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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

ECT really does save lives. Our new SR/MA shows reduced mortality in people receiving ECT versus a comparator treatment. We didn't show a reduction in suicides but you probably wouldn't expect to be able to.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I never go to the gym. Terrifying.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Let me know when, Ethel. Without leaving the path, there are great views of the beach when you get to the boardwalk past the WCs.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I’ve been saying for 20 years that we need a phase2/3 trial of lithium in early AD.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

That is very kind and I thank you!

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Almost Japan in Norfolk this mornin.

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Harry Costello @drharrycostello.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New paper out in @journal_ad (led by Guy Gitlin-Leigh). @profrobhoward.bsky.social We conducted the first systematic review + meta-analysis on whether monoclonal antibody therapies for #Alzheimer’s (AD) & #Parkinson’s (PD) affect risk of depression. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Only if I can get huge numbers of people to vote for me!

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I'm keeping them back for the later stages of the campaign. Slow and steady wins the race...

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Thanks so much, Fiona. I'm coming to Scotland to speak to colleagues at the end of January.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Thanks, Tom. Hope everything is going well with you and I see our review has been cited 4 times already!

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

BlueSky friends, forgive me for not posting much on here. I'm standing for President of the RCPsych in the elections next March. I'm still speaking and listening to friends and colleagues about what is important, but you can learn about what I would do if successful here: www.profrobhoward.com

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Grey old view from the train this morning.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

“Starmer’s one historic role is to stave off the far right”. Absobloodylutely.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Beautiful autumn light on our morning walk with watchful roe deer.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks.
"We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges.
"When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

What a beautiful tribute to love and the power of AIDS research from Faye Landsman. Come join us next week to hear about the miracles HIV research has given the world. #saveaidsresearch @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil

Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Layla. Not really happy on trains, even when she can travel First Class.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The fall of Mandelson is first cross-party celebration since the vaccine. Remain, Leave, right, left: united at last.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Twitter still has impressive potential for interaction.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

BBC using the phrase 'approved asylum seekers' today. It's technically correct I suppose, but emotionally barren - taking a word that inspires sympathy and turning it into a dead administrative phrase. They are refugees.

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Jenny (Kowalczuk) Sanders @jennysanders.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Aldwych is ALWAYS exactly like this, rain and waiting forever for the right bus...

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

At Lord Leicester’s secret beach hut in Holkham Woods. Lots of squirrels and rabbits this afternoon.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

It’s getting better. Twitter still more fun.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Blackberries are all tiny and with no sweetness here. I expect it’s the lack of water.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Traditionally used (along with an equal weight of sugar) to flavour gin.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Hedgerows already filled with autumn berries. Densest crop of sloes that I can remember.

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Spiders make #webs with their silk, and use trapped #fireflies as glowing #bait [via Brit Eco Soc] 🧪👩‍🔬🕷️🕸️🪰💡 " findings confirm that captured fireflies left as bait increase the hunting success rate of the #spiders." www.britishecologicalsociety.org/spider-uses-... #tools #hunting #intelligence

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Spider uses trapped fireflies as glowing bait - BES

Spider uses trapped fireflies as glowing bait - BES is the largest scientific society for ecologists in Europe. We're working towards a world in which nature and people thrive.

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Mike Greicius @mikegreicius.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

🧪 #publichealth With all the stops/restarts, firings/rehirings, grant terminations/non-terminations, and funding delays--even ignoring its anti-science stance--this is not a Department of Health and Human Services that is going to make America the least bit healthy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

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White House Says New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, but She Refuses to Leave

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A key sentence summarizes a very real outcome. 🧪“Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults. Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc."

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Bonobos keep track of groupmates even when they can’t see them Mental representation of the locations and identities of multiple hidden agents or objects by a bonobo 🏺🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Uncovers the rich representations of the social world shared by humans and other apes.

Participant’s view of the set-up across experiments

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William C Phelps, PhD @wcphelps.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I applaud the Amer Acad of Pediatrics for clear guidelines on COVID vaccines for infants, in contrast to the current CDC leadership. This is an interview with Paul Offit, a courageous expert in pediatrics. 150 children died in the past year of COVID! Read that again. 🧪 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Why the American Academy of Pediatrics is diverging from CDC vaccine guidelines

The American Academy of Pediatrics released new COVID vaccination guidelines, and for the first time, they diverge significantly from the recommendations from the CDC. The changes leave parents with c...

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Kathryn Hulick @kathrynhulick.substack.com · 26/08/2025

When tech reads your thoughts, hopefully it won't read out ALL of them! Researchers had subjects imagine the password "Chitty chitty bang bang” to activate a mental speech decoder. 🧪https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/an-inner-speech-decoder-reveals-some-mental-privacy-issues/

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An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

Words you’ll never speak still cause activity in the brain’s speech centers.

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