Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Interesting read this, especially for those who seek to influence this slippery lot... Well done Dr Hilger. 030
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Over the years I have lost my van va voom for causes to get behind... But Universal Basic Income increasingly seems a powerful lever for better lives for many. Dissuade me. 140
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 30/05/2025the Internet was invented for THIS. Team was messing about with AI song generator for non traditional dissemination of research. With only our multi million technology in social care portfolio to work with. It came up with... aisonggenerator.ai/share/Wi-Fi%... Powerful stuff. 😬😂aisonggenerator.aiFree AI Song Generator - Create Custom Music with AITransform your ideas into beautiful songs with our Free AI Song Generator. Create custom music and songs instantly using advanced artificial intelligence technology. 000
Reposted by Carl Thompson Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · 14/05/2025The places where we live and work play a crucial role in determining our health, and it is important that they are designed so that people have access to the basic building blocks of health. 👀Read our response➡️ bit.ly/3GTl4GG 032
Reposted by Carl Thompson Nye Cominetti @nyecominetti.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Couple of points on "ending" overseas recruitment for care jobs. 1. Important to remember that reality has already moved on from the very high migration levels of 2022-2023. Cleverly's policy changes already hugely reduced care visa numbers (chart from @healthfoundation.bsky.social) 12515
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 26/04/2025jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... if you have discrete choice/preference elicitation skills, we need you to help us decide what people really want from technology in social care and create a national database of preferences for everyone to use... Fab team, fab uni. Please spread/get in touchjobs.leeds.ac.ukJob Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research FellowDo you have expertise in preference elicitation, choice modelling, discrete choice surveys? Passionate about technology in health and social care? Want to work with world-leading implementation and d... 021
Reposted by Carl Thompson Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 20/04/2025I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room. 2106681978
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Perfectly sums up the situation for many societies... Great piece. 052
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Not sure I feel fed up or flattered that a large bundle of my research papers in here. Does it count as a REFable impact? Another year when my ALCS allocation prevents me buying a yacht, 😢 011
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Looking for a research fellow keen to develop their career in a fab team and city. Experience in preference elicitation, Health and social care, and technology? Get in touch. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...jobs.leeds.ac.ukJob Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research FellowAre you an ambitious academic with a passion for technology and applied social care research? Do you want to work with world-leading implementation and decision scientists, health economists, social p... 011
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I'm hiring! Looking for a fab research assistant interested in technology, user-focused design, preference elicitation and mixed methods. Working in God's own country. Msg me if need to discuss. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...jobs.leeds.ac.ukJob Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research AssistantAre you an ambitious researcher, passionate about technology and applied social care wanting to take the next step in your development? Do you want to work with world-leading implementation and decisi... 003
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 27/02/2025There are few certain things in health forecasting. Probably only demographics and that elderly frail people facing surgery will need some social care support after... From someone. What's the rationale for not discussing?? 100
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 26/02/2025You know those dystopian Sci fi films? It's like the prequel to I Robot meets Gillette manly man adverts... Batshit crazy is about right. 010
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 21/02/2025We are totally f***ed... Time for big ideas, the sorts of engineering solutions humanity needs. No! Let's invent a virtual group of whining cartoon characters to "empower" us all. But I'm hungry. Never mind that dude... Emoji? Memecoin? 000
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 21/02/2025When you think you're having a bad day! Catastrophic stuff for individuals... Hope wise heads prevail. 000
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 19/02/2025#R4Today "going underground" for Rick Buckler's obit segment... Really? Bit lazy and poor taste. And that's from me! 020
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I ate a cow eye we were dissecting, for 50p... it did not go down well, in every sense. 000
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 08/02/2025atalentforidleness.blogspot.com/2020/03/lets... struck by how flipping relevant much of this album feels... It has aged well. Miss Lou Reed.atalentforidleness.blogspot.comLet's check in on "Sick of You," Lou Reed's most prophetic protest songLou Reed's New York One of the bigger challenges with writing a protest song is that there aren’t many genres that age more poorl... 020
Reposted by Carl Thompson Ann-Marie Towers @a-mtowers.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Take a look at the new ASCOT-Workforce measure. Part of ASCOT suite of tools, designed to measure care work-related QoL of the adult social care workforce. Tested with care workers, managers, social workers, OTs, nurses, personal assistants. Report coming soon. www.pssru.ac.uk/ascot/ascot-...pssru.ac.ukASCOT-Workforce – ASCOT 059
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 31/01/2025My grandparents were literally THE era... It wasn't even our car. 😂 Strong looks all round, especially my sister... 130
Reposted by Carl Thompson Ann-Marie Towers @a-mtowers.bsky.social · 29/01/2025New publication from the DACHA Study. Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...bmjopen.bmj.comAssessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional stud...Objectives To assess the feasibility of capturing older care home residents’ quality of life (QoL) in digital social care records and the construct validity (hypothesis testing) and internal consisten... 054
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 27/01/2025How's your morning going? A bizarre confluence of circumstances led to me driving my 78yr old dad's ridiculous Audi SUV, with a hat on the parcel shelf, BOOM radio on by default, and heating at 28°C and him shouting at loading vehicles in a medieval city. A circle of hell worthy of Dante 000
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 24/01/2025There are no bounds to the loathing I feel towards the expressions, "learnings", "journey", " and bloody "personas" (aka, stereotypes). It's not the language (ugly that it is), but because they are mostly used when obfuscating, dodging responsibility, or flack (cf. NHS, HE, police, LAs) 011
Reposted by Carl Thompson Global Observatory of Long-Term Care @goltc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024WEBINAR RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE: Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis 🏠 On 25 November we heard from @thompa101.bsky.social about how analysing this data can be used to tailor care plans to improve care quality. WATCH NOW: goltc.org/goltc-webina...goltc.org GOLTC webinar recording: Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis | GOLTC 012
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 19/12/2024If you are an academic and leave journal author signatures until the day offices close, or send a paper through for "over Xmas" reading, you are getting Temu presents and your stocking will contain only coal and a wrinkly dried satsuma. 041
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 17/12/2024thecookful.com/instant-pot-... variation, with some pressure cooking first...thecookful.comInstant Pot Caramelized OnionsInstant Pot Caramelized Onions are a thing but you need to know how to do it right so you don't end up with steamed onions instead. 020
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Until done! 😉 Probably 7 mins or so. If I did again, would probs just use normal sauté setting for longer 010
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Yeah, high sauté in instant pot, with a tea spoon of brown sugar and pinch of salt. Leave, but stir... Not too much, but stir. Deglaze, with tiny bit of stock if using in a pressure cook. 220
Reposted by Carl Thompson Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 13/12/2024opportunity costs associated with NICE recommendations. Defo the most important h economics paper you will read today, maybe this week, maybe the year so far This is where the primary care budget gets spent A www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 95232
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Drop me a dm Sean or an Email (Google Carl Thompson Leeds). Niche-leeds have a productive, functioning, research partnership with some providers. Worth following @spillersk.bsky.social if you don't already. 010
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Embedding high quality evaluation of "innovation" into care delivery... Like, properly embedded. would love to see care systems not lured by TEC "shiny beads" or some bonkers "magic bullet" that requires zero implementation and then enter doom loops of negative feedback and anti innovation. 110
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 10/12/2024A timely reminder for anyone involved in tech in the public sector. Interesting read... 👇 021
Reposted by Carl Thompson Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Research from @kspoon.bsky.social & ... "“People don’t want to be in a workplace if they feel disrespected, if they feel like their work isn’t valued, if they feel like they’re not seen,” she notes. “And I do think that in many, many academic workplaces, that is the experience that women have.”"science.orgWomen faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climateThe gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study 26320
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Transformational... Unless you are sending Optimus Prime into the care home.media.tenor.coma transformer says " any last words " in a dark roomALT: a transformer says " any last words " in a dark room 020
Reposted by Carl Thompson Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post... Is that that's THE MATTERHORN 814105441696
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 04/12/2024It's an interesting read, but I fear the essential nature of it's reforms will be diluted by "stakeholders" (sic) for consumption. Many of its excellent recommendations are "all our nothing" and need commitment and a will, freedom and agency to change. Compelling prescription though. 110
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Easier caring, more social engagement, a stake, reducing bureaucracy and inequality... Or, we keep feeding the expensive machine that isn't working. No amount of tinkering with the "benefits system" (with more apparatchiks) is going to cut it. Capitalism is changing, time to be bold? 010
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Watched #C4dispatches. Madness of incapacity benefits and broken relationship between employment and living (housing, warmth, food) makes me think it has to universal basic income's time? When it gets to 10% workforce in 10 years off long term sick, time for different. 120
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 27/11/2024As long as that "unregulated" (aside from soft hand of demand) care has the freedom (from bureaucracy and turgid regulation) to innovate, flex, get payed, do stuff different and let new players in. Otherwise, confusing and hamstrung? 100
Reposted by Carl Thompson Simon Bottery @blimeysimon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024For the first time in many years, I’m unable to get to the NCASC conference. Still, it’s not like there’ll be much to talk about. #NCASC24 #socialcare 062
Reposted by Carl Thompson Adelina Comas-Herrera @adelinacohe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Thanks for an excellent @goltc.bsky.social webinar, @thompa101.bsky.social fascinating to see how much can be learnt from tech to track people’s movements in #carehomes and mapping social networks, so many interesting questions! For anyone interested read journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgQuality in care homes: How wearable devices and social network analysis might helpSocial network analysis can support quality improvement in care homes but traditional approaches to social network analysis are not always feasible in care homes. Recalling contacts and movements in a... 063
Reposted by Carl Thompson The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 21/11/2024If you're interested in hearing more about the experiences of unpaid carers, listen back to this episode of the #KFPodcast. Jo Vigor sat down with Karen and Yvette who shared their story of giving and receiving care. #CarersRightsDay www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...kingsfund.org.ukLove, care and hard work: life as an unpaid carer | The King's FundJo Vigor speaks to Karen and Yvette, a couple who beautifully demonstrate the varied and essential role that unpaid care work plays in many relationships. 0105
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Spent the afternoon discussing our #socialcare crisis. If you mix paid care (and unrecognised unpaid care), capitalism and DEMOGRAPHICS, you betcha gonna need that "conversation" on immigration UK. There will not be enough young people to sustain our current model. Chapeau Spain. 042
Carl Thompson @thompa101.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Decided to watch Threads from 1984 again on plane last week. youtu.be/vgT4Y30DkaA?... Only taken me 40 years to get over it. This week's Ukrainian escalation has rather reignited the childhood trauma. Worth a watch if you want to scare yourself daft...youtu.beThreads (1984) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers 020
Reposted by Carl Thompson Matteo Cesari @macesari.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I love a sentence like this in the methods section of an #RCT: "...Participants with #multimorbidity, #dysmobility, and #cognitive impairment were not excluded..." #Geriatrics #Research #Aging #Ageing #Evidence #Medsky 1176