Brian Dickie

We had the pleasure of catching up with Dr Brian Dickie MBE (@bd365.bsky.social), Chief Scientist at the @mndassoc.bsky.social, the principal funder of the £7.5M Longitude Prize on ALS.

📖 Read the full Q&A here: bit.ly/3KTi1Ap

🌍 Be part of the global effort to tackle #ALS.

The £7.5m (~$10m) #LongitudePrizeOnALS is searching for innovators in #AI, #data, #biotech, and #neurology.

🧠 Meet the teams already registered, and find out how you can partner with them below.

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You’re Not Imagining It. Health Misinformation Is Everywhere | The Walrus And yes, some of it has probably gotten to you

I’ve spent decades studying how health and science are represented in the public sphere. And it has never been as bad as it is right now.

Here are my current top 10 concerns thewalrus.ca/before-you-s... via @thewalrus.ca

Soon: chatting on 680 CJOB about this mess!

Senior Research Technician - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER The Isaacs Lab at UCL, London, seeks a Senior Research Technician to assess CRISPR gene therapy for FTD/ALS in C9orf72 mice, lead assays, & manage lab research

The Isaacs Lab @adrianisaacs.bsky.social at UCL, London, seeks a Senior Research Technician to assess CRISPR gene therapy for FTD/ALS in C9orf72 mice, lead assays, and manage lab research on neurodegeneration. Closing date: 30th July

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/senior-r...

Motor neurone disease affects one in 300, but hope for treatment is growing One in 300 of us will develop motor neurone disease in our lifetime. It is a hideous disease that robs a person of their dignity and eventually their life.

Check out this article from Dr Brian Dickie (@mndassoc.bsky.social), exploring how #AI and quality data can transform treatment progress—and how the £7.5M #LongitudePrizeonALS aims to support #innovation through global collaboration.

🧠 Read here: bit.ly/4nqi4lN
#ALS #MND

Text reads: Rob Burrow Early Career Researcher Prize. UK based Early Career Researchers investigating MND/ALS. No more than 6 years post-PhD experience. Publication record in the field. Apply by 28 July 2025.

Are you an early career researcher working in #MND #ALS in the UK❓

Why not apply for the new @mndassoc Rob Burrow Early Career Researcher Prize? 🏆

Find out more and apply⬇️
www.mndassociation.org/research/for...

Text reads: submit your abstract! 36th International Symposium on ALS/MND

🚨 Less than 1 month to go! 🚨

If you want to share your research with the global #MND #ALS research community, make sure you submit your abstract for #alsmndsymp by 10 July!

More info: symposium.mndassociation.org/abstracts/

Very excited to share our latest preprint! We looked at loss and gain of function, innervation, reinnervation, and in vivo axonal transport in a FUS-ALS mouse model!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@uclqsion.bsky.social @beccasimkin.bsky.social @andrewtosolini.bsky.social @frattalab.bsky.social

Text reads: now accepting applications for PhD studentships, Non-clinical fellowships and healthcare project grants. Deadline: 25th April 2025

💥 Applications now open! 💥
We are now accepting applications for @mndassoc.bsky.social research grants:
🔬 PhD Studentships
🩺 Healthcare projects
🧪 Non-Clinical Fellowships
🗓 Deadline: 25 April
Learn more ⬇
www.mndassociation.org/research/for...

Text reads: Join us in San Diego, California. 5-7 December 2025.

💥Registration and abstract submission now open! 💥

Join us at the 36th International Symposium on #ALS #MND to connect, network and collaborate with the global community.

📆 5 – 7 December 2025
📍San Diego, USA
👉 More details: symposium.mndassociation.org
#alsmndsymp

Our new review on the challenges of modelling TDP-43 pathology in mice is just out:
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As usual, together with Lizzy Fisher. Thanks to Jose Brito and @lucastaoro.bsky.social from the lab for putting the data together for the comprehensive tables.

Postdoc Research Associate at University of Oxford Discover Postdoc Research Associate jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

🚨Come and join us! Postdoc position here at
@mndoxford.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social, working on local subcellular dysfunction in synapses of neurons from #ALS/#FTD patients using multi-omics with @ruxandradaf.bsky.social. Check out the details below: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMV265/p...

MND Non-Clinical Research Fellowships - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER Applications open for MND Association Junior & Senior Non-Clinical Fellowships, nurturing future MND research leaders. Apply by 25 April 2025.

Applications open for @mndresearch MND Association Junior & Senior Non-Clinical Fellowships, nurturing future MND research leaders. Apply by 25 April 2025.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/mnd-...

Seeded aggregation of TDP-43 induces its loss of function and reveals early pathological signatures TDP-43 pathology characterizes neurodegenerative diseases. Scialò et al. use in vitro-generated and patient-derived TDP-43 aggregates as seeds to show that seed-induced TDP-43 cytoplasmic aggregation ...

Happy to share our new study that was just published in Neuron! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Lecturer in Neuroscience (Teaching and Research) Vacancy for a Lecturer in Neuroscience at University of Manchester focusses on Sensory & Motor Systems, Circadian biology, Brain Disorders and Neuroinflammation

Vacancy for a Lecturer in Neuroscience at The University of Manchester focusses on Sensory & Motor Systems, Circadian biology, Brain Disorders and Neuroinflammation. Closing date: 3rd April.

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

Oliver Ziff lecture 4th March 5.30pm Neuromuscular and neurogenetics

Join us for the next talk in the UCL Neurology Society x Queen Square Lecture Series! 4th March 2025, 5.30pm Featuring Dr. Oliver Ziff, a neurologist and NIHR Clinical Lecturer at UCL, specialising in neuromuscular diseases. app.medall.org/event-listin...

Great to catch up earlier today with some of our MND Association funded researchers at SITraN, doing great work to understand and treat #ALS #MND

Research Fellow: MND Alert project - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER The University of Sheffield is seeking a Research Fellow to to lead the MND Alert Project and contribute to the expanding Better Outcomes in MND research group.

The University of Sheffield is seeking a Research Fellow to to lead the MND Alert Project and contribute to the expanding Better Outcomes in #MND research group. Closing date: 13th March.

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

Check out our new review of C9orf72 ALS in @thelancetneuro.bsky.social with Sarah Mizielinska, Rosa Rademakers and others! Was fun to co-write but tough to collate such incredible progress into a one article: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ke765FFzL...

DPhil in Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (Oxford-GSK) | University About the courseThe DPhil in Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (Oxford-GSK) aims to address an unmet need among clinicians for training in data science and translational medicine. The course provides

Great opportunity for clinicians to gain early-career experience in a fully-funded, translational medicine programme in Oxford.
If you know anyone interested, please share this link. There is a wide range of projects, including mine. Deadline Fr 14 March 2025
www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...