Has anyone thought and written about assessment culture? Like, the culture of always being evaluated? Often by random metrics etc. If you have and want to chat about it on The Data Fix, please let me know. 🎙️

Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain.

Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time

www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...

It is a trend sadly. Let’s blame the victims rather than addressing the many social difficulties people face not least getting a GP appointment let alone mental health support for problems not of their own making.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

CME BHC provides resources from continuing medical education (CME) offerings and other professional literature specific to ME/CFS, FM, and long COVID.

Bateman Horne Center has a list of Healthcare Professional Continuing Medical Education (CME) courses on their website you can share with your doctor if they want to learn more about ME/CFS. Two of the courses are expiring soon (end of January).

batemanhornecenter.org/providers/me...

#MEcfs #pwME

High Street suffers Boxing Day hit as shoppers stay home
Yes but big stores such as M&S and Tesco shut in our town so not surprising - advertised in advance.

Revolting

Hope taxpayers’ money - which is scarce (according to Starmer ) didn’t pay for such a large tree in Downing Street.

Looking for help please on #LongCovid research in children (with Nathalie as below).
Our WILCO study is going brilliantly but we’re short of *controls*: aged 10-17y, London, have tested positive for Covid, but recovered fully inside 12wks.
Any noble tweens/teens who want to help research? 1/2

Reminder that we are hiring for two roles! We're especially looking for people familiar with the #LongCovid space. Deadline is December 31st!

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.

More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):

1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇

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The University of Leeds is offering scholarships for Gazans who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict. Further details in the link below — please share with your networks.
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic A shocking revelation in the #PhysicianAssociates scandal - hold onto your seats

A shocking revelation today in the #PhysicianAssociates scandal

It turns out the Health Secretary is using tax payers money to pay the GMC’s costs in defending the legal action brought by @anaesunited.bsky.social to protect patient safety - an outrageous use of public money youtu.be/T-BDHQop1zk?...

Genetic study of native hazelnut challenges misconceptions about how ancient Indigenous peoples used the land

"the study challenges settler-colonial narratives by establishing people actively cultivated hazelnut on a continental scale, beginning likely 7,000 years ago." 🏺

www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR

Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely

Long COVID needs real therapeutics: time to move past disproven approaches

Check out our rapid response on @bmj.com about the need for real therapeutics for #longcovid and #myalgicE #MEcfs and not GET/CBT.

Written by: @ellecarnitine.bsky.social @fvrhijn.bsky.social @bmhughes.bsky.social Xandra Westerman and myself.

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

'Mind-boggling' Brexit rules hit British food exports by £3bn a year British food sales to the EU have fallen by more than 16% on average across the three years since Brexit, a new report found, with businesses blaming new border checks.

British businesses have blamed "mind-boggling" bureaucracy on a £3bn-a-year hit to food exports since Brexit

news.sky.com/story/mind-b...

Hey, just in case you have kids and too many kids toys (which is basically everyone with kids?), please donate your outgrown toys *right now* to local charity shops or voluntary services, they are so much more needed now than in January!

This is a shame. I hope the festival will return in 2026.

4 funded heritage science PhDs at Nottingham Trent University. Due date: 14 February 2025.

1. Creative Approaches to the Representation of Crisis Heritage in the Museum using Digital Means (tinyurl.com/ymfnja7b)

Cont...

That is so sad.

Pencil drawing of a large Romano-British roundhouse with stone walls & thatched roof, with a proud Celt standing by the door

Finally it's #HillfortsWednesday 🎉

During the 2019 excavations of Dinas Dinlle coastal hillfort in Gwynedd, I knocked up a pencil sketch of what the enormous 13-metre diameter roundhouse 🛖 might have looked like 🤔

It was good to help the public visualise this huge Romano-British home 🤩

A photo of a finger post next to a wet road. The sign has two pointers. Both indicate ways to The Ridgeway.

A photo of the bank and ditch a Liddington. In the distance is a tree stripped of leaves which has grown in the ditch.

The bank and ditch at Liddington with sweeping views down across the surrounding landscape. In the cloudy sky above two Red Kites circle on the updrafts

A photo taken from the interior of Liddington looking towards the inner bank. Behind the bank and through a dip worn down by feet and tractor tyres can be viewed Swindon

Been a while since I've been able to go Hillforting. Life has been a bit full on for the best part of 2024.
Need to put that right soon.
Here is the wonderful Liddington Camp from late last year.
#HillfortsWednesday

La Défenseure des droits appelle à protéger les enfants de la crise environnementale Dans un rapport, Claire Hédon propose de piétonniser les abords des écoles, d’adapter le calendrier scolaire aux circonstances climatiques et de généraliser le dépistage des expositions prénatales aux pesticides.

La Défenseure des droits appelle à protéger les enfants de la crise environnementale

Yes :-)

Thank you for these.

Oh I love this!! #sensoryneeds #inclusioninpractice

Pleased to have joined Bluesky and escape the tyranny of X. Based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent England.