i like brains. Neurology ACF. Previously @The_MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow

Londoner
Joined May 2009
Michael David retweeted
Actual, intentional, deliberate violence, force that could ruin a players career… But ooh a gentle insinuation of a movement of the head towards another player is immediate outrage and RED EVERY TIME
Just incase you missed it btw
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Michael David retweeted
Chirping from mid on
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Michael David retweeted
The new crime survey is out - the "Lawless Britain" picture in full - Violence at lowest since records began in 1981 - Corroborated by hospital figures for knife wounds - Robbery: record low - Overall crime 78% below 1995 peak. - Shoplifting up More:- comment.press/lawless
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Michael David retweeted
Florian Wirtz created nine open-play chances today. The first player to create as many as nine in a Premier League game since Sadio Mané for Liverpool against Burnley in January 2021 (9) and first in an away match since Samir Nasri for Man City against Spurs in August 2011 (10).
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In my experience, the academic clinical training programmes are desirable and work well. As an ACF I got a run through number into my chosen specialty, 25% protected research time that can be relatively flexibly incorporated into my job plan, and …
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added choice regarding my clinical rotations due to being supranumerary. The issue there aren’t enough of them to go around. When I applied, only 2 neurology ACFs in London! Many colleagues of mine would’ve taken the opportunity had their application been successful...
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Instead they go into a normal clinical training post and they are lost from clinical academia forever.
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Michael David retweeted
Football is hard to love right now. You wait 3 weeks for it to return, only to watch your side succumb due to a combination of injuries sustained on international duty, an inept refereeing performance and ultimately lose against a team that shouldn’t even be allowed to play.
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Michael David retweeted
Good to see an attempt to understand why highest suicide rates are in middle-aged men. What is driving this? Economic factors - highest rates began after 2008 recession. Alcohol - a policy blind spot for successive Govts. Physical ill-health, isolation, offenders.
Family breakdown and financial crises have changed the profile of those who are most likely to take their own lives thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
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Michael David retweeted
Yesterday I joined leading figures from the world of sport at Lord’s Cricket Ground to support Alzheimer’s Society. One million people in the UK are living with dementia, now the country’s leading cause of death. or to learn more about Alzheimer’s visit alzheimers.org.uk/sport
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Michael David retweeted
The Premier League on the other hand fought a lengthy + expensive legal arbitration against City to force them to disclose ALL relevant documents. Long story short, City fought it at every level and lost…
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Michael David retweeted
“Most countries have been slow to realise just how threatened they are by the weaponisation of collective stupidity”. @GeoffMulgan writes for @ArguablyMag on what “cognitive rearmament” would look like and why you should care about it. arguably.uk/p/collective-stu…
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Michael David retweeted
The latest episode of the Brain podcast-out now! Listen at: traffic.libsyn.com/ec9881f0-… Featuring discussion with senior author Professor Gültekin Tamgüney on: Vaccines mimicking conformational epitopes on α-synuclein fibrils provide immunity to Parkinson’s disease
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Michael David retweeted
Tony Pulis knows everybody in football
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One of England's most charismatic, joyful cricketers, a World Cup winner, an Ashes winner, and probably their fastest ever bowler. 🫡
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People say there are fewer world class players as there were in previous generations but has there every been a better selection of wingers as Mbappe Yamal Kvara Olisse?
Ballon d’Or or not, this is the best footballer on the planet.
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Gambling should not be legal, obviously.
The gambling industry only has itself to blame that we are finally responding to the harm it causes, including mental ill-health & suicide. They have resisted reform every step of the way.
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