Laurel Dean

social worker, practitioner researcher, radical fat - fat / white / queer / ND - views my own

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

Given all this, it is Very Interesting that SWE have chosen to kick off social work week with a session on AI immediately following their inaugural panel. Unfortunately it clashes with the one immovable commitment of my week, but I would be interested to hear what happens!

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

I am thoroughly unconvinced that asking AI to tell us where there might be problems in the AI-generated product is going to help develop critical thinking skills.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared"

https://t.co/iJPmfbIA8U

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

And then look at the adverts, which from what I've seen largely seem to involve someone who is not very good at their job using AI to hide this from others. Their major selling point is 'don't let other people know you suck'. Great!

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

@SWConcern Our LA has both declared a 'climate emergency' and committed to a copilot pilot 👍 can't have both!

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

Social workers in private companies is an interesting idea and I think that the Octopus team do interesting, useful work but I am very worried that this is going to look like an appealing model to central government!

https://t.co/WJBo6PI2s4

[Mel Ciavucco (she/her) @melciavucco]

My latest blog post - what is atypical anorexia and what's the link with weight stigma? ⬇️
https://t.co/i1WlFKG0xm

#EDrecovery #EDtherapy #weightstigma #atypicalanorexia #disorderedeating #counselling #cpd

[Martin Barrow @MartinBarrow]

A West Sussex hospice has been forced to cut back on services and make 40 people redundant due to high costs.

St Catherine's Hospice, in Crawley, has 24 beds on site but it can only operate with 12 due to financial restraints.

https://t.co/NAYAnzmnbY

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

This is not a world in which we can or should introduce assisted dying.

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

Beth's thread is the reality of disability for a lot of people. The admin, paperwork and complaints required to get the meagre services available are constant, and you're subjected to constant indignities by the people and organisations who are supposed to help.

[Beth @savourydeets]

My opinion on assisted dying as a disabled person: obviously I wish we lived in a society where we could so assisted dying for terminally ill people safely. I don't wish pain and suffering on anyone going through that and I can see why someone would want to choose AD instead.

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

Excellent thread - the various food panics currently getting around do not appropriately address the real issues shaping our food choices

[Michelle Allison, RD @fatnutritionist]

I am literally begging people to acknowledge the one key difference between food and cigarettes, and to deploy this argument with far more nuance and with more attention to root causes

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

If you didn't graduate from Sussex it is worth checking your alumni benefits and seeing if they match

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

Access to journals for CPD is always an obstacle but I recently discovered that if you graduated @SussexUni, membership of the alumni network means you have some access to Sage and Jstor.

https://t.co/KETmmkT3I4

[Lucy Webster @Lucy_Webster_]

Many other issues but this one feels the most dangerous

Sick and disabled people endure astronomical rates of domestic, financial and care-related abuse. Sick and disabled people face astronomical rates of medical abuse

Not defining coercion leaves open some very scary doors

[Not Dead Yet UK @TheNotDeadYetUK]

Remember that you are worth decent, funded palliative care. You are worth accessible and respectful social care. You are worth the healthcare you need. You are worth benefits that allow you to live. You are worth decent pain relief.

https://t.co/289LR2F7VN

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

🚨NEWS🚨 CW: Assisted Dying

Disability Rights UK’s Statement on Assisted Dying

Assistance to die should not be easier to access than assistance to live. Parliament and Government should not allow assisted dying when political choices undermine our lives, and rights, every day.

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

But beyond these musings, I am led by disabled people who are clear that they do not think that this is the right time or the right Bill

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

I read the assisted dying bill this morning. Other, wiser people have already written about it but it feels totally inadequate. I have very complicated feelings about assisted dying - instinctively I support it, but in the context of a failing welfare state it seems like a door

[Laurel Dean @fatswresearch]

we should not open. I am also not sure that doctors and lawyers are the only professionals who should be involved in the process - is there a role for others? But would that further delay an already complex process for people who can't afford time?