Pictures. PICTURES!

So these expensive, inefficient systems are also up against *wildly* inefficient user behaviour, which massively compounds the issue.

We are delighted to announce Alpa Shah as Statutory Professor in Social Anthropology and Fellow of All Souls College from 1 October 2024.
We look forward to welcoming her to University of Oxford!
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#Melbourne Much loved possum puppet lost this afternoon at Royal Park Nature Play. We’ve checked back a few times so someone has probably taken home for safe keeping, but there’s a distraught kid hoping to see her possum again.

I was curious, what percentage of government innovation fellows return to working in government?

6 years of data collection, over 400 fellows in 3 major government innovation fellowships.

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Oh no.

None of this is wrong, but the failures are systemic rather than specific to Parkinsons. A thing I wish we'd see is patient representative groups banding together on some of the service design points of this (rather than seeing the digital cash frittered away on AI).

A day tramping around the Blue Mountains

Picnic baby.

Mistakenly looked at work emails and now know that Prof Gina Neff has a really nice conference on next week that I'm gutted to miss.

Having the conversations here about The Last Four Years and having to repeatedly mention that the UK lost a quarter of a million people and so no, I don't think Melbourne had it roughest.

taking down the lying chatbot would have been the best way to prevent any further harm

instead the mayor is doubling down on it, and when I ask it questions it just gives me disclaimers

The future of Britain doesn't have to invoke an imaginary of the past - we have been here before, very recently - and it feels to me like a particularly miserable playbook to choose to read from at this stage in the game.

“If you want to feel old, Spaced was 25 years ago”
If you want to feel my thumbs in your eye sockets, here they are.