In one of those classic academic pile-up weeks I am working on two ResearchFish returns, REC response, grant response and curriculum mapping work. Please send urgent cake.

I celebrated with a two-day eating festival (breakfast, lunch and dinner and breakfast and an afternoon tea) with different friends and family. Things are good, leading my own research project now, parenting, caring for an elderly cat, learning to ice skate, doing family tree research. All good. :)

@hypnojoo.bsky.social Happy birthday for last week, birthday twin!

Premature mortality nine times more likely in young adults with learning disabilities New research from the University of Glasgow has found that young adults with a learning disability are nine times more likely to die from treatable causes and premature mortality.

www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/news/prematu...

Why vital signs observations are delayed and interrupted on acute hospital wards: A multisite observational study Vital signs monitoring is key to identifying deteriorating hospital patients. However, adherence to monitoring protocols is limited, with observations…

Our observational study suggest that 'temporal status' rather than clinical priority guides decisions about when to take vital signs and other care seen as 'flexible' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #VitalSigns #HospitalCare

How to be a bishop in a world of pawns Plus lessons from anxiety, kickboxing, and Canadian treasure Bruce Cockburn

Huge thanks to @loleenberdahl.bsky.social for writing this guide to being a Bishop in a world of Pawns open.substack.com/pub/loleen/p...

Thank you, very useful. :)

Incredible influx of folks from the ex bird place over the last two weeks. Great to see you all here!

@katiecoveney.bsky.social Congratulations on the new SHI paper, looks really interesting.

fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR20... I’ve started to work on a new study 'Improving the care that people with #LearningDisabilities receive in hospital with @drjohope.bsky.social. It's now live & the protocol is on the above link. We are working on a EasyRead & widget PES with our PPI groups 😊

Completed first month of leading our new & exciting project to explore & improve hospital care for people with learning disabilities. We’ve had two fun PPIE meetings and another this week, plus lots of setup work. Still thrilled the NIHR are supporting this work www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xgq7...

I am substantially redrafting an application and am using NVivo to sort everything into new boxes that will hopefully become new sections of a form. No idea yet if this is a great solution for a significant rewrite or procrastination…

Expanding Possibilities for Inclusive Research: Learning from People with Profound Intellectual and ... This paper pursues the argument that finding a way for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities to belong in inclusive research requires starting from a deep knowledge of the people...

Our new paper on doing research with people with profound #learningdisabilities is available free with @jo3grace @m_nind and @CatherinedeHaa1 www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13...

Every academic carries a bag that holds:

• 1 printed out article they intend to (but never) read
• 1 book that they’re late to review
• 1 notebook full of half-finished project ideas
• 1 highlighter that doesn’t work
• 1 USB that they’ve forgotten what’s on it
• Business cards that are out of date

@rachelbrooks.bsky.social Congratulations on becoming President! Hope all good with you and in the department.

I had an album of the incidental music in an action film - it definitely made washing up feel a lot edgier.

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles dancing in an old black and white video.

Sweetening the process of checking alerts for new papers with a little Motown on the side. Doing an hour each morning. Not actually a bad way to start the day (especially with coffee).

Mabel and Dipper costumes! Amazing!

Interested to hear everyone’s views on this one… thesiswhisperer.com/2023/11/01/m...