Reminder: if you're an academic having a hard time, I get it (from personal experience) and am willing to be a friendly ear!

So proud of you, Jatinder Minhas! Always wonderful when our researchers' brilliance is recognised :)

I don't feel I need to explain this. I don't think I COULD explain this.

📣V. Excited to announce that the next OPSYRIS conference will be held in Manchester on 11 July 25. Many thanks to local organiser Audrey Bowen 📣 👉 Submit abstracts for symposium/oral/poster presentations: forms.gle/ygDqk18bscdAQv… 👉 Registration: tinyurl.com/c47fdh56

Users of X, katie gallacher and I have just published a paper in Disability and Rehabilitation looking at what people tweet regarding their life after stroke – and now we are tweeting about it, how meta! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… read and then tweet about it #strokesurvivor #strokerecovery

Are you a UK stroke professional based in a hospital Acute Stroke Unit working with stroke survivors with #dysphagia? We would like to hear what you think are the barriers and facilitators of implementing the #FreeWaterProtocol. Pls complete our survey ➡️tinyurl.com/5f46wk8e

Been thinking about something I read in The Dispossessed (Ursula Le Guin): "If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home."

So excited that I get to be on the PPIE panel for this amazing project - it means I can combine my research comms knowledge, my current work at the Stroke Association, and my research background in the psychology of perception. Thank you for asking me, Dr Stephanie Rossit 🧠👀🖐!

Interesting summary of a new paper suggesting that researchers should be paying more attention to how they communicate their work, specifically in terms of openness, communicating where they're uncertain, and how to communicate online/avoid pitfalls. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Today Dr Terry Quinn💙 writes in The Times Scotland tinyurl.com/yc57dm8a "the reasons for Scotland's stroke care performance are complex, but they are not insoluble". This brilliant column is indisputable Scot Gov Health British & Irish Association of Stroke Physicians NHS Research Scotland UofG SCMH Helen Puttick

Been having a break from X lately (on mat leave looking after our second bundle of joy 🩷😀). But happy to share the protocol for StarStep study has been published: …tfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Professor Madeline Cruice Dr Ian Kellar Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research

We'd love your help figuring out what our next Research Strategy should look like - please take the survey!

📢Calling those who have had a stroke or mini-stroke, their family members & friends. We need your help to design our web-based, self-management programme for post-stroke fatigue. Take part in a short survey: forms.office.com/e/Uu8tdAvAchand BCHC Community Connexions Stroke Association NIHR Research Delivery Network

This is fascinating, important, and concerning. Excellent work, Hatice Ozkan, Gargi Banerjee and team.

🧠JOB ALERT🧠 Would you like to work with the brilliant Dr Niki Chouliara and other amazing stroke researchers on the Stroke Association-funded TELSTAR project? Now's your chance!