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Julia Lynch
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Health/social policy, poli sci, inequality, methods, Europe. Teaching & learning, dogs, mezzo-alto, ME/CFS. Getting Better is open access! https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better
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Naturally he brought his laptop so he could read between periods.
An old man hold a laptop computer in his lap while seated on hockey bleachers
November 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Show the chest of a person wearing an I Voted! sticker — in Russian
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Yes they are!
A large black dog trotting toward the camera on a trail covered in fallen leaves, lit by late afternoon sun
November 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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True. And though I didn’t have time for a walk today, I did appreciate this tree at the end of my street going full-on torch at 7:30 this morning.
The top of a tree in full fall foliage, lit up by the morning sun. Oh, and power lines.
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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$100 to Philabundance. Anyone want to match?
Screen shot of email receipt for $100 donation to Philabundance food bank
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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From my local protest
Liberty and Justice for All. She is watching (with picture of Lady Liberty) Teaching history prevents kings No kings, yes princesses (with young person in pink princess dress) Have hope, take risks, fight fascism
October 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Wait, it’s National Black Dog Day?? This is MO’s day to shine!!! Here are couple of recent pics
Black dog looking at the camera, with little green seed pods sticking to his face Black dog taking a dip and a drink in a creek
October 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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It’s been a big day.
A large black dog with white tips lying sacked out on a not-quite-large-enough dog bed.
September 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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It’s international dog day?? Well, here is my beloved!
Large, fluffy black dog with soulful brown eyes lying in green grass
August 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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We grow ‘em big in Philly
Photo of a Meripilus giganteus (I think) fungus growing at the base of a large tree. The fungus is cream colored and roughly 18” across.
August 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Looking forward to having a bit of one of my favorite gins this evening. God Bless Canada.
Photo of a bottle of Sheringham Seaside Gin, produced on Vancouver Island. It’s a rectangular clear glass bottle with an elegant cream-colored label with black script.
August 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Your occasional reminder that Ithaca Is Gorges
Photo of Taughannock Falls, taken from the overlook on the North Rim. It was raining.
July 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Aside from having to removed the hardened slobber from the walls with a chisel, yes, the absolute best. As an adult I have settled for half-Newfs, who are just as chill and huggable, but slobber a lot less.
Current situation. Half-Newf lying next to the couch I’m lounging on. The perspective makes his head look much smaller than it actually is.
July 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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This live footage of my large dog explains why I have these issues. …
Large black dog sleeping with his head under my patio chair. Bunnies probably waiting until he goes inside to eat my plants, but they needn’t bother.
July 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Mo says, “Marty! Are we related?”
Big fluffy Newfie - Border Collie mix
July 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Celebrating Kathleen Thelen’s fantastic. new book “Attention Shoppers” at @ces-europe.bsky.com
L-R Kathy Thelen, Sheri Berman, Gunnar Trumbull, Amel Ahmed at a seminar table
June 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Ran into family at @ces-europe.bsky.social.

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L-R Karen Anderson, Lotem Halevy, Julie Lynch, Isabel Perera, Amel Ahmed.
June 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Large black dog with white tips curled up so he just kinda sorta fits in a pinkish armchair.
June 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Today is some kind of day to reflect on political violence with a visit to the monument to St Thomas a Beckett.
View of the towers of Canterbury Cathedral seen through trees and ruins. The monument to St Thomas a Beckett, featuring a very spiky shard of a sword. Reportedly the very spot where he was stabbed by 4 knights, upon the not-very-veiled suggestion of Henry II, who was displeased when he found out that Beckett was siding with the monks in Henry’s dispute with them.
June 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Probably not an ideal marketing strategy
Blue sign above the door to a health clinic in London reads “World’s Wnd Health Centre”
May 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Here's how to get your hands on Getting Better
Cover image of Getting Better: The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities, by Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch, and Katherine E. Smith. [A sun in shades of orange and yellow rises over a landscape in shades of green with a river running through it.] May 2025 PB £14.99 9781447372868 “This book is an evidence-based counter to despair. It shows, using four case studies, that health inequalities have been reduced by political and social policies. The key message is to continue these life-enhancing policies.” Sir Michael Marmot, UCL Institute of Health Equity Health inequality has reached a crisis point. Your income or hometown can have a devastating impact on how well and how long you live. This injustice, exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, continues as the cost of living rises and other sources of inequity grow. What can be done to make things better? This book, written by the authors behind the award-winning The Unequal Pandemic, explores successful international case studies of governments reducing health inequalities – from the USA and Brazil to Germany and England – stretching over fifty years from the 1960s to the 2000s. Essential reading for students and scholars of public health and the social sciences, and for health and social care professionals and policy makers, this book demonstrates that reducing health inequalities is possible and provides a roadmap for today’s governments to follow. Visit bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/signup to join our mailing list and get a 25% discount on all our books. Alternatively, request access to the book from your library. Find out more about the book at policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better
May 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Return to Rivendell.
View of the Lower Quad at Nuffield College, Oxford. Perfectly manicured green grass, a deep blue sky with a couple of fluffy white clouds, and Nuffield yellow in between.
May 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Still getting to know my coffee maker in Konstanz. I’m starting to think that it might not be me. Bonus picture taken from the path in front of my building, and one of my very fancy computer stand.
View up the Rhine to the Bodensee with faint mountains in the distance. The weather is gray and chilly but print has sprung. Open laptop computer balanced atop a glass teapot. It looks precarious but it works ok.
April 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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It’s here, in my hot little hands! Official pub date (w open access on the website below) is 5/27. Launch event at Strathclyde Univ. on 5/28. Mark your calendars!

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policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better
Photo of an author’s hand holding a paperback book. The book is Getting Better: The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities, by Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch and Katherine E. Smith. The cover image is of a rising sun and sunlit uplands, in colors of yellow, orange and green.
April 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Some days are just like that
Big black dog with white tips rolling in dead grass. He looks like Pigpen.
March 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM