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We’re at the beautiful Playfair library persuading year 1-3 students that Neuroscience is the best honours course 🧠 With @tspiresjones.bsky.social travel microscope and some model brains and neurons to play with.Thanks @edinunineuro.bsky.social

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We're delighted to congratulate the winner of the ECR Paper Prize, Angelika Zarkali! This award is presented to the first author of an outstanding study published in Brain Communications over the past year. Read more about the winning paper here:https://buff.ly/4idIsvN @angelikaza.bsky.social 🎉

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Delighted to announce @rikeshrajani.bsky.social as the first Group Leader to join our flagship vascular dementia research centre with @thebhf.bsky.social 🎉👏 The Rajani Lab will investigate how the protective myelin sheath around brain cells is damaged in small vessel disease👉 buff.ly/4hIGaVM

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In case you need more reasons to come to the @britishneuro.bsky.social Festival in Liverpool in April, we have an exciting new partnership with the Queen's Reading room. Plenaries on how reading affects the brain, an exciting public talk, and an actual reading room for relaxing at the conference!!

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Are you looking to develop your research? Want to gain feedback on your research plans before that next grant application or paper submission? #BNA2025 is the place to develop your #research and #career! Check out what @tspiresjones.bsky.social is most looking forward to...

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Please spread the word! The BNA Training Academy has launched with some fantastic courses, registration links below.

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The UK DRI's Profs Sarah Tabrizi & Gabriel Balmus have taken major steps forward in advancing Huntington's genetic therapies👏 The new study lays the foundation for future clinical trials targeting a DNA repair protein 👉 buff.ly/4aVcMsN

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It was great fun to talk to James Gallagher on @bbcradio4.bsky.social Inside Health about dementia research and answer some great questions from listeners! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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How many people read the first anonymous view and think oh this must be one of my colleagues? It all sounds horribly familiar...

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Look what arrived in the mail! I’m super proud to have written a very small part of the Hippocampus textbook including showing off some of our synapse images with Richard Morris and team. Need to get him to autograph for me…

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Proud of our @britishneuro.bsky.social policy and preclinical trustees @cathyabbott.bsky.social and Mark Walton and the whole team including @nramnani.bsky.social for this important work. I’m honoured to sign and glad to use BioRender skills for the graphical abstract 😀

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PhD alert! Fully funded 4-year PhD studentship at Birmingham Uni to work on 'Virtual Reality intervention to address youth gang involvement' under the supervision of the brilliant Dr Stephanie Burnett Heyes 🌟 www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/centre-ub/projects/virtual-reality

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Hello Bluesky! 👋 We are the UK DRI, the UK's leading research institute transforming the lives of people affected by neurodegeneration 🧠 Find out more about our vision for a future prioritising healthy brain ageing for all 👉 buff.ly/42xTJCJ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3s...

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Very pleased to have been able to contribute to this important call to arms to protect preclinical neuroscience in the UK #neuroskyence

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🚨Published today, @britishneuro.bsky.social report and open letter to #funders in defence of preclinical / fundamental neuroscience. 🧠 Pleased to sign the open letter along with @tspiresjones.bsky.social, Mark Walton and Cathy Abbott. @wellcometrust.bsky.social @ukri.org

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📰Today the BNA has released an open letter to research #funders highlighting the urgent need for action to protect #preclinical neuroscience research in the UK. Read our report & open letter to funders here: tinyurl.com/464zezam #researchpolicy #sciencepolicy

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The House of Lords Science and Tech Ctte have raised concerns about the impact of the UK’s visa regime on research and technology ambitions on.ft.com/4hldDVP (Full letter here committees.parliament.uk/publications...)

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Thank you for sending up this fantastic award! Now in pride of place with Joan the cactus @womeninneurouk.bsky.social

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Don't miss this opportunity to experience the UK's largest neuroscience conference! Take advantage of these limited-time offers.⏳31st Jan, 23:59 (GMT) Apply, submit, and register now✅ meetings.bna.org.uk/bna2025/ #BNA2025 #Neuroscience #Conference #Liverpool #Networking

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Christine Klein will be delivering a plenary lecture at #BNA2025 supported by @parkinsons.org.uk. Klein is a professor at @uniluebeck.bsky.social and former President (first female president) of @dgn-ev.bsky.social #Neuroscience #Neurogenetics #Parkinsonsdisease #Movementdisorders #PD

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📚Brain and Neuroscience Advances is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to the dissemination of neuroscience research in a variety of publication formats How to submit: journals.sagepub.com/home/bna 🧠 #SageJournals #ScientificJournal #NeurosciencePublishing #NeuroscienceResearch

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Infantile epileptic spasms: histopathology, imaging and genetic testing in a large cohort. Multimodal testing is necessary for accurate diagnosis --> @braincomms.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/brai...

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With a diverse programme spanning 16 key themes in neuroscience, BNA2025 offers something for everyone🎉. Visit meetings.bna.org.uk/bna2025/ to explore the full programme and secure your spot at this transformative event✅ #BNA2025 #Liverpool #April #Neuroscience #Conference #Network

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The Green Neuroscience Prize: celebrating impactful strides toward sustainability🌍. 🗓️Deadline: 28th Feb. 🏆Prize: £500 grant, chance to share your work at a BNA event & Brain and Neuroscience Advances feature. bna.org.uk/about/our-pr... #GreenNeuroscience #GoGreen #Environment

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Don't miss the poster registration deadline for #BNA2025 31st Jan is coming soon!!! meetings.bna.org.uk/bna2025/bna2...

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A pleasure to cohost a new episode of the Brain Podcast with Dr Thermistocleous. Wonderful insights about species- and sex-specific nociception from guest, Prof Frank Porecca! open.spotify.com/episode/1Wzk...

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Had to share this amazing electron micrograph. Anyone know what it is? Hint, from human brain tissue

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Past BNA President, John Aggleton, has published a remarkable book dedicated to his late son, who passed away from a brain tumour. In honour of this, all royalties from the book will be donated to @braintumourrsch.bsky.social 20% discount from Routledge in January. routledge.com/Memory-and-t...

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We believe all our members should have the opportunity to attend events like #BNA2025🌟 BNA2025 Bursary deadline: 31 Jan, 11:59 PM (GMT). Apply today💫 www.bna.org.uk/members/burs... #Neuroscience #Bursaries #Grants #GuarantorsofBrain

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Excited to share that IBDM (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) is expanding its research groups this year! A great place for developmental biology and interdisciplinary research located on the beautiful Marseille-Luminy campus! Deadline for applications: March 30th, 2025

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Jessy et al. report a 17.7% prevalence of hypothyroidism in older adults in South India, with untreated cases linked to poorer cognitive performance. Timely treatment may improve cognition. Read at: https://buff.ly/3Pw1gdB

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Highly decorated British #geneticist Professor Adrian Bird will open #BNA2025 with his plenary lecture on #RettSyndrome. This session is convened and supported by @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social. Early bird discounted registration closing this month -⌛https://meetings.bna.org.uk/bna2025/

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🚨INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY🚨Are you an undergraduate or master's student at the #universityofedinburgh within the field of #neuroscience 🧠? Brain Communications is looking for an intern to support the scientific editor team. For more info click here 👉 edin.ac/40sAkBH #internshipopportunity

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🗓️ We are pleased to be partnering with The 3Hs Initiative to bring you this free webinar on 11th February. Register here: www.bna.org.uk/mediacentre/... #laboratory #scientificoutcomes #neuroscience

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On print at last! #hippocampus #neuroscience

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🚨CALLING FOR NOMINATIONS🚨 Nominate the first author of a 2024 Brain Comms paper for our 2024 ECR Paper Prize🏆 📅Deadline: 31st January 2025 📋Submit here: https://buff.ly/4204HAJ 🏅The winner will be invited to give a talk at the Brain Conference 2025! #ECRPrize #BrainComms

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Typical development of synaptic and neuronal properties can proceed without microglia in the cortex and thalamus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Adventures with Iggy. Lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world.

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Koohi et al. report that hearing loss in primary mitochondrial diseases involves both cochlear and central deficits, with m.3243A>G/T variants playing a key role. Findings call for a personalized approach to diagnosing and managing these patients. Read at: https://buff.ly/3ZWWZEP

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Happy New Year! Northern lights putting some sparkle into the first day of 2025

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Wassink et al. report that delayed, prolonged insulin-like growth factor-1 treatment improves white matter recovery and reduces inflammation after hypoxia-ischaemia in preterm foetal sheep. Read at: https://buff.ly/3C1Nb4a

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Happy solstice everyone. Was a wild, windy, sideways sleet kind of day here in Scotland. But the sunset was pretty.

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Van der Lande et al. propose a framework for identifying and modulating brain states to aid recovery of consciousness. Insights include altered connectivity in reduced consciousness and neuromodulation’s potential. Read at: https://buff.ly/403oDRC #consciousness

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@mambrozkiewicz.bsky.social can I please join the FENS-Kavli Newtork starter pack? Do you let in the old folks 😂

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Good morning Edinburgh. A beautiful day for image analysis 😀🔬💻

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Pisani et al. report widespread brain alterations in Parkinson’s disease psychosis, including changes in functional connectivity, white matter, and dopamine metabolism, which impacts visual and attentional networks. Read at: https://buff.ly/3Bnp0gx #Parkinsons

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📢 PhD studentship available in UK * #TMS ⚡️ #coding #collaboration * £20k (tax-free) per year * £7k annual research costs * laptop 👨‍💻 * lots of excellent things! * Birmingham & Nottingham, UK chat to [email protected] for info & advice about applying! 🙏

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Great to hear @tspiresjones.bsky.social on Radio 4 last night discussing these results. Certainly there is hope that we create ways of helping boost all our thinking and memory in the future, which likely will be beneficial.

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