Dr Jobeth
@drjobeth68.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Public health policy PhD, not medical doc. Would like closer to EU, more serious response to Covid/Long Covid. Views my own. UK
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It was the sweetest moment I’ve witnessed during the war.
December 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It was the sweetest moment I’ve witnessed during the war.
Highly recommend (I'm only on the first one, but still)
I'm having a LOVELY time writing the 3rd (and plotting the 4th and 5th) of my new book series, and delighted that (so far) 100% of the reviews for book 2 are ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (as are 92% for book 1).
Just wanted to say thanks to all of you.
Thanks to all of you. x
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G2CDCMV...
Just wanted to say thanks to all of you.
Thanks to all of you. x
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G2CDCMV...
The Erin Callahan Thrillers
Visit Amazon's The Erin Callahan Thrillers page and shop for all The Erin Callahan Thrillers books. Check out pictures, author information and reviews of The Erin Callahan Thrillers
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December 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Highly recommend (I'm only on the first one, but still)
Absolutely this!!!!
The grim track to the othering and demonisation of families in poverty from #Bradford Tories at #Bradfordcouncil meeting. Dog whistles and bile..
Old enough to remember those expunged one nation Tory council members who would have been appalled. ...
Old enough to remember those expunged one nation Tory council members who would have been appalled. ...
December 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Absolutely this!!!!
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And how about the universities, Bridget? Please start doing something to protect the sector!
bsky.app/profile/lucy...
bsky.app/profile/lucy...
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
And how about the universities, Bridget? Please start doing something to protect the sector!
bsky.app/profile/lucy...
bsky.app/profile/lucy...
@greatwarnerd.bsky.social You should tell the world about you and yours. It will help you get it finished! xx
Let's hear from you writers, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
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#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
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December 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
@greatwarnerd.bsky.social You should tell the world about you and yours. It will help you get it finished! xx
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Amazing! 👏🏽👏🏽
In Australia, “no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination”
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
In Australia, “no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination”
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Amazing! 👏🏽👏🏽
In Australia, “no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination”
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
In Australia, “no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination”
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
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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...
👏'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...
June 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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...
👏'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...
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Airborne transmission @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social
🤦Quote: 'Insufficient attention had been paid to the possibility of airborne transmission from as early as April 2020.
🤷Advice was clear... airborne transmission was possible in poorly ventilated spaces.'
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu...
🤦Quote: 'Insufficient attention had been paid to the possibility of airborne transmission from as early as April 2020.
🤷Advice was clear... airborne transmission was possible in poorly ventilated spaces.'
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu...
November 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Airborne transmission @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social
🤦Quote: 'Insufficient attention had been paid to the possibility of airborne transmission from as early as April 2020.
🤷Advice was clear... airborne transmission was possible in poorly ventilated spaces.'
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu...
🤦Quote: 'Insufficient attention had been paid to the possibility of airborne transmission from as early as April 2020.
🤷Advice was clear... airborne transmission was possible in poorly ventilated spaces.'
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu...
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Music and sport fans will no longer be ripped off on the ticket resale market thanks to new measures which will destroy the operating model of ticket touts.
New rules to make it illegal to resell tickets for live events above original cost.
A very welcome move!
www.gov.uk/government/n...
New rules to make it illegal to resell tickets for live events above original cost.
A very welcome move!
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Government bans ticket touting to protect fans from rip-offs
New rules to make it illegal to resell tickets for live events above original cost
www.gov.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Music and sport fans will no longer be ripped off on the ticket resale market thanks to new measures which will destroy the operating model of ticket touts.
New rules to make it illegal to resell tickets for live events above original cost.
A very welcome move!
www.gov.uk/government/n...
New rules to make it illegal to resell tickets for live events above original cost.
A very welcome move!
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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COVID continues
Circulation of COVID variants has created a new year-round baseline for work absences and excess deaths (the level of mortality above what it was before the pandemic) remains significantly elevated). And within these, Long COVID.
@yaneerbaryam.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Circulation of COVID variants has created a new year-round baseline for work absences and excess deaths (the level of mortality above what it was before the pandemic) remains significantly elevated). And within these, Long COVID.
@yaneerbaryam.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
November 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
COVID continues
Circulation of COVID variants has created a new year-round baseline for work absences and excess deaths (the level of mortality above what it was before the pandemic) remains significantly elevated). And within these, Long COVID.
@yaneerbaryam.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Circulation of COVID variants has created a new year-round baseline for work absences and excess deaths (the level of mortality above what it was before the pandemic) remains significantly elevated). And within these, Long COVID.
@yaneerbaryam.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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In the UK, restricting free access to proven vaccines surely ignores the evidence and is a public health failure?
🙏Petition: Make the COVID-19 vaccine universally available, free of charge, like it was previously. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
🙏Petition: Make the COVID-19 vaccine universally available, free of charge, like it was previously. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Sign the Petition
Make COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Available in the UK - Free of Charge
www.change.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In the UK, restricting free access to proven vaccines surely ignores the evidence and is a public health failure?
🙏Petition: Make the COVID-19 vaccine universally available, free of charge, like it was previously. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
🙏Petition: Make the COVID-19 vaccine universally available, free of charge, like it was previously. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Funding boost to protect war memorials across the country for future generations
To mark Remembrance Sunday, the government has announced additional funding for the National Heritage Memorial Fund to support communities in repairing and conserving local war memorials.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
To mark Remembrance Sunday, the government has announced additional funding for the National Heritage Memorial Fund to support communities in repairing and conserving local war memorials.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Funding boost to protect war memorials across the country for future generations
Government grant to ensure tributes to fallen servicemen and women are preserved across the UK
www.gov.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Vaccines do make a difference!
Please read, sign, and share, this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its policy regarding access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Make it universally available, free of charge, regardless of age - subject to our own medical history.
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Please read, sign, and share, this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its policy regarding access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Make it universally available, free of charge, regardless of age - subject to our own medical history.
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Sign the Petition
Make COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Available in the UK - Free of Charge
www.change.org
November 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Vaccines do make a difference!
Please read, sign, and share, this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its policy regarding access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Make it universally available, free of charge, regardless of age - subject to our own medical history.
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Please read, sign, and share, this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its policy regarding access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Make it universally available, free of charge, regardless of age - subject to our own medical history.
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Look away now if you don't want to hear me complaining. Flaming #LongCovid Flaming #tinnitus !!!
The one caused the other (now constant for the last 13 months) so here's me, awake at 4 in the morning with NO CHANCE of getting back to sleep.
Ah well, at least I can listen to heart racing 🙄
The one caused the other (now constant for the last 13 months) so here's me, awake at 4 in the morning with NO CHANCE of getting back to sleep.
Ah well, at least I can listen to heart racing 🙄
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Look away now if you don't want to hear me complaining. Flaming #LongCovid Flaming #tinnitus !!!
The one caused the other (now constant for the last 13 months) so here's me, awake at 4 in the morning with NO CHANCE of getting back to sleep.
Ah well, at least I can listen to heart racing 🙄
The one caused the other (now constant for the last 13 months) so here's me, awake at 4 in the morning with NO CHANCE of getting back to sleep.
Ah well, at least I can listen to heart racing 🙄
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A great day of Hinterland
A Charter day out with No 12368 on the @eastlancsrailway.bsky.social
#steamlocomotive #railwayphotography
#Rawtenstall
A Charter day out with No 12368 on the @eastlancsrailway.bsky.social
#steamlocomotive #railwayphotography
#Rawtenstall
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A great day of Hinterland
A Charter day out with No 12368 on the @eastlancsrailway.bsky.social
#steamlocomotive #railwayphotography
#Rawtenstall
A Charter day out with No 12368 on the @eastlancsrailway.bsky.social
#steamlocomotive #railwayphotography
#Rawtenstall
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Labour's Renters Rights Act has become law!
Everyone deserves to know they have a secure home they can afford to live in!
And the changes Labour have made through this law will give that to 11 million people!
www.instagram.com/p/DQU1e_tDmTh/
Everyone deserves to know they have a secure home they can afford to live in!
And the changes Labour have made through this law will give that to 11 million people!
www.instagram.com/p/DQU1e_tDmTh/
October 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Labour's Renters Rights Act has become law!
Everyone deserves to know they have a secure home they can afford to live in!
And the changes Labour have made through this law will give that to 11 million people!
www.instagram.com/p/DQU1e_tDmTh/
Everyone deserves to know they have a secure home they can afford to live in!
And the changes Labour have made through this law will give that to 11 million people!
www.instagram.com/p/DQU1e_tDmTh/
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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I really love this.
Government funding is supporting the Pub is The Hub not-for-profit to help rural pubs diversify their services, to ensure they remain viable & important parts of their communities.
Projects include community cafes, village stores & play areas.
This can make a real difference!
Government funding is supporting the Pub is The Hub not-for-profit to help rural pubs diversify their services, to ensure they remain viable & important parts of their communities.
Projects include community cafes, village stores & play areas.
This can make a real difference!
Raising a glass: Beloved village pubs to be helped with new funding to broaden their services
In a boost for our great British boozers, rural pubs across the UK will benefit from new government funding to help them provide extra services for local communities.
www.gov.uk
October 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I really love this.
Government funding is supporting the Pub is The Hub not-for-profit to help rural pubs diversify their services, to ensure they remain viable & important parts of their communities.
Projects include community cafes, village stores & play areas.
This can make a real difference!
Government funding is supporting the Pub is The Hub not-for-profit to help rural pubs diversify their services, to ensure they remain viable & important parts of their communities.
Projects include community cafes, village stores & play areas.
This can make a real difference!
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Thanks Jacqui Young and @bmj.com for discussing this important subject with myself and @dralig.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn
Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...
www.bmj.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Thanks Jacqui Young and @bmj.com for discussing this important subject with myself and @dralig.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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We think the UK government should ensure that management of healthcare associated infections (HCAI) is extended to include recording data on COVID infections spread within hospitals.
That’s why we signed this petition.
Please join us - if you haven’t already.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
That’s why we signed this petition.
Please join us - if you haven’t already.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings
Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...
petition.parliament.uk
October 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
We think the UK government should ensure that management of healthcare associated infections (HCAI) is extended to include recording data on COVID infections spread within hospitals.
That’s why we signed this petition.
Please join us - if you haven’t already.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
That’s why we signed this petition.
Please join us - if you haven’t already.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
On holiday with 25 pals. They are all out now, eating, drinking & generally having a great time. Have had an excellent time today out on the sea but that means I am now in bed. Virtually can't move, such a lack of strength. Not whingeing - just bearing witness. Reality - 12 months of #LongCovid
September 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
On holiday with 25 pals. They are all out now, eating, drinking & generally having a great time. Have had an excellent time today out on the sea but that means I am now in bed. Virtually can't move, such a lack of strength. Not whingeing - just bearing witness. Reality - 12 months of #LongCovid
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Meanwhile, @ukhsa.bsky.social should monitor and report on the numbers of COVID infections occurring in healthcare settings via their routine surveillance programmes, and advise on how to prevent and control infection in hospitals, care homes and schools.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
August 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Meanwhile, @ukhsa.bsky.social should monitor and report on the numbers of COVID infections occurring in healthcare settings via their routine surveillance programmes, and advise on how to prevent and control infection in hospitals, care homes and schools.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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We have launched a series highlighting the positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland 💙
Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇
#refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere
Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇
#refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere
August 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
We have launched a series highlighting the positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland 💙
Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇
#refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere
Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇
#refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere
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I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
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We’re sleepwalking to a REFORM government mainly because of gross over platforming (propaganda) in our broadcast media. No other party (libdems,greens, snp, plaid even the tories) gets the kind of coverage Farage gets. It has to stop. Make a stand Sign&pass on. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...
petition.parliament.uk
August 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
We’re sleepwalking to a REFORM government mainly because of gross over platforming (propaganda) in our broadcast media. No other party (libdems,greens, snp, plaid even the tories) gets the kind of coverage Farage gets. It has to stop. Make a stand Sign&pass on. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...