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One of the many many oddities over on LinkedIn is the people insisting their approach is about equity or justice or community, when they are working for companies who routinely undermine all of those things. And I know an individual isn’t their workplace. But there’s no hint of a conflict expressed.

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Been taking advice to heart that doing your bit to stand up for things is about picking a focus for your efforts and making local links. So tomorrow night I’m helping facilitate a local LGBTQ event to celebrate efforts made to date and think about where we can work together to do more.

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‼️Calling all researchers to share your youth involvement opportunities with us ‼️ We send involvement opportunities to our Young People’s Network, who are made up of young people aged 13-28 who want to be involved in mental health research ⭐ tinyurl.com/2ch8ym2s

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“The numbers don’t lie!” is something that is exceptionally obviously not true if you do any work with numbers at all. So anyone who works with numbers and says that is the one that is lying to you.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Hi, sorry, so sorry, gotta run in here for a second because I think there is something VERY IMPORTANT WE NEED TO DISCUSS IMMEDIATELY. No, not that Mike Johnson is a total tool with the most punchable face. It is that DATA can be used to lie ALL THE TIME.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Like most other ppl I know who learned to drive late, I’m a mildly anxious always careful driver. Kate passed last year and has done a speed run of one single day as a nervous newbie, straight into radio blasting boy racer, and through to harassed school run mum calling every other driver a dickhead

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Please inject all the sunshine and the green into my veins

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As a UK researcher watching US attempts to erase equity, diversity etc from health, I see alarming parallels between that approach and comments from our own health secretary along lines of “white working class men die earlier because you care about racism.” We need to stay firm about the facts.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

You can go to a cat cafe in Dock Town in Veilguard 😻 This should have secured automatic game of the year status.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I remember after the 2008 crash warnings that fascism exploits economic suffering and we’d see a disturbing rise in the far right. I expected figures like Farage and Trump. I didn’t expect how easy we’d make it for them. (I don’t mean this hopelessly. I’m trying to learn the lessons from it.)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Stop trying to have serious conversations with people who want “free speech!” so they can use slurs. Stop trying to pause actual serious conversations to insist people ‘invite dissenting views’ (slurs) into them. We are too busy for this nonsense.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Some typically wise words from The Art of Gathering. Excluding to be more inclusive, to care for the people you do invite and recognise expressing diversity can require spaces that aren’t open to everyone.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Why does this look like he’s acting out a homemade Batman film with a script by ChatGPT

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Accidentally took workshop photos in live mode earlier and it’s like the post its are in a crap music video.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Alternatively, if you're going to use AI for a literature review: don't. Not only does using it waste everyone else's time and resources, it defeats the entire purpose of conducting a review.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 11 days ago • 386 comments

This is the photo Max would send just before he says he’s unexpectedly run into sudden financial difficulty and can you send him ten grand please babe don’t worry it’ll be back in your account by next week xx

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Did a LinkedIn post with a Terry Pratchett reference and got no engagement so it’s dead to me now.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I think it’s time to reject terms like “IT literacy” and “tech savvy”. Actual literacy is something you only have to learn functionally once. These terms work to shame people (basically, all of us) who struggle to keep up with tech billionaires constant rewriting of everything, to drive profits.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Watching lots of Tressie McMillan Cottom to understand US horror. Disruption to government about money/self protection (e.g. shut down places that would criticise Musk contracts) covered effectively with narrative of “You, The People, are taking back control!” We’ve heard that before in UK…

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Folks pushing back against this as ‘unhelpful language policing’ but the thing is that relying on these tropes is also a sign of bad political analysis too! To link fascism to mental illness is to completely ignore the actual political calculations involved and actually gives cover TO fascism tbh!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Brie Larson is on Saturday Kitchen talking about playing radical complicated women in Elektra, and Kate, not paying attention, looks up and said “is she playing Cyndi Lauper?”

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Always fascinating to observe the heterosexual ritual of saint valentines. Local places of masculine significance, such as “the garage”, provide loud displays of chocolates and flowers in direct eyeline to ensure men collect them. Their partners celebrate the man’s thoughtfulness and memory skills.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Once a year I have to fill in a screening questionnaire to continue my repeat prescriptions. I have type in the number that corresponds to my answer. At the end, it asks me to add the numbers together and enter the total. This is where we can reduce burden through automation. Not AI therapists.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Lesbian Couples Looking Unsure Whether They’re Allowed To Take Advantage Of Galentines’ Offers Day #justgalsbeingpals

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In my experience most “inefficiency” in government services isn’t from bloated professional classes or unnecessary spending. It’s service friction and confusion that forces labour onto the service users to endure and navigate. Relieving them of that burden requires more investment, not less.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Oh oh oh someone on Great British Menu is doing a tribute to James Lind so I get to share a favourite science/history piece: idlewords.com/2010/03/scot... on the failure of testing theories and communicating evidence

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨ Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌

submitted 70 days ago • 10 comments