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Trish Greenhalgh

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Prof of Primary Care Health Sciences, 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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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 8m

I've got some of the exhibits on my desk!!! Nothing wrong with a 40 year old fax machine I say

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 16h

I’m sort of imagining him with an oily rag over his shoulder and a pencil behind his ear…

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 1d

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 17h

You won’t regret it. Best to go on a sunny day as there’s a lot of walking between the huts and a nice little lake to sit by. And you pay once and go back as much as you want for a year.

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Cllr Laurence Fouweather 🔶️ @laurencefouweather.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the Oxford 1/2 marathon today, I was struck by the runners being of every age, gender, height, build and ethnicity in contrast to Robert Jenricks comments last week. Charity fundraisers, members of athletics clubs and individuals with a common aim to finish the run. Well done everyone.

Oxford half marathon on Banbury Road, Summertown

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19h

I need a Tommy Flowers Was Robbed t-shirt. Great piece!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20h

No, he should not have shared another scientist’s data without her consent. I am judging him.

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 20h

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20h

Kings!! Maurice Wilkins taught my husband in the 70s. Was apparently a nice guy and great teacher but looks like he was also a bit sneaky and horribly sexist.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20h

So we’re agreed. Men Behaving Badly.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20h

From the picture it looks like this is IN MICE, but a cautious WOW from me.

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 20h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20h

Actually I believe she was dead (from breast cancer) before anyone got it, and you can’t win a Nobel prize if dead. But I may be wrong about the timings

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20h

Oh really? The paper says that Maurice Wilkins showed Franklin’s pictures to Watson without her consent. Was she really such a girls-blouse scientist that she didn’t understand the significance of her own data? The only evidence we have in support of that hypothesis is absence of a penis.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20h

WHAAAT? Sorry to hear.

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 22h

I will do that! Thanks :-)

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 22h

OK I’ve done my Sunday sport (12 rounds in the ring with Reviewer 2). Got my mug of tea and bit of cake. Which Diane Keaton movie shall I watch? #academicsky

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I bet he’s volunteered for lots!

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

Blimey

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

Donated!

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

different journal but yeah I agree

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

He needs to be out of academia and sweeping streets

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

I knew he was arrogant. I didn’t know till I read that paper that he wasn’t very bright either.

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks @juliamwright.bsky.social for flagging this shocker. I not the guy has previous for the same behaviour.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

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