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Trish Greenhalgh
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
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DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Nov 13
Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.
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You want my social media history to decide whether I can enter your country? Then I don’t want to enter your country.
December 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Phew
Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Lovely doing morning yoga to the Christmas tree lights. But how to avoid the temptation to eat the chocolate dangles before Spouse wakes up?
December 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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angierasmussen.bsky.social
Acting CDER Director Tracy Beth Høeg is not wasting any time ensuring that babies are as vulnerable as possible to preventable diseases that kill them.

Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants
U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would face fresh safety scrutiny following concer...
www.reuters.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Quirky present for Spouse - suggestions please. Likes crime novels, walking, classical music, camper vanning.
December 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Your weekly reminder not to approach dead or sick birds.
December 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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For those interested - here is an 8 minute discussion of what has happened in the sphere of immigration, nationalism & foriegn policy last week in the US that you might have missed.

Will also be doing shorter clips over the week!

youtu.be/8I4OoIfTUrU 1/2
Why is Trump targeting Minnesota? | Beyond the headlines
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
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December 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
I've been trying to use AI to support a narrative review. Has worked well in many aspects of the work. But it's screwed up royally in three ways:

1. Failed to suspect a study with 100% response rate and 100% agreement by >6000 participants to have a blood test. Saw this as a "quality feature".
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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A must watch.
A powerful video from Norway displays gender based inequality. The look of dismay & confusion on the girls' faces upon receiving less for the same task was a little painful.

They agreed it was unfair.

"Girls are not less than boys."

Credit: Finansforbundet, Boss Women Magic
#Pinks
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
Breaking down some of the anti Vax stuff going at the CDC *before* this week's ACIP meeting on childhood vaccines.

Notably their "finding" on COVID vaccines and children and a recent appointment...

youtube.com/shorts/AR97l...
Why the FDA memo on COVID vaccine risk is nothing to worry about
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Yep. A vegeburger is a burger. A vegesausage is a sausage. Nobody’s confused. Let it be.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Let it be: Paul McCartney urges EU to drop ban on veggie ‘burgers’ and ‘sausages’
Former Beatle argues use of terms for meat-free products ‘encourages attitudes essential to our health’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Horrific.
physgal.bsky.social Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 3d
36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦
Photos of the 14 victims of the Montreal massacre: Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault and Annie Turcotte and the rooms where they were killed.
December 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Fabulous overview of the best 2025 fiction books.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
The best fiction of 2025
New novels from Ian McEwan and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a high-concept debut and remarkable short stories are just some of the best new titles of the year
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Your weekly reminder to get the flu jab if eligible.
riannejar.bsky.social Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 4d
How an influenza virus infects a human cell [via ETH Zurich] 🧪🥼🦠😷⚕️

"Researchers were surprised by one thing: the cells are not passive, simply allowing themselves to be invaded by the influenza virus. Rather, they actively attempt to capture it."

ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

#flu #virus #human #cell
How influenza viruses enter our cells
For the first time, researchers have observed live and in high resolution how influenza viruses infect living cells. This was possible thanks to a new microscopy technique, which could now help to dev...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Love all these imaginative advent calendars popping up. Here's one from the chemists.
compoundchem.com Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 5d
Brussels sprouts and Finnish lanttulaatikko feature in day 5 of #ChemAdvent. Their chemical connection is glucosinolates, bitter compounds in sprouts and swedes.

Genetic variations in people affect the perception of this bitterness – so if you're not a sprouts fan, that could be why!

#ChemSky 🧪
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
“Positivism Creep”

“The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.”

By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social
Many developments to reform the research landscape have occurred over the past decade. These changes have been made with broad goals to improve the ‘openness’ of research and often assumed to be ‘methodologically -agnostic’; that is, they ostensibly have benefits for all researchers occupying all epistemological and methodological positions. ‘Open science’ initiatives such as study pre-registration (i.e., specifying research aims and analytical plan ahead of data access), open data sharing, open-access publication, and open materials sharing are becoming increasingly mainstream across many fields within social research and the natural sciences. While there has been much criticism of these interventions, largely from the qualitative research community, we want to draw attention to a troubling trend in the promotion of open science: the leaking of standards relevant only to quantitative research to all paradigms. Or, as others refer to it, “positivism creep”. Here, we situate positivism creep (i.e., the creeping of positivist conventions to all research) within research policy, we highlight its increasing prevalence within open science reforms, and we warn against a future which could alienate many non-positivist scholars. We argue that the primary framing of open science as the pursuit of reproducibility and objectivity risks promoting positivism creep in the social sciences and humanities. In particular, we suggest that overly strict open research requirements placed by funders may reduce the range and variety of epistemological positions that can be taken by researchers, with particularly deleterious effects for qualitative researchers.
December 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Attn Statisticians:
#academicsky
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Oct 25
Recruitment has begun for a new National Statistician (£200k). Important role as the strategic head of the UK statistical system. There is less operational work as there is now a Perm Sec for ONS. So they are seeking an ‘internationally recognised leader in statistics’
www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
UK Statistics Authority
Official statistics play a vital role in supporting society and the economy - informing government policymaking and evaluation, guiding economic and
www.saxbam.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Sickening.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he was compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Great blog Jeremy!

www.phc.ox.ac.uk/blog/ballet-...
From ballet to DPhil: completing a doctorate at 78
After a 60-year career in professional ballet, a Rosamund Snow Scholar shares their experience of completing an Oxford DPhil at 78, researching how clinicians communicate with elite dancers facing car...
www.phc.ox.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Enjoying watching @carissaveliz.bsky.social giving a superb lecture on AI ethics with no slides and no crib sheet. Gonna go buy her next book.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...
Prophecy by Carissa Véliz: 9780385550970 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies—the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our health...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Got my abstract accepted (with Roland Bal, Ellen Stewart and Lorelei Jones) for the Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare conference, Oxford, 8-10 April 2026.

Who's coming?

www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/organ...
Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference 2026 | Saïd Business School
OBHC 2026 in Oxford
www.sbs.ox.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Abstract deadline extended for this conference on shared decision-making. Glyn Elwyn's group in US. www.sites.dartmouth.edu/ISDM2026
13th international shared decision making conference www.sites.dartmouth.edu/ISDM2026
December 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Intentional eye gouging. 12-week ban. Fair?
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Get me any of these Christmas presents (except the booze). Oh, they’re all for men. Why, in 2025, are we still doing boys’ gifts and girls’ gifts?

www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
The best UK Christmas gifts for dads (that aren’t whisky or novelty socks)
From fondue sets to hot sauce, board games to stadium prints, our edit has presents for every budget – even for dads who swear they’ve got everything
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM