Widen the Lens: The Dark Endgame of the NIH Cuts
“The Universities are The Enemy"
David Pepper
Feb 12, 2025
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/widen-the-lens-the-dark-endgame-of?r=17y7a&triedRedirect=true
I know from my time in office here that one of every 12 jobs in the Cincinnati region is...
A twitter thread - more general than the Research issue but it illustrates the direction of travel
The View of a Tech Insider
A you’ll want to read
Amid all this talk of DOGE and tech and data and access, I thought I’d check in with another friend of mine who does this work for a living to...
Chaos is a by product, useful but not the main objective. There seems a pretty clear intended outcome: with reduced costs directly claimable on the grant fund, University administrations would reduce all 'included services' to researchers beyond the very basics of administering the grant -...
Buckle up:
https://bsky.app/profile/darbysaxbe.bsky.social/post/3lhcvn4hxwk2o
BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share...
Text = Here we are demonstrating against the NHS in job centres back in 2015. We succeeded then thanks to DPAC, Mental Health Resistance Network and Recovery in the Bin. We must now. Work is not a health outcome. Mental health provision must be independent to the hugely feared DWP.
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This is the new Government's primary policy statement on Employment and it includes a lot on illhealth and disiability and return to work from illness. It needs to be read carefully and while the report launch saw some lurid headlines in certain news outlets, e.g...
Kendall launches blueprint for fundamental reform to change the DWP from a ‘Department of Welfare to a Department for Work’
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall will use landmark first speech to set out the Government’s plans to reverse dire labour market inheritance and drive up Britain’s...
There now exists a sophisticated global market in health care employment which the UK arguably started this in the 1950s and now ironically suffers the effects of as it struggles to outbid other more attractive employing countries. At the heart of the problem is massive undersupply of skilled...
The Guardian
Thousands of foreign nurses a year leave UK to work abroad
Denis Campbell
"Almost 9,000 foreign nurses a year are leaving the UK to work abroad, amid a sudden surge in nurses quitting the already understaffed NHS for better-paid jobs elsewhere.
The rise in nurses originally from...
I suspect that a lot of people at all levels have a sense of hanging in there in the hope that something will change - and then if those people do give up the decision making posts go to the ones who actually don't care that things are increasingly unsafe. I think there was a lot of hope that...
It's not in the power of the Trust medical director to 'commission' a service - commissioning i.e allocating funds - is done by the local ICB, in this case One Devon. The ICB distributes funds around the differing NHS Trusts in its area - there are three Trusts in the the One Devon area, of...
If ME/CFS is a single pathological entity then maybe what you suggest could identify things that have been missed - but to me that intitial 'IF' is a problem. IMO it is likely that what we recognise as ME/CFS in any individual is the outcome of more than one pathological process (both cascade...
I think it's safe to assume that the individual is well aware of the "contested nature" of the psychological designation of ME/CFS; making yourself a 'poster person' on multiple grifter health sites could I suppose be a sign of excessive credence, but a Psyc grad doing an MSc surely can't be...
That TTDU-Q - Google translation from German:
The questions below relate to your TikTok activity over the past year (more precisely, based on the last twelve months). Please indicate how frequently following problems on average over the last twelve months up to today days occurred.
1. I've had...
Open NHS documents
https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/news/election-to-council-of-governors-results-2022/
Public Oxfordshire
Mike Hobbs
Natalie Davis
Srikesavan Sabapathy
Fiona Symington
https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/about-us/...
Symington describes herself as a "Psychology Assistant Research Worker" https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fiona-symington-42a8b4135 and appears in at least 3 grift videos: Healing from Chronic Fatigue/ ME and other symptoms w/ Fiona Symington & Living Proof - Stories of Hope - Recovery from ME Chronic...
Just to add a comparison - which might suggest there's a far bigger problem than driving while LC. US has close to exactly 5 times the UK population. US road deaths 2022 = 46,270, UK = 1,695
US road death per annum have been above 30k since 1946 increasing up to 50k in the 1970s but hit sub 34k...
Incidence of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome in a large prospective cohort of U.S. nurses
Palacios et al
ABSTRACT
Background: The incidence of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), the rates of both under-diagnosis and over-diagnosis, and the nature of...
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