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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 3h

Legs are in pieces but what a stunner of a day! Half plenty and well done to all of those who have headed out on lap 2… 🏃🏼‍♀️⛰️😍

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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 7h

Beautiful morning to destroy my legs 😍🫣

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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Good morning from the Lake District, where this is the same view photographed 4 times in 30 mins 😍🤣 Looking forward to running up some hills in the Langdale half tomorrow!

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UCL NeuroAI @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨 Calling all brains — biological, artificial, and everything in between! Abstract submissions are now open for the UCL NeuroAI Annual Conference 2026 🧠🤖 ⏰ Abstract deadline: 16 Oct, 12pm Come share your work with the UCL NeuroAI community! forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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Microsoft Forms

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Funded 3-year PhD studentship in frontotemporal dementia at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, starting February 2027. Closes 6 November 2026. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-fron...

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PhD: Frontotemporal Dementia (John Clifton Legacy) - Dementia Researcher

Funded 3-year PhD studentship in frontotemporal dementia at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, starting February 2027. Closes 6 November 2026.

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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My favourite time of year, what a gorgeous morning for Richmond Parkrun!

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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Was a pleasure Stefan and I hope she enjoyed the discussions - I know I did!

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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Was a pleasure to examine this fantastic thesis!

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Selina Wray @selinawray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Delighted to take on this role and support the amazing work that happens in our faculty! Grateful for the opportunity 🧠🧪

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Nature @nature.com · 07/10/2026

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A UCL-led project reducing MRI scan times from around 20 minutes to seven minutes, and a new hearing test, have received funding to be trialled on the NHS to help diagnose dementia. @uclqsion.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/oc...

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Faster MRI scans for dementia to be tested on NHS

A UCL-led project reducing MRI scan times from around 20 minutes to seven minutes, and a new hearing test, have received funding to be trialled on the NHS to help diagnose dementia.

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Bowles Lab @bowleslab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Announcing our plenary speakers for SCMND2027! View all of our confirmed speakers, Register, and Submit your abstract on SCMND.com SCMND2027: 19th-21st May 2027, Edinburgh, UK @ukdri.ac.uk #iPSC #neurodegeneration #organoids

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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 · 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

Makes your hair shine lovely 🤣

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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)

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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

Instant Genius · Episode

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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

The initial confusion followed by the delight when me and friend realised yes indeed it was him!!

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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

Yesss Prof Rutherford!!! 🎉 let’s go sing some Cher/The Smiths to celebrate!!!

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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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