We have FIVE GTA PhD Studentships available at UCL Life Sciences. See here for a chance to work in the Medawar Pain and Somatosensory Labs on the influence of early life experience on lifelong pain vulnerability: bit.ly/4bDLg4Z Deadline 23rd April- repost widely! @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Every hour spent running = one pastry

4 weeks to go until marathon day! Today’s long run was London Bridge to Greenwich & Greenwich Peninsula Parkrun with HPF in our matching sunglasses 😎 🤣 2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/hilary-ev...

Had a lovely evening speaking to the St George’s Young Onset dementia support group about our work 🧬 🧫 First time I’ve ever been asked to do push ups before a talk as part of the group exercise but it certainly woke everyone up! 💪🏻

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Team bowling: celebrating papers, grants, newcomers and leavers. the 🎢 of science !

Lovely sunny morning for @helenecrutzen747.bsky.social 50th Parkrun! ☀️ 🏃🏼‍♀️

It's the Spring Equinox - the first astronomical day of spring! ☀️ Longer days. Lighter evenings. Sunshine warm on your skin, birds singing, blossom in the branches.

Another reel for #brainawarenessweek - what a week in an Alzheimer’s research lab looks like! (we’ve decided all of our lab work needs a D&B soundtrack now) @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social

6.30am runs are a lot easier at this time of year! 🤩

STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE

For #brainawarenessweek - come and meet the team! (Yes, Hugh Jackson is an honorary member) Reel by @sophie0g.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social

Cannon Hall in Barnsley Caphouse Colliery/National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield Yorkshire Scuplture Park in Wakefield (still a favourite!) National Science and Media museum in Bradford And inexplicably one year, Sellafield - which was neither close nor any fun

Its #brainawarenessweek so a chance to highlight some of our work using stem cells to understand dementia.Take a look at @sophie0g.bsky.social wonderful instagram account showcasing some of her work using organoids to model FTD @uclbrainscience.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DVt5t5X...

Hi all-Having run a marathon for @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social in 2024 it's now time for @alzheimersresearchuk.org! It will not be quick nor pretty BUT it will be on my birthday and for a very good cause so please do consider sponsoring me... socialsync.app/fundraiser/c...

Interested in one of the top jobs in European biology? @embo.org has opened a call for its next Director, to succeed Fiona Watt Really spectacular opportunity! Spread the word... www.embo.org/features/emb...

As has become my tradition in marathon training blocks, today I did my 15 mile loop though Wandsworth Common/Putney Common/Richmond Park/Wimbledon Common with a stop off at Marc Bolan’s shrine on the way 🦖

Saturday spa and 🌈 toy for Billy How can I brush this much fur off him every day 🫠

Realky looking forward to this meeting - come join us!

Home to a good delivery 🤩 (one week supply 🤣)

We are excited to be recruiting into 3 Associate Professorship's in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Come join us as a colleague and benefit from our vibrant and multidisciplinary environment. Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! (tinyurl.com/48deybuu) (tinyurl.com/4pdvjaft).

With Kirsty and Natalie, excited about 93rd Harden Conference 'Endosomal-lysosomal network dysfunction in neurodegeneration'. 1st-4th Sept 2026 in UK. Opportunities for oral presentations selected from posters. 1st June deadline for cheaper registration!!! Come join us. Please, please spread widely.

UCL Quad looking lovely in the sun today! ☀️

My office looks out onto a Blue Plaque for “Stella & Fanny, Victorian Cross Dressers” but somehow I only recently got around to looking them up…turns out they were pretty badass! (Old article but would love to see the play if it ever gets revived!) www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/m...

Gorgeous run at Cambrudge Half today, with @alzheimersresearchuk.org - the conditions couldnt have been more perfect and always such wonderful support!

We're celebrating International Women's Day 2026 with a new podcast! Hear from Dorothy Hyman, Mel Dyke, Rita Britton, Selina Wray and more in our latest episode 🔉 bit.ly/BarnsleyMuseumsNatters #InternationalWomensDay

🚨 PhD Programme – Vascular Dementia Research New 4-year PhD funded by BHF & UK DRI on vascular mechanisms in dementia. Training across UCL, Oxford, Leicester & Edinburgh with lab rotations. 📅 Deadline: 14 April 🎓 Start: Sept 2026 Apply: CV + statement + 2 refs → [email protected] Please share!

A new drug is transforming the lives of children born with a severe form of epilepsy, say doctors and families. Dravet syndrome, external can cause dozens of dangerous seizures a day and affects about one in every 15,000 babies born. 🧪🧠💊 @medsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UCL’s Professor Francesco Muntoni has received the 2026 Novo Nordisk Prize for his pioneering research offering hope to children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. @uclchildhealth.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...

A wonderful video as part of #UCL200 - demonstrating what can be achieved when scientists work in partnership with the people impacted by disease. Carol Jennings was a phenomenal woman & that legacy continues www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Qo...

*Recruiting new group leaders* The @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London are looking for outstanding candidates to sponsor for career development fellowships. Fellows would then be assessed for tenured positions at the end of the fellowship term.

Job alert: open position for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London. Based in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment of UCL, and UGI, and funded by the UCL Health Strategy. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 🧪

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

Need to self film some running stuff for a thing and… it’s going well so far 🫣🤣

Lovely show from Andrew Bird with the Britten Sinfonia at Barbican tonight 😍

A plumber & plasterer, who also happens to be a woman, elected to Westminster. We love to see it! 🔥

A tireless advocate for mentoring early stage researchers, Dr. Wray is dedicated to supporting those under-represented in science, providing personal mentorship and hosting research placements for students who are the first in their families to study at university.

What a privilege to receive this award! 🥹

Today we're excited to be involved in delivering #AAICNeuro Manchester. It's too late to join us in-person but at 1pm we will be live across the world in the online platform with a session on the future of Fluid Biomarkers to diagnose #dementia.

Congratulations to Dr Maura Malpetti on receiving David Hague Prize - awarded yearly to the most outstanding early career researcher in the field of biomedical dementia research. 👏

➡️ It's on! Paid internship for aspiring science journalists at Nature's London office. Up to three days a week working from home. All the details are here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...

Fairer ways to feed the UK 🍽️ New citizen science and community projects show how communal dining facilities could help reshape society in this new Bartlett Review article by By Dr Hanna Baumann and Joseph Cook. 🔗 https://bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/fairer-ways-to-feed-the-uk/index.html

The only gold medal Billy would win is the gold medal for being an absolute lad 🤣

The winter water feature at Tooting Parkrun is at full capacity which means mud on my legs, arms and face from the splashing this morning 🏃🏼‍♀️

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

An exciting pancake day ahead

These cuts to physics research will be a disaster for UK scientists – and for our standing in the world | Jon Butterworth

Undergrads seeking summer research experience in gene or cell therapy: there's a *paid opportunity* from @bsgct.bsky.social! Please apply before 27th Feb. Please see bsgct.org/undergraduate/ for details. Please repost to help spread the word - thanks!

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox