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Sending solidarity to my friends @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on strike today against crap management. Picketing in sunshine not snow must be a strange feeling!

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Super looking forward to the new marketing taglines on all the (badly) targeted adverts I get for UG degrees.

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My @uofgsocsci.bsky.social colleague Ben has a brilliant new paper out on the English NHS and international commercialisation. Given some of the "healthcare state" rhetoric around spending review last week, highly recommend a read of this. globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Jobs in our growing, supportive @uofgussp.bsky.social dept. We’re really looking forward to @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social joining the fold this summer.

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RIP Sir Geoffrey Palmer. He came to Britain in 1955, becoming the first black university professor in Scotland. He is pictured here with his portrait, one of ten commissioned by the King to celebrate the Windrush generation to mark the Windrush 75th anniversary in 2023 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“I was running an operating list with 10 people on it and every day at least half were under the age of 11 - it's barbaric.” Dr Victoria Rose, who has just returned from working in Gaza, tells @cathynewman.bsky.social what it was like. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/gazan-c...

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This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

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It’s going to be quite a year in Scottish politics 👀

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Looking forward to this afternoon's launch for Getting Better. 📚

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UK public purse to make £10bn loss from £45bn bailout of NatWest bank in 2008. Govt selling last of its shares, could have used it to fund SME/infrastructure investment. Boss who crashed the bank gets £600k a year pension. Bailouts for the City, benefit cuts for the poor.

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ICYMI🎙️🗣️ In our latest episode of #UofGSpotlight, Professor @nasarmeer.bsky.social challenges the "island of strangers" phrase, saying it overlooks decades of social science research and paints a misleading account. Tune into the full episode 🔗 www.uofgspotlight.com

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A coupe of exciting research jobs being advertised for the Centre for Collaboration on Community Connectedness I'm involved in, first off Researcher in Evidence Review and synthesis of community interventions: my.corehr.com/pls/shurecru...

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Panel event TODAY to discuss assisted dying - 6-7pm @uofglasgow.bsky.social and online Hearing from @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social and @nuffieldbioethics.bsky.social on their respective research findings Scotland’s Proposal for Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotlands-...

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Yvette Cooper repeatedly refused to give a straight answer just now on Today to straight Q “Will councils get more money to pay care workers more?” She repeatedly committed to higher carer pay but wouldn’t commit to money so councils can fund it. Think that speaks volumes about the mess we are in.

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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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New research led by Senior Lecturer in Sociology, @gethrees.bsky.social, shows those with health issues in police custody are often put at risk because their medication is delayed or unavailable. Learn more about the findings and read the final report >> bit.ly/4iw46ek

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Great new piece from @kathcheckland.bsky.social & team about what policy means when it asks NHS orgs to reduce health inequalities: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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it feels almost indecent to say this since the primary reason for removing children from poverty is simply removing children from poverty. but it is really well established fact that child poverty is extremely expensive in the long term and this policy costs money.

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10 days left to apply for a Bridging Fellowship in Medical Humanities! Find out more about all the job opportunities in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities here medhumsplatform.org/work-with-us/

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Just advertised, funded PhD available in @uofgussp.bsky.social to study city arts festivals, public engagement & policy. Part of Prof Sotiria Grek's exciting POLART ERC award, and I'll be second supervisor. A great interdisciplinary PhD opportunity in our thriving Division. tinyurl.com/4zjktmvy

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Article alert 📣 New excellent piece on health inequalities from our own Prof Mhairi Mackenzie & colleagues from @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uniofbath.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk & Homeless Network Scotland 👏 #OpenAccess in Social Science & Medicine now: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Agree people don’t know what councils do etc. But I also think the public is reasonable enough to question why the local area looks dirty/declining etc while council tax bills have gone up and up and up and up and up. Politically it’s therefore currently ripe for undeliverable promises

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Quite excited to hear the edited version of this, having listened to the live recording. The sum total of my highly intellectual notes from that session was just "WTF" and then I went back and underlined the F. See if you can guess which speaker tipped me over the edge.

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Excellent PhD scholarship with great supervisors team: @moragtreanor.bsky.social & @serena-pattaro.bsky.social 👇 Exploring transitions to early adulthood using data from Growing Up in Scotland Closes: 21 April bit.ly/4ckbHeV @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @scadr-data.bsky.social

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I’m delighted (and only slightly nauseous with nerves) about offering a keynote at this symposium on qual and mixed methods for complexity in systems research in Siena. I’ll be speaking about inclusive and engaged research. The call for papers is now open: www.complexthinking.org/qualitative-...

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This smorgasbord of some of my favourite smart people are coming to Edinburgh in June - take a look!

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Thrilled to be recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Moving Bodies Lab. Successful candidate will design & conduct an original prog of work that aligns with the aims of MBL & work with me and other members of the Lab team to…

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I reviewed the fascinating 'The City and the Hospital' by Skinner, Wynn & Franz for this month's @amjsoc.bsky.social. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Our complaint re the growth in health benefits has been upheld: osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/corresponden...: "The statement that the number of people claiming disability elements of Universal Credit has increased by 383% presents an entirely misleading picture to the public."

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I'm not related to many of the bazillion Stewarts in Scotland but this one is my sister, and her first novel is out today, and I am ever so proud of her. Plus the book is set at an un-named Scottish university so this counts as at least university-adjacent. tinyurl.com/3upasd3f

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I usually blupp about Edinburgh history but occasionally like to foray into the realm of Scottish cuisine. Today's topic is that quintessential bakery teatime treat, the "Empire Biscuit". 🍪 We may have a vague inkling of its origins as the "German Biscuit", but shall we get a bit more specific? 🧵▶️

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This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

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Re further welfare cuts: This is not the OBR's fault - they're completely right that putting intense pressure on a single threshold in a disability assessment will lead people/the system to change how they respond. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... #1 of 2

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Beautiful York in the sunshine, during an impromptu team outing to visit Criminally Good Books at lunchtime.

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Whereas the old politics of public inquiries focussed on process and precedent, recent inquiry processes have provided an arena for social healing and emotional expression. By Matthew Flinders

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📣 Article alert! New excellent piece on migrant stay-return plans & how they are shaped by the #polycrisis of #Brexit & #Covid-19 from our own @annagawlewicz.bsky.social is now out 💪 Read #OpenAccess in Mobilities: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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If you have to spend the first two hours of your working week deep in grant finance quagmire, I highly recommend doing it while speeding south on the beautiful east coast mainline, to spend a few days writing with great colleagues. 🚂

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