It's been dry 3 days since Christmas, 2 were while Anna was in Cork!

A really great talk from Anna Li all the way from @sahmri.bsky.social on her thesis work looking at the potential role for FMT in GVHD. Great to host another member of the Hannah Wardill and @feargalr.bsky.social lab.

What a great way to kick off our UCC Futures Lecture Series with Agustin Ibanez on campus talking about “Rethinking Brain Aging in the Big Data World” - Neuroscience meets Social Science meets Big Data

@moloneyger.bsky.social @bvalderrama.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

Inheritance | NEJM When a physician is notified that the blood she donated to a biobank revealed a nonfounder BRCA2 variant, the future she has long imagined for herself telescopes inward — yet she knows she is lucky.

Inheritance | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
A thought-provoking read

A wee word for Uaneen Fitzsimons In this personal reflection, RTÉ producer Rory Cobbe remembers his friend and colleague, the late broadcaster Uaneen Fitzsimons, 25 years after her death.

A wee word for Uaneen. No Disco was such an important show back in the day.
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Personalized gene editing helped one baby: can it be rolled out widely? In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This study reveals multicellular brain pathology (SPP1+ microglia, endothelial inflammation, L2/3 neuron loss) preceding p-tau in RHI exposure, redefining early CTE pathogenesis & potential intervention targets.

Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes Nature - Repetitive head impacts from contact sports are associated with brain inflammation, vascular damage and neuron loss that are independent of hyperphosphorylated tau pathology.

New study shows repetitive head impacts trigger lasting brain cell changes before CTE tau buildup. Microglia, endothelial cells & neurons are affected, offering new paths for early diagnosis & treatment. #CTE #BrainHealth

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Do yourself a favour and listen to a Beach Boys or Brian Wilson album. Your life will become infinitely better.
#ripbrianwilson #loveandmercy
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Carrying Hope, Facing a Crisis — Pregnancy and Migration in Chicago | NEJM Heightened fear of deportation is keeping migrants with high-risk pregnancies — people who’ve escaped perilous situations — from seeking the care they need. What can their physicians do?

Carrying Hope, Facing a Crisis — Pregnancy and Migration in Chicago | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

If you read one thing on the internet today. Make it this.

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention | Louis Theroux The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture, says documentary presenter Louis Theroux

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

APC is recruiting a Industry project Research Support Officer to work with Profs @jfcryan.bsky.social and Gerard Clarke at @ucc.ie overseeing a number of industry-funded research projects in the Microbiota-Brain-Gut Axis Theme.
#irishjobs #researchjobs
Full Details: bit.ly/4iWiIUQ

When You Walk Through a Storm | By Alisson Becker I hope to meet my father again one day. Until that day, I know one thing for sure: I never, ever walk alone.

www.theplayerstribune.com/alisson-beck...

An amazing piece. @lfcr.bsky.social

The South American MicroBiome Archive (saMBA): Enriching the healthy microbiome concept by evaluating uniqueness and biodiversity of neglected populations The composition and function of the human gut microbiome has been linked to multiple health outcomes across all world regions, often with region-specific associations. Unfortunately, the extent to whi...

Another step for microbiome research!🔬 New study introduces saMBA, a gut microbiome archive from South America. Understanding the full picture of gut microbiome biodiversity is crucial & saMBA is helping us get there!
@bvalderrama.bsky.social @jfcryan.bsky.social

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

Irish study to assess dementia risk from sports-related brain injury in 360 retired athletes Research will seek former high-performance players in rugby, soccer or Gaelic games aged between 40 and 59

www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...

RFK Jr.’s Misdirection Gambit On February 18, 2025, RFK Jr. outlined his agenda for the nation’s largest public health agency. Unfortunately, it had little to do with public health.

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Hundreds of Thousands Will Die The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.

Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

Latest lab review-
The Gut microbiota-Immune-Brain axis: Therapeutic Implications. Just out in @cp-cellrepmed.bsky.social Well done @kjdoriordan.bsky.social @moloneyger.bsky.social & @lilykeane.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

How Stephen King Foretold the Rise of Trump in a 1979 Novel Nobody opens a Stephen King novel expecting to see a reflection of the real world. Then again, as those who get hooked on his books can attest, never is his work ever wholly detached from reality.

How Stephen King Foretold the Rise of Trump in a 1979 Novel www.openculture.com/2025/03/how-...

F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Moving to Ireland for my postdoc was the best decision I ever made! It happened to be during the 45th presidency, which was an excellent fringe benefit. 10/10 highly recommend. (Plus I got to hang out with John in Cork!)

Let's gooo! Viva done, edits done & final submission done: I'm officially #PhDone 🥳🔥 I want to thank my wonderful examiners and send the biggest gratitude to @jfcryan.bsky.social for guiding me through my PhD journey 😊 Just need to wait for my conferring now 🎓 A perfect bluesky debut post I'd say 🎉

Well done Rie.

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Good point here by @fotoole.bsky.social
“Ireland should offer itself as a refuge for American scientists. Use some of that corporation tax bonanza to attract world-class researchers and up-and-coming geniuses to our universities and institutions to work with the excellent scientists we already have”

The next in our Future Aging and Brain science seminar series sees Nathan Nuzum giving a deep dive into the benefits of exercise in neurological conditions such as alzheimers, parkinsons as well as his ongoing study looking at depression

Lucy Letby: No medical evidence to suggest murder, experts conclude An investigation by a panel of 14 international experts into the cause of injury and death of the babies Lucy Letby is convicted of murdering or attempting to murder has claimed that there is “no medi...

Lucy Letby: No medical evidence to suggest murder, experts conclude
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Ella Lily Hyland in #blackdoves is one of the best characters I've seen in a tv show in 20 years.

The Early Career Researcher of the Year (IRC legacy) Award goes to Dr Aaron Lim of @ucc.bsky.social. Dr Lim’s current research focuses on seabed habitat mapping, development of novel seabed mapping and monitoring methods and contemporary seabed processes.