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Posts by Rosaleen O’Brien

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Do you, your team/ organisation need the flexibility of a #qualitativeresearch and #evaluation consultant?

I work with academic teams, What Works Centres, non-profit organisations and charities, to support them with high quality data generation, coding, analysis & writing.

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Drop me a line here via DMs if you would like a chat.

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Do you, your team/ organisation need the flexibility of a #qualitativeresearch and #evaluation consultant?

I work with academic teams, What Works Centres, non-profit organisations and charities, to support them with high quality data generation, coding, analysis & writing.

Please share 🙏

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So proud of it.

And all of it unlawful.

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Wish I had the material to write 12 pages about myself.

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fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

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So the Telegraph is taking this well

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The long 2010s are finally over

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When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.

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That sense of feeling it, but never being able to prove it.

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The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

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The press has reported on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision as if it were only about tariffs. Wrong. It’s far bigger and even more important. Let me explain. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-tar...

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Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

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New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval A new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.

Superb reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com on the scandal around the RFK-fueled, unethical HBV vaccine study in Guinea Bissau that horrified CDC staff, scientists and ethicists around the world. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Why are so many academics in the Epstein files? It’s not just about money | Christopher Marquis In a university ecosystem that breeds hunger for status, Epstein made scholars feel like celebrities

Why are so many academics in the Epstein files? It’s not just about money | Christopher Marquis

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Yellow crocuses

Yellow crocuses

Ginger & white cat joining the admiring of yellow crocuses

Ginger & white cat joining the admiring of yellow crocuses

Squealed with excitement when I saw that my yellow crocuses have begun to crocus.

The purple and lilac ones have yet to flower.

Archie the cat was determined to be in the photo.

#Crocuses #Gardening #Spring

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“Will anyone in the Epstein files be held accountable?” What you have to understand is that while sexual violence is technically illegal and frowned upon in the abstract, in practice it is accepted, ubiquitous, de rigeur, and a primary vehicle for male bonding.

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Thank you Marilyn - my favourite flavour 😘👌

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Black-and-white portrait of Dr. Jane C. Wright (1919–2013), pioneering Black surgeon, oncologist, and "mother of chemotherapy," seated at a laboratory workbench in a clinical research setting. She wears a white lab coat over a dark top and gazes directly at the camera with a composed, focused expression. In front of her is a large compound microscope with multiple objective lenses, adjustment knobs, and a stage, positioned prominently in the foreground. Her left hand rests near an open notebook or lab record book on the table, while stacks of papers or slides are visible nearby. The background shows softly blurred lab equipment and shelving, evoking a mid-20th-century medical research environment.

Black-and-white portrait of Dr. Jane C. Wright (1919–2013), pioneering Black surgeon, oncologist, and "mother of chemotherapy," seated at a laboratory workbench in a clinical research setting. She wears a white lab coat over a dark top and gazes directly at the camera with a composed, focused expression. In front of her is a large compound microscope with multiple objective lenses, adjustment knobs, and a stage, positioned prominently in the foreground. Her left hand rests near an open notebook or lab record book on the table, while stacks of papers or slides are visible nearby. The background shows softly blurred lab equipment and shelving, evoking a mid-20th-century medical research environment.

"Mother of Chemotherapy" Dr. Jane Wright died #OTD in 2013.

+ Helped shift cancer treatment from palliative care to modern chemotherapy by establishing methotrexate as a foundational treatment for breast cancer in 1951
+ Only woman co-founder, American Society of Clinical Oncology #WomenInSTEM #BHM

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Would love to have been a fly on the wall to see how uppity he was to the Police.

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SPCR Masterclass: Engaging people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation in research
🗓️ Thursday, 19 March 2026
🕚 12noon to 1pm
💡 Drawing on real examples from NIHR‑funded work and co‑designed studies.

🔗 bit.ly/4rELXjJ

@nihrsphr.bsky.social 
@nihrsscr.bsky.social 
@sapc.ac.uk

SPCR Masterclass: Engaging people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation in research 🗓️ Thursday, 19 March 2026 🕚 12noon to 1pm 💡 Drawing on real examples from NIHR‑funded work and co‑designed studies. 🔗 bit.ly/4rELXjJ @nihrsphr.bsky.social @nihrsscr.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk

SPCR Masterclass: Engaging people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation in research
🗓️ Thursday, 19 March 2026
🕚 12noon to 1pm
💡 Drawing on real examples from NIHR‑funded work and co‑designed studies.

🔗 bit.ly/4rELXjJ

@nihrsphr.bsky.social
@nihrsscr.bsky.social
@sapc.ac.uk

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Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to perm...

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

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Police organise the biggest birthday surprise Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has ever had.

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Working my way through BBC’s #Detectorists again, after finishing #SmallProphets. I love the way Mackenzie Crook writes about friendships and his valuing of people who might be dismissed as odd. He also has a knack of making the ordinary quite magical. So brilliant.

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We have the vaccine, we have the means to distribute it. We need to redouble efforts to tackle the slow loss of confidence in vaccines.

No quick way to do this but we have the tools – it needs effort, outreach, listening to people’s concerns, answering questions, & working within communities. 8/8

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📣CFP: "Relationships and Mental Health", Birmingham, May 12th 2026

We are excited to announce a collaboration with our lovely colleagues in the Phenomenology of Health and Relationships (PHaR) group at Aston University on a one-day conference along the theme: Relationships and Mental Health

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<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>

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I found this interview really moving. For me, if really highlighted the emotional work of being a working-class woman trying to fit into a club not made for her (ahem - me & academia) and having lived experience, being an advocate for others and change. Exhausting. Worth it though 👊

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Feeling ancient. Just had to google ‘Who is Bad Bunny?’ for a crash course, having never heard of an apparent mega star.

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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

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