We've just published a new blog post about #Mpox, identifying key symptoms, and outlining what we know about clade 1 🦠 Find out how we are working with partners to respond: ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2024/08/23/mpo…

📣We're hiring!📣 Could you do media for the Green Party? I'm looking for a Media Officer, with: ✍️Excellent copy-writing skills ✊The ability to thrive under pressure 🪧Good political judgement & sensitivity If that could be you visit: greenparty.org.uk/jobs

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has officially lasted longer as PM than Liz Truss

If (and I don't think we should) have citizenship tests, THIS is the sort of thing we need to cover: what is the name of the chief mouser to the treasury? If you can answer that, you're in.

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Remember in October 2022 when Thérèse Coffey rejected official advice from UK Health Security Agency and health activists to procure more mpox vaccine for the UK? 🤷🏽‍♂️ ft.com/content/b83857…

Our new open access Health Sociology Review article explores the place of stigma in public housing residents' experiences of COVID-19 lockdowns. Co-authored with Paul Kelaita & dxmurphy, we trace the biopolitics of stigma as a mode of public health governance: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Call for an HIV specialist nurse to teach a one-hour online class, HIV basics, for post-graduate nurses and other HCPs at LSHTM. This HIV Basics class will include: disease progression, testing, principles of best practice care, and other relevant content.

Amazing how people who are so anti-migrant, are suddenly pro-migration... idiot

The British public now think it’s necessary to budget for private health treatments due to long NHS waiting lists. Is this the new norm for the UK? Read the latest Minimum Income Standard research in today’s Observer (1/5)

Oh yes... Of course they got promoted 🤣 That being said, in academia I could largely disconnect myself from them by declining annual reviews etc. They had very little influence over me. Not great for career development, but saved my sanity.

You can now read the introduction to our Special Issue on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’, co-edited with Yener Bayramoğlu & Radhika Gajjala for Communication, Culture & Critique. ☺️ academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-ar…

The Network is 1 year old!🥳 To celebrate, we would like to thank everyone who has been involved, share again our principles & invite qual researchers, interested in healthcare/social science, self-identifying as being in early stages of career to follow us & share w. others!

The kitten will REPORT to Larry the Cat.

Took bloody long enough

My article "Paul B. Preciado's queer hospital: healthcare architectures for pleasure, transformation and subversion" is now out in Senses & Society. This will be part of a Special Issue on "Senses and Health/Care Environments". Huge thanks to the editors! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Fantastic day at University Hospitals Birmingham #emergencyDepartment as #OptOut #HIV and #Hepatitis testing goes live . Everyone having blood taken in the ED department will now have additional blood samples taken for these viruses. Without a doubt this will save so many lives

Can't make it to Manchester this Friday for our conference on dating apps, risk and intimacy? You can now attend online and learn more about our findings: eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-atten…

Anyone know who's behind the 'Levenshulme Community Action Group' putting official looking notices on windscreens? This was on a car that had blocked the cycle entrance to Osborne Rd from Slade Lane

Sounds an extremely familiar story...