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 with real names so please don’t be offended if I block you.
#dementia #alzheimers
I only engage with real people on here with real names so please don’t be offended if I block you.
#dementia #alzheimers
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'Improving breast cancer screenings for Disabled women'
Current mammography equipment is not accessible to many people who have mobility impairments. @breastcancernow.bsky.social are fighting to change this
Read more about the campaign and share your experience👇
breastcancernow.org/about-us/cam...
Current mammography equipment is not accessible to many people who have mobility impairments. @breastcancernow.bsky.social are fighting to change this
Read more about the campaign and share your experience👇
breastcancernow.org/about-us/cam...
Improving breast screening for women with physical disabilities
Read how Breast Cancer Now is working to improve breast screening for women with physical disabilities.
breastcancernow.org
January 14, 2026 at 11:39 AM
'Improving breast cancer screenings for Disabled women'
Current mammography equipment is not accessible to many people who have mobility impairments. @breastcancernow.bsky.social are fighting to change this
Read more about the campaign and share your experience👇
breastcancernow.org/about-us/cam...
Current mammography equipment is not accessible to many people who have mobility impairments. @breastcancernow.bsky.social are fighting to change this
Read more about the campaign and share your experience👇
breastcancernow.org/about-us/cam...
This is good stuff. Recommended for anyone doing research with people living with #dementia, whether it’s focus groups or clinical trials.
Let’s Talk Dementia — co‑produced resources to help researchers adapt communication when involving people with dementia as partners in research.
Funded by @nihrspcr.bsky.social
Great work led by @sgriffiths-6.bsky.social and the PCPH team. Check the link below
www.ucl.ac.uk/population-h...
Funded by @nihrspcr.bsky.social
Great work led by @sgriffiths-6.bsky.social and the PCPH team. Check the link below
www.ucl.ac.uk/population-h...
Let’s Talk Dementia
Supporting communication in research partnerships involving people with dementia.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 10:56 PM
This is good stuff. Recommended for anyone doing research with people living with #dementia, whether it’s focus groups or clinical trials.
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Household wealth begins to decline six years before the onset of dementia, largely because of poor financial decisions, from Jing Li, Kathleen M. McGarry, @lhnicholas.bsky.social, and Jonathan S. Skinner www.nber.org/papers/w34659
January 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Household wealth begins to decline six years before the onset of dementia, largely because of poor financial decisions, from Jing Li, Kathleen M. McGarry, @lhnicholas.bsky.social, and Jonathan S. Skinner www.nber.org/papers/w34659
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"Choose Denmark. Choose bacon and Lurpak. Choose Sandi Toksvig and Hans Christian Andersen. Choose a strong welfare state, hygge and a stroll through Tivoli Gardens..."
January 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
"Choose Denmark. Choose bacon and Lurpak. Choose Sandi Toksvig and Hans Christian Andersen. Choose a strong welfare state, hygge and a stroll through Tivoli Gardens..."
I'm just updating our position on the risks of diagnosing dementia in politicians and was curious to know how the ancients handled it.
I never realised that this was how the Marius ended his days - with what looks strikingly like bvFTD:
nah.sen.es/vmfiles/vol1...
@partialhistorians.bsky.social
I never realised that this was how the Marius ended his days - with what looks strikingly like bvFTD:
nah.sen.es/vmfiles/vol1...
@partialhistorians.bsky.social
nah.sen.es
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I'm just updating our position on the risks of diagnosing dementia in politicians and was curious to know how the ancients handled it.
I never realised that this was how the Marius ended his days - with what looks strikingly like bvFTD:
nah.sen.es/vmfiles/vol1...
@partialhistorians.bsky.social
I never realised that this was how the Marius ended his days - with what looks strikingly like bvFTD:
nah.sen.es/vmfiles/vol1...
@partialhistorians.bsky.social
I absolutely love this.
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
I absolutely love this.
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Recently posted: A video of this talk, intended to trigger conversations.
Please consider watching as a group, followed by a discussion of next steps for psychiatry-related research with your community. Discussions like these are crucial for progress.
mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/Nicole...
Please consider watching as a group, followed by a discussion of next steps for psychiatry-related research with your community. Discussions like these are crucial for progress.
mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/Nicole...
Nicole Rust
Nicole RustDirector of Visual Memory LabDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of Pennsylvania A New-New Intellectual Framework for PsychiatryIn 1998, Eric Kandel published the brilliant essay&n...
mediacentral.princeton.edu
January 13, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Recently posted: A video of this talk, intended to trigger conversations.
Please consider watching as a group, followed by a discussion of next steps for psychiatry-related research with your community. Discussions like these are crucial for progress.
mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/Nicole...
Please consider watching as a group, followed by a discussion of next steps for psychiatry-related research with your community. Discussions like these are crucial for progress.
mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/Nicole...
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For Brits, an American will also be assigned to you to misunderstand your specifically UK posts and to shout at you for posting about frivolous things like #TheCricket or #TheFootball when America is going to shit.
Welcome to everyone joining Bluesky from twitter. Someone will be assigned to you to misunderstand one of your jokes and scream at you shortly.
January 11, 2026 at 7:26 PM
For Brits, an American will also be assigned to you to misunderstand your specifically UK posts and to shout at you for posting about frivolous things like #TheCricket or #TheFootball when America is going to shit.
Goodness, it’s actually sweet how Rubio has the look of a son trying desperately to preserve the dignity of a parent in decline.
It certainly feels like things have progressed markedly since the election.
I don’t condone specific remote diagnosis (e.g. dementia) but he’s clearly not well.
It certainly feels like things have progressed markedly since the election.
I don’t condone specific remote diagnosis (e.g. dementia) but he’s clearly not well.
January 11, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Goodness, it’s actually sweet how Rubio has the look of a son trying desperately to preserve the dignity of a parent in decline.
It certainly feels like things have progressed markedly since the election.
I don’t condone specific remote diagnosis (e.g. dementia) but he’s clearly not well.
It certainly feels like things have progressed markedly since the election.
I don’t condone specific remote diagnosis (e.g. dementia) but he’s clearly not well.
Not sure how reliable the DM sources are here, but not surprising if so.
NEW: U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, Daily Mail claims, citing sources.
January 11, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Not sure how reliable the DM sources are here, but not surprising if so.
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Latest from me, on an eternally overlooked, sniffed-at issue that is politically huge www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK’s high streets have reached a tipping point – and Reform will reap the benefits | John Harris
When even Poundland and charity shops are closing, we’re near a point of no return. But there is hope, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Latest from me, on an eternally overlooked, sniffed-at issue that is politically huge www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As a cognitive scientist, I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to realise that emotion matters a lot, not just for understanding humans, but for understanding any thinking agent.
Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality.
Examples:
Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality.
Examples:
There's much talk these days about what's required for "real" intelligence, such as world models and the like. One thing we know about the human evolution of it: it required/requires emotion. That may have been better appreciated in 1938 than today.
archive.org/details/in.e...
archive.org/details/in.e...
January 11, 2026 at 11:09 AM
As a cognitive scientist, I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to realise that emotion matters a lot, not just for understanding humans, but for understanding any thinking agent.
Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality.
Examples:
Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality.
Examples:
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A headline to sum up our times:
January 9, 2026 at 11:09 AM
A headline to sum up our times:
I have someone who's very angry that they're having to wait 12 weeks for a FDG-PET scan for a potential diagnosis. I'm thinking that's actually fairly good? Or is it not?
Hard to get statistical data on this type of imaging compared to CT/MRI.
Hard to get statistical data on this type of imaging compared to CT/MRI.
January 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I have someone who's very angry that they're having to wait 12 weeks for a FDG-PET scan for a potential diagnosis. I'm thinking that's actually fairly good? Or is it not?
Hard to get statistical data on this type of imaging compared to CT/MRI.
Hard to get statistical data on this type of imaging compared to CT/MRI.
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Def not the most important thing about this, but coming across this thread from a researcher studying vehicle ramming attacks is giving me the most “old Twitter“ vibes I have had here…
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Def not the most important thing about this, but coming across this thread from a researcher studying vehicle ramming attacks is giving me the most “old Twitter“ vibes I have had here…
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One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
January 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM
One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
Quick Q for anyone who's ever done a spinal tap. Is CSF clear and colourless, or is it 'straw-coloured' (i.e. pale yellow)?
I'm reviewing some technical content that describes it as the latter and stock images also seem to do so too. However, clinical texts describe it as clear and colourless?
I'm reviewing some technical content that describes it as the latter and stock images also seem to do so too. However, clinical texts describe it as clear and colourless?
January 6, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Quick Q for anyone who's ever done a spinal tap. Is CSF clear and colourless, or is it 'straw-coloured' (i.e. pale yellow)?
I'm reviewing some technical content that describes it as the latter and stock images also seem to do so too. However, clinical texts describe it as clear and colourless?
I'm reviewing some technical content that describes it as the latter and stock images also seem to do so too. However, clinical texts describe it as clear and colourless?
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“I support the right of the Venezuelan people to determine their future, as long as they choose to do exactly what the USA wants” isn’t the moral position that some pundits seem to think it is.
January 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM
“I support the right of the Venezuelan people to determine their future, as long as they choose to do exactly what the USA wants” isn’t the moral position that some pundits seem to think it is.
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the BBC charter renewal video received a surprising number of views
If you follow this argument through to its logical conclusion there should be a UK Government channel on pornhub.
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 4:25 PM
the BBC charter renewal video received a surprising number of views
Certainly that whatever the US does is not constrained by law, convention or historical alliances. It’s asserting itself as an imperial power, albeit one in decline, in an in increasingly zero-sum world. UK/Europe needs to get out of ‘rabbit in headlights’ mode and adapt to the new reality.
100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
January 3, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Certainly that whatever the US does is not constrained by law, convention or historical alliances. It’s asserting itself as an imperial power, albeit one in decline, in an in increasingly zero-sum world. UK/Europe needs to get out of ‘rabbit in headlights’ mode and adapt to the new reality.
Really surprised how shocked everyone is about this. Did we think he was going to march his troops to the top of the hill and march them down again? International law is dead. RIP.
Let’s just pray there’s a negotiated plan for succession here rather than the assumptions that underpinned Iraq/Afghan.
Let’s just pray there’s a negotiated plan for succession here rather than the assumptions that underpinned Iraq/Afghan.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Really surprised how shocked everyone is about this. Did we think he was going to march his troops to the top of the hill and march them down again? International law is dead. RIP.
Let’s just pray there’s a negotiated plan for succession here rather than the assumptions that underpinned Iraq/Afghan.
Let’s just pray there’s a negotiated plan for succession here rather than the assumptions that underpinned Iraq/Afghan.
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To be fair, I know lots of 80 year-olds who would totally brag about getting 100% on a MoCA. But (a) people around him are repeatedly asking him to take this test, suggesting that they think he might have dementia, and (b) his doctors consistently and blatantly lie about his health (e.g. BMI!).
You shouldn’t have to keep having to take a cognitive assessment for detecting cognitive impairment and dementia!
I wouldn’t be bragging about “passing it” three times in a year.
I wouldn’t be bragging about “passing it” three times in a year.
January 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM
To be fair, I know lots of 80 year-olds who would totally brag about getting 100% on a MoCA. But (a) people around him are repeatedly asking him to take this test, suggesting that they think he might have dementia, and (b) his doctors consistently and blatantly lie about his health (e.g. BMI!).