Selina Wray

Now recruiting for Editor-in-Chief for Brain Communications. Learn more and submit your application.

📢 Exciting Opportunity for experienced neuroscientists and neurologists! 📢

@braincomms.bsky.social is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief to follow in the footsteps of @tspiresjones.bsky.social‬. Submit your application before 12th Sept to make your mark! 🧠 oxford.ly/4l6HdzN

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

This new preprint looks pretty interesting. Human neurons take up to 4 decades to fully mature!

😳😳 I guess our one year cultures are not so mature !

Happy Yorkshire day from me & my bag :)

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

⏰ Job alert! We're recruiting for a Co-Production and Public Engagement Coordinator!

This role will join the Co-Production and Public Engagement Team at UCL, and support the work of both UCL Public Engagement and @coprocollective.bsky.social.

Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Postdoctoral fellow

📣Job Alert: We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with hands-on experience in neural tissue culture, preferably neural organoids, for a collaborative project on Alzheimer's disease and MS between KULeuven, UHasselt and UGent in Belgium. Deadline August 31: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

My step count hasnt been under 35k/day for the past week, I need another week off to recover 😴 but ❤️ the Lake District

UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.

UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years.

Astronomer Prof Michele Dougherty CBE FRS FRAS did not study science in secondary school – but was instead inspired to learn more about space after using her father's telescope.

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Reconstructing Alzheimer’s disease one cell type at a time using in vitro tricultures In a recent study, Lish and colleagues used a fully human-based, induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived triculture model of neurons, astrocytes,…

I’m a huge fan of the work done by @typlab.bsky.social - so it was great to have the opportunity to write a preview of their work describing an in vitro triculture model of Alzheimer’s (with @celarber.bsky.social & Tatiana). Check it out & go read their paper!

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Lass up a big hill

Not in Toronto, but this isn’t bad!

Fell Foot Parkrun and a paddle in Lake Windermere at the end 🤩

My linocut portrait of Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), in a gradient of magenta from her shoulders up through dark blue to her hair. Her necklace is a double helix of DNA. Her brooch is the Tobacco Mosaic Virus. The pattern on her jacket is based on her publication of the structure of non-graphitizing carbon. ⁠ Behind her in shades of robin’s egg blue is an image of the famous X-ray crystallographic Photo 51, produced by her grad student Gosling and important to deducing the structure of DNA.

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 –1958), #chemist & x-ray crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of DNA, made important contributions to carbon & virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠ 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci 🧵

UCL announces new Vice-Provost (Health) Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, an internationally renowned expert in global health, has been announced as UCL’s new Vice-Provost (Health).

Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, an internationally renowned expert in global health, has been announced as UCL’s new Vice-Provost (Health).

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

There isn’t anything else to say. What is happening in Gaza is a collective shame. And some people could act, they have the power to act, and they are doing nothing, except meaningless platitudes. We are 72 hours or 48 hours or 24 hours or 12 hours from this being irreversible and: nothing.

Research Associate: Immune System in Parkinson’s Postdoc position in Barker Lab, University of Cambridge. Lead stem cell and gene therapy projects in Parkinson’s research. Apply by 6th August 2025

Postdoc position in Barker Lab, University of Cambridge. Lead stem cell and gene therapy projects in Parkinson’s research. Apply by 6th August 2025

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Gaza suffering man-made mass starvation, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issues warning, as more than 100 aid groups urge Israel to ease blockade

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A kid who grew up poor, whose last act was to raise millions for poor kids and pull off a cracking final performance. That's the act of a good man.

RIP Ozzy.

Join us on 6 October for the Ferrier Prize Lecture. Professor Gillian Bates FRS (@ucl-hd.bsky.social) will present how the Bates lab has been unravelling the molecular basis of Huntington’s disease: royalsociety.org/science-even...

What a treat to share a walkies and a BBQ with my colleagues.

The rain in the background caught us on the way home. But that’s normal for a British bbq, right?

Lovely lab summer afternoon out 😍

Great to have some of the team at the @alzheimersresearchuk.org London Network open day today, showcasing our stem cell models!

An organ-on-a-chip device being placed into the chamber of a machine.

Read our new briefing paper, showcasing how the next generation of preclinical in vitro models can replace animal use, better recapitulate human physiology and disease and increase the efficiency of drug development: nc3rs.org.uk/news/briefin...

Great to see preclinical human models featuring so prominently in the government life science strategy. In our Alzheimer’s work, we’re finding they offer real power for personalised disease modelling; which will shape both drug discovery and patient stratification

'Britain's oldest ever' barn owl found at farm Bird experts hailed the discovery of the 18-year-old female as "amazing".

Because we need to share all the good news.

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Life Sciences Sector Plan The Life Sciences Sector Plan sets out a vision and an action plan to drive growth, innovation, and better health outcomes.

Great that Life Science Sector Plan puts support for discovery research at top of the list

But odd that MRC-LMB singled out for 10 year funding. Is MRC no longer responsible for the LMB? Who will do scientific evaluation? What about other research organisations?

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Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route | Royal Society The Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m ov...

Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

Research Fellow: Gene therapy - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER Vacancy at UCL School of Pharmacy, London. Join Prof Ahad Rahim’s team to develop AAV gene therapy for Parkinson’s using mouse and iPSC models.

Vacancy at UCL School of Pharmacy, London. Join Prof Ahad Rahim’s team to develop AAV gene therapy for Parkinson’s in an 18 month role using mouse and iPSC models. Closing date: 30th July

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Clu1/Clu form mitochondria-associated granules upon metabolic transitions and regulate mitochondrial protein translation via ribosome interactions Author summary Mitochondria are essential cellular organelles that perform many important roles in regulating metabolism. They are dynamic in form, function and composition which is crucial to maintai...

Delighted to share our latest work looking at the role of the RNA-binding proteins Clu1 (yeast)/Clu (flies) in regulating the translation of #mitochondria proteins. Really interesting regulator of mito biology.

Huge, long-running effort by PDRA Leonor Miller-Fleming 👏
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