Martin Stevens
@martstevens.bsky.social
Research fellow at the University of Leeds, specialising in work, health and musculoskeletal research.
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Day 18 #30DayMapChallenge
I 3D-printed John Snow's 1854 cholera map of Soho. It took ages.
I 3D-printed John Snow's 1854 cholera map of Soho. It took ages.
November 18, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Day 18 #30DayMapChallenge
I 3D-printed John Snow's 1854 cholera map of Soho. It took ages.
I 3D-printed John Snow's 1854 cholera map of Soho. It took ages.
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A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work
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May 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work
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"I'd like the phone book for Hokkaido, Japan, please."
"Okay. Here you go.
The phone book for Hokkaido, Japan."
"Thank you. May I please use your phone?"
"Is it a local call?"
"Y... Yes."
"Okay. Here you go.
The phone book for Hokkaido, Japan."
"Thank you. May I please use your phone?"
"Is it a local call?"
"Y... Yes."
May 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"I'd like the phone book for Hokkaido, Japan, please."
"Okay. Here you go.
The phone book for Hokkaido, Japan."
"Thank you. May I please use your phone?"
"Is it a local call?"
"Y... Yes."
"Okay. Here you go.
The phone book for Hokkaido, Japan."
"Thank you. May I please use your phone?"
"Is it a local call?"
"Y... Yes."
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At drama school we were put in pairs and told to prepare scenes where the theme was "sickness". People did scene after scene of harrowing illness, saying goodbye to a loved one, etc etc and then Ben Mann and Robert Hannouch got up and just pretended to throw up for 3 minutes saying "oh god, oh no!"
May 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
At drama school we were put in pairs and told to prepare scenes where the theme was "sickness". People did scene after scene of harrowing illness, saying goodbye to a loved one, etc etc and then Ben Mann and Robert Hannouch got up and just pretended to throw up for 3 minutes saying "oh god, oh no!"
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Yikes! If you’re in the UK and need to be admitted to hospital via A&E:
In March 2025, more than 46,000 people waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to a bed - compared to just 331 people in March 2019.
In March 2025, more than 46,000 people waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to a bed - compared to just 331 people in March 2019.
Ambulance times are reducing but are still above target.
Long A&E wait times remain stubbornly high. March was slightly better than Feb, but there were still over 46K people waiting over 12 hours to be admitted vs just 331 in 2019.
There is no sign that the NHS is getting on top of this. 4/7
Long A&E wait times remain stubbornly high. March was slightly better than Feb, but there were still over 46K people waiting over 12 hours to be admitted vs just 331 in 2019.
There is no sign that the NHS is getting on top of this. 4/7
April 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Yikes! If you’re in the UK and need to be admitted to hospital via A&E:
In March 2025, more than 46,000 people waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to a bed - compared to just 331 people in March 2019.
In March 2025, more than 46,000 people waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to a bed - compared to just 331 people in March 2019.
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The A level economist in the house complaining bitterly that the free trade module he's been taught - about how the US successfully uses trade to make friends/ bestride the global economy like a colossus etc - is going to look pretty stupid when rehashed for an exam in June 2025
April 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The A level economist in the house complaining bitterly that the free trade module he's been taught - about how the US successfully uses trade to make friends/ bestride the global economy like a colossus etc - is going to look pretty stupid when rehashed for an exam in June 2025
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The first recorded strike in history took place almost 3,200 years ago!
The ‘Strike Papyrus’ recounts that in year 29 of the reign of Ramesses III (c. 1157 BC) royal tomb workers at Deir el-Medina downed tools over pay and working conditions!
Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 me
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#Archaeology
The ‘Strike Papyrus’ recounts that in year 29 of the reign of Ramesses III (c. 1157 BC) royal tomb workers at Deir el-Medina downed tools over pay and working conditions!
Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 me
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#Archaeology
April 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The first recorded strike in history took place almost 3,200 years ago!
The ‘Strike Papyrus’ recounts that in year 29 of the reign of Ramesses III (c. 1157 BC) royal tomb workers at Deir el-Medina downed tools over pay and working conditions!
Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 me
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#Archaeology
The ‘Strike Papyrus’ recounts that in year 29 of the reign of Ramesses III (c. 1157 BC) royal tomb workers at Deir el-Medina downed tools over pay and working conditions!
Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 me
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#Archaeology
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We've made this article from @cash4questions.bsky.social free to read, as it is proving very popular.
University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered.
"Beware employers bearing yoga mats..."
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...
University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered.
"Beware employers bearing yoga mats..."
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...
Coping with the university funding crisis - Research Professional News
Positive steps in uncertain times, including how to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We've made this article from @cash4questions.bsky.social free to read, as it is proving very popular.
University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered.
"Beware employers bearing yoga mats..."
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...
University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered.
"Beware employers bearing yoga mats..."
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...
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It just be heartbreaking for the US AI bosses to see someone’s taken their intellectual property and extracted value from it, without compensating or even *asking* them if it was okay to do so.
What kind of monster would do that?!
What kind of monster would do that?!
*CONGRESSIONAL PANEL: REPORT FINDS DEEPSEEK USED US AI MODELS
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It just be heartbreaking for the US AI bosses to see someone’s taken their intellectual property and extracted value from it, without compensating or even *asking* them if it was okay to do so.
What kind of monster would do that?!
What kind of monster would do that?!
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Are you tired of living in a post-truth society? Do you want knowledge, honesty, and honor to once again reign supreme? You need to buy my fact-promoting quartz crystals for $149.99 to radiate accurons, the particles that make truth exist
April 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Are you tired of living in a post-truth society? Do you want knowledge, honesty, and honor to once again reign supreme? You need to buy my fact-promoting quartz crystals for $149.99 to radiate accurons, the particles that make truth exist
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And then you find your lab defunded by the US government on a whim.
"Many scientists know from the start that they want to be academic researchers. But for others the path unfolds gradually, with spurts of doubt and uncertainty along the way. In a way, that’s fitting." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/43Ph9Ei
April 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
And then you find your lab defunded by the US government on a whim.
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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My God, the sheer cynicism of this. Forcing the poor and vulnerable to keep an account on your platform to receive the money that keeps them housed, fed, and alive. Digital serfdom
NEW: The Social Security Administration Is gutting regional staff and shifting all of its public communications to Elon Musk's X
read @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:
read @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
My God, the sheer cynicism of this. Forcing the poor and vulnerable to keep an account on your platform to receive the money that keeps them housed, fed, and alive. Digital serfdom
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A 2,000 year-old Roman advertisement for wine which ranges in price from cheap plonk to the good stuff! 🍷🍷🍷🍷
Painted at the entrance of a shop known as ‘Ad Cucumas’ in Herculaneum, Italy. 📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Painted at the entrance of a shop known as ‘Ad Cucumas’ in Herculaneum, Italy. 📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
April 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A 2,000 year-old Roman advertisement for wine which ranges in price from cheap plonk to the good stuff! 🍷🍷🍷🍷
Painted at the entrance of a shop known as ‘Ad Cucumas’ in Herculaneum, Italy. 📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Painted at the entrance of a shop known as ‘Ad Cucumas’ in Herculaneum, Italy. 📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
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NEW 🧵
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
April 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
NEW 🧵
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
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SUVs increase the odds of killing in a collision. They're high at the front, your children get dragged under then crushed to death. They're also too big for parking spaces. They shld just be treated like vans, subject to lower speed limits, higher parking charges. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please, for the love of God, stop buying supersized cars | Arwa Mahdawi
Why would anyone want a car that’s too big for parking spaces, or that’s a menace to other road users? Arwa Mahdawi has a theory
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
SUVs increase the odds of killing in a collision. They're high at the front, your children get dragged under then crushed to death. They're also too big for parking spaces. They shld just be treated like vans, subject to lower speed limits, higher parking charges. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Can we launch a class-action lawsuit against recipes that say "30 minutes preparation time!", then leave you - two hours later - a broken-down ruin, standing in the burning rubble of the kitchen, practically wearing the contents of the fridge?
April 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Can we launch a class-action lawsuit against recipes that say "30 minutes preparation time!", then leave you - two hours later - a broken-down ruin, standing in the burning rubble of the kitchen, practically wearing the contents of the fridge?
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Getting the washing in off the line and realised one of the towels is over 30 years old! I know it's that old because it was a promotional one from the video shop I ran. Also it's bloody Opal Fruits, not Starburst!
March 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Getting the washing in off the line and realised one of the towels is over 30 years old! I know it's that old because it was a promotional one from the video shop I ran. Also it's bloody Opal Fruits, not Starburst!
😂😂 amazing
Or rather
😂😂-amazing
Or rather
😂😂-amazing
Today I am mostly "revising" a research article by turning three-word phrases into 1 or 2-word phrases in a desperate attempt to get closer to the word-limit.
Things are so so bad, please (please) keep posting about your everyday life. I know life goes on.
March 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
😂😂 amazing
Or rather
😂😂-amazing
Or rather
😂😂-amazing
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The outlook for living standards this decade is poor.
Real household disposable incomes (RHDI) is forecast to rise by just £1,200 over the 2020s.
That's less than it grew over the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.
Real household disposable incomes (RHDI) is forecast to rise by just £1,200 over the 2020s.
That's less than it grew over the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.
March 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The outlook for living standards this decade is poor.
Real household disposable incomes (RHDI) is forecast to rise by just £1,200 over the 2020s.
That's less than it grew over the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.
Real household disposable incomes (RHDI) is forecast to rise by just £1,200 over the 2020s.
That's less than it grew over the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.
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"We are losing sight of the academic mission: to think, to enquire, to design & perform new research, to innovate, to teach & communicate our findings for the purpose of societal improvement"
A painfully accurate read. That lays out the folly of the modern uni!
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
A painfully accurate read. That lays out the folly of the modern uni!
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
academic.oup.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
"We are losing sight of the academic mission: to think, to enquire, to design & perform new research, to innovate, to teach & communicate our findings for the purpose of societal improvement"
A painfully accurate read. That lays out the folly of the modern uni!
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
A painfully accurate read. That lays out the folly of the modern uni!
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Denmark have installed these traffic lights to celebrate their Viking connections, and we've never wanted to be Danish more.
March 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Denmark have installed these traffic lights to celebrate their Viking connections, and we've never wanted to be Danish more.
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‘which came first, the pun, or the research project?’
*academics, head hung low, whispering*
‘the… the pun’
*academics, head hung low, whispering*
‘the… the pun’
March 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
‘which came first, the pun, or the research project?’
*academics, head hung low, whispering*
‘the… the pun’
*academics, head hung low, whispering*
‘the… the pun’
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Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.
It really works.
It really works.
![a Google search for 'the effect of UX on [expletive] libraries' showing no AI overview, just the search results](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jgpxmpiumlpxxclzsgar5lnq/bafkreic6uzw2erxbl6v67yece6647wgdmxvqjfglrs767cq7rghazbukxu@jpeg)
March 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.
It really works.
It really works.
🤣🤣🤦🏻♂️
the pinnacle of human achievement
March 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🤣🤣🤦🏻♂️