Simon Mead

@smead2

Prions dementia climbing running dog walking Dad & husband. National Prion Clinic UCLH. Deputy Director @MRC_Prion @UCL NIHR Senior Investigator

London and Ivinghoe Aston

Joined November 2008

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 12

Jumping in the sea on SE coast of Antiparos.

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Simon Mead@smead2 · 14 h

I’m going to have to change my view about the strikes if politicians keep posting like this.

LLord Bethell@JimBethell · Jul 25

That's very inspiring, Chris. What sort of champagne is your favourite? Are all doctors entitled to champagne? Are taxpayers's entitled to champagne, or is it just for doctors?

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 24

Good luck to resident doctors in their campaign for better pay and working conditions. You are getting a lot of flack from politicians and public but you really do deserve better. That said I wouldn’t have voted for a strike but that’s just a personal position. Not BMA member.

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 24

National Prion Clinic is recruiting a clinical research fellow. suitable for doctors from FY to preCCT. neurology or psychiatry special interest. Learn about rapidly progressive dementia, prions, multidisciplinary community case management, lots of research. Contact me for detail

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Midnight Maniac Sri@sridatta · Jul 21

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 20

Had a super holiday on Paros, but it’s good to see Betty again and walk familiar tracks between showers

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 19

Young doctors should demand more than a pay rise — they need a life. Good article which asks the fundamental question: why does specialist training take so long in the uk vs other countries? It’s still, despite all the worthy reports, about “time served” on.ft.com/44WR3Oq

smead2's tweet card. An overly long NHS training period is partly what’s causing the strikes and exodus of medical staff

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Callum Williams@cmwilliams99 · Jul 17

A perfect synopsis of all the issues and why residents are going on strike newstatesman.com/politics/healt…

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 17

“Widgets in an assembly line” - yep that’s what trainees tell me. And the factory is certainly not for making clinical academics

RRobert Howard@ProfRobHoward · Jul 17

Leng may not have gone far enough for some people, but she was spot on with her observations about the way we have messed up postgraduate medical training.

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 17

Leng may not have gone far enough for some people, but she was spot on with her observations about the way we have messed up postgraduate medical training.

LLuke Mordecai@Shr_Nottingham · Jul 17

I read the rest of the review coloured by Prof Leng’s forward which I thought was exceptional Not least because she is quite clear that resident training is broken and she’s the first in a position of true authority to admit it Powis and Whitty ignore this at their peril

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 17

Mykonos and Paros. One thing I object to and I’m sure many Greek’s as well is the surge in privatisation of wild land and access to the sea beaches - big gates, private signs on tracks, walls down to the beach or cliff edge, sunbeds over the entire beach. Selfish use of money

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William Scotton@drwillscotton · Jul 16

Job alert! Come and join an ambitious and growing department with supportive colleagues and plenty of scope for building subspecialty interests.. beautiful surrounding South Staffs and Shropshire countryside and also host the NIHR WM RRDN bmj.com/careers/job/71…

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 14

Went to Kalogeros beach where you can make a face mask from the clay cliffs. I wasn’t going to participate but skincare is skincare.

smead2's tweet image. Went to Kalogeros beach where you can make a face mask from the clay cliffs. I wasn’t going to participate but skincare is skincare.

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Dr Phil Hammond 💙@drphilhammond · Jul 11

The bottom line with all NHS staff, not just doctors, is that unless you make the NHS a decent place to work, with a decent enough salary to be able to pay off your debts and afford to buy a house near where you work, or at least know where you’re going to be working in the next…

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The Observer@ObserverUK · Jul 6

Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with The Salt Path: the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. It became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film. But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth. @chloehadj Read: bit.ly/3GtJXsy

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 5

Inherited prion disease caused by a novel frameshift mutation of PRNP resulting in protein truncation at codon 157 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 5

Inherited prion disease caused by a novel frameshift mutation of PRNP resulting in protein truncation at codon 157. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

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Simon Mead@smead2 · Jul 4

Off to Paros, Greece for a couple of weeks on Sunday for sun sea sand tavernas and general family relaxation

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MRC Prion Unit at UCL Institute of Prion Diseases@MRC_Prion · Jun 25

Huge shoutout to our amazing technicians who took part in Day 1 of the UCL Technical Staff Showcase 2025 @UCLEast! 👏 Great to see their work recognised and celebrated. #UCL #TechnicalExcellence #TechsMakeItHappen

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UCL Brain Sciences@UCLBrainScience · Jun 25

🎉 Huge congratulations to @DrGargiBanerjee (@MRC_Prion) on receiving a £2m MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship! Her research will apply prion biology to diseases caused by the amyloid-beta protein to advance our understanding of potential transmission routes. 👉…

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