"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?
@judegreen
London, UK. Sociologist at University of Exeter. Medical sociology; critical public health; academic publishing; methods, esp qualitative; mobility & transport; equity. Co-editor Journal of Critical Public Health. And here for random stuff.
"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?
<once again holding up a tiny sign that says we actually have good evidence about the complex reasons people don't vaccinate, and how to talk to them about it, and, believe it or not, yelling about how stupid/irresponsible they are, while possibly cathartic, has the opposite of the desired effect>
Mate, it was 1066. Move on.
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UK based sociologist of health? @fshi.bsky.social funding round for grant development, workshops, postgrad conference travel and post docs now open - closes 27th march www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/
Congratulations to Sociology.
This launch last week was fantastic news for the future of scholarly publishing, with hundreds of #diamondopenaccess journals listed - check them out at www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/
@cphjournal.bsky.social is proud to be included.
Permanent post vacancy for a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at St Andrews @standrewsanthro.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social - Application deadline: 6th March 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQG970/l...
Interesting post - 'ghost'citations have always existed, but GenAI is accelerating the slop. As editor, super tedious having to check refs of all incoming papers
Congrats to @ojcollective.bsky.social on launch! A massive step towards a sustainable infrastructure for sustainable academic publishing
UK has lost its measles elimination status. #publichealth
I have a paper on the post-politics of multistakeholder partnerships in a new special issue of @cphjournal.bsky.social on 'narratives, agency and resistance in critical public health'
great to be involved in an SI with so many brilliant colleagues and all papers are open access
The open access 'Journal of Critical Public Health' just releases it's third issue is now out: Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems -
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc.... It is the only journal dedicated to 'critical public heath', community-owned (not corporate). Check it out!
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
Now out! Special Issue 'Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems', guest edited by @profkatsmith.bsky.social, Justin Waring & Mark Bevir, and PACKED with great papers from leading authors applying decentred theory to key issues in #publichealth
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
New online 1st publication! Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva & Klasien Horstman explore biopolitics in late/post-Soviet #publichealth policy docs
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Ah, thank you!! Came in late to this episode, and spent rest of day thinking 'how come i never heard that Who track before?'
Can bibliotherapy in schools improve children's #mental health? Our review found promise, but better research needed, esp on poss negative effects.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This study was part of collaboration with @exetercityoflit.bsky.social
Can bibliotherapy in schools improve children's #mental health? Our review found promise, but better research needed, esp on poss negative effects.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
πRecommended reading
Our article 'Measuring social inequalities in self-reported #miscarriage experiences in the UK' is now part of a special issue 'Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective' in Journal of Critical Public Health
Full issue: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Our first Special Issue is out now! It's on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective - Guest editors: Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager
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It is - such clever storytelling, the episode on Mir left me speechless
Hmm, could it be rising levels of xenophobia, labour govt determined to out-right the right, HE system imploding...? Just guessing wildly
This looks usefulπ
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
A short while ago, Dr Janani Shanthosh and I had an engaging conversation about The Foreign Gaze, which she's now beautifully captured in text and audio.
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
New 'online first' publication from Uzair Amjad on male infertility in Pakistan - part of an exciting forthcoming special issue on critical perspectives on reproductive vulnerabilities!
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Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...