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Jon Simons @jonsimons.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The advert for the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability is now out. A fantastic opportunity for someone with expertise in social psychology, behavioural science, etc, to help address the greatest threat of our age. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/hatton-...

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Hatton Professorship of Sustainability

The Board of Electors to the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship (combining be...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Lots of stimulating - and challenging - questions from Devi Sridhar and the highly engaged audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival which hosted some extraordinary discussions across a wide range of topics: fiction, politics, history and science.

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Matt Kirkcaldie @matttkk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This piece interviewing @masudhusain.bsky.social is a wonderful antidote and frustration cleanser m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZRG...

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Myths v Science: What Does Dopamine Actually Do? | What’s Up Docs

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

How to protect the mind as we age? An engaging conversation with Steve Chenevey www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6859s...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Come along if you're in the Washington DC area to listen to a discussion about what people with brain disorders reveal about our selves. Politics and Prose Bookstore 1324 4th St NE

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Huge congratulations to Bryan Traynor & Rosa Rademakers on winning the Breakthrough Prize for their work on C9orf72 and its role in ALS & FTD. This is an amazing achievement of which we're very proud @brain1878.bsky.social where Bryan is an Associate Editors and Rosa a member of our Advisory Board

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

If you're in Washington DC on Thursday April 23rd, 2026 please come along to this free event. I'll be discussing Our Brains, Our Selves with Peter Turkeltaub, Director of the Cognitive Recovery Lab at Georgetown University.

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

If you or your students want the best introduction to coding, take a look at the new book by Sanjay Manohar

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I'm delighted to announce that 'Our Brains, Our Selves' launches in the States next week! Hope you'll enjoy it.

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

What's the relationship of apathy to depression and anhedonia? Sijia Zhao led our work on this to show that many individuals qualify for the diagnostic criteria of 2 or even 3 of these syndromes. But factor analysis reveals that the syndromes are highly dissociable jnnp.bmj.com/content/earl...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

March issue @brain1878.bsky.social with winning article in Brain Essay Competition by @oharealex.bsky.social considers if it is technologically feasible for machines to achieve human-level intelligence, and philosophically plausible for them to possess consciousness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

How people with brain disorders reveal important insights into our selves www.waterstones.com/events/our-b...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

How people with brain disorders reveal important insights into our selves www.waterstones.com/events/our-b...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Latest issue of @brain1878.bsky.social out with a great set of Opinion pieces on the value and ethics of thalamic stereoEEG recordings in people with intractable epilepsy being considered for surgery.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Fascinating stuff on Start the Week this morning: The Peasants War, the last known victims of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the neurology of selfhood, all in the words of prize-winning authors. Join Lyndal Roper, Hannah Durkin @masudhusain.bsky.social and me just after 9:00 on Radio Four.

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The December issue of Brain is out with a wonderful cover. Interested to know what those delicate helical structures are? Yes, this is Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that causes syphilis and which proved so elusive to detect when researchers first attempted to isolate it. academic.oup.com/brain

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Ben Spencer @ben-spencer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The Times and Sunday Times science/environment books of the year are out! By @masudhusain.bsky.social @adamweymouth.bsky.social Tim Gregory Liam Shaw @hannahritchie.bsky.social Suzanne O'Sullivan and Bollore/Bonnassies. List here (click science/environment) www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Nice to have made this cut with OUR BRAINS, OUR SELVES in the Financial Times Best Books of 2025 list.

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This turned out to be a really stimulating interview on the University of Oxfords' CortexCast podcast series on what patients with brain disorders reveal about our selves podcasts.ox.ac.uk/season-3-epi...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The current environment is making it near impossible to run clinical trials in the UK. One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities. My views on how to change the system academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Still a bit stunned but delighted to receive this from @royalsociety.org

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 01/10/2025

We're very happy to announce that the winner of this year’s Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is ‘Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain’ by debut author, clinical neurologist and neuroscientist Masud Husain. #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

This one made me smile. The cover of the September issue of @brain1878.bsky.social depicts Hume and Sartre in animated conversation, accompanying a new essay on mental imagery by Margherita Arcangeli and Paolo Bartolomeo academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

There's greed and then there's Springer Nature greed. No wonder some people are smiling!

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

To my astonishment, my new book Vanished has been shortlisted for the Royal Society’s Trivedi Science Book Prize. Thankful to all the roarsome people who helped make it happen, from the Royal Society and judges to many beloveds. Roaring! 🐯 #Extinction #BookSky #HPS #Skystorians

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Very happy to be in such great company, shortlisted for the @royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize with 'Our Brains, Our Selves' published by @canongate.co.uk

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Latest edition of @brain1878.bsky.social includes a new paper on General Paresis of the Insane and an accompanying editorial, explaining why it and neurosyphilis still remain conditions which we can't afford to forget academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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@OxNeuro @oxneuro.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Our Dementia Research Oxford Seminar series recommences on Sept 11th with Prof Martin Turner on 'Advancing therapy development in ALS'. 12 Noon on Zoom us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @masudhusain.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

July issue of @brain1878.bsky.social includes an article on AI-based tools for urgent decision-making for thrombectomy in acute #stroke. Unlike the White Rabbit, we don't want to be late! academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Very pleased to see 'Our Brains, Our Selves' made it into the @financialtimes.com best of this year's science books www.ft.com/content/0f0b...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This month's issue of @brain1878.bsky.social contains two fascinating essays - runners up from last year's competition, as well as a fantastic range of articles from anti-NMDAR encephalitis, through to stroke and neurodegenerative diseases. academic.oup.com/brain/issue/...

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Volume 148 Issue 6 | Brain | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the Guarantors of Brain. Provides researchers and clinicians with original contributions in neurology by publishing a wide range of original studies in neurological science, in...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I'm planning to write an editorial in @brain1878.bsky.social entitled "If patients only knew". It's about obstacles that slow down or prevent people from participating in clinical studies and the pace of initiating #ClinicalTrials. If you have experience or comments please message me and repost.

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Had a wonderful time at the International Dublin Literature Festival #IDLF discussing my new book 'Our Brains, Our Selves' with Shauna Bowers from the Irish Times, and having some fantastic conversations with a lot of people curious about brains and their disorders.

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Interesting discussion tonight on How to Hack your Brain to improve learning at Oxford Biohacking Society with my neuroscience colleagues bstaresina.bsky.social‬ and vineytj.bsky.social

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Cathy Abbott @cathyabbott.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Absolutely spellbinding talk from @masudhusain.bsky.social on the neuroscience of apathy - what a great start to the final day of #BNA2025. Off to order the book now 👍

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Needless bureaucracy and “bullshit jobs” are preventing academics from fulfilling their core creative responsibilities and making clinical research an “impossible task”, a leading neuroscientist has warned. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky

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‘Mountain of small things’ killing academia, warns Oxford scholar

Overly cautious institutions pushing ‘bullshit jobs’ on their staff ‘destroying academia from within’, says neuroscientist

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Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences @ndcnoxford.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

On Sunday 11 May at Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival, hear from @masudhusain.bsky.social on 'Our Brains: Our Selves' @oxexppsy.bsky.social

Prof Masud Husain, Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival,

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

If you happen to be in central Oxford on Sat 5th April and you're interested in the relationship between brains and selves, I'm speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival

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Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Here is a chance to make your voice heard within the university and reduce the administrative burden.

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

At @ox.ac.uk it's time for the staff survey. Here's my answer to: "What is the main thing the University could do to help you to progress your career?" Please repost and respond similarly to the survey if you agree. It's the only way to get our points across!

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

It's not just clinical research either!

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Prof Stephen Wood @stephenwood8.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Ditto here in Australia…

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Ali Khatibi @alikhatibi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

It is important that we move toward changing this before it is too late and leave us far behind researchers in other countries.. in fact, other items on the list, such as inflexible environments, also have roots in the designed beurucracy for clinical research in the UK.

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Thank goodness people are waking up to the fact that there is a crisis for clinical research in the UK @financialtimes.com High on the list are the bureaucratic processes that have become an obstacle to getting things done

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Review of my book 'Our Brains, Our Selves' @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/e9c2...

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 12/03/2025

The number of patients entering clinical trials in the UK fell by 27% from 2018 to 2023 and new industry trials declined 38%. To revive clinical research we need to streamline systems and dismantle bureaucracy, writes @masudhusain.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Kerry Walker @kerrywalker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Writing this took some guts, but we are all thinking it.

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