The effectiveness of interventions to support informal stroke carers: a systematic review Stroke affects one in four adults in the UK, with over a third relying on informal carers. The burden of care can have detrimental effects on the mental and physical health of carers, which may imp...

Out now via Open Access: The effectiveness of interventions to support informal stroke carers: a systematic review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Post from The School of Life - YouTube STICK AT IT When life inside a couple has grown full of strife, when argument follows argument, when both people are hurting and being hurt, what more natura...

#Fridayreads This refreshing essay (part of Alain de Boton's sparkling 'School of Life' series) speaks to the rewards of reconciliation and reinvention in our romantic relationships, sometimes even whilst we are still in them.

#psychology #relationships #couples

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Academic publishing today: what you need to know A guide to the complex and changing world of academic publishing and how to work with it to get your research out there

A guide to the complex, changing world of academic #publishing and how to work with it to get your #research out there - with advice contributed by #faculty from all over the world. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/acade... #academicsky #edusky #PhDsky #highered

Congratulations, you legend! 👏

#Fridayreads A stone cold classic from an era when art deco was current: Loomis' reference on proportion and the human form. Working through has improved my drawing and feels like a conversation with the world of a century ago.

Feel this!

Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned | Simon Tisdall The US constitution protects incompetence. But don’t underestimate the self-destructive power of the president’s own hubris, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

“the best, brightest hope is that, drowning in hubris, Trump will destroy himself”.

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👏 👏 👏 Well done to these folks. ✊

🧵In March I wrote about how Trump's attacks on science & universities followed the authoritarian playbook & set out Qs as warning signs for escalation.

🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING

This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised

full post:
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BBC licence fee 'unenforceable', says culture secretary Lisa Nandy tells the Telegraph "no options are off the table" when it comes to its review into the broadcaster's charter.

BBC licence fee 'unenforceable', says culture secretary

👍I do something similar, cut and put at the end of document in a blue font, can always revive them from the 'code blue corral' if need be, but rarely happens. Mean to start a file like Roxane Gay's 'I Still Love You' folder of writing, including whole pieces, for another day.

#Fridayreads Halfway in on Kiran Millwood Hargrave's novel, which starts with fireside sewing overlooking a turbulent sea. It weaves a lyrical, darkly dreamy read that hints at Winterson's conceptualisation of the sea as an incubator of stories that outlast the people who tell them. 📚💙 #readinglist

You don't have to ask me twice. ✊ 📚 Favourite local is actually St Richard's Hospice charity shop in Worcester, fantastic cause and absolutely stonkingly curated selection.

How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril Scientists have little information as the US government freezes and cancels their funding.

Morale in academic research community right now is whatever is below rock bottom. The uncertainty and unpredictability are overwhelming. The mental and physical toll on U.S. based scientists is significant and will be long-lasting.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Magician who pretended to be a man given Magic Circle membership Sophie Lloyd disguised herself as a man to join the Magic Circle in 1991, when female magicians were not allowed membership.

1991 was really really not that long ago.

Woman who tricked her way into men-only Magic Circle finally allowed in www.bbc.com/news/article...

Line chart of change in public health allocations 2015/16-2025/26, England, real terms per person (GDP deflator) showing that the public health grant has been cut by more than a quarter since 2015/16.

Analysis from our response to Treasury’s Spending Review recommends, to boost existing prevention services in local government, the public health grant should be restored to real-terms equivalent of 2015/16 per person levels, taking annual budget in 2028/29 to £5.1bn.

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The Reshaping Of NHS National Bodies Has Only Just Started. How Will It Finish? | The King's Fund Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.

#Fridayreads on Saturday (Fri Bank Holiday). Missed this among other news: UK is abolishing 'NHS England', hoovering it into Dept of Health and SC. Hope may undo some of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act chaos, TBC how many eggs remain scrambled. #publichealth www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Art exhibition open call for artists and or mothers on themes of reproduction, value and commodification of women's labour and bodies. Thisisessentialwork.com

Open call for art exhibit - for artists/mothers on themes of exploitation of gendered women's labour, reproduction, commodification and value. Worldwide submissions welcome for this collaboration between artists and researchers.
1 June deadline Thisisessentialwork.com
#artopencall #artexhibit

Picture of Damali Petrrman's book, Negotiating While Black.

#Fridayreads : Loved Damali Peterman's book on negotiation, for those of us presenting without outward power signifiers. Instead of trying to erase the internalised culture from a lifetime inside a marginalised identity, win by using better rules.
#Negotiation #Booksky #readinglist

New report from UK Healthcare Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB): People with long term conditions are being harmed because care is fragmented and care coordinator roles are suboptimal. #healthpolicy #medsky

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#Fridayreads In these chaotic political times, there is the challenge of working where we can, yet protecting our sanity. Ali Abdaal's first book focuses on being productive where it aligns with our values. 'If the treatment isn't working, question the diagnosis.' 📚 💙
#wellbeing #readinglist

Correction: Author's surname should be spelt 'Abdaal'

Dark times, condolences, Joseph . Thank you for speaking out about it. 🌻

The impacts of Liverpool Citizen's Advice on Prescription (CAP) on mental health outcomes– an Instrumental Variable (IV) approach

New paper out: The impacts of Liverpool Citizen's Advice on Prescription (CAP) on mental health outcomes – an Instrumental Variable (IV) approach, with Aregawi Gebremariam, @benjaminbarr.bsky.social @rhiannoncor.bsky.social @kdaras.bsky.social 👇
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Thank you so much for your presentation. Been thinking about the 'Hidden Voices' and 'Structure' approaches ever since.

Thanks for posting, have ordered it to read next. 👍

Imagine being an HE boss with a former Education Minister on your staff and ignoring him, & a slew of other HE & management experts, completely when your institution is in trouble.
Oh... you don't have to.
Western Mail - "Academics Call For 'Gradual Reset' Plan at Uni Instead of Drastic Cuts."👇

Amazed at how much you got from that handwriting as it is. 👏 Figure you've considered this, but perhaps 外 ?

Michael Burawoy in conversation: His final interview examines public sociology’s role today Michael Burawoy, public sociology evangelist, talks to Michaela Benson about living sociology, the organisation of labour, pedagogy and Donald Trump.

Sociologist Michael Burawoy, in one of his last interviews. "One thing that we must think about is how to defend the university. We also need to think how we are going to defend sociology – as a moral science – and sociologists."
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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’

“Part of it is you’re leaving because ultimately, it is like leaving Germany in 1932, 33, 34. There’s resonance: my grandmother left Berlin with my father in 1939. So it’s a family tradition.”

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