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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Jun 13

Interesting read this, especially for those who seek to influence this slippery lot... Well done Dr Hilger.

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · Jun 12

A fascinating, and accurate, piece of research which gives the lie to the (now) common complaint that the civil service is too slow/seeks to frustrate the delivery of ministers’ objectives open.substack.com/pub/ukcivils...

Policy Making in Theory and in Practice

A recent doctoral research paper by Dr Laura Hilger combines the best academic thinking on optimal policy design with the recent real-world experience of several civil service policy teams. Some of th...

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Jun 5

Over the years I have lost my van va voom for causes to get behind... But Universal Basic Income increasingly seems a powerful lever for better lives for many. Dissuade me.

corneliawalther.bsky.social @corneliawalther.bsky.social · Jun 4

AI may result in large-scale automation. We can stumble blindly into mass unemployment and social upheaval, or we can proactively design systems that harness AI’s benefits while protecting human dignity. Universal Basic Income isn’t just good social policy @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/cornel...

Universal Basic Income: A Business Case For The AI Era

Large-scale unemployment isn’t a distant dystopia — it’s an immediate economic reality demanding proactive solutions. A truly “universal” basic income might be one.

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · May 30

the Internet was invented for THIS. Team was messing about with AI song generator for non traditional dissemination of research.

With only our multi million technology in social care portfolio to work with. It came up with... aisonggenerator.ai/share/Wi-Fi%...

Powerful stuff. 😬😂

Free AI Song Generator - Create Custom Music with AI

Transform your ideas into beautiful songs with our Free AI Song Generator. Create custom music and songs instantly using advanced artificial intelligence technology.

aisonggenerator.ai

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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · May 14

The places where we live and work play a crucial role in determining our health, and it is important that they are designed so that people have access to the basic building blocks of health.

👀Read our response➡️ bit.ly/3GTl4GG

Royal Society for Public Health @rsph.bsky.social · May 14

High streets are a British institution. But are they good for our health?

Our research suggests that, right now, they aren't. Today, we're calling for measures to turn our high streets into drivers of good health and wellbeing for everyone. 👇

www.rsph.org.uk/our-work/pol...

Streets Ahead

Our new rep brings together public health, planning, and business expertise to set out a roadmap for local authorities to put in place the facilities and services to make high streets and communities...

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · May 13

Scary stuff... Principled woman.

Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 13

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

time.com

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Nye Cominetti @nyecominetti.bsky.social · May 12

Couple of points on "ending" overseas recruitment for care jobs.

1. Important to remember that reality has already moved on from the very high migration levels of 2022-2023. Cleverly's policy changes already hugely reduced care visa numbers (chart from @healthfoundation.bsky.social)

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Apr 26

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... if you have discrete choice/preference elicitation skills, we need you to help us decide what people really want from technology in social care and create a national database of preferences for everyone to use... Fab team, fab uni.

Please spread/get in touch

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow

Do you have expertise in preference elicitation, choice modelling, discrete choice surveys? Passionate about technology in health and social care? Want to work with world-leading implementation and d...

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · Apr 20

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

Rothko room at the Tate modern, London. Several dark red / purple canvasses with a rectangle or two painted on them.

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Apr 15

Perfectly sums up the situation for many societies... Great piece.

The Rundown | TVO Today @tvotoday.bsky.social · Apr 15

"If we are lucky to grow old, it may be us in the positions our elders are in currently. Perhaps out of self-preservation, we should act now." — @namshine.bsky.social #cdnpoli

OPINION: Remember when we said we cared about seniors? | TVO Today

The pandemic spurred a national conversation about our most vulnerable — you wouldn’t know it from this election.

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Mar 20

Not sure I feel fed up or flattered that a large bundle of my research papers in here. Does it count as a REFable impact? Another year when my ALCS allocation prevents me buying a yacht, 😢

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Mar 4

Looking for a research fellow keen to develop their career in a fab team and city.

Experience in preference elicitation, Health and social care, and technology?

Get in touch. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow

Are you an ambitious academic with a passion for technology and applied social care research? Do you want to work with world-leading implementation and decision scientists, health economists, social p...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Mar 4

I'm hiring! Looking for a fab research assistant interested in technology, user-focused design, preference elicitation and mixed methods. Working in God's own country. Msg me if need to discuss. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Assistant

Are you an ambitious researcher, passionate about technology and applied social care wanting to take the next step in your development? Do you want to work with world-leading implementation and decisi...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Feb 27

There are few certain things in health forecasting. Probably only demographics and that elderly frail people facing surgery will need some social care support after... From someone. What's the rationale for not discussing??

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Feb 26

You know those dystopian Sci fi films? It's like the prequel to I Robot meets Gillette manly man adverts...

Batshit crazy is about right.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Feb 26

The actual President of the USA has posted this "Trump Gaza" video on Truth Social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 26

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Feb 21

We are totally f***ed... Time for big ideas, the sorts of engineering solutions humanity needs.

No! Let's invent a virtual group of whining cartoon characters to "empower" us all.

But I'm hungry.

Never mind that dude... Emoji? Memecoin?

Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · Feb 21

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data

For THIS

$100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine

And they spent it on this

Aftermath @aftermath.site · Feb 16

Meta has spent over $100 billion on VR.

aftermath.site/meta-horizons-...

Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Feb 21

When you think you're having a bad day! Catastrophic stuff for individuals... Hope wise heads prevail.

Emma Runswick @redrunswick.bsky.social · Feb 21

The MRCP exam debacle is outrageous. I can't write what I would like to say.

We are exploring ALL possible options, including legal, for those affected.

CONTACT US if you are in this boat.
And get wellbeing support if struggling.

The BMA @bma.org.uk · Feb 20

An error made by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK has left 222 doctors with incorrect MRCP(UK) exam results.
BMA chair, Dr Phil Banfield calls this catastrophic, demanding an urgent investigation & support for affected doctors.
bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Feb 19

#R4Today "going underground" for Rick Buckler's obit segment... Really? Bit lazy and poor taste. And that's from me!

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Feb 13

I ate a cow eye we were dissecting, for 50p... it did not go down well, in every sense.

Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Feb 8

atalentforidleness.blogspot.com/2020/03/lets... struck by how flipping relevant much of this album feels... It has aged well. Miss Lou Reed.

Let's check in on "Sick of You," Lou Reed's most prophetic protest song

Lou Reed's New York One of the bigger challenges with writing a protest song is that there aren’t many genres that age more poorl...

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Ann-Marie Towers @a-mtowers.bsky.social · Feb 5

Take a look at the new ASCOT-Workforce measure. Part of ASCOT suite of tools, designed to measure care work-related QoL of the adult social care workforce. Tested with care workers, managers, social workers, OTs, nurses, personal assistants. Report coming soon.
www.pssru.ac.uk/ascot/ascot-...

ASCOT-Workforce – ASCOT

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Jan 31

My grandparents were literally THE era... It wasn't even our car. 😂 Strong looks all round, especially my sister...

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Ann-Marie Towers @a-mtowers.bsky.social · Jan 29

New publication from the DACHA Study.

Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional stud...

Objectives To assess the feasibility of capturing older care home residents’ quality of life (QoL) in digital social care records and the construct validity (hypothesis testing) and internal consisten...

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Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Jan 27

How's your morning going? A bizarre confluence of circumstances led to me driving my 78yr old dad's ridiculous Audi SUV, with a hat on the parcel shelf, BOOM radio on by default, and heating at 28°C and him shouting at loading vehicles in a medieval city.

A circle of hell worthy of Dante

Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · Jan 24

There are no bounds to the loathing I feel towards the expressions, "learnings", "journey", " and bloody "personas" (aka, stereotypes).

It's not the language (ugly that it is), but because they are mostly used when obfuscating, dodging responsibility, or flack (cf. NHS, HE, police, LAs)

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Global Observatory of Long-Term Care @goltc.bsky.social · Dec 19

WEBINAR RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE: Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis 🏠

On 25 November we heard from @thompa101.bsky.social about how analysing this data can be used to tailor care plans to improve care quality.

WATCH NOW: goltc.org/goltc-webina...

GOLTC webinar recording: Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis | GOLTC

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