I find it funny when people ask if I've biked somewhere. Because to me they are asking "You chose to ride your bike through the woods instead of getting in your rage box, accidentally attempting some murders and causing climate change while traversing an aberration of asphalt? Why?"

Just in case you are curious - and my God you should be - about the dude Wes Streeting and others are handing loads of public data contracts to. 👇

Jurn Verschraegen talks about Belgian policy on end of life care and euthanasia for people with advanced stage #dementia - but warns about risk of debating on TV because ‘you’re in a can’; he has spoken to parliament - and says debate should be calm & dignified #35AEC

& two posters are shared all day today at #35AEC showcasing connecting people connecting support (our AHP policy in Scotland) being delivered @alzscot.bsky.social

The parallel session on Rare Dementias #35AEC @alzheimereurope.bsky.social yesterday included lots of awareness raising of childhood dementia & the primary progressive aphasia @ppaphasiaawareness.bsky.social FYI PPA awareness day 2026 will be 10th April! speechtherapyppa.com/ppa-awarenes...

Last day of #35AEC - POS16-05. Come chat with me and play with the music jamming companion

Claire Fyve tells us about her son’s condition Nieman-Picks disease. Known as “childhood Alzheimer’s”. It’s the first time childhood dementia has been presented at Alzheimer Europe Conference #35AEC @alzheimereurope.bsky.social see more info www.childhooddementia.org

Plenary on different types of dementia. Yolande Pijnenburg Fronto-temporal disease first symptom is loss of social cognition - but we find it difficult to describe this. FTD may also be seen with Amyotrophic Lateral Syndrome

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

New diagnostics, treatments, and prevention interventions mark a decisive turning point for dementia. WDC Executive Director Lenny Shallcross is opening our session to discuss how advocacy must evolve as science advances. It's a key moment for our field. #35AEC

At #35AEC @richardangell.bsky.social from the Terence Higgins Trust made a powerful point in our session: "Not acting on Alzheimer’s is the ultimate economic" failure. The global cost of dementia is a clear call to action for governments to invest in diagnostics and treatments.

I look forward to presenting our work, POS14-28, which are the results of a new scoping review on #EyeTracking and mild cognitive impairment, #MCI, tomorrow, Wednesday 8 October, from 10:00 to 15:45, at the EX GAM Foyer on the first floor of the @alzheimereurope.bsky.social. #35AEC #Research

We like an umbrella in a schematic diagram in #DementiaResearch - Myrra Vernooij-Dassen brings together diverse things that make up social health #35AEC @alzheimereurope.bsky.social

Esme Moniz-Cook presents 25years of collaborative research in InterDem - one of first outputs was guidebook of psychosocial interventions for #dementia #35AEC #Bologna www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

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Megan Rose Readman presenting about her research on dementia village in NorthWest England. Facilitated by North West Coast Living Lab @alzheimereurope.bsky.social #35AEC

Social constructionism destabilises essential identity entirely. Failing to grasp this really is the root of much of the "debate" on this issue. I am not so much who i am as the performances and stories i weave myself from and in, all within the social narratives and performances around me

A letter from the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network, signed by over a hundred people including rabbis, published in the Herald today: archive.ph/BRTCY

Martina Roes starts by quoting Gloria Gaynor “I am what I am” 🎵 #35AEC - social constructivist perspective - sex & gender are both socially constructed

Please come & see my poster today Pos.7-20 Digital inequalities in social care - diverse ethnicities @alzheimereurope.bsky.social #35AEC

Great first day at #35AEC Margaret and Stuart share their peer resource, Jess sharing impact of occupational therapy home based memory rehabilitation, presentation on the important role of speech and language therapy and then learning about childhood dementia.

Maria Terese Ferretti starts the #35AEC session on gender by telling us that 5% of genes are on X chromosome. Also key social risk factors for #dementia are gendered- eg education @alzheimereurope.bsky.social

Are you attending #35AEC in Bologna and want a quick recap of the goings on from Day 1 yesterday? Or are you unable to join us in Italy for our Conference and want to know what you're missing? Check out our report from the first day: www.alzheimer-europe.org/news/35th-al...

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it. Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

Greta Thunberg for Nobel Prize

Maria do Rosário Zinke dos Reis, chairperson of @alzheimereurope.bsky.social introduce #35AEC & welcomes 1500 delegates including 45 people with #dementia & 40 carers!

At the InterDem meeting, Federica @fe-dandrea.bsky.social talks about academy - PhD & Early Career Researchers in #DementiaResearch 350 members across Europe- fantastic! #35AEC

JCB, the excavator maker controlled by Anthony Bamford and family paid £866m dividend. Tory donor Bamford backed Brexit, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson. Bamford dynasty subject to HMRC investigation for aggressively minimising UK taxes, using offshore trusts. archive.ph/N7jdu

Sorry I keep talking about this but I’m genuinely alarmed by the growing narrative that poverty is a cause of racism. First it’s super insulting of people on low incomes. Second it normalises & excuses racist takes. And third it deters real action on racism by shifting the whole focus to economics.

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

Travelling to #Bologna to @alzheimereurope.bsky.social conference #35AEC #DementiaResearch. But before that… InterDem meeting- looking forward to catching up with everyone!🤗

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Israeli government accused of "sowing division" in UK with invitation to Tommy Robinson www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Also in Kherson another horrific story. A 69 year old man was tending his vegetable garden in Velika Oleksandrivka, when a "petal" anti-personnel mine exploded. The pensioner's foot had to be amputated. Think about that - a mine in someone's garden. #RussiaIsATerroristState

During Covid, when @gorskon.bsky.social & I coauthored a piece for @bmj.com on the links between right-wing climate denialist billionaires, anti-vaxxers, & the Great Barrington Declaration, some physicians felt it was "uncollegial" to be critical of the GBD Now the GBD are Trump & RFK Jr's lackeys😔

Safety should be seen as a basic right. We need to include Clinical Vulnerability in the Equality Act. Disability is about impairments, and not the risk people face from pathogens. 39/

New challenges for young carers. 36/

Children in Clinically Vulnerable families knew through testing that they were positive, and the real risks that they might kill their loved one.... and in some cases they did - and they knew it. 35/

Wearing a mask has been quite politicised. Any other protective gear like wearing shin pads or goggles in science is not politicised. But if children choose to wear a mask it is seen as a safeguarding concern sometimes, which is a real worry for us. 32/

In August 2020, "Eat Out to Help Out" had been driving up infection rates just before schools opened. Schools were not doing anything to manage airborne risks, so our families felt particularly exposed. No risk assessment or equality impact assessment considered their needs. 11/

Clinically Vulnerable households were pressured by teachers and headteachers, who were following poor government guidance, to return to unsafe schools without appropriate safety measures in place. Families faced: Fines Prosecutions Inappropriate referrals to Children's Services. 5/

History will honour the bravery of those on board the Sumud Flotilla vessels. Our children and grandchildren will regard them as heroes. And there’s nothing anybody can do about that.

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Apparent proposals to reintroduce employment tribunal fees - last seen in 2013 under the Con-Dem coalition and scrapped following a successful challenge by UNISON - stand to undermine improvements (to some areas) in the Employment Rights Bill @timsharp.bsky.social www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/dont-l...

Young babies are protected by everyone around them being vaccinated and their mothers having booster doses in pregnancy. Such a senseless and unnecessary death. Kennedy junior and his anti-vax colleagues have blood on their hands.

Top 65 banks, including UK banks, committed $869bn (£648bn) in financing fossil fuels in 2024. $7,900,000,000,000 over 9 years, driving climate chaos, deadly health impacts, crop failures, migration. Banks profit from destruction and no govt stops them.

Brilliant article by a teacher highlighting the current dire situation for teachers and kids every winter when it comes to infection risk and spread. We continue to fight for our kids to have the right to breathe clean air. stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...

🚨 The US government has stopped the funding PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databased of biomedical literature. Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.

66 000 people have been killed & almost 170 000 have been injured in #Gaza. @who.int estimates that at least 1/4 of those have life-changing injuries that require immediate & ongoing rehabilitation. I call on all parties to this conflict to choose peace, now.