Tomás Ryan
@tjryan.bsky.social
Neuroscientist| Professor at Trinity College Dublin | CIFAR Global Scholar| P.I. of Ryan Lab at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.
@tjryan.bsky.social
@tjryan.bsky.social
Excellent analysis of the COVID response in the UK & Europe.
Some questionable appraisal of Sweden, without considering comparisons with NZ, Australia - or indeed Finland, Denmark, & Norway.
Many countries minimized COVID deaths AND minimized lockdown, by reducing infections.
Some questionable appraisal of Sweden, without considering comparisons with NZ, Australia - or indeed Finland, Denmark, & Norway.
Many countries minimized COVID deaths AND minimized lockdown, by reducing infections.
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Excellent analysis of the COVID response in the UK & Europe.
Some questionable appraisal of Sweden, without considering comparisons with NZ, Australia - or indeed Finland, Denmark, & Norway.
Many countries minimized COVID deaths AND minimized lockdown, by reducing infections.
Some questionable appraisal of Sweden, without considering comparisons with NZ, Australia - or indeed Finland, Denmark, & Norway.
Many countries minimized COVID deaths AND minimized lockdown, by reducing infections.
Important analysis of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry from @rory-stewart.bsky.social & @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0x7Y...
open.spotify.com/episode/0x7Y...
471. Rory Stewart: How the Government Tried to Silence Me on Lockdowns
Spotify video
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Important analysis of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry from @rory-stewart.bsky.social & @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0x7Y...
open.spotify.com/episode/0x7Y...
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People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
Had the Irish government followed the UK response in the 1st COVID wave, we would have suffered about 2,500 further deaths (on top of the 1,635 people who died before May 31, 2020). Thankfully that didn't happen.
Nevertheless, we will await Ireland's COVID-19 Evaluation...
Nevertheless, we will await Ireland's COVID-19 Evaluation...
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Had the Irish government followed the UK response in the 1st COVID wave, we would have suffered about 2,500 further deaths (on top of the 1,635 people who died before May 31, 2020). Thankfully that didn't happen.
Nevertheless, we will await Ireland's COVID-19 Evaluation...
Nevertheless, we will await Ireland's COVID-19 Evaluation...
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Thank you to everyone who came out to #MCCS25 last week! It was great to hear all the exciting research happening in the field of molecular and cellular cognition 🧠
🤓 A special thank you to all our incredible speakers for sharing their work!
Don't forget to join our mailing list: bit.ly/4r1YApk
🤓 A special thank you to all our incredible speakers for sharing their work!
Don't forget to join our mailing list: bit.ly/4r1YApk
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Thank you to everyone who came out to #MCCS25 last week! It was great to hear all the exciting research happening in the field of molecular and cellular cognition 🧠
🤓 A special thank you to all our incredible speakers for sharing their work!
Don't forget to join our mailing list: bit.ly/4r1YApk
🤓 A special thank you to all our incredible speakers for sharing their work!
Don't forget to join our mailing list: bit.ly/4r1YApk
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ICYMI: Yesterday, the CDC updated its vaccine safety page to say that vaccines might cause autism (they don’t) and that the science isn’t settled (it is).
For substantiation, the page links out to several studies by anti-vax allies of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
For substantiation, the page links out to several studies by anti-vax allies of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
CDC Updates Vaccine Safety Page to Promote Vaccine Misinformation, Cites Kennedy’s Anti-Vax Allies
It is the latest move by Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to undermine vaccines.
www.importantcontext.news
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
ICYMI: Yesterday, the CDC updated its vaccine safety page to say that vaccines might cause autism (they don’t) and that the science isn’t settled (it is).
For substantiation, the page links out to several studies by anti-vax allies of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
For substantiation, the page links out to several studies by anti-vax allies of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Call for junior or mid-career group leaders in neuroscience! Apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network. We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars who are committed to exchanging scientific ideas & improve neuroscience in Europe. fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Call for junior or mid-career group leaders in neuroscience! Apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network. We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars who are committed to exchanging scientific ideas & improve neuroscience in Europe. fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...
Late breaking abstract at #SfN25 by Dr. Erika Stewart:
LBP032.14 - Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia (1 PM - 5 PM Sunday Nov 16).
@sfn.org @tcddublin.bsky.social @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social
LBP032.14 - Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia (1 PM - 5 PM Sunday Nov 16).
@sfn.org @tcddublin.bsky.social @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Late breaking abstract at #SfN25 by Dr. Erika Stewart:
LBP032.14 - Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia (1 PM - 5 PM Sunday Nov 16).
@sfn.org @tcddublin.bsky.social @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social
LBP032.14 - Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia (1 PM - 5 PM Sunday Nov 16).
@sfn.org @tcddublin.bsky.social @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Don't miss talks from our selected speakers at #MCCS25!
Come hear exciting research updates about all things neuroscience 🧠
There's still time to register! event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Come hear exciting research updates about all things neuroscience 🧠
There's still time to register! event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Don't miss talks from our selected speakers at #MCCS25!
Come hear exciting research updates about all things neuroscience 🧠
There's still time to register! event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Come hear exciting research updates about all things neuroscience 🧠
There's still time to register! event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
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📣 #MCCS25 starts TOMORROW! Check out our poster session tomorrow & our symposium on Friday to hear from the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition.
More information here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
More information here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
📣 #MCCS25 starts TOMORROW! Check out our poster session tomorrow & our symposium on Friday to hear from the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition.
More information here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
More information here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
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Sickness engrams modulate anticipatory immune responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686140v1
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sickness engrams modulate anticipatory immune responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686140v1
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Come check out the #MCCS25 debate on November 14!
Drs. André Fenton & Yaniv Ziv will be debating a hot topic: are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? Moderated by Dr. @sarahrobins.bsky.social 🧠
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Drs. André Fenton & Yaniv Ziv will be debating a hot topic: are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? Moderated by Dr. @sarahrobins.bsky.social 🧠
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Come check out the #MCCS25 debate on November 14!
Drs. André Fenton & Yaniv Ziv will be debating a hot topic: are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? Moderated by Dr. @sarahrobins.bsky.social 🧠
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Drs. André Fenton & Yaniv Ziv will be debating a hot topic: are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? Moderated by Dr. @sarahrobins.bsky.social 🧠
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
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in case anyone hasn't watched the full thing, do it. it's a damn treat.
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
FULL SPEECH: Zohran Mamdani's victory speech following historic NYC mayoral win
YouTube video by ABC News
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
in case anyone hasn't watched the full thing, do it. it's a damn treat.
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
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Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
www.irishtimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
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Meet the #MCCS25 speakers!
Drs. Bianca Silva & Kay Tye will be giving talks at our Symposium on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Drs. Bianca Silva & Kay Tye will be giving talks at our Symposium on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Meet the #MCCS25 speakers!
Drs. Bianca Silva & Kay Tye will be giving talks at our Symposium on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Drs. Bianca Silva & Kay Tye will be giving talks at our Symposium on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
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🧠 Join the @network-alba.bsky.social social at Neuroscience 2025!
Come share ideas and recharge with peers at this IBRO-supported social dedicated to building a more inclusive #neuroscience community. 🌐
🗓️ 16 November 2025 | 19:00–20:30 (PST)
👉 Learn more here: https://loom.ly/b1Fp-4E
Come share ideas and recharge with peers at this IBRO-supported social dedicated to building a more inclusive #neuroscience community. 🌐
🗓️ 16 November 2025 | 19:00–20:30 (PST)
👉 Learn more here: https://loom.ly/b1Fp-4E
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🧠 Join the @network-alba.bsky.social social at Neuroscience 2025!
Come share ideas and recharge with peers at this IBRO-supported social dedicated to building a more inclusive #neuroscience community. 🌐
🗓️ 16 November 2025 | 19:00–20:30 (PST)
👉 Learn more here: https://loom.ly/b1Fp-4E
Come share ideas and recharge with peers at this IBRO-supported social dedicated to building a more inclusive #neuroscience community. 🌐
🗓️ 16 November 2025 | 19:00–20:30 (PST)
👉 Learn more here: https://loom.ly/b1Fp-4E
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Meet the #MCCS25 speakers!
Check out talks from Drs. @crezaval.bsky.social & Priya Rajasethupathy at our Symposium on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Check out talks from Drs. @crezaval.bsky.social & Priya Rajasethupathy at our Symposium on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
October 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Meet the #MCCS25 speakers!
Check out talks from Drs. @crezaval.bsky.social & Priya Rajasethupathy at our Symposium on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Check out talks from Drs. @crezaval.bsky.social & Priya Rajasethupathy at our Symposium on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
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The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad.
I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
1/4
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I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
1/4
🧪
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad.
I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
1/4
🧪
I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
1/4
🧪
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“The governing parties need to reflect long and hard on why they have been unable to ever look like winning this election”
~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
October 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
“The governing parties need to reflect long and hard on why they have been unable to ever look like winning this election”
~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
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I've written a newsletter on why the FG attack video is both bad content, and bad strategy
(If you subscribed you'd have gotten this in your inbox with the heading "Why that FG ad is giving you the ick")
(It's free)
www.thebriefing.ie/fine-gaels-a...
(If you subscribed you'd have gotten this in your inbox with the heading "Why that FG ad is giving you the ick")
(It's free)
www.thebriefing.ie/fine-gaels-a...
Fine Gael's Attack Ad: Áras25 in Content
By burying the lede and handing over airtime, have Fine Gael committed an own goal?
www.thebriefing.ie
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I've written a newsletter on why the FG attack video is both bad content, and bad strategy
(If you subscribed you'd have gotten this in your inbox with the heading "Why that FG ad is giving you the ick")
(It's free)
www.thebriefing.ie/fine-gaels-a...
(If you subscribed you'd have gotten this in your inbox with the heading "Why that FG ad is giving you the ick")
(It's free)
www.thebriefing.ie/fine-gaels-a...
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Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.17.683060v1
October 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.17.683060v1
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Meet the #MCCS25 speakers!
Don't miss talks from Drs. Satoshi Kida and @karynfrick.bsky.social on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Don't miss talks from Drs. Satoshi Kida and @karynfrick.bsky.social on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
October 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Meet the #MCCS25 speakers!
Don't miss talks from Drs. Satoshi Kida and @karynfrick.bsky.social on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Don't miss talks from Drs. Satoshi Kida and @karynfrick.bsky.social on November 14.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
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🚨Open position at #FENS!
💭Do you want to help strengthen the voice of #neuroscience?
Apply for the Advocacy and Engagement Internship at FENS!
🗓️ The deadline for applications is 31 October!
👉 https://loom.ly/2Qy18y8
💭Do you want to help strengthen the voice of #neuroscience?
Apply for the Advocacy and Engagement Internship at FENS!
🗓️ The deadline for applications is 31 October!
👉 https://loom.ly/2Qy18y8
October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🚨Open position at #FENS!
💭Do you want to help strengthen the voice of #neuroscience?
Apply for the Advocacy and Engagement Internship at FENS!
🗓️ The deadline for applications is 31 October!
👉 https://loom.ly/2Qy18y8
💭Do you want to help strengthen the voice of #neuroscience?
Apply for the Advocacy and Engagement Internship at FENS!
🗓️ The deadline for applications is 31 October!
👉 https://loom.ly/2Qy18y8