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Dr Aly Norman @dralysonnorman.bsky.social · 23d

Had a great time last week presenting at the @biswg-uk.bsky.social annual conference speaking about the Brain Injury Social Care Network Incubator and the follow up to our Heads Together project

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Plymouth's Centre for Health Technology @plymouthcht.bsky.social · 11d

📅 September Wrap-Up | Centre for Health Technology

🏛️September has been a milestone month at CHT, from formal Centre status to new NHS partnerships, publications & exciting new collaborations!

👉 Read the full wrap-up on LinkedIn: buff.ly/M5tJZcJ

📢 Follow #CHT for all updates!

Physiological evidence of escalating stress during COVID-19: a longitudinal assessment of child welfare workers

Studies have shown that stress has contributed to employee turnover and retention problems for agencies, and at the individual level, chronic stress has been associated with coronary heart disease,...

tandfonline.com

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David Murphy @clinpsychdavid.bsky.social · 8d

I have just published a new, updated version of my YouTube video "Deciding where to apply for UK Clinical Psychology Training". I hope its helpful.
▶️ youtu.be/tOBqAPQHcYs

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David Murphy @clinpsychdavid.bsky.social · 4d

Such a privilege to be part of a @plymuni.bsky.social
inter-professional learning event yesterday which brought together students from across different health programmes to work together with experts by experience with a range of physical & mental health issues, with help from Well Connected SW

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Katharine Rimes @krimes.bsky.social · 3d

Colleague Angela Piccini is collaborating with Ruby Nation, researching the histories of lesbian lives in Plymouth, UK. Please support this free event at the wonderful The Box, Plymouth @theboxplymouth.bsky.social

AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 4d

INTERNATIONAL HOME MOVIE DAY
18.10.2025
11.00-15.00
THE BOX
Free event!

www.linkedin.com/posts/angela... Are there lesbians in your attic? Come to The Box for International Home Movie Day to celebrate Plymouth’s lesbian past and present! www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/
[Img: CND protest © The Box]

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Andrea Pisauro @andreapisauro.bsky.social · 2d

Very nice new framework for social games flexibly combining continuous social interactions with their sensorimotor implementation. A wonderful work of @violapriesemann.bsky.social and colleagues.

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Dyadic Interaction Platform: A novel tool to study transparent social interactions

elifesciences.org

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Harry H Behjat @aitchbi.bsky.social · 4d

does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease?

✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️

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Jake Vogel @jwvogel.bsky.social · 3d

Really compelling evidence in humans for network propagation hypothesis of tau spread: individualized connectivity helps resolve individualized tau patterns.

#MedSky #neuroskyence #neurosky #alzsky #compneuro #ai #datascience #bioinformatics #neurology

Harry H Behjat @aitchbi.bsky.social · 4d

does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease?

✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️

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Matt Roser @mattroser.bsky.social · 7d

Fish is the UK equivalent of steel I reckon.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 8d

🚨NEW BLOGPOST 🚨

Some sanguine reflections on politics going "post-literate" and how the main parties can adapt - learning both the mechanics and the vernacular of short form video and the new social media.

open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

Playing post-literate politics

The mainstream cannot surrender the scroll

open.substack.com

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Matt Roser @mattroser.bsky.social · 8d

This is so depressing.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 9d

Big news today! After more than a decade of campaigning, the UK Government has finally publicly committed to the legal recognition of humanist marriages in England and Wales.

Celebrations as UK Government announces plan to legalise humanist marriages

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Matt Roser @mattroser.bsky.social · 9d

Also...#bayesian

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 9d

I joined Bluesky in Sep. 2023. There was a brief few months there when I just followed a bunch of nice science-y accounts, starter packs etc., and it was great, but ever since it's been:
Trump
TRUMP
AI
Trump
Hell on wheels
AI
TRUMP!
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 10d

REMINDER: FT Schools provides free access to FT.com for 16-19 year olds and their teachers at schools around the world. More than 73,000 students in 132 countries are already reading us through the programme professional.ft.com/en-gb/servic...

professional.ft.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10d

This is great. It naturally follows that Musk can only get out of our politics if politicians and political journalists stop using the social media site he controls.

Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 10d

Strong words from Ed Miliband at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool...

"Elon Musk: Get the hell out of our politics and our country"

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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 11d

It's #BlasphemyDay, a reminder of ongoing global work to defend freedom of expression. While the UK (except N. Ireland) & several nations have repealed archaic blasphemy laws, too many still face severe penalties simply for voicing critical, non-conforming, or even satirical views about religion.

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Matt Roser @mattroser.bsky.social · 11d

Interesting. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

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Matt Roser @mattroser.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you for this data-rich thread that chimes with the frustration felt by PMCs working in the valuable 'education export' industry (i.e. universities), the viability of which is threatened by caps and levies on those exports (i.e. foreign students) to appease the nativists.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 11d

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

British Politics' Midlife Crisis

Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

benansell.substack.com

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 14d

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.

This tax will kill us.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy

The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas

www.standard.co.uk

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15d

I’m at a slightly curious political event in Westminster, a kind of Glastonbury for progressive politicians. Apart from Keir Starmer, also appearing are Mark Carney, Anthony Albanese, Pedro Sanchez, Jacinda Ardern, Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, Pete Buttigieg - this list goes on.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 15d

Here's the press release for digital ID and it is quite the shopping list of features. My first concern here is for the team who need to deliver quickly against the mix of a general purpose "do everything" app and a fairly specific set of features set out here www.gov.uk/government/n...

New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK

A new digital ID scheme will help combat illegal working while making it easier for the vast majority of people to use vital government services. Digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks ...

www.gov.uk

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 19d

This should be an opportunity for the other parties - Reform's proposal is extreme, violates basic fairness norms, and would threaten millions of people who have made their lives here and played by the rules. This approach should be condemned as nasty, unworkable and contrary to British fair play.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19d

My comments @britishfuture.bsky.social on proposals to revoke settlement and abolish indefinite leave to remain from Nigel Farage's Reform Party this morning
www.britishfuture.org/reform-attac...

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