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masudhusain.bsky.social
Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow, New College, Oxford. Editor-in-Chief, Brain
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Needless bureaucracy and “bullshit jobs” are preventing academics from fulfilling their core creative responsibilities and making clinical research an “impossible task”, a leading neuroscientist has warned. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky

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If you happen to be in central Oxford on Sat 5th April and you're interested in the relationship between brains and selves, I'm speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival

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Here is a chance to make your voice heard within the university and reduce the administrative burden.

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At @ox.ac.uk it's time for the staff survey. Here's my answer to: "What is the main thing the University could do to help you to progress your career?" Please repost and respond similarly to the survey if you agree. It's the only way to get our points across!

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It's not just clinical research either!

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Ditto here in Australia…

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Thank goodness people are waking up to the fact that there is a crisis for clinical research in the UK @financialtimes.com High on the list are the bureaucratic processes that have become an obstacle to getting things done

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Review of my book 'Our Brains, Our Selves' @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/e9c2...

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The number of patients entering clinical trials in the UK fell by 27% from 2018 to 2023 and new industry trials declined 38%. To revive clinical research we need to streamline systems and dismantle bureaucracy, writes @masudhusain.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Writing this took some guts, but we are all thinking it.

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Clinical research in the UK is under threat, partly because it takes so long to get a study or trial approved. Here are some of my suggested solutions in this BMJ Opinion piece @nihr.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @ukri.org www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Thanks to everyone for comments on my Brain editorial. There've been lots of questions on solutions. I'm afraid it's unlikely that any supreme body is going to come to our rescue. We have to do it ourselves. The problems came one by one. We can dismantle them one by one.

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Recently, @masudhusain.bsky.social argued that corporatisation of universities has overloaded us with inefficient processes that drown out teaching and research. Others read it as against administrative colleagues, and/or badly-timed DOGE ammunition. Some thoughts: www.dalmaijer.org/2025/03/redu...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

So true it hurts

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“If contracts like this were the policy of a small, developing nation, some people might wonder which gangster was pocketing the profits.” if our board was getting free holidays because we signed a deal with Diversity, it’d make *at least someone* better off. The whole editorial is, btw, great!

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The travel agency scam is quite the beauty. Staff: "But I can book my flight and hotel *much* cheaper elsewhere!" Response: "Does not compute. Please comply with existing guidelines and follow policy. Refusal to comply may result in premature termination".

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Great article. The growing mountain of unnecessary administrative burden and corporatization is slowly strangling UK academia….just as it is in the NHS and Royal Colleges.

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