) of new Gates Foundation review of Epstein. Check it out: www.bmj.com/content/394/...
Doctors were complicit in Epstein’s abuse—survivors must now be our priority
A spectacle around Jeffrey Epstein’s depravity is overshadowing rights and justice for the survivors of the sex offender and his network, which included doctors, writes Jocalyn Clark The theme for I...
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Needed change to the #GlobalHealth architecture will not be achieved by organisational reform alone. Instead, social murder in the current political economy must be confronted. NEW in The BMJ: https://bit.ly/4vPYrGH Part of the Geopolitics of Global Health series: https://bit.ly/4gW3gut
I’m embarrassed about how bad Traitors Canada is. No wonder BBC only imported one season 😬.
"The intellectual property regime, the debt architecture, and the commodification of health are not isolated malfunctions but structural ways in which a capitalist world economy organises the distribution of health." There are other ways👇
Jocalyn Clark@jocalynclark.bsky.social · last wk.📌 Front page of @bmj.com! 🙏 @dbernals.bsky.social et al. “Social murder” and reform of tbe the global health architecture www.bmj.com/content/394/...
I initially wondered whether this critique would resonate in a major medical journal. Encouraging to see it on The BMJ’s front page—critical political-economy arguments belong in mainstream global health debate.
Jocalyn Clark@jocalynclark.bsky.social · last wk.📌 Front page of @bmj.com! 🙏 @dbernals.bsky.social et al. “Social murder” and reform of tbe the global health architecture www.bmj.com/content/394/...
📌 Front page of @bmj.com! 🙏 @dbernals.bsky.social et al. “Social murder” and reform of tbe the global health architecture www.bmj.com/content/394/...
Global health cannot be transformed through organisational reform alone. We need to confront the political economy that commodifies health, entrenches unequal power—and produces social murder. New in @bmj.com , with @drogtv.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/394/... #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity
Nine hundred wildfires are burning across Canada as of Wednesday, with several threatening communities and forcing residents to flee or prepare to evacuate at a moment’s notice. Here’s an overview of the current situation, in maps and charts: bit.ly/can-wildfire...
Well this new political era ia getting off to a good start then 🇬🇧 PM Andy Burnham rebukes new defence and home (security) secretaries after their prisoner early release joke on a hot mic
Andy Burnham rebukes Streeting and Mahmood after prisoner early release joke
Wes Streeting, the defence secretary, and Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, were caught joking about the scheme on a ‘hot mic’ while in the Downing Street garden
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Canada should lead a middle-power alliance on health AI, Fahad Razak, Amol Verma and Kumanan Wilson report. canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/07/17/c... #CdnHealth #DigitalHealth
Canada should lead a middle-power alliance on health AI
The next geopolitical contest may not just be fought over oil or critical minerals.
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WOW. I thought the British press was scathing this morning. 🇬🇧 Savage from The New York Times: 🇺🇸 “This defeat to Argentina was a proactive disaster, a self-inflicted collapse, an entirely chosen retreat..” ⚽️🏴
Tuchel is guilty of orchestrating England's craven World Cup demise
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Child physical punishment globally: ineffective & harmful. New @bmj.com #Editorial 129 countries, eg England, lack smacking bans. By @anjaheilmann.bsky.social @rebeccalacey.bsky.social @ucliehc.bsky.social LS Holland & ET Gershoff www.bmj.com/content/394/... #ChildHealth #EndCorporalPunishment
The idea that the minister in charge of the department delivering this level of performative cruelty should be appointed to any high office is incredible. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
British girl, 15, stranded in Rome for six weeks due to new passport rules
The dual national, who missed six weeks of school, is latest of several children affected by recent Home Office policy
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Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new AI-assisted materials discovery institute. go.nature.com/4pf2jQ3
Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China
Omar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in China to recruit top international talent.
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America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
Turns out you need know *nothing* about cricket to enjoy it. 🏴🇿🇦 Women’s T20 World Cup Semi-Final was FaB! Didn’t get it but loved it. Electric atmosphere at Oval - perfect London summer evening ☀️🍹🏏 💪 🏴 crushed it. On to the Finals!
Chris Addison@mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · last mo.Let’s go. At the Oval for the England cricket team that still provably gives a shit about the fans. My beloved England Women play South Africa in the semi final of the T20 World Cup tonight. I love them with all my heart. COME ON! 🏏🏴🇿🇦
I Was an NIH Program Official. Here's What a Peer Reviewer Doesn’t See. Worth a read:
Opinion | I Was an NIH Program Official. Here's What a Peer Reviewer Doesn’t See.
The NEJM editors understand the threat of the proposed federal grant review changes
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