Jo Bibby
@jobibby.bsky.social
Calder Valley Kite Kollective Prayer Collector Dream Broker 📍Bohemia
🧵This was the type of Yorkshire landscape that was the catalyst of my lifelong passion for the 18th-mid 20th century history of the region. That and a history teacher who brought the agrarian and industrial revolutions vividly to life. It was a history you could relate to.
Why is spending on disability benefits increasing? 🎙️ @helenmiller.bsky.social and @eduinlatimer.bsky.social discuss the factors that may have driven the increase in spending, in our recent podcast on whether disability benefits need reform:
Diagnosis and clinical support matter, but they cannot provide the whole answer to rising mental health distress. We welcome the independent review's findings that mental health is shaped by social, economic and environmental factors. Read our response: www.peopleshealthtrust.org.uk/news/stories...
Mental health support must go beyond diagnosis, and be co-designed…
People’s Health Trust welcomes the findings of the independent review and its recognition that mental health, ADHD and autism are shaped by complex and…
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In case anyone is new to us and our work, or just wants to know what Understanding Society has been used for recently, here’s a round-up of highlights. @ippr.org used our data in its report The loneliest generation: What it is like to grow up in England today
The loneliest generation: What it is like to grow up in England today | IPPR
A connected society is one in which we care about how others are doing and, in turn, others look out for our wellbeing. It is the state and public services
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A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
Summer may be over but there's still time to catch some glorious Autumn sunshine up on our garden terrace. Cheeky pint after work anyone?
Energy bills are forecast to jump again in early 2027. The latest forecasts for the Q1 2027 Price Cap are set to be 16% higher, closing in on highs faced by families when prices were capped in 2022 and 2023. Read our latest research on the cost of living➡️ buff.ly/QbGKuKU
Children head to school up Bengel Street, Low Hill, Liverpool c.1939 (Mirrorix/Liverpool Echo).
I am writing this while sitting in Woolworth's in Oxford Street, where I have just had my dinner.
I know the cops are (rightly) being criticised but the care home should be able to de-escalate a situation like this with skilled care of someone with dementia/delirium who they already know as one of their residents I'd do them for wasting police time and wonder what kind of training/supervision
Does spreading mental health awareness online amplify self-diagnosis? In my first PhD pre-print, I empirically examine this question (n =3392) with some kick-ass collaborators and tools from cultural evolution A 🧵
Important new study (currently pre-print) from @adigitaltanay.bsky.social and colleagues re transmission of MH awareness These findings provide support for my 2023 prevalence inflation hypothesis paper w Jack Andrews, particularly the existence of the second pathway, over-interpretation
Tanay Katiyar@adigitaltanay.bsky.social · last wk.Does spreading mental health awareness online amplify self-diagnosis? In my first PhD pre-print, I empirically examine this question (n =3392) with some kick-ass collaborators and tools from cultural evolution A 🧵
🧵The iconic limestone pavements of Yorkshire, famously found around Malham Cove and Ingleborough, are spectacular post-glacial landscapes. Formed and exposed by the last Ice Age, these flat expanses of Carboniferous limestone feature blocks known as ‘clints’, separated by deep fissures
Grey squirrels on the other hand drive really fast and are constantly tailgating you on the motorway.
SlenderSherbet@slendersherbet.bsky.social · 6d agoOf course they do, they can't see over the fucking steering wheel. Accident waiting to happen.
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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Blue footed booby: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
Good piece from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on AI in science. It’s making some bits faster, but there is a new ‘verification tax’ taking up time. And there are heightened bottlenecks in physical experiments & data collection. AI is a workflow problem www.ft.com/content/4508...
The AI Shift: Is AI supercharging science?
Productivity gains in analysis are getting stuck in physical-world bottlenecks
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One featute of @britishfuture.bsky.social research on how public see Britain's choices with Europe is that attitides to migration, mobility & free movenent are not polarised + binary, but cross-pressured + fluid. @heather-rolfe.bsky.social on both doubts + support freemovement.org.uk/free-movemen...
The Treasury will be well pleased with the commitment to abolish the triple lock, restore a health and care levy and to begin a serious debate on our relations with the EU. It will be nervous about social care - it always is - but will recognise that something has to give. #soundmoney #freetrade
Homemade pipe organ by Japanese sound artist and creator, Kajii. IG: @kajii_japan www.instagram.com/kajii_japan?...
Avanti West Coast Main Line InterCity services will be returned to public ownership on 07 March. Accompanied by investment in passenger services and in facilities at Euston. Railways run by and for the nation. I'm proud to have worked on the legislation that made this possible.
Burj Al Babas, a famous abandoned housing development in Türkiye, filled with hundreds of empty fairy-tale-style "mini-castles" Full story: www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/tour... IG: @our_orbit_vanlife
Nuffield Foundation Essential Employment Skills Fund is offering grants of up to £500,000 for projects that will build evidence on supporting young people who face significant barriers to employment. Find out more and apply: www.nuffieldfoundation.org/funding-for-...
Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years for New York sexual assault reut.rs/4hbQ9oE
Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years for New York sexual assault
A New York judge sentenced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for sexually assaulting a former production assistant in 2006, following the ex-movie mogul's conviction at a retrial last year.
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