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Dr Yvonne Couch

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · Nov 18

Have to post this back up as my pinned page so that people can see the awesomeness of cartoon EVs...

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Magdalen. Or Loughborough.

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 18h

this....brings me so much joy!

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 2d

this mornings office kitchen is the opposite of the Alanis Morrisette song, 10,000 knives when all I need is a spoon...

a bunch of wooden spoons on a white surface with the words it 's like 10,000 spoons

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 4d

I even have the lecture scribbles...

But the amount of detail in my actual notes probably explains my lack of social life ..

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 4d

It's time.

Rainy Saturday afternoon activity is recycling the 20 year old undergrad notes...
#academia

Pile of white lines paper covered in small neat handwriting with some hand drawn pictures of scientific things like kidneys and antibodies

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 5d

Oh I'll add this quite old review as well (sorry for going twice) again for just being beautifully written. Eloquent explanations in science are such glorious things and this one is worth reading even if you don't work on protein misfolding...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14685248/

Protein folding and misfolding - PubMed

The manner in which a newly synthesized chain of amino acids transforms itself into a perfectly folded protein depends both on the intrinsic properties of the amino-acid sequence and on multiple contr...

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 5d

Ok so this is almost certainly not up your street but I LOVE this paper because it is simple, beautifully written and super clear. It's just a good paper and I fangirled the senior author about it in an email to him

www.jneurosci.org/content/40/2...

Acute Inflammation Alters Brain Energy Metabolism in Mice and Humans: Role in Suppressed Spontaneous Activity, Impaired Cognition, and Delirium

Systemic infection triggers a spectrum of metabolic and behavioral changes, collectively termed sickness behavior, which while adaptive, can affect mood and cognition. In vulnerable individuals, acute...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 6d

The breakfast show I listen to does a stupid amnesty which I LOVE. My favourites thus far:

1. Person only realised recently that the Wombles live on Wimbledon Common, and are not, in fact, just common
2. Person only realised recently that the phrase was 'prima donna' not 'pre-Madonna'

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 7d

You'll enjoy this...it was followed today by me having to fill in a form about out of hours working which had to be signed by my project license holder.

That person is also me.

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 8d

It would not surprise me...

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 8d

Apparently my local ethics board have learned nothing from the pandemic when we realised that actually, some large meetings work really well remotely.

Today I did a round trip of about half an hour cycling (involving hills) to answer questions that took approximately three minutes of my time.

a man in a suit and tie is yawning while talking on a stage .

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 8d

Super exciting news from UCL...
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 8d

4/ 🧬 Gene therapy shows promise in slowing Huntington’s disease progression in trial led by @uclqsion.bsky.social researchers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 9d

Gus will simply not be your performing monkey, not now, not ever, the treatos keep coming and he still gets to eat them even if he doesn't catch them first. I call Gus a hidden genius.

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 9d

My PhD student has gotten herself a job and I am super proud!
#mentoring

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 9d

17 of my 180 emails after AL actually require reading...

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 10d

Back off AL and feeling slightly less enthusiastic than normal but at least well rested after a brief tour of some English fizz vineyards with doggo...
#dogsky

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 26d

okie dokie....switching off the email, switching off all the socials and going to have a couple of weeks of down time....see you on the other side people!
#worklifebalance

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 26d

And it bites!!!

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 26d

Voila...

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 27d

It lives!!!!
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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 28d

😭😭😭😭

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 29d

Just wrapping up discussing metabolism with the 7th preclinical stroke symposium here at Keble College in Oxford, an interesting experience hosting and presenting all at once but a great time had by all!

@kebleoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Lecture theatre scene from high up, brown floor, brown lectern, large screen, lady all in black on the left with blonde hair pointing at the screen, lots of chemical names all over the screen

Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm broadly against the 'I'm so thrilled to announce' type post you get all over LinkedIn but what it did allow me to do today was link with a total stranger who happens to be a histol expert. We organized a teams call and spent 40 minutes nerding out about glass coating protocols and histology 😍🧪

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have no comments. Only confusion....

Two boxes of tea with pictures of tea cups on, the left is brown and described as Mens Tea, the right box is dark pink and described as women's tea

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