They’re playing Slipknot on Radio 6 for the school run. I’m still punk AF, I tell myself as I tidy up their art projects and make a fruit salad 🎸🤘

lmao

I’m not saying the London City Travelodge was rough, but a fight broke out at breakfast 🍳 😡

Making the most of #freeelectricity by charging the EV and Sig house battery 🔋 ⚡️ and losing spectacularly at Battlefield 6

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

We've named and shamed the worst offenders and made some change tack. But Ministers can do so much more. They can make industry do the right thing and✂️ sugar. Sign our message to Government. 👇 https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/make-sugar-the-new-tobacco

“Participants received a US $20 gift card… There were 2560 submissions, 93.2% (n=2387) of which were determined to be from bots or malicious responders. Of these, 23.9% (n=571) showed evidence of a duplicate IP or email address, 45.9% (n=1095) reported consuming a fictitious drug.”

🌞 A mini burst of summer sun in the UK brings joy to dads everywhere as they can finally crack our their cargo shorts with impunity 😎

✈️ 👜 Thanks ChatGPT for answering the Q: “How come Charles de Gaulle airport has so many luxury shops (Chanel, Hermes, Hennessy, caviar) but almost no useful shops, cafes, or restaurants?” Here’s the breakdown…

❤️‍🩹 Sad to hear that Euphoria star Eric Dane (the original "Dr McSteamy" of Grey's Anatomy) has revealed he's been diagnosed with hashtag#ALS aged just 52 🧑‍🦼‍➡️ When a high profile celebrity is diagnosed we tend to see big spikes in visits to the ALS Wikipedia page (1/2) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALS)

A “Freudian slip” is when you say one thing but mean your mother

Thank you Vienna! Came for #adpd2025, want to stay for the scenery and pastries!

A novel take on #betterposter at #adpd2025 - turn your preclinical experimentation into an AI generated comic strip! Truly novel scicomms approach from this Croatian team! 🧀

My first #patientsincluded shoutout at #adpd2025 goes to UCB for an advanced Parkinson’s trial with a “patient council” that co-creates all study materials and advises on: reducing study visits, implementing a transport service, and encouraging at home PRO completion

🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️ This week I'm bullish on plague.

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Not to be a debbie downer but so far at #ADPD2025 I've almost filled my bingo card of euphemisms for non-significant trial findings: * Nominally significant findings * Trend towards improvement * Supplementary post-hoc analysis * Potential benefit * Interesting trend overall in a conglomerate

Cool slides at #ADPD2025 with credits to BioRender! (www.biorender.com) (The author asked not to take photos though so I can't show you what I mean but they were great so you just have to take my word for it)

Kicking off #ADPD2025 in Vienna this week with the topline readout on Alzheon's APOLLOE4 trials. Unfortunately the trial failed to meet primary endpoint overall, though there are intiguing hints at responder subgroups in early treatment for those with MCI.

I’m looking forward to seeing colleagues from around the world at AD/PD. The conference always has a strong program of great talks from innovative Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s labs. If you’re attending, I hope to connect & discuss where Alzheimer’s research needs to go next. #ADPD2025

I dream of a future without cookie notices on websites, 2FA for trivial actions, and emails confirming I’ve logged in from a new location

Can border agents search your phone? Yes. ⬇️

2025 WFH small talk: “Oh this is a Zoom? We normally use Teams I had to download it” “Oh this is a Teams? We normally use Hangouts I had to download it” “Oh this is a Hangout? We use normally use Zoom I had to download it” At this point I’m willing to bring back discussing the weather ☔️ ☀️ ❄️

🚘 Today my 9 year old asked me whether Lightning McQueen would need life insurance or car insurance and I’m stumped. 🤔

My most enjoyable video game of 2025 so far has been managing to reconnect the various plugs, wires, and settings to stream Apple TV on the Premier Inn’s TV so I can stream For All Mankind #hacktheplanet

How about this. Pick a book I made and I'll tell you some weird thing about making it. www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk/books/

Have to admire the classics (Credit: www.instagram.com/nigel.camach...)

Hmmmmmmmm.

Today, for no reason in particular, we wanted to remind you that you can follow STAT's incredible staff here in this Bluesky starter pack. go.bsky.app/7odqGRR

Lovely weekend under a big sky with Cub scouts

Yup.

Ignore the news and listen to Hanumankind instead www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbJ7...

How old am I? I am “just sent a Minions gif” years old.

🦋 <THIS IS MY FIRST TIME SHARING BY HITTING THE BUTTERFLY BUTTON AND I'M HERE FOR IT> 🦋 Under siege after a tragedy, UnitedHealth grapples with fresh security threats and a customer backlash www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/u... via @statnews.com

We must not assume progress is linear, or even in the direction we assumed. I am sorry that so much time and energy has been wasted *this time*. But I also know this is a group that isn’t going anywhere, and it has a long memory. Stay frosty.

Greggs selling a “chicken katsu bake” is a sign from the dark gods that we have gone beyond the point of peak katsu.

Do you see that up at the top there? 📣

I believe the same is true of "journal style requirements" imgs.xkcd.com/comics/archi...

My six year old arguing that the Salacc is not a bad guy. He’s just living in his natural habitat and chilling - it’s not his fault gangsters keep dropping delicious people in 😋

“Our next speaker will address the enshittification of PubMed”. @hildabast.bsky.social at her incisive best. #academicsky absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...

In the ancient times I posted on Neurotalk, a bulletin board that prohibited swearing 🤬 Swearing resulted in a ban. Asking why people had been banned? Believe it or not, also banned. So when we drafted the code of conduct for PatientsLikeMe, cussing (but not abuse) was just fine. 👌

Updating my pinned 🧵 : I'm not active on Twitter anymore, so I'm rebuilding the #migraine and #MigraineChat community here. A few ways to connect.... The original MigraineChat feed stopped working, so like and pin this one. It works the same.

As more and more folks join us here on @bsky.app - we want to ensure you can follow our incredible team here at STAT. Check out our starter pack - go.bsky.app/7odqGRR

Here we go... www.morethanourstories.org A lot of people are especially interested this year. Let the ideas begin!

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Thoughts and prayers for "Grant Freese" who I bet has been fielding a lot of inbounds this week

Today is World Lewy Body Day highlighting “the most common form of dementia you’ve never heard of”, in many cases linked to Parkinson’s. Please sign the Lewy List www.change.org/p/sign-the-l...

It’s a beautiful clear night with 5 planets in the sky so me and the girls stood outside in the cold fiddling about with a telescope to squint at a white dot. 🔭 ⚪️

Currently reading Margaret Atwood’s follow up to the Handmaid’s Tale, “The Testaments”. Every few pages I nod in recognition from this week’s news. “Yup.”