Hey British gov sites. Glad you came to terms with the Russian influence in the Brexit vote. Now get the hell off X, which is equally designed to destabilize & groom viewers to act against their own interests. 🇬🇧 Gov sites (that includes the BBC,) should NOT BE ON X. @ukparliament.parliament.uk

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 20h ago

While people are talking X, let me talk about X OFF. Two big ideas: 1. Get everyone possible off of X, especially for the news (at least) until every vote is counted 2. Tell your elected reps and candidates to stop sending people there and go X last (at least)

Delighted to take on this role and support the amazing work that happens in our faculty! Grateful for the opportunity 🧠🧪

UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences@uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 5d ago

🥳 We are delighted to announce that Professor Selina Wray has been appointed to the role of Vice-Dean (Advancement) for the Faculty of Brain Sciences. She will take up the appointment on 1 November 2026. @selinawray.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social

How does neurodegeneration spread across the brain? 🧠 @sjorsscheres.bsky.social, Michel Goedert & Masata Hasegawa’s groups have demonstrated that human misfolded tau filaments act as a molecular template for prion-like propagation in the mouse brain. mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBResearch 🧪

Sharing Matthew Broadhead's recent preprint outlining the discovery & characterisation of the novel Honeycomb Synapse - formed by postsynaptic scaffold proteins that form nanoclusters arranged into perfect rings of ~6, creating the eponymous hexagonal perforations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Single-neuron computations depend on the subcellular distribution and voltage sensitivity of ion channels. | @pnas.org #HorizonEU @erc.europa.eu (1/5) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Distribution and voltage dependence of ion channels shape single-neuron computations | PNAS

Voltage-gated ion channels do not distribute evenly in the plasma membrane of a neuron; they localize to distinct domains where they govern the exc...

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Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit

Super excited to share my postdoctoral work at @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social - We discovered that some retrotransposons, or "jumping genes" 🧬, are able to spread from cell to cell via a new viral infectivity route. A short thread: 🧵👇 (1/7)

A few years ago we were actively working to dismantle systemic racism which is discreet, complicated and takes a lot to understand and legislate against. We had taken the conversation to a very sophisticated place. Now we're back asking the state to enforce the fucking law, which is easy!!

Daniel McElroy@danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 3w ago

We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it!

A landlord making £100,000 a month says young people have “no excuse to be poor”. Excellent. I love financial advice. Gather round, children, let's examine how he himself stopped being poor. metro.co.uk/2026/09/20/i...

I’m a landlord making £100,000 a month — young people have no excuse to be poor

Samuel bought his first home aged 17 with a 100% mortgage.

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ʙɪɴᴅᴄʀᴀꜰᴛ2 is out, and we're not waiting for the paper. The full code drops today, free for academic and industry use. We're releasing it early so you can start designing right now, and bring its full power to the current Adaptyv competition. github.com/PacesaLab/Bi...

We are incredibly proud to have two books on the 2026 McIlvanney Prize shortlist 🎉 Both #TheHollowBoys by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social and #TheVanishingPlace by Zoë Rankin are up for Bloody Scotland's prestigious prize! A huge congratulations to our fantastic authors 📚🩸

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time

Very happy to share my postdoc paper is out now in @natcellbio.nature.com titled "Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarization and directional migration". If you love imaging and immune cells, this is for you! #microscopymonday www.nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵: 1/n

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

This is like that scene in Inception where they go down another level! 🤯 *THIRD*-order neuron tracing. Incredible! Another beaut from the Barnea lab. 👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Having now dealt with the deaths of two parents within two months, let me just say that the kindest thing you can do for your loved ones, at every stage of life, is assume that some of them will outlive you, and make that as easy as possible for them, logistically. it sucks and it's morbid, but.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · last mo.

I accept that I am incredibly morbid, but this also goes within marriages, you really are better off using the process of doing your lasting power of attorney to try and have a frank conversation about end of life issues.

I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183...

Here it is: a report from Daisy Chain Fields from the one and only Jenn Pelly, most qualified to rock this assignment: www.npr.org/2026/09/02/n...

Olivia Rodrigo's women-led Daisy Chain Fields festival put the power in fans' hands

The inaugural edition of Rodrigo's one-day, women-led concert, which featured artists like Stevie Nicks, Sarah McLachlan and Chappell Roan, didn't sideline its stated political mission.

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Ann Powers@annkpowers.bsky.social · last mo.

NPR Music will have a report up shortly!

Nature research paper: Aberrant excitatory neuronal ERBB4 promotes Alzheimer’s disease pathology go.nature.com/3S9ym84

Aberrant excitatory neuronal ERBB4 promotes Alzheimer’s disease pathology - Nature

Neuroinflammation alone may be dispensable for early synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease.

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I think my White Whale in this respect is Woolton Hall in Liverpool. It's actually Grade I listed, but it's been derelict for decades and has had several fires. No one has a clue what to do with it, so we just let it rot, apparently.

Just get rid of Grade II entirely - if you want to put a heat-pump and double-glazing in a nice but otherwise entirely generic 18th Century cottage then you do that. You own it. You should basically be allowed to do what you want with it.

Not for the first time I think "why the hell do we have 350,000 listed buildings in this country?" - that's nearly 2 percent of them. There is no way that one in every fifty buildings in this country needs to be on a special little list that needs you to spend loads of money to do anything with.

The Independent@the-independent.com · 2mo ago

Duke of Westminster wins bid to change rules on England’s 350,000 listed buildings

Today, we are delighted to be hosting the Scottish Neuroscience Group Meeting 2026 (SNG). This annual gathering brings together Neuroscience researchers from across Scotland’s universities to discuss new data and to forge new collaborations and friendships.

Dangit but sciencing is fun. Discovered a >>10Mb pericentromeric inversion that looks like it adaptively introgressed and is a massive QTL for disease resistance. Preliminary and could be totally wrong, but holy bleep it's been a fun 90 minutes working this out (we had suspected much of this).

Boy is he going to mad to find out that faculty ALSO need a union.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2mo ago

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

The story of interwar cinemas in Edinburgh is usually one of three acts: a brief heyday, a long decline as a bingo hall and then demolition. There's often a fire in there too for luck. Today's subjects -… https://threadinburgh.scot/2026/08/28/the-gaff-the-thread-about-craigmillars-picture-houses/

The Gaff: the thread about Craigmillar’s picture houses

The story of interwar cinemas in Edinburgh is usually one of three acts: a brief heyday, a long decline as a bingo hall and then demolition. There's often a fire in there too for luck. Today's subjects - Craigmillar's Rio and County - are no exception.

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God that elephant 🐘 picture needs to come with a warning 😵‍💫🤮

Barbie Doll's Surprised Disgusted Look

ALT: Barbie Doll's Surprised Disgusted Look

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍@ebpgenome.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧬 Why do high-quality reference genomes matter? Draft genomes can contain gaps, errors and fragmented sequences — potentially hiding important biology. 💻🧬 High-quality references give us a clearer, more complete picture — and a stronger foundation for discovery. #Genomics #EarthBioGenomeProject

~ 4,180 gallons (15,822 liters). ~ 28,012 lbs (12,706 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $29,926 cost of fuel. ~ 44 tons of CO2 emissions.