Interesting read this, especially for those who seek to influence this slippery lot... Well done Dr Hilger.

Over the years I have lost my van va voom for causes to get behind... But Universal Basic Income increasingly seems a powerful lever for better lives for many. Dissuade me.

the Internet was invented for THIS. Team was messing about with AI song generator for non traditional dissemination of research. With only our multi million technology in social care portfolio to work with. It came up with... aisonggenerator.ai/share/Wi-Fi%... Powerful stuff. 😬😂

The places where we live and work play a crucial role in determining our health, and it is important that they are designed so that people have access to the basic building blocks of health. 👀Read our response➡️ bit.ly/3GTl4GG

Scary stuff... Principled woman.

Couple of points on "ending" overseas recruitment for care jobs. 1. Important to remember that reality has already moved on from the very high migration levels of 2022-2023. Cleverly's policy changes already hugely reduced care visa numbers (chart from @healthfoundation.bsky.social)

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... if you have discrete choice/preference elicitation skills, we need you to help us decide what people really want from technology in social care and create a national database of preferences for everyone to use... Fab team, fab uni. Please spread/get in touch

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

Perfectly sums up the situation for many societies... Great piece.

Not sure I feel fed up or flattered that a large bundle of my research papers in here. Does it count as a REFable impact? Another year when my ALCS allocation prevents me buying a yacht, 😢

Looking for a research fellow keen to develop their career in a fab team and city. Experience in preference elicitation, Health and social care, and technology? Get in touch. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

I'm hiring! Looking for a fab research assistant interested in technology, user-focused design, preference elicitation and mixed methods. Working in God's own country. Msg me if need to discuss. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

You know those dystopian Sci fi films? It's like the prequel to I Robot meets Gillette manly man adverts... Batshit crazy is about right.

We are totally f***ed... Time for big ideas, the sorts of engineering solutions humanity needs. No! Let's invent a virtual group of whining cartoon characters to "empower" us all. But I'm hungry. Never mind that dude... Emoji? Memecoin?

When you think you're having a bad day! Catastrophic stuff for individuals... Hope wise heads prevail.

#R4Today "going underground" for Rick Buckler's obit segment... Really? Bit lazy and poor taste. And that's from me!

atalentforidleness.blogspot.com/2020/03/lets... struck by how flipping relevant much of this album feels... It has aged well. Miss Lou Reed.

Take a look at the new ASCOT-Workforce measure. Part of ASCOT suite of tools, designed to measure care work-related QoL of the adult social care workforce. Tested with care workers, managers, social workers, OTs, nurses, personal assistants. Report coming soon. www.pssru.ac.uk/ascot/ascot-...

New publication from the DACHA Study. Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

How's your morning going? A bizarre confluence of circumstances led to me driving my 78yr old dad's ridiculous Audi SUV, with a hat on the parcel shelf, BOOM radio on by default, and heating at 28°C and him shouting at loading vehicles in a medieval city. A circle of hell worthy of Dante

There are no bounds to the loathing I feel towards the expressions, "learnings", "journey", " and bloody "personas" (aka, stereotypes). It's not the language (ugly that it is), but because they are mostly used when obfuscating, dodging responsibility, or flack (cf. NHS, HE, police, LAs)

WEBINAR RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE: Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis 🏠 On 25 November we heard from @thompa101.bsky.social about how analysing this data can be used to tailor care plans to improve care quality. WATCH NOW: goltc.org/goltc-webina...

If you are an academic and leave journal author signatures until the day offices close, or send a paper through for "over Xmas" reading, you are getting Temu presents and your stocking will contain only coal and a wrinkly dried satsuma.

Love this...

opportunity costs associated with NICE recommendations. Defo the most important h economics paper you will read today, maybe this week, maybe the year so far This is where the primary care budget gets spent A www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

@spillersk.bsky.social behold... My people 😉

A timely reminder for anyone involved in tech in the public sector. Interesting read... 👇

Research from @kspoon.bsky.social & ... "“People don’t want to be in a workplace if they feel disrespected, if they feel like their work isn’t valued, if they feel like they’re not seen,” she notes. “And I do think that in many, many academic workplaces, that is the experience that women have.”"

By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post... Is that that's THE MATTERHORN

Watched #C4dispatches. Madness of incapacity benefits and broken relationship between employment and living (housing, warmth, food) makes me think it has to universal basic income's time? When it gets to 10% workforce in 10 years off long term sick, time for different.

For the first time in many years, I’m unable to get to the NCASC conference. Still, it’s not like there’ll be much to talk about. #NCASC24 #socialcare

Oh dear... You had one job:

Thanks for an excellent @goltc.bsky.social webinar, @thompa101.bsky.social fascinating to see how much can be learnt from tech to track people’s movements in #carehomes and mapping social networks, so many interesting questions! For anyone interested read journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

If you're interested in hearing more about the experiences of unpaid carers, listen back to this episode of the #KFPodcast. Jo Vigor sat down with Karen and Yvette who shared their story of giving and receiving care. #CarersRightsDay www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Spent the afternoon discussing our #socialcare crisis. If you mix paid care (and unrecognised unpaid care), capitalism and DEMOGRAPHICS, you betcha gonna need that "conversation" on immigration UK. There will not be enough young people to sustain our current model. Chapeau Spain.

Decided to watch Threads from 1984 again on plane last week. youtu.be/vgT4Y30DkaA?... Only taken me 40 years to get over it. This week's Ukrainian escalation has rather reignited the childhood trauma. Worth a watch if you want to scare yourself daft...

I love a sentence like this in the methods section of an #RCT: "...Participants with #multimorbidity, #dysmobility, and #cognitive impairment were not excluded..." #Geriatrics #Research #Aging #Ageing #Evidence #Medsky

Lessons from England’s National Health Service. Tldr: the UK NHS is in principle a great model but is now precarious, undermined by austerity and redisorganisation. Primary care is critical to the whole thing but is facing huge risks. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Excellent thread on adult social care reform 👇

Much of this is reminiscent of eight years ago, when many of us stood in a packed room in Parliament and debated a Royal Commission at the invitation of Lamb, Dorrell and Milburn. I wonder where we'd be now if we'd gone ahead then? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interesting splits in the comments. Descriptively true (but hard to hide from the bean counters). Normatively, not so much. I miss the days where simply being curious and collegial was enough. Feels subversive to do academia for academia's sake sometimes.

In the US and thought, "hey Fox News, why not give it 10 mins?" OMG, a 10 min piece on "wasted" federal $$. Researchers watch out...😬😭 Scary plans alluded to cut almost anything that isn't 100% US and an oven ready cancer cure. Grim times for US colleagues for sure.

Nice retelling of an old story... 👍

By far the most sensible suggestion I've seen on the NHS Ideas For Change site from the 1250 contributions to date... change.nhs.uk/en-GB/ideas/...

Dear research funders, for the love of God sort in house publishing processes out. The plethora of mindless bureaucracy with each final report needs to be reduced, not increased, with every grant I acquire. Any finer example of the growth of transaction costs in HEIs than final reporting?

Once again astonished at how variable and inequitable working conditions are at the *same* uni for people ostensibly doing the same job - everything from whether you get an office, how long your teaching periods are & if you can arrange to stay living overseas vs. “Campus presence” expectations.

Our feasibility study of BLE wearables for contact tracing in care homes in a pandemic, suggests work to do with homes if we are to use this important technology to it's full effect. pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

BBC r4 whole episode on kids identifying as foxes, marmosets, etc. in school is peak middle class angst meets Brass Eye... Great stuff. We have genuinely lost the plot!

Here's a paper talking all about our care university research partnership (NICHE-LEEDS) www.caremanagementmatters.co.uk/feature/tack... how we work, what we do... From a variety of system leadership perspectives.

Dear "Professor" with yer zero publications or research or discernible role in a university... Just stop it. So tired of ex Directors of Nursing or managers (not always them, but often is) pitching themselves... Grrr....