Forgot to say - that's it - I am done with X. 'Twitter' was nice but the neo-nazi symbolism and associated attitudes that permeate X combined with the tools to support pornographic images of children... I'm done with you

Understaffing nurses is associated with a higher risk of sickness absence, highlighting that adverse working conditions can contribute to absenteeism and staff shortages. ja.ma/4cIt8WD @ora_dall @workforcesoton

Why vital signs observations are delayed and interrupted on acute hospital wards: delays occur regardless of their clinical priority because other tasks are accorded more 'temporal status' even if clinical priority is lower .sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

I’ve just edited an academic article and replaced every mention of “paediatric populations” and “paediatric patients” with “children”. Using more complex language doesn’t make academic articles more scientific. It just makes them harder to read and understand.

Teamwork between registered nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel. There's need for clearly defined roles & responsibilities, better delegation practices, good communication & good interpersonal relationshipshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666142X25000037

NEW PAPER: Nursing is NOT a set of tasks. Our theoretical proposition elucidates the complexity of daily work. Understanding the complexity and interconnectednes of nursing care (and expertise needed) reveals the risks of staffing by task allocation sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

‘Entanglement of nursing care’: A theoretical proposition to understand the complexity of nursing work and division of labour - when you split nursing work into tasks you change its nature sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

The vitriolic abuse directed at @jessphillips over the past few days is unwarranted and unacceptable. It is an example of the culture of abuse and intimidation that has become commonplace in our political discourse, disproportionately impacting women and people of colour. 🧵1/4

🚨WORLD’S RICHEST MAN BUYING OUR DEMOCRACY🚨Elon Musk is set to pump £78m into Nigel Farage’s party—a sum that would allow Reform to flood our politics with targeted ads. Add your name to the petition! 38d.gs/n3se

Check out my latest article: Managing authorship and avoiding disputes linkedin.com/pulse/managing-… via @LinkedIn

The disappearance of smallpox remains one of the great medical mysteries of our time. Can't possibly think how it happened. We must research this more. No proper studies were ever done. I just want more data. #VaccinesWork ourworldindata.org/grapher/g…

Who reviewed this paper? A few days ago @gcabanac tweeted about a paper that had published a remark that it had been forced to cite irrelevant papers. You can see the tweet here: buff.ly/3UMIguf. We remarked that if it was not so serious, it would be funny. Since reading that tweet, we have not been able to get it out of our head, so we thught that we would document it in a little more detail. We are doing this for three reasons. 1️⃣ In our view, it descerves more detail to be made available. 2️⃣ We'd like these details to be be kept as a matter of public record, so we are posting similar posts on our X account and our LinkedIn account. 3️⃣ It should be of interest to this community, so we hope that this raises even further the ethical issues around this topic. The first image shows the paper that we are looking at. What is interesting is the text that appears on at the end of the introduction (highlighted in red). This appears to show that the reviewer insisted that a set of 13 papers be cited, else they would not accept the paper. It would be interesting to see the review repport, so that we could be certain what had been said. If you want to see the paper, it is available here: buff.ly/4fndXm0 In the rest of this 🧵, we show the papers that have been asked to be cited (i.e. [35]-[47]). These have been taken from the paper mentioned above. You'll notice (as we have highlighted it) that every paper is "et al." meaning, of course, that there are quite a few authors on each paper. Gicven that we cannot see all the authors, the other images on this 🧵 shows the full set of authors on each of these 13 papers. We leave it an an exercise for the reader to hazard a guess as to the reviewr is?

Fantastic opportunity if you want to hear more about the great work @arc_wessex has funded in the area of nurse staffing, work patterns and provision of compassionate nursing care. Also, it's at lunch time so hopefully it will be easier to attend ;)

“ When a Clown moves into the Palace, he doesn’t become a King, The Palace becomes a Circus” is a Turkish proverb which is worth heeding in the coming days.

IMPORTANT PLS SHARE. It's rumoured the English £9,250 tuition fee cap may be raised this pm for the 1st time in 8yrs, as University's finances are strained. As student finance misunderstandings abound, I've bashed out a few notes to help... 1. Higher tuition fees WON'T change what most pay each year. For most, they're paid for you by the student loans company and you repay afterwards only if you earn over the threshold. The amount you repay each year (9% over the threshold) solely depends on what you earn not on what you borrow. 2. Increasing tuition fees will only see those who clear the loan in full over the 40yrs pay more. That is generally mid-high to higher earning university leavers only, so the cost of increasing them will generally be born by the more affluent. Most lower and middle earning university leavers will simply pay 9% extra tax above the threshold for 40yrs (and higher tuition fees won't change that) 3. The rise is tuition fees is likely to be trivial compared to the changes the last govt made for 2023 starters. 2023 starters had their repayment thresholds dropped to £25,000 (from £27,295/yr) and had the time they had to keep repaying for (unless cleared) extended to 40years from 30years. So these higher annual repayments for longer, increased by over 50% the amount many graduates will eventually have to pay back for going to university. Yet they were almost stealth changes because people can't intuitively feel the seismic impact. Changing tuition fees is a more obvious rise, but in reality has far less of an impact on the amount most will repay (though combined with the 2023 changes it does certainly up the cost). 4. The biggest practical problem for students isnt tution fees (even if raised) its the fact maintenace loans aren't big enough. English maintenance loans have not kept pace with inflation. I'd urge the govt to couple the tuition fee loans with bigger living loans - if not it is a real risk to social mobility, with those from the poorest backgrounds likely to be worse affected. I could write more, but will stop here, hopefully this gives an idea the issues are less straightforward than many feel.

🧵 A thread addressed to my fellow conservatives who are planning to vote, or considering voting, for Trump. 1/13

I am in Frankfurt after flight MS779 to LHR was forced to divert here last night. Have been given no information on how and when we will get home & no local contact. Earlier X post referred us to an email that aims to reply in 10 days. Extended holiday beckons. @EGYPTAIR

It’s a scary time for men. facebook.com/share/v/FUL2E7x…?