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Karolina Kuberska

@kkuberska.bsky.social

Anthropologist, knitter, migrant, reader.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Surely the transaction is: I give you the paper for free; you handle all the administration associated with it; you get to commoditise the paper, package it, and keep the revenue associated with it. Why would I additionally have a duty ro provide free peer review labour?!

Hans Hassell@hjghassell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@thejop.bsky.social announces the right to refuse consideration of manuscripts of those who have declined to review 3+ times. Careful who you co author with!

SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 12mo ago

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Hey, @royal-mail.bsky.social I think your bot is broken haha

A screenshot of AI tracking assistance on Royal Mail website. I wrote "there are no options" to which the assistant responds "please select one of the options" to which I responded "there are no options" to which the assistant responded "please select one of the options" - this is going in circles

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · last yr.

Historian of tech @histoftech.bsky.social on how AI hype is a way of gaming the system by "reengineering society around the technology." The goal is to "create an environment—a labor environment, a regulatory environment, a user environment—that will bring that unlikely thing closer to reality."

Rachel Auslander@rachelauslander.bsky.social · last yr.

I spoke with @histoftech.bsky.social about AI hype, how tools are used to amass power and reshape systems, expertise, and more! www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...

Caroline Mitchell @dclovesgp.bsky.social · last yr.

#PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice #FamilyMedicine Fabulous collegiate scholarship in clinical education, research and policy at #SAPCCardiff25 international conference- mostly funded by #NIHR highlights: Oxford team delivering useful relevant PC research ready to implement in the #UK10yearHealthPlan -

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · last yr.

This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸@rweingarten.bsky.social · last yr.

Today we launched the National Academy for AI Instruction with UFT, Microsoft, OpenAI & Anthropic to offer free, high-quality AI training to educators. Some of you have expressed legitimate reservations about AI and tech companies. I want to speak to you directly. 🧵

Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · last yr.

Read our paper about what hospital respiratory clinicians think about offering rescue packs to patients discharged following #COPD exacerbation. Respiratory clinicians consider a variety of factors and prioritise more immediate risks over the more distant ones. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute)@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · last yr.

Should hospitals give COPD patients “rescue packs” when discharging them after a hospital stay? Clinicians we interviewed said that decisions should be made based on a patient’s ability to self-manage, access care, and use packs correctly. Read the paper: ths.im/4lCgCev THIS Summary: ths.im/3TU7GFj

Older male with nebuliser sits on sofa at home

Ola Howell @olahowell.bsky.social · last yr.

Very important work! We’ve been recommending COPD rescue packs for over a decade in the UK national guideline, but the first RCT assessing their efficacy has only started this year 🤯 This publication is part of the bigger research programme and lends an insight into clinicians’ perspective.

Karolina Kuberska@kkuberska.bsky.social · last yr.

What do respiratory clinicians think about offering “rescue packs” to patients discharged after #COPD exacerbation? It's not always simple to decide what would be best for each patient. Read our paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Or a summary: www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/out...

Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · last yr.

Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study

“Rescue packs” for COPD exacerbations, consisting of a course of antibiotics and steroids, have become part of self-management strategies for many patients living with COPD. Currently, in the UK, r...

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Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · last yr.

Good care for people with #dementia is very important. Here's a paper in which @instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that visual identifiers used for hospitalised people with dementia may not be a useful indicator of the quality of care. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What Is an Identifier Good for? Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital

Aims To examine practical, ethical, and organisational implications of the use of a key technology deployed in the care of hospitalised people with dementia—visual identifiers—through a comparative ...

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Alzheimer's Society@alzheimerssoc.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, the NHS has published their 10 Year Health Plan for England, and we're really pleased to see that a commitment to a blueprint for improving dementia care is in there. 1/6

A graphic with black text on a grey background, which reads: “NHS unveils new 10 Year Plan”. The word “plan” is circled in green, a green arrow points from the circle to some green text, which reads: “And dementia is included”.

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · last yr.

Feeling slightly thrown for a loop finding out about recent changes to the skilled worker visa late last night and not reall seeing much chatter about it elsewhere… But again, most British citizens do not care about immigrants, so shouldn’t be surprised 😮‍💨 www.ein.org.uk/news/major-c...

Major statement of changes to the Immigration Rules raises Skilled Worker thresholds and ends overseas recruitment of care workers

138-page statement of changes to the Immigration Rules begins White Paper's "complete reset" of the immigration system

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW FROM ME - Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability. Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity. We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate. tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4

Who Will Count as Disabled Tomorrow?

The dangerous redefinition of welfare disguised as Labour's compassionate reform.

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Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · last yr.

📢New publication📢 Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study doi.org/10.1080/1541... @instagraham.bsky.social @profhurst.bsky.social @monabafadhel.bsky.social

A diagram of clinicians’ considerations around offering rescue packs to patients discharged following COPD exacerbation
There are three nested ovals depicting different levels of considerations, with text inside.
The largest oval has the heading “Macro-level considerations” and includes three text boxes: antibiotic stewardship; preventing hospital admissions; and pressures in the NHS.
The middle oval has the heading “Meso-level considerations” and includes three text boxes: following national guidance and audit requirements; hospital clinicians’ access to patients’ primary care records; and local access to primary care.
The smallest oval has the heading “Micro-level considerations” and includes two text-boxes: patient’s self-management skills and empowering patients.

Screenshot of the paper's pdf.
Title: Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study
Authors: Karolina Kuberska, Graham Martin, John R. Hurst, Mona Bafadhel
Abstract
“Rescue packs” for COPD exacerbations, consisting of a course of antibiotics and steroids, have become part of self-management strategies for many patients living with COPD. Currently, in the UK, rescue packs are guideline-recommended but not routinely offered on hospital discharge. They are, however, commonly prescribed by primary care teams. This study examined hospital-based respiratory clinicians’ views on offering patients rescue packs following hospitalisation for COPD exacerbations. We conducted 24 individual and joint semi-structured interviews via telephone or videocall with 30 clinicians (respiratory consultants, respiratory registrars and specialist nurses) in 20 UK hospitals to understand variation in practice around, and views on, offering rescue packs to discharged COPD patients. Interview data were analysed using the constant comparative method. Clinicians’ views on offering rescue packs were a mixture of concerns and recognition of potential benefits. Concerns included antimicrobial resistance, individual overuse of antibiotics, and potential side effects of steroids, especially in patients with poorer understanding of their own condition, with lower self-management skills, or who found it difficult to access primary care. Recognised benefits included the potential to prevent future exacerbations, empowering patients by supporting COPD self-management, and circumventing the difficulties of securing an urgent primary care appointment. There was a consensus that supporting patients in self-management of COPD was key to effective care. Given the increasing role of self-management for patients living with COPD, it is vital to ensure that patients are able to appropriately use rescue packs.

Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (formerly HSRU)@ace-aberdeen.bsky.social · last yr.

Research participants needed📢 Do you have experience recruiting patients into clinical trials in the UK and Ireland? Do you think recruitment targets are motivating? Are they communicated well? Then we would love to hear from you as a participant in our focus group study.

the algorithms + miscarriage project @paul-ord.bsky.social · last yr.

The Algorithms + Miscarriage Project is now seeking participants! Experiences with algorithms after miscarriage? Why not share your story? *Please share widely* #miscarriage #pregnancyloss #algorithm #socialmedia #onlinesafety

Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨A welcome Government U-Turn on the winter fuel payment, which they have restored to 7.5 million pensioners. These cuts should never have been proposed in the first place - to save another embarrassment, the Government should reverse their disability benefit cut plans now too.

THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute)@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · last yr.

Our research examines features from identifiers used for patients with dementia and compares with other common types of visual identifier. Full paper: buff.ly/EB9jTZL THIS summary: ths.im/4dAgitK

What Is an Identifier Good for? Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital

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Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · last yr.

This paper was a long time coming and I am so pleased to see it out! @instagraham.bsky.social and I argue that the use of visual identifiers for hospitalised people with dementia comes with many well-documented issues and that perhaps it's time to rethink what we can expect from such identifiers.

THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute)@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · last yr.

Our paper compares features from identifiers used for patients with dementia to other common types of visual identifier. Full paper: buff.ly/EB9jTZL THIS summary: ths.im/4dAgitK

Department of Public Health and Primary Care @dphpc.bsky.social · last yr.

What Is an Identifier Good for? Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital 📢New research paper from Karolina Kuberska and Graham Martin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #DementiaCare @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk

What Is an Identifier Good for? Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital

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Karolina Kuberska@kkuberska.bsky.social · last yr.

📢New publication alert 📢 @instagraham.bsky.social and I wrote a paper! What Is an Identifier Good for? Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital doi.org/10.1111/jan....

Screenshot of the journal header with the paper title and authors:
DISCURSIVE PAPER
Open Access
What Is an Identifier Good for? Issues in Using Visual Identifiers to Improve Care for People With Dementia in Hospital
Karolina Kuberska, Graham Martin
First published: 08 May 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.17039
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Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · last yr.

Aims
To examine practical, ethical, and organisational implications of the use of a key technology deployed in the care of hospitalised people with dementia—visual identifiers—through a comparative analysis with parallel interventions in other spheres of healthcare and social activity.
Design
Discursive paper
Methods
We contrast visual identification systems used for hospitalised patients with dementia with other, ostensibly similar, systems to understand how they differ in key characteristics: what they disclose, to whom and with what intended consequence
Results
Certain distinctive features of the ways identifier systems are used to improve dementia care appear particularly consequential for their impact. Given how much is expected of such identifiers, they are likely to fail at least a proportion of patients.
Conclusion
We argue that it is important to critically evaluate the interests served by visual identifiers, identifying the dimensions of quality they can enhance and those that may be negatively impacted.
Implications for the Profession and/or Patient Care
Visual identifiers for people with dementia can contribute to the ‘taskification’ of nursing care, implying that achieving person-centred care is a matter of following defined protocols rather than an emergent, relational, time-consuming process. Staff may end up prioritising risk avoidance and hospital routines (tasks that are measurable and auditable) rather than embracing the unpredictability of developing relationships with patients
Impact
Visual identifiers are a part of well-established strategies to improve hospital care for those with cognitive impairment. While these identifiers aim to prompt healthcare professionals to deliver individually tailored care, research suggests that they are unable to consistently ensure the desirable quality of care. Understanding influences on how they are deployed can help reshape the expectations placed on such low-tech interventions and inform more reflective use

Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · last yr.

“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” —Baldwin’s words grounded my Tanner lectures at Harvard, “Imagining Beyond the Artificial Intelligentsia”🤖 Lecture 1, Who Owns the Future? youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...

Tanner Lecture One with Ruha Benjamin

YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center

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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴@unsocialtheory.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, on #InternationalWorkersDay, I've given two teachouts - on academic mobility, borders and the hostile environment, and on reading workload models, as part of our @ducu.bsky.social #NoToCuts strike week. A few thoughts: 👇

Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · 2y ago

What we need is a journal finder website where you can find a journal to submit a paper to by length of the manuscript, topic and method. Why is it always so difficult to find out the maximum length of accepted manuscripts? Who's with me?

Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · 2y ago

I craft weird postcards in which I put words into famous people's mouths and I am pretty happy with this one.

Photo of Francis Ford Coppola directing a scene in the Godfather, surrounded by crew, with a speech bubble that says "express your feelings, focus on rage"

Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 2y ago

For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars #EarlyModern

Blog — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720

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Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · 2y ago

Not doing manual searches alongside a systematic review search on a social science topic can result in missing *key* publications (and in half-assed papers). doi.org/10.1016/j.sr... - Excellent letter to the editors of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare from Susie Kilshaw #pregnancyloss #miscarriage

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Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · 2y ago

Out of office in comic sans is such a power move.

Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · 2y ago

Find out how you can support Justyna and the Abortion Dream Team here 👉 https://buff.ly/3PSk6eO @aborcyjnydream Donate to help open AboTak, the abortion clinic being opened in Warsaw https://buff.ly/4htsNIt #JakJustyna

Julie Roberts @drjulieroberts.bsky.social · 2y ago

My latest paper with #QRDC team comparing in person and remote qualitative data collection focusing on data quality and inclusion #IJNS #researchmethods #qualitativeresearch journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...