Amazing news! We are delighted @sorayam.bsky.social will continue to make such an important contribution at Edinburgh!!! 🧠🧫🥼🔬👏🏼🎉

Research at ARUK@alzheimersresearchuk.org · 9mo ago

🚨Meet the latest early career researchers awarded Race Against Dementia Fellowships🚨 These rising stars are challenging old ideas and driving bold new approaches to speed up progress @RichardTaylor @sorayam.bsky.social @HelenRowland

Chuffed to announce I am one of the new RAD/ARUK fellows starting in 2026. Looking forward to exploring mechanisms of hyperactivity in Alzheimer’s disease using functional and AI based approaches.

Research at ARUK@alzheimersresearchuk.org · 9mo ago

🚨Meet the latest early career researchers awarded Race Against Dementia Fellowships🚨 These rising stars are challenging old ideas and driving bold new approaches to speed up progress @RichardTaylor @sorayam.bsky.social @HelenRowland

Superstar @sorayam.bsky.social 👏👏👏👏👏

Research at ARUK@alzheimersresearchuk.org · 9mo ago

🚨Meet the latest early career researchers awarded Race Against Dementia Fellowships🚨 These rising stars are challenging old ideas and driving bold new approaches to speed up progress @RichardTaylor @sorayam.bsky.social @HelenRowland

🚨Meet the latest early career researchers awarded Race Against Dementia Fellowships🚨 These rising stars are challenging old ideas and driving bold new approaches to speed up progress @RichardTaylor @sorayam.bsky.social @HelenRowland

Congratulations to all the finalists in the #WiNUKAwards 2025! 👏 Fantastic to see so many familiar faces across the categories - best of luck to everyone who is nominated 🤞 @soyonhonglab.bsky.social @sorayam.bsky.social @clairedurrant1.bsky.social

Women in Neuroscience UK@womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The countdown is on for the WiNUK Awards 2025! 💜✨ An evening of inspiration, celebration & connection awaits — from our opening introductions to award presentations, keynote talks by Prof. Selina Wray & Dr. Carole Torsney, and networking with brilliant neuroscience minds. 🧠🌟

Should dementia research funding shift from biomedical science to social care? Watch Nancy Brown and Soraya Meftah debate the motion and see how opinions changed. 🎥 communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/deb...

Should dementia research funding shift from biomedical science to social care? Join our live debate with Nancy Brown & @sorayam.bsky.social on 22 Oct, 8pm BST. Vote live & see if opinions change. #Dementia #SocialCare #BiomedicalResearch communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/deb...

Dementia Researcher Salon Debate - Biomedical vs Social Care Research

Dementia Researcher Salon Debate - Biomedical vs Social Care Research

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... super excited to release this. nearly 7 years ago, we set out to investigate whether FMRP regulates excitability of neurons in living human brain tissue. we find loss of FMRP in adult neurons leads to elevated excitability, corrected by PDE4D inhibition.

FMRP regulates adult human cortical excitability via cyclic-AMP signalling

Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is a common inherited neurodevelopmental condition, resulting from loss of Fragile X Messenger Ribonuclear Protein (FMRP). Rodent models of FXS display cellular hyperexcitabil...

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Know your imposter moments: - Your first lecture - A new role - Writing - When you make a mistoke These might make you feel like an imposter but they don't mean you are one. #PhDForum #gradschool

Chuffed to have been awarded this! Privileged to be doing what I do, with the people that support me. :)

CMVM Postdocs and Early Career Researchers@cmvm-res.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Well done to Soraya for winning the Scientific Advancement Award! We are looking forward to seeing how your career progresses! @edinunineuro.bsky.social

Well done to Soraya for winning the Scientific Advancement Award! We are looking forward to seeing how your career progresses! @edinunineuro.bsky.social

Woop woop, @sorayam.bsky.social! Already a trailblazer. That's some stiff competition, too. 🤩

CMVM Postdocs and Early Career Researchers@cmvm-res.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Well done to Soraya for winning the Scientific Advancement Award! We are looking forward to seeing how your career progresses! @edinunineuro.bsky.social

As course leader, it's been a stressful wait, but pleased to see our Biomedical Science course RETAIN 2nd place in the Guardian University Guide 2026! There's been many challenges over the past 12 months so this is a great achievement for the team! 🎉 www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Best UK universities for biomedical science – league table

The study of life, from molecules to populations. Includes biochemistry and virology

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In vivo single-cell gene editing using RNA electroporation reveals sequential adaptation of cortical neurons to excitatory-inhibitory imbalance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In vivo single-cell gene editing using RNA electroporation reveals sequential adaptation of cortical neurons to excitatory-inhibitory imbalance

The balance between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission is fundamental for normal brain function, yet the adaptation of individual neurons to disrupted excitatory-inhibitory balance is not wel...

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We have a handshake! #gbbo

🚨WiNUK Day 2026 is coming to Birmingham this April!🚨 This year’s theme is neurodiversity🧠🌈 🗓️ Happening during #AutismAwarenessMonth
🗣️ Open call for talks, posters & panels (all genders welcome!)
📅 Deadline: Sun 14 Sept #WiNUKDay2026 #Neurodiversity #WomenInSTEM

Cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code: science.org/doi/10.1126/... In vivo optogenetics of interneurons + ephys recordings shows tIme division control of place fields of pyramidal cells: PV first half, Sst and Id2 the second half.

Longitudinal neuroimaging in three adults, followed before and up to 5 years after arm amputation, reveals that amputation does not trigger large-scale cortical reorganization @hunterschone.bsky.social @cibaker.bsky.social @plasticity-lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stable cortical body maps before and after arm amputation - Nature Neuroscience

Longitudinal neuroimaging of participants with planned arm amputations shows that the cortical body map remains stable after amputation, with no evidence of hand or face reorganization, thus challengi...

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Last chance to register for Alzheimer’s Society Annual Conference on 11 September, sponsored by Rothesay & Lilly. Don’t miss expert keynotes, panels & the latest in dementia care. Registration closes 4 September - secure your place now! #ASAC25 spkl.io/63328AOtZE

I have discovered that my PhD thesis is the perfect size and weight to kill a spider. Finally have a practical use for it! 😂

Inducible NMDA receptor knockdown reveals a maintenance phase in dendritic refinement of barrel cortex neurons www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Inducible NMDA receptor knockdown reveals a maintenance phase in dendritic refinement of barrel cortex neurons

Neuroscience; Molecular Biology; Developmental Biology

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Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the lifespan in mice and humans www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A stimulating two days at the @alzheimersresearchuk.org Scotland Network meeting. Of course a trip to Dundee cannot be done without a visit to F&D (if you know you know).

From fellowship heartbreak to rewriting success — stories of resilience in research funding on this week’s podcast. With Fiona McLean, Kate Harris, Dayne Beccano-Kelly & @sj-marzi.bsky.social pod.fo/e/314db1

Dementia Researcher: Failing Forward: What My Grant Rejection Taught Me

Grant rejection is part of every researcher’s journey — and it never stops, no matter your career stage. In this episode of the Dementia Researcher Podcast, host Dr Fiona McLean (Alzheimer’...

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🌟 Don't miss out on this opportunity for a position as Science Portfolio Manager in the UK DRI Core team 🌟 🗓️ Deadline: Monday 1 September 📍Based at our office in London / Hybrid Find out more & Apply 👉 lnkd.in/epEaTr22

✨WiNUK Awards 2024 = 100% positive feedback and 92% found our categories meaningful! 🌍 100+ nominations from 16 UK institutions 🙌 💜 Thank you to all who joined us in celebrating women in neuroscience! 📅 WiNUK Awards 2025: 7th Nov 📝 Nominations close 17th Aug – get yours in! 👩‍🔬💫

🚨 Deadline for nominations extended! 🚨 You have one week to nominate someone doing exceptional neuroscience work! 🧠 Whether they’re in the lab, behind the scenes, or amplifying science through communication—nominate them now before the window closes 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬

Last month, the UK DRI's Dr Nathasia Muwanigwa & Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly, alongside Dr Moïse Roche (UCL), led a discussion on dementia with 60+ attendees from Black African & Caribbean communities. Nathasia reflects on the experience in this excellent blog post👉 buff.ly/PQ6KXUf

I’m incredibly stoked to announce our latest preprint led by Thijs Verhoog, where we show that human cortical neurons mature hundreds of times slower than mouse neurons, only reaching functional maturity well into the third decade of life. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...