Nina Wycech

I used to refer to learning science as walking towards a cliff. And at some point you are at the front, with nothing in front of you. Other people are behind you and it’s up to you to tell them what you see below.

Photo of a small light-brown dog, sleeping on a wooden floor. Well-lit, daytime. Dog has eel-visible black lines outlining closed eyes. It is sleeping in its right side, with its front visible to the photographer.

I’m having a rough day and asked my sister for a photo of our family dog. How can one feel sad about job when such a cute fluff exists and loves us so much? That’s why I wish to acknowledge my dogs in my Master’s dissertation.

I’m always scared to reply to posts by people I don’t know irl. I guess it’s widely accepted?

Polygenic risk scores: calculating the likelihood of complex diseases Author: Nina Wycech // Editors: Neve Diggle and Emily Barrett Even if you are not studying science, you have likely heard about genetic predispositions. We intuitively assume that we’re more likely…

Have you ever wondered what would everyone risk for a depression be? Or ADHD? Can we compare it between people?

“Polygenic risk scores” are the answer - the idea I explore in my new article for @reshiveblog.bsky.social
#scicomm

Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis - Scientific Reports Girls and women are disproportionately affected by delayed diagnoses of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but research on the impact of this is limited. Our study aimed to centre lived experiences of women with late-diagnosed ADHD to increase understanding of the impact of such delays. We employed a mixed methods survey to investigate the perspectives of 28 women with late-diagnosed ADHD. Results starkly demonstrate the criticism and lack of support participants faced from society and medical professionals, illustrating the negative consequences of delayed ADHD diagnosis on quality of life and mental health. Participants commonly reported internalising criticism and described disconcertingly low self-esteem; citing guilt, shame, and negative self-perception due to delayed diagnoses. Participants found diagnosis revelatory, their lives finally making sense; citing healing, improved self-esteem, and life feeling more worth living. The adversities faced from delayed diagnoses were described from early childhood, through adolescence, and adulthood. Participants reflected on ‘what could have been’, and described grieving the lives they could have led if diagnosed earlier. The negative impacts of missed ADHD diagnosis are broad and span life stages. With potential implications for public health policy, this work highlights the importance of increasing girls’ and women’s access to ADHD diagnoses to address avoidable detrimental hardship.

A study in Scientific Reports surveys women with late-diagnosed ADHD. The results illustrate the negative consequences of delayed ADHD diagnosis on quality of life and mental health. 🧪

A macrophotograph of a Geron sp. fly (Long Legged Fly) perched delicately atop clusters of vibrant yellow goldenrod flowers. The fly has a distinctly humpbacked posture, with thin, wiry legs and a slender proboscis resembling a tiny cane. Its fuzzy, golden-brown body contrasts beautifully against the bright blooms. Prominent reddish-brown compound eyes stand out clearly, and its delicate, transparent wings rest neatly along its body. The background softly blurs into shades of green and gold, highlighting the fine details of both the insect and the flowers.

Geron sp. (A type of "Long Legged Fly", named from the Greek for "old man" because they're tiny humpbacked fellows that look like they're carrying little canes. Larvae parasitize on other insects because of course they do, but adults are dainty flower feeders.
#Diptera #entomology #bugsky 🌿

Beautiful photo!

Two very different books I just got from the library. Common denominator: hexagons

Ori! I loved it.

Sharks come in many different shapes and sizes. But they all follow a centuries-old mathematical rule A new study proves for the first time that the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ applies to large animals as well as small ones, offering key lessons for conversation.

Sharks come in many different shapes and sizes. But they all follow a centuries-old mathematical rule

#FluorescenceFriday

#Mitochondria, powerhouse of the #cell were labeled (cyan) and it's possible to visualize how they reach *every* corner to provide energy.

All recorded under the microscope @cellcommlab.bsky.social

#scicomm #sciencesky #microscopy #organelles @focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬

If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.

Visualizing nuclear pore complex plasticity with pan-Expansion #Microscopy. New study from Kimberly Morgan, Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Technology #Disease #Organelles

Meet MapMyCells! This tool saves neuroscientists precious time by comparing their data to massive, high-quality reference datasets, including our whole mouse brain multi-omics atlas and the Seattle Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Cell Atlas.

🧠📈 portal.brain-map.org/atlases-and-...

#studyBRAIN

CAPTAP We have created a free and downloadable guide that can be used by anyone who talks to or about autistic people. Download and print for free: A poster Download it here An explanatory text document D…

How to talk about Autistic ways of being!
A wonderful free downloadable and accessible guide to neuro-affirming language from CAPTAP
(Community Against Prejudice Towards Autistic People).
captapnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/09/19/h...

ice worms (Mesenchytraeus solifugus) out in full force on the Paradise glacier, Mt Rainier, feasting on snow algae

because they live inside glacial ice, almost nothing is known about these amazing creatures: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_worm

Barbara McClintock portrait

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

I used findaphd to search for programmes, if it helps. Thank you for making a list! Navigating a phd search is very daunting

Human Brain: ~86B neurons with ~100T connections
Here is just one neuron with its connections.
Some neurons have connections with hundreds or even thousands of other neurons! (by Igor Korolev, DO, PhD )

VIDEO CREDIT: Andrew Moore & Pedro Guedes-Dias (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Dear Scientists, Come Down From Your Ivory Tower. - PLOS SciComm By Ashley Moses, edited by Andrew S. Cale Each year, millions of scientific research papers are published. Virtually none of them can…

Very on point - the separation between scientists and the general public is a fuel for misinformation and distrust. That’s why I started writing!

infographic entitled Why Women's Brains Age Better Than Men's

A study by scientists from the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain could shed light on why women’s brains age better than men’s: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/02/05/n... #science #neuroscience

This is why we love #cell dynamics !

Look at this #macrophage branching exploring the surroundings videoed under the microscope

This what immune cells do in our body in search of bacteria, viruses and death cells

#microscopy #cellbio #sciencesky @focalplane.bsky.social @cellcommlab.bsky.social 🧪🔬

Tetris game depicting that many things in life don’t work out as you envision. Sometimes the data from experiments don’t fit perfectly with your story.

That feeling when you do all this work for this ONE piece of data for your story and the results don’t exactly fit the way you want it to…🧪🧫

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨

The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!

And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search

Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets

R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

Metro 2033

I can only imagine. It makes me think of that episode of Friends when Ross was being recognised at the palaeontology conference

A pair of brightly labelled neurons, with faint processes trailing outwards.

Happy #Fluorescence Friday!

Here are a pair of somatostatin interneurons in the retrosplenial cortex, expressing the pAce voltage indicator. I normally record these in vivo, but for a change, decided to look at them in slice and record some ephys. You can just make out the patch pipette!

Yoga Neuron - inspired by Purkinje cells of the cerebellum! 🧠😄✨🌿🍃🌱

The best kind of celebrity!

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon