Join us on 26 Nov (12 - 1pm GMT) for a webinar sharing early findings from @UCL’s REPAIR Project, exploring structural inequities in funding, recognition & career progression. Free to attend Register here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e... #ResearchCulture# STEMEquity #Neuroscience #AcademicCareers

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort. Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

"The UK cannot become a science superpower unless it exploits the full range of talent that we have" - @nramnani.bsky.social We are now welcoming applications to our BNA Scholars Programme. 🔗 Find out more and apply: www.bna.org.uk/policy-advoc... #BNAScholars #DiversityInSTEM #Mentorship

Excellent opportunity for potential group leaders at UCL. Please spread the word.

What a shed! #vaccine www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

A great man.

LATEST ISSUE LIVE⬇️ 'Cellular and synaptic mechanisms of retinal processing' 👁️🧠 🔗 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697793...

**Come work with us!!** Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Please share!!

🎬Great day filming yesterday at University of East London as part of @physoc.bsky.social’s upcoming 150th celebrations. Stay tuned! 📺

New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed. #Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility

This study by Justine A. Lottermoser research-and-innovation.cornell.edu et al. investigates how #complexin gains effective access to the assembling SNAREs via its membrane-binding C-terminal domain 🔎 🧠 📜 Read the #Research: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Check out this new paper from Stefan Lechner's lab showing with minflux nanoscopy how PIEZO1 channels cluster and invagininate the membrane. Glad we could make a small contribution to this nice story! www.science.org/doi/full/10....

In this #TopicalReview, Hrach Asmerian et al. examine the role of adaptor #protein complexes in generating functionally distinct #synaptic vesicle pools ✍️ ⚙️ 🔗 Read it here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

This month I announced that London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide for the first time ever. When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than predicted.

Last week, Professor Damian Bailey presented 'Surviving Space: Pushing the Brain’s Limits' at The Open University. To hear about the physiological challenges posed by deep space exploration, register now to see him deliver this GL Brown Prize Lecture online on 26 Nov ➡️ www.physoc.org/events/survi...

Yikes.

www.linkedin.com/redir/redire... Positive news for the calcium channel field, this is the T type calcium channel blocker Z944 developed by Terry Snutch!

CryoET of synaptic vesicles shrinking on fusion - integrating kiss and run in a plausible way. In TeNT they are gone. Very little difference between 4, 8, 30 and 70 ms post-flash, but unsurprising given these are all "late" and time resolution is about 5 ms. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Recent #Research by Yucheng Xiao et al. observed that contusive spinal cord injury causes Nav1.8 dysfunction to upregulate small sensory #neuron excitability 🧠 ⚡ 📜 Read the article here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Sunday reading explores 'difficult' women: from Jane Goodall to Jess Phillips. We need more to move things forward #equality occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

2026 SIBPA|IVSLA Intl School of biophysics, Venice 2-6 February 2026. venice.ibf.cnr.it This should be an interesting school for students to attend.

Great to see @physoc.bsky.social President @annieneuro.bsky.social in the BBC News article about this week's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. "A striking example of how fundamental physiological research can have far-reaching implications for human health." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Examining New Approach Methodologies #NAMs in #precisionmedicine 💉🔎 Submit by 28 February 2026 ⏰ 🔗 For topics and more information: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

NEWS: “A beautiful exploration of how problems in our brains can cause us to change." "Our Brains, Our Selves" by Masud Husain wins the 2025 Royal Society (@royalsociety.org) Trivedi Science Book Prize: fivebooks.com/book/our-bra...

"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

📣 Call for Papers📣 ⏰ Deadline: 1st October 2025 ⏰ For the special issue "Experimental and quantitative modelling approaches in cardiac and vascular physiology: focus on ion channels and Ca2+ regulation" 🔗 For more information & how to submit: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

📢 Calling all post-doctoral researchers! There's still time to apply for our Unlocking Futures Fund. Don't miss out on the opportunity to receive up to £2,500 to help you achieve your goals. ⏰ Deadline for applications is 30 September! Apply now ⬇️

New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists. Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵

🧵 BREAKING: Gene therapy shows promise in slowing Huntington’s disease progression. A major milestone in neurodegenerative disease research. @uclqsion.bsky.social @ucl-hd.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amazing news! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

In case you missed this article, it will definitely put you off drinking these! And it links to the authors' full paper in Journal of Nutritional Physiology, one of the new journals at @physoc.bsky.social theconversation.com/we-fed-peopl...

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Just attended a wonderful symposium on information processing in thalamus and cortex at Cardiff Uni supported by @physoc.bsky.social which celebrated Vincenzo Crunelli and Frank Sengpiel. Vincenzo highlighted the generous mentorship of Professor John Kelly at St George's HMS Pharmacology Dept.

As we celebrate 80 years since the first women were elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, Ruby Seger-Bernard, Schools Engagement Officer, and Isabelle Moss, Diversity and Inclusion Officer, reflect on the importance of inspiring girls and young women in science:

Nature research paper: Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep go.nature.com/40oC7Y4

Translational ion channel research at its best. The 2025 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award goes to Michael Welsh, Tito González, and Paul Negulescu for their role in developing a novel drug treatment for cystic fibrosis.

24 Hours to Save AIDS Research is sharing personal stories of the impact of HIV research. This moving testimonial from organizer Faye Landsman describes the profound role HIV research has played in her life. #saveAIDSresearch #HIV #HIVresearch

Axon termination of the SAB motor neurons in C. elegans depends on pre- and postsynaptic activity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674448v1

Nociceptors use multiple neurotransmitters to drive pain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675093v1

🌍 The Global Climate and Health Summit showed why physiology is central to climate solutions - watch the highlights film here👇👇👇 youtu.be/wVzZpEU6TME?...

We invite you to read the third in our series of essays on the past Editors-in-Chief of #PAIN. In this piece, Donna Hammond writes about Allan Basbaum and finding joy in pain research. Read for free at bit.ly/4leGMmQ#PAIN #PainAwarenessMonth

The Leeuwenhoek Medal and Lecture 2025 is awarded to Professor Sir Mike Ferguson CBE FMedSci FRS for major contributions in discovery science and application to the treatment of neglected infectious diseases. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/leeuwenhoek-lecture/

Very excited to share our most recent work on using de novo design to custom engineer a small peptide that can restore proper sodium channel function in disease … to be able to “write” proteins to do whatever we want them to do, is just remarkable …

I knew him only through his papers. His erudition and insight were out of this world. Check out this magisterial review from 1985 (!) which is basically still correct today. His work is a gift- such clarity. It is also wonderful to hear that he was a kind person. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pioneering physiologist Mary Pickford FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1902. She studied the actions and regulation of the hormones released by the pituitary gland, and she was the first woman to be elected to the British Pharmacological Society. #WomenInSTEM royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

In another milestone for human genetics, the world's largest set of whole-genome DNA sequences now encompasses data from nearly half a million people, described in this new @nature.com paper from @ukbiobank.bsky.social: 🧪👇

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

Hope this paper gets some recognition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Basic pharmacological principles are kinda important for experimental design.