Andrew J. McGovern

Absolutely LOVED Project Hail Mary, easily my fave sci-fi! Maybe not *fun* but the last good book I read was Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

📢 PhD opening at @uoft.bsky.social in the @liisagalea.bsky.social Lab! Work on women’s brain health & Alzheimer’s risk prediction as part of the global CARE initiative. 🧠 🧪

Apply: forms.gle/Lxf5Li5d6wcm...

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"In an era where debates over the number of genders or sexes have sparked significant public discourse, why, if there has always been an acknowledgment of at least two genders or sexes, have we not fully committed to studying both in depth?"
doi.org/10.1111/1471...
🧪🧬 #ObGynSky #MedSky

This was a massive collaborative effort from the ISN-JNC Flagship School 2022 participants! @jneurochem.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/jnc.70084

Neural Metabolic Networks: Key Elements of Healthy Brain Function This review originated from the Fourth International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN) and Journal of Neurochemistry (JNC) Flagship School (2022). Here, we describe how the specific bioenergetic profi...

Really excited for this to be out: "Neural Metabolic Networks: Key Elements of Healthy Brain Function"🧪

Deep dive into how brain cells cooperate through metabolic networks to power cognition - and what breaks down Alzheimer's, Parkinson's & ALS 🧬

#neuroscience #alzheimers #neurodegeneration

Always a good day when you get good news on funding. I am thrilled on many levels but also because I really believe in this call & the project! My eternal thanks to our group @mcgovernaj.bsky.social @matejaperovic.bsky.social @jennyrabin.bsky.social S Frangou L Gravelsins
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Proud day for the Irish! ☘️

Damn. Haven’t even heard of wildfires there

How did you learn this…

I wonder how long it would take to just start calling them 'effers'...

The White House treats rising diagnoses like failure, not progress. Fine. Science should just rename disorders every decade. They get their “cure,” we get reality 🧪

Lunge lunge lunge

Dear Hank and John will be so fun this week

“6% of white men vs 25% of all women … were fired” is blatant, even by their standards

Wow. Talk about him hitting picking the wrong fight

We need better Alzheimer's disease tests for women which capture this effect!!

Sometimes women with Alzheimer's can have a slower progression of symptoms that suddenly get worse - what if the symptoms we are testing are compensated due to pregnancy like we see here? Perhaps the brain compensates to a point, which once passed results in fast disease progression.

See we found no group differences in the number of spatial navigation errors between the groups, but completely different regions associated with producing this behavior.

This is so important- somehow pregnancy both 'improves' brain ageing, yet increases our risk of Alzheimer's disease?! This data shows that pregnancy and Alzheimer's disease genotype changes the brain, reducing the activity of some regions whilst compensating with new networks!
#ReproSky #dementia 🧪

Say this LOUDER

Irish passport named the strongest in the world in 2025 | BreakingNews.ie The Nomad Passport Index has placed us in the top spot, followed by Switzerland, Greece and Portugal.

Nomad Passport Index 2025 is out.

Ireland is number 1.

Canada is tied for 40th place.

United States is tied for 43rd place.

www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/iris...

We need more of the public transport ideologies in politics: "Take the busses that get you closer to your destination".

It’ll go worse when he’s in his 70s.

Oh, I totally agree. This has been happening for ages, but legally the best course of action to protect artists is challenging the use of all artists copyrighted materials to train AI.

SMS into Facebook messenger was also a huge leap that changes everything

A PhD is hard in every measure. Life, finances, stress. It’s genuinely only worth it for the right reasons, and most graduates have stood on the edge of leaving - just needing the right push. For many, this will be that push.

Those be fighting words

My main issue with it is using Ghibli copyrighted art to train AI to replicate their style.

My two favorite parts of this is saying the UK AND Ireland, and qualifying saying other Teas were on par. But Barry's tea is the best.

This must have been designed in a @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social fever dream