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Selina Wray

@selinawray.bsky.social
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Prof of Molecular Neuroscience UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Alzheimer’s disease & stem cell models Barnsley lass

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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The RNLI have been fundraising in Victoria Station since 7 am & they are still there now.Seeing the amount of people who have stopped to donate and chat to them - esp with all the right wing crap they’ve endured of late - has been a nice reminder that not everything in the world is terrible. 
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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme. Join us in London! 🎓 World-class neuroscience training 💰 Fully funded 4-year programme 🖥️Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social Apply by 9 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He found a good box ☺️
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Little lab social to the Huntarian museum followed by a drink at the Seven Stars where we got to see The General aka the cat in the ruff making their way to the royal courts Of justice 😍
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What makes UCL a hub for dementia research? 🧠 From brain banks to data science, four researchers explain how working together makes new questions possible. Watch or listen to our @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social 200 podcast: pod.fo/e/6375f1 #DementiaResearch #UCL200
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Florian T. Merkle, PhD @florianmerkle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seeking a PhD at Cambridge in collaboration with NovoNordisk? Consider this funded opportunity titled "Human cellular models of leptin signalling and resistance": bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/project-refe... Application details: bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/how-apply Thanks for spreading the word!
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In 1986 Carol Jennings answered a newsletter appeal with a letter about her family. Forty years later, Dr Clíona Farrell reports from a UCL panel on what that letter started and what is still missing. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-forty-y...
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Forty Years of Dementia Progress: Carol Jennings' Legacy
Dr Clíona Farrell reports from a UCL200 screening of the Carol Jennings documentary: forty years of progress, and the gaps in diagnosis, care and funding left.
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This year's World Alzheimer's Day message is simple: the earlier you know, the more you can do. Selina Wray, Aygun Badalova, Tammaryn Lashley and Andre Altmann on their work, what that means for diagnosis, treatment & support, & what UCL has done to get us here. #WorldAlzheimersDay pod.fo/e/6375f1
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Dementia Researcher: Happy 200th: How UCL is Changing Dementia Research
In this special episode, recorded to mark UCL's 200th birthday and released on World Alzheimer's Day, three UCL researchers working at very different ends of dementia research come together to talk...
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧠 This World Alzheimer's Day, explore how UCL's world-leading dementia research is helping improve diagnosis, treatment and prevention. 🔗 Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the stuffed body of Martha, the last known surviving passenger pigeon, on display in the Natural History Building of the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum circa 1920 Martha, poor lonely Martha, has an interesting connection to the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs... 🧵
black and white photo. Martha, looking to one side towards the camera, on a wooden-looking perch, looking to the camera against a blank background. her appearance is long, slender and upright.
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Future labs starting to look like labs 😍 And I’m glad my comment of “make sure there are plenty of sockets!” appears to have been actioned 😂
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Bowles Lab @bowleslab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We're BACK! 🥳 SCMND returns for 2027! 🎉🎉 Agenda, Speakers, Registration & Abstract submission now available on scmnd.com #iPSC #Organoids #Neurodegeneration #StemCell
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Super exciting morning of talks on local translation in the neuron at the Kavli Neuroscience Laureate lectures, chaired by Edvard Moser with talks from Oswald Steward, Christine Holt, Kelsey Martin and the incoming director of UCL Institute of Neurology Erin Schuman.
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Gorgeous morning run in Oslo, including the roof of the Opera house 😍🇳🇴
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
How to spot a scientist on a work trip 🤣
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tracey Emin “A Second Life” exhibition is one of the best exhibitions I’ve ever been to.Beautiful, but harrowing to experience such raw emotion.This painting of her holding her mum (‘I was too young to hold your ashes’) broke me a bit. Only a few days left, but really worth seeing if you can
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026
everybody is (rightfully) remembering her incredible charity work, the 300 million books and counting for kids, the moderna vaccine, all of it she also wrote 'I Will Always Love You' and 'Jolene' on the same dang day. absolutely peerless
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
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Anestis Tsakiridis @tsakiridis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We have an opening for a Medical Research Council-funded, 3-year research assistant post in my lab to contribute to our efforts to develop a cell therapy against Hirschsprung disease. Closing date=15/9, for more details check the application portal: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
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Research Assistant (Stem Cell Biology)
Research Assistant (Stem Cell Biology)
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I just love her, and desperately want that knitted vest 😍
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.
A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.
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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How does the moon cut his hair? Eclipse it 😆
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Mysterious items of clothing keep appearing in our garden overnight… caught the culprit on camera this morning…
A fox with a pair of shorts they’ve carried into the garden
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Super proud and excited to share this new paper from our lab, a huge collaborative effort from an amazing team! If you do any differentiation of PSCs, this will be of interest 🤓👇 And if you’d like to try out this PSC standardisation, reach out and we’ll happily share the protocol!
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PaquetLab @paquetlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🧵New paper from the lab @isd-research.bsky.social @lmu-klinikum.bsky.social @lmu.de published in @natneuro.nature.com: We developed a highly reproducible 3D human brain tissue model (3BTM) that enables studying microglial phenotypes in health and disease! #OA PDF here: rdcu.be/fxLou Thread👇: 1/11
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It was great to chat to the BBC Science Focus “Instant Genius” podcast about dementia, familial Alzheimer’s disease, stem cell models & how the field is moving towards better diagnosis and new therapies. Spotify link below but listen wherever you get your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/1frL...
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On the frontlines of our fight against dementia
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This was such a great meeting last year - save the date!!
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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Royal Astronomical Society is shocked and dismayed to hear that the UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory is at risk of closure amid a slew of catastrophic budget cuts. Read our full statement here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
One of the best gigs I’ve been to was Prince at the Roundhouse. Halfway through, the crowd parted to let a very sweaty man through who had been having a dance down the front. It was Bill Oddie, resplendent in bird watching gilet. It made our night, almost as much as the show itself!
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A morsel of personal news. I joined the UCL genetics dept as a 1st year undergraduate in 1994, then the Galton Laboratory. Today I became a Professor of Genetics in the same dept, thus proving that if you hang around long enough they eventually concede.
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My cat loves me, you just can’t tell
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 13/07/2026
My home institute, @ucleye.bsky.social, is looking for a new Director! www.veredus.co.uk/job/job-1183a/
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Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology - REF 1183 | Veredus
University College London Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology  Location: London Salary: An attractive remuneration package UCL is a world leading, global university with a community of more...
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica. 
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica. 
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.
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UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology @uclqsion.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We are celebrating 75 years of research, innovation and education with global patient impact! Watch how Queen Square’s unique combination of research, clinical care and collaboration has shaped major neurological breakthroughs and continues to drive future treatments youtu.be/QbgSKrvgQXw
Queen Square Institute of Neurology at 75 title screen
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UCL Translational Research Office @ucltro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We’ve renewed the UCL–Eisai partnership for another 5 years (to 2030), accelerating treatments for neurodegenerative diseases incl. Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s & ALS. Proud to support translational research from lab to patient. Read more: tinyurl.com/4tua9kxr
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UCL Institute of Ophthalmology @ucleye.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We have two Research Fellow vacancies available to join @cheethamlab.bsky.social at @ucleye.bsky.social. The Research Fellows will explore molecular mechanisms of retinal degeneration and test potential therapeutic approaches. These positions close on 8 July. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Lovely, but very hot and sweaty Parkrun at Lordship Recreation Ground today 50th location 🥳 Ate a pastry as big as my head 🥐 Got recognised by two UCL colleagues I had only met briefly before and felt like a minor and very niche celebrity 🤣
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Kirsty McMillan @mcmillanlab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Conference reminder! Abstract submission and early-bird registration to the 93rd Biochemical Society Harden Conference on "Endosomal-lysosomal network dysfunction in neurodegeneration" closes soon on the 1st July. Lots of speaker slots available from submitted abstracts so do come and join us!
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A new documentary, 'Jon Snow: A Last Big Story', follows the former Channel 4 presenter as he navigates life with dementia and his participation in a key clinical trial run by @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCLH. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ju...
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UCL trial profiled in Jon Snow documentary on life with Alzheimer’s
A new documentary, 'Jon Snow: A Last Big Story', follows the former Channel 4 presenter as he navigates life with dementia and his participation in a key clinical trial run by UCL and UCLH.
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
There is a moth on the wall behind me…
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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Job klaxon 📣 UCL is hiring two NeuroAI / computational neuroscience specialists (Lecturer or Associate Prof) — a big part of the new NeuroAI centre we're growing in Biosciences. Do consider applying if it's relevant to you. JD & details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX021 Happy to take questions.
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lautenschlagerlab.bsky.social @lautenschlagerlab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
👉 Fully Funded PhD (UK Students Only) 👈 I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at UCL to investigate how alpha-synuclein condensates contribute to synaptic dysfunction in Parkinson’s, for details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhD #Neuroscience #Parkinson @ucl.ac.uk @uclnpp.bsky.social
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Alpha-Synuclein Condensates and Synaptic Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Alpha-Synuclein Condensates and Synaptic Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Anson Mackay (they/them) @ans.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is brilliant news - a new GCSE in Natural History will bring #nature and its benefits to new generations of young adults in the UK 🍎 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens
Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Congratulations to Professor Erin Schuman, incoming Director of the @uclqsion.bsky.social, who is one of four scientists to receive the prestigious #KavliPrize in Neuroscience for 2026 👏
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Incoming institute director awarded Kavli Prize for Neuroscience
Professor Erin Schuman, who will take up her role as Director of the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in January, is one of four scientists to receive the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for 2026.
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Jep @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The FT has taken the paywall off Simon Schama's essay on Hockney. It's quite something www.ft.com/content/3862...
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Simon Schama on the pleasure-giving, life-affirming art of David Hockney
Britain’s most popular living painter has maintained an unfashionable commitment to optical delight
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
😢 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Artist David Hockney dies aged 88
Hockney was one of Britain's most important artists of the modern era.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A List of Things Eaten by Scientists 🧵
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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Away for 4 nights… 3 types of Yorkshire tea to see me through 🫖
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