Last chance to register for our webinar with Dr Lisa Hartling this Thursday! 🚨 Details below 👇 @uofgshw.bsky.social

🚨Out today: our manifesto to unlock Scotland’s full potential in life sciences & innovation. 🧬 @torbett.bsky.social: With the right policy choices, Scotland can become a powerhouse for discovery, development & delivery of medicines, vaccines & diagnostics. More: bit.ly/4gnzFHS

Earlier this month, the Brain Health ARC hosted a writing retreat in Loch Lomond, inviting researchers get words on paper with dedicated, uninterrupted writing time. 🌳 Reflecting on her time at the retreat, Amelia McGinley-Brown has written a blog about her experience and learnings ⬇️

💥 Quantum Health Connect 2025 Tay Med Connect will bring Scotland's quantum sector together with NHS and healthcare innovation experts for a two-day workshop to create a roadmap for quantum-enabled healthcare in Scotland. 🤝 📅 16 - 17/12/2025 meetdundeecityregion.co.uk/attending/co...

🚀 The Race Against Dementia: Data Challenge II launches 4 weeks today! ➡️ Sign up here to take part: forms.office.com/pages/respon... #DataChallengeII 🧠

September is World Alzheimer’s Month, an international campaign to raise awareness and challenge stigma. 🧠 Discover the Alliance's suite of resources, from seed funding, webinar recordings, and the opportunity to contribute research questions ➡️ bit.ly/3Iy5H7D #AskAboutDementia #AskAboutAlzheimers

University of Oxford seeks Research Associate to study extracellular vesicles and biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease using blood samples and iPSC based models. Closing date: 3rd October www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

📣 Introducing Race Against Dementia: Data Challenge II Join our launch to learn more about how we're broadening dementia and brain health research through access to rich, innovative datasets with unparalleled academic and technical support, free of charge. ➡️ bit.ly/4mTg3Og #DataChallengeII 🧠

🚨 Free Webinar – Today 2–3pm 🚨 🎶 Music & Dementia: The UK’s First Centre of Excellence 👥 Giles Wilmore & Bev Taylor Register by 1pm to join. Learn how music supports people w/ dementia. ✅ Sign up: buff.ly/rGSitxv 🔔 Follow us on Eventbrite: buff.ly/7f1ohew

🥁 It's 2 weeks until our inaugural Annual Event! Final call to join us for a day of networking, engaging discussions, and working together to drive the future of local heat and energy efficiency. Who could say it better than our Director, @mettehigh.bsky.social? 👏 #NetZeroScotland #SRAEHL2025

Upcoming ‪@nihr.bsky.social‬ PGfAR funding is a ring fenced call dedicated to ‘Research inspired by under-represented disciplines and specialisms to drive transformational changes’. Read more 🔗 https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/programme-grants-applied-research-october-2025/2025350-2025351-2025352

📢 Are you a dementia researcher in the UK? Or one of the talented teams that took part in the #BioHermes001 Data Challenge? @kalliverse.bsky.social has some exciting news to share with you — all the way from the AAIC 2025 in Toronto! More updates coming soon. 🧠 #AAIC2025 #BioHermes002

On #AAIC25 day 5, I shared with the amazing audience what we achieved with the first round of the @brainhealtharc.bsky.social Scottish Data Challenge. Brilliant questions gave me a chance to emphasise the need to reuse routine datasets and support cross-discipline collaboration for 2ndary analysis!!

On #AAIC25 day 4, I finally managed to get up early for a run! So glad I did, because I today I am feeling neeervous about speaking at the data sharing featured research session tomorrow at 1000🕙 in room 107📍join us to hear about the @brainhealtharc.bsky.social's first Scottish Data Challenge!!

Clearly a normal level of excited to be here!!! Watch this space bc this is my first international conference and I was sponsored to travel here as part of an award I won for the first Scottish Dementia Data Challenge 👀 can't wait to tell you (and show you!) all about it!! #AAIC25

📢 Did you take part in the first round of the Bio-Hermes Data Challenge? Help us collect valuable insights by completing our outputs form! This covers everything from abstracts, posters, talks, peer-reviewed papers, and beyond. ➡️ forms.office.com/pages/respon...

“Ultimately, our piece is not about dementia. It is about the fragility of life and that eternal ‘something’ we all share that is left when memory is gone.” The Brain Health ARC is proud to support this powerful and joyous performance from Theatre Re 💙 🎫: www.pleasance.co.uk/event/nature...

📢 The next SCAF online networking session is taking place on Wednesday 20th August at 6pm! Join us to make new connections, find new collaborators, gain new insights, learn more about other sectors and disciplines, or develop new ideas 💡🌱 ➡️ bit.ly/4nP7nJG #foodstudies

💡 Have you got a great idea for a grant application? Or just a desire to work amongst beautiful surroundings without interruption? Hear from Prof Terry Quinn, Brain Health ARC Director, about our upcoming writing retreat! ✅ Deadline to register interest: 21/07/25 👉 bit.ly/4mLcom7

Last year, I managed the first Scottish Data Challenge, opening up #Bio-Hermes-001 to UK-based Alzheimer's disease researchers. Wearing pink as usual (it's either that or total black) I hosted the closing ceremony, which propelled me into the metascienceverse - it is now nearly time for more 👀

💥 Join the Quantum ARC this weekend at the Glasgow Science festival! Discover the power of quantum, make objects levitate, and create and collapse your own quantum states with the team at the Riverside Museum on Saturday & Sunday 🚀 No booking required 👋 www.gla.ac.uk/events/scien... #GlaSciFest

📣 Brain Health ARC Writing Retreat! Taking place at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment from Monday 8th - Wednesday 10th September, our writing retreat will offer an opportunity for dedicated writing time ✍️🌳 ➡️ Find out more and register here: bit.ly/4mLcom7

Join Dr Selvaraj’s UK DRI team in Edinburgh to explore neuro-glial cross talk in MND using stem cell organoids. PhD and lab skills in neuroscience essential. Closing date: 16th June www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/postdoc-...

📣 The Social Care Research Ethics Working Group & The Scottish Government are calling for views, experiences, and current practices of researchers, reviewers and stakeholders involved in ethical reviews of social care research in Scotland. Deadline: 09/06/2025 👉 More information: bit.ly/4j8Jg5b

Apply for funding to support new partnerships between diverse groups of researchers within the remit of Medical Research Council (MRC). www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/mrc-...

🚨 We are inviting members of the public to work with the SCAF team to contribute to food-related research. 👋🏼 The Academy of Citizens will support citizen-led research and engagement across the food landscape. 💡 ⏰ Deadline to apply: Friday 30 May 👉 Find out more: bit.ly/4jYFsoj #foodstudies

📢 PhD opportunity at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social! 🔍 Developing advanced neuroimaging methods to understand brain network dysfunction and associated symptomology in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders. 🗓️ Deadline: Friday 23rd May 2025 👉 bit.ly/4dmRCVC

🗓️ Wed 11 June national #ARCseminar: Exploring lived experience with creative arts www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-... Prof Caroline Sanders @arc-gm.bsky.social Prof Monica Lakhanpaul @ucl.ac.uk Dr Laura Abbott @arceastofengland.bsky.social Barbara Czyznikowska & Lis Naylor @arc-em.bsky.social

📢 Brain Health ARC Webinar! We were recently joined by Dr Catherine Quinn to explore and discuss the emotional impact of dementia research. Dr Quinn reflected on her experiences & suggested strategies that researchers can undertake to mitigate emotional labour 💡 Watch on YouTube 👉 bit.ly/4k4uL3c

📢 Save the date! Our annual event will unite local authorities with experts from academia, industry, government, and local communities to share knowledge, discuss trends and challenges, and provide networking opportunities. 💡 📆 Wed 10 September 🎫: bit.ly/456ZCI2 #EHL2025 #NetZeroScotland

‘Research moves slowly, while dementia itself progresses quickly.’ The SFC-funded @brainhealtharc.bsky.social defied this perception with a brilliantly successful initiative. Find out all about it in our new guest blog tinyurl.com/4mas45zt

Scottish people: your insights are needed for our study! This first survey collects which questions about brain health you think are important to be answered by research: uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📣 The Quantum ARC will be at this year's Glasgow Science Festival! Join us Sat 14 - Sun 15 June at the Riverside Museum in Partick to discover the power of quantum, make objects levitate, and create and collapse your own quantum states. ⚛️ www.gla.ac.uk/events/scien... #GlaSciFest

📢 An exciting new initiative! ARC-HIVE: Anticholinergic Reduction Collaboration Hive, a new network focused on reducing anticholinergic medicines in older people 💡 ➡️ Join the launch event on Wed 21 May: bit.ly/3EMQjSW ℹ️ More info here: bit.ly/4iChX2U #ageingresearch

💡Learn about the £8.2K for quantum-healthcare research visits - Join the Quantum Healthcare Fund Matching webinar 📅 14 May, 10:00–12:30 | 🤝 Network 🚀 Build interdisciplinary projects 🔗 Register by 7 May: www.sinapse.ac.uk/events/sinap... @brainhealtharc.bsky.social @quantum-alliance.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who attended our first Brain Health Arts meeting! 🧠 Following the event, we are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for seed funding projects! Up to £5k is available research-focused applications that form new collaborations 💡 ➡️ bit.ly/4eyL1qu

📢 Call for expressions of interest! We look forward to a collaborative workshop with @quantum-alliance.bsky.social on the interface between quantum solutions and food and nutrition innovation 🚀 The event will include short talks, breakout discussions and networking sessions. ➡️ bit.ly/42mUXPx

💡 Do you have an idea for a webinar topic? The Alliances for Research Challenges (ARCs) are welcoming broad topics, beyond speciality areas, that can resonate with people from a spectrum of fields, sectors, and career stages 🌅 Suggest a topic or speaker here ➡️ bit.ly/3XLlTHc

📢 Our next webinar welcomes speakers from the Complex Review Support Unit (CRSU)! The webinar will build on their recent review of how new methods in evidence synthesis can be applied to older adult and brain health research 🧠 📅 Tues 1st April, 1pm 👉 bit.ly/42gR7IA

CRSU, HEHTA's Evidence Synthesis specialists, are guest speakers at @brainhealtharc.bsky.social's webinar next Tuesday 1st April at 1pm. Join us then: buff.ly/5z272GP

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the #BioHermes001 Data Challenge Summit! 🌟 On Friday we heard from the successful research teams who accessed the Global Alzheimer's Platform’s Bio-Hermes Biomarker dataset and celebrated their incredible work 👏 Watch this space for more to come...

Join the NHS Research Scotland Ageing Specialty Group and @brainhealtharc.bsky.social for the latest in a series of webinars, with guest speakers from the Complex Review Support Unit (CRSU). Register to attend 🔗 www.nhsresearchscotland.org.uk/calendar/age...

The Ageing Specialty Group's latest webinar on 'psychological safety and empathy' in research, featuring Mr Mathias Schlögl, Chief Medical Officer Geriatric Medicine, Clinic Barmelweid, Switzerland, is now available on-demand. Watch the full video 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2sR...

📢 Our next webinar welcomes speakers from the Complex Review Support Unit (CRSU)! The webinar will build on their recent review of how new methods in evidence synthesis can be applied to older adult and brain health research 🧠 📅 Tues 1st April, 1pm 👉 bit.ly/42gR7IA

📢 @drterryquinn.bsky.social will be representing the Brain Health ARC at this year's Edinburgh Science Festival to discuss Alzheimer's: To Test or Not to Test... Hear all sides of the argument from researchers, economists, lawyers and patient advocates 💡 📅 Wed 9 Apr, 6pm 👇👇👇 bit.ly/41Wxm7S

📣If you are an artist or researcher interested in cross disciplinary collaboration – then this is the meeting for you ! Still time to sign up👀

This #BrainAwarenessWeek, we are honoured to hear from Dr Jodi Watt, Prof Terry Quinn and Lucie Tvrdá on the importance of investing in neurological research 🧠 Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/3XHSH3F #InvestInNeuroResearch @neuroalscotland.bsky.social