Congratulations to all the finalists in the #WiNUKAwards 2025! 👏 Fantastic to see so many familiar faces across the categories - best of luck to everyone who is nominated 🤞 @soyonhonglab.bsky.social @sorayam.bsky.social @clairedurrant1.bsky.social

Should dementia research funding shift from biomedical science to social care? Watch Nancy Brown and Soraya Meftah debate the motion and see how opinions changed. 🎥 communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/deb...

Should dementia research funding shift from biomedical science to social care? Join our live debate with Nancy Brown & @sorayam.bsky.social on 22 Oct, 8pm BST. Vote live & see if opinions change. #Dementia #SocialCare #BiomedicalResearch communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/deb...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... super excited to release this. nearly 7 years ago, we set out to investigate whether FMRP regulates excitability of neurons in living human brain tissue. we find loss of FMRP in adult neurons leads to elevated excitability, corrected by PDE4D inhibition.

Know your imposter moments: - Your first lecture - A new role - Writing - When you make a mistoke These might make you feel like an imposter but they don't mean you are one. #PhDForum #gradschool

Chuffed to have been awarded this! Privileged to be doing what I do, with the people that support me. :)

Well done to Soraya for winning the Scientific Advancement Award! We are looking forward to seeing how your career progresses! @edinunineuro.bsky.social

Woop woop, @sorayam.bsky.social! Already a trailblazer. That's some stiff competition, too. 🤩

As course leader, it's been a stressful wait, but pleased to see our Biomedical Science course RETAIN 2nd place in the Guardian University Guide 2026! There's been many challenges over the past 12 months so this is a great achievement for the team! 🎉 www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

In vivo single-cell gene editing using RNA electroporation reveals sequential adaptation of cortical neurons to excitatory-inhibitory imbalance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We have a handshake! #gbbo

🚨WiNUK Day 2026 is coming to Birmingham this April!🚨 This year’s theme is neurodiversity🧠🌈 🗓️ Happening during #AutismAwarenessMonth
🗣️ Open call for talks, posters & panels (all genders welcome!)
📅 Deadline: Sun 14 Sept #WiNUKDay2026 #Neurodiversity #WomenInSTEM

Cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code: science.org/doi/10.1126/... In vivo optogenetics of interneurons + ephys recordings shows tIme division control of place fields of pyramidal cells: PV first half, Sst and Id2 the second half.

Longitudinal neuroimaging in three adults, followed before and up to 5 years after arm amputation, reveals that amputation does not trigger large-scale cortical reorganization @hunterschone.bsky.social @cibaker.bsky.social @plasticity-lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last chance to register for Alzheimer’s Society Annual Conference on 11 September, sponsored by Rothesay & Lilly. Don’t miss expert keynotes, panels & the latest in dementia care. Registration closes 4 September - secure your place now! #ASAC25 spkl.io/63328AOtZE

I have discovered that my PhD thesis is the perfect size and weight to kill a spider. Finally have a practical use for it! 😂

Inducible NMDA receptor knockdown reveals a maintenance phase in dendritic refinement of barrel cortex neurons www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the lifespan in mice and humans www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A stimulating two days at the @alzheimersresearchuk.org Scotland Network meeting. Of course a trip to Dundee cannot be done without a visit to F&D (if you know you know).

From fellowship heartbreak to rewriting success — stories of resilience in research funding on this week’s podcast. With Fiona McLean, Kate Harris, Dayne Beccano-Kelly & @sj-marzi.bsky.social pod.fo/e/314db1

🌟 Don't miss out on this opportunity for a position as Science Portfolio Manager in the UK DRI Core team 🌟 🗓️ Deadline: Monday 1 September 📍Based at our office in London / Hybrid Find out more & Apply 👉 lnkd.in/epEaTr22

✨WiNUK Awards 2024 = 100% positive feedback and 92% found our categories meaningful! 🌍 100+ nominations from 16 UK institutions 🙌 💜 Thank you to all who joined us in celebrating women in neuroscience! 📅 WiNUK Awards 2025: 7th Nov 📝 Nominations close 17th Aug – get yours in! 👩‍🔬💫

🚨 Deadline for nominations extended! 🚨 You have one week to nominate someone doing exceptional neuroscience work! 🧠 Whether they’re in the lab, behind the scenes, or amplifying science through communication—nominate them now before the window closes 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬

Last month, the UK DRI's Dr Nathasia Muwanigwa & Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly, alongside Dr Moïse Roche (UCL), led a discussion on dementia with 60+ attendees from Black African & Caribbean communities. Nathasia reflects on the experience in this excellent blog post👉 buff.ly/PQ6KXUf

I’m incredibly stoked to announce our latest preprint led by Thijs Verhoog, where we show that human cortical neurons mature hundreds of times slower than mouse neurons, only reaching functional maturity well into the third decade of life. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy, including postmortem PSP brain samples and a living human brain slice culture model www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tau PET positivity in individuals (42 cohorts worldwide, N = 12,048) with and without cognitive impairment varies with age, amyloid-β status, APOE genotype and sex @rikossenkoppele.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The lifetime risk of dementia after age 55 was 42%, higher in women, Black adults and APOE ε4 carriers up to 60%. US adults with dementia will increase from ~514,000 in 2020 to ~1 million in 2060." 14 of 35 Alzheimer's research centers have had all funding cut off www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢Fabulous new paper from @tspiresjones.bsky.social, @clairedurrant1.bsky.social & team describes new mechanisms in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, suggesting that targeting tau in synapses is a promising approach for future treatments. Full paper➡️www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01992-5 🧠

Delighted to share our paper examining synaptic tau in PSP. Many thanks to @robertmcgeachan.bsky.social @clairedurrant1.bsky.social and our many collaborators and funders. And extra special thanks to tissue donors who make this work possible.

See a lovely piece on STV highlighting the impacts of this disease on families . While our new findings will not lead to a new treatment today, we aim to bring hope to people living with PSP for the future news.stv.tv/east-central...

Excellent and FREE resources to help with science communication and engagement 👇

It’s been one of those mornings 😪

They didn't have any good cards for fifty year olds, so I improvised.

That feeling when you do all this work for this ONE piece of data for your story and the results don’t exactly fit the way you want it to…🧪🧫

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In our latest blog, she talks: 🧠 Honest peer review 📉 Negative results 📣 Why impact factor is flawed 📲 Read now: www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/science... #WomeninSTEM #Neuroscience #Dementia #OpenAccess #ResearchCulture #SciComm

Nice highlight of super cool new study from @mariadelapax.bsky.social and co-authors! Congrats to all! www.pnas.org/post/journal...

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

We are delighted to announce that the First Genomic Imprinting Valencian Meeting will take place from 17 to 19 November 2025 in the beautiful city of Valencia (Spain). Please join us and spread the word! esdeveniments.uv.es/134020/detai...

Fabulous talk by the lovely @emmayhnell.bsky.social hwre at @edinunineuro.bsky.social talking about teaching and engaging students with lots of fun tidbits and ideas to consider. Think about your strengths, different modes or medias and maybe make it personal!

“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”

🧠 The #FENSForum is THE place to celebrate excellence in #neuroscience... Which is why we're excited to announce the opening of the #FENS2026 Awards & Prizes page! 🏆 👉 https://loom.ly/BZIjXmc

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

Too many books? I think what you mean is not enough bookshelves.