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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

In the last 10 years the number of people in the over-65 age group has risen by 20%, while the number of care home beds has risen by less than 3%.

The former figure is a testament to rising life expectancy & better health care, the latter figure is the context in which there is a crisis in the availability of place if care homes (driving up prices & locking many unpaid carers into care for relatives, while being kicked by the DWP).

We need a solution for everyone's sake!

#health #care
h/t FT

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“Everything about it – the language, the rhythm, the approach, the subject, the author – conspires to make a beautiful, vital, difficult, human piece of art.”

—Jenni Fagan’s OOTLIN, her memoir of growing up in care, has won the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize – an annual award celebrating writing that has an unconventional perspective, style or subject matter

@bookstodon

theguardian.com/books/2025/mar

The Guardian · Jenni Fagan’s ‘visceral’ memoir of growing up in care wins Gordon Burn prizeBy Ella Creamer
#Scottish#literature#memoir
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petersuber

Update. "Safeguarding Research & Culture — Distributing Cultural Memory"
safeguarding-research.discours

"The destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage has happened, and therefore it can happen again. We are in the middle of that happening, whether it is caused by human action or natural causes…Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC) is creating an alternative #infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage and scientific knowledge…Together, we can ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear. Our archive is built according to the principles of #FAIR and #CARE, based on open technologies and standards, and resilient against loss via meaningfully distributed storage…Everyone, from individuals to institutions, can participate by accessing, contributing, and supporting these archival infrastructures."

Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) — Distributing Cultural MemoryAbout - Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) — Distributing Cultural Memory"As researchers we often say 'we need the data'. Today, the data needs us." — Kathy Reid
#Censorship#Crowdsource#DefendResearch
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Henrik Schönemann

I see this call making the rounds again - let me quote from the mission-statement of @SafeguardingResearch:
"Our archive is built according to the principles of #FAIR and #CARE, based on open technologies and standards, and resilient against loss via meaningfully distributed storage."

Please join us:
"As researchers we often say 'we need the data'. Today, the data needs us." — @KathyReid

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upstream.force11.org/open-scie
#OpenScience #SafeguardingResearch

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Upstream · Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by ExampleWorldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. The new US administration has thrown the entire academy into chaos, threatening global health. This article is a call for the open science community to practice what it preaches and lead by example in defending science.
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Safeguarding Research/Culture

"Our archive is built according to the principles of #FAIR and #CARE, based on open technologies and standards, and resilient against loss via meaningfully distributed storage.
We focus on publicly available material, like websites, datasets and other media, that are being altered or deleted. Our collective memory manifests in different amplitudes and digital-born artefacts — from large datasets, spanning decades of research on society, to personal wikis and blogs on and by marginalised people."

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Sunguramy :nb_lily:

Happy Valentine's Day from a gypsum heart in a cave.

Speaking of hearts, let's have some Real Talk! About hearts! Today I re-certified in CPR & First Aid. Did you know that socialized as female folk are far more likely to die from a heart attack / cardiac event than men? It's true! A large cause of this is due to the fact that symptoms are often not as-seen-on-TV; instead being brushed off as nausea, acid reflux, or indigestion. And what do we do when we feel ick? We go to the bathroom. So when we collapse, no one is around to see, much less administer CPR. So: check on your friends who disappear to the bathroom for a long time!

Sadly, there is also a huge disparity between races in survival as well. Not only does lack of medical access and environment & social factors mean there is higher risk (systematic racism), but overt racism also prevents bystanders from stepping in to help. Black & Latinx people suffer the most. (newsroom.heart.org/news/cardio)

CPR is not that difficult! It is more the mental challenge of being prepared to step in and help. If you can't get to a class (hands on with the training manikins is certainly recommended if you can!) still learn about it. All 50 states have Good Samaritan laws.

I personally know two people who are alive thanks to a normal everyday person knowing CPR, and intervening. This is community building, y'all! Take care of each other out there.

Some additional tips:
1. If someone has a medical emergency and you end up leading the way, always point and directly tell people what to do (ex: you in the blue shirt *pointing at them* call 911). If you just shout things, people will not jump into action. Be specific & direct.

2. Always check for a pulse on the same side you are kneeling on, you don't want to reach across their neck.

3. If there are enough people, direct folk not involved in helping to form a circle looking *out*. This gives some privacy, very important in these days of cell phone cameras and the fact that say, once the AED shows up, their chest will be made bare. Help protect the patient's privacy!

4. Good Samaritan laws generally have caveats such as never accept anything as a thank you (not even flowers, *nothing*) and stay with the person until someone of equal or greater training arrives. So if you say, start CPR then just get tired and stop with no one equal or higher taking over, then you are liable.

Limestone rock in a cave covered with shiny white crystals. In the middle of the image are longer kinda comb or hair shaped crystaline structure, forming a heart shape.
#heart#love#valentine
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Eric Maugendre

"What happens when we put love and intimacy at the center of our understanding of privacy, and what are the consequences of their disavowal, in favor of a more familiar technocratic definition of privacy-as-absense? What role does our deep desire for love and belonging, and our concomitant fear of shame and rejection, have to do with the (mis)direction of tech capital and the current, warped shape of the tech industry and its products?"

Enjoy the clarity of 40 minutes with @Mer__edith: media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feelings-a

media.ccc.deFeelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame
#desire#confidentiality#techIndustry
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