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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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...

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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!

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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

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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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.

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Sold A Story is a great podcast all about this!

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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.

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

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.

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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!

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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?

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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!

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

but thats a hexagon. invested

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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.

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This is so fascinating! I recently got a letter to my current address saying I had a £1100 fine for failing to provide info, failing to attend court, victim impact etc etc. It was a speeding ticket that went to my old address (insurance up to date, licence up to date... logbook not up to date) 1/2

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Counterpoint: South Africa

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The Rivendell one is so disappointing looking!

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Just so we're clear: wearing a tshirt to support an anti-genocide group is a criminal offence, but directly instructing people to assault a group which is protected under the equality act is 'free speech' which needs to be protected? Cool cool cool www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Free speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting

The health secretary says ministers wanted police to focus on street crime rather than posts on social media.

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Fixed it inside 5 minutes, what a rush

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

New PhD milestone: found myself physically banging my head against the wall next to my desk. Mendeley creating a brand new reference list for no reason. IYKYK

Screenshot showing an incorrectly formatted reference list.

References

1. Allen KA, Vella-Brodrick D, Waters L. Fostering school belonging in secondary schools using a socio-ecological framework. Educational and Developmental Psychologist. 2016;33: 97–121. doi:10.1017/EDP.2016.5

1. Braun V, Clarke V. Conceptual and design thinking for thematic analysis. Qualitative psychology. 2022;1: 3. Available: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2021-45248-001.html

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Please donate today if you can, Molly shares lots of accounts and does a huge amount of work to verify they are legitimate. My heart is breaking for families in Gaza

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Great post! Very interesting as a parent to a 2 year old. Who proudly asks for his 'bottle with mmm on it' - it has a letter M on, we often joke about his excellent grasp of phonics!

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I don't see how it's ethical to even run a pilot without getting consent from students, it's their work!

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

So, do students consent to have their assignments included or not?

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Was advertised this 'opportunity' through the University recently. I wonder if the students whose work is submitted will get the opportunity to consent in taking part? Or be told? Or indeed if they will be penalised for using AI for assignments that are used for this pilot?

Al Marking and Feedback Pilot
Swansea University is taking part in a Jisc sponsored pilot of Keath.ai, a generative Al-powered educational assessment platform designed to streamline grading and provide personalised feedback for assignments.
You are invited to register your interest in taking part by completing this form by September 7th, with details of any assessments you would like to include in the pilot. Keath.ai is best suited to long form essays and reports in English.
To take part in the trial, you will need to:
• Attend training (approximately 1 hour)
• Create a marking rubric
• Train an Al model
• Upload student submissions
• Review marks and feedback
• Reflect upon your use of Keath.ai

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Someone has clearly never been to Bristol and seen our average bystanders

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Whilst I'm personally not against the existence of Israel, I think the people using terms like 'colonising land thieves' are generally more concerned about the genocide in Palestine than the origins of the state, which I think is entirely correct. Also nothing to do with this post. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I feel like we are 6-9 months away from being told that an essential element of teaching impartially about Nazi Germany is to acknowledge that 'some of the people protesting against the Jews had legitimate concerns, actually' and maybe even 'it's not their fault Hitler took it too far'. Ludicrous

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I can't tell you how happy it makes me to find a Lord of the Rings pun on a research paper in the wild. I don't know what to do with myself now, kinda feels like I should take the rest of the day off

Bored of the rings: Methodological and analytic approaches to operationalizing Bronfenbrenner's PPCT model in research practice
JL Navarro, C Stephens, BC Rodrigues… - Journal of Family …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bronfenbrenner's ecological (and later bioecological) theory has been a mainstay in the
theoretical wheelhouse of developmental and family sciences since its inception in the …
Save Cite Cited by 85 Related articles All 5 versions

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I am begging university admins - if anyone, staff or student, emails you and shares that they are pregnant, then asks a follow up admin/HR question, it is completely appropriate to say congratulations rather than just ignore the news and address the query. Is this just me? I think it's so rude!

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Horrific, is there anything we can do to support the family?

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Analysing focus group data from a group of parents hits different when you are 4 months pregnant. I've been looking at this data since April, why am I now crying at the quotes about parenting being hard and peer support 😭 is it appropriate to mention pregnancy hormones in my reflexivity statement?

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Hello darkness my old friend

A screengrab of Mendeley Cite referencing software with a spinning 'loading...' wheel

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Productivity hack: just make all the logins and referencing software and file backup systems work. I'm in a reasonable state of flow today EXCEPT I have to stop every 5 minutes to add a reference, fix Google Drive, cajole a journal website into accepting my institutional email... It's so disruptive

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