Been adding more #autoethnography to teaching & this piece caught my eye. However not sure when I'll be able to read, seems like such a gut-punch:
"intergenerational relationships & #transnational#care shaped by global #migration & aging. I reflect on the dynamics of my relationship with my mother, beginning with my departure from my home & spanning a period of 40 years. I contemplate theoretical models of intergenerational solidarity, ambivalence, & role ambiguity..."
Migrant care workers are being betrayed by the tied-visa system that bought them to the UK... when sponsors are striped of their license, it tis the care workers who are effectively punished - forcing them into a precarious race for alternate employment.
This is just one part of a national political hypocrisy on 'economic migration'... we want/need workers to fill posts, but some just want to punish them for coming here;
Gran: “He’s never done any of it in a malicious way. Why didn’t the school system put in more filters, or firewalls, to prevent children from getting into that?”
County Spokesperson: "Threats to over 100,000 students’ safety, including hacking, will be met with the full force of the law and applicable District policy."
Folks, I'm starting my post-#PhD job search low-key on the side while I write up my #thesis.
I have an odd collection of skills - #Linux, #Python, #Jupyter, #pandas, #DevRel, and I've done a lot of work in team leadership and management, and have led a multi-million $ not for profit in the past. Keynote speaker.
I'm looking for something that harnesses all of these skills - and it will be a senior role with senior pay, given my experience, qualifications and proven capability. I have time and will be discerning about my next step.
Job titles that might fit here would be Senior Research Engineer, Engineering Lead, Lead AI Engineer or similar.
Looking for fully remote work, with one day a fortnight max in #Melbourne, AU. If you don't believe in #RemoteWork or #WFH, we're not a good fit.
Super keen on something full time rather than splitting my attention over multiple part-time roles.
Looking to start around August, so a fair amount of lead time.
Keen on organisations that have strong values alignment - #FAIR and #CARE data use, #EthicalAI, AI for social good.
As a carer I found Celia Dale's book A Helping Hand (1966/2022) a strangely uncomfortable read. Its a tale of the banality of evil, with a couple taking advantage of vulnerable old women they move into their house & slowly encourage to die. Its sombre & unsettling fiction which in our age of unpaid carers is a timely criminal trade. Written largely in dialogue this is an all too believable tale of casual sociopaths at work.
Abolished but not retrospectively! What - were the decisions made by judges before 2012 somehow correct, sensible or humane? And for the ‘law and order' fiends, did this even reduce the costs of such inhumane treatment, or ‘lock em up and forget’ policy?
Over the next decade, 300 million people in China will age out of the workforce. Who will take care of them? The country’s past one-child policy combined with a slowing economy have created a mounting demographic crisis. The government has been urging businesses to build infrastructure for elder care, but insufficient pensions make profits far from a guarantee. Read more from the BBC.
If you're in Glasgow today, considering coming along to the Transforming Care symposium at Glasgow School of Art. I'll be giving a talk about the work we are doing on ownership of care records for children and young people in care.
One impact of COVID that we don’t talk about enough is how people are avoiding medical care because of lack of precautions like masking in healthcare settings. This doesn’t show up as COVID deaths or hospitalizations but delays in screening, diagnosis, and treatment increases the mortality rate of other diseases like cancer.
@luckytran Am in that situation right now. Trying to decide if I cancel an appointment because both doctor and #hospital refuse to say masking will be used because “it’s not required, you can wear your own” and “you can cancel if you want - it’s your choice”. Some choice. Give up #care or go and risk life-threatening #nosocomial infection. Level of ignorance in medical staff & med admin is astounding. #covid
Here in the UK, our governments ( #ToryScum and #Labour ) have turned our national asset, the #NHS and #care system, from a high quality, caring, safe service into fodder for global private equity companies, who are suckling every drop of value from us, while being supported by the British Taxpayer.
Much of Cory Doctorow's analysis of US private equity feeding off healthcare applies to the UK too.
I've had many people treating me as if I'm inept and pushing me towards non-profits which is the rich deciding who deserves help
I've been waiting for #SalvationArmy to get back to me since December with the help of a care coordinator - nothing and they probably only help 1 time in 12 month
Guess who would still be a #Disabled caregiver within 12 months...
Wenn ältere Herren lamentieren, dass die Jungen nicht mehr arbeiten wollen („man sieht es ja bei den Bahnern“), mache ich ihnen gerne folgende Rechnung auf: Ihre Vollzeit plus die Erwerbsarbeitszeit ihrer Ehefrau geteilt durch zwei ergibt die durchschnittliche Erwerbsarbeitszeit der Ehepartner.
„Schau, dann hast du ja eigentlich auch eine 30h-Woche gehabt.“
The only time #Dysphoria doesn't rule me, is when I am sleeping. In my dreams my body is exactly as it should be, and I am free.
But you know what is fucked up? Dysphoria can make falling asleep harder, staying asleep harder as you move at night and your flesh adjusts, and worse your dysphoria is = more it can fuck with your sleep.
Dyphoria is a threat to overall PHYSICAL and MENTAL health and should be cared for accordingly as first priority medical care. Not cosmetic.
This interview with Linus Torvalds on the qualities that maintainers need (in contrast to developers) and maintainer fatigue summarizes a few things I keep bringing up:
maintenance is not "bugfixing" as a lesser/different kind of coding, it's about experience, about having done a lot of things to give context to what you are seeing and to have some understanding of what second order consequences a choice might have
maintenance is about collaboration and cooperation with others, about bridging gaps between contributors and their goals
I'd have added that maintenance is #care work: Caring about and for the project/product and its development and sustainability, caring about and for the social structure that the project/product is built upon, caring about and for the people who will be using the product/project or who will otherwise be affected.
#Maintenance doesn't work without empathy, about thinking through long term consequences.
Throughout the world, the number of relatives that people have may dramatically shrink by 2095, which could significantly change caregiving:
'Using international demographic data, researchers recently projected the structure of families in every country around the world. They estimated that, globally, a woman who is 65 years old in 2095 will have only 25 living relatives. That represents a nearly two-fifths reduction from an estimated total of 41 relatives in 1950—and a nearly 42 percent reduction from an estimated total of about 43 relatives in 2023, according to the researchers.'
📢 Celebrating that "Caring for Methods: 'Care-Ful Method Practice' through Methodography" by @i_ngli & I has been published today! 🎉
📖 In the chapter we advocate for methodography as a genre of care-ful interrogation of method practice in #STSethnography.
📙 The chapter is part of a beautiful collection concerning "Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Social Science Interventions" edited by @DorisLinnea & Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen.