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After a long journey it's finally out! My work on navigation strategy-dependent hippocampal representations during plnning with Richard Morris is out on @natcomms.nature.com ! rdcu.be/iS72dYSzBxya

Just how goal-directed are hippocampal theta sweeps, anyway? Great News & Views from @adredish.bsky.social Lab on recent theta goal papers: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Just how goal-directed are hippocampal theta sweeps, anyway? - Nature Neuroscience

Planning is a cognitive process that is thought to be grounded in hippocampal sequences, but recent studies have suggested that a simpler mechanism, fundamentally incompatible with those planning hypo...

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Excited for the start of the #FENS2026 ! I'm presenting on Thursday at 14-17:30. if you are interested in Astrocytes! Neurons! Synapses! in early AD models, come to my poster PS06-09PM-152 !

The joy of living in the UK.. #cloud #UnitedKingdom #Edinburgh

CRUK goes green [OA] news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...

Why we won’t be funding open access publishing any more - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News

The open access movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…

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New paper out this week with amazing synapse imaging! With the amazing @tspiresjones.bsky.social and our team we found that astrocyte processes protect synapses from amyloid beta-induced degeneration in an ex vivo slice model. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/GHTFFB...

"essays produced by ChatGPT are soulless, boring abominations. Words, phrases and punctuation rarely used by the average college student are pervasive." www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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On Sunday, don't miss the Presidential Special Lecture by the one and only @tspiresjones.bsky.social ! #SfN25 #SfN2025 #Alzheimer's #synapses #glia

Interested in Alzheimer's Disease, astrocytes, synapses and lost of beautiful images? Come and listen to my talk tomorrow at NANO 002.12 #SfN2025 #SfN25 #neuroscience #astrocytes #glia

Today is Bisexual Visibility Day, marking the end of Bisexual Awareness Week #BiWeek 🏳️‍🌈 Happy #BiDay! 💙💜❤️

Happy Bisexual Awareness Week! #BiWeek 🏳️‍🌈 💙💜❤️

For #FluorescenceFriday, a hippocampal neuron expressing tagBFP among ECFP astrocytes

TAX👏THE👏RICH👏

🎬 Behind the Science Spotlight - Part 2 with @britishneuro.bsky.social President Prof Tara Spires-Jones What do fly experiments, negative data & media exposés have in common? They’re all part of @tspiresjones.bsky.social’s story.

Excited for today's Dementia Masterclass! @britishneuro.bsky.social

British Neuroscience Association@britishneuro.bsky.social · last yr.

Join @tspiresjones.bsky.social alongside an esteemed panel of experts including @alzheimersresearchuk.org who will share cutting-edge insights and diverse perspectives. www.bna.org.uk/mediacentre/... #DementiaResearch #Neuroscience #Neurobiology #CPD #Neurodegeneration #BrainResearch #Alzheimers

📆 Mark your calendars: #OptoGRC2026 is headed back to Tuscany, May 10-15, 2026! We look forward to reuniting with our amazing community for a week of great science, thoughtful discussions & shared time with colleagues. More details coming soon👇🏽 tinyurl.com/esvrabsu

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n

Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry

Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...

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If you are a hippocampus fan 🧠, check out our new preprint on Memory and Route planning in navigation! 🍪🐀 A multi-year, multi-person effort with lots of cool stuff: behaviour🧭miniscopes🔬and optogenetics🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #science #hippocampus #memory #navigation #replay #miniscopes

We are hiring! PostDoc position on my ERC for wire-less electrophysiology in our 9mX5m rat HexMaze! Experience with tetrodes or silicone probes required. Contact me for questions! www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring

We are hiring! — Semantic memory Lab

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Living human brain tissue used to mimic Alzheimer’s in breakthrough study

Living human brain tissue used to mimic Alzheimer’s in breakthrough study

Exclusive: British team exposed live cells to toxic proteins to gather rare insight into how dementia develops Scientists have used living human brain tissue to mimic the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, in a breakthrough that will accelerate the hunt for a cure. In a world first, a British team successfully exposed healthy brain tissue from living NHS patients to a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer’s – taken from patients who died from the disease – to show how it damages connections between brain cells in real time. Continue reading...

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Interested in #astrocytes, #synapse activity and loss in #AD? Come to my poster at #BNA2025 on Monday afternoon! Will also give a flash talk at 14:10. See you there!

Human sex is not binary from a biological perspective ♀️♂️. Female/Male - as well as XX/XY - is an incomplete model to describe sex in humans. A good read about the subject 👇 🧪 #science #STEM www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

Chris Brooke@chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 2y ago

To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."

1/19 I’m thrilled that my postdoctoral work, with John Widloski and David Foster is now out in @science.org, along with a wonderful preview by Daniel Bendor!

The time course and organization of hippocampal replay

The mechanisms by which the brain replays neural activity sequences remain unknown. Recording from large ensembles of hippocampal place cells in freely behaving rats, we observed that replay content i...

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This is a really nice review of the career of a tremendous scientist and wonderful person who will be greatly missed

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...

On print at last! #hippocampus #neuroscience

Very sad news today. We lose such a kind soul and a brilliant mind. 🫂

Department of Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 2y ago

It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly. www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

The BNA are delighted that our President @tspiresjones.bsky.social was presented with the Leading Researcher of the Year Award in Neuropathology and Ageing at the recent @womeninneurouk.bsky.social award ceremony. www.bna.org.uk/mediacentre/...