Maybe they should consider changing the name of the party.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The NHS is very poor at training its managers to consistent standards. But the only big policy response is not to improve training but to regulate managers. This is the wrong way to fix NHS management: bmjleader.bmj.com/content/earl...

Healthcare clearly needs professional and ethical managers. Some argue that NHS managers should be regulated like clinicians, via a professional register. We argue, in this piece for BMJ Leader, that such a view is unrealistic. Comments welcome! @bmj.com bmjleader.bmj.com/content/earl...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Posters have appeared around the building. They suggest that geography, geology, & environment staff might be a bit angry at proposed redundancies, reorganisations & closures. Rightly so.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Very interesting and timely paper by Tine Molendijk in @wesjnl.bsky.social. Great to see the concept of moral injury being given more sociological and contextual depth.

'The union said management had "agreed to halt all planned compulsory redundancies for academic staff until at least July 2026".'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A very valuable story on the continuing fallout from 'psychic driving', MKUltra, etc. Upsetting to read.

There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way But this is not the only one… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier. The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

Finally a good decision from this government. PCCs never made any sense and weren't needed. Candidates were elected along party lines and all of their manifestos were basically 'let's keep people safe'. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will only succeed if we strengthen management and leadership. The King's Fund's Suzie Bailey shares some key findings from our new paper with @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Read more: https://bit.ly/437AuPW

"Too many layers of management". General public and some NHS staff regularly say this. But it's not really true. Operational managers are stretched thin. Clinicians are often crying out for high-quality managerial support, expertise and visibility. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A puff piece that relentlessly refuses to adduce actual evidence or to consider that any aspect of 'the other side' might have any virtue. Why publish this superficial guff? The topic deserves much better.

With thanks to Ben Fox and Shepherd Books - some notes on my three favourite reads this year. shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/...

peer reviewers when you try to sneak in irony

Fascinating new article by Yagil Levy about various militaries' use of body counts and how such metrics are a key element of 'war managerialism'. @gregorydaddis.bsky.social @drjlhazelton.bsky.social @cmsbisa.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very useful starting point: here's my slide for the Research Methods class:

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

I just published an article about my book and its connections to current politics with @us.theconversation.com! I highly recommend working with them, if you're interested in helping expand the public reach of your work. (1/2) #History 🗃️ theconversation.com/the-lost-his...

'While researchers typically publish in academic journals and books, the authors found, higher education managers are more likely to consult practice-oriented journals, newsletters, conference inputs and social media platforms such as LinkedIn.' Physician, heal thyself.

*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*. If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.

Out today: my review of Ed Gillett's book 'Party Lines' in ephemera. I argue the book is a great contribution to our histories of dance music, but is his interpretation too bleak? ephemerajournal.org/contribution...

Just had an unexpected royalty payment from Sage, from books published about ten years ago. I'm guessing this is from licensing my books to #GenAI 'training' without asking permission? Is this normal? What do authors make of this?

For anyone interest in leadership in all its forms, this webinar is happening later today. Our guest speaker is Jaqui Lindridge, Chief Paramedic Officer at South East Coast Ambulance Service. Please feel free to attend / share the flyer!

Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...

Vacuous, generic and scattershot advice for incoming 1st years on the use of AI at university. Especially liking 'Chin recommends giving it class notes and asking it to generate practice exam questions.' Surely we can't be the only programme that supplies students with past & practice exams?

Thinking of using #ChatGPT for 'help' with assessments? Think again. #university #AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Interested in #leadership, especially in public sector / health / emergency services? Please join us at the 'Journal of Paramedic Practice' leadership webinar on 23 September, 6-7pm BST. It's a friendly, interactive environment for the exchange of ideas and experience - all welcome!

"I'm defecting to the Soviet Union."

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

📍 Bradford UCU are on strike again today against vicious cuts that would axe 300+ jobs and close key courses. ✊ Send solidarity - give them a visit, a like, or a share today to show your support.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Clearly much is amiss in UK universities. But this article is mean spirited and inaccurate on many points.

U Chicago AAUP fights back docs.google.com/document/d/1...

FTSE 100 CEOs netted £550m in pay packets, 11% hike. Shareholder revolts make no difference, execs collect up to 1,112 average worker pay. Corporations are private fiefdoms of execs. Workers in same companies relying on food banks and charity. Worker real average pay stuck at 2008 level.

The federal government’s $1B dollar demand is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to devastate UCLA and its critical mission. #StandUpForUC to defend America’s greatest public university system and support this life-saving work. ucal.us/standupforuc

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

"The figures simply don’t add up." Tuition fees are rising, staff are underpaid, and universities are in crisis but politicians still won’t face the truth. Thanks to Zoe Williams for highlighting the crisis in The Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please help us save the discipline of sociology at Macquarie University www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

www.bbc.com/news/article... I'm struggling to see how this makes politicians more credible and accessible.

AI 2027 is a monumentally stupid crock of shit. Cod sci-fi projections. Warnings: footage in this video is AI-generated.

live action catbus looking pretty sweet

Lifeboat crew members who are called out to migrants crossing the Channel in small boats have told the BBC they make no apologies for saving lives at sea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Job in the Sociology Department here at Durham. Opportunity to work on a really important project looking at the history of a classic study in British sociology and how it ignored/obscured issues of race and gender. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

So, fellow history professor kids, what kind of writing assignments are we thinking about that are AI-resistant? Beyond some in-class reading responses and close primary source readings, what things have been moderately successful for an in-person class? 🗃️

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted. Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

👑 What is 'good leadership'? Join @leomc76.bsky.social with author and journalist @soniapurnell.bsky.social, discussing the complexities of leadership as told through her book 'Kingmaker', and the colourful life of trailblazer Pamela Churchill Harriman: www.youtube.com/watc... #YorkFestivalOfIdeas