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Health information specialist working for leading UK dementia charity | Loves good science that changes lives | Angry posts instructing me to conform to your world view will just be blocked. #dementia #medsky #alzheimers #alz
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Bell et al. report that multisite chronic pain, unlike single-site, in older adults is linked to faster cognitive decline and increased AD pathology, particularly in APOE-ɛ4 carriers. This supports multisite pain as a risk factor for AD dementia. Read at buff.ly/tXL0Qro @TylerBellPhD

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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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tough tough tough decisions

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My son has learnt how important it is to spell properly after I took him to a sweatshop for his birthday, as requested.

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I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

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When losing a limb made you a hero but losing a face made you a monster, Harold Gillies restored dignity to WWI's disfigured soldiers. In HISTORY'S HEROES, I speak to @alexvont.bsky.social about what courage & imagination can accomplish in the face of relentless horror. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Surveillance chips I can get behind.

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By 'Make the Middle East Great Again' is he talking about returning to the Golden Age of Islam or the Ottoman Empire? Anytime from 8th to 17th century is probably fine.

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If no one's come up with "Bigly Brother" yet I'm having it.

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Bigly Brother has spoken again. Sounds like he had a bad weekend.

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@skynewsrss.bsky.social Mark Stone trying to constructively engage with a live American stereotype. “We’re not an autocracy” over and over. Methinks he doth counter-protest too much. 🤪 news.sky.com/video/share-...

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We are doing a survey to understand why other professionals do/don't refer people with Primary Progressive Aphasia for speech-language support We want Drs, nurses, psychologists, social workers, OTs, PTs & any other profession. The survey can be accessed here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

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Orwell follows this up, of course, with an immortal line: "Why is the goose-step not used in England? There are, heaven knows, plenty of army officers who would be only too glad to introduce some such thing. It is not used because the people in the street would laugh."

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