Louise Locock

Health researcher, interested in qualitative methods, patient experience, NHS quality improvement, COVID, rural and remote healthcare. Pro-European, linguist, in love with Italy. Still furious about brexit. Cat fan (other animals welcome).

Time split between Aberdeen and Oxford.

On twitter @LLocock
Academic profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8109-1930

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2024-09-03 14:50:23

It's that time of year again when National Trust members need to vote for council membership to avoid the attack from the far right 'Restore Trust' (yeah right). RT want to take us back to an uncritical, non-diverse, forelock-tugging verison of history. There's a quick vote to support the National Trust's top choice candidates. If you wish to select your own candidates, here are the Restore Trust ones to AVOID: Gibbs, Goldman, Jenkins, Kerr, Omrani and Streeter.
#NationalTrust #RestoreTrust

2024-08-01 06:44:14

Sincerely hoping the racist rioters in #Southport get custodial sentences exceeding those of the #JustStopOil protesters. Disruptive protests and a public nuisance, right?
Not holding my breath though

2024-07-22 20:14:59

I despair at the number of comments I've seen elsewhere (not here, obviously) denying Kamala Harris is Black, on the grounds that her dad is from the West Indies (Jamaica), so therefore she can't be a proper African-American. Do they seriously not know the history of slavery in Jamaica? Deeply depressing.

2024-06-24 18:54:59

I am the happy rescuer of a tiny baby swift which I found on the pavement. Three cheers for the volunteers of the Swift and Swallow SOS Facebook group who swung into action to get him to a skilled carer. Apart from a bit of dehydration he is apparently in good condition and likely to make it to Africa. ❤️
#Swift #Wildlife #WildlifeRescue
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2024-06-05 17:21:43

Feminist duck collective
#Thames #Wildlife
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2024-06-04 15:30:22

Genuinely quite surprised at the number of people coming out to say throwing a milkshake at Farage was 'assault' and must never happen to politicians. I absolutely agree politicians should not be subject to violence, but there is a long, proud history of throwing foodstuffs at people as a form of protest. Intended to humiliate and ridicule, not to injure. Pleased to see Mastodon mostly agrees. #Farage #Milkshake
https://criticallegalthinking.com/2019/05/24/a-short-history-of-throwing-food-at-fascists/

2024-05-23 06:04:47

The ever-wonderful Ian Dunt on #GeneralElectionNow #Sunak
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2024-05-02 19:58:24

So glad the rumour that Johnson got turned away from a polling station for lack of photo ID is actually true. Hilarious. Reportedly the fool thought an envelope with his name and address on would do.
#BorisJohnson #LocalElections
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-turned-away-polling-32724518

2024-04-12 10:46:10

This is so frustrating, COVID hospitalisations increasing in all age groups over 55, yet boosters only going to those aged 65+. This is why I'm paying for a booster at Boots at the weekend, but I'm lucky I can afford it. It should be available more widely (particularly if rumours are true that in the Autumn the government was throwing away unused doses rather than give them to a wider age group).
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2024-04-03 20:52:56

New YouGov MRP analysis suggests that a Labour landslide could see Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt, Jacob Rees Mogg and Iain DuncanSmith lose their seats. And just possibly Michael Gove.
When it finally comes I know this is going to be an all-nighter. Can't wait to see multiple Michael Portillo moments.
#GTTO #GeneralElectionNow #YouGov #MRP #LabourLandslide

2024-03-24 20:18:02

Wanlockhead, the highest village in the UK and a former lead mining community. Beautiful walking on the Southern Uplands Way
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2024-03-24 20:09:58

Not many motorway services hotels where you can see sheep from your bedroom and fells from the restaurant at breakfast. ❤️ Westmorland Hotel, Tebay.
#Westmorland #Sheep #Fells
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2024-03-03 22:35:57

Reading a lot of old nonsense from men and women in their 50s and 60s saying they don't understand why their daughters in their 20s are not fussed about sharing changing rooms with trans women. Rather than dismissing them as wrong/naive/ignorant, how about listening to them and changing your own mind? I'm 62, and I did.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

2024-02-28 06:43:46

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Oxford graffiti artists have gifted us this on the Thames. A rich executive, naked but for his #ThamesWater underpants, lies smoking a cigar on a lilo, floating on sewage with a dead kingfisher.
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2024-02-25 08:54:05

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@npub14k2…ed68 I think MeteoGroup is Netherlands based. NZ's MetService was in the running for the contract but didn't get it

2024-02-25 08:38:39

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@npub14k2…ed68 A real question! I am genuinely unsure who's got this right

2024-02-25 08:17:32

Little test here. Who will be right about the weather only a few hours from now? BBC (rain) or Met Office (cloud)? I can't understand how two forecasters, with so much technology to hand, can be so radically different so close to the event. And given how high the river levels are already in Oxford this could be an important difference.
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2024-02-16 06:50:26

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Interesting stuff from Torsten Bell and the Resolution Foundation suggesting that we look at what's happening in terms of GDP per capita. He argues that this is a proper recession just being hidden by having more people - GDP/capita declined 0.7% in 2023 with falls in every single quarter. https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/recession-watch/

2024-02-05 18:08:59

Well I'm very sorry to hear the King has cancer.
I'm absolutely not a monarchist, but now is not the time for that

2024-02-01 12:40:01

This may be a niche #academicchatter enquiry...but here goes.
Does anyone have experience of UK local authorities having an ethics approval process for studies conducted within/by the local authority itself? I don't mean external university-approved research where the researcher is just seeking research governance approval from a council, but councils wanting to do their own research

2024-01-27 08:53:19

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 It doesn't say, though, how many have been going for *over* the advertised rental, which I understand has been common in London recently. People offering more than the advertised rental in a desperate attempt to get somewhere, anywhere, to live, amidst intense competition
https://www.landlordtoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2023/12/many-tenants-forced-into-bidding-wars-and-pay-well-above-asking-rent--claim

2024-01-13 17:42:41

The 2022 Persuasion got terrible reviews, for its many anachronisms and breaking the fourth wall à la Fleabag. I confess I'm finding it very funny. Especially Mary Musgrove being so self-absorbed she doesn't notice that her sister Anne replies to her in Italian, and Richard E Grant as a splendidly vain Sir Walter.
#Persuasion #JaneAusten

2024-01-11 22:45:56

What a woman. In the absence of inheritance tax as her preferred option, heiress Marlene Engelhorn will invite citizens to join a Good Council for Redistribution to decide how to spend her inheritance. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67935463

2023-12-12 06:32:37

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Probably diet too - well-documented difficulties in being able to acess/afford healthier food and have time, skills and cooking facilities to prepare it.

2023-12-11 21:31:51

Settle-Carlisle railway today - absolutely stunning views of the highest parts of the Yorkshire Dales. Must go back and walk some of the route.
#YorkshireDales #Winter
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2023-12-06 07:39:20

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I should say it more often, but thank you for your morning updates and reflections, always an informative way to start the day.

2023-11-29 20:19:03

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@npub1tra…npqw just block sender?

2023-11-28 13:07:13

And let's stop calling them the #ElginMarbles. They're the #ParthenonMarbles, always have been, always will be, no matter where they currently are.

2023-11-26 10:40:35

I heard Susie Dent today on Radio 4 say there is research that shows a positive relationship between swearing and honesty.
Turns out I'm a paragon of integrity 🤣
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1948550616681055

2023-11-23 21:00:34

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@npub1xzm…eykm Adorable. Always amazes me that black cats are the last to be adopted when they're so handsome and shiny.

2023-11-23 16:46:30

Lee Anderson said what now? Send asylum seekers to Orkney rather than Rwanda?
Clueless idiot. The sooner we vote him out the better.
#GTTO #Orkney #Rwanda #AsylumSeekers #LeeAnderson
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lee-anderson-tory-rwanda-asylum-rishi-sunak-b2451600.html

2023-11-13 16:03:29

So the new UK Health Secretary is married to a senior executive in the sugar industry. Nothing to see here.
#ConflictOfInterest #Sugar #VictoriaAtkins #NHS #PublicHealth

2023-11-13 09:58:41

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@npub1wvw…4puk Appointing David Cameron really does demonstrate the lack of sensible, competent people he's got left to play with. (I can't forgive Cameron for holding the referendum, of course, but he seems like a master statesman compared to this lot)

2023-11-01 13:30:44

#DailyStar wins again at front page headlines.
#CovidInquiry #Johnson #GTTO
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2023-10-30 08:45:41

If you're a National Trust member you have till Friday to vote in council elections and stop the "anti-woke" brigade of Restore Trust from getting a foothold. They want to stop the NT educating people about the history of slavery and exploitation behind the wealth of the aristocracy, suppress exploration of LGBTQ+ narratives, and row back on attempts to encourage ethnic diversity among visitors. https://secure.cesvotes.com/V3-2-0/nt23/en/login?bbp=54540&x=-1
Do NOT vote for Sumption, Manners, Gibbs, Gimson, Merricks
#NationalTrust

2023-10-15 06:52:28

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@npub1xzm…eykm @npub1lrv…tth9 I love being able to edit. Simple things are often the best.

2023-10-10 06:00:46

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I'd love to see empty office space repurposed for housing. Affordable homes and revitalising city centres in one go. Seems like a win-win to me.

2023-10-08 20:29:21

Well, I'd like to see 7 nations rugby with Portugal in the mix. Exciting game.
#Rugby #RugbyWorldCup #Portugal #SixNations

2023-09-02 10:46:57

If you're a National Trust member, please please vote in the council elections to stop the reactionary "Restore Trust" candidates. They're a bunch of right-wing reactionaries who get all upset when the Trust explains to visitors the history of colonialism, slavery and class oppression behind the wealth of many of the great country houses. Please give them the boot! #NationalTrust
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/annual-general-meeting

2023-08-26 17:56:29

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@npub1yyx…qa5g I remember my dad (born 1926) saying how awful knitted swimming trunks were when he was a boy. Saggy, sodden, uncomfortable, unfit for purpose. My mum used to wash blankets and sheets in the bath in my 1960s childhood, blooming back-breaking.

2023-08-16 13:05:51

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@npub1xzm…eykm You need one of these
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2023-08-15 20:32:42

Doing a new pinned intro post. I'm a health researcher interested in patient and staff experiences, patient and public involvement in research and quality improvement, also #LongCovid, rural healthcare. Partial retirement beckons in 2024.
In my other life I'm also a linguist and lover of all things European, who campaigned vigorously against brexit and is still infurtiated by the damage caused.
And a lover of cats...

2023-06-24 13:15:41

I know tennis isn't what most people are focused on today. But gosh, it does bug me how players still think they're on clay, bashing their shoes between points, and in Rune's case scuffing the grass as if clearing clay off the lines. Enough to make a groundsperson weep silently.
#Queens
#Tennis
#LeaveTheGrassAlone

2023-06-23 21:20:54

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@npub1ex3…c58j That's something at least. ITV just covered Russia about half way thought the bulletin.

2023-06-23 21:06:50

Well done, ITV news at 10, for starting with the cost of living, not the submersible, unlike the BBC. Though I'm surprised none of the news channels seem to be saying anything about the situation in Russia.
#CostOfLiving
#Prigozhin

2023-06-13 05:47:47

New Max Hastings analysis of Johnson.
"He is perhaps the most selfish human being I have ever met, indifferent to the welfare of anyone save himself. It is striking that he has few, if any, personal friends. He demands loyalty, but is incapable of giving it to others. He has neither principles nor personal convictions, save about his own ambitions and desires. Far from being the genial Mr Nice Guy he seeks to project, Tony Soprano would find him a tad ruthless."
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5389e1cc-0890-11ee-997e-7710367054a0?shareToken=1bca14c9bd2fd5605448473038b3de18&s=09

2023-05-31 19:58:17

A very well argued thread on trans issues from Billy Bragg over on the Other Place. https://twitter.com/billybragg/status/1663869123271573507?t=HwW-6HlKCWDttCiIhIkoAQ&s=19

2023-05-07 11:58:39

Bad enough that Republic protesters were arrested yesterday. But to discover that they had had prior meetings with the Met and been assured they could go ahead with their peaceful protest is even more shocking.
#NotMyKing https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/head-of-uks-leading-anti-monarchy-group-arrested-at-coronation-protest

2023-04-30 08:02:36

I know there's #FensterFreitag but is there scope for #CeilingSunday? I seem to have spent much of yesterday looking at ceilings in Savoyard Palace Racconigi.
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2023-04-05 06:06:55

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#[0] I heard the awful Sebastian Gorka interviewed about the case on the BBC World Service earlier. The interviewer gave him as hard a time as he could, but got the usual aggressive nonsense back. Including "stop badgering me, you're not a prosecutor, you're my HOST, so start treating me like a GUEST." The interviewer ended the interview saying "we're clearly not going to get an answer to the question I asked you." 👏

2022-10-30 16:03:48

No idea if this Mastodon thing is going to work but worth a shot. I'm a health researcher interested in patient and staff experiences, patient and public involvement in research and quality improvement.
In my other life I'm also a linguist and lover of all things European, who campaigned vigorously against brexit and is still infurtiated by the damage caused.
And a lover of cats...