#ADPD2027 Plenary Session Highlights 🧠 Detecting Parkinson’s disease earlier. Advancing prevention strategies. As the field moves toward earlier intervention, multimodal biomarkers are becoming essential for identifying risk, tracking disease progression, and designing the next generation of prevention trials. Join Brit Mollenhauer, Germany at AD/PD™ 2027 in Barcelona as she explores how innovative biomarker approaches can transform Parkinson’s research. 👉 Discover the plenary sessions: adpd.kenes.com/plenary-sessi… #Parkinsons #Neuroscience #Biomarkers

To what extent do we use the wisdom of the whole workforce when it comes to resolving difficult issues? I'm a big fan of organisational network analysis (ONA). It maps and measures how communication, collaboration and influence really flow between people. It reveals the "hidden organisation": the informal networks that org charts never show. In leadership circles, we talk a lot about "collective” or "distributed” or “empowering” leadership. ONA often shows a different picture. @RLalleman77215 from @InnovisorInc recently shared data from an example organisation. The top two layers of leadership make up 4% of the workforce. They absorb roughly a quarter of all the requests for help. When those leaders need help themselves, they turn to each other three times more often than they turn to other colleagues. Because the senior group is so much smaller, person for person a senior colleague is around 70 times more likely to be asked than anyone else. Without ever deciding to, the most experienced people in the organisation have arranged things so almost every problem they struggle with is thought about by the same small group. A closed loop at the top: leadership talking to itself. This pattern is not unusual. Rob Cross's research across more than 300 organisations found that 20% to 35% of value-adding collaborations involve only 3% to 5% of people. 766,000 people responded to the most recent NHS Staff Survey. More than half did not agree they are involved in deciding on changes that affect their work area, and the proportion who do agree has fallen for the second year running. We measure it from the other end in the NHS, and the answer is the same. Different measure. Same conclusion. This means that: - A small group with similar jobs and experience makes the decisions, so they all miss the same things. - The people closest to the work hold knowledge that is never asked for, so better options go unseen. - Work queues behind a small number of overloaded leaders, so good decisions arrive slowly or too late. - People stop offering ideas once nothing comes of them and research shows that organisations with lower engagement tend to get worse outcomes. Some actions we can take as leaders: - Audit our own help networks. List the last ten people we went to with a hard problem. Count how many of them do the core work of the organisation. - Map the “hidden organisation”. ONA shows who people go to in practice and where to focus action. It seldom matches the org chart. - Change who is in the room. Make it a rule that decisions about a piece of work include someone who does that work. - Ask the questions only people at the front line or point of care can answer. Go and ask them directly, with nobody summarising in between. - Show what changed. Visible follow-through keeps people engaged. There is a massive, untapped well of wisdom within people inside our organisations. It stays largely untapped for as long as we keep turning to each other when we get stuck. Richard Santos Lalleman's original post (Innovisor organisational network analysis): linkedin.com/posts/richardsa… Cross R, Rebele R & Grant A. Collaborative Overload. Harvard Business Review, January-February 2016. hbr.org/2016/01/collaborativ…

Want to build new skills through a neuroscience training course? This #grant supports PhD students & early-career postdocs with course registration, travel & local expenses to attend the course Course must start between 1 Jan & 31 Aug ⏰ Apply by 31 Oct: ibro.org/grant/neuroscience-…

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Recruitment, retention and participant experience are central to useful trials. At ICTMC 2026, CTR colleagues will share work on practical barriers, decentralised approaches and inclusive delivery. @ResearchWales #ICTMC2026

The Plenary Sessions will be a vital part of #ADPD2027! From Alzheimer’s treatment and blood-based biomarkers to prevention strategies, brain aging, genetics, and AI-driven discoveries, explore inspiring plenary sessions featuring world-leading experts across neuroscience and clinical research. Discover the full programme and get ready for AD/PD™ 2027 in Barcelona! 🧠 adpd.kenes.com/plenary-sessi… #alzheimers #parkinsons #dementia #endalz #neuroscience

Can outdoor activities support wellbeing in dementia? Join Mason McLeod as they share research with people living with dementia in the Scottish Highlands. communities.dementiaresearch…

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Only a few days left until the extended abstract submission deadline! Use the remaining days wisely, add the finishing touches to your abstract and send us your work. Submitting an abstract to AD/PD™ 2027 will give you the chance to receive valuable feedback, present your findings to the global community and make a name for yourself in the field. Don’t wait, submit here: adpd.kenes.com/abstract-subm… #ADPD2027

📝 Strengthen your approach to Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) with our partner @BritishNeuro. Join Prof @TSpiresJones and fellow researchers for an interactive online masterclass exploring PPIE in practice. Register now: bna.org.uk/events/ems-event-…

📍 Barcelona awaits - registration for AD/PD™ 2027 is now OPEN! 🧠✨ Join the global community advancing research, innovation, and care in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and related neurological disorders. From 16–20 March 2027, AD/PD™ 2027 will bring together leading researchers, clinicians, and innovators from around the world for five days of scientific exchange, collaboration, and meaningful connections in Barcelona, Spain. Be part of the conversations driving progress in neurodegenerative disease research and connect with colleagues from across the globe. 📅 Register by 9 December 2026 to secure the early registration rate. ➡️ Register here: adpd.kenes.com/register/ #ADPD2027 #ADPD #Neuroscience #Alzheimers #Parkinsons #DementiaResearch #Neurodegeneration #BrainHealth

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So proud of my daughter rebuilding her life and building a cool mobile sensory facility in Devon. Please help if you can. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-wand… #mentalhealth #fundraisingFriday #Autism #Devon

"Being able to fail, or lose gracefully is, in my view, just as important as winning." Dr Lindsey Sinclair on the rowing tradition where losers cheer the winners, and why scientists should borrow it. pod.fo/e/4d6837

Jodrell Bank is the most visible causality of UKRI’s short sighted ‘vision’ for science, but as you’ll see below, there are many other valuable UK facilities and collaborations at risk. We became aware of the problem in the autumn of last year. It is not a result of the overall funding settlement for science after the spending review, which was quite generous I would say in the circumstances. Neither as far as we can tell is it a direct decision by ministers (all of whom have now gone in any case). Rather the problems appears to have been caused by senior management at UKRI focusing on short term economic ‘impact’ (whatever that means) rather than doing their job as custodians of the foundations of science. What must happen now is that the new ministerial team make the time (and space ;-)) to review the upcoming catastrophe, and instruct UKRI to do their job and focus on making Britain the best place in the world to do science, now and in the future.

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