There can be nothing more satisfying than submitting a paper at 4.45pm on a Friday.

As I'm now a school run parent it's my turn to say - idling is illegal! Idling outside a SCHOOL demonstrates to everyone that you are a....

Anyone else avoiding the news and instead watching old gentle telly? Peak Practice S01E01 (1993) brought back memories. Features a boy getting electrocuted while getting a kite off a pylon. Classic.

Anyone thinking of doing health research involving "AI" should read this and have a good think about what it means.

So excited the MERL has a podcast. #absoluteunit

Oh hai.

Camo-cricket. Technical term.

Bumper year for seven spot ladybirds in our garden.

Bruiser! We continue to increase the biodiversity of our garden by doing almost no gardening. Win-win.

Nearly 20 years at this university and today I found some toilets I never knew existed. It's like a brutalist Hogwarts.

Time for your yearly reminder that “We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”. #OTD 1948 Douglas Altman b (d 3 June 2018) “One of the most influential medical statisticians of the past 50 years” he led reforms in medical research reliability & reporting. 1/3

Super Cool! Let's use AI for everything! #hellinahandcart

No need to check the weather this morning, having been kept awake by combine harvesters most of the night.

Turns out MS Teams "request control" feature V useful for elderly parent IT support from 300 miles away.

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This is a wellbeing room in my university.

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Sometimes I listen to the Moana soundtrack when child isn't in the car. 😬

It must be my age, I'm getting so much escapism from revisiting television/radio/music from the 90s and early 00s. Would happily go back there...

At what age do children stop filling the house with feathers? Because I could reconstruct a whole wood pigeon at this point.

I'm just staying up late with my work laptop, holding its little hand through a mandatory windows update that has the potential to ruin any chance of doing meaningful work tomorrow morning. Sigh.

Crikey. Been a while since I've been complimented on my telephone voice. Still got it. 😉

I'm apparently the sort of person who goes to a visitor attraction and photographs the label on their well-designed composting toilet.

Please share :) @norwichctu.bsky.social @ueamedical.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social

Are you a healthcare professional in the UK caring for people living with HIV aged over 50? What are the important issues for you & your patients? We are creating a bank of research questions to bring to a workshop to prioritise research in this area. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...

Have prepared a truly punishing schedule of events to survive solo parenting this long weekend. Easter crafts, steam train, duck race, Bug Park, petting zoo. Not to mention playgrounds, planting sunflowers, all the toys, bike rides etc. Send stimulants.

A beautiful and terrible thing about The Internet is that one minute someone mentions a gong bath in passing and before you know it you've become aware you can buy a 40" gong for £800 and that suddenly seems like a tremendous idea.

New career milestone unlocked: I just saw a paper that made me think of a student and emailed it to them (so they can ignore it because it's not actually what their project is about). Hopefully not the last bit...

Day 1 of a new NIHR grant, and a new member of the team to help me deliver it. Got the butterflies!

First garden blob of the year, and some very proud parents

I could not have anticipated that parenting might involve sewing a tiny Elsa dress for a toy rabbit at 7am on a Sunday. While ill.

Going into the office today because I'm too annoyed by my two work VPNs fighting each other. Well played, employer, well played 😬

Trial participant self‑reported understanding of randomisation phrases in participant info can be high but acceptability of some descriptions is low esp if linked to gambling/luck @streweek.bsky.social @katiegillies.bsky.social @taliaisaacs.bsky.social trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I’ve seen a number of trial applications in development over recent weeks with lots of discussion about appropriate sample size calculations. A good time to remind everyone about the perils of the “sample size samba” 1/8 #MethodologyMonday #111

You know your kitchen is too cold when you can't pour the olive oil.

I find the psychology of this stuff absolutely fascinating! #teamsceptic

This is horrendous. If you work in trials, read the full article.

Trials are getting more inclusive, flexible, innovative, complex... For roughly the same budget. This isn't sustainable. Efficiency savings are not being passed on to the people slogging their hearts out to deliver research.

At the time of much uncertainty in HEI in the UK, leadership is critically important. Leading by example, with integrity, respect, kindness and empathy for a team is now more important than ever.

What is it about my silly human brain that recognises I have a headache but then procrastinates about just immediately taking some tablets that will make it go away?? I'm literally typing this instead of walking to the cupboard.

Glorious

Flipping heck.

Please see job below #neurojobs #neuroscience #neuroimaging #neurology #psychology

A decadent afternoon - train to Cambridge, Pret, team-building painting class! A rare treat and lovely to see the TYPPEX programme team ❤️

A trial I oversee has recruited its target of 496 participants, 6 MONTHS EARLY. Can't take any credit for that but my goodness. Also nobody tell NIHR 😬

Very proud to call this team colleagues ❤️

It's shiny round here and they've got art and a duck pond. Back to Norfolk...

Weirdly exciting bit of my job (in Norwich) is working with three different teams at Cambridge, and periodically checking my diary to see who I'm going to visit this month. Train ride, nice coffee, home in time for tea.

Holding out hope for a revolutionary backlash against fakery of all kinds and mass production. Food, clothes, stuff. Most people want this! Being able to PAY for it means a) being prepared to scale back what we "need" in life, and b) fair wages & profits...