- People with intellectual disabilities may be asked what it is they value but are not empowered or supported to fully explore what ‘flourishing’ means to them. This lack of opacity needs closer attention in social care provision and research.

Key conclusions - Our research demonstrates that the lives of people with intellectual disabilities are often shaped through the eyes and assumptions of others, rather than an understanding of what is important to them.

We have a shiny new paper published, reporting findings from the Flourishing Lives project. Sara Ryan leads a whole programme of work exploring ways in which social care might better support people with learning disabilities. Here's the link to the paper: lnkd.in/eezsah-K

It’s gorgeous! Do you do that all yourself? I have a new appreciation of gardens.I am slowly trying to bring life two very neglected gardens (front/back) that came with my new place. I’ve been working on it section by section since April. I have shrubs and bulbs to plant now in the last big border.

It makes it much easier when browsing again to check what you pulled from a paper, quick access to key quotes etc. Used to have be done through a linked app and manually attached, so it’s ace it’s now all within Zotero itself. And no “AI” summarising involved…

For folks who don’t know: Zotero has a great function now where you can highlight/annotate pdfs, then right click the pdf in the Zotero window and choose “extract annotations” and it will create a separate note with your highlights and comments. Really useful for making paper summaries. #AcademicSky

For those who want to delve deeper into this, data tables can be found on @YouGov here: shorturl.at/jpX6v

New @TrussellTrust research out today: lays bare shocking truth about the crisis of hunger & hardship across the UK, and the utter failure of Universal Credit to fulfil its most basic duty. Key findings: 🧵

The UK has lost one in 20 libraries since 2016, either by closing them completely or moving them over to volunteer-run groups. The poorest areas were around four times more likely to permanently lose a local library than the richest www.bbc.com/news/article...

Public libraries in 'crisis' as councils cut services

Deprived communities lost more libraries since 2016 than richer areas did, the BBC finds

Very pleased that my @BBCRadio4 A Point of View "I know what it is to crawl" is on the BBC Homepage - at the bottom (appropriately) in the Society section.