Richard Shaw
@richardshaw.bsky.social
Researcher @ University of Glasgow, UK. Epidemiologist interested in mental-health and wellbeing, health inequalities, administrative data, education.
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‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure
Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers
www.theguardian.com
'Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.' 1/2
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There have been policies for person-centred healthcare for decades.
Yet we get constant feedback from the system of substandard care. The response? *A new policy*
We never seem to give sustained thought to implementation, resourcing required, & why our approach hasn't worked- what gets in the way?
Yet we get constant feedback from the system of substandard care. The response? *A new policy*
We never seem to give sustained thought to implementation, resourcing required, & why our approach hasn't worked- what gets in the way?
How about we put the angry people who want to disagree and threaten each other with litigation in one lecture hall, and sensible people are able who want to understand each other and compromise in another?
If the problem really was the ability to discuss the issues at stake, Universities could find some less controversial speakers.
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Some of the councillors are also quite good a responding to issues. onlineservices.glasgow.gov.uk/councillorsa...
Define leaks, the aqueduct has always dripped quite a lot, and I didn't notice any more than usual on Saturday.
Also, the council have for the past few weeks been repairing the railway bridge a short distance upstream and cleaning and tidying the walkway below, so they may be on to it next.
Also, the council have for the past few weeks been repairing the railway bridge a short distance upstream and cleaning and tidying the walkway below, so they may be on to it next.
Given that journal references are formatted in a standard way + dois, it should be possible to identify whether references exist using web scrapping, plus matching algorithms. The labour should be minimal.
It's a trivial problem compared to the claims about what AI is supposed to do.
It's a trivial problem compared to the claims about what AI is supposed to do.
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We should restrict our MSc students to TEN references and say they will lose x% of their marks if any don’t exist.
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How good people justify bending the rules at work — and what leaders can do about it
Understanding how employees rationalize questionable decisions can help leaders create more ethical workplace cultures.
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This is not ostensibly about "Research Integrity" but it got a massive "YES!!!" from me for encapsulating so many thoughts on it and I really like the "7 ways" as a set of pointers for research leaders
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#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchCulture
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#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchCulture
Hypercompetive people who have gamed the system think that more making the competition even more intense would somehow be better ignoring multiple factors including:
A) Harms to research integrity.
B) The rise of populism partly due to the total disconnect of many institutions to peoples lives.
A) Harms to research integrity.
B) The rise of populism partly due to the total disconnect of many institutions to peoples lives.
I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.
This reflects the way I write. I am thus always baffled when people suggest that I can submit an early draft consisting of bullet points.
Surely bullet points come at the end of the process when you have worked out what you want to say and are summarising the main points?
Surely bullet points come at the end of the process when you have worked out what you want to say and are summarising the main points?
For some reason it is generally though that that Tuesday and Wednesday lunchtimes are when most people are free. As a consequence they are the times when I have multiple clashes in my diary.
Providing secure jobs for researchers is not easy. One approach requires a research centre with a long track record and concurrent multiple program grants. I.e. Truly world leading.
That may beyond the capability of most senior researchers, but ambitions shouldn't be lowered to massage egos.
That may beyond the capability of most senior researchers, but ambitions shouldn't be lowered to massage egos.
Junior researchers will not trust senior colleagues until there are meaningful strategies to improve job security.
There are small number of research groups that can offer permanent jobs to researchers at the start of their careers (Research assistants). Ambitions need to be set at that level.
There are small number of research groups that can offer permanent jobs to researchers at the start of their careers (Research assistants). Ambitions need to be set at that level.
We need an extension of Clarke's Law third law along the lines of.
"Any technology can be perceived as sufficiently advanced and thus indistinguishable from magic if we just give it a new pseudoscientific name."
Exposome is just one of many such terms.
"Any technology can be perceived as sufficiently advanced and thus indistinguishable from magic if we just give it a new pseudoscientific name."
Exposome is just one of many such terms.
Labour have a large number of backbench MPs in very marginal seats who won simply because the rightwing vote was split.
They seem willing to sacrifice voters in Urban seats where they would normally have a realistic change of winning, for the very tiny possibility of saving their own seat.
They seem willing to sacrifice voters in Urban seats where they would normally have a realistic change of winning, for the very tiny possibility of saving their own seat.
I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.
I am more than a little worried that people in BBC management are actively trying to undermine the reasons for existence. They seem to be employing a strategy of driving away presenters to platforms which not only have smaller reach, but also act as competitors to the BBC.
The early days of #EpiTwitter did a much better job of promoting the work of early career academics (ECA) than bsky. My speculation is that the novelty of the medium meant ECAs could establish themselves relatively easily. Bsky seems to be more dependent on people's pre-existing social capital.
This is particularly true of public health where the ideas are rarely difficult to grasp, but they may be difficult to accept as they require understanding our own flaws.
Pointing out people's flaws will promote hostility and defensiveness so we have to work through self realisation not authority.
Pointing out people's flaws will promote hostility and defensiveness so we have to work through self realisation not authority.
My perspective is that academia has always been too obsessed about individuals as an indicator of quality and authority. It would be far better to change citizens and policy makers behaviour through getting them to think critically rather than calls to authority.
One of the things I have been wrestling with is whether the 90s were really a period in which a lot of new ideas developed around social epidemiology . Alternatively, I have simply become middle aged and people new to the discipline are seeing novelty that I am struggling to find.
The solution to that is improve the job security of early career researchers not take the credit from them. Senior academics who have a high turn-over of early career researchers is another red flag.
Note I am not posting this as a direct reply to the person responsible. This is because while we all are aware of the many problems arising in academia, one of those problems is senior academics being hypocritical and getting defensive when their own conduct is pointed out.
Promoting papers by the senior author and not the first author who is an Early Career Researcher is a very good illustration of how academic hierarchies are reinforced.
Euston, we have a problem: how can London fix the ‘worst main station’?
Ugly, overcrowded and undermined by dithering over HS2, the unwieldy terminus needs an urgent rethink – or at least fewer digital billboards
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Euston has a well-established reputation for being terrible.
There are whole host of reasons why London stations are the most used, very few of them have much to do with quality of service, and pretending otherwise is deeply problematic.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
There are whole host of reasons why London stations are the most used, very few of them have much to do with quality of service, and pretending otherwise is deeply problematic.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
As somebody who cycles or walks, I find cars much more annoying when walking. As a cyclist I filter into the same traffic flows as cars. Walking requires waiting patiently for gaps in the traffic in order to cross the traffic flows.
Yet most arguments are cycles v cars with pedestrians forgotten.
Yet most arguments are cycles v cars with pedestrians forgotten.
The problem is that academic publishers can buy off sufficient numbers of politicians to prevent an international consensus by opening "Advanced Technology hubs" in strategic locations.
The traditional scientific publishing model died decades ago, when shares in academic publishing companies were being promoted as a secure income stream.
Publishing is now just another businesses competing for money while the environment that supports those businesses is abused and neglected.
Publishing is now just another businesses competing for money while the environment that supports those businesses is abused and neglected.
Just naming things "healthcare AI" works better with funding panels. Prospective students seem to expect more of a track record.