Researcher @ University of Glasgow, UK. Epidemiologist interested in mental-health and wellbeing, health inequalities, administrative data, education.
Trying to learn Italian and Spanish.
Junior ex minister booted out of office and gets a nice cosy position in a Quango thanks to their political connections. They can then leverage that position to get a hole host of related roles.
Meanwhile actual experts struggle to find work.
If the UK was serious about Health Data Science they might actually might employ somebody with expertise in the area. Instead they appoint a failed politician with a degree in music.
It's even more absurd because she is Tory.
Conceptualising population as opposed to individual level effects requires high level abstract thinking. Thus while a academic's work might reflect population scale thinking, outside work people often confuse the two even in though own area.
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This is often caused by the desire to formulate “action” relevant to people’s lives but ends up blaming individuals for things not in their control
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How more obvious can trolling be than a satirical Nazi war criminal who starts a nuclear war?
The world has enough problems without people putting trolls on pedestals only so they can be knocked down.
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Stop making people redundant if you want them to say in work.
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One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
Today, the equivalent figure for Labour is 12 per cent
www.thetimes.com/article/470f...
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Today, the equivalent figure for Labour is 12 per cent
www.thetimes.com/article/470f...
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Incidence of reported cases of euthanasia adjusted for demographic composition: a study of ten years of Belgian administrative data (2014–2023)
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
With @healthsociety.bsky.social
Person A: X is rubbish and needs fixing.
Person A some months later: People tyring to fix X are evil and making things worse.
The real issue is how do we get people to focus on the intrinsic motivation of creating and communicating good science.
Unless you are shareholder the best you can hope for it is amplify existing social capital.
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That's right, it's NEW INDICES OF DEPRIVATION day!
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