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Skip Murray

@skipscorner.bsky.social

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I'm a Direct Service Professional at a group home. I volunteer as a Public Health Advocate specializing in nicotine, mental health, and neurodiversity. #BeKind is my motto. My blog: https://skipscorner.substack.com/ #AuDHD

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 4h

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 5h

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 1d

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 1d

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning
#BeKind

Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 1d

Good night
#BeKind

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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 2d

Clive Bates makes overwhelming case against tobacco control advocates as human rights defenders! Well worth reading. How can denying smokers safer way to consume nicotine be defending human rights? @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social
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PubPeer - Tobacco control advocates as human rights defenders: a call...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Tobacco control advocates as human rights defenders: a call for recognition (2025)

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 2d

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Standing in the Smoke of Good Intentions

A smoke shop owner’s view on harm reduction, naivety, and the philosophy of consequence.

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Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit @hscwru.bsky.social · 5d

📢 Evidence & Policy journal SPECIAL ISSUE Call for Abstracts:
"Strengthening research practice partnerships in social care: Evidence, impact and policy learning"
Guest Editors: @annetteboaz.bsky.social & @a-mtowers.bsky.social
Abstracts deadline 3 November.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/strengt...

Evidence & Policy: Call for Abstracts | King's College London

Strengthening research practice partnerships in social care

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 2d

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 2d

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning!
#BeKind

Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 2d

Good night!
#BeKind

Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 2d

Attention #NicotineNerds!
The events listing has been updated. There are a few new ones for 2025 and several for 2026.
Link: skipscorner.substack.com/p/events
If you know of any events I'm missing, please give me a heads up!

Events

October 12, 2025 Update

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 3d

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 3d

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Those Nerdy Girls @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t get fooled by apples and oranges.

When you see headlines about changes in something scary like crime or disease, make sure it’s an apples-to-apples comparison. Otherwise, you might get fooled by faulty #statistics.

Keep reading here:
thosenerdygirls.substack.com/p/dont-get-f...

Don’t get fooled by apples and oranges.

When you see headlines about changes in something scary like crime or disease, make sure it’s an apples-to-apples comparison. Otherwise, you might get fooled by faulty statistics.

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Rebecca Raskin @rjraskin.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote about celebrities and worms, but more importantly, how worms are a major global health problem.

Those Nerdy Girls @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social · 7d

Do we all have worms?
#Worms have been all over celebrity news lately, and there are a lot of TikTok creators who are selling worm “#cleanses.” But the average person in the United States isn’t usually infected by worms.
Get the full story from Rebecca Raskin-Wish:

Do we all have worms?

Worms have been all over celebrity news lately, and there are a lot of TikTok creators who are selling worm “cleanses.” But the average person in the United States isn’t usually infected by worms.

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning!
#BeKind

Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 3d

Good night
#BeKind

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 4d

Getting my Kuhn & Piaget on, this makes sense to me to understand the profound and persistent polarization in the field.

We need a way to get less wrong, together.

Grapefruit for #VaporLock?

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 4d

#ScreamTest / #CheerTest serves as the paradigm / schema / heuristic for many in the field of nicotine and tobacco research, and the continuum of risk cannot be assimilated.

#VaporLock

a red grand cherokee is parked on the side of a road

Alt: a red grand cherokee is parked on the side of a road

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 4d

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 4d

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Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning!
#BeKind

Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 4d

Good night
#BeKind