Ashleigh Barrett-Young

🧠👁👶🏼🧓🏼Psychosocial adversity, cognitive decline, retinal biomarkers & ageing | Postdoc on Dunedin Study/Psychology at University of @Otago 🇳🇿She/her

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

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

[JAMA Ophthalmology @JAMAOphth]

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. https://t.co/ZuTXuReb0h @sciashleigh

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@JohnJCampbell Such a huge loss 😔

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

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

[John Campbell @JohnJCampbell]

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 https://t.co/odOffhpVVf

[Nick @StrayDogNZ]

Pst. Hey kid, want to see a dead body?

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@otago Amazing, Jemma! Congrats!

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@RebeccaBuxton 🚩🚩🚩

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@raulpacheco 🫨 confused in southern hemisphere 🫨

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@lovelydizon_ Awesome, congrats!

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@Teebagginz_ @Damas_Sogeking Best reply 😂

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@MavenOfMayhem Ooohhhh, my son is called Rowan, excellent name!

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@drjessmaddox Why is this so true

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@_david_ho_ Anyone who's seen a chef pick up a hot pan with bare hands knows this fr 😅

[Amanda. 🇵🇸🇱🇧🏳️‍⚧️she/her Free Palestine @AmandaPalestine]

@NZNationalParty A government should not interfere with the judiciary

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@NeurologicalNZ @hcmurray6 Congrats Helen!

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@NeurologicalNZ @molly_swanson Congratulations Molly!

[Green Party NZ @NZGreens]

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.

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@NZNationalParty Yay for addressing the housing crisis! Oh wait, you're only increasing the burden on young people by taking their retirement savings and giving it to landlords.

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@FrancesCook @DylanReeve I agree. Bond amounts are an issue, but there are many ways of solving this that don't involve taking someone's retirement savings. How about a cap or low-cost loan scheme for bonds?

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@PhDtoProfMentor @rattibha

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@swintersections @rattibha

[Ashleigh Barrett-Young @sciashleigh]

@kateinthebay lol he clearly understands what kura means then