Michael Larkin
@ipanalysis.bsky.social
Researcher, phenomenologist, parent to various creatures, some sort of musician, baker, reader, breaker of stuff, liker of seas and hills, sufferer of Boro.
https://collaborativeresearch.co.uk/
https://collaborativeresearch.co.uk/
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'Prof Nicola Ranger, the union’s general secretary, said: “A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.' 1/2
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
'Prof Nicola Ranger, the union’s general secretary, said: “A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.' 1/2
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cc Royal Society
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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The Double Empathy Workshop Series
By Participatory Autism Research Collective
Online event
Nov 17 from 4pm to 6pm GMT
Looks good!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-double...
By Participatory Autism Research Collective
Online event
Nov 17 from 4pm to 6pm GMT
Looks good!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-double...
The Double Empathy Workshop Series
Join us for our second Double Empathy workshops
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November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Double Empathy Workshop Series
By Participatory Autism Research Collective
Online event
Nov 17 from 4pm to 6pm GMT
Looks good!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-double...
By Participatory Autism Research Collective
Online event
Nov 17 from 4pm to 6pm GMT
Looks good!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-double...
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This is so good on how right wingers like Robbie Gibb genuinely believe their political views are just impartial "common sense" and never interrogate their own biases.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This is so good on how right wingers like Robbie Gibb genuinely believe their political views are just impartial "common sense" and never interrogate their own biases.
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Read my post for the APA blog, Rules of Engagement: blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/10/r... Arguing that epistemologists can join impactful interdisciplinary projects that contribute to improving social interactions #philsky #philpsy #philosophyforeveryone #epistemicinjustice #philosophymatters
Rules of Engagement | Blog of the APA
We would be wrong in writing off epistemology as an ivory tower pursuit with no implications for our daily practices. Epistemology can help understand and address issues such as the polarization of po...
blog.apaonline.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Read my post for the APA blog, Rules of Engagement: blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/10/r... Arguing that epistemologists can join impactful interdisciplinary projects that contribute to improving social interactions #philsky #philpsy #philosophyforeveryone #epistemicinjustice #philosophymatters
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I guess it's thrilling to imagine oneself to be part of a mad chase to the creation of artificial life. But it's not just fun and games when that chase is being used to concentrate wealth & power and involves despoiling the physical & information ecosystems + massive labor exploitation.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I guess it's thrilling to imagine oneself to be part of a mad chase to the creation of artificial life. But it's not just fun and games when that chase is being used to concentrate wealth & power and involves despoiling the physical & information ecosystems + massive labor exploitation.
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Deep dive today into the personal accounts of #ADHD and #autistic young people who are not attending school. This work is part of the @grrand-team.bsky.social generously funded by Barts Charity, alongside our brilliant RESTAR youth co-researchers co-delivering creative personalised interviews.
November 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Deep dive today into the personal accounts of #ADHD and #autistic young people who are not attending school. This work is part of the @grrand-team.bsky.social generously funded by Barts Charity, alongside our brilliant RESTAR youth co-researchers co-delivering creative personalised interviews.
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Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
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#GenAI excels at processing text. But can it be relied on for #qualitative #research? Here's an #edDev #SOTL study analyzing #survey results exploring trust in the classroom which suggests being cautious about #AI use in research.
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Superficially Plausible Outputs from a Black Box: Problematising GenAI Tools for Analysing Qualitative SoTL Data
| Teaching and Learning Inquiry
Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal
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November 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM
#GenAI excels at processing text. But can it be relied on for #qualitative #research? Here's an #edDev #SOTL study analyzing #survey results exploring trust in the classroom which suggests being cautious about #AI use in research.
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/TL...
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/TL...
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"I see evidence midwives don’t have the training, understanding, to manage women who are very sick because of the change in the characteristics of women giving birth. What worries me is curricula are not moving with the times to recognise that change" - Prof Marian Knight of @Mbrrace
🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's maternity crisis has deeper roots, extending into the universities trusted to train the next generation of midwives. A majority are still promoting a normal birth ideology while women are more complex than ever:
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...
Stop promoting natural birth ideology, midwife courses told
Despite a litany of scandals, universities are still pushing ‘normal birth’ over medical interventions. Now our investigation has prompted the regulator to act
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"I see evidence midwives don’t have the training, understanding, to manage women who are very sick because of the change in the characteristics of women giving birth. What worries me is curricula are not moving with the times to recognise that change" - Prof Marian Knight of @Mbrrace
Someone's done TWEEZ right?
November 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Someone's done TWEEZ right?
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Exulansis -the moment you simply give up trying to explain the in‑between.
📖 This article gives voice to the silent struggle of families living with #LongCovid, where recognition, care and empathy often fail them.
www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/exulans...
📖 This article gives voice to the silent struggle of families living with #LongCovid, where recognition, care and empathy often fail them.
www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/exulans...
Exulansis - The Gulf of Understanding
An Ongoing Battle for Adequate Treatment and Care: The Impact of Long Covid on Families' by Marianne Lynch.
www.longcovidadvoc.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Exulansis -the moment you simply give up trying to explain the in‑between.
📖 This article gives voice to the silent struggle of families living with #LongCovid, where recognition, care and empathy often fail them.
www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/exulans...
📖 This article gives voice to the silent struggle of families living with #LongCovid, where recognition, care and empathy often fail them.
www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/exulans...
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Seen that video of a hundred-year-old veteran weeping over his lost country and being comforted by the 'D-Day Darlings' in a poppy-bedecked morning TV studio? Assailed by a profound sense of unease? Of distaste? Of dread, even? Allow me to make it worse: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/afte...
After Captain Tom
The cultural memory of the Second World War has long been used to serve the interests of British conservatism. But now that the long post-war compact is over, has its meaning evaporated completely?
tribunemag.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Seen that video of a hundred-year-old veteran weeping over his lost country and being comforted by the 'D-Day Darlings' in a poppy-bedecked morning TV studio? Assailed by a profound sense of unease? Of distaste? Of dread, even? Allow me to make it worse: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/afte...
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Big Brave stirring up the heavy slowcore
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Big Brave stirring up the heavy slowcore
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🌅 Had a great morning filming the @acamh.bsky.social
podcast on our paper examining the phenotypic & aetiological overlap between subclinical hypomania with psychiatric & neurodevelopmental diagnoses. Podcast will be out in the New Year
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
podcast on our paper examining the phenotypic & aetiological overlap between subclinical hypomania with psychiatric & neurodevelopmental diagnoses. Podcast will be out in the New Year
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🌅 Had a great morning filming the @acamh.bsky.social
podcast on our paper examining the phenotypic & aetiological overlap between subclinical hypomania with psychiatric & neurodevelopmental diagnoses. Podcast will be out in the New Year
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
podcast on our paper examining the phenotypic & aetiological overlap between subclinical hypomania with psychiatric & neurodevelopmental diagnoses. Podcast will be out in the New Year
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
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Very excited to take up this role at @sussex.ac.uk & look forward to working with colleagues & students to help amplify the hugely important work the University is doing on climate, nature and environmental sustainability eg the very first undergraduate degree in climate justice starting in 2026 💚
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party and MP for Brighton Pavilion, as the University's first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability at the Sussex School for Progressive Futures (SSPF).
Caroline Lucas appointed as new Professor of Practice at the University of Sussex
Caroline Lucas has been appointed by the University of Sussex as its first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability.
www.sussex.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Very excited to take up this role at @sussex.ac.uk & look forward to working with colleagues & students to help amplify the hugely important work the University is doing on climate, nature and environmental sustainability eg the very first undergraduate degree in climate justice starting in 2026 💚
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A wise person once told me "if it doesn't apply to you, don't take it personally". As a gen x who is definitely grumpy online but on the left, I definitely see so many people in my generation who've been brain poisoned by both the internet and the media. 50 year olds radicalised by radio 4.
Going to "yes and" this by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social and say there's also a GenX turn to the left - ppl who once thought themselves centrist seeing things they took for granted disappear. Eg last night's Hopeful Technologists meet-up had a distinct GenX flavour www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff
Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A wise person once told me "if it doesn't apply to you, don't take it personally". As a gen x who is definitely grumpy online but on the left, I definitely see so many people in my generation who've been brain poisoned by both the internet and the media. 50 year olds radicalised by radio 4.
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Coyote chorus to greet the day ...
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Coyote chorus to greet the day ...
Brilliant talk today from Dr Victoria Williamson - inspiring stuff!
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Brilliant talk today from Dr Victoria Williamson - inspiring stuff!
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This is happening tomorrow! You can get both in-person and online tickets still.
I'm going to be at this fantastic event on doing qualitative research with non-speaking neurodivergent people. I'll be talking about ethnography as an inclusive methodology when working with autistic adults with high support needs. Would love to see you there!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/methodslab...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/methodslab...
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
A full-day event bringing together academics, parents, educational practitioners and non-speaking neurodiverse young people.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is happening tomorrow! You can get both in-person and online tickets still.
Celebrating the escape of our unexpected pigeon guest with a game of Wingspan. Turns out that Raymond (the cat) was more forgiving as a host than he was as an escort.
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Celebrating the escape of our unexpected pigeon guest with a game of Wingspan. Turns out that Raymond (the cat) was more forgiving as a host than he was as an escort.
Why I'm wearing my Joan Shelley t-shirt today
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Why I'm wearing my Joan Shelley t-shirt today