Latest paper from our research on locum doctors. This one looks at their (non) involvement in learning and professional development and its consequences for them and for the organisations where they work. Full paper at asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Good time to remind everyone at University of Manchester that thanks to the judgement and good sense of the academic electorate, we did not end up with Peter Mandelson as our Chancellor in 2015. Despite our then VC and board of governors clearly wanting him. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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When Manchester academics chose poet Lemn Sissay instead of Peter Mandelson to be Chancellor in 2015, against the wishes of senior leadership, it looks like their instincts were right (and SLT were not). www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
If you are 50+, get the Shingrix shingles vaccination because of its protective effect against dementia. If this was a dementia drug the media would be all over it! Summary below from what I think is the best explanation of the science behind this that I have seen from @erictopol.bsky.social .
The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging.
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
🚨🇪🇺 Brexit WOW moment 🇪🇺🚨
The Brexitgraph Telegraph published a full-blown obituary for Brexit:
📉 GDP down 8%
📉 Investment down 18%
📉 Productivity down 4%
📉 Employment down 4%
❌ No trade benefits
❌ No regulatory freedom
❌ No upside whatsoever
Do you agree it’s time to end Brexit?
Everything is done for a good reason. But the bureaucracy and administration surrounding research is sometimes more than the research itself. And for this project, all we have done so far is apply for funding - not even get it! And this is x3 as there are three universities involved in the bid...
After many, many questions I discover that my research could be high risk? Why... because it involves humans.
Oh and this.
When I apply for research funding, even as a co-app on another institution's bid, I have to fill in a huge research risk register form. With questions like this.
Noooo! Done the summer spine twice (once was 7th; second time DNF'd with acute back pain) but not the winter one. It's mad. 16+ hrs a day of darkness, and have you seen the weather forecast?!
Our report just out from the Kings Fund on evidence about what works in health and care regulation, commissioned by the Care Quality Commission - read it at www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
This completely fake university was recently uncovered by @mcintold.bsky.social - it’s fascinating. #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity
Good report from @nuffieldtrust.org.uk and @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on the abolition of NHS England. Strikes a sceptical tone about rationale, process and likely impact. I'd probably be more sceptical. Full report at www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/defaul.... I liked this graphic!
We've responded to reports that the NHS will pay a higher price for branded new medicines as a condition of a UK-US trade deal.
Read the statement from @sallygainsbury.bsky.social 👇
Latest paper on locum doctors just out in Medical Education, on their involvement in CPD. In short, they miss out/are often excluded from learning opportunities, and its a problem. Lead author @janeferguson.bsky.social. Full paper at asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
And here's the link assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6908f7...
Bob, some of us left Twitter precisely because we didn't want to read what Musk and other were tweeting, and it gets covered in the press anyway. I don't need this on Bluesky!
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
Anyone else had this spam email from the so-called Academy of Public Health?
"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."
Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
