Tony Horsfield

Ozzy Osborne
1948 - 2025

Ozzy Osbourne meets Paul McCartney for the first time, 2001.

Calling out to #neuroskyence: Pomona College is hiring! This is a position for a tenure-track assistant professor in systems-level neuroscience. We are eager to hear from candidates with a commitment to teaching and research excellence with undergraduates academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30265

Young Europeans may be allowed to stay in UK for longer than a year A minister has opened the door for a reciprocal youth mobility scheme that could add to net migration figures despite concerns from the Home Office

🔴 BREAKING: "European youngsters will be able to move to the UK for more than a year under a youth mobility scheme, the minister in charge of Britain’s relationship with the EU has indicated."

This is excellent news for young Brits going to Europe too.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Sustained Enlargement in Vagus and Sural Nerve Cross-Sectional Areas in Fibromyalgia: A Longitudinal Study
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#neuroimaging #neurology #neuroskyence #radiology #fibromyalgia #enlargednerves #ultrasound

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This month’s "Launch" newsletter features an essay by Sheena Josselyn on the importance of reading (but not too much), Q&As with @agonru.bsky.social and @drewkesner.bsky.social about their new labs, the latest job openings and more. Subscribe to receive the newsletter each month: bit.ly/4luI2mJ

Leading lights of UK research spearhead search for world's best talent 12 leading universities and research institutions selected to deliver government’s £54 million fund to recruit world’s top researchers.

The UK is to recruit top researchers & their teams from around the world
(USA anyone?).

£54m funding will help 10 unis & 2 research institutes attract 60-80 of the best researchers in key sectors identified in the Industrial Strategy to drive forward science & tech innovation in the UK.

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Creative and AI sectors kick-off next steps in finding solutions to AI and copyright Representatives of both sectors in newly formed expert working groups on AI and copyright.

Some major news I missed yesterday....

The Tech and Culture Secretaries brought together representatives from the creative and AI sectors to discuss next steps for finding a solution to the copyright and AI debate.

It was the first in a series of regular talks,.

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This is so wonderful. Seeing the PM and Chancellor chatting with the French President about Larry the Cat and his social media posts!

I SURVIVED READING BANNED BOOKS ALL I GOT WAS SMARTER AND MORE EMPATHETIC

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A person sitting in front of a wall of books. The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."

Thousands of children with SEND to benefit from assistive tech Government launches innovative pilot with up to £1.7m available to help children with SEND achieve and thrive at their local school.

The Labour government has launched a new innovative pilot scheme to trial assistive technology in 4000 schools.

Covering 32 LAs the scheme will set up 'lending libraries' of equipement for schools to use to support their SEND pupils, allowing schools to see which equipment works before purchasing.

Graphic that depicts an overview of the study in which researchers modeled and optimized DBS settings to improve walking in patients with Parkinson's, identifying key insights abut the neurophysiology of walking along the way. Text banner includes the publication citation: Modeling and optimizing deep brain stimulation to enhance gait in Parkinson's disease: personalized treatment with neurophysiological insights. Fekri Azgomi H et al. NPJ Parkinsons Dis. 2025 Jun 18;11(1): 173.

New in npj Parkinson's Disease, @doriswang.bsky.social's lab presents an AI approach for identifying personalized deep brain stimulation (DBS) settings to improve walking. The findings lay the groundwork for adaptive DBS systems that adjust in real-time: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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These people are heroes

The antithesis of trickle-down economics is education In our unequal society, not all of us will inherit wealth—but we can all learn

The very antithesis of the “trickle-down” economic philosophy is empowerment, enrichment—and therefore education and life-long learning, argues David Blunkett.
www.prospectmagazine...

FFS; they're not "rebels", they're Labour MPs doing their job.
It's not an "embarrassing climb down", it's re-evaluating poor policy and making it better.
And there is nothing wrong with making a U-turn; you make new decisions when the information changes.
But none of that makes for good headlines 🙄

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

MIT study found that AI overuse causes measurable brain damage. “Cognitive atrophy.. like a muscle that’s forgotten how to work” MIT Publication - arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Time Magazine - time.com/7295195/ai-c...

A very vertical image of a tall, thin portion of a nebula that appears to stand like a tree. The top is made up of large brown and blue pale clouds and dust that look like voluminous hair. To the right of the clouds is a dark rugged shape, surrounded by a bright red light. Below the clouds is a dark stem, made of tendrils of dust, wrapping around themselves to the bottom of the image, where the tendrils widen and expand like a tornado-like dust cloud. The background has several stars of different colors and sizes, and the shade of the background changes from light blue at top to dark red at the bottom.

New image processing techniques “refreshed” older Hubble data showing a portion of the Eagle Nebula. This structure is 9.5 light-years tall and 7,000 light-years distant from Earth, and is one of many nebulas in the Milky Way.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. 🔭 🧪

It's Great Big Green Week - this year's theme is all about making a swap to create a greener future. Why not swap the car for the bus, train or a bike when travelling to Lyme? As a thank you for arriving car-free you can enjoy free entry to the park, garden and house, as well as 10% off in our cafes. Small swaps like these make a huge difference to the environment. Offer valid until 31 August 2025.

Big green offer from Lyme. Free (yes free!) entry to house and garden if you arrive by bus, train or bike until 31st August 2025.

National Trust hand so many free family entry vouchers out via Retch newspapers encouraging car trips so it’s brilliant to have an offer skewed towards green travel.

Stem cell therapies advance in Parkinson’s disease and beyond Landmark trials using stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease in the USA and Japan mark a turning point for cell therapy in neurodegeneration. Similar approaches to Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic...

Landmark trials using stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease in the United States and Japan have marked a turning point for stem-cell therapy in neurodegenerative diseases. #neuroskyence #parkinson #stemcells

Great news! The UK Government has announced plans to ban bottom trawling in more vulnerable marine habitats aim to protect important and rare underwater life.

🌊🐟🦈🐡🐠🪼🤿💙💙

👏👏Well done @SteveReedMP @DefraGovUK

www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Most teachers use ChatGPT to finish tasks. Few use it to think better.

Your first draft matters. Feed it to the AI and ask for edits.

You don’t need perfect prompts. Just your honest work. #AIEduSky #EduSky

#Neuroscience reminds us the brain is plastic — constantly shaped by our thoughts, habits, and input.
This weekend, notice what you feed your #brain: conversations, screens, silence, movement.
You’re not fixed — you’re in flux.
#Neuroplasticity #Neuroskyence #SlowDownToGrow #WeekendReflection

Decades-old assumptions about brain plasticity upended A new study challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct transmission sites -- not a shared site -- to achieve different types of plasticity.

This study challenges the idea that spontaneous and evoked synaptic transmissions share the same site. It found the brain uses distinct sites for each, with different development and regulation. It helps explain how the brain balances stability and flexibility for learning and memory.
#Neuroskyence

The Theory of Constructed Emotion: More Than a Feeling - Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Lorena Chanes, Maria Gendron, Katie Hoemann, Yuta Katsumi, Ian R. Kleckner, Kristen A. Li... A recently published article by van Heijst et al. attempted to reconcile two research approaches in the science of emotion—basic emotion theory and the theory o...

I urge all researchers interested in #emotion - or using facial expressions as emotive stimuli - to read this response paper 👇

by @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @eblissmoreau.bsky.social @jtheriault.bsky.social @katiehoemann.bsky.social & others
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
#neuroskyence #affectsci

What an extraordinary, beautiful thing. Sometimes the only sensible response to scientific discovery is wonderment and awe.

As LBJ said 60 years ago, freedom is not just opening the gates of opportunity.

True freedom is ensuring everyone has the ability to walk through them.

Synchron co-founder unveils new brain-computer interface venture Ultra Bionics Nick Opie helped found Synchron, a futuristic brain-computer interface company backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Now he has revealed his latest venture.

#Synchron co-founder Nick Opie has launched #UltraBionics, a new #BCI venture aiming to combat Parkinson’s, epilepsy, and depression. 

🇦🇺 With Australia’s VC scene maturing, Opie plans to keep the innovation local longer than before. 

#Neurotech #Neurorehabilitation #Neuroskyence

Ursula von der Leyen says the EU and friends like the UK have a duty to work together to bring stability and prosperity on this continent

Far from being a liability, empathy is a sophisticated cognitive and emotional skill. It enables us to step into another person’s experience, understand diverse perspectives, and navigate complex social realities.

Given the choice, we choose empathy every time.