So happy to finally share our pre-print! 🎉 We observed elevated brain lipid levels, particularly sphingolipids and phospholipids, in post-mortem brain tissue from Alzheimer's disease (AD) donors, especially those carrying rare TREM2 mutations! See below for details and link!

All the little people wanna dance, it’s true Us V Them LCD Soundsystem, All Points East

the UK if oasis reunite:

New lab paper alert 🚨🙂 Former postdoc Katie Smith demonstrates how nodes of Ranvier in cochlear afferent neurons change around the onset of hearing. Computer simulations (in association with David Attwell's lab UCL Neuroscience) show how this speeds transmission to the brain. 👂🧠🔬

Our Vice President, Prof Sir John Hardy, shares his thoughts on the #lecanemab news and how the dementia research community must respond in the Financial Times. ft.com/content/776209…

Alzheimer's Research UK Vice President Professor John Hardy giving his take on the new treatments. The first gen treatments are not going to be a magic bullet - but we must use this moment to get ready for what's next. #ForACure Worth a read 👇 ft.com/content/776209… via @ft

Interested in Open Research? We're recruiting an open research administrator to work here Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in Camden, part of the UK Reproducibility network UK Reproducibility Network jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Deadline 20th of September, contact details in advert if you want to know more

Professor Gillian Bates FRS is awarded the Royal Society's Ferrier Medal for her work in understanding the molecular basis of Huntington’s disease and consistently producing highly impactful findings which have moulded the course of this field. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-pri…

We recorded this a while ago and it’s finally out! Have a listen to our conversation with the amazing Gandhi_Lab UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology on Parkinson’s disease, COVID research and diagnosis and many other things!

Have not been able to make my mind up about Oasis tickets, would love to see them again but predict crowd will be mental which I cba with. However, it would seem decision made by sale time as nothing replaces Parkrun at 9am Saturday 🤣🤣

This piece is interesting. These surge prices (£355 for Oasis) have been "agreed in advance with the artist’s management and promoter," according to The Times and The Sunday Times. (£) thetimes.com/uk/society/art…

These narratives are so exhausting & exist to both justify inequalities whilst positioning the working-class as stupid, uncultured & undeserving. So let’s take this example of ‘the seaside is free’ as an option for a family day out for a single mother of 3 kids from London.

Sometimes pitching your research to a lay audience can be tricky...check out my latest blog where I explore ways to put your best foot forward when communicating your science! Dementia Researcher UK Dementia Research Institute UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology #scicomm #AcademicChatter

Happy see these questions as part of The Royal Society EDI data collection. Social mobility info is hard to collect and not perfect, but asking if you are first-gen at uni, and status of main income earner & free school meal eligibility at age 14 is a great start!

If there was anything else killing women in the numbers that male violence is killing women globally I’m sure we’d have called an international emergency by now - cobra meetings, UN resolutions - the lot. But as it is, we keep reporting headlines like this like it’s normal.

The Jennings vs Alzheimer’s tells the powerful story of a rare, hereditary form of Alzheimer's, featuring research from Prof Sir John Hardy, Prof Nick Fox, & Dr Prof Cath Mummery, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, DRC@UCL #UCLDementia #WorldAlzheimersMonth bbc.in/3Mzu5V2