Stephen Clayton
@stevepclayton.bsky.social
Retired (hurrah!) lecturer in sociology of public health, mostly now photography, silliness and political despair.
@helenbennett.bsky.social set #BirdOfTheDay with the theme #FrightfulFeathers - any eerie, mysterious, or spooky birds! I posted this one some time ago, but here are some spooky cormorants.
@robcrank68.bsky.social has set #BirdOfTheDay alt theme as #MealTime, any bird eating food. So again from Kefalonia, the male house sparrows that lived opposite our balcony who were accomplished hunters. #Birds #Photography #Nature
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, set by @robcrank68.bsky.social, is #HeadsUp, any bird looking up to the sky. So here's a red-rumped swallow looking up into the rain in Kefalonia back in July.
#BirdOfTheDay is #Branched, birds on thin branches. The Alt theme is #Grounded, birds standing on the ground. From this morning at Marshside, Southport, a pretty European wren on a branch and a flock of oyster catchers on some very wet ground.
For the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #Green, a male mallard swimming across the greenest of ponds last week, and a twofer of a common whitethroat and its juvenile from earlier in the year. #Birds #Nature #Photography
#BirdOfTheDay and the theme is #Juveniles, any juvenile bird. So here's a slightly dd shot of a juvenile blackbird in Menorca, with juvenile cygnets and a lovely juvenile moorhen from Wigan. #Birds #Nature #Photography
#BirdOfTheDay alt is #Corvids; any crow species, so here's a jackdaw and a carrion crow. #Birds #Photography
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Seasonal; any shot from Autumn/fall/whatever season you have now. The alt theme is #Corvids. Being autumn here, the magpie is probably a twofer as it was October last year, but the mallard was late August this year, which was really autumnal in colour. #Birds #Photography
#BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Brown, any bird with a brown background. A little egret flying across brown marsh grasses in Southport, and a tree creeper doing its best to hide against the bark of a tree. #birds #photography
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LittleLegs, any bird with small legs. So, do these guillemots have little legs but big feet?
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay, alt theme is #Pairs, any pair of same/mixed birds. So, a couple of mallards engaged in synchronised preening.
When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.
"Never in my life have I felt more disposable, or more like a name on a schedule... I’ve understood this all along, but Covid-19 was a flashbulb anyway, illuminating our hierarchies and divisions in stark relief."
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 3w agoHow Covid exposed wealth inequality and birthed a novel among the superyachts in Monaco.
#BirdOfTheDay alt Theme is #Grey, birds with Grey in their Plumage. Another grey heron from yesterday, this one shot in monochrome for even more grey.
@alan678.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay main theme, via @robcrank68.bsky.social , is #JKLM - bird species starting with these letters. So here's a couple of shots of a little grebe I couldn't get anywhere near close enough to yesterday.
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #UrbanBirds any bird in an urban setting. So these shots of grey herons are from my walk through Wigan this morning.
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #ShoreBirds; any bird on the shore. This juvenile ruddy turnstone and common redshank from my trip to the Parque Natural da Ria Formosa, Faro last year.
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #LookingDown; any bird looking down/head lowered Alt. is #LookingUp; any bird looking up/head raised
Diderichsen & Whitehead have refined their health inequalities framework incorporating complexity thinking to understand how political and commercial forces shape the distribution of the wider structural determinants of health. #HealthInequalities #PublicHealth jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
Complexity of health inequalities: a refined conceptual framework
Background With persisting or widening health inequalities in many countries and stalling policies to tackle them, there is a growing interest in a more careful study of the many elements of complexit...
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This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
Sathnam Sanghera@sathnam.bsky.social · 3w agoDear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
@helenbennett.bsky.social set #BirdOfTheDay today and her theme is #Green, any birds or backgrounds that have Green in them.
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
🗣️ Another captivating Institute of Population Health inaugural lecture yesterday, the latest delivered by @benjaminbarr.bsky.social (Professor of Applied Public Health) 💰 “The Epidemiology of Money: How money - and what governments do with it - shapes health and health inequalities”.
