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The research trying to improve health and social care services How UK health research funding is tackling the front-line problems we face — from GP access to mental health and care homes

The NHS & Social Care are struggling.

Behind the scenes, researchers are working on practical ways to make care better.

From ambulance handovers to teen mental health, I've written about the quiet research funded by @nihr.bsky.social HSDR.

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Illustration featuring a young Black girl gleefully jumping in raindrops

Contemporary Brazilian Illustrator and artist Anna Cunha #WomensArt

Three photos of parts of a house covered in vivid coloyrful mosaic tiles with designs of images and texts

Carrie Reichardt, UK artist, who has spent 20 years transforming her house on a quiet London street into an anarchic mosaic-covered wonder #WomensArt #Saturday

The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity.

Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.

The Prime Directive Over a decade ago, at the height of the MOOC madness, many people crowed excitedly about "the end of college" – not because the various technologies they believed would enable this were any good (by "...

The ed-tech vision: Everything and everyone is a machine to optimize and control. Everything and everyone is a market to be exploited. Teachers and students are utterly, utterly expendable 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-prime-di...

Head of Sector Development, Tavistock Square, London Help shape sector development for the UK’s professional body for libraries, information, and knowledge management Head of Sector Development Full Time: 35 hours per week | £55,500pa | Hybrid |…

Hugely exciting role in the team here, please do share informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/head-of... Head of Sector Development, shape our offer to the profession, £55k, deadline 7 August #job #vacancy

3. Libraries are important in delivering media literacy! Libraries are 1 of the last free community spaces people have & librarians, as experts of information and know how to adapt their services to people's context have a long-established role in helping people to become more information
literate.

1. Collaboration with social media platforms around media literacy and digital rights needs to be handled carefully as the platforms have not proven themselves to put people’s wellbeing and digital rights at the top of their priorities. This is esp important with the recent Google & OpenAi deals! ->

Failure to prioritise media literacy in the UK presents a risk to social cohesion and democracy - Committees - UK Parliament The Communications and Digital Committee publishes its report ‘Media literacy’.

The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee's Media Literacy Inquiry report is published today.

🤓 So happy to have given evidence individually and also as part of Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA)

My key points were ->🖱

committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...

#BookSky

This plus the tiny bit of sellotape to fix the rip in your favourite tape that got eaten by the cassette recorder that has the top ten chart recorded from the radio last week.

Your daily reminder that mifepristone is SAFE!

Anti-abortion extremists are baselessly trying to create doubts on this essential medication, but over and over again it has been proven: abortion pills are safe AND effective.

Yet again, students recognise the huge benefits they get from their library services, as the 2nd highest rated measure of 30 in the National Student Survey www.officeforstudents.org.uk/data-and-ana... #NSS2025 #NSS #HE #HELibraries

The female gaze is a damp wet rat of a man who looks haunted by a ghost of sadness. Preferably he is literally wet, eg.

Young woman surfing a small wave, crouching with arms out

Surf girls of Bangladesh. The girls had been working as street vendors, but began taking surfing and lifeguarding lessons. Despite criticism from the community, they quickly proved they had great talent #WomensArt

We welcome the news that the Government is committing to ensure all primary schools have libraries by 2029. But don't forget librarians. To build a school reading culture you need trained staff. @sla.org.uk #GreatSchoolLibraries www.thebookseller.com/news/governm...

Girls in Afghanistan have lost basic human rights. A young woman who escaped the Taliban, Nadia Nadim, reached Denmark as a refugee, became a proffesional footballer, playing for PSG, Man City & represented Denmark 99 times. She speaks 11 languages & has just qualified as a doctor.... #AfghanWomen

Wild flowers, 2006 by Su Blackwell, UK artist who creates paper art out of old books, often based on nature #womensart

July 19th #otd in 1908 - 50,000 suffragettes and their supporters attend a rally in Heaton Park, Manchester, for women's rights. Here suffragettes Mabel Capper and Patricia Woodlock wearing aprons of posters advertising the event.

Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election 16- and 17-year-olds will be given right to vote in all elections as part of changes including easier voter registration

Brilliant news. Long overdue.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Senior Communications Manager - Health Equals 12-month family leave contract Salary: Up to £65,778 per annum plus excellent benefits Application deadline: 20 July 2025, 23.00

Do you have a passion for social change and a deep understanding of the role of communications in driving policy and public action?

We are looking for a Senior Communications Manager to join the team @healthequals.bsky.social​.

Find out more and apply by 23.00 on 20 July ⬇️

https://bit.ly/44cxqBu

This. This is beautiful and where I would like to be right now.

"Mapped life expectancy for every LA in England from 2010-12 compared with reductions in LG spending up to 2020 👇[...] the shorter the life expectancy in 2010, the steeper the cuts in Govt funding"
@stevensenior.bsky.social @felly500.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social @lukemunford.bsky.social

YouTube video by CALC Conference Christina Kamposiori - Embedding diversity and inclusion in research library recruitment practices

Delighted to say you can now view @ckamposiori.bsky.social talk from #CALC25 on our YouTube channel!

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Photo featuring a surfboard, with octopus design in white on black, propped upright against rocks on a beach by the sea

Anne Marie Price, mosaic artist based in southern California, who among other materials, creates her work on surfboards #WomensArt

I only caught a bit of him. Gonna go back and watch it all. Did you Alanis? She was fabulous.

50% off all our books! You know your bookshelf can handle a few more if you double stack....

Academic librarians and learning developers! If you could change the way you deliver your sessions or support or design something completely from scratch, what would you do?? 📚

Millions of children at risk as vaccination uptake stalls A global study finds large numbers of children are unvaccinated against diseases like measles, tuberculosis and polio, which makes outbreaks more likely.

#BBCNews - Millions of children at risk as vaccine uptake stalls
www.bbc.com/news/article...

A picture of a sunny Astana, including the large Bayterek sculpture in the centre. The text reads "join us at IFLA WLIC 2025 in Astana, Kazakhstan 18-22 August" along with the IFLA.org web address.

📢 New #WLIC2025 grants available❗

IFLA is offering grants for attendance at August's World Library & Information Congress in Astana via it's Emerging Leaders scheme.

Application & eligibility info here: 2025.ifla.org/home/ifla-em...

⚠️ Deadline - 4 July 🤞
@iflaglobal.bsky.social @cilip.bsky.social