Grant Gibson
@drgrantgibson.bsky.social
Dementia researcher. Senior Lecturer, Gerontologist and full time 40k fanatic. Posts probably about Warhammer, but with the odd bit of dementia thrown in. Death to the False Emperor!
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We used to be able to go on a bike ride to the next county 15 miles away, using the main roads, without an adult, and no one would care.
Teri B@tallmaschq.bsky.social · 9mo agoWithout revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
Looks like Grok is happy to talk to me about Warhammer 40k army lists, but not about creating pornographic deepfakes of children
I’ve had thought Reform would be well up for a clearly pro natalist policy. Or are they like a all far right parties - they want (white) women to have more kids. But don’t gibe a shit about them once they are born.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo agoReeves condemns Farage opposition to lifting two-child benefit cap
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So we knew the US had decided it no longer wants to be a maritime and mercantile empire based on military alliances and global free trade. Now we know its decided it wants to be a 19th century style continental, colonial power. It won’t end well for anyone.
BBC Scotland features an article on our work with people with dementia to develop teaching for nursing students, led by people living with dementia. I lecture nursing students about my dementia - I want to show it can happen to anyone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I lecture Stirling University nursing students about my dementia
When Joan Lyon was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2023 she set out to share her experience while she still could.
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We found similar findings from Scittish projects making direct payments to care experienced young people and people living with dementia in Scotland. Funnily enough both groups can and ro make excellent decisions about their needs and how the money can help them meet them.
Scott Santens@scottsantens.com · 10mo agoSpoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.
1. Sat across a train carriage from Leslie Grantham. 2. Dickie Bird crashed my brother’s engagement dinner. 3. Gave a lecture to the King and Queen of Sweden.
Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️@bolt451.bsky.social · last yr.Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
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This shit has been going on for 7 years now. No one in any UK govt, tory or lab can actually make a grown up, serious decision about what we do now post brexit. So we continue in this purgatory of stagnation and decay, a country with no clue about what it wants to be, or what to do to get there.
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10mo agoApparently engaging with the EU is all about economics, while also avoiding freedom of movement. Sigh. Anyone hoping to rejoin has a very very long wait. Frankly, if you're a rejoiner over 50, I'd suggest taking up stamp collecting or bird watching instead. It'll be more fulfilling.
Lolling at the ludicrousness of the orange manbaby suing the BBC for $10bn. This is literally Trump suing the UK taxpayer, expecting us to cough up $10bn into his back pocket. There is no way in this world that any UK Government could allow that to happen. They’d pass legislation to stop it.
That’s an interesting interpretation of Jack Reacher…
Charlotte Nichols MP@charlotte2153.bsky.social · 10mo agoNo idea what telly Lord Sewell is watching, because I can't think of a single show with this plotline let alone it being something that is inescapable for young white men who subsequently now face a crisis of masculinity drawing them to the far right?? 🙃
Anyone else drowning in peer review journal article requests at the moment. I’ve honestly lost count of the number I’ve received in the last week. I’m happy to do as many as I can but at this rate it’d become a full time job to do them all.
Apropos of nothing, but whenever I see Chris Philp on the TV, all I can see is the ever gormless Will from W1A
a man and a woman are talking to each other and the man is asking the woman , yeah , no , what ?
ALT: a man and a woman are talking to each other and the man is asking the woman , yeah , no , what ?
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Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 10mo agoA party that puts forward Chris Philp as a potential Home Secretary! And says 'we will deport all dual citizens of anywhere for any crime'! That's a bunch of the hard-of-thinking who shouldn't be allowed in a kitchen by themselves. Stop chasing process and start with policy.
Me at the arrivals gate in any U.S. airport after providing my social media accounts.
Me at the arrivals gate in any U.S. airport after providing my social media accounts.
a man in a suit and tie is saying it 's because i hate him .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying it 's because i hate him .
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Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 10mo agoMe at the arrivals gate in any U.S. airport after providing my social media accounts.
I think we can officially retire the torment nexus meme. 2000 AD have bettered it with this.
2000 AD Comics@2000ad.bsky.social · 10mo ago
a man in a black shirt is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a dark room .
Alt: Gif of Nathan Fillion being lost for words.
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Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 10mo agoDOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
Watching an old Royle Family christmas special on UKTV Gold and bloody hell look at the size of that box of Celebrations. It’s three times the size as what we get now! (Best Jim Royle impression) “Bloody hell, the tight gets!!!”
If you really want to blow your mind put aside half an hour to watch this video. youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA?... Awe inspiring and existentially terrifying in equal measure.
TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)
YouTube video by melodysheep
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Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11mo agoHELL YEAH IT IS
When a government decides to destroy its universities, it is making a statement about its future. It sees no need for a people educated in the sciences, the arts, history or culture. It sees no reason for research and innovation. It sees no reason to better itself. It has given up on its future.
George Mann@sgfmann.bsky.social · 11mo agoi: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
What’s saddest is the missed opportunity. As the USA decides to turn its back on the enlightenment the UK could become the world’s university. Instead we’re going to shoot ourselves in the leg, again all because forriners = bad. Worst is the public generally support people coming here to learn.
Our uni leaders need to grow a backbone and tell the govt they aren’t just going to play anymore while the govt lets us all burn. I’d love to see the entire sector just downs tools. No teaching, no research, no admin and no participation in any administrative requirements forced on us by govt.
Grant Gibson@drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 11mo agoI’d love to see UUK, UCU, UCEA, the Russell group, the funding councils, research charities, hell pretty much every university stakeholder to stand together and say to the Govt in one voice - Stop fucking around with our universities. You are destroying us, and you will miss us when we’re gone.
I can feel another letter bollocking the lunacy of the Govt’s latest HE policy announcement is about to be sent to my local MP. And I sincerely hope our VC has rung him this morning to do the same.
