Kieran Laskawy

It’s multi factorial too. Planning is a problem, a big one at that, but it doesn’t sufficiently explain how terrible we are at this.

After well over a year of anxious hoop jumping, I’m pleased to report that I can add medical student (albeit a somewhat aged one) to my CV. No longer just a researcher!

This is also my experience with oncologists. I suspect a lot of it has to do with academic output as much as it does with the material aspects of their clinical work. My n is low here, but that's certainly true of onc people I've spoken with.

A very, very, very good question indeed.

The other issue is that forecasting is rendered meaningless because the bed capacity doesn't exist, and even if it did, we couldn't discharge people even if we wanted to, the state social care being what it is now. Worse, linear regression/observed data already tell us when the influxes are anyway.

With recent IT advances, it might even be plotted on a laptop with Desmos!

I also noticed this. I suspected they’d been sold a linear regression model, but didn’t want to say, but the more I read it strikes me as briefing or floating, but to whom and to what end, I’m not quite sure.

If you can discurssively define the problem in the public's/policymakers' minds, that creates solutions that are in and out of the scope of the problem. Carol Bacchi's "What is the Problem Presented to Be" framework carries a lot of empirical water here.

I don't think this framing is meant for professionals. It's about defining the terms of the problem for other people. If the problem is only a "demand crisis", that circumscribes the logical remedies and deligitimises the more structural fixes that focus on supply (more doctors, AHPs, and beds).

This is a brilliant piece on the restructuring of political competition in Western Europe and goes far beyond the question of populism. Great also for teaching.

Quite so. Gramscian hegemony at work.

It’s striking to me how often I find myself debunking the eminently verifiably false claim of “RECORD BREAKING FLU SEASON”… EVERY YEAR! The “we only have a demand problem” has been a wildly successful (at excusing policy failure) discursive framing. I’ve found my next article to work on…

Evidence for paeds PCPs (GPs) in the states is pretty strong, so I suspect the reason is not for lack of evidence.

This is for a horrendously niche audience, but Falcons vs G2 is an unbelievably fun playoff game.

The (ARDS)net*

Rise of LEDs

A new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards.

Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Feels like we are getting the worst of the Fabian tendencies of pragmatism, combined with intense anti-intellectualism.

The way 1.6 was meant to be played!

I would be very keen to read through that.

The lack of research into multimedia learning and neurodiversity surprises me not at all, but it is interesting that there is no primary research on the former. I would have thought n. sci. of visual perception would have been into this sort of thing.

I will most certainly be giving this a read, and I'd be interested to read your paper when it comes out. I care a lot about slide design and cognitive load as someone with a SpLD (and also someone who cares about aesthetics). It's certainly something I've thought about writing about, too.

Great paper (and it totally confirms my priors😁)! This seems to be foundational knowledge in my department. As I begin to prep my teaching materials for some masters seminars I'll be running, I've been warned that even with them, instruction has to be very hands-on.

I buy this argument generally, but I keep coming back to the fact that we are not taxing our productivity in this country. Labour is incredibly unproductive (although it should be taxed more), so why aren't we finding ways to tax where the productivity is; i.e., rent-seeking?

The case for PBL in the 90s was made because it's "active learning", but no one thought to examine the learners themselves who made PBL so active; incredibly engaged US 23 y/os with four years of experience learning how to learn. They thrived in "passive" mass-biochem lectures at undergrad, too.

There may be no such thing as active learning, but I find there is such a thing (and there is an imperative to be) an "active LEARNER". I think we focus a lot on delivery and not enough on what it actually is to learn. It's a teachable skill (to some extent).

Coming from social science to medicine, I like that there are areas where we do not have unified mechanistic models. It's fun intellectually that it's still really hard to get from binding energies to protein interactions to consciousness suppression in a way one discipline can fully map out.

With no transition plan I might add! How will the re-skill?

Yeah, it’s tough for me to parse where that comes from and exactly who it’s for (other than him). It’s a very Salvini-esq line in a lot of ways.