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.
Nina Wycech
@ninawycech.bsky.social
A social side to my LinkedIn Neuroscience graduate ✨Bioinformatics student at UoG ✨ dog lover ✨ mixologist by night
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
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…
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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. 🧪
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.
go.nature.com
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 🌿
Two very different books I just got from the library. Common denominator: hexagons
Sharks come in many different shapes and sizes. But they all follow a centuries-old mathematical rule
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.
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#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
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...
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…
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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
🧬🌽 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
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)
Very on point - the separation between scientists and the general public is a fuel for misinformation and distrust. That’s why I started writing!
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…
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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 🧪🔬
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
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! 🧠😄✨🌿🍃🌱
Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects
Sometimes speaking to your family is a good lesson in science communication. What words do people get lost? I did well explaining the UK Biobank until reaching “genome”. Thankfully my sister asked about it instead of zoning out!
Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds. This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg. Seabird peer-pressure can be intense. (📷: Robert F. Bukaty)
My third article for @reshiveblog.bsky.social is now up! UK Biobank - known to scientists all over the world, but still to be appreciated by the public. Also - a database I am to use soon during my research project
Research Hive - Sci-Comm Blog@reshiveblog.bsky.social · last yr.Our regular contributor Nina Wycech has shared this brief overview of @ukbiobank.bsky.social, a major resource for biological and health research. research-hive.com/2025/05/27/h... #PhDSky #AcademicSky
Happy Brain Awareness Week! 🧠🎉 We are looking forward to sharing and learning more interesting facts about the brain! #brain #brainhealth #growthmindset #brainawarenessweek
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE. (President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
Found in a 1987 editorial by James Morrison: „The nature of science is that it asks more questions than it answers. Good research is often the beginning, but never an end”
