Francesca
@frankiesoton.bsky.social
Interests: academia; NHS: health research; frailty in OP; learning disability; Patient public involvement/engagement/exp. in research & NHS; Down’s syndrome; gardening; allotments;left politics; environment. Views entirely my own. She/her. I have ADHD
Faculty will be ”given a score between zero and three by the university” - unbelievable stupidity and cruelty, solidarity with comrades at Exeter
Andy Brockman@andybrockman.bsky.social · 3mo ago"The idea that people will be able to hold it together and deliver a term of teaching before they vanish off into the horizon, is bizarre, spiteful and naive as well.” The Times HE's punchy account of Exeter University's #BonfireOfTheHumanities & what one academic describes as "existential terror".
Projected trends in frailty prevalence and associated health service use and costs in the over-50s in England, 2025 to 2040: a simulation modelling study academic.oup.com/ageing/artic... latest OA publication by my research team, from our previous study on #Frailty dynamics.
Projected trends in frailty prevalence and associated health service use and costs in the over-50s in England, 2025 to 2040: a simulation modelling study
AbstractAim. To model projected trends in frailty prevalence, associated service use and costs in people aged 50 and over in England to 2040.Design. System
academic.oup.com
Solidarity with doctors on strike today. They’re not asking for a pay rise. They’re asking for pay restoration after a decade of cuts. The government’s response? Take away vital training jobs, harming us all. Hardworking NHS staff will always have my full support!
Wow… huge waste of money and whoever dreamt of it should be sacked. how about closing some of huge tax loopholes that still exist rather than picking on parents perhaps. Or heaven forbid making (cough) American conglomerates pay corporation tax.
Lisa O’Carroll@lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 6mo agoNational Audit Office to investigate HMRC over use of flawed Home Office travel data to crack down on supposed child benefit fraudsters, who had not , in fact, left the country and were just Brits on holidays who the Home Office had no return data for. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
I’ve got a rotten cold but January is nearly over which reminded me of this Mnemonic from Brian Bilston which always makes me chuckle 🤭
Zack Polanski: Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake up call for Britain
Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake up call for Britain
For too long our politicians have toadied to a dangerous president
newstatesman.com
I've managed until 19Jan without moaning. Lift in our (campus) building has been broken since mid-Dec (fixed last wk) [arthritis in feet & knees v painful), then heating broke (now fixed). So finally just after a month I've come into campus. Photocopier is broken, and so is the laminator! ARGGHH.
a polar bear standing on its hind legs with the words * scream * above it
ALT: a polar bear standing on its hind legs with the words * scream * above it
media.tenor.com
Thames Water is a test for the British economy. It profits by ripping off customers. Pays dividends, doesn't invest. Since March TW borrowed £1.47bn. Paid £900m in fees/interest for the emergency financing. Can't address crisis without public ownership. archive.ph/oW8ck/again?...
Thames Water is a test for the British economy
It is a particularly British paradox that one of the country’s biggest companies can both generate hundreds of millions in profit and be at imminent risk of bankruptcy. This is the story of Thames Wat...
unherd.com
magazine.unison.org.uk/2025/10/14/v... This case is absolutely appalling 😣 #Discrimination - the fact that Leicester appealed it twice is despicable and disturbing. The council tax payers of Leicester should be asking some hard questions.
Vindicated - Magazine
Bindu Parmar speaks candidly about her long-running race discrimination case
magazine.unison.org.uk
A British university complied with a demand from Beijing to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project being dropped, the Guardian can reveal.
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
theguardian.com
Just read my work emails. Someone has sent their personal promotion details and Cv to the whole School (twice). Oops ! As someone with ADHD I am paranoid about checking emails before I send them. Right person, too wordy, bla bla.
Spain has imposed a permanent ban on the sale of weapons and ammunition to Israel as part of a package of measures aimed at "stopping the genocide" in Gaza.
Spain imposes permanent weapons embargo on Israel
PM Pedro Sánchez announces that ships transporting fuel and planes carrying defense materiel to the country will be banned from Spanish ports and airspace.
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Absolutely bonkers. I hope he has been struck off? Because if he hasn’t by now this should be the last straw 🤬
Been to work with our lovely group of adults with learning disabilities at Southampton mencap this morning. One of the groups was out washing cars in the car park so I got my car washed as well (which it badly needed😆). I gave them a tenner to get themselves a treat for after lunch 😎
People are struggling. Our NHS is collapsing. Reform are organising. There’s no time to waste. Join @greenparty.org.uk Now. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Zack Polanski tells voters there is no ‘time to wait around’ for Corbyn party
New leader urges left-leaning voters to ‘join the Green Party right now’.
independent.co.uk
The Department for Work and Pensions is setting up a new Independent Disability Advisory Panel. This is a paid role (1.5 days a month) and will run until March 2026. More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/2mxaub7r
Expression of interest to join the Independent Disability Advisory Panel
The Department for Work and Pensions is looking to create a Panel to support, advise and connect the department to the wider disability community.
tinyurl.com
A must see! Ann, is a real working class hero. She and Charlie brought up a beautiful family only to have their daughter ripped away from them💔. She stood up to the old boys’ club & establishment. An amazing portrayal - congrats to Sheridan, Daniel & all the incredible cast.
Daniel York Loh@danielyorkloh.bsky.social · last yr.Part 2 tonight I Fought The Law #IFoughtTheLaw @ITV
I’ve had a brilliant first summer on my #allotment here’s a multi photo/post thread on my successes with a few uh oh’s along the way ! See alt text for descriptions
Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one. If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia
Denise Breen 🖖@denisebreen.bsky.social · last yr.Ten years ago, on this day 15 July, the Irish Oireachtas passed the Gender Recognition Act 2015 (An tAcht um Inscne a Aithint, 2015). It was a piece of legislation that allowed me to live my life authentically & I'm forever grateful. Despite what others may have you believe, the sky did not fall in.
@goodmorningbritain.bsky.social PIP IS NOT AN IN WORK BENEFIT ! REPEAT…
I think the heat has mucked up my IT today. My internet went down at home for the second day running, then I couldn't MFA with my new phone handset - finally sorted it with our fab IT team. I'm not amused with EE (I replaced by BTinternet with EE). It is not as reliable as it used to be either grrr
