Sarah Astill

Reimagine Ageing Seminar Series Reimagine Ageing is an interdisciplinary research network looking to foster a community of researchers and practitioners in healthy ageing. Throughout 2026, they will be hosting a variety of seminars ...

How can robotics use inspiration from healthcare professionals to bring automation to assistive dressing?

Join Dr Jihong Zhu for a hybrid @reimagineageing.bsky.social seminar exploring robotics and assistive technology.

📅 Tues 3 Feb
🕜1.30 - 3pm (GMT)

Book your place via Eventbrite 👇

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Abstract submissions are OPEN for #ASNR2026! We invite you to submit a poster abstract for our next Annual Meeting, which will be held in Los Angeles from March 24-27, 2026. The deadline to submit an abstract is Dec 7, 2025.

Visit our abstract submission page to learn more:
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Anti-aging effects of physical activity This Collection welcomes original research on the association between physical activity and health aging, from epidemiology to cell biology.

📢 Last call to submit your papers to our Article Collection

"Anti-aging effects of physical activity"

📚 in Scientific Reports (Q1) Nature Portfolio

More information: 👇
www.nature.com/collections/...

The NIHR MLTC CNC would like to invite clinicians and academics and service users to share your knowledge and practice around resistance training to help inform a larger research bid in this area. @clinexphysuk.bsky.social forms.office.com/e/fRwSqNPzd3

Society, Loneliness and Ageing The Reimagine Ageing Interdisciplinary Network invite you a seminar on Society, Loneliness and Ageing to mark International Day of Older Persons 2025. Please select from the in-person or online regist...

Our Reimagine Ageing research network invites you a seminar on Society, Loneliness and Ageing.

📅 Wednesday 1 October
🕛 12 - 3.30pm (12.30 - 3.30pm online)
🗺️ Worsley Dental Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds and online.

To book your place visit: www.eventbrite.com/cc/society-l...

Advertising a research fellow position in #Mechanosensing on a #BBSRC research project. An opportunity to join a fantastic team as part of the Comparative Biomechanics research group based in Leeds.

More details about the role from s.m.walker@leeds.ac.uk.

lnkd.in/emb6eEas

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A hot day today, one to enjoy my garden! Even school letting my daughter wear her t shirt to school……but with a skirt and tights and blazer still #youcouldntmakeitup #summersday

I am really looking forward to talking about our paper @slastill.bsky.social and discussing habits.

A single session of motor imagery paired with spinal stimulation improves manual dexterity and increases cortical excitability after spinal cord injury Non-invasive stimulation of the spinal cord at the cervical level (TSCS) can induce neural plasticity and improve upper limb function in people living…

Weve been combining electrical stimulation of the spinal cord with other therapeutic modalities to improve function after #cervicalspinalcordinjury. This paper shows the acute effect of #motorimagery and tces to enhance function and neural plasticity.
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Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure Track) in Exercise Gerontology [Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences](https://www.jyu.fi/en/sport) is seeking to recruit an Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure Track) in Exercise Gerontology starting September 1, 2025 or as soon ...

Interested in exercise, physical activity, aging, health, functioning, and their interplay?

Come work with us at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences & the Gerontology Research Center at the University of Jyväskylä 🇫🇮

Unfortunwtely, I'm too young in academic age 😭

#AcademicSky 🧪

<em>British Journal of Health Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Objectives Habits may enhance the maintenance of physical activity. The aim of this study is to examine if reinforcing implementation intentions increases habit strength and thus physical activity. ...

Getting people #active can be challenging. In this paper, ongoing work by @alisondivine.bsky.social shows combining implementation intentions with imagery increases #physicalactivity. Great to work with Ally on this, more good stuff to come soon!

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August earliest here for my son.

Professor Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso

Jennie Hibbard

Dr. Emma Wroblewski

We're proud owners of the Athena Swan Silver Award! 👏

Hear from some of the people who have benefited from our initiatives aimed at transforming gender equality within higher education and research on our website:👇

biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/biological-s...

Fantastic initiative using community spaces to deliver maternity care. Great work by @camillanykjaer.bsky.social and all the midwives and health professionals involved. Another great example of how the University of Leeds and the good it does in its local community #maternitycare #IWD25

Elon Musk is not the richest man in the world; men who live at home with their partner and children who love them experience riches he couldn't imagine.

Jennie Hibbard, Lead Technician in the School of Biology, presents at a Technician event. Attendees are sat listening at tables.

We recognise and value everyone involved in research.

Read how our Technical Operations team enable research excellence, and more about the ongoing initiatives to support our Technician community, on the FBS website:

biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/biological-s...

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Did you join is for our webinar today? Thank you to our guests for talking about their work. Don’t forget to connect with us to hear about new events or perhaps propose a webinar for our 150+ members to enjoy #reimagineageing #healthyageing

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A day of annual leave, we took the new van up to Bucken Pike for a walk. It was a bit muddy.

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A new Leeds study has shown that reintroducing wolves to the Scottish Highlands could help address the climate emergency 🐺

This reintroduction could lead to an expansion of native woodland, which could take in and store one million tonnes of CO2 annually 🌳

Read the full story 👇
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I’ve been reading about keystone behaviours and habit formation, self interest not work, I realised I do have them but hadn’t recognised them. My #yoga class on Saturday morning is one, it splits the week from the weekend. #physicalactivity

Supporting early career researchers to reach their full potential A new university wide career development package.

200 early career researchers across the Faculties of Biological Sciences and Medicine and Health will benefit from a new package of career support.

Read more on our website 👇

biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/biological-s...

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Do you want to increase capacity for interdisciplinary research at your institution? Do you want to create a research culture that encourages collaboration and connection across disciplinary boundaries?

Find out how we can help in our brochure 👇
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Hi BlueSky!

We’re a growing interdisciplinary network started in 2023. Our goal is to bring together people from different fields to collaborate and improve heath and wellbeing in later life. We now have 150 members and have held 8 events (more to come in 2025). And we're happy to connect here!

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Need to watch something to make you smile? Wonderful new video of our Dance On participants across Doncaster. Shows how research in @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social has demonstrable local impact.

Dancing is all about emotions and motion!

Watch the film (about 3 min.): youtu.be/OMn04Ha6Zgg

Becoming an academic does not negate economic origin. Poverty has a long tail, even - and maybe especially - in academia. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

It’s time: how to get your department off X With a flurry of HE professionals leaving the platform, here’s how to notify your followers and provide alternative options for staying up to date

In summary, we could not have fewer regrets about becoming ex-X...

If you want to get your department / org off X, guide here: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/its-t...

If you're new to Bluesky, another guide here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Thanks to all of our new community!

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Fascinating new #interdisicplinary network. I hadnt heard of term polycrisis until a few months ago but think we are in the midst of #health and #ageing crisis. Interesting to see how this might be viewed as the latter can and should be seen as positive @reimagineageing.bsky.social

Polycrisis Network Launch graphic, depicting firefighters silhouetted against forest fires, and an image of melting ice caps.

The Polycrisis Network is a collective of people in and outside academia working together to understand the interconnection of crises in the world around us.

Join the network for their launch:
📅 Weds 26 Feb
🕞 3.30 - 5pm
🗺️ @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/polycrisis...

All the superlatives to describe the fantastic work my colleagues undertake @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social Follow for regular updates about our life changing science #bioscienceresearch #WorldCancerDay

Three days left to apply!

Available postdoc position in our lab ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Join us!!