Dr KB 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) #FPBE #FBPA🇪🇺

My latest publication is online: Conducting theory-based qualitative interviews with adults with intellectual disabilities and their carers: Adaptations to facilitate participation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ja… Key takeaways: People with learning disabilities want to talk about

Great that 🇺🇸 signed the COP28 Climate & Health Declaration. Now tim to deliver for health in the final COP28 decision. #FossilFuelPhaseOut, #Equity, funding for adaptation. Real timelines, real targets, real accountability. @POTUS @JohnKerry @StateDept @ClimateEnvoy @alizaidi46

⚡️#Cop28Dubai World Climate Action Summit: Health workers video message challenges world leaders to “Make COP28 Count”

🚨NEW: #Rosebank oil field won’t improve energy security or cut bills – but it will shatter our climate commitments & demolish global leadership. If Govt doesn't block Rosebank, it's complicit in this climate crime.
 Our cross-party @ClimateAPPG letter👇 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Senior AP role available in my haem team, with a health psychologist already in post (me!), as part of an antiracist team. Would be good to see prospective health psychs apply #healthpsychology nhsjobs.com/job/UK/London/… @divhealthpsych @SCPSCONSULTING

@CIVIC_SQUARE @ImmyKaur @MoiraSinclair1 @phf_uk @bymagdairis @joe_a_baker @charliedmonds @danielyep @inderjitkaur77 twitter.com/NHSAccelerator… Worth applying for funding from them? Sometimes research funding can last for 5 years and focus on innovation and process-then get funds for dissemination as well 🙏 Deadline is 31st July

It was inspiring to hear from neighbours from across the city hoping to start their own street based system, from existing projects that are thriving in Ladywood, and across Birmingham, as well hear more deeply and get hands on with learnings from experts in community composting.

Thank you so much to everyone who has joined us so far at the first Skills for Transitions classes, as part of Neighbourhood Trade School. We have loved welcoming, co - hosting and learning alongside neighbours of all ages and neighbourhood partners. bit.ly/SkillsForTrans…

Take that in. Then try wrapping your head around the fact that we’re only seeing the beginning of a destabilising planet, while remembering that GHG emissions are still rising and the companies largely causing this are making record profits. A bit concerning, don’t you think?

@DigitalOlivia @NHSAccelerator @stevegilbertobe @NHSEngland @NHS_RHO @BolaOwolabi8 @AACinnovation @AHSNNetwork @Vin_Diwakar @DrHNaqvi Thanks for letting me know. I'm on leave now but definitely worth being aware of these opportunities! Will spread the word :)

@NHSAccelerator @stevegilbertobe @NHSEngland @NHS_RHO @BolaOwolabi8 @AACinnovation @AHSNNetwork @Vin_Diwakar @DrHNaqvi @KBHealthPsych

*Application Deadline: 31 July 2023* Don't miss this incredible opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking cross-programme collaboration led by @NHSEngland Health and Inequalities team together with @NHS_RHO. Apply now! nhsaccelerator.com/apply/apply-he…

@p0usr Another I’ve heard is “I’ve decided it’s not Covid because I’d feel too <insert emotion here> if it were.” This is the insidious and effective work of making people complicit via forced infection. They are made to feel guilt that the state downloaded onto them

💯. Tackling the climate emergency isn't 'convenient' for now; but we can be part of the solution one way or another, or continue to be part of the collective problem

@RevivalCare Cognitive and emotional disengagement are real issues. Similar to HIV prevention; it's hard to reconcile the long lived impact of covid and risk it carries for the things we value and how we live right now for a lot of people

I had a disturbing conversation this evening with a friend of 20 years. This is someone hyper rational who has a terminal degree in a quant field. Someone whose progressive credentials would usually put me to shame any day of the week. 🧵/1

Neerja Bhanot was a 22 year old flight attendant on a hijacked plane, Pan Am Flight 73 on 5 September 1986 during a stopover The terrorists demanded her to collect the passports of all the passengers, intending to identify the Americans among them. Recognizing the danger this posed, she and her fellow attendants under her charge hid the passports of the American passengers, some under seats and others down a garbage chute, making it difficult for the hijackers to distinguish between nationalities. As the hijacking stretched on for 17 hours the terrorists eventually resorted to violence by opening fire and setting off explosives. Neerja opened one of the airplane doors, and even though she could have been the first one to escape from the aircraft, she did not do so and instead started helping the other passengers and unaccompanied children. That is when she was caught and her courage was met with extreme cruelty. She was killed. Neerja's actions saved many lives. In addition to saving the lives of many hostages, Neerja Bhanot also helped prevent the plane from getting off the ground A young child on board, who was just seven years old at the time, grew up to become a captain for a major airline. He credits Neerja as his inspiration, acknowledging that he owes every day of his life to her

You probably won’t read in the papers today about the consultant surgeon who padlocked the operating theatres shut when there was no PPE, and safeguarded lives by refusing to operate until PPE was found. You won’t find out about the consultant who put her hand up and fought…

@MeanestTA Honestly this hits me on so many levels 😂, one cousin outed another (incorrectly, it was meeeee) leading to family drama And I've offered a service to friends involving rappelling in at partner intros & outing myself, then rappelling out. It *would* work for most 😂

@Twiggyanajones @ravenscimaven Pfft dating women is a minefield 😂 (Buuuut keeping going...)

1/ I haven’t dated since 2015. My stories of re-entering the dating pool are comedy. Went on a date. Awkward small talk. He reached across the table and HIT me, HARD. I said WTF is wrong with you? He said he just killed a HUGE bug on my shoulder. Bug goop EVERYWHERE 😭 I left 😭

Healthy couples do 4 key things differently: 1. They don't engage in character attacks, shaming, or scorekeeping 2. They address it, rather than avoiding it 3. They respect disagreement rather than viewing it as a threat 4. They know when to let it go

By staying in the secretive Energy Charter Treaty, the UK Government is choosing to protect polluters over the planet. Sign the petition now and demand we leave the treaty before there’s no planet left to protect

@damien_page Economics is a Mickley mouse degree. Imagine teaching people you can have infinite growth within a finite system.

URGENT: Big pharma is desperately trying to overhaul a key NHS pricing deal. If they’re successful it will cost us an extra £2.5 BILLION A YEAR – money that could be used to properly fund the NHS. Sign the petition now and demand the UK Government stops this robbery

@akbarzsc @RndmStreetMedic Me too

@RndmStreetMedic I really wish there are more project like openinsulin popping up and catches on, solving this exact problem.

Shalom! I'd like to answer this as both a medical professional and an anarchist! "How will I get my insulin?!