Researcher @ University of Glasgow, UK. Epidemiologist interested in mental-health and wellbeing, health inequalities, administrative data, education.
Trying to learn Italian and Spanish.
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Papers were never published as the CIs could no longer work with each other.
The real issue is that some senior academics exploit this ruthlessly. What is needed better management focused on supporting the whole community.
The migration to bsky enabled those with high number of followers to keep them, but, the wider community building is absent.
Of course "most people" might in reality be the very wealthy newspaper owners who don't want a serious discussion about wealth inequality.
Junior ex minister booted out of office and gets a nice cosy position in a Quango thanks to their political connections. They can then leverage that position to get a hole host of related roles.
Meanwhile actual experts struggle to find work.
If the UK was serious about Health Data Science they might actually might employ somebody with expertise in the area. Instead they appoint a failed politician with a degree in music.
It's even more absurd because she is Tory.
Conceptualising population as opposed to individual level effects requires high level abstract thinking. Thus while a academic's work might reflect population scale thinking, outside work people often confuse the two even in though own area.
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This is often caused by the desire to formulate “action” relevant to people’s lives but ends up blaming individuals for things not in their control
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How more obvious can trolling be than a satirical Nazi war criminal who starts a nuclear war?
The world has enough problems without people putting trolls on pedestals only so they can be knocked down.
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Stop making people redundant if you want them to say in work.
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One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
Today, the equivalent figure for Labour is 12 per cent
www.thetimes.com/article/470f...
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Today, the equivalent figure for Labour is 12 per cent
www.thetimes.com/article/470f...