Karolina Kuberska
@kkuberska.bsky.social
Anthropologist, knitter, migrant, reader.
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When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
September 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
Hey, @royal-mail.bsky.social I think your bot is broken haha
September 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Hey, @royal-mail.bsky.social I think your bot is broken haha
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Historian of tech @histoftech.bsky.social on how AI hype is a way of gaming the system by "reengineering society around the technology." The goal is to "create an environment—a labor environment, a regulatory environment, a user environment—that will bring that unlikely thing closer to reality."
I spoke with @histoftech.bsky.social about AI hype, how tools are used to amass power and reshape systems, expertise, and more! www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...
Historian Mar Hicks on why nothing about AI is inevitable
The author of Programmed Inquality peers through the AI hype by recalling the rise of past technologies.
www.fastcompany.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Historian of tech @histoftech.bsky.social on how AI hype is a way of gaming the system by "reengineering society around the technology." The goal is to "create an environment—a labor environment, a regulatory environment, a user environment—that will bring that unlikely thing closer to reality."
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#PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice #FamilyMedicine Fabulous collegiate scholarship in clinical education, research and policy at #SAPCCardiff25 international conference- mostly funded by #NIHR highlights: Oxford team delivering useful relevant PC research ready to implement in the #UK10yearHealthPlan -
July 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
#PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice #FamilyMedicine Fabulous collegiate scholarship in clinical education, research and policy at #SAPCCardiff25 international conference- mostly funded by #NIHR highlights: Oxford team delivering useful relevant PC research ready to implement in the #UK10yearHealthPlan -
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This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n
Today we launched the National Academy for AI Instruction with UFT, Microsoft, OpenAI & Anthropic to offer free, high-quality AI training to educators. Some of you have expressed legitimate reservations about AI and tech companies. I want to speak to you directly. 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n
Read our paper about what hospital respiratory clinicians think about offering rescue packs to patients discharged following #COPD exacerbation.
Respiratory clinicians consider a variety of factors and prioritise more immediate risks over the more distant ones.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Respiratory clinicians consider a variety of factors and prioritise more immediate risks over the more distant ones.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Read our paper about what hospital respiratory clinicians think about offering rescue packs to patients discharged following #COPD exacerbation.
Respiratory clinicians consider a variety of factors and prioritise more immediate risks over the more distant ones.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Respiratory clinicians consider a variety of factors and prioritise more immediate risks over the more distant ones.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Very important work! We’ve been recommending COPD rescue packs for over a decade in the UK national guideline, but the first RCT assessing their efficacy has only started this year 🤯
This publication is part of the bigger research programme and lends an insight into clinicians’ perspective.
This publication is part of the bigger research programme and lends an insight into clinicians’ perspective.
What do respiratory clinicians think about offering “rescue packs” to patients discharged after #COPD exacerbation?
It's not always simple to decide what would be best for each patient.
Read our paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Or a summary: www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/out...
It's not always simple to decide what would be best for each patient.
Read our paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Or a summary: www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/out...
Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study
“Rescue packs” for COPD exacerbations, consisting of a course of antibiotics and steroids, have become part of self-management strategies for many patients living with COPD. Currently, in the UK, r...
www.tandfonline.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Very important work! We’ve been recommending COPD rescue packs for over a decade in the UK national guideline, but the first RCT assessing their efficacy has only started this year 🤯
This publication is part of the bigger research programme and lends an insight into clinicians’ perspective.
This publication is part of the bigger research programme and lends an insight into clinicians’ perspective.
What do respiratory clinicians think about offering “rescue packs” to patients discharged after #COPD exacerbation?
It's not always simple to decide what would be best for each patient.
Read our paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Or a summary: www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/out...
It's not always simple to decide what would be best for each patient.
Read our paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Or a summary: www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/out...
Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study
“Rescue packs” for COPD exacerbations, consisting of a course of antibiotics and steroids, have become part of self-management strategies for many patients living with COPD. Currently, in the UK, r...
www.tandfonline.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
What do respiratory clinicians think about offering “rescue packs” to patients discharged after #COPD exacerbation?
It's not always simple to decide what would be best for each patient.
Read our paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Or a summary: www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/out...
It's not always simple to decide what would be best for each patient.
Read our paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Or a summary: www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/out...
Good care for people with #dementia is very important.
Here's a paper in which @instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that visual identifiers used for hospitalised people with dementia may not be a useful indicator of the quality of care.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Here's a paper in which @instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that visual identifiers used for hospitalised people with dementia may not be a useful indicator of the quality of care.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Good care for people with #dementia is very important.
Here's a paper in which @instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that visual identifiers used for hospitalised people with dementia may not be a useful indicator of the quality of care.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Here's a paper in which @instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that visual identifiers used for hospitalised people with dementia may not be a useful indicator of the quality of care.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Karolina Kuberska
Feeling slightly thrown for a loop finding out about recent changes to the skilled worker visa late last night and not reall seeing much chatter about it elsewhere…
But again, most British citizens do not care about immigrants, so shouldn’t be surprised 😮💨
www.ein.org.uk/news/major-c...
But again, most British citizens do not care about immigrants, so shouldn’t be surprised 😮💨
www.ein.org.uk/news/major-c...
Major statement of changes to the Immigration Rules raises Skilled Worker thresholds and ends overseas recruitment of care workers
138-page statement of changes to the Immigration Rules begins White Paper's "complete reset" of the immigration system
www.ein.org.uk
July 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Feeling slightly thrown for a loop finding out about recent changes to the skilled worker visa late last night and not reall seeing much chatter about it elsewhere…
But again, most British citizens do not care about immigrants, so shouldn’t be surprised 😮💨
www.ein.org.uk/news/major-c...
But again, most British citizens do not care about immigrants, so shouldn’t be surprised 😮💨
www.ein.org.uk/news/major-c...
Reposted by Karolina Kuberska
NEW FROM ME -
Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.
Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.
We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.
tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4
Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.
Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.
We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.
tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4
Who Will Count as Disabled Tomorrow?
The dangerous redefinition of welfare disguised as Labour's compassionate reform.
tinyurl.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
NEW FROM ME -
Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.
Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.
We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.
tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4
Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.
Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.
We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.
tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4
📢New publication📢
Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study
doi.org/10.1080/1541...
@instagraham.bsky.social @profhurst.bsky.social @monabafadhel.bsky.social
Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study
doi.org/10.1080/1541...
@instagraham.bsky.social @profhurst.bsky.social @monabafadhel.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📢New publication📢
Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study
doi.org/10.1080/1541...
@instagraham.bsky.social @profhurst.bsky.social @monabafadhel.bsky.social
Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study
doi.org/10.1080/1541...
@instagraham.bsky.social @profhurst.bsky.social @monabafadhel.bsky.social
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Research participants needed📢
Do you have experience recruiting patients into clinical trials in the UK and Ireland? Do you think recruitment targets are motivating? Are they communicated well? Then we would love to hear from you as a participant in our focus group study.
Do you have experience recruiting patients into clinical trials in the UK and Ireland? Do you think recruitment targets are motivating? Are they communicated well? Then we would love to hear from you as a participant in our focus group study.
June 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Research participants needed📢
Do you have experience recruiting patients into clinical trials in the UK and Ireland? Do you think recruitment targets are motivating? Are they communicated well? Then we would love to hear from you as a participant in our focus group study.
Do you have experience recruiting patients into clinical trials in the UK and Ireland? Do you think recruitment targets are motivating? Are they communicated well? Then we would love to hear from you as a participant in our focus group study.
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The Algorithms + Miscarriage Project is now seeking participants!
Experiences with algorithms after miscarriage? Why not share your story?
*Please share widely*
#miscarriage #pregnancyloss #algorithm #socialmedia #onlinesafety
Experiences with algorithms after miscarriage? Why not share your story?
*Please share widely*
#miscarriage #pregnancyloss #algorithm #socialmedia #onlinesafety
June 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The Algorithms + Miscarriage Project is now seeking participants!
Experiences with algorithms after miscarriage? Why not share your story?
*Please share widely*
#miscarriage #pregnancyloss #algorithm #socialmedia #onlinesafety
Experiences with algorithms after miscarriage? Why not share your story?
*Please share widely*
#miscarriage #pregnancyloss #algorithm #socialmedia #onlinesafety
Reposted by Karolina Kuberska
🚨A welcome Government U-Turn on the winter fuel payment, which they have restored to 7.5 million pensioners.
These cuts should never have been proposed in the first place - to save another embarrassment, the Government should reverse their disability benefit cut plans now too.
These cuts should never have been proposed in the first place - to save another embarrassment, the Government should reverse their disability benefit cut plans now too.
June 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🚨A welcome Government U-Turn on the winter fuel payment, which they have restored to 7.5 million pensioners.
These cuts should never have been proposed in the first place - to save another embarrassment, the Government should reverse their disability benefit cut plans now too.
These cuts should never have been proposed in the first place - to save another embarrassment, the Government should reverse their disability benefit cut plans now too.
Reposted by Karolina Kuberska
Our research examines features from identifiers used for patients with dementia and compares with other common types of visual identifier.
Full paper: buff.ly/EB9jTZL
THIS summary: ths.im/4dAgitK
Full paper: buff.ly/EB9jTZL
THIS summary: ths.im/4dAgitK
What Is an Identifier Good for? Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital
Aims To examine practical, ethical, and organisational implications of the use of a key technology deployed in the care of hospitalised people with dementia—visual identifiers—through a comparative ...
buff.ly
June 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Our research examines features from identifiers used for patients with dementia and compares with other common types of visual identifier.
Full paper: buff.ly/EB9jTZL
THIS summary: ths.im/4dAgitK
Full paper: buff.ly/EB9jTZL
THIS summary: ths.im/4dAgitK
This paper was a long time coming and I am so pleased to see it out!
@instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that the use of visual identifiers for hospitalised people with dementia comes with many well-documented issues and that perhaps it's time to rethink what we can expect from such identifiers.
@instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that the use of visual identifiers for hospitalised people with dementia comes with many well-documented issues and that perhaps it's time to rethink what we can expect from such identifiers.
Our paper compares features from identifiers used for patients with dementia to other common types of visual identifier.
Full paper: buff.ly/EB9jTZL
THIS summary: ths.im/4dAgitK
Full paper: buff.ly/EB9jTZL
THIS summary: ths.im/4dAgitK
May 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This paper was a long time coming and I am so pleased to see it out!
@instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that the use of visual identifiers for hospitalised people with dementia comes with many well-documented issues and that perhaps it's time to rethink what we can expect from such identifiers.
@instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that the use of visual identifiers for hospitalised people with dementia comes with many well-documented issues and that perhaps it's time to rethink what we can expect from such identifiers.
Reposted by Karolina Kuberska
What Is an Identifier Good for?
Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital
📢New research paper from Karolina Kuberska and Graham Martin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#DementiaCare @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk
Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital
📢New research paper from Karolina Kuberska and Graham Martin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#DementiaCare @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
What Is an Identifier Good for?
Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital
📢New research paper from Karolina Kuberska and Graham Martin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#DementiaCare @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk
Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital
📢New research paper from Karolina Kuberska and Graham Martin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#DementiaCare @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk
📢New publication alert 📢
@instagraham.bsky.social and I wrote a paper!
What Is an Identifier Good for?
Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital
doi.org/10.1111/jan....
@instagraham.bsky.social and I wrote a paper!
What Is an Identifier Good for?
Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital
doi.org/10.1111/jan....
May 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
📢New publication alert 📢
@instagraham.bsky.social and I wrote a paper!
What Is an Identifier Good for?
Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital
doi.org/10.1111/jan....
@instagraham.bsky.social and I wrote a paper!
What Is an Identifier Good for?
Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital
doi.org/10.1111/jan....
Reposted by Karolina Kuberska
“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” —Baldwin’s words grounded my Tanner lectures at Harvard, “Imagining Beyond the Artificial Intelligentsia”🤖
Lecture 1, Who Owns the Future? youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...
Lecture 1, Who Owns the Future? youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...
Tanner Lecture One with Ruha Benjamin
YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center
youtu.be
May 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” —Baldwin’s words grounded my Tanner lectures at Harvard, “Imagining Beyond the Artificial Intelligentsia”🤖
Lecture 1, Who Owns the Future? youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...
Lecture 1, Who Owns the Future? youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...
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Today, on #InternationalWorkersDay, I've given two teachouts - on academic mobility, borders and the hostile environment, and on reading workload models, as part of our @ducu.bsky.social #NoToCuts strike week. A few thoughts: 👇
May 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Today, on #InternationalWorkersDay, I've given two teachouts - on academic mobility, borders and the hostile environment, and on reading workload models, as part of our @ducu.bsky.social #NoToCuts strike week. A few thoughts: 👇
What we need is a journal finder website where you can find a journal to submit a paper to by length of the manuscript, topic and method. Why is it always so difficult to find out the maximum length of accepted manuscripts? Who's with me?
February 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
What we need is a journal finder website where you can find a journal to submit a paper to by length of the manuscript, topic and method. Why is it always so difficult to find out the maximum length of accepted manuscripts? Who's with me?
I craft weird postcards in which I put words into famous people's mouths and I am pretty happy with this one.
February 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I craft weird postcards in which I put words into famous people's mouths and I am pretty happy with this one.
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For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars
#EarlyModern
#EarlyModern
Blog — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
www.mmor.co.uk
November 12, 2024 at 10:37 AM
For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars
#EarlyModern
#EarlyModern
Not doing manual searches alongside a systematic review search on a social science topic can result in missing *key* publications (and in half-assed papers).
doi.org/10.1016/j.sr... - Excellent letter to the editors of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare from Susie Kilshaw
#pregnancyloss #miscarriage
doi.org/10.1016/j.sr... - Excellent letter to the editors of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare from Susie Kilshaw
#pregnancyloss #miscarriage
doi.org
February 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Not doing manual searches alongside a systematic review search on a social science topic can result in missing *key* publications (and in half-assed papers).
doi.org/10.1016/j.sr... - Excellent letter to the editors of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare from Susie Kilshaw
#pregnancyloss #miscarriage
doi.org/10.1016/j.sr... - Excellent letter to the editors of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare from Susie Kilshaw
#pregnancyloss #miscarriage