Petra Boynton
@petraboynton.bsky.social
#Safety and #wellbeing advocate and creator of the #PEEPSS Model.
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
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As the threat of drought escalates in northeast Somalia, the IRC is implementing a new Anticipatory Action strategy.
The response will address both immediate needs and early preventive measures to curb malnutrition and disease outbreaks. Learn more: www.rescue.org/press-releas...
The response will address both immediate needs and early preventive measures to curb malnutrition and disease outbreaks. Learn more: www.rescue.org/press-releas...
IRC launches anticipatory response to escalating drought threat in Somalia as third consecutive failed rainy season looms | The IRC
IRC launches anticipatory response to escalating drought threat in Somalia as third consecutive failed rainy season looms
www.rescue.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As the threat of drought escalates in northeast Somalia, the IRC is implementing a new Anticipatory Action strategy.
The response will address both immediate needs and early preventive measures to curb malnutrition and disease outbreaks. Learn more: www.rescue.org/press-releas...
The response will address both immediate needs and early preventive measures to curb malnutrition and disease outbreaks. Learn more: www.rescue.org/press-releas...
I note from this 'psychologists' are on the list of jobs most likely to disappear with AI.
Suspect it's in line with the mistaken belief the only job we do is therapeutic care, all of which can be outsourced to AI.
Already we've seen how well that's going.....
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Suspect it's in line with the mistaken belief the only job we do is therapeutic care, all of which can be outsourced to AI.
Already we've seen how well that's going.....
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI could replace 3m low-skilled jobs in the UK by 2035, research finds
Trades, machine operations and administrative roles are most at-risk, says leading educational research charity
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I note from this 'psychologists' are on the list of jobs most likely to disappear with AI.
Suspect it's in line with the mistaken belief the only job we do is therapeutic care, all of which can be outsourced to AI.
Already we've seen how well that's going.....
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Suspect it's in line with the mistaken belief the only job we do is therapeutic care, all of which can be outsourced to AI.
Already we've seen how well that's going.....
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Important to remember this when you read news reports of DOGE closing 'without achieving anything'. It achieved plenty. Not only should this not be forgotten, those responsible should be held accountable.
DOGE shuts down having not found trillions of dollars of waste or saved any money.
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Important to remember this when you read news reports of DOGE closing 'without achieving anything'. It achieved plenty. Not only should this not be forgotten, those responsible should be held accountable.
The 5th Element is a great film and I quote at least a line a day from it, when I'm also not doing this.
Milla Jovovich is a great actor and singer (the latter's often forgotten).
Milla Jovovich is a great actor and singer (the latter's often forgotten).
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The 5th Element is a great film and I quote at least a line a day from it, when I'm also not doing this.
Milla Jovovich is a great actor and singer (the latter's often forgotten).
Milla Jovovich is a great actor and singer (the latter's often forgotten).
Well this is just lovely...... ❤️
"Hope is the thing with feathers". Presentation for a session for international students. Access here www.beautiful.ai/player/-OerP... This forms a block of 6 sessions I've planned. A big thank you to @didau.bsky.social, @jameshandscombe.bsky.social as sound boards & resources #EduSky #thisisAP
Seeds of Hope: Exploring the Resilience of the Human Spirit
Get started with Beautiful.ai today.
www.beautiful.ai
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Well this is just lovely...... ❤️
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations |
Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
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Having just been through the desert carrying a guy with no name, it felt good to get out of the rain.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Having just been through the desert carrying a guy with no name, it felt good to get out of the rain.
Years ago I recall raising the issue of safety and wellbeing training with a humanities funding council specifically for archivists and the response was 'people can't be hurt by paper'.
So glad to see these events slowly taking shape across disciplines. You never know how research might affect you
So glad to see these events slowly taking shape across disciplines. You never know how research might affect you
📣Calling archivists, researchers & heritage professionals!
Join us online on Monday 26 January (1PM) to learn key concepts of trauma-informed and person-centred practices and practical frameworks for embedding these into your work.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti... (1/2)
Join us online on Monday 26 January (1PM) to learn key concepts of trauma-informed and person-centred practices and practical frameworks for embedding these into your work.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti... (1/2)
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Years ago I recall raising the issue of safety and wellbeing training with a humanities funding council specifically for archivists and the response was 'people can't be hurt by paper'.
So glad to see these events slowly taking shape across disciplines. You never know how research might affect you
So glad to see these events slowly taking shape across disciplines. You never know how research might affect you
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HYBRID EVENT: 'Introduction to Quantitative Bias' with Rachel Hughes on Monday 1st December at 10am-12pm UK time.
For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session!
Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session!
Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HYBRID EVENT: 'Introduction to Quantitative Bias' with Rachel Hughes on Monday 1st December at 10am-12pm UK time.
For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session!
Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session!
Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
There's more pressure than ever to publish. Academic staff are massively overworked. Pay is poor. Precarity is rife. There's little genuine care for one-another's wellbeing, nor accommodations offered. And, instead of addressing systemic harms or demands for free labour, we turn against ourselves.
25 no response out of 30 requests to review!
Drives me mad this selfish behaviour, which I also see as a journal editor. And it's almost always established folk with secure jobs, not least those endlessly brandishing their right-on-ness on social media
Drives me mad this selfish behaviour, which I also see as a journal editor. And it's almost always established folk with secure jobs, not least those endlessly brandishing their right-on-ness on social media
Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
There's more pressure than ever to publish. Academic staff are massively overworked. Pay is poor. Precarity is rife. There's little genuine care for one-another's wellbeing, nor accommodations offered. And, instead of addressing systemic harms or demands for free labour, we turn against ourselves.
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“Get into my bed and rest,” said Toad. Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea.
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“Get into my bed and rest,” said Toad. Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea.
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I'm not sure if you are not involved in the system you will understand the gravity of what being in 'supported accommodation' or 'limited day-to-day adult involvement' means.
Before I give some anonymised examples of my experience of working with young people as a volunteer in this system 1/n
Before I give some anonymised examples of my experience of working with young people as a volunteer in this system 1/n
New gov stats show 10,800 teens in care are in supported accommodation, often with limited day-to-day adult involvement.
For @bigissue.com, @nuffieldfjo.bsky.social's @lisaharker.bsky.social builds on her feature for our Grown Up? programme and examines the impact of these living arrangements.
For @bigissue.com, @nuffieldfjo.bsky.social's @lisaharker.bsky.social builds on her feature for our Grown Up? programme and examines the impact of these living arrangements.
Shocking number of children in care live without consistent love of an adult
Lisa Harker of the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, analyses figures on supported accommodation and what they mean for children in care.
www.bigissue.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'm not sure if you are not involved in the system you will understand the gravity of what being in 'supported accommodation' or 'limited day-to-day adult involvement' means.
Before I give some anonymised examples of my experience of working with young people as a volunteer in this system 1/n
Before I give some anonymised examples of my experience of working with young people as a volunteer in this system 1/n
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
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Our Chief Exec @jocasebourne on value of evidence-based support for children affected by #DomesticAbuse, ahead of #VAWG strategy: "a critical opportunity to make a difference to children & families at risk of or affected by domestic abuse" 👇https://buff.ly/VMi0D4s #REACHplan
Evidence on domestic abuse matters for children and services - CYP Now
Foundations' chief Jo Casebourne sets out research findings on what support is effective in improving outcomes for families affected by domestic abuse - and how future studies will build on this.
www.cypnow.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Our Chief Exec @jocasebourne on value of evidence-based support for children affected by #DomesticAbuse, ahead of #VAWG strategy: "a critical opportunity to make a difference to children & families at risk of or affected by domestic abuse" 👇https://buff.ly/VMi0D4s #REACHplan
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Posters have appeared around the building. They suggest that geography, geology, & environment staff might be a bit angry at proposed redundancies, reorganisations & closures. Rightly so.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Posters have appeared around the building. They suggest that geography, geology, & environment staff might be a bit angry at proposed redundancies, reorganisations & closures. Rightly so.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I have first hand experience of this as a independent visitor volunteer to young people in care. The abandonment of children in supported accommodation is something we should be utterly ashamed of as a nation. Good to see his urgent issue being highlighted by the @nuffieldfoundation.org .
New gov stats show 10,800 teens in care are in supported accommodation, often with limited day-to-day adult involvement.
For @bigissue.com, @nuffieldfjo.bsky.social's @lisaharker.bsky.social builds on her feature for our Grown Up? programme and examines the impact of these living arrangements.
For @bigissue.com, @nuffieldfjo.bsky.social's @lisaharker.bsky.social builds on her feature for our Grown Up? programme and examines the impact of these living arrangements.
Shocking number of children in care live without consistent love of an adult
Lisa Harker of the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, analyses figures on supported accommodation and what they mean for children in care.
www.bigissue.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I have first hand experience of this as a independent visitor volunteer to young people in care. The abandonment of children in supported accommodation is something we should be utterly ashamed of as a nation. Good to see his urgent issue being highlighted by the @nuffieldfoundation.org .
Happy Monday! How's your week shaping up? After a very rainy start it's lovely and sunny here now and I've a day of data entry ahead of me. It's not my favourite job but I'm more motivated by how interesting the findings are shaping up to be and also I know it's going to be a meaningful study.
You?
You?
a cup of hot coffee with steam coming out of it
Alt: A cup of hot coffee with steam coming out of it placed beside some chocolate chip cookies and small Christmas baubles.
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Happy Monday! How's your week shaping up? After a very rainy start it's lovely and sunny here now and I've a day of data entry ahead of me. It's not my favourite job but I'm more motivated by how interesting the findings are shaping up to be and also I know it's going to be a meaningful study.
You?
You?
I've experience of journalists attributing quotes to me that I never said. Usually things they wanted to stack up a piece and needed an expert to pin to, or sometimes assumed (wrongly) it's what I would've said. At least that was real people messing up, completely confected quotes is worse.
WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I've experience of journalists attributing quotes to me that I never said. Usually things they wanted to stack up a piece and needed an expert to pin to, or sometimes assumed (wrongly) it's what I would've said. At least that was real people messing up, completely confected quotes is worse.
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Aren't foreign student fees pretty much the only thing keeping universities solvent?
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Aren't foreign student fees pretty much the only thing keeping universities solvent?
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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When was the last time you attended a conference in the Global North and the keynote speaker spoke about visa injustice?
Well, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social did just that at @theunion.org conference in Copenhagen where people had struggles with visas
Well, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social did just that at @theunion.org conference in Copenhagen where people had struggles with visas
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
When was the last time you attended a conference in the Global North and the keynote speaker spoke about visa injustice?
Well, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social did just that at @theunion.org conference in Copenhagen where people had struggles with visas
Well, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social did just that at @theunion.org conference in Copenhagen where people had struggles with visas
People are rightly angry about this case but it's so important to stress it is not an anomaly. Universities are full of predators that institutions protect. Most of us know who they are and warn of them, but those who can and should be acting to stop it continually fail to do so.
A thorough investigation into the many ways in which Oxford has failed students and junior academics assaulted by male sexual predators, featuring cases in Balliol, New College, Said Business School and the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI
By Katherine Griffiths
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
By Katherine Griffiths
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
People are rightly angry about this case but it's so important to stress it is not an anomaly. Universities are full of predators that institutions protect. Most of us know who they are and warn of them, but those who can and should be acting to stop it continually fail to do so.
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Then Frog and Toad ate a big breakfast. And after that, they spent a fine, long day together.
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Then Frog and Toad ate a big breakfast. And after that, they spent a fine, long day together.
It's not too early to start a list of Hallmark Holiday Movie recommendations is it?
Here's my first offering. "Christmas on Cherry Lane". Find out how three different families manage three different Christmasses. 🎄☃️🏳️🌈
www.hallmarkchannel.com/christmas-on...
Here's my first offering. "Christmas on Cherry Lane". Find out how three different families manage three different Christmasses. 🎄☃️🏳️🌈
www.hallmarkchannel.com/christmas-on...
www.hallmarkchannel.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It's not too early to start a list of Hallmark Holiday Movie recommendations is it?
Here's my first offering. "Christmas on Cherry Lane". Find out how three different families manage three different Christmasses. 🎄☃️🏳️🌈
www.hallmarkchannel.com/christmas-on...
Here's my first offering. "Christmas on Cherry Lane". Find out how three different families manage three different Christmasses. 🎄☃️🏳️🌈
www.hallmarkchannel.com/christmas-on...