We had the pleasure of catching up with Dr Brian Dickie MBE (@bd365.bsky.social), Chief Scientist at the @mndassoc.bsky.social, the principal funder of the £7.5M Longitude Prize on ALS. 📖 Read the full Q&A here: bit.ly/3KTi1Ap

🌍 Be part of the global effort to tackle #ALS. The £7.5m (~$10m) #LongitudePrizeOnALS is searching for innovators in #AI, #data, #biotech, and #neurology. 🧠 Meet the teams already registered, and find out how you can partner with them below. 🔗https://bit.ly/4mdHxxX

I’ve spent decades studying how health and science are represented in the public sphere. And it has never been as bad as it is right now. Here are my current top 10 concerns thewalrus.ca/before-you-s... via @thewalrus.ca Soon: chatting on 680 CJOB about this mess!

The Isaacs Lab @adrianisaacs.bsky.social at UCL, London, seeks a Senior Research Technician to assess CRISPR gene therapy for FTD/ALS in C9orf72 mice, lead assays, and manage lab research on neurodegeneration. Closing date: 30th July www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/senior-r...

Check out this article from Dr Brian Dickie (@mndassoc.bsky.social), exploring how #AI and quality data can transform treatment progress—and how the £7.5M #LongitudePrizeonALS aims to support #innovation through global collaboration. 🧠 Read here: bit.ly/4nqi4lN #ALS #MND

Are you an early career researcher working in #MND #ALS in the UK❓ Why not apply for the new @mndassoc Rob Burrow Early Career Researcher Prize? 🏆 Find out more and apply⬇️ www.mndassociation.org/research/for...

🚨 Less than 1 month to go! 🚨 If you want to share your research with the global #MND #ALS research community, make sure you submit your abstract for #alsmndsymp by 10 July! More info: symposium.mndassociation.org/abstracts/

Very excited to share our latest preprint! We looked at loss and gain of function, innervation, reinnervation, and in vivo axonal transport in a FUS-ALS mouse model! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @uclqsion.bsky.social @beccasimkin.bsky.social @andrewtosolini.bsky.social @frattalab.bsky.social

💥 Applications now open! 💥 We are now accepting applications for @mndassoc.bsky.social research grants: 🔬 PhD Studentships 🩺 Healthcare projects 🧪 Non-Clinical Fellowships 🗓 Deadline: 25 April Learn more ⬇ www.mndassociation.org/research/for...

💥Registration and abstract submission now open! 💥 Join us at the 36th International Symposium on #ALS #MND to connect, network and collaborate with the global community. 📆 5 – 7 December 2025 📍San Diego, USA 👉 More details: symposium.mndassociation.org #alsmndsymp

Our new review on the challenges of modelling TDP-43 pathology in mice is just out: rdcu.be/ejZ5a As usual, together with Lizzy Fisher. Thanks to Jose Brito and @lucastaoro.bsky.social from the lab for putting the data together for the comprehensive tables.

🚨Come and join us! Postdoc position here at @mndoxford.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social, working on local subcellular dysfunction in synapses of neurons from #ALS/#FTD patients using multi-omics with @ruxandradaf.bsky.social. Check out the details below: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMV265/p...

Applications open for @mndresearch MND Association Junior & Senior Non-Clinical Fellowships, nurturing future MND research leaders. Apply by 25 April 2025. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/mnd-...

Happy to share our new study that was just published in Neuron! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Vacancy for a Lecturer in Neuroscience at The University of Manchester focusses on Sensory & Motor Systems, Circadian biology, Brain Disorders and Neuroinflammation. Closing date: 3rd April. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Join us for the next talk in the UCL Neurology Society x Queen Square Lecture Series! 4th March 2025, 5.30pm Featuring Dr. Oliver Ziff, a neurologist and NIHR Clinical Lecturer at UCL, specialising in neuromuscular diseases. app.medall.org/event-listin...

Great to catch up earlier today with some of our MND Association funded researchers at SITraN, doing great work to understand and treat #ALS #MND

The University of Sheffield is seeking a Research Fellow to to lead the MND Alert Project and contribute to the expanding Better Outcomes in #MND research group. Closing date: 13th March. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Check out our new review of C9orf72 ALS in @thelancetneuro.bsky.social with Sarah Mizielinska, Rosa Rademakers and others! Was fun to co-write but tough to collate such incredible progress into a one article: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ke765FFzL...

Great opportunity for clinicians to gain early-career experience in a fully-funded, translational medicine programme in Oxford. If you know anyone interested, please share this link. There is a wide range of projects, including mine. Deadline Fr 14 March 2025 www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...