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Rob Thomas

@robthomasbirds.bsky.social

[reposted] The storm has broken at Cardiff University. Solidarity to everyone who is going to be affected by leaving the university, or by remaining as part of a substantially weakened workforce. Please join a union.

January 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM

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CASCADE

@cascaderesearch.bsky.social

CASCADE has joined Bluesky! 🎉

Our aim as a research centre is to improve the well-being, safety & rights of children and their families by generating & sharing new and existing knowledge in ways that help services.

Follow us here & find out more on our website: cascadewales.org

#SocialCare #Wales

December 17, 2024 at 12:57 PM

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Emmet Ó Briain

@emmet.quiddity.ie

Love this piece on 'tick-box ethics' from a very considered treatment of Ethical Considerations in @jablitt.bsky.social's ethnography "Accomplishing Public Work: Encounters with Park Rangers"

orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/14...

Text: No consent forms were issued, and as such, no written consent was received. The slow, iterative, processual, interactional – and regularly renegotiated – verbal consent built throughout the two and a half years in the field was arguably more ethical than a moment-in-time signing of an overly-legalistic document that is a written consent form. The concern with written consent is that the event of signing a form or document that stipulates the granting of research access and indefinite recording during time in the field is ultimately superficial and – more so – easily forgettable. My wish was not to dupe my informants into allowing me to surveille and record anything and everything I observed while on shift with them, which would have been an option had I had a written contract allowing me to do such a thing. After an extended period of time in the field, and as I gained trust and became privy to more potentially sensitive information and events, written consent signed-off months prior would have granted me a technical passport to write about anything that occurred while I was present, but would be tantamount to intentional deception should it be used as an argument to do such a thing. This insincere tick-box ethics does not facilitate real informed consent in such long-term fieldwork arrangements.

December 13, 2024 at 10:48 AM

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Rob Smith

@robinjsmith.bsky.social

Interesting papers here. Reminded of me of the pleasure it was to work with @jablitt.bsky.social on the practical handling of “waste” (and “not waste”) in street-cleaning and the moral order of public space.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#EMCA

December 11, 2024 at 9:53 AM

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Tom Usher

@tomusher.bsky.social

I wouldn't hate AI as much as I do if it didn't feel like it had to be force fed to us by tech companies because everyone clearly has little to no use for it other than being lazy and plagiarising more efficiently

November 25, 2024 at 5:24 PM

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Rob Smith

@robinjsmith.bsky.social

Optimist: Cup is half full

Pessimist: Cup is half empty

Sacks: What I’m dealing with are possibilities… if we get a possibility we can establish, that’s fine. If one is claiming that it could be another thing, first one wants to show how it’s another possibility. That takes a task of analysis.

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · Nov 23

Optimist: "the cup is half full"

Pessimist: "the cup is half empty"

Conversation analyst: the action accomplished by the turn in which either phrase is formulated, its sequential position, & its accompanying embodied conduct, will determine whether I want to spend more time with you :-)

#EMCA

November 25, 2024 at 9:58 AM

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Prem Sikka

@premnsikka.bsky.social

Ridiculous BBC headline:
"Public sector pay deals help drive up UK borrowing".

Nothing to do with corporate welfare, contracts for cronies, Govt paying higher energy bills, HMRC not collecting £500bn since 2010, Tory legacy.

Just blame workers wanting decent pay.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Public sector pay deals help drive up UK borrowing

Borrowing was £17.4bn last month, the second highest October figure since monthly records began in 1993.

www.bbc.co.uk

November 21, 2024 at 10:47 AM

Jon Ablitt

@jablitt.bsky.social

Sorry to be controversial but now that we’re on a new platform can we all agree going forward to never use what corporations do or do not do as a basis for our own moral decision-making?

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · Nov 18

Visa stopped posting on X.
Etsy stopped posting on X.
Adobe stopped posting on X.
Android stopped posting on X.
Mastercard stopped posting on X.
McDonald's stopped posting on X.
CVS Pharmacy stopped posting on X.
Walmart stopped posting on X.
Did You?
#cdnpoli #peipoli

November 19, 2024 at 3:02 PM

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ben smoke

@bencsmoke.bsky.social

sorry to harsh the vibe but if labour do not change course and start offering material solutions to the problems facing people in this country this is the face of our next prime minister

PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · Nov 18

Nigel Farage has the highest favourability rating of any politician in the UK.

Donald Trump has a higher favourability rating than Keir Starmer at 25%, but 58% of Brits have an unfavourable view of the President-elect 🧵

November 18, 2024 at 9:48 PM

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Richard Mifsud

@richmifsud.bsky.social

Charles Durante is my hero #Gibraltar I saw this Gibraltar Chronicle article on the Gibraltar Chronicle app and thought you’d be interested.

The Language Debate: No Laughing Matter
edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

The Language Debate: No Laughing Matter - Gibraltar Chronicle

edition.pagesuite.com

November 18, 2024 at 9:06 AM

Jon Ablitt

@jablitt.bsky.social

Great CEEIT data session today led by Patricia Jimenez on ‘what people talk about when they talk about AI’ @robinjsmith.bsky.social @wilhousley.bsky.social #MCA