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Sally Howard
@salvolatile.bsky.social
global health, social affairs and human interest specialist journalist for broadsheets and journals. Half of India Story Agent with Geetanjali Krishna. Author Kama Sutra Diaries, The Home Stretch, Vagina Inc. Repped Marjacq
devices wars and snack spats: for @thetimes.com I report from the frontline of of the sleepover scene #parenting

www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
How sleepovers expose the hell of other people’s parenting
From paranoid parents and device wars to dietary disagreements and clashing parenting styles, hosting friends has become a cultural pillow fight — until now
www.thetimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Culinary wit from maple-syrup land. 🇨🇦 🔥
March 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Reposted by Sally Howard
🚨 Drastic cuts to global health funding are leaving millions without essential HIV services. Young people, key populations, and marginalized communities are being abandoned. Millions are at risk. Act now, save lives!
Learn more: 🔗 bit.ly/41CDnrD

#ZeroDiscrimination
March 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
straw poll: are other folk seeing leftist communities dissolving into spats at the moment? Seeing these vituperative meltdowns everywhere from diggers communialisrs to fo-row hippies and global journo mutual aid groups— what’s with?
February 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
ChatGPT scheduler = ‘calming’ @restispolitics.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Meet 'wedgies' reply guy. One of the many men who online stalk British women journalists
January 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
early arrival on the tide of mullets from Holland: bathing their bellies therapeutically in the chalk water from Lewes weir #fishspa
January 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Reposted by Sally Howard
It’s all about the big issues in the @bmj.com this month!

Do smoking bans work? And what about the role of e-cigarettes?

A review here from @salvolatile.bsky.social and Geetanjali Krishna.

It’s a mixed picture, but some successes across the world.

#TobaccoControl
#Smoking
#SDOH
January 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
*awaits pee Pulitzer 😆
January 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
roundly disagree with this. Calenderising through LLMs has been revolutionary for me as it corrects for my optimistic cognitive biases around time use and helps me push back professionally against cheeky and pressurising requests (v useful for a people pleaser who doesn’t want to revist #CFS)
Search engines exist. Calendars and reminders are already on your phone and email client. No one needs to use immense amounts of energy and water and stolen IP to make a worse version!
ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos
January 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
On Jan 27, rescheduled due to ye olde Zoom version issues, I
share my grandmother's Virginia's wartime recollections of war work at a requisitioned #Glyndebourne and the freedom that the war brought for young women like her #socialhistory

leweshistory.org.uk/2024/12/16/n...
January 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The University of Birmingham looked into domestic #woodburning in the West Midlands & found that it is a source of 20% of the total PM2.5 in the area. Notably, they also found that #woodburning related PM2.5 emissions were x7 higher than those measured in 2008-2010 airqualitynews.com/health/birmi...
Birmingham's wood burning emissions increased sevenfold over 12 years
A team from the University of Birmingham has looked into domestic woodburning in the West Midlands and found that it is the source of 20% of the total PM2.5 in the area. Notably, they also found that...
airqualitynews.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Rearranged due to Sussex ❄️- date TBC!
We're really looking forward to welcoming Marina Gerner to Brighton tomorrow to discuss her new book, The Vagina Business, with Sally Howard.
They will be discussing the innovative breakthroughs that could change everything in women's health.

@salvolatile.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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We're really looking forward to welcoming Marina Gerner to Brighton tomorrow to discuss her new book, The Vagina Business, with Sally Howard.
They will be discussing the innovative breakthroughs that could change everything in women's health.

@salvolatile.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
In Rwanda, farmers often watch their harvest spoil before it can reach the market. A fleet of simple, efficient trucks is changing that. Geetanjali Krishna and I report for @rtbcheerful.bsky.social with assistance from @gatesfoundation.bsky.social and EJC

reasonstobecheerful.world/nimble-elect...
Nimble Electric Trucks Are Supercharging African Trade
In Rwanda, farmers often watch their harvest spoil before it can reach the market. A fleet of simple, efficient trucks is changing that.
reasonstobecheerful.world
December 12, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Doctors from Syria tell me about “Holocaust-like” scenes that have unfolded at the liberated Saydnaya military prison - 18 miles north of the Damascus - after the fall of the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad. I report for @bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Syria: Doctors warn of refeeding syndrome and infections in released prisoners
Doctors from Syria who work for the NHS have told The BMJ about “Holocaust-like” scenes that have unfolded at the liberated Saydnaya military prison 18 miles north of the Syrian capital, Damascus, aft...
www.bmj.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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GOOD LUCK and strength and solidarity to all striking today and tomorrow!!
I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. It ends at 23.59 GMT on Friday 13 December. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
bsky.app
December 12, 2024 at 10:42 AM
looking for Middle Eastern medics who have fled turbulent home nations in recent years for the Gulf states #journorequest #casestudyrequest
December 9, 2024 at 1:11 PM
The Taliban bans women from nursing and midwifery training in Afghanistan.

A student who who had been ordered to leave her training course on Dec 3 tells me that the ban was a tragedy that “will kill even more women and babies in our country”. I report for @bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Taliban bans women from training in nursing and midwifery in Afghanistan
Health and human rights organisations have condemned the Taliban’s ban on women from attending nursing and midwifery training institutes in Afghanistan. Non-governmental organisation Human Rights Wat...
www.bmj.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:19 AM
any UK-based, Afghanistan background doctors on here?
December 4, 2024 at 10:52 AM
‘A handful of middle class women’ is the new ‘binders full of women’ #gregwallace
December 1, 2024 at 8:57 AM
I'm looking for GPs in the following ICBs to chat about healthcare inequalities:

Lancashire, South Cumbria, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Humber and North Yorks, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Mid and South Essex or North Central London
November 27, 2024 at 2:27 PM
sea foam at Hove yesterday: a mixture of plankton and proteins whipped up by the wind, sea foam (‘Neptune’s detergent’) can be a sign of a healthy marine ecostem #winter #stormBurt
November 24, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Reposted by Sally Howard
Big shout out to Greener Practice, trailblazing primary care led national sustainability network, wouldn’t have been possible to conceive this project without their support & inspiration!

www.greenerpractice.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 AM