Al Bonnin @alib24.bsky.social COVID conscious Palliative Care doc (nearly retired), sailor, kayaker, cyclist, guitarist (ordinary), birder (learning). Proud pedant and lover of languages, especially Italian. Living between Adelaide and American River, South Australia.
Laura Lyster-Mensh @itslauraindc.bsky.social Writer, End-Of-Life Doula, Podcaster, and tap dance fanatic.
Couture EOLD @coutureeold.bsky.social Thanatologist | End-of-Life Doula
I support people navigating #grief. Evidence-based, current literature, research, theory & applied practice. 15+ years experience in research & field settings.
Cape Breton, NS, Canada 🇨🇦
www.nataliecouturethanatology.com
Palliativist @palliativist.bsky.social Surgeon, intensivist and palliativist.
System Chair of surgery, HealthPartners
Professor of Surgery, university of Minnesota
What’s next: changing the view on geriatrics and transform the mode of care deliver for elderly patients.
One day at a time.
Esther Reilly @erreilly.bsky.social Hospice director of clinical services
MSc in health and care system leadership
Mom, wife, friend, sister, aunty in no particular order
All views my own
Dr Deb Morgan @lonelydeb.bsky.social Researcher: loneliness and social isolation. Research interests older adults, social exclusion, ageing with a disability and social networks. Ted X Swansea speaker.
https://lonelydeborah.wordpress.com/
linkedin.com/in/deborah-morgan-05799692
CDAS: Centre for Death and Society @cendeathsociety.bsky.social Works leading research centre at the University of Bath, UK. Were interested in the social contexts of death, dying and bereavement.
https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-for-death-society/
HPM_Doc @hpmdoc.bsky.social Fellowship trained Hospice and Palliative Medicine physician. Wannabe blogger. Plan to start blogging again soon.
HospicePhysician.wordpress.com
Joe Sawyer @joe-sawyer.bsky.social Palliative Care Consultant | Academic (PhD) | Public Health Palliative Care | Value in death
Oxford Medical Humanities @oxmedhum.bsky.social Research hub @TorchOxford, Uni of Oxford
We examine medicine and health from the perspectives of politics, philosophy, law, and history, among others. Follow for updates on our work and events.
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-humanities-research-hub
Richard Humphries @richardhumphries.bsky.social Social care & health geek. Herefordshire & London. Author ‘Ending the Social Care Crisis - a new road to reform’. Wolves supporter.
Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief @goodlifedeathgrief.bsky.social GLGDGG is part of the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care's work to improve experiences of death, dying and bereavement.
Death Literacy. Grief Literacy. Compassionate Communities. Public Health Palliative Care.
Association for the Study of Death and Society @asdsdeath.bsky.social The Association for the Study of Death and Society promotes the study of death in the arts, humanities, and social & allied sciences. Become a member today: deathandsociety.org
Morag Farquhar @mfarquhar.bsky.social Professor of Palliative Care Research, University of East Anglia (work posts, but views own)
Poppy's @poppysfunerals.bsky.social Poppy's is a funeral directors in London with a fresh approach to funerals. Instead of following rigid traditions, we create a funeral that works for you. Find us at www.poppysfunerals.co.uk
Nancy Preston @nancypreston.bsky.social Professor and Supportive and Palliative Care and Co-Director of the International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University
Ira Byock @irabyock.bsky.social hospice and palliative care physician, author, and public advocate for improving care for people living with serious medical conditions. Emeritus professor of medicine and community & family medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. IraByock.org
Compassionate Communities UK @compassionatecomm.bsky.social We believe the healing powers of compassion and community can transform how we experience life and death.
We offer consultancy, training courses, webinars and memberships.
UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social UCL Sociology Network is a creative space and intellectual home for sociological staff and doctoral students at UCL.
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/collaborative-social-science/ucl-sociology-network
Dr Chandrika Nair @rikanair.bsky.social Research Culture & Interdisciplinary Research at University of Warwick, Research Culture Enablers Network Lead (warwick.ac.uk/RCEN)
Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social Home of the higher education debate
www.wonkhe.com
Editor in Chief @markleach.bsky.social
Kay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social I listen to stories and I think about them. Head of Research Culture & Researcher Development, Co-Director of Lab for Academic Culture. PFHEA. National Teaching Fellow. UCU
🆒 Papers here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/ris/staff/kayguccione/#publications
Philosophy of Grief and Loss at York @griefyork.bsky.social Philosophers investigating experiences of Grief and Loss at the University of York. Previously an AHRC funded project: https://www.griefyork.com. Posting our own work, and things we find interesting.
Tine Buffel @tinebuffel.bsky.social Professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology. Director Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG). #Ageing #agefriendlycity #SpatialJustice #citiesforall. All views are mine.
Ali Grief & Death Doula @griefdeathdoula.bsky.social I’m an End of Life Doula, Grief Educator + Coach
Rebecca Patterson @rebpatter.bsky.social Director of Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief @goodlifedeathgrief.bsky.social
Interested in death literacy, grief literacy, compassionate communities, public health palliative care, and some other things too.
EPCIN @epcinetwork.bsky.social The End of Life and Palliative Care in ICU Research Network Visit our website (www.epcin.uk) where you can register as a member, or contact us at contact@epcin.uk
Pharmacopalliation @pharmacopalliation.bsky.social Palliative care pharmacist MRPharmS (Consultant)👨⚕️ Independent prescriber 📝 Part time researcher 🔬 @theASPCP deputy chair 💊 All views are my own
Joshua Gallagher @jallagher1.bsky.social PhD in palliative care @ University of Cambridge
Publications: https://shorturl.at/vIHHt
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social Grief and death literacy. Medical Anthropologist in Palliative Medicine, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). Check out Griefmatters.ca and TEDx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBulO8OsQ3M
Joanna Davies @joannamdavies.bsky.social Research Fellow, Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London
Researching #inequalities in palliative and end-of-life care #peolc
#bigdata geek
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Laura Cooper @lauradeland.bsky.social I love my job* but if you could make a living from Monopoly or Escape Rooms, I'd be all over it. *Doctoring
ICM | Anaesthesia | Palliative Care | Education
Reigning ESICM Escape Room Champion 🏆
Cathy Payne @catypayne.bsky.social Research & Project Manager at the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC)
Community Deathcare @communitydeathcare.bsky.social A holistic and community-centred approach to end-of-life care empowers individuals and their families and strengthens our bonds of relationship.
We honour death as a sacred part of life.
Jo Elverson @jo-elverson.bsky.social #Palliative care doctor working with children and young adults. Interests in #learningDisability #transition and #complex conditions (as well as painting and parenting!)
Sian Reece @sianreece.bsky.social Public Health Doctor & Researcher | PhD | BMJ Leader Editorial Fellow | Mother | Surviving stillbirth
Interests in inequalities in maternal and child health | Global health | Leadership | Kindness and human connection | Creative and participatory methods
Simon Etkind @simonnoahetkind.bsky.social Palliative care clinical-academic. Uncertain about uncertainty
JAINEoL @jaineol.bsky.social JAINEoL stands for Junior Academics International Network on End of Life. By early career researchers, we mean everyone between their master and postdocs or lecturers (up to 5 years after finalization of PhD) from all backgrounds. Join us!
Sunitha Daniel @sunithamd.bsky.social Palliative Medicine Consultant @YSTeachingNHS and Honorary Senior Lecturer @HullYorkMed and @wolfsonpallcare
Elaine Francis @elainefrancis.bsky.social Care for the Older Person Team (& EnCOP) Lead at Northumbria NHS | MH Nurse | PhD student (frailty & hospital discharge decision-making for women) | #Personhood #QI #RestorativeSupervision #TransformationalLearning | Views my own
Guy Chetwynd-Appleton @guycappleton.bsky.social Palliative care Nurse and Practice Educator. Cat dad, Warhammer 40k hobbyist, Leicester fan, metalhead. Opinions are my own! He/Him
Bristol Palliative and End of Life Care Research @peolcsw.bsky.social Group of Bristol University professionals conducting palliative and end-of-life care research. Coordinated by Charlotte Chamberlain, Lucy Selman and Lucy Pocock
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/projects/palliative-end-of-life-care
Sarah Y @lavendercrew.bsky.social I'd always rather be creative, relational, and by, in or on the sea. Personal account. #ChurchillFellow2024 #RewildingHealthcare #ArchipelegoLiving #WholeSystemsEffectiveness #PalliativeCare&SeriousMentalIllness #SecretSocialLivesofMedicines
The Collective for Radical Death Studies @raddeathstudies.bsky.social Decolonizing death studies and transforming death practices for a more radical future
https://linktr.ee/raddeathreads?lt_utm_source=lt_admin_share_link#436486512
Open University Health and the Arts Research Group @ouhealtharts.bsky.social Academics from across the Open University and beyond. We research the intersections between health, wellbeing, the arts and creativity from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines.
Daniel M. Parker @dmparker.bsky.social Assoc. Professor in public health at UC Irvine. I do global health, epidemiology, GIS, earth observation, anthropology, demography.
https://parker-group.github.io/
End of Life Conversations Podcast @endoflifeconvo.bsky.social In this podcast, we'll share people’s experiences with the end of life. We have conversations about experiences with death and dying. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2257447
Panagiotis Pentaris @ppentaris.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Social Work & Thanatology
Thanatology Research Lab
Thanatology Podcast
Felicity Dewhurst @felicitydewhurst.bsky.social Palliative care consultant. NIHR advanced fellow. St Oswald's Hospice. Newcastle University. Proud mum to three gorgeous boys
Miriam Ní Challaráin @miriamcolleran2.bsky.social Mom, consultant in palliative medicine, Gaeilgeoir, pulmonary capillaritis. Interested in: whole person care, narrative-based medicine. Poems featured in @closler.Bluesky.social, Sparks of Calliope, Pocket Fiction, The Afterpast Review etc
Kelly Moffat @kellymoffat.bsky.social Lead nurse for acute Palliative Care. Mum of 2, wife of 1!! Love walking, reading and living life to the full. All views my own.
Emily Tammam @emilytammam.bsky.social IBCLC, mother of daughters, bereaved mother of Neve, interested in palliative care, birth and death, communication and connection, writing, painting, baking, running.
Continuing Neve’s long standing tradition of ruffling feathers.
www.emilytammam.co.uk
Èvi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social Medical Heritage Museum Curator @TCD, queer #deathpositive artist, childfree cat-lady. Dublin / Drogheda 🇮🇪. Aspiring sociologist @ UCD writing on death, mortality, & display.
🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🐈⬛🪶📚📷💀🎨
https://www.evi-numen.com/
www.thanatography.com
Views, my own.
Rachel Garton @rachelgarton7.bsky.social Experience of Care Senior manager, NHS. All views my own.
School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social The School for Advanced Research.
Create. Connect. Understand.
SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts.
Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
Dr Lyndsay Cardwell @drlyndsaycardwell.bsky.social PhD in Palliative Care. Passionate about palliative care, and healthcare leadership. Clinical Lead for Lothian, Marie Curie. Vice Chair for the National Association for Hospice at Home.
Lexy Morvant, MD, MA, FAAP @drmoppc.bsky.social Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Doc | Ethicist | Photographer | Director of Stanford Medicine Children’s Hospital Palliative Care Program| Cajun | #PedPC #HPM #AAHPM #medtwitter @stanford #bioethics
www.leviephotography.com
Petra Mäkelä @petramakela.bsky.social York dweller, Newcastle commuter. Into Sociology of Health and Care.
Policy Press @policypress.bsky.social Imprint of @brisunipress.bsky.social. Independent, not-for-profit social science publisher. Celebrating 25 years of publishing with a purpose.
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
Rosalind Willis @roswillis.bsky.social Associate Professor in Gerontology at the University of Southampton, UK. Research into ageing, ethnicity, mental health, social care, informal care. Health of Irish migrants. Teaching gerontology, dementia, crime and older people, qualitative methods.
TalkDeath @talkdeath.bsky.social TalkDeath.com is the Hub for Death Conscious Conversation
Marie Curie UK @mariecurieuk.bsky.social We’re the UK’s leading end of life charity. Hospice care and support, research and campaigns. Whatever the illness, we’re with you to the end 💛
My Parents Are Dead: What Now? @deadparentswhatnow.com Demystifying the bureaucracy of death & dying with a sense of humor. Find your niche in The Columbarium newsletter. Listen to the Bitching & Mourning podcast. BUY THE BOOK NOW!💀
https://linktr.ee/deadparentswhatnow
Sara Shaw @sarashaw.bsky.social Professor of Health Policy & Practice, University of Oxford; studying technology-in-use and sustainability (sometimes both together); #AcademicSky
Emma Chapman @emmajchapman.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at University of Leeds.
Academic Unit of Palliative Care.
Co-chair of Palliative Care Research Society.
Interested in improving symptom management, transition from children's hospice care.
Ben Titford @dr-b-titford.bsky.social GP/ UK General Practice. Devon. Uncertainty..transience..evidence, chaos, knowledge and (Rawl’s) ignorance to make the world better…Cycling/ active transport/ the environment; People; Kindness, community- spelling mistake -s deliberate punctuation crime
Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston @arielzj.bsky.social Neuroscientist, author | Book out now on brain preservation as a means of life extension: https://www.arielzj.com/the-future-loves-you |
Currently a postdoctoral fellow in @conscious_tlab
MarieCurieEOLC @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social News from Marie Curie UK for researchers, health and social care professionals and those affected by end of life care.
Together we’ll ensure a better end of life for all.
Briony Hudson @brionyhudson.bsky.social Associate director for internal research at Marie Curie
Colin Lorne @colinlorne.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Geography & Director of OpenSpace Research Centre at the Open University | Usually talking crises and conjunctures | Jazz, soul, rocksteady | All views my own, etc.
huunuu @huunuu.bsky.social Inspiring products to guide important conversations around life, death and legacy.
Grief Specialists CIC @griefspecialists.bsky.social We are a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting anyone grieving with our free resources and professional grief support across the UK. www.griefspecialists.org
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
They/them
Lucy B @lucylucybee.bsky.social Expect lots of pictures of trees with some football thrown in. Usually found walking up and down the Thames Path. #FFC #trees
Dylan Mulvin @dmulvin.bsky.social Associate Professor at the LSE. Histories of media and technology.
dylanmulvin.com
Natalie Armstrong @nataliearmstrong.bsky.social Social Editor, Reuters
Lesel Dawson @leseldawson.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature & Culture at the University of Bristol
Arts and Culture Lead of the Good Grief Festival
I am interested in the relationship between grief & creativity, early modern literature, the history of the emotions & gender.
The Strategy Unit @strategyunit.bsky.social Specialist NHS consultancy team providing analytical and strategic support.
Better evidence > Better decisions >Better outcomes.
#Analysis #Evidence #Evaluation #DecisionMaking #Policy
https://www.strategyunitwm.nhs.uk/
Cara Jardine @cara-j-says.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ University of Strathclyde and Associate Director of SCCJR. Researching prisons, families and communities. Also feminism, inequality and critical pedagogy. Just back from mat leave
Sara MacKian @saramackian.bsky.social Artist, writer, lecturer with a curiosity for how people interact around issues of health, wellbeing, and the otherworldly. All views my own.
Sarah Turner @drsarahlt.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Cognitive Linguistics at Coventry University, interested in how we understand and talk about death, grief and bereavement.
Centre for Open Thanatology @openthanatology.bsky.social The Centre for Open Thanatology is the Open University’s interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study & education of death, dying, loss, & grief across the life course & in diverse contexts. Directors: Prof Erica Borgstrom & Dr Joanne Jordan.
Prof Erica Borgstrom @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social Prof of Medical Anthropology, The Open University (UK)
Researches death, palliative and end of life care. Co-editor of Death and Culture book series. Director of the Centre for Open Thanatology
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Jess Asato MP @jessasatomp.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Lowestoft
jess.asato.mp@parliament.uk
Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
Claire O’Shea @claireoshea.bsky.social Wales resident, Somerset bred. Campaigner, joiner and do’er. Head of Hub Cymru Africa. Co-Chair of WOAG. Board of Samaritans Cymru and CF10 Rugby Trust. People think I’m funny. Stage 4 Sarcoma (cancer for those that don’t know)
Katie Schmuecker @katieschmuecker.bsky.social Principal Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK poverty, social policy, politics, research and data. Occasionally crochet, gigs and nature
Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation
Previous lives:
Chief Executive & Exec. Chair, Resolution Foundation
Founding Chair, Living Wage Commission
National Voices @nationalvoices.bsky.social A coalition of over 200 charities making what matters to people matter in health and care.
Account monitored Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm.
Zoe Abrams @zoeabrams.bsky.social Strategy, advocacy & communication. Exec director, consultant and experienced board member. Formerly @BritishRedCross & Whitehall, now @TheKingsFund
The King's Fund Library Service @kingsfundlibrary.bsky.social This account is no longer monitored.
Tim Gardner @timgardnerthf.bsky.social Policy wonk at Health Foundation, interested in health system performance, health care quality and role of policy in driving improvement. Also cycling, coffee, cake. Views personal, etc.
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (LSE) @cpeclse.bsky.social Leading research centre in long-term (social) care, mental health, developmental disability & other health issues to inform & influence global policy & practice.
@scie.org.uk @scie.org.uk SCIE improves the lives of people of all ages by co-producing, sharing, and supporting the use of the best available knowledge and evidence about what works in practice.
Camille Oung @camille-oung.bsky.social Fellow @NuffieldTrust - mostly musing about social care & health policy
Simon Bottery @blimeysimon.bsky.social #Socialcare guy at The King's Fund. Early riser. Available in stereo on Twitter/X.
Carla @carlamccormack.bsky.social Claims to be on socials for politics but really here for Taylor Swift updates.
I work in campaigns at a children's charity, read a lot of books (almost exclusively by women), and believe that I deserve a little treat at the end of a good or bad day.