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Ian Harrison

@ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social
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Principal Research Fellow @UCL studying the glymphatic system in dementia | Hubby to Laura | Dad to Emilie and Ayla | Coffee addict and writer of lists

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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
5 talks and a poster to prep in the next 2 weeks. Ooooof.
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Ever lost days of data and only realised when it was far too late @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social shares one of those moments we all pretend never happened! Full episode '12 Research Fails of Christmas' is a comfort listen for anyone doing real research. youtu.be/LufA2YbicSc
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Join Dr Fiona McLean, @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social, @sorayam.bsky.social & Dr Kate Harris for a festive podcast special where they share their lab mishaps, admin chaos, and lessons learned from experiments that went wrong but taught them the most. pod.fo/e/3698bd
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The recording of our Salon webinar with @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social and @aramblingrosie.bsky.social is now open access. They share lessons from setting up a first independent research lab. Watch here youtu.be/C-qwORXnSvM
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Advise for Starting Your First Research Lab
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Meet the new @alzsocresearch.bsky.social Fellows! £4.9m in funding will back research into tau clearance, diagnosis of mixed dementias, vascular damage, and more. #Alzheimers www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/meet-the-new...
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Meet the new Alzheimer’s Society’s Fellows - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Alzheimer’s Society awards £4.9m to 13 projects, including 10 led by early career researchers, advancing diagnosis, treatment and care in dementia research.
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨 Just released! @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social & @davidebrunophd.bsky.social discuss transitioning from researcher to research leader in this Salon session. 🎥 First aired in the Dementia Researcher Community – join live every Wednesday or catch up later. Watch Now: youtu.be/UDPCYiELO-Y
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Transition to Independence
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🎙️ Live from #BNA2025! Learn how to boost your academic visibility with Dr Emma Yhnell and guests in this special podcast episode. 📺 Watch now or listen tomorrow: @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social @emmayhnell.bsky.social @britishneuro.bsky.social youtu.be/ZD5Gyg3p3Oo
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Make Your Mark: Elevating Your Academic Visibility - BNA2025 Festival of Neuroscience
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
#Sourdough Sunday 😋
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chilling to see this list of terminated NIH grants. Research on Alzheimer's, HIV, rare diseases, vaccines -- gone. Cancer centers closed, training grants & fellowships terminated. Young scientists stranded. Patients waiting for treatments that'll never come. Just sad. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Wow, these spam emails are getting interesting! 😂
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Next weeks Salon Webinar is all about "Transitioning to Independence" with guest speakers @davidebrunophd.bsky.social & @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social Join us at 12pm on Wednesday 12th March communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/tra...
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Dementia Researcher Salon Webinar - Transition to Independence
Dementia Researcher Salon Webinar - Transition to Independence
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Me to new lab members: "It's sooooo important to maintain a good work-life balance. Make sure you take care of yourself!" Also me: Doing my lab walk-around tasks on a Saturday morning because I was too busy during the week. 🫣 #PILife
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Dr Amanda Heslegrave @ajh1269.bsky.social is seeking a Research Assistant to join her team workin in the UK DRI / UCL Fluid Biomarker Lab on 'UK-TBI REpository and data PORTal Enabling discoveRy' @ukdri.ac.uk - Closing date: 9th March www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...
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Research Assistant: Fluid Biomarker Lab
Dr Amanda Heslegrave is seeking a Research Assistant to join her team workin in the UK DRI / UCL Fluid Biomarker Lab on 'UK-TBI REpository and data PORTal Enabling discoveRy'
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Back at work today after an amazing ARUK Research Conference, feeling even more fired up to find a cure. Such an honour and a privilege to be awarded this year's David Hague award and join the list of amazing scientists to have received the award in previous years. Now the work begins.. #foracure 🧠
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
One week left to get your applications in for this exciting PhD studentship fully-funded for students eligible for UK fees. Deadline: 31st January 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Understanding selective vulnerability to Lewy body pathology in Parkinson’s disease at Queen Mary University of London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Understanding selective vulnerability to Lewy body pathology in Parkinson’s disease at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Addicted! Sandwich loaf for lunches and a mini loaf for soups. Love the house smelling of freshly baked bread on working from home days! 🍞
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
In my #sourdough era! Today's bakes...
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A great opportunity with an amazing scientist and boss! Message Yvonne if you're interested!
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Andrew Octavian Sasmita @aosasmita.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Clearance of beta-amyloid and tau aggregates are size-dependent and altered by an inflammatory challenge academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Clearance of beta-amyloid and tau aggregates are size-dependent and altered by an inflammatory challenge
Fertan et al. show that inflammation can initiate an Alzheimer’s disease-like pathology in a stem-cell model without prior disease phenotype and worsens th
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
What fresh hell is this?!
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This is a significant move for UK institutions towards Bluesky. The UK Parliament has arrived here today! 🦋 Accounts are verified. @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @houseoflords.parliament.uk
Screenshot of the House of Commons accountScreenshot of the House of Lords account
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Back to my old stomping ground today for a collaborative project, 10 years to the day since picking up my thesis from the printers here! Where has the time gone?!
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Daniel Erskine @danielersk1ne.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Hello everyone, happy to share my first post here on BSky. I've moved over from Twitter and looking forward to seeing and discussing interesting science here. Please give me a follow if you're interested in #Lewy body diseases or #lysosomal storage disorders. Thank you!
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Phil Kitchen @kitchenphil.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Our lab's first Biorxiv deposition is live! We show that two commercially-available "aquaporin-4 inhibitors" do not inhibit aquaporin-4 as previously described. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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AER-270 and TGN-020 are not aquaporin-4 water channel blockers
Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is the most abundant water channel protein in the brain. It controls water homeostasis, facilitates glymphatic function and is a drug target for brain edema following injury or stro...
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Welcome @dave-mri.bsky.social!! Good to see you on here! 🥳
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Isabel N Christie PhD @izzynchristie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Do you know someone looking for a PhD opportunity in London? Here's a project from a future leader! Anna Hadjihambi researches how liver disease causes brain decline. Interdisciplinary and important topic for an ageing population. Please repost www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Restoring brain health in steatotic liver disease at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Restoring brain health in steatotic liver disease at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Self care Sunday. Though questionable having to play on this many flats! 😓
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Rainy Saturday afternoons in my house...
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John Lukens @lukensjohnr.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Neuroscience
Using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and proteomics, this study identifies the tethering of pathological tau filaments within defined brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease, shining l...
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Dr Emma Yhnell 🧬🔬🧪🧠 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @emmayhnell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today is #EqualPayDay From today, women essentially work for free for the rest of the calendar year compared to men due to the #GenderPayGap Let that sink in...
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Best thing on the internet. Inject it in my veins.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/11/2024
I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff. I like this version of social media, and the world. Thanks, folks.
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
When your postdoc texts you as you're on your way to pick up the kids, to tell you that the experiment worked perfectly! 🧠 🤩 #proudPI
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a man is sitting in the woods with pink balloons and a tent .
ALT: a man is sitting in the woods with pink balloons and a tent .
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Roslyn Bill @roslynbill.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is the beginnings of a Starter Pack for aquaporin channel fans. Join the Aquaporin Party! go.bsky.app/Hdhw78e
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
He's hoping for a last minute rush, the seminar room 5 mins before my MSc lecture this morning at UCL IoN. 😒
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Jalees Rehman @jalees.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The anatomy of brainwashing: Glymphatic-lymphatic brain cleansing may reveal new therapeutic strategies www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The anatomy of brainwashing
Glymphatic-lymphatic brain cleansing may reveal new therapeutic strategies
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Eduardo Zimmer @erzimmer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The paper of the year! Bravo @sdas617.bsky.social and colleagues 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Neuroscience
Using single-nucleus RNA sequencing from 32 donors, researchers identified distinct astrocytic gene expression programs activated across brain regions and Alzheimer’s disease stages. They also found u...
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Paula Haynes @paulahyns.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Nedergaard lab- impaired increase of infra-slow (30s) norepinepherine-oscillations in APP/PS1 mice after sleep deprivation. Suggests Amyloid-β (or γ-secretase) may impair it's own glymphatic clearance... www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Sleep deprivation leads to non-adaptive alterations in sleep microarchitecture and amyloid-β accumulation in a murine Alzheimer model
Cankar et al. report that sleep loss suppresses NREM norepinephrine oscillations in a murine model of Alzheimer’s disease along with a parallel buildup of amyloid-β. Thus, overexpression of amyloid-β ...
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Our latest preprint out on bioRxiv...we show that glymphatic function influences synuclein propagation in the brain 🧠
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Ian Harrison @ianharrisonneuro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Well this place his marvelous isn't it?! Hi! I'm Ian, I'm a Principal Research Fellow at UCL studying the glymphatic system and it's role in dementia. Daughter dad, sourdough enthusiast and general science nerd! 🤓🧠
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