Professor Ruth Parry
@cacenotes.bsky.social
Scientific expert: communication on sensitive /distressing /embarrassing topics especially how experts do it. + getting the evidence into training and real life.
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#PalliativeCare: professional & personal expertise
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#PalliativeCare: professional & personal expertise
A family member of mine who started out merely as a rather extreme clean eating fan has turned conspiracy theorist thanks to that dangerous idiot.
I know she’s one of many
I know she’s one of many
May 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A family member of mine who started out merely as a rather extreme clean eating fan has turned conspiracy theorist thanks to that dangerous idiot.
I know she’s one of many
I know she’s one of many
Reposted by Professor Ruth Parry
It's a squalid contribution that's doing incalculable damage to the quality of the debate and to people who have chosen to make their homes here.
May 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
It's a squalid contribution that's doing incalculable damage to the quality of the debate and to people who have chosen to make their homes here.
Reposted by Professor Ruth Parry
He still said immigration caused incalculable damage. Which is, to put it mildly, a surprising thing for a Labour leader, and leading human rights lawyer, to say.
May 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
He still said immigration caused incalculable damage. Which is, to put it mildly, a surprising thing for a Labour leader, and leading human rights lawyer, to say.
Reposted by Professor Ruth Parry
I've only been speaking English since 2004 or so, but "incalculable damage" and "squalid" are not positive words when referring to immigrants, right?
May 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I've only been speaking English since 2004 or so, but "incalculable damage" and "squalid" are not positive words when referring to immigrants, right?
It’s the “could be heard as” that is the key thing.
Abstract analysis interesting. But what’s actually key is how meaning and understanding work in real world interactions
Potential hearings of what he said include the Enoch Powell connection. He and speech writers know that.
#EMCA
Abstract analysis interesting. But what’s actually key is how meaning and understanding work in real world interactions
Potential hearings of what he said include the Enoch Powell connection. He and speech writers know that.
#EMCA
May 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
It’s the “could be heard as” that is the key thing.
Abstract analysis interesting. But what’s actually key is how meaning and understanding work in real world interactions
Potential hearings of what he said include the Enoch Powell connection. He and speech writers know that.
#EMCA
Abstract analysis interesting. But what’s actually key is how meaning and understanding work in real world interactions
Potential hearings of what he said include the Enoch Powell connection. He and speech writers know that.
#EMCA
But you literally are an integral part of ‘the government’
May 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
But you literally are an integral part of ‘the government’