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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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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
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Horrific.
physgal.bsky.social Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 1d
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
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
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
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Your weekly reminder to get the flu jab if eligible.
riannejar.bsky.social Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
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
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
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
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
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
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
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
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
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
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
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
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Intentional eye gouging. 12-week ban. Fair?
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
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
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
#Oxford people, #birdflu has been confirmed on Port Meadow.

Take care everyone.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2567322...
Urgent warning issued after bird flu outbreak in popular city meadow
An urgent warning has been issued after positive cases of bird flu were confirmed in Port Meadow, Oxford.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Follow thread.
drjoepajak.bsky.social @DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · Jun 25
Aerosol transmission of SARSCoV2 virus is the dominant route for transmitting COVID-19.
👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
www.rsc.org/standards-an...
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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greentempleton.bsky.social
Congratulations to Rosamund Snow Scholar Jeremy Leslie-Spinks on passing his DPhil viva. His work bridges the communication gap between dancers and clinicians, improving care for injured dancers. 👏🎓

www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/suppo...

@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
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Jeremy with examiners Sue Ziebland and Moria McCormack
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
In workshop for MSc in Global Healthcare Leadership. Students (who bring much wisdom from around the world) have been set the task of mapping the 'megatrends' that contribute to volatility and loss of resilience in the healthcare sector.

They've run out of paper....
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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malar0ne.bsky.social
The grievance blog masquerading as a "journal" founded by Trump HHS appointees (The "Journal" of the "Academy" of Public Health) is now publishing lengthy screeds about how HHS secretary RFK Jr is being treated unfairly by the BMJ and calling it a literature synthesis...
BMJ’s Coverage of Kennedy’s Vaccine Reforms Amounts to Character Assassination by Peter C. Gøtzsche Abstract: The reactions to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s initiatives to improve vaccine safety have been almost uniformly negative. I studied how the narratives were framed in a cohort of 33 articles in the BMJ of which 30 were written by journalists or the editor. I focused on whether the reporting was balanced and informative, and whether the articles saw any merit in Kennedy's reforms in his role as Secretary of Health and Human Services or supported the status quo. The reporting in the BMJ was highly biased. Much of the information provided in Kennedy's disfavour was misleading, and some was wrong. All initiatives at improving vaccine safety were condemned, without any analysis of their merits in an evidence-based fashion. Instead, the BMJ cited people who had their own agendas and who condemned Kennedy without providing any evidence in their favour while expressing faith in vaccines, with the industry mantra that they are safe and effective, although all drugs will harm some people. The BMJ did not take any interest in the widespread and lethal corruption in US healthcare institutions - one of Kennedy's focus points - but toned it down. Despite the constant ad hominem attacks, Kennedy has succeeded to introduce important changes and plans related to vaccine safety, guidance about how vaccines are used, and about avoiding neurotoxic metals in vaccine adjuvants.
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Yes.
zaminiqbal.bsky.social Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 5d
Does anyone else think they are seeing post-acceptance editorial changes at proof stage which are error-prone and probably due to adoption of AI?
December 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Good example of a qualitative study that has direct implications for practice and policy, doesn't need a quantitative study to "validate" it. Vulnerable women, significant and remediable barriers to early detection of a common (treatable) cancer.
martinmckee.bsky.social Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 5d
🧵1/ Romania has the highest cervical cancer incidence & mortality in Europe. Yet screening coverage is under 30%. Why? Our new study explores the emotional & practical barriers faced by vulnerable women.
@cbigscreen.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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wow
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM