iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Adam Smith @betterresearch.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Registration is now open for #AAICNeuro... join us in Manchester on the 24th / 25th Feb for the brilliant @alzheimersresearchuk.org Conference & then on the 26th for AAIC Neuroscience Next. Two events, Three days, all in the 'Capital of the North'. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/aaic-neurosc...

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AAIC Neuroscience Next 2026 – Manchester, UK

AAIC Neuroscience Next 2026 Manchester, UK HUB. Uniting researchers and clinicans interested in new and developing biomarkers for the diagnosis of Dementia.

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Alzheimer's Association @alzassociation.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Can’t make it to #AAIC26? Join us virtually for #AAIC4All on July 16! Choose a tailored track for either community members or clinicians & health care providers and hear about what’s next in dementia science. Register now: alz.org/aaic-for-all.

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UCL Div. of Psychology & Language Sciences (PALS) @uclpals.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Attend Hot Brain 4 on 12 May to learn more about the impact of climate change on humans and on brain health in disease. Register now. 🔗 Find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Join us! Research Fellow role at UCL @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social with me & @sj-marzi.bsky.social studying oligodendrocytes, genetics & epigenetics in ageing & neurodegeneration using multiomics/bioinformatics. Collaboration with Alexi Nott & @rikeshrajani.bsky.social Closing date: 2nd June

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Catherine Hall @cathnaledi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Can’t wait!!

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This little medley of Funny Poems has just reached 70k views. | Kids Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen youtu.be/i2z_4Be6lCI?... via @YouTube

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Michael Rosen Funny Poems | Kids Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A real pleasure to meet the inspirational @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @newhambookshop.bsky.social His amazing efforts to promote vaccination, the NHS and the last voice of reason, humanity and basic common sense on Twitter

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This is where we are 2026: "How should immediate psychological gratification—from affirming moral responses to an artificial companion—be weighed against longer-term individual and collective outcomes? Who should determine where that balance lies?" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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In defense of social friction

Sycophantic AI distorts social judgments and behaviors

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Don't panic! Normal service will resume imminently

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Internet killed the Video Star: Ended their final broadcast with 'Video killed the radio star' by The Buggles, the same as the very first video broadcast on 1st August 1981

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Louise Huuki-Myers @lahuuki.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Excited to share our latest preprint from @lieberinstitute.bsky.social spatial + single-cell RNA-seq map the ERC & explore how AD risk shapes gene expression doi.org/10.1101/2025... Our major finding: “APOE E4 Alzheimer’s Risk Converges on an Oligodendrocyte Subtype in the Human Entorhinal Cortex”

Experimental design for LIBD LFF Spatial ERC project

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New 2026! The year AI really kicks in. But which side are you on? #SKYNET

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2025 not a great year for music, but this was a clear standout track. Fitting that it's about doing nothing or recovery. Stylish and mature, in many ways a classy template for alternative rock @wolfalicefans.bsky.social

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Back at the hospital for my post-cataract op check up and very happy to see that my data will be used in research

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Not the Xmas movie I was expecting, but a fine Xmas movie eitherway. I won't feel the same hearing the songs "The Air That I Breathe" or "Creep" ever again #Heretic #christmasmovies

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Reza Maroofian @reza-maroofian.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

We previously characterised recessive CHKA-related developmental & epileptic encephalopathy. This new work shows patient-derived cells have disrupted Kennedy pathway activity, mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress—partially rescued by mitochondrial uncoupling. www.jbc.org/article/S002...

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Neurodevelopmental Disease-causing Variants in Choline Kinase CHKA Gene Couple Phosphatidylcholine Synthesis to Oxidative Stress Damage and Disease Etiology

Biallelic variants in CHKA, which encodes the first enzyme in the CDP-choline pathway for the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine, cause an inherited disorder characterized by epilepsy, microcephaly, and...

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

It so easy to walk past and ignore the #Homeless But look up @bbbanksy.bsky.social

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Long COVID involves activation of proinflammatory and immune exhaustion pathways @natimmunol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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UK Dementia Research Institute @ukdri.ac.uk · 10/12/2025

That’s a wrap on Connectome 2025! 👏 Today has been another fantastic day, with special thanks to our keynote Prof Christian Haas, and Charles Sabine OBE who gave a powerful talk about his lived experience of Huntington's disease. Thank you to everyone who made it such a great event!

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UK Dementia Research Institute @ukdri.ac.uk · 09/12/2025

Our annual conference, Connectome, is in full swing today! As well as excellent science talks, this morning we heard an insightful discussion between Prof Siddharthan Chandran, Prof Miratul Muqit, and journalist @rorycj.bsky.social, who generously shared his experience of living with Parkinson's.

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

"Sympathy... is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed" Darwin. Amazing to hear the experience of Charles Sabine, diagnosed with Huntington's disease. Really reinvigorates why we choose the hard path of science @ucl-hd.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social

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BirckenBachF 🌎🎶🇪🇺🌱🐦 @birckenbachf.eurosky.social · 09/12/2025

Dear @rorycj.bsky.social I deeply appreciate your commitment to Parkinson's disease and wish all affected patients and their families significant progress in the near future.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Great to speak to top brain scientists. (I mentioned the post I wrote about Elon Musk headlined Bonkers but Brilliant)

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Great to hear from the Brilliant @rorycj.bsky.social on the fight against Parkinson's. Certainly Brilliant, not Bonkers @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Great to be at Dementia Research Institute annual meeting. Lots of great science @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"Theatricality and deception - powerful agents to the uninitiated." "Oh, you think darkness is your ally." "The shadows betray you because they belong to me." Joe Marler was the ONLY one that worked it out #CelebrityTraitors

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Microglial activation and alpha-synuclein oligomers drive the early inflammatory phase of Parkinson's disease www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

TDP-43 loss of function drives aberrant splicing in Parkinson's disease www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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The Patani Laboratory @patanilab.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Dear Friends and Colleagues, we are finally on Bluesky! Our lab uses human stem cell models to understand brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerve diseases, focusing on RNA metabolism and cellular autonomy. We are based at NUS in Singapore at the Life Sciences Institute: www.nus.edu.sg/lsi/

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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Excited to share my new book with you. Out now for pre-order: www.penguin.co.uk/books/458539...

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Kerri Kinghorn @kinghornlab.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

New from the Kinghorn Lab! 🧠🔬 Our latest preprint shows that in fly 🪰🧬 Gaucher’s & Parkinson’s 🧠 models, kidney dysfunction drives neurodegeneration - supporting emerging links between renal health & Parkinson's. You can read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Redox Dyshomeostasis Links Renal and Neuronal Dysfunction in Drosophila Models of Gaucher and Parkinson's Disease

Gaucher disease (GD), the most common lysosomal storage disorder, is caused by bi-allelic mutations in the GBA1 gene. Variants in GBA1 also represent the most frequent genetic risk factor for Parkinso...

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Blood Biomarkers: Testing for Alzheimer’s Disease Professor Jonathan Schott @jmschott.bsky.social (UCL) explains how blood tests are reshaping Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Clear, current and clinically relevant. Recorded at the Wessex Dementia Research Conference youtu.be/3fLl1Mzwbsk

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Blood Biomarkers & Testing for Alzheimer’s Disease

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Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL QSION @uclqsneuromuscular.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Another fulfilling week for The Greensmith Lab (+ colleagues from other DNMD groups) hosting their annual Work Experience at UCL QSIoN. The Summer Students were able to get a taste of scientific life, with hands-on experience, learning key skills eg. pipetting, cell culture, immunostaining and more!

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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Congratulations to all colleagues that have worked hard to support the scientific community, and that have been recognised for their efforts. Senior Academic and Early Career Promotions 2024-25 | UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclqsion.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

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