Up front & free to read in our Sept issue #editorspicks: Measurement of brain glucose metabolism in obesity and diabetes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Having a fantastic time at DOHAD 2025 in the beautiful Buenos Aires. The best place for catching up with friends and collaborators!

I can’t be at #ssib2025 this year but the amazing Rosanne and L are there to present their data on the impact of maternal obesity/GDM on offspring hypothalamic development, and what metformin use in pregnancy does to the fetal brain.

🏆 CONGRATULATIONS to Jo Lewis, 2025 winner of the Michael Harbuz Prize! Jo will speak at #BSNBradford2025 on Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide regulates food intake and body weight via the area postrema in mice. Register: bsnbradford2025.oa-e...

The report calls for urgent action to: 🤰 Prioritise support during pregnancy 🍴 Ensure robust regulation of the food industry 🤝 Coordinate across govt departments i.e. food, education, urban planning and transport

🚨 Childhood obesity is rising at alarming rates around the world Our latest report, with Italy’s Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, calls for early intervention to ensure healthier futures for all children 🌱 Read the report: bit.ly/46qy7tN And see our key takeaways 🧵

We've got something NEW for BSN ECRs! 🔬📹An Early Career Methodology video tutorial series Our first tutorial is an Introduction to single-cell transcriptomics by Dr Sreekala Nampoothiri. Watch: my.neuroendo.org.uk/... Not a BSN member? Join today and get access: www.neuroendo.org.uk...

🧠🍽️ A "hunger switch" in the nose? Smelling food activates a pathway from the olfactory bulb to medial septum glutamatergic neurons in mice, triggering anticipatory satiety: making them feel full before eating. This circuit works in lean mice but is disrupted in obesity. #neuroskyence 🧪

🎉 Thrilled to share my postdoc work, with our preprint out now on BiorXiv here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We investigated how the juvenile brain develops the ability to carry out care behaviours towards neonates by an exciting and surprising switch in neural activity and behaviour

Our latest review on perimenopause menopause and hormone therapy. What key issues have we missed and how can we do better from education to research to clinical care. With Laura Gravelsins! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very cool paper connecting nutrition, epigenetics and developmental biology. rdcu.be/eptl7

Stoked to share our new review on why neuroendocrinology needs a systems lens and why hormones should matter to systems neuroscience. It’s time for serious cross-talk!

It was fantastic to have @labliston.bsky.social give a talk at the @mrc-mbu.bsky.social on building a positive research culture. Valuable for all investigators/group leaders regardless of career stage, check out the resources below: listonlab.uk/careers/

Food insecurity drives obesity and adiposity, but how is unclear. A recent study by @clemmensenc.bsky.social developed a mouse model for this phenomenon lnkd.in/d8pEp2qv Happy to share a commentary written with @johnspeakman4.bsky.social with our take on that study doi.org/10.1002/oby....

Two pics from cycling around Cambridge this week. I really want to know what animal is being transported around in that basket!

Neurons involved in forming memories of a cold environment communicate with the part of the brain that regulates metabolic responses to cold stress https://go.nature.com/4lP2EHa

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women www.science.org/content/arti...

The report with the underlying data for the Washington Post story about firings of disproportionate numbers of women and underrepresented minorities from NIH Boards of Scientific Counselors. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What a terrible loss to the field of obesity research and global health in general.

NIH PostBac program is open again! And I will be hiring! #JobPostComing www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

Very cool new paper showing that Ago2 gene in glutamatergic neurons is critical for the formation of cerebral blood vessels in the developing mouse brain 🤩 #cerebrovascular

If you want to learn more about MESSAGE and how to get involved in our work, you can follow us here @messagetgi.bsky.social , and on our website www.messageproject.co.uk

How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵 🧠📈

More children are drawing women scientists than ever before. Good! Although these children also assume a level of PPE that is not common among most scientists I know! www.science.org/content/arti...

There are fewer than 10 documented genetic causes of Transient Neonatal Diabetes (TNDM) and now PAX4 is one of them! Really proud of this collaborative work done between the Neonatal Diabetes Research Team at Exeter and the Translational Genomics of Diabetes Lab in Stanford.

The two most powerful Republican politicians in America - the president and co-president of the United States - are publicly praising and defending and excusing the crimes of a far-right foreign politician who leads a party founded by a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi. We are in a very, very dark place.

A great opportunity for postdoctoral scientists from Black Heritage backgrounds! Join the online session on 8 April to find out more ⬇️

Fun lab dinner last night. We ate about 10kg of sushi between us 😂

Come and study with us for a Masters!

A conserved role of m6A signaling in arcuate nucleus neurogenesis in mice and human organoids shedding light on the developmental basis of epitranscriptomic regulation of food intake and energy homeostasis #obesity #RNA @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

What are we talking about, when we talk about 'representations'? My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience. We are seeking interested participants in the below survey: tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv

We have a postdoc position available in our team to undertake a UKRI-funded project to develop a new cultured skeletal muscle model for studying glc metabolism and insulin action. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50597/ @ims-mrl.bsky.social Please RT. Please email if interested.

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

It's not just the hypothalamus that is sensitive to changes in nutrition during development 👀

We are halfway through The Togeth3R Consortium’s webinar series and 1,600 people from 42 different countries have joined us to hear about non-animal approaches in fields associated with high levels of animal use. Watch the webinar recordings: nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource...

Read our final reflections from our inspiring Women in Leadership positions across the School of Biological Sciences this International Women’s Day (and make sure to check out our other posts!) #IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay

For International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the women of the @ims-mrl.bsky.social, the @mrcepid.bsky.social and GDAR Network. Meet Agnes Lukasik, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Manager at the IMS-MRL 👉 www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/agnes-... #AccelerateAction #IWD2025

I spent yesterday interviewing candidates for a DEI related scheme. They had all faced barriers but were utterly inspiring. This is just *stupid* as well as evil. "NIH staff members ..cancel grants for projects studying ... (DEI) in the scientific workforce" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

After last week publication from the lab on circuits of social isolation/satiety, today we publish a different line of research by @harriskaplan.bsky.social et al., on the development trajectories of hypothalamic POA cell types driving survival and social behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another successful eprObes consortium meeting in Brussels, where we discussed our progress in identifying early risk factors for obesity and intervention/prevention strategies 🇪🇺 @ec.europa.eu @neuroendolille.bsky.social

Researchers at the @ims-mrl.bsky.social are trying to understand how signals between the mother and baby in pregnancy cause increased obesity risk, & whether changes in pregnancy eg increased exercise, can stop the inter-generational transmission of obesity risk. 👇 doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Today is World Obesity Day 🌏 In England, almost two thirds of people are living with excess weight or obesity. Our research found that a majority of people want to lose weight and they endorse government interventions that could help - even across political divides:

Is sticking to a healthy weight really possible? Find out in this live webinar on 3 Apr 6-7pm with @mrcepid.bsky.social's Prof Nick Wareham & Dr Amy Ahern, part of the 2025 @cambridgefestival.bsky.social. Book your free ticket on EventBrite https://bit.ly/RESmaHW @cuhnhs.bsky.social

📢@ims-mrl.bsky.social Call to Action for #WorldObesityDay Let’s rethink obesity! What’s a common myth you’ve heard? Let’s challenge misconceptions and support science-based conversations. 👇👇👇

Today March 4, is world obesity day. People with obesity are not bad, they’re not morally bereft, they are fighting biology #obesityisnotachoice