Carl Thompson
@thompa101.bsky.social
Leeds Prof, academic, charcuterie and cheese maker, ineffectual veg gardening, implementation and decision science. Healthcare, social care, technology.
Interesting read this, especially for those who seek to influence this slippery lot... Well done Dr Hilger.
A fascinating, and accurate, piece of research which gives the lie to the (now) common complaint that the civil service is too slow/seeks to frustrate the delivery of ministers’ objectives open.substack.com/pub/ukcivils...
Policy Making in Theory and in Practice
A recent doctoral research paper by Dr Laura Hilger combines the best academic thinking on optimal policy design with the recent real-world experience of several civil service policy teams. Some of th...
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Interesting read this, especially for those who seek to influence this slippery lot... Well done Dr Hilger.
Over the years I have lost my van va voom for causes to get behind... But Universal Basic Income increasingly seems a powerful lever for better lives for many. Dissuade me.
AI may result in large-scale automation. We can stumble blindly into mass unemployment and social upheaval, or we can proactively design systems that harness AI’s benefits while protecting human dignity. Universal Basic Income isn’t just good social policy @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/cornel...
www.forbes.com/sites/cornel...
Universal Basic Income: A Business Case For The AI Era
Large-scale unemployment isn’t a distant dystopia — it’s an immediate economic reality demanding proactive solutions. A truly “universal” basic income might be one.
www.forbes.com
June 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Over the years I have lost my van va voom for causes to get behind... But Universal Basic Income increasingly seems a powerful lever for better lives for many. Dissuade me.
the Internet was invented for THIS. Team was messing about with AI song generator for non traditional dissemination of research.
With only our multi million technology in social care portfolio to work with. It came up with... aisonggenerator.ai/share/Wi-Fi%...
Powerful stuff. 😬😂
With only our multi million technology in social care portfolio to work with. It came up with... aisonggenerator.ai/share/Wi-Fi%...
Powerful stuff. 😬😂
Free AI Song Generator - Create Custom Music with AI
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aisonggenerator.ai
May 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
the Internet was invented for THIS. Team was messing about with AI song generator for non traditional dissemination of research.
With only our multi million technology in social care portfolio to work with. It came up with... aisonggenerator.ai/share/Wi-Fi%...
Powerful stuff. 😬😂
With only our multi million technology in social care portfolio to work with. It came up with... aisonggenerator.ai/share/Wi-Fi%...
Powerful stuff. 😬😂
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The places where we live and work play a crucial role in determining our health, and it is important that they are designed so that people have access to the basic building blocks of health.
👀Read our response➡️ bit.ly/3GTl4GG
👀Read our response➡️ bit.ly/3GTl4GG
High streets are a British institution. But are they good for our health?
Our research suggests that, right now, they aren't. Today, we're calling for measures to turn our high streets into drivers of good health and wellbeing for everyone. 👇
www.rsph.org.uk/our-work/pol...
Our research suggests that, right now, they aren't. Today, we're calling for measures to turn our high streets into drivers of good health and wellbeing for everyone. 👇
www.rsph.org.uk/our-work/pol...
Streets Ahead
Our new rep brings together public health, planning, and business expertise to set out a roadmap for local authorities to put in place the facilities and services to make high streets and communities...
www.rsph.org.uk
May 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The places where we live and work play a crucial role in determining our health, and it is important that they are designed so that people have access to the basic building blocks of health.
👀Read our response➡️ bit.ly/3GTl4GG
👀Read our response➡️ bit.ly/3GTl4GG
Scary stuff... Principled woman.
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Scary stuff... Principled woman.
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Couple of points on "ending" overseas recruitment for care jobs.
1. Important to remember that reality has already moved on from the very high migration levels of 2022-2023. Cleverly's policy changes already hugely reduced care visa numbers (chart from @healthfoundation.bsky.social)
1. Important to remember that reality has already moved on from the very high migration levels of 2022-2023. Cleverly's policy changes already hugely reduced care visa numbers (chart from @healthfoundation.bsky.social)
May 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Couple of points on "ending" overseas recruitment for care jobs.
1. Important to remember that reality has already moved on from the very high migration levels of 2022-2023. Cleverly's policy changes already hugely reduced care visa numbers (chart from @healthfoundation.bsky.social)
1. Important to remember that reality has already moved on from the very high migration levels of 2022-2023. Cleverly's policy changes already hugely reduced care visa numbers (chart from @healthfoundation.bsky.social)
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... if you have discrete choice/preference elicitation skills, we need you to help us decide what people really want from technology in social care and create a national database of preferences for everyone to use... Fab team, fab uni.
Please spread/get in touch
Please spread/get in touch
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow
Do you have expertise in preference elicitation, choice modelling, discrete choice surveys? Passionate about technology in health and social care? Want to work with world-leading implementation and d...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
April 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... if you have discrete choice/preference elicitation skills, we need you to help us decide what people really want from technology in social care and create a national database of preferences for everyone to use... Fab team, fab uni.
Please spread/get in touch
Please spread/get in touch
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I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.
April 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.
Perfectly sums up the situation for many societies... Great piece.
"If we are lucky to grow old, it may be us in the positions our elders are in currently. Perhaps out of self-preservation, we should act now." — @namshine.bsky.social #cdnpoli
OPINION: Remember when we said we cared about seniors? | TVO Today
The pandemic spurred a national conversation about our most vulnerable — you wouldn’t know it from this election.
amp.tvo.org
April 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Perfectly sums up the situation for many societies... Great piece.
Not sure I feel fed up or flattered that a large bundle of my research papers in here. Does it count as a REFable impact? Another year when my ALCS allocation prevents me buying a yacht, 😢
March 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Not sure I feel fed up or flattered that a large bundle of my research papers in here. Does it count as a REFable impact? Another year when my ALCS allocation prevents me buying a yacht, 😢
Looking for a research fellow keen to develop their career in a fab team and city.
Experience in preference elicitation, Health and social care, and technology?
Get in touch. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Experience in preference elicitation, Health and social care, and technology?
Get in touch. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow
Are you an ambitious academic with a passion for technology and applied social care research? Do you want to work with world-leading implementation and decision scientists, health economists, social p...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
March 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Looking for a research fellow keen to develop their career in a fab team and city.
Experience in preference elicitation, Health and social care, and technology?
Get in touch. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Experience in preference elicitation, Health and social care, and technology?
Get in touch. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
I'm hiring! Looking for a fab research assistant interested in technology, user-focused design, preference elicitation and mixed methods. Working in God's own country. Msg me if need to discuss. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Assistant
Are you an ambitious researcher, passionate about technology and applied social care wanting to take the next step in your development? Do you want to work with world-leading implementation and decisi...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
March 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I'm hiring! Looking for a fab research assistant interested in technology, user-focused design, preference elicitation and mixed methods. Working in God's own country. Msg me if need to discuss. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
You know those dystopian Sci fi films? It's like the prequel to I Robot meets Gillette manly man adverts...
Batshit crazy is about right.
Batshit crazy is about right.
The actual President of the USA has posted this "Trump Gaza" video on Truth Social
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
You know those dystopian Sci fi films? It's like the prequel to I Robot meets Gillette manly man adverts...
Batshit crazy is about right.
Batshit crazy is about right.
We are totally f***ed... Time for big ideas, the sorts of engineering solutions humanity needs.
No! Let's invent a virtual group of whining cartoon characters to "empower" us all.
But I'm hungry.
Never mind that dude... Emoji? Memecoin?
No! Let's invent a virtual group of whining cartoon characters to "empower" us all.
But I'm hungry.
Never mind that dude... Emoji? Memecoin?
Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data
For THIS
$100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine
And they spent it on this
For THIS
$100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine
And they spent it on this
February 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We are totally f***ed... Time for big ideas, the sorts of engineering solutions humanity needs.
No! Let's invent a virtual group of whining cartoon characters to "empower" us all.
But I'm hungry.
Never mind that dude... Emoji? Memecoin?
No! Let's invent a virtual group of whining cartoon characters to "empower" us all.
But I'm hungry.
Never mind that dude... Emoji? Memecoin?
When you think you're having a bad day! Catastrophic stuff for individuals... Hope wise heads prevail.
The MRCP exam debacle is outrageous. I can't write what I would like to say.
We are exploring ALL possible options, including legal, for those affected.
CONTACT US if you are in this boat.
And get wellbeing support if struggling.
We are exploring ALL possible options, including legal, for those affected.
CONTACT US if you are in this boat.
And get wellbeing support if struggling.
An error made by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK has left 222 doctors with incorrect MRCP(UK) exam results.
BMA chair, Dr Phil Banfield calls this catastrophic, demanding an urgent investigation & support for affected doctors.
bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
BMA chair, Dr Phil Banfield calls this catastrophic, demanding an urgent investigation & support for affected doctors.
bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
February 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
When you think you're having a bad day! Catastrophic stuff for individuals... Hope wise heads prevail.
atalentforidleness.blogspot.com/2020/03/lets... struck by how flipping relevant much of this album feels... It has aged well. Miss Lou Reed.
Let's check in on "Sick of You," Lou Reed's most prophetic protest song
Lou Reed's New York One of the bigger challenges with writing a protest song is that there aren’t many genres that age more poorl...
atalentforidleness.blogspot.com
February 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
atalentforidleness.blogspot.com/2020/03/lets... struck by how flipping relevant much of this album feels... It has aged well. Miss Lou Reed.
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Take a look at the new ASCOT-Workforce measure. Part of ASCOT suite of tools, designed to measure care work-related QoL of the adult social care workforce. Tested with care workers, managers, social workers, OTs, nurses, personal assistants. Report coming soon.
www.pssru.ac.uk/ascot/ascot-...
www.pssru.ac.uk/ascot/ascot-...
ASCOT-Workforce – ASCOT
www.pssru.ac.uk
February 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Take a look at the new ASCOT-Workforce measure. Part of ASCOT suite of tools, designed to measure care work-related QoL of the adult social care workforce. Tested with care workers, managers, social workers, OTs, nurses, personal assistants. Report coming soon.
www.pssru.ac.uk/ascot/ascot-...
www.pssru.ac.uk/ascot/ascot-...
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New publication from the DACHA Study.
Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional stud...
Objectives To assess the feasibility of capturing older care home residents’ quality of life (QoL) in digital social care records and the construct validity (hypothesis testing) and internal consisten...
bmjopen.bmj.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New publication from the DACHA Study.
Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
How's your morning going? A bizarre confluence of circumstances led to me driving my 78yr old dad's ridiculous Audi SUV, with a hat on the parcel shelf, BOOM radio on by default, and heating at 28°C and him shouting at loading vehicles in a medieval city.
A circle of hell worthy of Dante
A circle of hell worthy of Dante
January 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
How's your morning going? A bizarre confluence of circumstances led to me driving my 78yr old dad's ridiculous Audi SUV, with a hat on the parcel shelf, BOOM radio on by default, and heating at 28°C and him shouting at loading vehicles in a medieval city.
A circle of hell worthy of Dante
A circle of hell worthy of Dante
There are no bounds to the loathing I feel towards the expressions, "learnings", "journey", " and bloody "personas" (aka, stereotypes).
It's not the language (ugly that it is), but because they are mostly used when obfuscating, dodging responsibility, or flack (cf. NHS, HE, police, LAs)
It's not the language (ugly that it is), but because they are mostly used when obfuscating, dodging responsibility, or flack (cf. NHS, HE, police, LAs)
January 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
There are no bounds to the loathing I feel towards the expressions, "learnings", "journey", " and bloody "personas" (aka, stereotypes).
It's not the language (ugly that it is), but because they are mostly used when obfuscating, dodging responsibility, or flack (cf. NHS, HE, police, LAs)
It's not the language (ugly that it is), but because they are mostly used when obfuscating, dodging responsibility, or flack (cf. NHS, HE, police, LAs)
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WEBINAR RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE: Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis 🏠
On 25 November we heard from @thompa101.bsky.social about how analysing this data can be used to tailor care plans to improve care quality.
WATCH NOW: goltc.org/goltc-webina...
On 25 November we heard from @thompa101.bsky.social about how analysing this data can be used to tailor care plans to improve care quality.
WATCH NOW: goltc.org/goltc-webina...
GOLTC webinar recording: Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis | GOLTC
goltc.org
December 19, 2024 at 3:47 PM
WEBINAR RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE: Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis 🏠
On 25 November we heard from @thompa101.bsky.social about how analysing this data can be used to tailor care plans to improve care quality.
WATCH NOW: goltc.org/goltc-webina...
On 25 November we heard from @thompa101.bsky.social about how analysing this data can be used to tailor care plans to improve care quality.
WATCH NOW: goltc.org/goltc-webina...
If you are an academic and leave journal author signatures until the day offices close, or send a paper through for "over Xmas" reading, you are getting Temu presents and your stocking will contain only coal and a wrinkly dried satsuma.
December 19, 2024 at 10:29 AM
If you are an academic and leave journal author signatures until the day offices close, or send a paper through for "over Xmas" reading, you are getting Temu presents and your stocking will contain only coal and a wrinkly dried satsuma.
Love this...
This @patrickfreyne.bsky.social article is one of the best I've read in 2024.
It's not the funny Patrick Freyne (although he is still very funny in it), it's a manifesto for better lives.
I would also 100% buy his book "Dawdle".
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
It's not the funny Patrick Freyne (although he is still very funny in it), it's a manifesto for better lives.
I would also 100% buy his book "Dawdle".
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December
I keep meeting people who are extremely burned out. I meet them so often that I’m beginning to think burnout is something that exists by design
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Love this...
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opportunity costs associated with NICE recommendations.
Defo the most important h economics paper you will read today, maybe this week, maybe the year so far
This is where the primary care budget gets spent
A
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Defo the most important h economics paper you will read today, maybe this week, maybe the year so far
This is where the primary care budget gets spent
A
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
December 13, 2024 at 6:30 PM
opportunity costs associated with NICE recommendations.
Defo the most important h economics paper you will read today, maybe this week, maybe the year so far
This is where the primary care budget gets spent
A
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Defo the most important h economics paper you will read today, maybe this week, maybe the year so far
This is where the primary care budget gets spent
A
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...