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Lucy Brooks

@brooks-lab.bsky.social
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Group Leader at the University of Oxford Interested in brain cancer plasticity and therapy resistance www.oncology.ox.ac.uk/team/lucy-bro… www.brookslab.co.uk

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Lucy Brooks @brooks-lab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Delighted to share our new paper: “Reactive astrocyte-like states confer radiation resistance in glioblastoma” 🧠 We asked a simple question: Which glioblastoma cell states persist immediately after radiation, and why? 📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 1/4
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Lucy Brooks @brooks-lab.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Excited to share I’ve recently started as a group leader at the University of Oxford @oncology.ox.ac.uk, @ox.ac.uk Feeling grateful for the people who’ve helped me get here, and looking forward to growing a lab that asks important questions (and hopefully finds some answers). #NewPI #CancerResearch
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Nature @nature.com · 09/09/2025
The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite, says Zhicheng Lin go.nature.com/45X3Imr
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AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now
The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite.
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 04/09/2025
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]
Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds
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Mcclelland lab @mcclellandlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Calling all non-scientists interested in asking questions about cancer research for our new podcast-in-making!!! Please message your questions or contact me for more details 🤩
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Lucy Brooks @brooks-lab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Next up on my reading list!
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Gutmann Lab @gutmannlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Exciting news! Our new paper is out in Neuron! We discovered how neurons drive brain tumor growth through aberrant glutamate–tyrosine kinase signaling, uncovering novel mechanisms that shape tumor progression. Grateful to our team & collaborators for making this breakthrough possible! 🧠✨
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Aberrant coupling of glutamate and tyrosine kinase receptors enables neuronal control of brain-tumor growth
Anastasaki and colleagues establish a previously unknown glutamate growth dependency in pediatric low-grade brain tumors (gliomas). Glioma cells hijack normal neuron-glial molecular circuits present d...
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Nature @nature.com · 03/09/2025
A highly lethal type of brain tumour often steals key nutrients to aid its aggressive growth — a habit that can be exploited to slow the cancer’s spread go.nature.com/4p5JspX
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Brain tumours in mice grow more slowly when starved of key amino acid
Some glioblastomas steal serine from their environment — a weakness that opens the door to treatment.
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Lucy Brooks @brooks-lab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Cancer research ‘set back years’ as visa fees drive scien...
With vital studies being shelved and foreign experts turning down jobs, leading charity urges ministers to act
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Lucy Brooks @brooks-lab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New Nature paper from the Parrinello lab Clements et al. reveal how axonal injury can drive brain tumor growth. #cancer #neuroscience Having been a postdoc in the lab, I saw the colossal effort behind this — huge congratulations to everyone involved! 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Axonal injury is a targetable driver of glioblastoma progression - Nature
Axonal injury, induced in the white matter by expansion of early tumour cells, is a key driver of glioblastoma progression.
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 18/08/2025
ReSCU-Nets: Recurrent U-Nets for segmentation of three-dimensional #microscopy data. New tools developed by Raymond Hawkins, Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez (@rodrigofg.bsky.social) and colleagues @utoronto.ca: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton #SystemsBiology #ComputationalBiology #Development
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 18/08/2025
NEW: A new study by @oxfordcsae.bsky.social reveals that giving unconditional cash transfers to pregnant women in rural Kenya significantly reduces infant and child mortality. Read more ⬇️ www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...
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Study finds giving pregnant women cash transfers cuts infant
A new study by Associate Professor Dennis Egger (Department of Economics and Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford) and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley
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Nature @nature.com · 18/08/2025
Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of artificial-intelligence tools. go.nature.com/41O1Utb
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Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome
Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of artificial-intelligence tools.
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Lucy Brooks @brooks-lab.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
📣We’re hiring a Postdoc! Join my new lab at the University of Oxford to investigate therapy resistance in brain cancer. ⏰Deadline: 16 June 2025 Apply 👇 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Boosts appreciated! #PostdocJobs #CancerResearch #BrainCancer
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Lucy Brooks @brooks-lab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Following Trump’s research funding cuts, the UK has a prime opportunity to attract top global talent, yet we’re deterring them with high immigration costs. observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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The UK is paying the price for world’s most expensive visas | The Observer
Competing political and economic goals on immigration are resulting in the loss of valuable skills and talent in the UK
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Lucy Brooks @brooks-lab.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Completely agree. However, brilliant technicians are currently being lost due to limited career paths. Expanding opportunities would not only strengthen science but also support EDI - low PhD stipends often exclude those without financial safety nets.
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