"critical challenge for scholars & others who take seriously the ideological constructions of everyday life is to understand how individualised & privatised pursuits of wellbeing restrain & limit our commitment to the political work required to bring about a more healthy & just society" Crawford '26

There's possible reverse causality, there's potential reverse causality, and then there's the fear that young people living with their parents will hurt their job prospects.

Me: I‘m managing any OCD flares very well with the new puppy 😌 My wife: Is this another new hoover??

Always good advice. I’d add that “how can we make you better” can be heard as “I’m intolerable like this and they don’t want to hear how I feel”, another classic misunderstanding route to “but why are you mad when I’m just trying to help”.

New pup is getting an intro to psychology as I explain to her that the cat’s reaction is just due to his anxious-avoidant attachment style and she is still a very good girl.

Amazing scenes at the vet as two cats called Sizzles are booked in 5 minutes apart and each gets the other’s appointment. Receptionist horrified that she’s mixed up the Sizzles. Vets relieved they’ve not lost grasp on reality. One of the owners, aggrieved, mutters “It’s actually just Sizzle, no S”.

New house floof just dropped.

This project is trying to help children formerly in occupation prisons not fall through the cracks. And you can help. Workshops and more for these kids' mental health and social reintegration. For the next month, we're getting this funded. Join in: chuffed.org/project/hmg

"It’s good to have a healthy body, but it’s not a moral requirement to be healthy" is such an important sentence

Why is "they're going to use it anyway so we should teach them to use it well" being applied to GenAI in the classroom while a very opposite point is being made about young people and social media. (and in neither case is the existing evidence or critique apparently of concern.)

Too many websites are built to look good projected behind a guy talking about the successful redesign of the website, rather than built to actually do the job you visit the website for.

Feel like I’m going round the bend with all the “here are the steps and checks to make best use of AI in user research” advice that surely is just “here’s how any time you might save with AI in user research is lost through need for extra checks and prep.”

I wasn’t a lecturer, but research staff obv had their own woes as funds were cut. I got a contract extension but on a lower grade. Told it would be ‘corrected’ but actually had to just apply for promotion *again*. Spent 18 months still working at senior level whilst applying to be senior level.

The compensation claim for pandemic teaching is latest example of a society having no insight into a workforce, a sector, a group of people struggling. This was always apparent during strike action. People refuse to see lecturing as anything but cushy. ”I’d love a job that was an hour a week!”

The comments about transition as influenced by social media and an overreaction to ‘normal’ variation are utterly irresponsible. Completely ignores the evidence base on expectations and impacts, and the lived experience of trans people. Ignorant dismissals that have come to dictate access.

We’re busy doing proper couply things, like calling the bastard helpline when the bastard EV charger on the bastard motorway won’t work 🥰

Kate’s so infected by the sunshine she requested my 90s Summer playlist, then said “what’s this?” when Mona by Craig McLachlan came on. She’s younger than me, she doesn’t know the deep cuts.

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

Guys they’re alive! I must just have seen the crushed body of a vanquished foe. My little murder guy is alive 🥰

In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Lots of Brexit chat reminding me of a codesign meeting I was doing with patients at the time, a very opinionated older gentleman telling me “well this all will be solved now won’t it, with the money the NHS gets back from Brexit? You could even retrain to become a real doctor!”

Scottish mum vs Super Bowl: Our friend’s mum text him “what’s going on with all this Peter Rabbit stuff?”

This nails something I’ve struggled to express, thank you. 🧵 on why people arguing For specific tools are going to hit walls with people Against the overarching buy-in to cheap labour in business and policy.

Making AI training mandatory for staff, requesting staff include an AI goal in their development review, then evaluating uptake of AI by staff as a measure of perceived value, is the kind of flawed evaluation that your researchers won’t be able to point out because we got replaced by AI.

”I don’t want to ‘just put it in copilot’ because accuracy matters“ shouldn’t become a conversation about the extra work I can do to check, confirm and correct the errors of the thing that’s ’saving time’. There‘s this thing called reading, let me do it.

It’s very grim having to contact the cemetery about my dad’s burial and headstone etc and I have to build up to it then run away. So it would help if they didn’t reply EVERY time with “thank you, we also need…” which then takes me another day. Is there perhaps A LIST guys you could share??

This still haunts me.

All future leaders to be chosen by the ladies at Hampstead ponds 🏳️‍⚧️

Helped out Kate with her wine exam revision and was rewarded with her utter delight/mockery at my mangled pronunciation of various French regions.

separated at birth? #Caturday

Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important. A thread 🧵

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pruning my linked in connections based on anyone doing “yes but” about academics links with Epstein. Bonus block if you use the phrase ‘witch hunt’

“objectivity is not the same as neutrality. If there is an aggressor and a victim, a liar and an honest person, a corrupt individual and an honourable one, then your task is to describe all that clearly and forcefully“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Epstein/academics stuff reminding me how furious I still feel about the shrugging "but we'd have lost their Amazing Contributions if they were punished" BS I used to hear sometimes. Never seemed to occur to them to ask how many brilliant minds we lost because they were abused, fed up or afraid.

I spent an unnecessarily long time editing settings on a new fitness tracker so I could hide all the extra BMI, weight logging, fat burning nonsense. It‘s now got a “click here to lose belly fat!” banner across the goddam exercise icon.

When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.

The solution to "we don't have a lot of evidence in this area of medicine" is to generate more evidence, not to take medical decision-making from clinicians and patients and hand it over to politicians and pundits.

The way “lack of evidence” is being wielded here in the UK around trans healthcare and over in the US about vaccines is such a warped thing to witness as someone who worked on research and policy. Seeing how the authority of Trials has been weaponised by bad actors is quite something.

Here's a great, and short, paper on the problems with the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data. 1/4 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This was actually one of the harder things to adapt to when moving from academic research to user research. Going from knowing a subject inside out to being a complete newbie on each new project.

In the UK academic recession, you will be at one of these stages since many unis buy the same cuts model from the same consultancies. It is always the same process: *Talk of belt-tightening *Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments) *Travel budgets cut *Promotion freeze (1/4)

Hey gang, a little bird tells me that Kobo put THE TWISTED ONES and NETTLE & BONE on sale until the 15th! (I know it’s in the UK, not sure about US)

I know why we do it (lure of numbers, pressure to quantify impacts) but the “if this saves 30 seconds of time then you can multiply that by every worker for a year to save 1 zillion days” thing ia just weird. An extra minute each day is not in anyway the same as a protected day or even an hour.

A group of volunteers have been running @nhshackday.com since 2012. In a crazy world, it is all about coming together with common purpose to solve problems in our health service. Please reshare this post about #30 in Cardiff Mar 21/22. We would love to have you join us. ti.to/nhshackday/3...

Watching a show where the main conflict seems to be between two researchers vying for who gets to be “on the front cover” of the journal that they’re publishing an article in. 🤨

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

This is so amazing on women’s safety and everyday fear. “Danger doesn’t look like no killer in a mask…” on.soundcloud.com/YVDeGjTaQR0J...

RNIB Bookshare is an amazing resource and a national treasure - it’s the backbone of accessible text provision in education.

I am “why do they make the expiry date so bloody small“ years old.