RFK Jr. claimed that there have been no successes coming from HHS in the past 40 years. I beg to differ. He and his HHS lackeys, Makary, Bhattacharya, and Prasad, who spread misinformation, will be personally responsible for the resurgence of vaccine preventable disease in the U.S.

I think the RFK Jr-Jay Bhattacharya anti-vaccine partnership is extraordinarily dangerous; together, running HHS & NIH, hand in hand, they’re doing enormous damage to public health & health research. Seeing Jay Bhattacharya *praise* what RFK Jr has done to the CDC is deeply, deeply disturbing.

This was so much fun to do with @renegadesynapse.bsky.social #neurology @greenjournal.bsky.social #endalz #fdgforall youtu.be/GTOzwUALePM

Trump’s EPA just eliminated its entire research arm—the “heart and brain” of the agency—and is laying off 3,700 workers. That’s 1,155 scientists, chemists, and biologists gone. Less science. More pollution. This isn’t reform. It’s sabotage. #ProtectOurPlanet

My phrenology head suffered a head injury in the move — alas, he will forever have a skull fracture, but nothing a bit of ceramic glue will not resolve

Flash flooding in Chapel Hill. East Franklin St.

Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s

This is a very good thread. There are a lot of opinions about how conferences should work written by people who have no practical experience organizing a large scientific conference. The AV/contract issue is such a big thing. I can’t plug in a damn extension cord without being charged at some!

I spent many years on a menswear forum with Michael Anton, director of policy planning in Trump's administration. My editors asked if I'd be interested in writing something on him. I have so many stories to tell; this is only a small bit of our shared menswear world www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Lmfao. Good lord JP is an embarrassment but this was shockingly bad even for his brand of vapid pedantry

If you are a real social scientist, it is very hard to maintain the claim that all evidence of systemic racism is not real science. Much of it is published in top-ranked peer-reviewed journals in Bhattacharya's field of economics. He can either do MAGA, or science, but not both.

❌ FALSE: “For 20 years…we were directing Alzheimer’s research to one hypothesis. And any other hypotheses were shut down.” - Sec. Kennedy Over the last decade, less than 14% of new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Alzheimer’s projects focused on amyloid beta as the therapeutic target. 🧵(1/4)

tinyurl.com/ANPAgrandrou... Join next week for an exciting virtual grand rounds on computational psychiatry hosted by the American Neuropsychiatric Association

Exciting! I know uses/cost will vary for UK but we did put together two related CME pieces: Biomarker training: kuadrc.org/bhb-training For more comprehensive cognitive evals (putting ptau217 into greater context) see my series: PCP training: kuadrc.org/pcpguidebook

The reckoning for Trump’s tariffs is coming and he’s going to try and calm down a panicked nation with a brain full of moldy pudding.

After an “update in cognitive & behavioral neurology” talk at AAN, I was asked to chat on the Neurology podcast (also no bsky but my request to change that has been noted!) about some of the content. We focused on plasma biomarkers. Still can’t listen to myself lol. youtu.be/7wWOrZenplQ?...

The American Neuropsychiatric Association (No bsky, yet..) dementia special interest group, which I've been the leader of for a number of years, has been working on a two part series for the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. Part 1 here. www.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

The only description of VP I’ll be accepting today or for the foreseeable future

i am tired of being told i must coddle these people. no! they are willfully ignorant! and their standard bearer, RFK, is a monstrous narcissist who is indifferent to death and suffering.

Had a great time talking to a dedicated and packed crowd of neurologists for the annual updates in neurology course. Covered the new diagnostic criterias for AD, therapeutic updates, blood based biomarkers, and the new functional cog disorder checklist.

Dr. Trey Bateman @renegadesynapse.bsky.social of Wake Forest University School of Medicine giving a fast-paced, info-packed “Updates in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology” at C10: Neurology Update at the @aanmember.bsky.social Annual Meeting. #AANAM

Join the #secretmission and learn more tomorrow at 7AM for a Technology Tour in the @aanmember.bsky.social education room with @caseyalbin.bsky.social, @drjmartindale.bsky.social and @jrgoldstein.bsky.social

#SecretMission at #AANAM — post any pictures of yourself or others using technology for a chance to be the social medial champion. Bonus points for mentioning your favorite wrestler (#TeamStoneCold)

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

"Bizarre shit" is just the tip of this iceberg. It gets *weird*.

Jfc what an unmitigated disaster these authoritarian thugs have wrought

Beginning to think our government's entire economic policy is based on the president randomly finding "Blame Canada" on YouTube one night

Jfc my brilliant institutional email is now quarantining a freaking PowerPoint from a colleague and I have to have a cybersecurity team review it after putting in a ticket what an absurd situation. It’s a PowerPoint about FTD

#HeadsUpNC, as the Trump administration looks to cut 80,000 jobs from the Veterans Administration, our state has a lot of vets — and VA facilities, including the Durham VA hospital www.va.gov/directory/Gu... #NCPol

A legend died today. In his memory, how about a heartwarming heme #skeetorial? #hemesky #nerdalert Today the world lost the man with the "golden arm" 1/n

neurologyopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/... Very pleased to see this diagnostic aid for Functional cognitive disorders out. It needs further testing but i m feeling optimistic given the cumulative wisdom of the clinicians who kindly provided input into the development

This new Atlantic piece on the timeline of the NIH shutdown reads like the script to a new Soderbergh film. It is so, so dark and perfectly captures the evil and intentional chaos behind everything we've experienced over the last month www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Fantastic paper and wonderful figures of MTL anatomy. Using them in clinic today to teach anatomy.

Just to be crystal clear, absolutely NO ONE voted for canning critical research into detecting, treatment & preventing dementia in their loved ones.

These cases are so critical in understanding causal reasoning clinically with biomarker-informed diagnoses. In the community, this is just called AD. Now, with wider spread molecular biomarker use, awareness of alternative causes will be important for practicing clinicians

These cases are so critical in understanding causal reasoning clinically with biomarker-informed diagnoses. In the community, this is just called AD. Now, with wider spread molecular biomarker use, awareness of alternative causes will be important for practicing clinicians

It’s official, as of June 30th, I’ll be leaving Wake Forest and the ADRC there to move to Richmond, VA and start a position at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Richmond VA medical center! Thankful to Wake for the past and VCU for the future!

“The connection between amyloid-β and tau pathology appears to be disrupted in this individual…” The connection is functional, and the function is preserved in this case. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

I’ve been worried about something all day that really is quite irrelevant. I am going home to unplug and spend time with my kids. Thank you, @thanhneville.medsky.social for the vital work that you do for your patients and in sharing the humanity you witness in these sacred moments.

Favorite sign so far

Trump and EOs giving strong Michael Scott bankruptcy vibes

I’d been looking at both apps for a while. This just happened to be the last straw that caused me to uninstall.

Delighted to share our new paper, "Dynamic effects of psychiatric vulnerability, #loneliness and isolation on distress during the first year of the #COVID-19 pandemic", out today in @naturementalhealth.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

There are many reasons why the suggestion to abandon examining our patients in behavioral neurology is a bad idea. One that is often overlooked regarding bedside cognitive screening, is that it allows the family to appreciate the level of mental functioning. #endalz pn.bmj.com/content/earl...

mayomagazine.mayoclinic.org/2024/12/ai-a...

I’m hoping that 2025 goals for mg performance review saying “do the same and not more” in several sections is fine because, uhh, that’s what it’s gonna say. Expanding clinic, research, admin, extramural stuff every year is absurd and not sustainable lol.

This month marks the final, definitive closure of the Garland Shirt Factory. If you're interested in American manufacturing, I want tell you its story. 🧵

Nobody likes it #Thanksgiving