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Geraint Rees
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Iโ€™m a neuroscientist, lapsed neurologist, university leader and runner. Not necessarily in that order.

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Geraint Ellis Rees is a British scientist who is Vice-Provost of research, innovation & global engagement at University College London (UCL). Previously he served as Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences, UCL Pro-Provost, Pro-Vice-Provost (AI) and a Professor of Cognitive Neurology at University College London. He is also a Director of UCL Business, a trustee of the Alan Turing Institute, a trustee of the Francis Crick Institute and a trustee of the Guarantors of Brain. .. more

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Geraint Rees @profgeraintrees.bsky.social ยท 1h
Great to see this impact from our Grand Challenge of Justice and Equality over nearly a decade!
uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social UCL Grand Challenges @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social ยท 3h
๐Ÿš€ Just launched! UCL's Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality Impact Report

Celebrating the work of researchers & partners from UCL & beyond to address inequality in all its forms, locally, nationally & globally.

๐Ÿ”— Find out more & read the report: https://bit.ly/3Ma61e9
UCL โ€“ 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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UCL Grand Challenges @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social ยท 3h
๐Ÿš€ Just launched! UCL's Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality Impact Report

Celebrating the work of researchers & partners from UCL & beyond to address inequality in all its forms, locally, nationally & globally.

๐Ÿ”— Find out more & read the report: https://bit.ly/3Ma61e9
UCL โ€“ 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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UCL Global Engagement @ucl-global.bsky.social ยท 5d
@ucl.ac.uk leaders, including @profgeraintrees.bsky.social, visited Singapore to advance partnerships in health, AI and innovation โ€” meeting A*STAR, NUS, NTU, and SingHealth, announcing the first UCLโ€“NUS fund recipients, and engaging alumni.

#UCLSingapore
#UCLHealth

www.ucl.ac.uk/global/news/...

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Geraint Rees @profgeraintrees.bsky.social ยท 8d
Novo Nordisk shares slump after drug failure in Alzheimerโ€™s trial www.ft.com/content/ecab... via @ft
Novo Nordisk shares slump after drug failure in Alzheimerโ€™s trial
Outcome is blow to one of Europeโ€™s largest listed companies
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Geraint Rees @profgeraintrees.bsky.social ยท 10d
Thirty-first book of 2025 finished - last long haul sector of the year for this terrific story and thank you to @johnwilliams.bsky.social for the excellent recommendation!

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social ยท 12d
Next frontier in AI safety is.....adversarial poetry?

arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org

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UCL Global Engagement @ucl-global.bsky.social ยท 12d
@ucl.ac.uk is in India today! Join us as we share updates from the visit and stories of our collaborations. Led by Vice-Provost
@profgeraintrees.bsky.social, our team will strengthen ties with key partners.

#UCLandIndia

Explore UCLโ€™s connections with India: www.ucl.ac.uk/global/regio...

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UCL Global Engagement @ucl-global.bsky.social ยท 13d
At the Reach Alliance Conference in Singapore, @profgeraintrees.bsky.social took part in the Leaders Roundtable on universities creating impact and announced that UCL will host the Reach Conference in London in November 2026. We also highlighted two UCL student case studies. #UCLSingapore #UCLHealth

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social ยท 16d
Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader

Closing date 27th November

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

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Geraint Rees @profgeraintrees.bsky.social ยท 23d
End of a wonderful week in the Okavango Delta and so thirtieth book of 2025 finished - extraordinary tale of Anna the Norwegian duck woman

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com ยท 23d
Human biomass movement may be up to 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined, according to research in Nature Ecology & Evolution. A second Nature Communications paper finds that wild mammal biomass has more than halved since 1850. go.nature.com/4oID33i go.nature.com/3LhSD7n ๐Ÿงช
This is figure 1 from โ€œHuman biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined.โ€ It shows total biomass movement of land animals and birds.