The Impact of Air Pollution on Cognition

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Kinda a pretty metaphor for being LGBTQ. No matter how hard they try to tear you apart you still remain.

Our new paper reveals distinct atrophy patterns 🧠within & between FTLD-TDP subtypes. These findings underscore the need to consider both pathological subtype & genotype 🧬 in future classification & treatment approaches. #FTLD Read more: doi.org/10.1002/acn3.70014 @UCSFmac @UCSF

Even brief exposure to #AirPollution impedes our ability to concentrate and recognise emotions in others, according to a new study. Learn more @guardian 🗞️⬇️ #PublicHealth @NatureComms @ThomasFaherty @LES_UniBham @UoB_SoP bit.ly/3CtXwq7

Who reviewed this paper? A few days ago @gcabanac tweeted about a paper that had published a remark that it had been forced to cite irrelevant papers. You can see the tweet here: buff.ly/3UMIguf. We remarked that if it was not so serious, it would be funny. Since reading that tweet, we have not been able to get it out of our head, so we thught that we would document it in a little more detail. We are doing this for three reasons. 1️⃣ In our view, it descerves more detail to be made available. 2️⃣ We'd like these details to be be kept as a matter of public record, so we are posting similar posts on our X account and our LinkedIn account. 3️⃣ It should be of interest to this community, so we hope that this raises even further the ethical issues around this topic. The first image shows the paper that we are looking at. What is interesting is the text that appears on at the end of the introduction (highlighted in red). This appears to show that the reviewer insisted that a set of 13 papers be cited, else they would not accept the paper. It would be interesting to see the review repport, so that we could be certain what had been said. If you want to see the paper, it is available here: buff.ly/4fndXm0 In the rest of this 🧵, we show the papers that have been asked to be cited (i.e. [35]-[47]). These have been taken from the paper mentioned above. You'll notice (as we have highlighted it) that every paper is "et al." meaning, of course, that there are quite a few authors on each paper. Gicven that we cannot see all the authors, the other images on this 🧵 shows the full set of authors on each of these 13 papers. We leave it an an exercise for the reader to hazard a guess as to the reviewr is?

Ah yes the amygdala famously for compassion only and not fear, anger, and anxiety. Lovely thread 🧠

Genuinely the most leading likert scale I have ever seen @Avis

It’s a no from me ❌ Won’t be going against my community on Thursday ✊ LGB only with the T

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer says that trans women should be banned from women-only spaces. Asked if trans women (even those with GRCs) have the right to use women's spaces, Starmer said: "No. They don’t have that right. They shouldn’t". (Via The Times)

The Conservative Party change their Twitter account into a false factchecking service during the General Election debate (2024)

🚨 NEW: Key deadlines for the GE on 4 July ⏲️ Register to vote: Tuesday 18 June at 23.59 ⏲️ Applying for a Voter ID: Wednesday 26 June at 17:00 ⏲️ Applying for a postal vote: Wednesday 19 June at 17.00 ⏲️ Applying for a proxy vote: Wednesday 26 June at 17.00

Half of my life spent doomscrolling #MyTwitterAnniversary

Second half of this article is referring to the HIPTox project! —> Volunteers breathe polluted air to test impact on brain bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…

Why volunteers are breathing in lungfuls of polluted air. Fascinating exposure study by team at @OfficialUoM and @imperialcollege bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…

As part of today’s news coverage, BBC filmed pre and post exposure tests at Manchester CRF at MRI with volunteer participant Bryony. They measure cognitive and physiological functions as part of the HiPTox study. 🔗 Find out more about the study here: manchester.ac.uk/discover/ne…

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