If attending #AAIC #AAIC26 @alzassociation.bsky.social this week, do come and talk to us about our research @ukdri.ac.uk @alzresearchuk.bsky.social @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social @qs-neurogenetics.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social
Dervis Salih
@dervissalih1.bsky.social
Scientist studying molecular links between Alzheimer's, Ageing, microglia & diet @UCL @UKDRI @ARUKnews #Dementia Trained @BabrahamInst @Cambridge_uni @Stanford
Registration is now open for #AAICNeuro... join us in Manchester on the 24th / 25th Feb for the brilliant @alzheimersresearchuk.org Conference & then on the 26th for AAIC Neuroscience Next. Two events, Three days, all in the 'Capital of the North'. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/aaic-neurosc...
AAIC Neuroscience Next 2026 – Manchester, UK
AAIC Neuroscience Next 2026 Manchester, UK HUB. Uniting researchers and clinicans interested in new and developing biomarkers for the diagnosis of Dementia.
dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
Can’t make it to #AAIC26? Join us virtually for #AAIC4All on July 16! Choose a tailored track for either community members or clinicians & health care providers and hear about what’s next in dementia science. Register now: alz.org/aaic-for-all.
Great to be at the exciting #UKGlia26 meeting @physoc.bsky.social Amazing venue at @bristoluni.bsky.social
Megan Boxall completed 200 marathons in 200 days along Britain's coastline to support Samaritans. Would you take on such a challenge? #CharityChallenge https://www.samaritans.org/news/samaritans-fundraiser-running-200-marathons-in-200-days-set-to-smash-british-coastal-path-record/
Megan Boxall runs 200 marathons in 200 days for Samaritans
Endurance runner, Megan Boxall aims to become he fastest woman to run the entire coastline of Britain whilst raising funds for Samaritans.
samaritans.org
Attend Hot Brain 4 on 12 May to learn more about the impact of climate change on humans and on brain health in disease. Register now. 🔗 Find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
Join us! Research Fellow role at UCL @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social with me & @sj-marzi.bsky.social studying oligodendrocytes, genetics & epigenetics in ageing & neurodegeneration using multiomics/bioinformatics. Collaboration with Alexi Nott & @rikeshrajani.bsky.social Closing date: 2nd June
Dementia Researcher@dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 5mo agoResearch Fellow role at UCL @ukdri.ac.uk with @dervissalih1.bsky.social studying oligodendrocytes, genetics and epigenetics in ageing and neurodegeneration using multiomics and bioinformatics. Closing date: 2nd June www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...
Can’t wait!!
Isabel N Christie PhD@izzynchristie.bsky.social · 5mo agoI will be chairing a session at FENS 2026 on #hypoxia Great speakers including the hilarious @cathnaledi.bsky.social, the rising start @nilskorte.bsky.social and the science start @felixbeinlich.bsky.social Hope to see you in Barcelona 👋👋🏻👋🏼👋🏽👋🏾👋🏿
This little medley of Funny Poems has just reached 70k views. | Kids Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen youtu.be/i2z_4Be6lCI?... via @YouTube
Michael Rosen Funny Poems | Kids Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen
YouTube video by Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
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A real pleasure to meet the inspirational @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @newhambookshop.bsky.social His amazing efforts to promote vaccination, the NHS and the last voice of reason, humanity and basic common sense on Twitter
This is where we are 2026: "How should immediate psychological gratification—from affirming moral responses to an artificial companion—be weighed against longer-term individual and collective outcomes? Who should determine where that balance lies?" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In defense of social friction
Sycophantic AI distorts social judgments and behaviors
science.org
The England result was not an accident the #KingsOfTheNorth #Scotland #SCOFRA #SixNations
It’s back! And the first episode of the new series of #MoversAndShakers iscabout the new sitcom with the Parkinson’s theme open.substack.com/pub/rorycell...
Movers & Shakers: The funny side of Parkinson's
The award winning podcast about living with Parkinson’s is back and for the first episode of the new series of Movers and Shakers we have a treat for you.
open.substack.com
Internet killed the Video Star: Ended their final broadcast with 'Video killed the radio star' by The Buggles, the same as the very first video broadcast on 1st August 1981
Excited to share our latest preprint from @lieberinstitute.bsky.social spatial + single-cell RNA-seq map the ERC & explore how AD risk shapes gene expression doi.org/10.1101/2025... Our major finding: “APOE E4 Alzheimer’s Risk Converges on an Oligodendrocyte Subtype in the Human Entorhinal Cortex”
2025 not a great year for music, but this was a clear standout track. Fitting that it's about doing nothing or recovery. Stylish and mature, in many ways a classy template for alternative rock @wolfalicefans.bsky.social
Back at the hospital for my post-cataract op check up and very happy to see that my data will be used in research
Not the Xmas movie I was expecting, but a fine Xmas movie eitherway. I won't feel the same hearing the songs "The Air That I Breathe" or "Creep" ever again #Heretic #christmasmovies
We previously characterised recessive CHKA-related developmental & epileptic encephalopathy. This new work shows patient-derived cells have disrupted Kennedy pathway activity, mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress—partially rescued by mitochondrial uncoupling. www.jbc.org/article/S002...
Neurodevelopmental Disease-causing Variants in Choline Kinase CHKA Gene Couple Phosphatidylcholine Synthesis to Oxidative Stress Damage and Disease Etiology
Biallelic variants in CHKA, which encodes the first enzyme in the CDP-choline pathway for the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine, cause an inherited disorder characterized by epilepsy, microcephaly, and...
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Long COVID involves activation of proinflammatory and immune exhaustion pathways @natimmunol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That’s a wrap on Connectome 2025! 👏 Today has been another fantastic day, with special thanks to our keynote Prof Christian Haas, and Charles Sabine OBE who gave a powerful talk about his lived experience of Huntington's disease. Thank you to everyone who made it such a great event!
Our annual conference, Connectome, is in full swing today! As well as excellent science talks, this morning we heard an insightful discussion between Prof Siddharthan Chandran, Prof Miratul Muqit, and journalist @rorycj.bsky.social, who generously shared his experience of living with Parkinson's.
