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Mel Bartley

@zetkin.bsky.social

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🇪🇺🦔🦡🌹🕊Emeritus prof of medical sociology UCL. Posting on social inequality in health , work & health, commercial & political determinants of health. Obsessed with social justice. Also sometimes post about badgers, trams & trains. Oublagea .. more

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Melanie Jane Bartley FBA is a medical sociologist and retired academic. She was Professor of Medical Sociology at University College London from 2001 to 2012.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 34m

I narrowly escaped, & only by using a wasted word to test out as many of the candidate 1st letters as possible.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 42m

It's very simple to write about taxing the assets of super rich in ways that allow improvement of education, health & social care. Very simple to advocate an end to corruption. Most people support these ideas already.

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 1h

We have got no money in UK because all our Govts' have handed out crony contracts and to US equity companies, let bankers pay no tax on their bonuses. Let companies in Freeports pay no customs and excise tax too. Let Black Rock advise them on how we need to pay instead. Brexit has contributed too.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2h

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Our one comes straight up to the door of the terrace, as if it expects to be fed😵‍💫🦫

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2h

Nice article. But what it leaves out is the pervasiveness of gopherism --- willingness to do,s#/t work for the powerful -- as a path to job security.

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 3h

Academic careers have become a professional sport blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences

Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 2h

Britain has seen an acute living standards slowdown over the past 20 years, affecting everyone.

A typical family today would be £20,000 richer had incomes continued at the rate of growth trending in 2005, when the Foundation was founded.

Read more: buff.ly/NuhNFF9

Chart showing average annual non-pensioner real household income growth, by income percentile: GB/UK

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2h

6 for me too yesterday.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2h

Apparently, we're in Squirrel Month. The squirrel who has invaded our terrace must know it. Bloody pest. Quite tame, not scared of us.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2h

Yesterday's was a stinker.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 3h

Takes me back to the days of my PhD

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 3h

Academic careers have become a professional sport blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences

Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Merry Christmas, as in the other place. @hellobluesky5694.bsky.social · 3h

Kentish Fran
The average reading age in theUK is between 9 and 11 yers
This is why Farage does so well
He uses simple language that most can follow His extreme rhetoric grabs attention & his simple language means that most can follow
Labour must learn this lesson& speak to them in the same way

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 4h

Jeez

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 13h

Data available on request

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 13h

OK, thank you

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 16h

What payments??

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 18h

It was a tricky one. I gave away one word just because it included many of the possibilities.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 20h

Just what I was thinking. Not a single mention of Snow in Les! Microbes🤔

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 21h

Who are the ICE people? How are they recruited?

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 21h

Tried to be too clever
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 23h

It seems like there re men who, having gained access to endless wealth, have nothing else to yearn for than permission to rape children. And people like Epstein & Maxwell give them the access they want.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 23h

Gauff and Pegula are my favorite women's tennis players. What a match!

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 23h

Ummmm.... noooo. But I do remember when 1st reading the book marvelling at the contrast between the importance given to Pasteur in UK and Frannce.

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Kev Woods @kev-woods.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget the 15 years before Blair. Where the sell off of assets began.
The deregulation of banks leading to boom and bust.
The transfer of wealth from the people to the rich started in earnest.
Reform want the last jewel.. our NHS.
No interest in you, just your dumb acceptance.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Had he read "Les Microbes: Guerre et Paix"?

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have any insight into why so many Americans have accepted the anti-vax propaganda & no longer seem to believe that infectious disease is a danger to them?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

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Nigerian Modernism is Tate Modern’s most revelatory show in years

This bounteous exhibition celebrates an emerging country and its artists around the heady period of independence in 1960

on.ft.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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