Simon Wheeler
@simonwheeler.bsky.social
Health information specialist working for leading UK dementia charity | Loves good science and good policy that changes lives |
I only engage with real people on here so please don’t be offended if I block you.
#dementia #medsky #alzheimers
I only engage with real people on here so please don’t be offended if I block you.
#dementia #medsky #alzheimers
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Astonishing.
Just a thought, but perhaps publishers should pay peer reviewers for their time and expertise, rather than expecting free labour. I know, silly me.
Or, maybe this never went near peer review. I spent hours recently reviewing a manuscript for Scientific Reports. Did I waste my time...?
Just a thought, but perhaps publishers should pay peer reviewers for their time and expertise, rather than expecting free labour. I know, silly me.
Or, maybe this never went near peer review. I spent hours recently reviewing a manuscript for Scientific Reports. Did I waste my time...?
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Astonishing.
Just a thought, but perhaps publishers should pay peer reviewers for their time and expertise, rather than expecting free labour. I know, silly me.
Or, maybe this never went near peer review. I spent hours recently reviewing a manuscript for Scientific Reports. Did I waste my time...?
Just a thought, but perhaps publishers should pay peer reviewers for their time and expertise, rather than expecting free labour. I know, silly me.
Or, maybe this never went near peer review. I spent hours recently reviewing a manuscript for Scientific Reports. Did I waste my time...?
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Brain Health Adviser Vacancy with @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social in Manchester Brain Health Service supporting people with mild cognitive impairment and guiding lifestyle changes to aid wellbeing.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/brain-he...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/brain-he...
Brain Health Advisor - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Brain Health Adviser in Manchester Brain Health Service supporting people with mild cognitive impairment and guiding lifestyle changes to aid wellbeing.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Brain Health Adviser Vacancy with @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social in Manchester Brain Health Service supporting people with mild cognitive impairment and guiding lifestyle changes to aid wellbeing.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/brain-he...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/brain-he...
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
This is what happens when as a single condition health charity you’re overly focused on those who die of your condition and you don’t consider outcomes for those who don’t, or the opportunity costs involved for NHS. PCUK are particularly guilty but they’re not alone.
www.thetimes.com/article/4487...
www.thetimes.com/article/4487...
Start prostate cancer testing regardless of advice, Wes Streeting told
NHS advisers are expected to rule against a mass programme for the disease, which causes more than 12,000 deaths a year
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is what happens when as a single condition health charity you’re overly focused on those who die of your condition and you don’t consider outcomes for those who don’t, or the opportunity costs involved for NHS. PCUK are particularly guilty but they’re not alone.
www.thetimes.com/article/4487...
www.thetimes.com/article/4487...
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I very much relate to this.
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I very much relate to this.
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new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
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November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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🔒 Responses are anonymous
📢 Help shape future guidance!
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#Audiology #ENT #CochlearImplants #Dementia
🕒 Takes just 15 minutes
🔒 Responses are anonymous
📢 Help shape future guidance!
🎟️ Enter into a prize draw to win a voucher
👉 Take part here: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
#Audiology #ENT #CochlearImplants #Dementia
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Wonderful news. Those boffins in Manchester have developed a gene therapy for Hunter syndrome, a rare enzyme deficiency which causes childhood dementia.
‘Amazing’ gene therapy gives hope to toddler with Hunter syndrome
Oliver Chu, three, has made astonishing progress after becoming the first person to receive a groundbreaking treatment for a devastating genetic disease
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Wonderful news. Those boffins in Manchester have developed a gene therapy for Hunter syndrome, a rare enzyme deficiency which causes childhood dementia.
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NEW: Our investigation finds a tuna supply chain riddled with exploitation and abuse - where fishermen spend months or even years at sea.
Some describe threats, beatings and deception over pay.
Yet the fish they catch is still ending up on our plates.
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Some describe threats, beatings and deception over pay.
Yet the fish they catch is still ending up on our plates.
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
The dark truth behind supermarket tuna
Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they are exploited and abused
ig.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
NEW: Our investigation finds a tuna supply chain riddled with exploitation and abuse - where fishermen spend months or even years at sea.
Some describe threats, beatings and deception over pay.
Yet the fish they catch is still ending up on our plates.
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Some describe threats, beatings and deception over pay.
Yet the fish they catch is still ending up on our plates.
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
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This might be one of the most disturbing pieces I’ve ever read. Staggering investigative work from Sirin Kale and Lucy Osbourne www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This might be one of the most disturbing pieces I’ve ever read. Staggering investigative work from Sirin Kale and Lucy Osbourne www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Are you interested in the topic of living alone with dementia?
Join Dementia UK on Monday 24th November at 2-4pm for a webinar discussing this very topic!
📩To register your attendance, email [email protected]
Join Dementia UK on Monday 24th November at 2-4pm for a webinar discussing this very topic!
📩To register your attendance, email [email protected]
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Are you interested in the topic of living alone with dementia?
Join Dementia UK on Monday 24th November at 2-4pm for a webinar discussing this very topic!
📩To register your attendance, email [email protected]
Join Dementia UK on Monday 24th November at 2-4pm for a webinar discussing this very topic!
📩To register your attendance, email [email protected]
Also apparently kids now have to learn Al Jabr, whatever that is?
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Also apparently kids now have to learn Al Jabr, whatever that is?
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Administered the MoCA to my neurocog class tonight, and less than half of the grad students knew how to draw and set an analog clock to 11:10. Cohort effects are real!
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Administered the MoCA to my neurocog class tonight, and less than half of the grad students knew how to draw and set an analog clock to 11:10. Cohort effects are real!
Good news. Nice work by FT on an important but very neglected public health issue
on.ft.com/4oaVtck UK to launch first lead poisoning screening study of children after FT investigation
on.ft.com/4oaVtck UK to launch first lead poisoning screening study of children after FT investigation
UK to launch first lead poisoning screening study of children after FT investigation
Leeds examination to target hidden exposure in the young and lay groundwork for national testing
on.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Good news. Nice work by FT on an important but very neglected public health issue
on.ft.com/4oaVtck UK to launch first lead poisoning screening study of children after FT investigation
on.ft.com/4oaVtck UK to launch first lead poisoning screening study of children after FT investigation
This is why we need to take privacy very, very seriously. We’re just one general election away from this sort of thing happening in the UK.
These capabilities ICE has via Thomson Reuters and Motorola are mind boggling. marries license plate data with voter and ownership records, future location prediction (unclear how good this is), face recognition. Surveillance state continues apace
www.404media.co/this-app-let...
www.404media.co/this-app-let...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is why we need to take privacy very, very seriously. We’re just one general election away from this sort of thing happening in the UK.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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Living on an estate, having 9 kids, owning firearms, having a pack of dogs, not working.
April 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Living on an estate, having 9 kids, owning firearms, having a pack of dogs, not working.
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