Petra Boynton
@petraboynton.bsky.social
#Safety and #wellbeing advocate and creator of the #PEEPSS Model.
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
Less confident in what they're presenting, but also uncertain about their professional and personal ethics. It makes me wonder if they care about the environment. Ironically lots of these presentations are focusing on rights, justice, empowerment, wellbeing, or good pedagogical practice.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Less confident in what they're presenting, but also uncertain about their professional and personal ethics. It makes me wonder if they care about the environment. Ironically lots of these presentations are focusing on rights, justice, empowerment, wellbeing, or good pedagogical practice.
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BOOK GIVEAWAY!!! I'm not on social media much at the moment, working hard on my new book, which I feel sure will be my best one yet when it's done! In the meantime, I'm giving away signed copies of all my books so far. Follow & repost to enter, and say which book you'd like & why. Closes Dec 5!
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
BOOK GIVEAWAY!!! I'm not on social media much at the moment, working hard on my new book, which I feel sure will be my best one yet when it's done! In the meantime, I'm giving away signed copies of all my books so far. Follow & repost to enter, and say which book you'd like & why. Closes Dec 5!
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A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Three councils signed up to controversial multi-million pound SEND bailouts have been given government permission to breach minimum funding levels in schools
schoolsweek.co.uk/three-counci...
schoolsweek.co.uk/three-counci...
Three councils allowed to breach minimum school funding rule
North Tyneside, Bracknell Forest and Kent all 'gained approval to set a lower value'
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Three councils signed up to controversial multi-million pound SEND bailouts have been given government permission to breach minimum funding levels in schools
schoolsweek.co.uk/three-counci...
schoolsweek.co.uk/three-counci...
Something that HAS changed is the volume of requests for help made of MPs and their staff. The range, amount and urgency of these has shifted drastically as the impacts of poverty, cuts, housing, education, and life difficulties increase. See also distressed, dysregulated and abusive constituents.
I don’t think this is a “politicians have got dumber” issue for the most part. If you look at the *actual CVs* of previous cohorts of MPs, their background is not radically different when you account for, you know, the fact the economy is different! It is primarily a media and ecosystem issue.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Something that HAS changed is the volume of requests for help made of MPs and their staff. The range, amount and urgency of these has shifted drastically as the impacts of poverty, cuts, housing, education, and life difficulties increase. See also distressed, dysregulated and abusive constituents.
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Springer-Nature statement
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Springer-Nature statement
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
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Is there an academic group whose goal is to reduce the amount of A.I. slop in scientific publishing? #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Is there an academic group whose goal is to reduce the amount of A.I. slop in scientific publishing? #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
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Fascinating study. Fascinating findings.
Higher starting salaries for teachers must be part of the conversation about improving recruitment. Simples.
Higher starting salaries for teachers must be part of the conversation about improving recruitment. Simples.
New research with @clareroutledge.bsky.social
Funded by the Gatsby Foundation
We asked 2000 UK/US undergrads to choose between pairs of hypothetical jobs to understand how more of them could be tempted into teaching
Funded by the Gatsby Foundation
We asked 2000 UK/US undergrads to choose between pairs of hypothetical jobs to understand how more of them could be tempted into teaching
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Fascinating study. Fascinating findings.
Higher starting salaries for teachers must be part of the conversation about improving recruitment. Simples.
Higher starting salaries for teachers must be part of the conversation about improving recruitment. Simples.
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Scientists must learn to join larger pro-democracy and people's movements, coalitions. Our science training may not have prepared us for such work, but we can no longer sit in the safety of our labs and expect the world to get better
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
From doing science to saving science
Science and scientists are under assault. From denial of vaccines to climate change,
political leaders are increasingly sacrificing democracy as well as science on the
altar of populism and authoritar...
www.thelancet.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Scientists must learn to join larger pro-democracy and people's movements, coalitions. Our science training may not have prepared us for such work, but we can no longer sit in the safety of our labs and expect the world to get better
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This is a key point. Where I'm hearing people praising/using AI in healthcare, education and therapy settings it's not because AI makes their work more inclusive, rigorous, ethical, or engaging. It's because they're so overwhelmed they want to offset as much work as possible just to keep swimming.
There is one more post to be written here, about how AI is now often an austerity technology, inserted into a human process to compensate for the fact that there is just not enough time and money, and many workers are expected to do more and more with less and less.
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This is a key point. Where I'm hearing people praising/using AI in healthcare, education and therapy settings it's not because AI makes their work more inclusive, rigorous, ethical, or engaging. It's because they're so overwhelmed they want to offset as much work as possible just to keep swimming.
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🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published.
Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs.
Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible.
The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.
Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs.
Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible.
The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published.
Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs.
Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible.
The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.
Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs.
Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible.
The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Jeff Mills
New Model Army
Geno Washington*
The Orb
Gaye Bykers on Acid
*best gig I ever went to, absolutely incredible performance not remotely hampered by the fact it was in a park in Finchley. Got an autograph too.
Jeff Mills
New Model Army
Geno Washington*
The Orb
Gaye Bykers on Acid
*best gig I ever went to, absolutely incredible performance not remotely hampered by the fact it was in a park in Finchley. Got an autograph too.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen (more than once edition)
dEUS
Manic Street Preachers
The Cure
Bell X1
The Divine Comedy
dEUS
Manic Street Preachers
The Cure
Bell X1
The Divine Comedy
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen (tricking you into thinking I'm older than I am edition)
Bikini Kill
Descendents
Sleater Kinney
Pixies
Morrissey
Bikini Kill
Descendents
Sleater Kinney
Pixies
Morrissey
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Jeff Mills
New Model Army
Geno Washington*
The Orb
Gaye Bykers on Acid
*best gig I ever went to, absolutely incredible performance not remotely hampered by the fact it was in a park in Finchley. Got an autograph too.
Jeff Mills
New Model Army
Geno Washington*
The Orb
Gaye Bykers on Acid
*best gig I ever went to, absolutely incredible performance not remotely hampered by the fact it was in a park in Finchley. Got an autograph too.
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'I wrote reports and attended meetings where I tried my
utmost to prevent or reverse policies that were damaging
to patient care, but nothing I said had any impact.'
My interview with Guy Holmes about his experience working in mental health services in decline.
midpsy.uk/2025/11/26/b...
utmost to prevent or reverse policies that were damaging
to patient care, but nothing I said had any impact.'
My interview with Guy Holmes about his experience working in mental health services in decline.
midpsy.uk/2025/11/26/b...
Broken by the system
In the latest issue of Asylum magazine, our colleague and friend, clinical psychologist Guy Holmes, shares his experience of being made ill by the very same system which is supposed to help those i…
midpsy.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
'I wrote reports and attended meetings where I tried my
utmost to prevent or reverse policies that were damaging
to patient care, but nothing I said had any impact.'
My interview with Guy Holmes about his experience working in mental health services in decline.
midpsy.uk/2025/11/26/b...
utmost to prevent or reverse policies that were damaging
to patient care, but nothing I said had any impact.'
My interview with Guy Holmes about his experience working in mental health services in decline.
midpsy.uk/2025/11/26/b...
It can't be 25 years old. It just can't.
'A record that has a deep wistfulness that chimes just-so with all its rich humour and joy; a sense of elusiveness, of something forever slightly out of reach, of ecstasy so nearly grasped'
Many Happy Returns to #TheAvalanches' Since I Left You, which turns 25 today!
buff.ly/jyF7Iit
Many Happy Returns to #TheAvalanches' Since I Left You, which turns 25 today!
buff.ly/jyF7Iit
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It can't be 25 years old. It just can't.
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Invited to a global health conference in the US next year
I'm already thinking ahead of all the possible ways this could be bad for me and attendees from the Global South, people of color, international students, immigrants, LGBTQ folk...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I'm already thinking ahead of all the possible ways this could be bad for me and attendees from the Global South, people of color, international students, immigrants, LGBTQ folk...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Global North is increasingly unsafe for global health meetings
American civil rights activist Maya Angelou once wrote, “prejudice is a burden that
confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible”.1 At
a time of unprecedented national...
www.thelancet.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Invited to a global health conference in the US next year
I'm already thinking ahead of all the possible ways this could be bad for me and attendees from the Global South, people of color, international students, immigrants, LGBTQ folk...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I'm already thinking ahead of all the possible ways this could be bad for me and attendees from the Global South, people of color, international students, immigrants, LGBTQ folk...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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„Indigenous belongings from nations including Cree, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Nipissing, Kanien’kehá:ka, Wolastoqiyik and Kwakwaka’wakw have remained in the Anima Mundi collection without Indigenous care for 100 years. Now some of them will be returned home.“
theconversation.com/an-art-histo...
theconversation.com/an-art-histo...
An art historian looks at the origins of the Indigenous arts collection at the Vatican Museums
Catholic missionaries sent thousands of Indigenous belongings to Rome for a 1925 exhibition. Beyond what the Vatican has now committed to repatriating, many more belongings must be returned.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
„Indigenous belongings from nations including Cree, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Nipissing, Kanien’kehá:ka, Wolastoqiyik and Kwakwaka’wakw have remained in the Anima Mundi collection without Indigenous care for 100 years. Now some of them will be returned home.“
theconversation.com/an-art-histo...
theconversation.com/an-art-histo...
This looks so interesting. I think the difficult conversations are often one of the most important parts of research, but need the right space to be addressed appropriately.
What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This looks so interesting. I think the difficult conversations are often one of the most important parts of research, but need the right space to be addressed appropriately.
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What should an international research agenda for critical studies of "edtech" look like? After running a critical edtech conference this year, a few of us have mapped 6 key areas for further research in a brief new report zenodo.org/records/1767...
Critical Edtech Studies. Defining the field; envisioning the future. 2025 Position statement after the inaugural edition of the European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies (ECCES).
kein Abstract vorhanden
zenodo.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
What should an international research agenda for critical studies of "edtech" look like? After running a critical edtech conference this year, a few of us have mapped 6 key areas for further research in a brief new report zenodo.org/records/1767...
Has anyone commenting on the budget and HE also linked things to changes to funding for schools? It might not seem relevant but changes within schools and FE are going to have a direct impact on HE and it's worth being aware of what those might be and how to plan/prepare for them.
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Has anyone commenting on the budget and HE also linked things to changes to funding for schools? It might not seem relevant but changes within schools and FE are going to have a direct impact on HE and it's worth being aware of what those might be and how to plan/prepare for them.
This made me think about how advice giving lost something when we switched from letters to email. Yes, the problems were there but you lost vital context and clues from
- handwriting
- what the letter was written on (often scraps of paper)
- the smell of a letter
- handwriting
- what the letter was written on (often scraps of paper)
- the smell of a letter
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This made me think about how advice giving lost something when we switched from letters to email. Yes, the problems were there but you lost vital context and clues from
- handwriting
- what the letter was written on (often scraps of paper)
- the smell of a letter
- handwriting
- what the letter was written on (often scraps of paper)
- the smell of a letter
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You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
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SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
Is this some kind of neurodiversity screening tool that will weed out all of us who'll need to check if 'medical fryrmblal' and 'runctitional features' really are a thing. Before writing a lengthy and outraged screed once we find they are not.
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Is this some kind of neurodiversity screening tool that will weed out all of us who'll need to check if 'medical fryrmblal' and 'runctitional features' really are a thing. Before writing a lengthy and outraged screed once we find they are not.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM