Edinburgh Neuroscience
@edinunineuro.bsky.social
Edinburgh Neuroscience is a diverse community of world-class researchers in neuroscience, psychology & clinical psychology at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.edinburghneuroscience.ed.ac.uk/
https://www.edinburghneuroscience.ed.ac.uk/
We had a fab night at our Xmas public lecture. Paul, Claire and Sam discussed their unique collaboration using living human brain tissue. So grateful to our packed audience and their incisive questions which covered data sharing, rigour, ethics, AI and funding. Watch/listen: edin.ac/4q9njHa
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We had a fab night at our Xmas public lecture. Paul, Claire and Sam discussed their unique collaboration using living human brain tissue. So grateful to our packed audience and their incisive questions which covered data sharing, rigour, ethics, AI and funding. Watch/listen: edin.ac/4q9njHa
A quick post to celebrate before the week is out… our translational neuroscience PhDs had their last training session of the year this week. This tied in with some festive frolics and plenty of ceilidh dancing to get everyone properly in the mood for the rest of the season! 🧠🎄🎅🏼🏴💃🏻🕺
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A quick post to celebrate before the week is out… our translational neuroscience PhDs had their last training session of the year this week. This tied in with some festive frolics and plenty of ceilidh dancing to get everyone properly in the mood for the rest of the season! 🧠🎄🎅🏼🏴💃🏻🕺
Tonight, we’re at the Edinburgh Futures Institute for our public Christmas lecture. We’ll be finding out about a unique research collaboration using living human brain tissue
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Tonight, we’re at the Edinburgh Futures Institute for our public Christmas lecture. We’ll be finding out about a unique research collaboration using living human brain tissue
VIDA is a multi-institutional partnership between Alzheimer’s Society and four world-leading research sites. Projects focus on the importance of vascular and immune mechanisms in dementia. Fully-funded and cohort based! Search "VIDA" on FindAPhD.com and apply before 9 January 2026.
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
VIDA is a multi-institutional partnership between Alzheimer’s Society and four world-leading research sites. Projects focus on the importance of vascular and immune mechanisms in dementia. Fully-funded and cohort based! Search "VIDA" on FindAPhD.com and apply before 9 January 2026.
Lots of neuro projects on this fully-funded cohort based programme! Be part of a team and complement your PhD with advanced scientific training, getting the best preparation for your career in bioscience: edin.ac/48l82Ma
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Lots of neuro projects on this fully-funded cohort based programme! Be part of a team and complement your PhD with advanced scientific training, getting the best preparation for your career in bioscience: edin.ac/48l82Ma
We’ve been touring MS labs and facilities. 4 hours flashed by in the blink of an eye! We covered a whole campus and met 5 teams. We have so many researchers and support staff working on so many different aspects of this disease, every day advancing therapies and striving to reverse symptoms of MS.
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We’ve been touring MS labs and facilities. 4 hours flashed by in the blink of an eye! We covered a whole campus and met 5 teams. We have so many researchers and support staff working on so many different aspects of this disease, every day advancing therapies and striving to reverse symptoms of MS.
There are lots of new neuro projects in this cohort-based, fully funded PhD programme (edin.ac/43YnL2g)
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
There are lots of new neuro projects in this cohort-based, fully funded PhD programme (edin.ac/43YnL2g)
There are lots of new neuro projects in this cohort-based, fully funded PhD programme. Take a look! usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
There are lots of new neuro projects in this cohort-based, fully funded PhD programme. Take a look! usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
The BHF Cardiovascular Biomarker Laboratory is recruiting a full-time technician. Closing date 5 November 2025. More info and application: edin.ac/43BA701
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The BHF Cardiovascular Biomarker Laboratory is recruiting a full-time technician. Closing date 5 November 2025. More info and application: edin.ac/43BA701
Prof Steve Pollard @edinuni-irr.bsky.social wraps up our EN-PM with a keynote: Targeting the core neurodevelopmental identity in glioblastoma with a viral immunotherapy
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Prof Steve Pollard @edinuni-irr.bsky.social wraps up our EN-PM with a keynote: Targeting the core neurodevelopmental identity in glioblastoma with a viral immunotherapy
Publishing open and shareable scientific findings without breaking the bank - our panel discuss emerging and future models fo sharing research outputs. @earthowned.bsky.social, @marstonlab.bsky.social, Mahesh Karnani and Matt Nolan #EN-PM
October 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Publishing open and shareable scientific findings without breaking the bank - our panel discuss emerging and future models fo sharing research outputs. @earthowned.bsky.social, @marstonlab.bsky.social, Mahesh Karnani and Matt Nolan #EN-PM
@edinuni-irr.bsky.social postdoc, Dani Ruiz Gabarre is ‘Untangling sex differences in small vessel disease through proteomics analyses on a preclinical model’
October 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
@edinuni-irr.bsky.social postdoc, Dani Ruiz Gabarre is ‘Untangling sex differences in small vessel disease through proteomics analyses on a preclinical model’
Next up at EN-PM, Max Knop:
FMRP loss from adult human neurons reveals a neuromaintenance role that is corrected by phosphodiesterase-4D inhibition
FMRP loss from adult human neurons reveals a neuromaintenance role that is corrected by phosphodiesterase-4D inhibition
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Next up at EN-PM, Max Knop:
FMRP loss from adult human neurons reveals a neuromaintenance role that is corrected by phosphodiesterase-4D inhibition
FMRP loss from adult human neurons reveals a neuromaintenance role that is corrected by phosphodiesterase-4D inhibition
Talk #2 at EN-PM: From microbes to milestones: Associations between the gut microbiome and neurodevelopment following preterm birth. Aisling Kenny, PhD student, @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Talk #2 at EN-PM: From microbes to milestones: Associations between the gut microbiome and neurodevelopment following preterm birth. Aisling Kenny, PhD student, @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
First up at today's EN-PM is Johnny Tam. Talk title: Deep learning digital speech biomarkers of dysarthria in motor neuron disease.
October 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
First up at today's EN-PM is Johnny Tam. Talk title: Deep learning digital speech biomarkers of dysarthria in motor neuron disease.
Job Alert: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Join the Wellcome-funded ENERGISE-BD team at the University of Edinburgh. ENERGISE-BD is a randomised controlled trial comparing nutritional ketosis to the NHS EatWell guidance in patients with bipolar depression.
More info: edin.ac/4nEN5BDb Alert
Join the Wellcome-funded ENERGISE-BD team at the University of Edinburgh. ENERGISE-BD is a randomised controlled trial comparing nutritional ketosis to the NHS EatWell guidance in patients with bipolar depression.
More info: edin.ac/4nEN5BDb Alert
October 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Job Alert: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Join the Wellcome-funded ENERGISE-BD team at the University of Edinburgh. ENERGISE-BD is a randomised controlled trial comparing nutritional ketosis to the NHS EatWell guidance in patients with bipolar depression.
More info: edin.ac/4nEN5BDb Alert
Join the Wellcome-funded ENERGISE-BD team at the University of Edinburgh. ENERGISE-BD is a randomised controlled trial comparing nutritional ketosis to the NHS EatWell guidance in patients with bipolar depression.
More info: edin.ac/4nEN5BDb Alert
📢 Job Alert 📢: Research Fellow in new national BHF-UK DRI Centre for Vascular Dementia Research. You will use in vitro and ex vivo techniques to investigate the relationship between endothelial cells, oligodendrocytes and neurons in the context of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementias.
edin.ac/4nrMrIm
edin.ac/4nrMrIm
September 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
📢 Job Alert 📢: Research Fellow in new national BHF-UK DRI Centre for Vascular Dementia Research. You will use in vitro and ex vivo techniques to investigate the relationship between endothelial cells, oligodendrocytes and neurons in the context of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementias.
edin.ac/4nrMrIm
edin.ac/4nrMrIm
📢 Job Alert: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Full details: edin.ac/3Ibm1uQ
Deadline for applications: Friday 19 September 2025
Deadline for applications: Friday 19 September 2025
September 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
📢 Job Alert: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Full details: edin.ac/3Ibm1uQ
Deadline for applications: Friday 19 September 2025
Deadline for applications: Friday 19 September 2025
Rustam Al-Shahi Salman (Clinical Neurology) et al have published landmark research which could guide clinical decision-making on cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs).
Read the full paper: edin.ac/3I8oS7K
Or watch the news coverage: edin.ac/46cTc9A
Read the full paper: edin.ac/3I8oS7K
Or watch the news coverage: edin.ac/46cTc9A
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Rustam Al-Shahi Salman (Clinical Neurology) et al have published landmark research which could guide clinical decision-making on cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs).
Read the full paper: edin.ac/3I8oS7K
Or watch the news coverage: edin.ac/46cTc9A
Read the full paper: edin.ac/3I8oS7K
Or watch the news coverage: edin.ac/46cTc9A
Open to everyone: a great opportunity to gain insight into the research at @annerowlingclinic.bsky.social at their Research Open Evening on 21/08 5.30-7pm, Little France. See edin.ac/3HpxFly for more details.
August 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Open to everyone: a great opportunity to gain insight into the research at @annerowlingclinic.bsky.social at their Research Open Evening on 21/08 5.30-7pm, Little France. See edin.ac/3HpxFly for more details.
A recent paper from Michael Zakharin and Timothy C Bates: ‘Higher cognitive ability linked to weaker moral foundations in UK adults’. Read the full article - doi.org/10.1016/j.in...
July 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
A recent paper from Michael Zakharin and Timothy C Bates: ‘Higher cognitive ability linked to weaker moral foundations in UK adults’. Read the full article - doi.org/10.1016/j.in...
@arishmrl.bsky.social & colleagues have found that people with autoimmune conditions are at nearly double the risk of mental health issues - depression, bipolar, anxiety - compared to the general population. Read the full paper: edin.ac/40jxw9h; highlighted in the Guardian 25/06: edin.ac/44pQyfF
June 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
@arishmrl.bsky.social & colleagues have found that people with autoimmune conditions are at nearly double the risk of mental health issues - depression, bipolar, anxiety - compared to the general population. Read the full paper: edin.ac/40jxw9h; highlighted in the Guardian 25/06: edin.ac/44pQyfF
Time to get nominating our amazing technicians who play a vital part in our research. Deadline for nominations for #UoETechnicianAwards2025 is 27/06. See here for more details: edin.ac/3wIifUe
@uoetechnicians.bsky.social
@uoetechnicians.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Time to get nominating our amazing technicians who play a vital part in our research. Deadline for nominations for #UoETechnicianAwards2025 is 27/06. See here for more details: edin.ac/3wIifUe
@uoetechnicians.bsky.social
@uoetechnicians.bsky.social
It’s EN Afternoon🤩: PhD data blitz; @emmayhnell.bsky.social shares ideas on teaching & engagement. Highlights of our range of teaching programmes - how to get involved! Keynote: Andy Stansfield @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social on behaviour and cognition in genetic neurodevelopmental conditions.
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June 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It’s EN Afternoon🤩: PhD data blitz; @emmayhnell.bsky.social shares ideas on teaching & engagement. Highlights of our range of teaching programmes - how to get involved! Keynote: Andy Stansfield @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social on behaviour and cognition in genetic neurodevelopmental conditions.
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On TV tonight - edin.ac/3EHc7Q2 - our Race Against Dementia lab have broken new ground. Using live brain tissue, they have shown for the 1st time how a toxic form a protein linked to #Alzheimer’s can stick to and damage synapses. Next steps: developing drugs to combat this!
April 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
On TV tonight - edin.ac/3EHc7Q2 - our Race Against Dementia lab have broken new ground. Using live brain tissue, they have shown for the 1st time how a toxic form a protein linked to #Alzheimer’s can stick to and damage synapses. Next steps: developing drugs to combat this!