shorturl.at/gjhgz The UK is one of the most unequal advanced countries in the world. It is therefore distressing to report that Trinity Hall Cambridge is to favour admissions from elite private schools. This is a dark day for fairness. #ComprehensiveFuture #CASE #fairness #nosnobbery

“Compelling... challenges the idea that women are simply 'poor men' in pension systems... shows why pensions must be reimagined to reflect the realities of diverse lives.” @gerontologyuk.bsky.social on 'Pension Saving in a Gendered Lifecourse' by Hayley James 👇 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

There should be a word for that feeling of utter relief when you manage to indeed verify that you are human #modernlife

We couldn't agree more. @gerontologyuk.bsky.social on data preservation & infrastructure: "They are foundational to democracy, social understanding, and the pursuit of knowledge. They form the basis of sound decision-making across policy, economics, industry and society." @ukdataservice.bsky.social

📢New publication from our team: "The meaning of ‘quality’ of homecare for older people: a scoping review" bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

⏰New on the Data Impact blog⏰ Debora Price (@gerontologyuk.bsky.social) reflects on the importance of data preservation, recent international threats to data infrastructure, and why we must protect trusted data services as essential public institutions. blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/why-data-pre...

NHS is stopping the Health Survey for England. ONS user input qu'airre on this open to 25 July. If data from population health surveys are important for your work, it's vital to feed in. Defunding this data collection may be a huge error with so many population health challenges. Blog with links:

We welcome today's recommendations that the UK gvmt commission 2031 censuses. The census remains a cornerstone of how we understand our society—and it’s great to see UKSA recognising its user's needs on this. Read more in a blog from our CEO 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

A really interesting thread on the very tricky issues facing ONS and the national social and economic surveys today

Topic webinars from Understanding Society - all 14.00-15.00, for new and experienced data users: Income, wealth and housing: 12 March Employment: 19 March Family, households, children: 26 March Sign up on our website - www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/trainin...

Our latest report found over 1 in 5 people in the UK are in poverty. On Friday we are hosting an 'Ask Me Anything' session on Reddit - you can ask our analysts about the stats, the modelling, policy, and the picture of poverty across the UK. 🙋 Join our session: www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...

Am excellent thread on some of the tensions as between our current #census and potential replacement by admin #data. @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Understanding Society Scientific Conference 1-3 July - you've got until 31 Jan to submit an abstract. If you're using household panel data, we'd love to hear about your work! www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/11...

Interested in care work and care policies? Then join us for our next seminar @DSPI_Oxford from Jan 23. We have many exciting speakers and will be talking about social care reform, post-growth caring economy, carewashing, disability, AI and more...sign up here 👇 www.spi.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-eve...

Should #housing just be housing and #pensions just pensions? From Simon Grover (who I don't think is on BlueSky?) First principles. quietroom.co.uk/insights/a-p...

Our new website is now live! 🎉 Explore our latest research, project outputs and find out about our events. Visit us at www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk and let us know what you think! Stay connected with us: X: @NIHRHAPRU (x.com/NIHRHAPRU) YouTube: www.youtube.com/@NIHRHAPRU #HAPRU #Research #NewWebsite #NIHR

📢Please read our new report from our team on the meaning of 'quality' of homecare for older people: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx... - and find out more about our project including a recording of a recent webinar here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/08/23/q...

A really interesting paper from the excellent Dr. Giorgio Di Gessa at UCL on trajectories of loneliness in later life using 20 years of longitudinal data from ELSA: health and quality of relationships are key pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Can our brains compensate for age related cognitive decline? Interesting study from Universities of Cambridge and Sussex. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Our paper on the impact of living with multiple long-term conditions on everyday life: a qualitative evidence synthesis. The 'work' is not only around medications and healthcare use, it is also emotional & financial with lots of learning & adaptation bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

UoM are recruiting a Research Associate (10.5 months maternity cover, full time) to work on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) in Manchester. More details about the job and how to apply can be found here www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Decided to put my thoughts down on the pensions review part 2 delay on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...

We've been blue-sky policy thinking about long lives for over 25 years. But we're new here - and interested in finding friends and learning from challengers.

It’s great to see the ‘Special Interest Groups of British Society of #Gerontology start to appear on #Bluesky @bsgtechagesig.bsky.social @bsgcreativeageing.bsky.social - post a reply if I’ve missed others?! @gerontologyuk.bsky.social

Absolutely superb (long; live) thread on the very complex debate today in the Commons, and the respect it was rightly given.

Wave 14 of Understanding Society is now available! Wave 14 has expanded content on family life and includes new entrants who joined in the latest boost sample. New content includes questions on work illness, generalised trust, non-resident children. www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/11...

I have made the suggested starter pack go.bsky.app/8b8j4G3 Please do suggest yourself or others.

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Want to do a PhD in health inequalities? The first 3 of our new Equalise Centre studentships are open for applications. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Had a go at a BGS/#gerisky starter pack. Hope this works. Let me know who I've missed! Inspired to make one by @sparklystar55.bsky.social go.bsky.app/EL1eBC4

"....the Department of Health says please, the Treasury says no, and No 10 wants more time to think" #socialcare #nationalcareservice BBC News - Social #care 'impasse' at top of government - so what next, asks Laura Kuenssberg - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is Greater Manchester calling. Is there anybody out there?!

I made a list of #pension peeps (skeeps?), so I can see their posts separately - not entirely sure of the diffs between lists & feeds, but I think anyone can follow my list if that appeals. I believe on my profile as a tab, and subscribe. Not wholly sure what I'm doing. Happy to add you, just say!

It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners. I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette. Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...

First large UK medical research funder arrives on Bluesky! @nihr.bsky.social

Welcome to lots of new pensions people on BlueSky. If you’re interested in finding like-minded people, this ‘starter pack’ should help: bsky.app/starter-pack.... Looking at you @benwikler.bsky.social @sambrodbeck.bsky.social @mattiebrignal.bsky.social !

I couldn't see an overall starter pack for FT journalists active on Bluesky. So given the recent influx of new people on here, I thought it'd be useful to make one. Do shout out all the people I've inevitably missed and I'll update go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD

@raehaz74.bsky.social there is also a starter pack called "a lady to follow" which looks cool but yeah I'd probably have to find it - there is a searchable list of starter packs somewhere, I'll try find it...

If you see a lot of folks replying to posts with a 📌 emoji it’s because they’re using this feed. It’s essentially a bookmark! Reply with the emoji and it pulls the post into your own private feed and saves it there for you! Here:

The #ESRC is seeking ideas for potential future social science #data infrastructures do feed in if you have views about how UKRI/ESRC data infrastructures can help to improve #research. engagementhub.ukri.org/esrc-1/esrc-...

At last, there's a searchable directory of Bluesky starter packs, courtesy of @mubashariqbal.com! Just one more way third-party developers are helping to make this place better. Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful

UK think tanks starter pack 👇

Health and inequalities starter pack 👇

Share this #pension starter pack again for the new folk here interested in, well, pensions.

Social care starter pack, sharing again as lots of new adds

#Genetics Starter Pack ~100 accounts in genetics and genomics. Apologies to all the lovely people I missed. go.bsky.app/JcbBNq5

Very pleased to have contributed to this POSTnote, which talks of "a two-way relationship between financial and mental wellbeing" and makes suggestions for policy based on evidence from research

New on our website today: a Pensions Policy Institute report using our data looks at how automatic enrolment into pension schemes affects low earners

I've made a starter pack of all the UK think tanks I could find on bluesky so far, and staff working at them. If I'm missing any organisation/any one please do comment below so I can add in 😊 go.bsky.app/Geu9Jd8