It's Purple Day! Discussing ion channels, the menstrual cycle, sleep, and genetic epilepsies, Lucy, Daniel, Tina and Jessica give us a glimpse of the diversity and complexities of this wide-ranging, multi-faceted disorder as well as approaches to treatment. #epilepsy #purpleday edin.ac/4t1SMfU

Happy Purple Day from MMEC @edinunineuro.bsky.social @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social

Why do some people stay cognitively sharp in later life while others decline? Come and hear Simon Cox deliver his inaugural lecture where he will explore this very question. Free and open to the public 👇🏼 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...

Postdoc at UK DRI Cambridge applying AI and genomics to study neurodegeneration, integrating large scale transcriptomic data to uncover disease mechanisms. Closing date: 12th April www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

3 new fellowships 👇🏼

Martyna Stasiak’s BAW workshop, 'Brains in the Making: Shaping How We See Epilepsy'. Kids made their own brains out of Play-Doh & learned about how it works and epilepsy. Approx. 180 12 year-olds took part. It quickly became the talk of the school corridors!! Everyone wanted to go 😁 🧠 🏆 👩‍🏫 🙌

What do genetics tell us about mental health? New podcast from @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social featuring Andrew McIntosh, Professor of Biological Psychiatry youtu.be/UivLUYnsyZM

It's #BrainAwarenessWeek! Rana Fetit takes the helm in Part II of our blog series on Public Engagement. She shares with us her inspiration for developing workshops for children, how to get started from scratch and some useful lessons learned along the way... edin.ac/40FeU3C

It’s #BrainAwarenessWeek! Our getBRAINY events (get Busy Running Activities Inspiring Neuroscience in the Young) #BAW workshops were legendary. Now, promoting awareness is a core part of research activity. Edinburgh has lots of brainy people working on outreach and engagement. But, we still help😊

Taking 'reduce, recycle, reuse' to stratospheric levels, Edinburgh scientists turn plastic bottles into a drug to treat Parkinson's: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The transition to becoming an PI and establishing your first lab is one of the most exciting - and challenging - milestones in a scientist's career. IBRO Rising Stars Awards can help you bridge that gap. Applications are open! 🔗 Apply by 15 Apr: https://ibro.org/grant/rising-stars-awards/

Prof. Ana Domingos will be delivering a seminar titled "The Sympathetic Brain-Body Axis in Obesity" at 3-4pm tomorrow, 12th March at the Wellcome Auditorium in QMRI. You can find out more here👇 edin.ac/4bibaKh @edinunineuro.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social @edinburghmedschool.bsky.social

Aiden's story brings to fore the cutting-edge research taking place on living human brain tissue in Edinburgh. The generosity of patients facing stark and often terrifying diagnoses is hard to overstate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bT0...

Postdoctoral Researcher role at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology investigating alpha synuclein aggregation in Parkinson disease and related synucleinopathies. Closing date: 5th April www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/postdoct...

Blog: @cathyabbott.bsky.social organises a rare disease community conference and considers the challenges of language, time zones and accessibility in bringing together affected individuals, their families and researchers. blogs.ed.ac.uk/edneuro/2026... Part I of a series on public engagement.

Congratulations to Nika Balkic, doing a PhD on the @epilepsyinst.bsky.social DTC with me and @sulsergonzalez.bsky.social on winning the trainees talk prize at the Scottish Paediatric Epilepsy Network meeting on Friday 🎉

This March, more than 1,000 people in the UK will be diagnosed with a brain tumour. That’s why we’re raising awareness and supporting life-saving research to give patients and families hope. 💛 https://bit.ly/49AIz0x #BrainTumourAwarenessMonth #TogetherWeWillFindACure

Submissions are now open for #BNA2027 – the International Festival of Neuroscience! We’re inviting proposals for symposia and workshops that showcase excellent science, support #ECRs, and reflect the diversity of #neuroscience. 🔗 Guidelines : www.bna.org.uk/events/bna20... #CallForSessions

Could you help shape the next generation of neuroscientists? 🌟 The BNA Scholars Programme is seeking mentors to support early-career researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. Learn more & apply: www.bna.org.uk/policy-advoc... #Neuroscience #Mentorship #DiversityInScience

Last chance to join @sinzlab.bsky.social and my lab as a postdoc for a (ok - I am biased...) extremely cool active vision project at the Neuro-AI interface: www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Peter Ranscombe discusses recent Edinburgh Fringe productions that explored personal experiences of brain injuries and cancers as well as those inspiring audiences to ask ever more questions about our most fascinating organ. @ranafetit.bsky.social 👌 #publicengagement #outreach #livedexperience

Registration for the EMBO workshop «Organelle dynamics in health and disease» is open : meetings.embo.org/event/26-organelle-dynamics Happy to share this exciting programme with top-notch international speakers. @edinunineuro.bsky.social Sponsors: @embo.org @neurochemistry.org @ibroorg.bsky.social

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Last call to join our webinar today at 1pm. Register at: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Another great EN-PM: ECR flash talks, public engagement, and a thought-provoking key note from Omar Ali Bayraktar @bayraktarlab.bsky.social (@sangerinstitute.bsky.social), ‘Mapping the rules of human brain disorders with multi-omics: lessons from autism and glioblastoma.’

Ever wondered *how* myelin sheaths actually come off during demyelination? Check out these fascinating findings from @lyons-lab.bsky.social, led by the brilliant @ara-donia.bsky.social and @juliavdkorput.bsky.social ! 🧠

Very grateful for the opportunity to share my Public Engagement experience at today's @edinunineuro.bsky.social afternoon! It was very inspiring to hear about the range of different PE and PPIE tools, resources and impact!

It's EN-PM! We have early-career flash talks; a showcase on public engagement; & key note from Dr Omer Bayraktar, 'Mapping the rules of human brain disorders with multi-omics: lessons from autism and glioblastoma.' Plus: reflecting on the lack of women in senior positions within the University.

Results in this paper highlight promising new targets for biomarker and drug target identification, successfully expanding upon genome-wide association study findings to identify novel associations with Major Depression. 👇

🧠 Interested in joining the Department of Brain Sciences, home to world-class research in #neuroscience & mental health? @imperialmed.bsky.social is hiring new non-clinical Assistant Professors. 👉 Applications are open until 11 March 2026: bit.ly/404qCnU #mentalhealth

It's international day of women & girls in science. Whilst there's lots to celebrate, there remains much work to do to increase representation of women in science. At our event on Thurs, we'll reflect on barriers to career progression and the lack of parity at senior levels. #WomenInScience

We are delighted to be celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪👩‍🔬⚗️🏭. At our meeting this Thurs, we'll be reflecting on career progression and the lack of parity that persists at senior levels - there is still much work to do! #womeninscience2026

The next voice in our International Day of Women and Girls in Science series is Emma Hall. "Diverse teams bring unique perspectives. They challenge biases, enhance problem solving and they can also influence the topics being studied and the approaches to how they are studied." #EveryVoiceInScience

💜 #EpilepsyPledge To mark #PurpleDay (26th March), we’re hosting a free webinar with Campden Instruments exploring how living brain slice research is advancing our understanding of seizures. 🧠 Inside the Epileptic Brain 🔗 tinyurl.com/mws6s857 #Neuroscience #EpilepsyAwareness

I wrote a blog about scientific publishing for @edinunineuro.bsky.social ... blogs.ed.ac.uk/edneuro/2026... ... based on my @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social talk last year

Does the Journal Article have a future? Launching our new blog, Prof Malcolm Macleod considers research integrity, soaring profit margins and cutting the ties that bind us to this traditional publishing model... blogs.ed.ac.uk/edneuro/

Fantastic insight into PhD life from Constantinos now that he’s come out the other side of it👇🏼

Emphasising the importance of recognising and supporting children with developmental disabilities, this paper qualitatively explores home reading practices of mothers and their children with Down syndrome. Full paper: edin.ac/3M3CVO4

Ahhh, that’s the way to do it! A Translational Neuroscience PhD writing retreat: playing hard in stunning Scottish countryside and a relaxing cabin to reflect on writing up research 🫠. #research #neuroscience #edinburghneuroscience #writingretreat #phdstudentlife

This issue includes a comment piece, ‘The potential for dementia prevention through vaccination’ by William A McEwan and David PJ Hunter. It considers the unexpected benefit from a varicella zoster virus vaccination. Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/S147... @ukdri.ac.uk

We just published a thing! www.frontiersin.org/journals/pha... Here we show that somatostatin interneurons display exaggerated LTP in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome, and which is sensitive to GABAB receptor activation; but which are not manifested at the circuit level - more work to do!

Great team-work behind our paper just published on stroke-induced immune cell changes, involving groups across @edinunineuro.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social. A pandemic in midst of study not anticipated at outset!

Congrats Emily-Marie Pacheco (Clinical Psychology) on the launch of her monograph, 'Remote Trauma Exposure'. She introduces a powerful new way of thinking about trauma, highlighting how psychological proximity to global events can matter just as much as physical proximity. edin.ac/3YAixXC.

⏰Fully Funded PhD Opportunity – Closing Soon! The Euan MacDonald Centre is accepting applications for a fully funded PhD studentship - a choice of 7 diverse projects - join our 250+ network! 🔗 euanmacdonaldcentre.org/phd-scheme #PhD #neuroscience #FundedPhD

PhD position(s)🚨deadline 20th Jan 1-development of brain & behaviour in the precocial spiny mouse tinyurl.com/yaxhy5y2 2-social behaviour & neurophysiology in a menstruating rodent using AI tinyurl.com/ykv93cts apply ✍️ @ai4bicdt.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social

This morning, Paul Brennan, @clairedurrant1.bsky.social and @tspiresjones.bsky.social were on TODAY on BBC Radio 4. They discussed how tissue removed during routine brain surgery is being used to break new ground and find a cure for Alzheimer’s. Listen from 00:32:48 edin.ac/45k92zl

Bye bye 2025, what a great year! See you all in 2026. 🎉

Congrats to Joanna Wardlaw on new MRC funding for Cerebral Small Vessel Disease research. cSVD = major cause of stroke & around 40% of dementia cases; a common but neglected disorder with no effective treatment. This study will focus on 2 drugs to see if they slow/reverse cSVD. edin.ac/4j7JXNE