this is absolutely bonkers

Jacey is a suitable combo of my actual name for privacy reasons@spacegrace.bsky.social · 6h ago

“We can always tell” at 2m30s: www.channel4.com/news/ehrc-ch... The head of the EHRC is an anti-science bigot. This interview would be hilariously bad if it wasn’t by one of the people responsible for trying to enforce segregation of a minority group in the UK.

Our first publication from our Dementia hospital at home programme is now out, a policy review - hospital at home models have potential to reduce health inequalities for people with #dementia, but current implementation policies risk reinforcing existing inequalities academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...

A policy scoping review of how ‘Hospitals at Home’ can and could support people with dementia

AbstractIntroduction. People with dementia are often hospitalised due to comorbidities and superimposed delirium and have poorer outcomes in hospital compa

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Anthropic's CEO says AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Victorian bootmakers suggest a different possibility. A story about sewing machines, economics, and why history can help us think more clearly about AI. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/what-victo...

What Bootmakers Can Teach Us About AI

Anthropic's CEO warns AI could erase half of entry-level jobs. Victorian England suggests a different possibility.

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Dystopian. Hell on Earth. Live-streamed holocaust The world will regret this 🤬🤬🤬

www.grahamscambler.com/a-brief-intr... My most viewed blog over the years. Summarising Bhaskar’s dialectical critical realism.

A reminder to all NHS staff: you are loved, wanted and appreciated by millions of Londoners, and we collectively condemn the vile racism you continue to experience.

NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients

Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff

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One of England's greatest antisemites, after whom for some reason a university decided to name itself in 1992... And is still arguing that was cool and OK... www.dmu.ac.uk/campus/histo...

History of Parliament@histparl.bsky.social · 2d ago

On 4 August 1265, Simon de Monfort was killed at the Battle of Evesham during the Second Barons' War, ending his year-long ascendancy as the de facto ruler of England. Find out more about his greatest victory against Henry III at the Battle of Lewes below.

I don’t recall him ever thinking it had to be looked at in the context of the damage that Brexit inevitably did to the NHS, or the lies about how reducing immigration would reduce waiting lists rather than increase them. Let’s talk about how much extra tax everyone now has to pay as a result.

2. There *is* an important point here about context! The rise in racism against NHS staff is driven in large part by the simultaneous sharp growth in both non-white NHS staff *and* the growth in explicitly xenophobic/anti-immigrant rhetoric in UK politics. A point worth making!

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

Great Q&A on CCS by Carbon Brief. Short version: it has a part to play in capturing emissions from industrial uses and blue hydrogen, but not to offset oil or gas drilling. www.carbonbrief.org/qa-does-the-...

Q&A: Does the world need ‘carbon capture and storage’ to reach net-zero? - Carbon Brief

In this Q&A, Carbon Brief explores the role CCS is expected to play in achieving net-zero, its record to date and the reasons it has been criticised, using the UK as an example.

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Looking forward to going to Australia soon to deliver the Ian Webster Oration at UNSW on why we need a new philosophy of inquiry for researching health systems. Come in person if you're Sydney-based. Watch online if you're not! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unsw-icfhs...

UNSW ICFHS Ian Webster Oration 2026

UNSW International Centre for Future Health Systems Ian Webster Oration

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Feel like this should have got more attention "Rapid early assessment by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) estimates there were 2,877 heat-associated deaths during 2 notable periods of hot weather in May and June 2026, almost double the figure reported annually for 2025"

UKHSA report shows 2,877 excess deaths caused by May and June heatwaves

The 2,877 excess deaths represents a significant increase on the 1,504 excess deaths observed in summer 2025.

gov.uk

Getting onto learning a tune that I’ve meant to get my ears around for years but never bothered, today. Quite knotty cause the b section changes key, but in some ways that makes it more memorable than something just buzzes around chord I in a variety of ways. open.spotify.com/track/57LU75...

Long Ago (And Far Away)

Chet Baker · Let's Get Lost: The Best Of Chet Baker Sings · Song · 1989

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1st Monday of the month means today is #AlzChat 3pmEst/8pmUk 💜 Today’s topic: Summer activities in dementia care @irememberbetter.bsky.social @natrese.bsky.social @karriemarshall.bsky.social @neilchadborn.bsky.social

'Slapdash reviewer reports and ones that include unnecessary citation requests have long plagued academic publishing, but over the past few years the production of some has become much more sophisticated.'

‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars

Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?

nature.com

Patients with functional #neurological disorder exhibit frequent psychiatric and neurological comorbidities, worse functional outcomes, higher health care use, and increased mortality compared with multiple sclerosis. ja.ma/3Rvrq4N

some belated good news: as of today, I'm a full-time Lecturer in Environmental Politics!

Sodding Wiley now float an offer of an 'AI companion' to give commentary over journal articles you're trying to read. In order to get rid of it, you have to click, maximising the fucking thing, & then dismiss it. They make their website & published research worse to push AI garbage, arghh.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #jodrellbank #cheshire

Sir Brian May and New Order join Jodrell Bank Observatory campaign

More 150 public figures including Prof Brian Cox, Christopher Eccleston, Tim Peake and Johnny Marr sign an open letter.

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Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

There is no news from a government that’s in office but on holiday during a crisis www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08... Where is Burnham's government as the climate crisis hits home?

There is no news from a government that’s in office but on holiday during a crisis

It is August, and it is not true to say there is no news, but there is certainly less of it bering rwported. Donald Trump claims that his war is on hold at present, although no one should be taken in....

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A big solidarity hug to my friend and comrade @lopa.bsky.social - her final day as an inspirational President of @uonucu.bsky.social. It has been a pure pleasure to see her grow into that role and to lead the union through such difficult times. An extraordinary inspiration. Solidarity Lopa xx

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

I have now flooded the market with Hummingbird Hawk Moth videos and it's maybe time to venture further than 6 feet from my front door - but I do like this one, especially the fly-past at the end.

I was at a palaeontology event last weekend and the experts were unequivocal about the fact we're well into the sixth great extinction event. But this will be the first where a species caused it, is aware it's happening and failed to introduce measures that could have prevented it.

Glitter Jedi Fellina@glitterjedi.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateCrisis #ExtinctionLevelEmergency www.vox.com/2019/4/12/18...

🔥 What a combination - @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social! So much here: - Palestine - India - absence of colonial history in schools - wilful ignorance of politicians & media - and the East India Company's lasting corruption of British democracy 🤑 youtu.be/13zQVPW9LjU?...

The British Empire’s Downfall: From India to Palestine | William Dalrymple

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Yeah you can donate to the Nurse Appeal here www.parkinsons.org.uk/donate/parki...

The Parkinson's UK Nurse Appeal

Thousands of people with Parkinson's don't have access to health specialists they desperately need to live well with the condition. Our Nurse Appeal is raising money to create more specialist roles.

parkinsons.org.uk

Israeli warplanes bombed a warehouse serving a displaced families camp west of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza Strip. The facility, which distributed food parcels and essential aid to displaced families, was completely destroyed, along with the camp. The strike also caused massive damage

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful