Merry Christmas everyone and thanks to I lovely volunteers at Dulwich Parkrun for putting on a great morning event :) now, we eat!

A year ago I took Billy to the vets because his breathing wasn’t right.48h later - on Xmas day - we were told he has heart failure & his prognosis was somewhere between 1-12 months.So the best Xmas present is how well he has responded to meds & that he is still here to cause mayhem and mischief! ❤️

Dear GOD. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Hi all. The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are the subject of a fantastic article, by Henry Wismayer, in today’s FT Magazine. We are proud to have advised, and be featured in it. We’re lead to believe that it is Christmas soon, so here’s a free link - our gift to you all xx as.ft.com/r/aa778cba-5...

ECR looking for a change in the New Year? We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch. Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

What links GPNMB to Parkinson’s? Research from (bluesky-less) Erin Bogacki and Susanne Herbst suggests that lysosomes could be the link: GPNMB is a biomarker for lysosomal dysfunction and is secreted via LRRK2-modulated lysosomal exocytosis | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to Dr Claire Leckey my PhD student. Using stable isotope labelled leucine we measured synthesis and turnover of neurofilament light in patients. The protein turns over very slowly showing brain trials need long timelines to reveal benefit. academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

New collaborative paper out just before the holidays 🥳 academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Happy holidays from my lab to yours - current/past/affiliate I’m super proud to work alongside these fantastic humans 🥳

🌟 stay toxic 🌟

Ok maybe this is my fault for videoing it instead of intervening but… 🫣

Cardboard box + clean towel = happy kitty

Leaders at @ukri.org should be seriously looking at the lottery first idea. 68% lower economic costs, increase in diversity of award holders and well received. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Percy Pud 10km ✅ Pudding & hat at the finish is way better than getting a medal!

I have a real fondness for pigeons, so naturally really enjoyed the “Human Animal” exhibition by Lucy Dewsnap at Barnsley Civic 😍

We had the cosiest corner of the pub last night 😍

First stop on my mini tour of the north…. Back in the homeland and felt surprisingly good on the hills at Barnsley Parkrun this morning! 🏃🏼‍♀️

This is stunning 😍

Good. Let’s not let it go away. This man wants to be Britain’s next PM. His denials and obfuscations around his long history of repulsive behaviour show that he is utterly unfit.

Formally declare beige buffet season is open 🎅🏻

Annual (failed) attempt to make Sing-A-Long Muppets Christmas Carol the activity for our lab Xmas do 😢 🎅🏻 🎄

Looking forward to chairing this session at noon tiday If you’re interested in hearing from people who have moved from academia into a range of different roles, join us!

Getting young ECRs established is the number one way to build a robust foundation of a research ecosystem but it comes at a cost. If you don’t put more money in the system you just end up with hundreds of mid-career labs struggling for funding in a 5-10 year cycle. We see this in Canada #FundBroadly

Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.

⛵ Join Prof @hugospiers.bsky.social and PhD student Maria Ahmad as they relive their adventures in the Pacific with local navigators on this BBC Sounds podcast—discover what this epic voyage reveals about the human brain. 🎧 Listen now:

📢 Isogenic LRRK2 iPSC lines now available via EBiSC! Thanks to Dr Sally Cowley and her team at @ox.ac.uk, this set of iPSCs including isogenic knockouts and disease-associated variants are now available for all researchers. See here: ebisc.org/search?q=&hp... #Parkinsons #iPSC #research

If you know of excellent papers led by PhD students; nominate them!

Wonderful Annual Address lecture from Prof Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu this evening 🧬 🧠

Cold weather done right

👟 Meet Joe Gregory — England walking footballer and Parkinson’s research champion. He’s taken part in a whopping 12 research projects at @uclqsion.bsky.social and other universities to help find better treatments. Read more:

Under close supervision this morning 🦊

I am very excited to be speaking at this meeting! Submit your abstracts and come join us!

Congratulations to Professor Sir John Hardy ( @uclqsion.bsky.social, @ukdri.ac.uk), who has been named on Esquire’s Better Men List 2025 for his groundbreaking research into Alzheimer’s disease! www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

We’re recruiting an institute director, take a look! 👇🏻

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

I have thoroughly enjoyed writing for @pet-bionews.bsky.social the last 6 weeks as part of their BioNews writing scheme! This week I had the pleasure of reviewing a seminar on the ethics of organoid and chimaera research 🧠🧫. See the link below to read! www.progress.org.uk/event-review...

Patkrun with my mate this morning 🥰

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Tabrizi @ucl-hd.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social on earning the @britishneuro.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience Award, for excellence and leadership in UK neuroscience and recognising her transformative impact on Huntington's disease research

Today the UK government has released a strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods. Read more: www.gov.uk/government/n...

🎙️ Professor Sir John Hardy’s journey at @uclqsion.bsky.social reshaped Alzheimer’s research. Discover the thrill of gene-hunting and the future of brain science in Episode 5 of Faces of UCL: “The Neuroscience Rockstar”. 👉

A pleasure to give the career keynote talk at the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social awards last night… and to take the 🐭 shoes for an outing too 😍

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

Finally it’s here! 🌟⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... I’m sooo excited to share our latest article led by Steve Hill and Isabel Bravo-Ferrer 1- How does the vasculature communicate with astrocytes? 2- Is this communication dependent to what happens in the body. 3- Is it relevant to human diseases?

Look at these beautiful organoids grown by @sophie0g.bsky.social ! Who needs fireworks when we can look down the microscope at these stunners 😎

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Was out yesterday, so I left the lights & classic FM on so the fireworks didn’t stress him/make him jump with his dodgy ticker. Came home to find he’d moved himself to the dark room and was looking mad AF about having to listen to 4h of the radio 🙃

A wonderful article on the new rare dementia support Centre at UCL. This will make such a huge difference to those with young onset and atypical forms of dementia. ‘I see people with dementia in their 20s’: first centre for young patients www.thetimes.com/article/7bc1...

🧟This Halloween, explore how eerie experiments and 19th-century neuroscience shaped the darkest corners of gothic literature. Join @selinawray.bsky.social, @caswell.bsky.social & @drjlange.bsky.social for a spooktacular Brain Stories. 🎃 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/51e18001 @uclqsion.bsky.social