Our latest preprint is out and we found that sugar derivatives are increased in Alzheimer's Disease & identified a pathway that could be modulated www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint using the Biohermes cohort to explore amyloid protein signatures. #proteomics

Stumbled across the Luminarium with my daughter for a sunday afternoon lesson in visual light. #architectsofair @harwellcampus

Brilliant work from @joshuasammet.bsky.social and so pleased to see his hard work in print

Calling for your paper for the upcoming collection Brain metabolomics in dementia and neurological disease I’m honoured to be serving as the collection’s Guest Editor and eager to read your submission. #CallForPapers @natureportfolio.nature.com Learn more about the collection: go.nature.com/41S5bI3

January @DEMONNetworkUK Biomarkers working group is hosting an Inflammation special with Dr Maura Malpetti and Dr Sofia Michopoulou “Unravelling Inflammation in Dementia: Proteomic and Imaging Insights” 📅 Wed 14th Jan 10.30am GMT. New members welcome - pls message for details.

Trying to finish a grant submission while child plays the Imperial March on the kazoo. I hate inset days and also Santa for gifting kazoos this year.

Happy New Year everyone! 🚨Join our first @DEMONNetworkUK #Genetics #Omics meeting of 2026 - THURSDAY 8th January at 2.30 PM (UK Time). Delighted to have Juan Botia as invited speaker – “Using graph neural networks to expand what we know about neurodegeneration” Join the network or DM for more info

Giant lazer celebrations from the diamond light source for new year. #thebeam

Post Christmas work message but finally got our longitudinal proteomics study of Parkinson's subtypes into preprint this month. Dedicated mechanistic modules for 🧠+🩸using the Tracking Parkinson's and GNPC cohorts #parkinsons #academicSky #proteomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Good news at last. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

There is still time to register for today Fluid and Neuroimaging Biomarker Forum discussion - todays chat will explore sample handling and data interpretation. 12pm GMT in the Dementia Researcher Community communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/live-poste...

Joint DEMON network working group this month discussing female specific lipid expression in #Alzheimer’s. Please pm me or @saobettencourt.bsky.social for more details. #academicsky ⬇️

Enjoying the skeleton hard at work in his lab in this year's local Halloween trail.

Last training run yesterday before the Oxford half on Sunday. Running for Alzheimer’s Research UK and still looking for sponsors. And please have a look at all the other ARUK researchers running this weekend. @arukthamesv.bsky.social www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

This is an interesting one for potential reviewers. The authors used the NHANES cohort publications to count the copycats.

Big news! I loved researching and writing this book, which is all about shedding the shame, and getting really curious about urges to pick, pull and bite. I can't wait to share it with you! It's out on April 2nd, and is available to pre-order now. #bfrb #bfrbs #bodyfocusedrepetitivebehaviors

Enjoying this as a distraction this morning as well...

My moral support for responding to reviewers on a Saturday morning. He's fed up as well. #Caturday

Who’s ready for Manchester 2026? 🧠 AAIC Neuroscience Next is free, global, and packed with chances to present your work. Abstracts open 22 September – are you in? #AAICNeuro pod.fo/e/329e2b

Starting the training runs for Oxford half from the beach this morning. Will be looking for sponsorship when I get home ... www.justgiving.com/team/aruk-ru...

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Just came across this graphical abstract for a paper. No idea what they were going for with the whale and rainbow, but at least it is very calming

Big day for @neuroproteome.bsky.social All proteomic data released at neuroproteome.org and publications in print. Lots to read on AD, PD, FTD and ALS.

Looking for a new PhD student interested in Alzheimer’s disease and informatics starting in October. Details below.

For the June DEMON Biomarker working group we are pleased to host Dr Ehsan Pishva who will be presenting his work on DNA methylation and environmental exposures in Parkinson’s disease. Wednesday 11th June 10am BST. Please message for joining links.

🚨Calling all ECRs working on dementia biomarkers! 🚨 Are you interested in helping us shape the scientific programme for a one-day conference in February 2026? Find out more & register your interest 👉 www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/help-design-...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

A benchmarking crisis in biomedical machine learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪

In this month's DEMON Biomarker working group we are looking forward to hearing from @sanasuri.bsky.social who will be discussing her work on predicting dementia risk factors related to the heart and brain. 📅 Wed 9th April 10am (BST). Please message for joining details

Sharing on a Friday without the need for any further comment.

Lovely paper on cat coat genetics.

Thanks to global immunisation efforts, an estimated 154 million lives have been saved over the past 50 years 🌎 🤝 That’s equivalent to 6 lives every minute. #CelebrateVaccines

We're excited to have @dorsaabdolkarimi.bsky.social from @preventiveneur1.bsky.social at our monthly DEMON Biomarkers WG meeting, on Wednesday, 12th March, @ 10am GMT presenting on "Identifying a Signature of Inflammatory Proteins Predicting Dementia." DM me or @winchesterl.bsky.social for details

Had a brilliant time in Birmingham this week but I do have to say the Early Careers Day was my favourite this year even if i am biased. Fantastic talks from both early career researchers and our invited experts. #arukconf25

I did a list of #WomeinSTEM working in #metabolomics & #lipidomics and #datascience please join or share with others, use it for conferences, media & networking, mentoring, supporting, anything that helps, 300+ women have joined docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Next week the DEMON biomarkers working group are hosting Dr Sofia Toniolo who will be talking about the opportunities and pitfalls from digital and plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease. 📅 Thursday 6th Feb 10am GMT. All welcome - PM for details.

Just out — great work from Lachlan Gilchrist investigating the genetic relationship between depression and Alzheimer's. Pleased to have been able to contribute a little to this one. Open access, so read all about it below! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Most of this 👇 data is not public, @pride-ebi.bsky.social is trying to change that. Led by @deeptijkundu.bsky.social & our development team, we are building an Affinity Proteomics (AP) Archive. If you have AP data that you can make public, please get in contact. #FAIR #OpenData #proteomics

This month the DEMON biomarkers working group have Dr Lazaros Belbasis speaking about his work on Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization to investigate the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. 📅 Wed 15th Jan 10am GMT. All welcome - PM for details.

Brilliant news for UK Biobank researchers!

Happy New Year everyone.

Looking for new bioinformatics post doc role in 2026? 3 year contract working on proteomic data for AD and PD in Oxford. Do get in touch with any questions - would love to hear from you. #Proteomics #AcademicSky

📢 December DEMON Network Biomarkers working group will host Dr Alankar Atreya discussing how changes in sleep detected by wrist devices are related to Alzheimer's progression. ⌚️ Wed 11th 10am GMT. All welcome - please message for teams details.

New 🫀🧠 paper in eBiomedicine: we show that BMI, blood pressure, and physical activity in childhood and adolescence are linked with early structural differences in brain regions that are known to be affected in dementia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

Biobanking with genetics shapes precision medicine and global health doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Seems like a good way to get started here. #proofofcat

{ukbrapR} R package update Specifically designed to make working with UK Biobank diagnoses in the Research Analysis Platform easy, fast, and reproducible. In v0.2.3 * HES searches can include ICD9 codes - thanks Kate Ruth * Thanks to Lauric Ferrat for help with bugs! github.com/lcpilling/uk...