Faith Brown
@fetabrown.bsky.social
Into well-crafted carbohydrates. Also the overlap of health with social justice, design and narrative. Posts #Fridayreads based on what has clarified the view, thrown everything into disarray or been an island of surcese that week.
生涯日本語勉強のままです。
生涯日本語勉強のままです。
Reposted by Faith Brown
Out now via Open Access: The effectiveness of interventions to support informal stroke carers: a systematic review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Out now via Open Access: The effectiveness of interventions to support informal stroke carers: a systematic review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#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
youtube.com/post/Ugkxr2I...
#psychology #relationships #couples
youtube.com/post/Ugkxr2I...
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...
youtube.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
#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
youtube.com/post/Ugkxr2I...
#psychology #relationships #couples
youtube.com/post/Ugkxr2I...
Reposted by Faith Brown
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
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
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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
#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.
May 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
#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.
Reposted by Faith Brown
“the best, brightest hope is that, drowning in hubris, Trump will destroy himself”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
www.theguardian.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
“the best, brightest hope is that, drowning in hubris, Trump will destroy himself”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Faith Brown
🧵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:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING
This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised
full post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
April 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🧵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:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING
This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised
full post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
Reposted by Faith Brown
BBC licence fee 'unenforceable', says culture secretary
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.
www.bbc.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
BBC licence fee 'unenforceable', says culture secretary
#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
April 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#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.
I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend
I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I…
lithub.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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.
Reposted by Faith Brown
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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril
Scientists have little information as the US government freezes and cancels their funding.
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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...
Woman who tricked her way into men-only Magic Circle finally allowed in www.bbc.com/news/article...
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.
www.bbc.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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...
Woman who tricked her way into men-only Magic Circle finally allowed in www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted by Faith Brown
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.
Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/RzzQF2J
Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/RzzQF2J
April 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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.
Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/RzzQF2J
Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/RzzQF2J
#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-...
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.
www.kingsfund.org.uk
April 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
#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-...
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
1 June deadline Thisisessentialwork.com
#artopencall #artexhibit
April 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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
1 June deadline Thisisessentialwork.com
#artopencall #artexhibit
#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
#Negotiation #Booksky #readinglist
April 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
#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
#Negotiation #Booksky #readinglist
Reposted by Faith Brown
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
www.hssib.org.uk/patient-safe...
www.hssib.org.uk/patient-safe...
Workforce and patient safety: primary and community care co-ordination for people with long-term conditions
This is the fourth of five investigation reports that consider how working conditions in the NHS can be optimised to support patient safety, while maintaining and improving staff wellbeing.
www.hssib.org.uk
April 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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
www.hssib.org.uk/patient-safe...
www.hssib.org.uk/patient-safe...
#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
#wellbeing #readinglist
April 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#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
#wellbeing #readinglist
Reposted by Faith Brown
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 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The impacts of Liverpool Citizen's Advice on Prescription (CAP) on mental health outcomes– an Instrumental Variable (IV) approach
www.sciencedirect.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Faith Brown
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."👇
Oh... you don't have to.
Western Mail - "Academics Call For 'Gradual Reset' Plan at Uni Instead of Drastic Cuts."👇
April 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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."👇
Oh... you don't have to.
Western Mail - "Academics Call For 'Gradual Reset' Plan at Uni Instead of Drastic Cuts."👇
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."
thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/mar...
thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/mar...
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.
thesociologicalreview.org
March 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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."
thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/mar...
thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/mar...
“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.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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’
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
“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.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Historian David Olusuga 3 wks ago (Malvern Fest of Ideas) on these times "We are going back to a country of warfare, rather than one of welfare. We are back to 1947."
Lower-income households set to be £500 poorer after chancellor's spring statement - thinktank
Lower-income households set to be £500 poorer after chancellor's spring statement - thinktank
Lower income households are set to be £500 poorer due to benefit cuts and a weak economic outlook, a thinktank has found.
news.sky.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Historian David Olusuga 3 wks ago (Malvern Fest of Ideas) on these times "We are going back to a country of warfare, rather than one of welfare. We are back to 1947."
Reposted by Faith Brown
A friend just sent - shared without comment 👀
March 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A friend just sent - shared without comment 👀
#Fridayreads Finally (thankfully) read Margaret Atwood HT after decade+ of political comparisons. Surprises: high romantic content ratio, spotlight on 2nd wave feminism, a persistently unsympathetic element of the narrator's view, my nostalgia for an 80s style aca conference of the future. 📚 💙
March 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#Fridayreads Finally (thankfully) read Margaret Atwood HT after decade+ of political comparisons. Surprises: high romantic content ratio, spotlight on 2nd wave feminism, a persistently unsympathetic element of the narrator's view, my nostalgia for an 80s style aca conference of the future. 📚 💙
Reposted by Faith Brown
Green card holders detained. A French researcher denied entry for anti-Trump messages. A new travel ban on 40+ countries coming.
Given all these encroachments on travelers' civil liberties, we've updated our guide to digital privacy while crossing US borders. www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...
Given all these encroachments on travelers' civil liberties, we've updated our guide to digital privacy while crossing US borders. www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...
How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.
www.wired.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Green card holders detained. A French researcher denied entry for anti-Trump messages. A new travel ban on 40+ countries coming.
Given all these encroachments on travelers' civil liberties, we've updated our guide to digital privacy while crossing US borders. www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...
Given all these encroachments on travelers' civil liberties, we've updated our guide to digital privacy while crossing US borders. www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...