Jane Bernal
@jane-bernal.bsky.social
Retd. Consultant Psychiatrist for people with Intellectual Disabilities, Visiting Prof U.S.Wales.
Research interests: Death and Dying Biography.
Human interests: music, theatre, garden, visual arts, poetry
Research interests: Death and Dying Biography.
Human interests: music, theatre, garden, visual arts, poetry
My reflex response too. But is the problem the technology itself or who is driving it & why? What are its limitations, how reliable is it; & what information is being harvested, by whom, for what purpose?
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My reflex response too. But is the problem the technology itself or who is driving it & why? What are its limitations, how reliable is it; & what information is being harvested, by whom, for what purpose?
Congratulations.
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Congratulations.
Thank you. I know Jane Firmin and knew Eugene Paykel. Blooming autocorrect keeps giving me his name as PayPal! I will buy a copy as soon as it comes out.
November 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Thank you. I know Jane Firmin and knew Eugene Paykel. Blooming autocorrect keeps giving me his name as PayPal! I will buy a copy as soon as it comes out.
Why it's important for UK writers & readers to use the term Intellectual Disabilities in International publications. In the UK "learning disabilities" = Intellectual Disabilities. Elsewhere: the US, Australia & Vietnam for example, it refers to specific scholastic problems like dyslexia.
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Why it's important for UK writers & readers to use the term Intellectual Disabilities in International publications. In the UK "learning disabilities" = Intellectual Disabilities. Elsewhere: the US, Australia & Vietnam for example, it refers to specific scholastic problems like dyslexia.
haven't they been selected to be wilfully ignorant too?
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
haven't they been selected to be wilfully ignorant too?
Maybe he can't help being stupid. He could help being wilfully ignorant & boasting about it. Wilful ignorance & refusal to hear those less ignorant than himself makes him even more dangerous than any President before him
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Maybe he can't help being stupid. He could help being wilfully ignorant & boasting about it. Wilful ignorance & refusal to hear those less ignorant than himself makes him even more dangerous than any President before him
You made me think of books about science or scientists that really worked for me as a teenager. The Radium Woman; The Microbe Hunters; The New Science of Strong Materials,& sequel, Structures, or why things don't fall down; Collins New Naturalist series. My grandson is 12 wonder what he could read.
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
You made me think of books about science or scientists that really worked for me as a teenager. The Radium Woman; The Microbe Hunters; The New Science of Strong Materials,& sequel, Structures, or why things don't fall down; Collins New Naturalist series. My grandson is 12 wonder what he could read.
We're keen to hear from family members or paid care/support staff who were close to someone with learning disabilities who died from causes other than cancer or dementia. www.readystudy.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
We're keen to hear from family members or paid care/support staff who were close to someone with learning disabilities who died from causes other than cancer or dementia. www.readystudy.uk
The READY Study, funded by Marie Curie, is innovative, co-produced expert panels of people with learning disabilities, families, & paid carers. It uses interviews & on-line focus groups to look at points of change & opportunities for better communication.
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=115...
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=115...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The READY Study, funded by Marie Curie, is innovative, co-produced expert panels of people with learning disabilities, families, & paid carers. It uses interviews & on-line focus groups to look at points of change & opportunities for better communication.
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=115...
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=115...
Yes, it is a favourite "comfort read" though no doubt the science us out of date. I need to buy a new copy, mine is falling to bits.
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Yes, it is a favourite "comfort read" though no doubt the science us out of date. I need to buy a new copy, mine is falling to bits.
Great blog by Athene Donald on how doing experiments at school can turn children on to science. Also, in passing, the joys of Nuffield Physics A Level & particularly the first module in which The New Science of Strong Materials was required reading.
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Great blog by Athene Donald on how doing experiments at school can turn children on to science. Also, in passing, the joys of Nuffield Physics A Level & particularly the first module in which The New Science of Strong Materials was required reading.