New paper out in @journal_ad (led by Guy Gitlin-Leigh). @profrobhoward.bsky.social We conducted the first systematic review + meta-analysis on whether monoclonal antibody therapies for #Alzheimer’s (AD) & #Parkinson’s (PD) affect risk of depression. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

BlueSky friends, forgive me for not posting much on here. I'm standing for President of the RCPsych in the elections next March. I'm still speaking and listening to friends and colleagues about what is important, but you can learn about what I would do if successful here: www.profrobhoward.com

Grey old view from the train this morning.

“Starmer’s one historic role is to stave off the far right”. Absobloodylutely.

Beautiful autumn light on our morning walk with watchful roe deer.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

What a beautiful tribute to love and the power of AIDS research from Faye Landsman. Come join us next week to hear about the miracles HIV research has given the world. #saveaidsresearch @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

New job at @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social. Senior Content Editor with special responsibility for improving the accessibility of our dementia support information to people with a (dare I say?) diverse set of backgrounds. You even get to work with me!! Pls share. careers.alzheimers.org.uk/vacancies/31...

Layla. Not really happy on trains, even when she can travel First Class.

The fall of Mandelson is first cross-party celebration since the vaccine. Remain, Leave, right, left: united at last.

A very unenlightened attitude from a company marketing garden lighting.... #urbanfoxes @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Twitter still has impressive potential for interaction.

Here's what you need to know about the new MAHA report: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ma...

BBC using the phrase 'approved asylum seekers' today. It's technically correct I suppose, but emotionally barren - taking a word that inspires sympathy and turning it into a dead administrative phrase. They are refugees.

Aldwych is ALWAYS exactly like this, rain and waiting forever for the right bus...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

At Lord Leicester’s secret beach hut in Holkham Woods. Lots of squirrels and rabbits this afternoon.

Happy post-lunch nap.

FDA ask for additional safety monitoring MRI between second and third infusions of lecanemab. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/al...

Hedgerows already filled with autumn berries. Densest crop of sloes that I can remember.

Time to bring back abreaction as a treatment for functional neurological disorders? Great piece by Norman Poole in Brain. x.com/brain1878/st...

Spiders make #webs with their silk, and use trapped #fireflies as glowing #bait [via Brit Eco Soc] 🧪👩‍🔬🕷️🕸️🪰💡 " findings confirm that captured fireflies left as bait increase the hunting success rate of the #spiders." www.britishecologicalsociety.org/spider-uses-... #tools #hunting #intelligence

🧪 #publichealth With all the stops/restarts, firings/rehirings, grant terminations/non-terminations, and funding delays--even ignoring its anti-science stance--this is not a Department of Health and Human Services that is going to make America the least bit healthy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

A key sentence summarizes a very real outcome. 🧪“Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults. Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc."

REVIEW | FREE TO READ THIS WEEK! 🧪 @clemmensenc.bsky.social‬ et al Incretin-based therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

Bonobos keep track of groupmates even when they can’t see them Mental representation of the locations and identities of multiple hidden agents or objects by a bonobo 🏺🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Uncovers the rich representations of the social world shared by humans and other apes.

I applaud the Amer Acad of Pediatrics for clear guidelines on COVID vaccines for infants, in contrast to the current CDC leadership. This is an interview with Paul Offit, a courageous expert in pediatrics. 150 children died in the past year of COVID! Read that again. 🧪 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

When tech reads your thoughts, hopefully it won't read out ALL of them! Researchers had subjects imagine the password "Chitty chitty bang bang” to activate a mental speech decoder. 🧪https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/an-inner-speech-decoder-reveals-some-mental-privacy-issues/

It’s a Van Gogh kind of morning in Peckham.

Tom Kern had doubts: Would he like journalism, or be any good? Did he even know how to become a journalist? After nine months as a #ScienceJournalism fellow with leading German news outlets those doubts are largely gone: www.embo.org/people/trans... #ScienceCommunication #funding #LifeSciences 🧪

Yuto Satake returns to Japan today after a productive year at UCL. My son commissioned his artist friend to produce this to commemorate his visit and secret support for Layla to sit on forbidden sofas.

My vague, unprepared #InverteFest idea was 2 never-posted crabs of the day so here is #1! Platychirograpsus spectabilis males grow huge "saber" claws on one (either left or right) hand. TONS more info here 🦀🦑🧪 invasions.si.edu/nemesis/species_summary/99076 share.google/Eu4ZhMo6baJo...

All my relatives: Neanderthals, Denisovians, and the #Indigenous [via Brown Uni and Science.org] 🧪🧬🔬🚶‍♂️ "haplotype features multiple Denisovan variants, although it likely entered human populations through a Neanderthal intermediate" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #genetics #human #evolution #tree

🧪 My favourites are the singing dogs (very close relatives of dingoes) in Papua New Guinea. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Gui...

Early primates (50-60 mya) radiated into cold regions (northern latitudes) rather than the classical assumption of tropical/arid climates. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌍🌏 #AnthroSky #BioSky #EvoSky

This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Don’t recommend having one of these under an open bedroom window. Mrs H and myself exhausted after a night of vivid and weird dreams.

The feeling that the cavalry we have been waiting for in the NHS for 15 years just isn’t coming, is somehow worse than having the Conservatives. At least we had hope for change.

They could, of course, simply make better drugs and price them attractively, so that it would make sense for the NHS to use them.

I drive past a house with a Union Jack this morning and for the first time in many years I wondered if the people lived there hated immigrants. Chances are that they don't because that flag's been there for years, but flags are definitely becoming toxic again. We shouldn't ever hug flags in Britain.

The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Seen in our hall this afternoon.

REVIEW | FREE TO READ THIS MONTH! 🧪 @clemmensenc.bsky.social‬ et al Incretin-based therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

🧠 LLMs in medicine: promise and pitfalls A new review of 761 studies shows explosive growth in LLM use for clinical tasks but finds uneven evaluations & underuse of domain-specific models. 🔗 bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #SciComm #LLMs #HealthTech #AI 🧪

And butterflies are just the bugs we notice. This is likely true for ALL kinds of insects and other invertebrates. The #InsectApocalyse marches on... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #insect #butterflies #macro #insects #flowers #InsectApocalyse

Her pint.

Wonderful Wells beach.

It’s always playtime at the weekend when Layla has us around.

This.