🧠👁👶🏼🧓🏼Psychosocial adversity, cognitive decline, retinal biomarkers & ageing | Postdoc on Dunedin Study/Psychology at University of @Otago 🇳🇿She/her
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10 Feb 2022
Yay, my first first-author paper is out today! 🥳 We investigated whether retinal thinning was associated with cognitive decline by middle age, which may be an indicator that people are in the earliest stages of dementia/Alzheimer's disease 1/3
10 Feb 2022
Can the retina help detect those with #Alzheimerdisease before they get it? Study found retinal neural layers were thinner in people with decline in cognitive processing speed at the young age of 45. ja.ma/33chtQx @sciashleigh
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1 Oct 2023
Coming in to work today feels very strange, as I know that I'll never again be able to pop in to Richie's office for a quick bit of advice or a spontaneous chat about life. Miss you, Richie - but we at the Dunedin Study Unit will carry on your kaupapa and honour your legacy x
30 Sep 2023
Very sad news, about a very fine man.
Love to Richie's family, friends, colleagues - and to his other "family" in the Dunedin Study.
Dunedin Study professor Richie Poulton dies, aged 61 1news.co.nz/2023/10/01/duned…
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10 Sep 2023
Pst. Hey kid, want to see a dead body?
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A government should not interfere with the judiciary
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24 Jul 2023
The Green Party’s tax plan gives everyone earning under $125,000 *a bigger tax cut* than National’s plan.
That’s 95% of taxpayers.
And ours is fully costed & paid for by a wealth tax on 0.7% of NZers who can afford it.
Poverty is a political choice, & we're choosing to end it.
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6 Jul 2023
Right #AcademicTwitter, are we moving to Threads?! Here’s my profile if you’re heading over
threads.net/@ashleighknits
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28 Jun 2023
So stoked to have been awarded funding from @HRCNewZealand to look at blood biomarkers of dementia in the Dunedin Study! And excited about continuing work with my excellent co-investigators @Erin_E_Cawston, Dr Brigid Ryan, Prof Cliff Abraham & Prof Richie Poulton 🥳
27 Jun 2023
We're pleased to announce $53.7M for 44 Project Grants, ranging from a large trial to help NZers stop vaping to a project to improve the health/wellbeing of young Māori released from prison/youth justice residences. See our website for all the recipients. tinyurl.com/y78ymxrr
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23 Jun 2023
Ka rawe Jonathan, well deserved! 🥳
Prof Jonathan Broadbent (@jmarkb2 ) was named recipient of the 2023 IADR Distinguished Scientist H. Trendley Dean Memorial Award - one of the highest honours bestowed by the International Association for Dental Research! 👏👏👏👏
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21 Jun 2023
Tragic and shameful. If this goes ahead, it should be what this government ends up being remembered for, and a black mark on the abject managerial nonsense that is liberal politics in this country. THIS IS LABOUR WITH AN OUTRIGHT MAJORITY. rnz.co.nz/news/national/4923…
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20 Jun 2023
Now news of redundancies coming out of Massey. Where does it end? From AUT to Otago to VUW to Massey. Does Labour really want its legacy to be presiding over the biggest swathe of cuts to our universities in decades? This is happening now: the time to act is now. Stand up.
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13 Jun 2023
I don't share much on here anymore so I'm not sure if anyone will see this but if you do PLEASE SIGN THIS LETTER!!! It's so important to me that I used 3 exclamation marks! The tertiary sector in Aotearoa NZ is in a dire situation & Govt needs to help more savingtertiary.nz/
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7 Jun 2023
Just bumping this:
together.org.nz/provide_tert…
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30 May 2023
Our latest research shows that school engagement, among 12-year-olds is strongly associated with student-teacher relationships, and student’s self-belief as learners. We also found a need for more inclusive school environments. #NWA12 growingup.co.nz/news/school-…
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24 May 2023
Well, shit.
23 May 2023
#BREAKING Victoria University of Wellington have just announced over 200 jobs could be at risk following a projected $33M deficit this year
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18 May 2023
Good!
18 May 2023
High-earning New Zealanders moved nearly $6 billion income a year into trusts after the Government introduced a new 39c personal tax rate – but now Inland Revenue will chase it down. newsroom.co.nz/budget-no-maj…
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9 May 2023
It’s a dire spot we’ve been forced into, but today was incredibly encouraging. Union workers stood up and fought back against the brutalising of our institution. Thanks to all who turned out, and thanks to all who are investing time and energy into this fightback.
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9 May 2023
Find our Universities like you should @chrishipkins @otago @OtagoUniTEU @nzteu #TEU #strike Stop the Cuts!!
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27 Apr 2023
Can you please help by retweeting this? TIA gal.to/m3tgq
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26 Apr 2023
“If you listen to the Vice Chancellors… and/or Universities New Zealand, you would think this is all inevitable, that their hands are tied and making good people redundant is the only way to go. This is rubbish. Management have other choices.” -@GreyNZ
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25 Apr 2023
What is it going to take for @nzlabour @chrishipkins to acknowledge that universities are at crisis point?
Academics' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
"Staff were unable to plan ahead due to the uncertainty, they said."
Where is the TEC in regards to the situation at our Unis? Why not bring them into #NZResearchRethink?
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22 Apr 2023
This policy discriminates against so many - parents, disabled people, those who aren’t independently wealthy…
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