Sam Shale @samshale

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

If you are going out to incite violence today... You are nurturing the same fascist ideologies our ancestors fought and died to drive out. We can only walk as fast as our slowest member of society. ❤️ #UKRiots

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Watch this show! It's so good. Daniel Kitson detests audience participation but still manipulates us like marionettes | Brian Logan theguardian.com/stage/article/…

Exciting insight this afternoon at the launch of #EQUADEM Network Plus, hearing how this 5 year network will work to find solutions to reduce inequalities in dementia. @ClarissaGiebel pictured

Dementia does not impact everyone equally. @alzheimerssoc are launching a £2m call asking researchers to come to us with solutions which can bridge inequalities in diagnosis or post-diagnostic care linkedin.com/pulse/dementia…

.@RooneyLaura_ from @alzheimerssoc on a new programme that will embed research nurses into NHS settings to help make clinical trials a key part of dementia care nursingtimes.net/opinion/resear…

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain “Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.” “There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king.  “Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless. “The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow. “In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children. “Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.” “These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches. “Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure.  “Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity. “Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed. newrepublic.com/article/182987…

Do you know a dementia researcher who has made a important contribution to the field? Do they have what it takes to be a future leader in dementia research? Recognise their achievement and impact by nominating them for an award: alzheimers.org.uk/research/resea…

Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer, yet it isn’t treated as a priority. Our Head of Policy Jen Keen takes a look at the big issues of the next 12 months and explains why 2024 is the year dementia must be made a priority: bit.ly/49eOA2v

📢Registration is now open for our early career research retreat 2024!!!📢 Come along to learn new skills and make connections that will empower you to make a lasting impact on dementia research! #dementia #dementiaresearcher Register today: alzheimers.org.uk/dementia-profe…

For too long progress in #dementia research has been held back by the poor state of clinical trials for dementia in the UK. Funding from @NIHRresearch & our new @alzheimerssoc research nurses scheme to get people onto clinical trials are significant interventions to address this.

National Institute for Health and Care Research @NIHRresearch

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We are pleased to announce £49.9m worth of funding to allow more people access to Dementia Trials. The Dementia Trials Network will be delivered though the NIHR Dementia Translational Research Collaboration. #Dementia #Research nihr.ac.uk/news/governmen…

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Our Early Career Researcher Retreat is back! Come and meet like-minded researchers and learn skills to help to thrive in your dementia research career! Register your interest today: alzheimers.org.uk/dementia-profe… Please share. @ECRRetreat #dementia #dementiaresearcher

Our new grant rounds are open! Our research programme provides funding for all career-levels across clinical, biomedical and care research. For more information visit: alzheimers.org.uk/research/resea…

#AccidentalPartridge

The reality behind this is horrible

Blood tests to diagnose the diseases that cause dementia could become available on the NHS within five years. We’re proud to have launched the £5 million #BloodBiomarkerChallenge with @AlzResearchUK, @NIHRresearch and funded by @PostcodeLottery. @SianGregory7 explains.

Do you have the vision and passion to provide strategic leadership, foster collaboration & drive effective communication? ⁦@alzheimerssoc⁩ needs you! Job Alert- Associate Director for External Relations and Media jobs.alzheimers.org.uk/vacancies/1267…

Come join our team! As our wonderful National Influencing Manager in the campaigns team is heading on maternity leave, we are currently recruiting. You could be a key part of creating change for people living with dementia. Interested? Apply below! jobs.alzheimers.org.uk/vacancies/1207…

Nice try #backatschool #indenial