Super excited that our publication is now out @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social !
Our social sciences stocktaking of last 10 years of research of AMR interventions provides recommendations & essential reflection for current antimicrobial governance initiatives. #AMR #GAP26
... también fue una unión intergeneracional transformativa, entre los que a sus 20-y-tantos iban a esos bares de los 90, los q lo descubrían a escondidas como adolescentes, y los q crecimos con aquéllos y éstos, y con y Extremo desde el asiento de atrás del coche. Robe es casa, y por eso volvemos.
Que grandes radios y TV ahora lo homenajeen es satírico, casi. Por ahí en redes Queralt Lahoz quizás ha comentado esto mejor que nadie. Lo que dice aquí @gerardotece.bsky.social quizás es el mejor homenaje que he leído por ahora. Añadiría que escuchar la voz de Robe...
Staff at Edinburgh Uni to continue strike action #WeAreTheUniversity #StopTheCuts #SaveHE www.heraldscotland.com/news/2557921...
Thank you Christos! :)
Tuesday last week I passed my PhD viva, with my thesis titled: "Optimising antibiotics in the Spanish public hospital: Professional belonging, collective consciousness and power at the edge of intervention"
Replying to all the well wishing messages I received, it's slowly sinking in, it's done! :)
We're starting day 4 of the strike with Jack the cat's full support. He also says that this is a manufactured crisis because there is no deficit at the University of Edinburgh. Clever cat.
Edinburgh University staff begin walkout amid dispute over £140m cuts plan www.scotsman.com/education/ed...
Months of sitting down across a laptop screen certainly take their toll on the body. 3 weeks of unbelievable Orcadian sunshine definitely helped unwind post-thesis writing.
Oh, I can't believe she's so grown up!!! I love this tradition haha. And she must be so happy!!!
I hope there's some good stationary in there? It's best to get the stationary lovers started early, right... ♥️
In other news. About a month has passed since the thesis submission. How?!
I'm about to finish knitting "the thesis jumper," I've swam in the North Sea... But also fully beaten up in the Scottish battles between humans and midges (Not sure if we'll win this one.)
Not a bad place to be! :P
A comic strip from Batman comics. Robin is saying 'It's August in Orkney and it's sunny with no wind' then Batman slaps him and says 'Midges.'
The struggle is real
Fun!! :)
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I don't engage much with social media anymore.
A little post, days away from submitting the thesis... The conclusion's final page is probably close to this GIF.
I don't know, I said so many things, choose your own adventure m'dam reader, go to p.75? Or to p.167? 🫠 That would go down well, RIGHT?
In BMJ Global Health, open access: epistemic preparedness. We argue for the social sciences and the humanities - expanding the category of expert - in preparing for the next pandemic!
#pandemic #epidemiology #histstm #histmed #sts
@nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social @acmedsci.bsky.social @apha.org
We don't talk enough about how successful the English language testing industry has settled in higher education in the UK. £200 or so for a test to enter the university is a high price to pay for not holding a UK passport. Very few exemptions exist... unclear why.
After +10 years living in the UK, a degree, and nearly another one, it is shocking to yet again be asked for proof of my English proficiency for a short professional skills course... It doesn't beat that time when the University of Edinburgh wouldn't take its own degree as proof. But almost!
Women in a clinical trial
Women are woefully under-researched.
@katewomersley.com discusses how the Message project aims to redress the balance
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Supporting one in 12 jobs in the city of Dundee, the university’s creeping financial problems have snowballed into a full-blown liquidity crunch .. Last year the number of foreign students fell 12 per cent in Scotland, compared with a 2.5 per cent decline in England
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Perhaps my literal worst nightmare, a cruise and norovirus... I ask myself if there's infectious disease that could get anyone more traumatised than this bug? I know relatively speaking its normally mild and inconsequential. But I still shiver when I hear of someone having got it.
Now might be a good time to protect your data if you’ve used this service.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Pues justo ayer me entrevistaban en @publico.es y decía que una de las amenazas de la salud era el uso torticero de las instituciones de la derecha para impedir los avances en salud.
El resto, pues ya habéis visto el día de hoy
www.publico.es/sociedad/san...
And Spain continues without a public health agency because of the last-minute change in the right-wing vote. Sad times for quite a few civil servants and health professionals mobilising this for so many years... Spain's health inequalities are structural, full stop.
Are you super into design-based, creative methods? Is understanding biomedicine & healthcare sociologically your kinda geek? Are you severely attracted to working across the socsci-humanities-arts? Do you like the Scottish beautiful weathers? Look no further, beautiful project below 😇🤓👇
Worth reading this alongside @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's analysis of our finances, which paints a rather different picture, highlighting financial mismanagement: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/3fzpaa5...
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A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street
A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire
A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background
The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
Grazie Galadriel!!! :) Abrazos escoceses
London-bound!
Thrilled to be taking part in this #AMR event next week (15-16 Jan) at the @britishacademy.bsky.social (online/in-person!).
I'll be presenting on the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship and optimisation in healthcare, based on my research on PROAs in public hospitals in Spain
