DaisyJuke

Lancashire Lass - short wanders… long wonders 🤔… occasional pics 📸 Passionate about community and Mental Health 💯 #SuperProudMum ☺️ and Nanna 🥰

[DaisyJuke @studant47]

#shortlisted #proud #LancashireDay #Community #teamwork #MakingADifference

[Lancashire County Council @LancashireCC]

🌹 What better day than #LancashireDay to celebrate our @lancashirecc employees and volunteers at the Pride Awards.

🌹 See our shortlisted nominees at: https://t.co/9MWdPU4h3z

[🎬Ellen Fincher🎥 @The_Elfy]

My short film For The Record has finished a successful festival run and I'm ready to share it with you!
If you love #recordstores & #90sindie you'll enjoy it (especially if you love the Wonder Stuff).

https://t.co/sMtCu1B021

@mileshuntTWS @TheStuffiesss @StuffieMuseum

[DaisyJuke @studant47]

@hundredfamilies @Keirwales @DrLadeSmith Re-admissions measured?

[hundredfamilies @hundredfamilies]

@DrLadeSmith :
"We are actually measured against our bed occupancy and our length of stay - we are not actually measured on whether or not we get people well"

#Nottinghaminquiry

[Dr Sanjoy Kumar @drsanjoykumar]

I lost my beloved daughter Grace O’Malley-Kumar in the Nottingham attacks. She was a 19 year old medical student. She fought a marauding man almost twice her age armed with a dagger. She tried to protect a friend and paid the ultimate price. She placed,
‘friendship before fear’
#graceomalleykumarfoundation #graceomalleykumarcup

[Paul Gray @paulgray74]

#kingfisher #preston #lancashire

[Paul Gray @paulgray74]

#cygnets #swans #brickcroft #preston @blogpreston

[Paul Gray @paulgray74]

Buzzin!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[DaisyJuke @studant47]

@Uvalajnr #Scorpio ♏️

[DaisyJuke @studant47]

@nuwandiss @hundredfamilies The world of psychiatry (and AOT) is so much richer for you too! 💯

[Paul Gray @paulgray74]

Baby robins are just the cutest! #preston

[sherry @sherryshining]

The line he said at the end is devastating:
“None of you will ever know how many people are alive because you were accidentally kind to them.”
An ordinary lunch.
An invitation made without much thought.
Five minutes of normal kindness.
Most people imagine that saving a life requires something heroic. But many times it happens quietly.

[DaisyJuke @studant47]

@dineen20dineen Used to make them as part of OT in psychiatric units

[DaisyJuke @studant47]

@MelClose55 @prestoncouncil Thanks! Will do 😊

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

2026 just gave us a photo of 75-year-old Phil Collins and 81-year-old Rod Stewart together ❤️

[Nicky Evans 👋 BSL @nickyevansbsl]

How is it right that schools have to “buy” Educational Psychologists time? Academy model means what SEND support your child gets is a lottery. Things are done on a school by school basis. AI dyslexia screening is now happening. #Education should never be run for profit.

[DaisyJuke @studant47]

@MaureenPlatts Thanks SO much! 🙏