@jopackaj.bsky.social
Ex-X ageing neuroscientist, #cat-dependent, #tree lover💚 Interested in #brain disorders, research ethics and progressive politics, pro-EU. Enjoys #sciart and #walking. Likely to post some poor quality photos of befriended trees and Hattie the Cat 🧠 🔬🧪🎨🌳🐈
Prof Marc Busche @ukdri.ac.uk explains why #dementia therapies must target specific tau species. Full podcast now available.
Listen - pod.fo/e/39f6de
Watch - youtu.be/f66gmO3_-Vg
'Two cats amongst hellebores' by Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021) #WomensArt
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter known for her observations of the streets and parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart
🌳✨ Urban Tree Festival
9–17 May 2026
OPEN CALL FOR EVENTS IS LIVE ✨🌳
Thread 👇
What can music tell us about the ageing brain. Join Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social for this Research Showcase on computational neuroscience and adaptation.
communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/res...
Contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt
Your brain thinks your cat is a baby.
Science says that’s…completely reasonable.
#CatScience #ScienceOfCats #Neuroscience
#BrainScience #PsychologyFacts
#ScienceCommunication #SciComm
#CatsOfInstagram #CatLovers
#CatParents #DidYouKnow
#FunScience #NerdyButCute
Over 125 years ago, Cécile & Oskar Vogt began assembling an extensive collection of brain histological sections and related documents. Katrin Amunts explores how digitizing these materials will create a valuable resource for modern neuroscience. shorturl.at/RaMw8
Vermorgen et al. examine tau aggregation in astrocytes in brains from middle-aged adults. They show that ARTAG (ageing-related tau astrogliopathy) is not restricted to elderly brains and is associated with neurodegenerative pathology. shorturl.at/NEYWB
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) US painter who worked in the American Impressionist style, and whose mentor was Claude Monet #womensart
This hasn’t aged well..
Genesis, 1969
Lithograph by UK artist Barbara Hepworth, born on this day in 1903 #WomensArt
The January 2026 issue of Brain is now online! academic.oup.com/brain/issue/...
Yes, it's become completely normal for this terrible man to say and do terrible things, and the governments of the world just ignore it.
Happy birthday! 🎂
to a better year🥂✨
Some tips to help keep your pets safe:
🐈 Keep pets indoors during fireworks
🐶 Create a quiet, secure space where they feel protected
🐦 Close windows and curtains, and play soft music or white noise
🐱 Make sure pets are wearing ID tags or are microchipped, just in case
#Animals #NYE #NewYearsEve
Splash of color in the gray matter :)
#brainart
'Love Foxes' by Jackie Morris, artist, author and illustrator who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt
Emma Haworth, contemporary UK painter #WomensArt #BoxingDay
A few years ago...Australia’s oldest man knitted tiny sweaters for penguins injured in oil spills.....
( Just ths once.... #MensArt ;) )
Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist, photographer, writer and award-winning illustrator #WomensArt #Solstice
#December21st #ArtAdvent
Georgia O'Keeffe,
You Are The Sun, 1977
#Womensart #Solstice
i hope they know about paper mills, for whom this is a popular topic
Good news! 🎉 While we’ve yet to see detail on finance & numbers, this is a major win for common sense & for the thousands who’ll now be able to access vocational training, work placements & higher education - congrats to all who campaigned for it #Erasmus @europeanmovement.co.uk @bestforbritain.org
Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter known for her observations of the streets and parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart
Local women crochet/knit woolly PJs for rescued vulnerable, ill and formally abused elephants to shield them from the nighttime cold, Elephant Conservation Care Center, India #UnravellingWomensArt
Although new Alzheimer's disease therapies reduce amyloid plaques, they have not led to major clinical improvements. Pini et al. suggest that changes in brain connectivity may offer a more sensitive and biologically meaningful marker of disease modification. tinyurl.com/32975se3
White matter changes in Alzheimer's disease: contributor, consequence or co-pathology?
New scientific commentary by Julia Neitzel tinyurl.com/3x5ezsrc