Social Psychologist, CPsychol AFBPsS, FHEA, doing psychosocial research in cancer at the University of Surrey. Open Research champion. Health inequalities. Risk communication. Qualitative methods. Co-production.https://bsky.app/profile/afrodita-marcu.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/afrodita-marcu.bsky.social/post/3my3r6osnos2xLightwater Country Park today17 Oct 2026 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:ubwdbkvkfed3qffc7o7p25vv/app.bsky.feed.post/3my3r6osnos2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/afrodita-marcu.bsky.social/post/3mxyyftipqs2rOur paper on co-producing a breast cancer awareness intervention with and for women of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage has just been published in Health Expectations https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hex.7093616 Oct 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:ubwdbkvkfed3qffc7o7p25vv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxyyftipqs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/afrodita-marcu.bsky.social/post/3mxgw4dql3s2gGood news Friday! Paper, led by me, accepted for publication in Health Expectations. Grateful to NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent Surrey and Sussex @arckss.bsky.social who funded this research through an individual development award.09 Oct 2026 11:55 +0000at://did:plc:ubwdbkvkfed3qffc7o7p25vv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxgw4dql3s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/afrodita-marcu.bsky.social/post/3mxbohi6sk22b"The real risk of generative artificial intelligence is not that we will trust it completely, but that we will stop caring enough to check." [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Oct 2026 09:54 +0000at://did:plc:ubwdbkvkfed3qffc7o7p25vv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxbohi6sk22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/afrodita-marcu.bsky.social/post/3mvmqkzl6sc22Perhaps inevitable given that many applications are written using LLMs or entirely by AI agents. But maybe the right approach would have been to screen out the applications written with AI assistance. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Sep 2026 08:41 +0000at://did:plc:ubwdbkvkfed3qffc7o7p25vv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvmqkzl6sc22https://bsky.app/profile/afrodita-marcu.bsky.social/post/3mupvzzzppk2xVery excited to see Saturn and its rings tonight! And Titan, its largest moon. Amazing that I can see this with a telescope in my back garden, at a distance of 1.2 billion km.04 Sep 2026 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:ubwdbkvkfed3qffc7o7p25vv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupvzzzppk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/afrodita-marcu.bsky.social/post/3mt2tw2exx22yLack of leadership at a critical time, no wonder we're doomed https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/14/andy-burnham-new-ev-sales-targets14 Aug 2026 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:ubwdbkvkfed3qffc7o7p25vv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2tw2exx22y