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

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.

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. 😬😂

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

Scary stuff... Principled woman.

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)

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...

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

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

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.

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

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, 😢

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...

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 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...

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...

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??

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.

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?

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

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

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

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...

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

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-...

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

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...

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

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)

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...

Academic grinch

If you are an academic and leave journal author signatures until the day offices close, or send a paper through for "over Xmas" reading, you are getting Temu presents and your stocking will contain only coal and a wrinkly dried satsuma.

😂😂👍 Go hard or go home....

Instant Pot Caramelized Onions Instant Pot Caramelized Onions are a thing but you need to know how to do it right so you don't end up with steamed onions instead.

thecookful.com/instant-pot-... variation, with some pressure cooking first...

Until done! 😉 Probably 7 mins or so. If I did again, would probs just use normal sauté setting for longer

Yeah, high sauté in instant pot, with a tea spoon of brown sugar and pinch of salt. Leave, but stir... Not too much, but stir. Deglaze, with tiny bit of stock if using in a pressure cook.