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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD
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Prof, Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Clean air/COVID safety advocate/activist/researcher. Other health and digital media research too. Personal blog: https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · Nov 28
I’ve published 3 books and many articles and commentaries on the social aspects of COVID. They can all be found on this website socialaspectsofcovid19.wordpress.com
Social Aspects of COVID-19
Sociologist Deborah Lupton's writings
socialaspectsofcovid19.wordpress.com
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Note: 'Daily emergency department attendances for acute respiratory infection, England.'
🤦Besides communicating importance of vaccination, government should be explicit about not mixing with others when ill, using effective face-coverings sensibly, and use of ventilation.
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Note: 'Daily emergency department attendances for acute respiratory infection, England.' 🤦Besides communicating importance of vaccination, government should be explicit about not mixing with others when ill, using effective face-coverings sensibly, and use of ventilation. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2025-to-2026-season/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-report-11-december-2025-week-50
December 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.

In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”

www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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davidgilbert.bsky.social
SCOOP

I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback

www.wired.com/story/doxers...
Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
www.wired.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Absolutely stunning to see Australia's teen social media ban rushed through while every single government, educational institution and probably a huge number of parents are frantically force-injecting chatbot slop into the mind of every single child in the country without a second's hesitation
December 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
dalupton.bsky.social
These N95 masks are so pretty!
Woman wearing a lavender colour respirator mask and smiling
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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kerryndrysdale.bsky.social
This new article looks at collective immunities, which acknowledges the sociocultural and material conditions in which immunities extend beyond the atomised individual body. with @dalupton.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

HMU for a copy if you can't get past the paywall.
December 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Queen!
tomhulme.bsky.social Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 18d
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
plashingvole.bsky.social Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 18d
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
dalupton.bsky.social
Geez, that’s embarrassing
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17d
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
dalupton.bsky.social
Thank god this was never a thing in Australian academic recruiting
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
i'm sorry to have to relay this, but Leslie Lee III has passed away. if you can help with his family's expenses, please read on. they need the help right now.
Please read. -YB. All proceeds from the GoFundMe will go to cover funeral costs and as temporary replacement of loss of income. This is YB, @stuffhedoes Leslie’s spouse. I am sad to share with you the tragic news of his passing on Monday, November 10th, aged 43. Leslie Lee III was a beloved husband, son, brother, uncle, cousin, nephew, and friend. He left us much too soon. I appreciate your kindness at this time, while we process our grief. If you wish, you can donate directly to his gofundme linked in his profile, any later news I will post from this account. A private service for family is being held this week with a memorial service to be held at a later date in NYC. He was to me, my everything. He was an advocate for others with Long COVID. He was an amazing writer and passionate podcaster.
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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foxrook.bsky.social
Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
thrasherxy.bsky.social Dr. Thrasher wants you to pre-order The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Nov 15
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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joho.bsky.social
Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.
Ultimately, public health agencies encouraging people to take whatever steps they can to improve their health will have a dramatic effect during the next pandemic. Whether simply by stopping smoking, controlling hypertension or diabetes, or getting up and walking more, anything that makes the population healthier will prepare us better for the next pandemic. The best pandemic preparedness playbook for the United States is making America healthy again.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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oniblackstock.bsky.social
It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans.

aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
If AI is inevitable then why does it need so much government support and why are they constantly worried

Rhetorical RHETORICAL
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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noahshachtman.bsky.social
Incredible piece of data journalism here from @wsj.com.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Epstein Email Cache: 2,300 Messages, Many of Which Mention Trump
An analysis of documents released this week by Congress shows President Trump was mentioned in more than half of the messages.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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drinfosec.bsky.social
🚨🧵by @michaelryan756 on Twitter, highlighting three reasons why the book chapter linked below is worth reading

🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19869...

Link to the FREE book chapter (PDF) 👇 which is from the book edited by Prof Deborah Lupton
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#Covid #LongCovid #SocialAspects
If You Want to Understand Long COVID, Start Here ✅ Three Reasons This Chapter Is Good 1. It centres real people, not just medical facts. The chapter refuses to treat Long COVID as a narrow clinical issue. It shows how the illness reshapes someone’s whole life: their identity, work, relationships, and sense of self. That human focus makes the problem visible in a way statistics never can.
November 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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isabelott.bsky.social
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.

Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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elisaperego78.bsky.social
Very glad to have a chapter in the Long COVID and Society book curated by D. Lupton.

In my chapter, I show how #LongCovid patient-driven advocacy-research was critical in 2020-1 to identifying LC as a novel multi-system disease entity, and achieving recognition from policymakers and WHO
dalupton.bsky.social Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · Oct 22
Now published! My edited book ‘Long COVID and Society’ - my introduction is free to read for everyone. Download from the link below and check out the others chapters too (Chapter 14, about LC children and families, is also open access)

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Long COVID and Society
This is the first book to bring together academics and activists living with Long COVID to explore the social impacts of the new complex chronic condition.
link.springer.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
dalupton.bsky.social
Here’s the direct link to my introduction chapter to ‘Long COVID and Society’, open access and free to read for all, either directly online or downloaded as a PDF

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
The Social Aspects and Impacts of Long COVID
This chapter provides a substantial introduction to the book, giving an overview of the social, cultural and political aspects and impacts of Long COVID. Drawing on perspectives and theories from heal...
link.springer.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
We need to start calling misrepresentation of COVID-related harms as due to "lockdowns" what it is: fraud, and a breach of academic integrity.

There's room for good research, but studies that ignore direct effects and mindlessly attribute e.g. changes in mental health to mitigations are dishonest.
mark-ungrin.bsky.social Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Nov 25
I'll try hanging a bit of a branch off the main thread here breaking out more information from the NASEM long COVID report for those who need it. Annex Tables 3-1 through 3-13 go through selected long COVID impacts, and are organized by body system: nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
FIGURE 3-1 Lasting impact of COVID-19. (figure showing the many organ systems impacted by long COVID) from https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/chapter/5#58
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
"Well guys, you're gonna have to learn his f*cking name now."

I went on a rant at the Zohran Mamdani event last night, against billionaires who spent millions to try and stop a guy whose name they refuse to correctly pronounce.

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November 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Resist GenAI
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
Citizen-led pollution monitoring persists in Louisiana, despite law that limits its use • Louisiana Illuminator
Communities around Louisiana are taking environmental data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their findings can be used to enforce regulations.
lailluminator.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM