Interested in my research? Polar psychology of isolation & confinement OR cognition in motor neurone disease? You can find a list of my publications here! They‘re listed oldest to newest…❤️🤓📕📗📘📙📚 #EndALS#ALSAwarenessMonth
Thank goodness people are waking up to the fact that there is a crisis for clinical research in the UK @FT
High on the list are the bureaucratic processes that have become such an obstacle to getting things done
Taylor Swift wrote a song about my son, Ronan, after he died of cancer. She put me on as a co-writer, and donated the proceeds directly to pediatric cancer -no strings, no hidden motives, just pure compassion and integrity.
In stark contrast, the Trump family engaged in significant fundraising efforts for children with cancer through the Eric Trump Foundation. However, reports later revealed that funds were used to pay Trump-owned properties for hosting fundraising events, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and self-dealing. What could have been a mission solely dedicated to supporting children in need became tainted by financial practices that appeared to benefit the Trump Organization, casting a shadow over the charitable intentions initially claimed.
This election is a no-brainer. It’s a choice between compassion and corruption, between someone like Kamala Harris, who has spent her career fighting for justice, and Trump, who has exploited the vulnerable at every turn. Kamala has consistently shown a commitment to supporting communities and ensuring people’s rights are protected, while Trump and his family have even stooped to taking funds meant for children with cancer.
If integrity, empathy, and basic decency matter, then this choice couldn’t be clearer. Supporting Kamala and her values means standing up for the kind of future where compassion isn’t just talk—it’s action. We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to reject self-interest and stand on the right side of history.
In Café Kyiv in Berlin we talked about the tragic fate of deported Ukrainian children.
Europe needs to wake up, if it doesn’t want to be discussing Polish, or German deported children in a few years’ time…
@TatjanaKiel @ronzheimer
After accounting for dysarthria & premorbid verbal IQ, we observed no differences in the frequency of verb use (action vs body verbs), no differences in content density and none in sentence length.
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We asked people living with ALS/MND to describe the Cookie Theft Picture & analysed their use of verbs & nouns, their sentences‘ lengths and contents.
https://t.co/lkfspaSzp8
This might be of interest to my esteemed colleagues working on ALS/MND and/or language @thbaketal@RoisinTCDNeuro - our findings that language dysfunction in ALS/MND is more likely due to executive impairments and dysarthria than genuine language impairment are finally here!
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Nothing says more about how little Republicans understand Gen Z than them now saying Taylor Swift is “dumb & her music sucks” after she registered more than 35,000 people to vote last week. If you attack Taylor Swift, you also attack Gen Z. Good luck, Republicans. You’re screwed.
They hate women. They hate young women. They hate women with a brain and a voice. They hate successful women. #TaylorSwift is the exemplar of everything #MAGA incels detest and want to destroy.
What does a cognitive neuroscientist, a university lecturer & a tourist guide have in common? Find out in my Edinburgh Fringe show, Sunday, 27 August 2023, 1.30pm, on research & languages, guiding & teaching, ageing & discovery, and much more: https://t.co/fUHWjwrIAG