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Doctor (Histopathology Trainee) & Neuroscience postdoc. Neuropathology. Autopsy. Neuroscience PhD via UCL MBPhD. Neuron-glial-vascular interactions, physiology, literature, classical music, microscopy. 🌿📚🏳️‍🌈 he/him. Cambridge (and hopefully London again..)
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Today is the 17th BDIAP Approach to Cut-Up Study Day! The study day provides an opportunity for attendees to learn more about how to tackle some of the complex specimens that they may encounter in their departments. #PathologyStudyDay #CutUpPathology #MedicalTraining #Pathologist #MedicalEducation

The 10th BDIAP Molecular Pathology Study Day has started! #PathologyStudyDay #CutUpPathology #MedicalTraining #Pathologist #MedicalEducation #HealthcareProfessionals #StudyDay #BookNow #pathology #histopathology #pathologyeducation #biomedicalscientist #pathologists

Excited to share our review on astrocyte aging, out today! Hopefully the only Friday surprises this week are Liddelow lab publications! 🧪 #neuroskyence @liddelowsa.bsky.social

Great new work by Brian MacVicar's team, showing that pericytes and perivascular fibroblasts are distinct subpopulations of stromal progenitor cells in the adult brain that coordinate revascularization and scar formation after injury. #cerebrovascular #stroke #pericytes

This is how post-mortems should be documented 😉. From: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1966) #PathSky

"The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin." P. G. Wodehouse

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

@physoc.bsky.social has a starter pack of physiologists. Hooray!! go.bsky.app/2KU1XD6

A Perspective from @sierralab.bsky.social on #microglia as hunters or gatherers of brain synapses www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2025 resolution: leave the pit that is Cambridge

Waking out of my sleep on a sudden, I did with my elbow hit my wife a great blow over her face and nose, which waked her with pain, at which I was sorry, and to sleep again.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 13 (ish) Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My neuroscience Christmas decorations c. 2013

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 12 War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 11 Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 10 Middlemarch, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 9 A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 8 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 7 The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Thrilled to see this paper out!! 🧪 Spatial transcriptomics of brain aging and 'spatial aging clocks' identify cells that have pro-aging or pro-rejuvenating effects on their neighbors! Huge CONGRATS to Eric Sun and all authors! Fantastic collaboration with @jameszou.bsky.social! rdcu.be/d33uQ 🧵

I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 6 Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Suitably miniature mince pies for the microscopist in your life. ?asteroid bodies #pathsky

We're so excited to join the party over here! Follow this account to learn more about the latest papers published in Nature Neuroscience!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 5 Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs

The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 4 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Laurence Sterne

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 3 The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 2 The Unnatural Nature of Science, Lewis Wolpert

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 1 A Dead Man in Deptford, Anthony Burgess.

Super happy for @natashaobrown.bsky.social who just published her very first senior author paper !! A beautiful and important study (I am totally unbiased....) #Zebrafish #Astrocytes #Gliovascular www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Today's library highlight: laryngeal carcinoma cells. Wood carving, Lionel Beale (1861).

At the risk of perpetuating a stereotype, pathologists may not have the broadest networks. Appreciate anyone reposting and/or sharing directly go.bsky.app/NgdtfJy

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

BBC Breaking News 🔉

When you live in Cambridge, this constitutes excitement.

Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

Mood.

This is, erm, quite the Amazon review for The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology. Recommended for ALL children. Without any doubt... #PathSky

Make a diagnosis sound less scary by changing one word. I'll start: Secret Compartment Syndrome.

Please read books. I’m begging you.

I haven’t seen a #pathsky starter pack yet! I’ve tried to keep up with all of the new pathologists joining, but I know I have missed many! Please tag yourselves/others below and I will follow them and add them 😁 @kmirza.bsky.social @clilleymd.bsky.social @brettkurpiel.bsky.social go.bsky.app/6bWDSjT

the title alone is my science dream :-) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Listen up 👂 It's hard to over-hype this paper from Michelle Monje and Crystal Mackall on cellular therapy for #DIPG, a fatal childhood brain cancer. It's not a perfect therapy; doesn't always work. By goodness, what progress we are making! #CanSky #MEDsky #PedCanSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting to #pericyte lovers www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...