3 💡 conclusions from this @timeshighered.bsky.social piece based on @altmetric.com data:

1️⃣ Academic twitter is dead
2️⃣ Bluesky is the most promising alternative
3️⃣ There is a lot of underused 🦋 potential with many dormant (institutional) accounts

#academicsky

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

📰 New Systematic Review Shows Giving Patients Online Access to Medical Records Notes Boosts Safety & Engagement
📊Improved trust, safety & satisfaction, especially for underserved groups.
⚕️No added burden for staff
👍Supports NHS’s digital-first future
🔗 arc-nwl.nihr.ac.uk/news/giving-...

Can specialized physical therapy help you to live longer with Parkinson’s? What if physical therapy did more than improve balance and reduce falls? Specialized physical therapy, like that provided through the PDNet model linked to a modest but real reduction in mortality for people w/ Parkinson’s.

New job vacancy!

Joint PhD: Prevent Falls with Augmented Reality (FallAR) at Maastricht & Hasselt Universities
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
with me, @melvynroerdink.bsky.social Pieter Meyns & @kennethmeijer.bsky.social

@ispgr.bsky.social @worldfallssociety.bsky.social

On our final recruitment push for this study if any health professionals have availability for interviews in the next few weeks.

My significant other is doing a charity bike ride to raise money for @parkinsons.org.uk if any followers might care to donate.

He only took up road cycling last month and already my house is filled with Spandex 🤣

At least it's for a good cause 💗

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The next generation of deep-brain stimulation automatically corrects the precise brain waves that create symptoms of Parkinson’s disease

go.nature.com/3IqXvph

Here's the total attention to 2025 publications on both X/Twitter and Bluesky. Bluesky has two thirds of Twitter's attention with >10 times fewer users.

We’re co-developing a Good Practice Exchange (GPEx) for research and innovation culture with the community – and we want your input!

Have your say in our survey👉
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⏰Closes 10 August 2025

So is everyone supposed to call @paddymonaghan.bsky.social Bubbles at the gala dinner? 🤣

"Should PPI be involved at every stage of the research process?" Will and his debate partner made a compelling case that PPI can become a tick box exercise if enforced rather than used more meaningfully. So No won despite the audience being pro-PPI.

Very relevant given the discussion around PPI at #ISPGR2025

I am super excited to be back in Maastricht for @ispgr.bsky.social 2025 World Congress.

Gearing up for my oral presentation tomorrow 🗣 presenting findings from our novel @parkinsons.org.uk funded FDG-PET/MR and #gait study in #Parkinsons 🧠

It is indeed 😂 Apparently to be on his side of the debate, Will must be "a fossil, living under a rock"

What an entrance from Bas Bloem to the #ISPGR2025 Yes/No debate!

Shots fired!
@ispgr.bsky.social

We are currently seeking hospital staff to participate in interviews of their experience with time critical Parkinson's meds in hospital.

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