Tony Horsfield
@janthonyh.bsky.social
Excutive Director of the European Association for Distance Learning. Teacher, writer, and distance learning specialist. I love learning. Leeds United supporter.
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Neurometabolic and vascular dysfunction as an early diagnostic for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
#Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Neurometabolic and vascular dysfunction as an early diagnostic for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
#Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
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Spain’s world-leading organ donation system and medical innovation have earned the country multiple Guinness World Records in 2026, celebrating surgical firsts, record-breaking transplants, and health awareness feats that highlight a model admired around the globe.
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/07/s...
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/07/s...
Spain breaks world records in health innovation
Spain leads the world in organ donation and medical breakthroughs, earning Guinness World Records for health innovation and compassion.
euroweeklynews.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Spain’s world-leading organ donation system and medical innovation have earned the country multiple Guinness World Records in 2026, celebrating surgical firsts, record-breaking transplants, and health awareness feats that highlight a model admired around the globe.
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/07/s...
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/07/s...
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Enjoy a broad range of lectures and network with experts in the field at #SfN25! 🧠
Gain valuable insights and tools to enhance your research and career.
Browse through to lectures and build your itinerary in the 2025 Neuroscience Meeting Planner
🔗 vist.ly/4de72
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Gain valuable insights and tools to enhance your research and career.
Browse through to lectures and build your itinerary in the 2025 Neuroscience Meeting Planner
🔗 vist.ly/4de72
#neurosky #neuroskyence
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Enjoy a broad range of lectures and network with experts in the field at #SfN25! 🧠
Gain valuable insights and tools to enhance your research and career.
Browse through to lectures and build your itinerary in the 2025 Neuroscience Meeting Planner
🔗 vist.ly/4de72
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Gain valuable insights and tools to enhance your research and career.
Browse through to lectures and build your itinerary in the 2025 Neuroscience Meeting Planner
🔗 vist.ly/4de72
#neurosky #neuroskyence
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We’re updating what children learn at school so they’re ready for the modern world.
That means strong foundations, plus new skills like spotting fake news online and understanding money, and access to arts and sport.
Find out more. 👇
That means strong foundations, plus new skills like spotting fake news online and understanding money, and access to arts and sport.
Find out more. 👇
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We’re updating what children learn at school so they’re ready for the modern world.
That means strong foundations, plus new skills like spotting fake news online and understanding money, and access to arts and sport.
Find out more. 👇
That means strong foundations, plus new skills like spotting fake news online and understanding money, and access to arts and sport.
Find out more. 👇
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The Public Office (Accountability) Bill - (Hillsborough Law) is having it's 2nd reading right now.
The debate has been opened by the PM.
This is something he has personally worked towards for 15yrs.
It's a tragedy it's taken that long, but it's thanks to the PM & Labour that we are here now.
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The debate has been opened by the PM.
This is something he has personally worked towards for 15yrs.
It's a tragedy it's taken that long, but it's thanks to the PM & Labour that we are here now.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Public Office (Accountability) Bill - (Hillsborough Law) is having it's 2nd reading right now.
The debate has been opened by the PM.
This is something he has personally worked towards for 15yrs.
It's a tragedy it's taken that long, but it's thanks to the PM & Labour that we are here now.
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The debate has been opened by the PM.
This is something he has personally worked towards for 15yrs.
It's a tragedy it's taken that long, but it's thanks to the PM & Labour that we are here now.
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📚 Let's promote #readingforpleasure and #reflectingrealities with diverse authors, own voices, and new talent in children's books! Share your recommendations and let's build a library of books for all. 📚
#diversebooks #ownvoices #teachertwitter
schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/ho...
#diversebooks #ownvoices #teachertwitter
schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/ho...
schoolreadinglist.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
📚 Let's promote #readingforpleasure and #reflectingrealities with diverse authors, own voices, and new talent in children's books! Share your recommendations and let's build a library of books for all. 📚
#diversebooks #ownvoices #teachertwitter
schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/ho...
#diversebooks #ownvoices #teachertwitter
schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/ho...
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We just crossed it. Yay! Congrats everyone and Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We just crossed it. Yay! Congrats everyone and Happy Halloween!
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Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
October 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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The PM announced in his speech the start of plans to reingivorate further & higher education.
The target of 50% going to uni is scrapped!
Instead, we have a new target of two thirds of young people to EITHER go to university OR into high quality technical education or apprenticeships.
The target of 50% going to uni is scrapped!
Instead, we have a new target of two thirds of young people to EITHER go to university OR into high quality technical education or apprenticeships.
Prime Minister unveils reforms to transform further and higher education
Young people across the country will gain the skills needed to thrive in tomorrow’s job market, as the Prime Minister today announced a package of reforms.
www.gov.uk
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The PM announced in his speech the start of plans to reingivorate further & higher education.
The target of 50% going to uni is scrapped!
Instead, we have a new target of two thirds of young people to EITHER go to university OR into high quality technical education or apprenticeships.
The target of 50% going to uni is scrapped!
Instead, we have a new target of two thirds of young people to EITHER go to university OR into high quality technical education or apprenticeships.
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excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service
Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization | Bluesky
The Bluesky Social app is built on an open network protocol that refers to each user by a unique Decentralized Identifier, or DID (a W3C standard). The most popular supported DID method was developed ...
docs.bsky.app
September 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service
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📕Hot off the press: 'Dinaric Perspectives on PIRLS 2021—Prerequisites and Conditions for Teaching and Learning to Read'
September 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📕Hot off the press: 'Dinaric Perspectives on PIRLS 2021—Prerequisites and Conditions for Teaching and Learning to Read'
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It was a pleasure for me and Catherine Gall to welcome at the Sorbonne the first meeting of the international scientific committee that we set up as part of the Lowgistic, logistics and urban proximity project, financed by ADEME as part of the PIA4 future investment programme
Tks for coming friends!
Tks for coming friends!
September 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It was a pleasure for me and Catherine Gall to welcome at the Sorbonne the first meeting of the international scientific committee that we set up as part of the Lowgistic, logistics and urban proximity project, financed by ADEME as part of the PIA4 future investment programme
Tks for coming friends!
Tks for coming friends!
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A free, democratic and independent Ukraine.
That's what you are fighting for.
That's what our efforts are all about.
We are with you, for as long as it takes. Because a free Ukraine is a free Europe.
Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!
That's what you are fighting for.
That's what our efforts are all about.
We are with you, for as long as it takes. Because a free Ukraine is a free Europe.
Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!
August 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
A free, democratic and independent Ukraine.
That's what you are fighting for.
That's what our efforts are all about.
We are with you, for as long as it takes. Because a free Ukraine is a free Europe.
Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!
That's what you are fighting for.
That's what our efforts are all about.
We are with you, for as long as it takes. Because a free Ukraine is a free Europe.
Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!
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Ozzy Osborne
1948 - 2025
1948 - 2025
July 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Ozzy Osborne
1948 - 2025
1948 - 2025
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Ozzy Osbourne meets Paul McCartney for the first time, 2001.
July 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Ozzy Osbourne meets Paul McCartney for the first time, 2001.
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Calling out to #neuroskyence: Pomona College is hiring! This is a position for a tenure-track assistant professor in systems-level neuroscience. We are eager to hear from candidates with a commitment to teaching and research excellence with undergraduates academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30265
Pomona College, Neuroscience
Job #AJO30265, 1132 Assistant Professor, Systems Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Pomona College, Claremont, California, US
academicjobsonline.org
July 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Calling out to #neuroskyence: Pomona College is hiring! This is a position for a tenure-track assistant professor in systems-level neuroscience. We are eager to hear from candidates with a commitment to teaching and research excellence with undergraduates academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30265
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🔴 BREAKING: "European youngsters will be able to move to the UK for more than a year under a youth mobility scheme, the minister in charge of Britain’s relationship with the EU has indicated."
This is excellent news for young Brits going to Europe too.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This is excellent news for young Brits going to Europe too.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Young Europeans may be allowed to stay in UK for longer than a year
A minister has opened the door for a reciprocal youth mobility scheme that could add to net migration figures despite concerns from the Home Office
www.thetimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🔴 BREAKING: "European youngsters will be able to move to the UK for more than a year under a youth mobility scheme, the minister in charge of Britain’s relationship with the EU has indicated."
This is excellent news for young Brits going to Europe too.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This is excellent news for young Brits going to Europe too.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Sustained Enlargement in Vagus and Sural Nerve Cross-Sectional Areas in Fibromyalgia: A Longitudinal Study
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#neuroimaging #neurology #neuroskyence #radiology #fibromyalgia #enlargednerves #ultrasound
Free read
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#neuroimaging #neurology #neuroskyence #radiology #fibromyalgia #enlargednerves #ultrasound
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July 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Sustained Enlargement in Vagus and Sural Nerve Cross-Sectional Areas in Fibromyalgia: A Longitudinal Study
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#neuroimaging #neurology #neuroskyence #radiology #fibromyalgia #enlargednerves #ultrasound
Free read
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#neuroimaging #neurology #neuroskyence #radiology #fibromyalgia #enlargednerves #ultrasound
Free read
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This month’s "Launch" newsletter features an essay by Sheena Josselyn on the importance of reading (but not too much), Q&As with @agonru.bsky.social and @drewkesner.bsky.social about their new labs, the latest job openings and more. Subscribe to receive the newsletter each month: bit.ly/4luI2mJ
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July 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This month’s "Launch" newsletter features an essay by Sheena Josselyn on the importance of reading (but not too much), Q&As with @agonru.bsky.social and @drewkesner.bsky.social about their new labs, the latest job openings and more. Subscribe to receive the newsletter each month: bit.ly/4luI2mJ
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The UK is to recruit top researchers & their teams from around the world
(USA anyone?).
£54m funding will help 10 unis & 2 research institutes attract 60-80 of the best researchers in key sectors identified in the Industrial Strategy to drive forward science & tech innovation in the UK.
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(USA anyone?).
£54m funding will help 10 unis & 2 research institutes attract 60-80 of the best researchers in key sectors identified in the Industrial Strategy to drive forward science & tech innovation in the UK.
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Leading lights of UK research spearhead search for world's best talent
12 leading universities and research institutions selected to deliver government’s £54 million fund to recruit world’s top researchers.
www.gov.uk
July 18, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The UK is to recruit top researchers & their teams from around the world
(USA anyone?).
£54m funding will help 10 unis & 2 research institutes attract 60-80 of the best researchers in key sectors identified in the Industrial Strategy to drive forward science & tech innovation in the UK.
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(USA anyone?).
£54m funding will help 10 unis & 2 research institutes attract 60-80 of the best researchers in key sectors identified in the Industrial Strategy to drive forward science & tech innovation in the UK.
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Some major news I missed yesterday....
The Tech and Culture Secretaries brought together representatives from the creative and AI sectors to discuss next steps for finding a solution to the copyright and AI debate.
It was the first in a series of regular talks,.
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The Tech and Culture Secretaries brought together representatives from the creative and AI sectors to discuss next steps for finding a solution to the copyright and AI debate.
It was the first in a series of regular talks,.
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Creative and AI sectors kick-off next steps in finding solutions to AI and copyright
Representatives of both sectors in newly formed expert working groups on AI and copyright.
www.gov.uk
July 17, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Some major news I missed yesterday....
The Tech and Culture Secretaries brought together representatives from the creative and AI sectors to discuss next steps for finding a solution to the copyright and AI debate.
It was the first in a series of regular talks,.
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The Tech and Culture Secretaries brought together representatives from the creative and AI sectors to discuss next steps for finding a solution to the copyright and AI debate.
It was the first in a series of regular talks,.
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This is so wonderful. Seeing the PM and Chancellor chatting with the French President about Larry the Cat and his social media posts!
Macron: "He's a very clever cat"
Merci monsieur le président x
Merci monsieur le président x
July 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
This is so wonderful. Seeing the PM and Chancellor chatting with the French President about Larry the Cat and his social media posts!
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