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I'm quite happy to 'bear the cost' of young people being more educated and generally having more choices and agency about what they do with their lives. When it comes to bearing the cost of people earning over £100k a year avoiding and evading tax that is a different story

Screenshot of a thesis front page - Adverse Childhood Experiences: What works to break the cycle? Submitted to Swansea University in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Florence Avery Swansea University Medical School Swansea University 2026

It's ready! And by finished I mean ready to sit in my drafts for 9 months whilst I start and finish up my mat leave, which is an odd feeling. Hopefully I still think it's good in November...

Yeah they have also massively moved the goal posts as to what 'school readiness' means in the past 50 years!

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

Why are they positively correlated as opposed to no correlation? E.g worse than random? Are participants literally just checking all of the right hand side? Authors don't seem to address this. Thanks for sharing!

Should PhD be included in the list of abbreviations within a PhD thesis? 🤔

Autism as an 'adverse' 'disorder' is ableist framing surely.

My top books that I read in 2025 🎉 Any recommendations for similar very welcome!

A politician making me feel hopeful? Zack I don't know how to feel about this, don't break my heart, it's the hope that kills you

How childhood trauma affects our ability to understand minds 🧩

New review finds that childhood neglect is consistently linked to weaker mentalisation, especially in psychosis. Abuse shows mixed results, but the overall pattern spans diagnoses.

🧵 THREAD

#ChildhoodTrauma #Mentalisation

The idea that politicians pledging something which then doesn't materialise exactly as promised is some sort of unique threat from the Green Party, as opposed to being *the main running theme through UK politics for the last few decades* is completely unhinged.

Sold A Story is a great podcast all about this!

Unlike politics, there’s no such thing as public health centrism. It’s evidence-based radicalism. It’s all about change towards health justice and equity, not tinkering around the edges trying to keep everyone happy. Such notions, my friends, are rather radical and there’s no shame in that.

Today is the first day in 26 weeks of pregnancy that I have enough energy to use my standing desk! What a wild ride

I am absolutely furious with everyone and anyone who had the audacity to have a choice over whether they got up at normal clock time or normal body time. And I have no right to be as I went to bed before my toddler and also got up after him but still.

The irony of a representative of our current government calling out any institution for not listening to people and abdicating responsibility.

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Excellent thread. I would add, there is nothing exceptional about private companies providing aspects of the NHS offer, this happens in almost ever conceivable hospital specialty, often to reduce waiting lists or target a specific population who need care

I've got slightly better throughout my degrees but now in my third year of my phd I still had a moment recently of 'where did I get this from? why didn't I make it clearer!', so definitely a slow burner. Maybe the next project it'll stick but I can't face the idea of there being a next project atm!

2 years ago me really should've taken more notice of this

I think it has to. Home education is rocketing up. At what percentage of deregistration do we acknowledge that there is a societal obligation to at least try and make sure schools are appealing and workable to a sizeable portion of the population and shift things accordingly?

100% the amount of people who 'complimented' me on weight loss in the months after my dad suddenly died in my 20s... read the room much? fatphobia has people in a chokehold

I'm with you. The framing is all wrong too - 'helicopter parent' is a negative term not a parenting philosophy surely. Also I can't see anything in this article that's inconsistent with 'gentle parenting'. Also, this approach is clearly inappropriate for under 3s. Three more objections for you!

I wish people were willing to discuss illegal employers not illegal workers. It's pretty clear any intervention needs to make it harder to hire workers illegally, not harder to accept offers of illegal work.

NI Numbers don't stop illegal working
Passports don't stop illegal working
Residence cards don't stop illegal working
Driving Licenses don't stop illegal working
Bank statements don't stop illegal working
its almost as if you can't stop illegal working

but thats a hexagon. invested

thats a pentagon

I got caught out by this recently, didn't know it was a relatively recent piece of legislation. HUGE implications for accessibility and vulnerable people being disproportionately impacted.

Odd that they used a system to find my correct address 10 months after the offence but not earlier? The paperwork was astronomical and I did think - a huge number of people who go to court are fairly low literacy and agency, this cannot be the best system or the fairest