When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

Hey, @royal-mail.bsky.social I think your bot is broken haha

Historian of tech @histoftech.bsky.social on how AI hype is a way of gaming the system by "reengineering society around the technology." The goal is to "create an environment—a labor environment, a regulatory environment, a user environment—that will bring that unlikely thing closer to reality."

#PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice #FamilyMedicine Fabulous collegiate scholarship in clinical education, research and policy at #SAPCCardiff25 international conference- mostly funded by #NIHR highlights: Oxford team delivering useful relevant PC research ready to implement in the #UK10yearHealthPlan -

This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n

Read our paper about what hospital respiratory clinicians think about offering rescue packs to patients discharged following #COPD exacerbation. Respiratory clinicians consider a variety of factors and prioritise more immediate risks over the more distant ones. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very important work! We’ve been recommending COPD rescue packs for over a decade in the UK national guideline, but the first RCT assessing their efficacy has only started this year 🤯 This publication is part of the bigger research programme and lends an insight into clinicians’ perspective.

What do respiratory clinicians think about offering “rescue packs” to patients discharged after #COPD exacerbation? It's not always simple to decide what would be best for each patient. Read our paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Or a summary: www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/out...

Good care for people with #dementia is very important. Here's a paper in which @instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that visual identifiers used for hospitalised people with dementia may not be a useful indicator of the quality of care. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Feeling slightly thrown for a loop finding out about recent changes to the skilled worker visa late last night and not reall seeing much chatter about it elsewhere… But again, most British citizens do not care about immigrants, so shouldn’t be surprised 😮‍💨 www.ein.org.uk/news/major-c...

NEW FROM ME - Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability. Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity. We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate. tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4

📢New publication📢 Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study doi.org/10.1080/1541... @instagraham.bsky.social @profhurst.bsky.social @monabafadhel.bsky.social

Research participants needed📢 Do you have experience recruiting patients into clinical trials in the UK and Ireland? Do you think recruitment targets are motivating? Are they communicated well? Then we would love to hear from you as a participant in our focus group study.

The Algorithms + Miscarriage Project is now seeking participants! Experiences with algorithms after miscarriage? Why not share your story? *Please share widely* #miscarriage #pregnancyloss #algorithm #socialmedia #onlinesafety

🚨A welcome Government U-Turn on the winter fuel payment, which they have restored to 7.5 million pensioners. These cuts should never have been proposed in the first place - to save another embarrassment, the Government should reverse their disability benefit cut plans now too.

Our research examines features from identifiers used for patients with dementia and compares with other common types of visual identifier. Full paper: buff.ly/EB9jTZL THIS summary: ths.im/4dAgitK

This paper was a long time coming and I am so pleased to see it out! @instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that the use of visual identifiers for hospitalised people with dementia comes with many well-documented issues and that perhaps it's time to rethink what we can expect from such identifiers.

What Is an Identifier Good for? Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital 📢New research paper from Karolina Kuberska and Graham Martin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #DementiaCare @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk

📢New publication alert 📢 @instagraham.bsky.social and I wrote a paper! What Is an Identifier Good for? Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital doi.org/10.1111/jan....

“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” —Baldwin’s words grounded my Tanner lectures at Harvard, “Imagining Beyond the Artificial Intelligentsia”🤖 Lecture 1, Who Owns the Future? youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...

Today, on #InternationalWorkersDay, I've given two teachouts - on academic mobility, borders and the hostile environment, and on reading workload models, as part of our @ducu.bsky.social #NoToCuts strike week. A few thoughts: 👇

What we need is a journal finder website where you can find a journal to submit a paper to by length of the manuscript, topic and method. Why is it always so difficult to find out the maximum length of accepted manuscripts? Who's with me?

I craft weird postcards in which I put words into famous people's mouths and I am pretty happy with this one.

For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars #EarlyModern

Not doing manual searches alongside a systematic review search on a social science topic can result in missing *key* publications (and in half-assed papers). doi.org/10.1016/j.sr... - Excellent letter to the editors of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare from Susie Kilshaw #pregnancyloss #miscarriage

Out of office in comic sans is such a power move.

Find out how you can support Justyna and the Abortion Dream Team here 👉 https://buff.ly/3PSk6eO @aborcyjnydream Donate to help open AboTak, the abortion clinic being opened in Warsaw https://buff.ly/4htsNIt #JakJustyna

My latest paper with #QRDC team comparing in person and remote qualitative data collection focusing on data quality and inclusion #IJNS #researchmethods #qualitativeresearch journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢New publication!📢 Sarah Turner and I wrote a paper about how experiences of #pregnancyloss have been described in the UK press around the Baby Loss Awareness Week over the last decade. #BLAW #babyloss #miscarriage #stillbirth Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is the best slide I've ever made

I was asked at a hospital appointment what my first language was and I stupidly said it was Polish and now my documents say that my preferred language is Polish and maybe I really can't speak English that well because I obviously missed something. Is my accent my biggest communication problem?

It's extraordinary how the joy of a paper acceptance can be dampened by how the Open Access team sends their responses in forms of AI-generated riddles. I really want someone to tell me what to click, I shouldn't have to be a lawyer to publish stuff without being saddled by a huge scammy fee.

Hi Ange. I understand why you say that - it seems obvious. But the reasons people miss appointments are complex and often related to poverty and multiple disadvantage. It would be complex/expensive to run and there would be a high risk it would worsen health inequalities. This is good on it:

This is an excellent paper by Jillian Schneidman about all the things I'm frustrated in the ethics of the governance of ethics. link.springer.com/article/10.1... There's something really ironic about the fact that the distress and frustration due to bureaucracy don't feature in the risk assessments!

In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...