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Harry H Behjat @aitchbi.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 5d

Fish is the UK equivalent of steel I reckon.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 6d

🚨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 · 6d

This is so depressing.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 7d

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 · 7d

Also...#bayesian

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 7d

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
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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

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Matt Roser @mattroser.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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 · 17d

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 · 17d

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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Matt Roser @mattroser.bsky.social · 20d

Amen to that. A grip is needed before institutions start imploding under financial stress. A workable funding model is needed but ending the rhetorical digs at one of our valuable export sectors would at least be a start.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22d

Bold 'control and compassion' approach can reduce small boat numbers.

'“The new Home Secretary needs to seize the initiative on small boats with a real-world plan that is bold enough to have an impact but founded on hard evidence of what works'.

www.britishfuture.org/bold-control...

Bold 'control & compassion' approach can reduce small boat numbers - new report - British Future

New evidence shows how a 'routes & returns' approach could combine control and compassion to reduce small boat asylum crossings.

www.britishfuture.org

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Dr Hannimal @hisotalus.bsky.social · 22d

Are you at #SEFI25 wondering about group work? Drop by our poster and find out how we designed a novel group project approach to dissertations for postgraduate engineers and how it went. We think planning group projects is group work and industry partners should be involved.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 23d

My most centrist dad take is that most governing politicians deserve sympathy because almost every policy that's actually any good for the country is unpopular, and almost every popular policy is probably bad.

Johnson's Brexit approach was far worse than Chequers IMHO but 20ppts more popular 1/

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 24d

Divorced, Defected, Danny! My SKETCH of Reform recruiting the next MP to inevitably fall out with Farage.

Divorced, Defected, Danny Kruger | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

“Britain is not broken,” said Danny Kruger, with the pained look of a man who believes he holds his nation’s fate in his hands, and that to save it he must turn his back on his friends.

thecritic.co.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23d

“If the Government was really serious about growth, they would be promoting international students and international education, and decoupling them from the immigration debate and treating it as a growth industry.” (James Pitman, chair of Independent Higher Education)

Why ‘flag wars’ are scaring overseas students and risk deepening unis’ cash crisis

‘It’s mad in Britain. Will I be ok?’. International students about to study in UK universities are alarmed by the country's new political climate

inews.co.uk

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