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Jason Cohen, MD @memorydoc.bsky.social · 4d

Covid causes brain damage.

Edit: Covid causes serious long term brain damage, and here's a whole lot more data

"COVID-19 infection was associated with a 58% increased risk of all-cause dementia and a 105% increased risk of Vascular Dementia"

Free article:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years - npj Dementia

npj Dementia - COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years

www.nature.com

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catie profaci, phd @cprofaci.bsky.social · 8d

Rocío is an amazing scientist, mentor, and person in general!!! Please share this job opening with anyone who might be interested 🤩🤩

Rocio Servin @rocioservin.bsky.social · 8d

We’re hiring!
My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease.
🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 8d

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

psychiatry.ucsd.edu

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Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · 11d

Attended a conference yesterday, and one of the speakers spent his whole talk airing his personal grievances about other scientists who he felt had wronged him throughout his career. Made me want to crawl out of my skin.

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Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · 14d

Very good point! I didn’t check the papers that were cited

Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · 15d

They do cite a bunch of animal studies showing that acetaminophen (or its metabolites) can negatively impact brain development in mice, and they cite some proposed mechanisms (oxidative stress, prostaglandin or endocannabinoid system effects, endocrine system disruption).

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social · 15d

Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC

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Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · 15d

I really hope that one day we’ll get to the point of being able to communicate science like this effectively w the public. What happened in this case definitely wasn’t that.

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Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · 15d

I think Trump and RFK Jr used this more to score political points and to meet RFK Jr’s arbitrary September deadline, as opposed to for the public good, but it’s important to understand the science behind it nonetheless and not to just argue against it because of politics.

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Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · 15d

They conclude by saying “While this association warrants caution, untreated maternal fever and pain pose risks such as neural tube defects and preterm birth, necessitating a balanced approach. We recommend judicious acetaminophen use…rather than a broad limitation.”

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Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · 15d

I just read the paper out of Harvard that prompted this tylenol autism announcement. They make a strong argument that acetaminophen use during pregnancy may be causal for neurodevelopmental disorders and that its use should be limited ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders using the Navigation Guide methodology - Environmental Health

Background Acetaminophen is the most commonly used over-the-counter pain and fever medication taken during pregnancy, with > 50% of pregnant women using acetaminophen worldwide. Numerous well-designed...

ehjournal.biomedcentral.com

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Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · 15d

Sadly…and all so that they could meet some arbitrary September deadline that RFK Jr randomly blurted out.

STAT @statnews.com · 15d

"Americans cannot trust the federal government’s health advice" www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/t...

The U.S. government has jumped the public health shark

“The Trump regime sees science as an enemy and public health as only fit for personal anecdotes and conspiracy,” writes Arthur Caplan.

www.statnews.com

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Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · 15d

New landscape of the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... by @thelancet.com

#Alzheimers #dementia #biomarkers #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

New landscape of the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease involves a drastic departure from the cognitive, functional, and behavioural trajectory of normal ageing, and is both a dreaded and highly prevalent cause of disability to individu...

www.thelancet.com

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Rik van der Kant @rikvanderkant.bsky.social · 17d

Proud to present our new paper in @natmetabolism.nature.com

The Neurolipid Atlas: a lipidomics resource for neurodegenerative diseases
lnkd.in/eVzFrmUY

Check out our open-access platform chock-full with iPSC- and 🧠 lipidomics data (www.neurolipidatlas.com).

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · 19d

Can someone who knows this stuff better than I do tell me if Trump’s new $100K H1-B rule applies to non-profits/Universities? I’m assuming no, but probably shouldn’t be assuming anything reasonable anymore.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 22d

My awesome Drosophila colleague Akhila Rajan at Fred Hutch (Seattle) is recruiting both a staff scientist and a postdoc to study fat–brain communication, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling, and brain senescence. Great team, great environment. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.

careers-fhcrc.icims.com

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Nixon Lab @nixonlab.bsky.social · 23d

Nixon Lab is hoping to recruit a postdoctoral fellow interested in alcohol-microglia and/or alcohol-neural stem cell interactions in recovery from alcohol-induced brain and behavioral damage/dysfunction. Open fellowships on our NIAAA-funded T32! Please spread the word!

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Sarah Harris @saraheharris99.bsky.social · 29d

Calling for your paper for the upcoming collection
Brain metabolomics in dementia and neurological disease
I’m honoured to be serving as the collection’s Guest Editor
and eager to read your submission. #CallForPapers @natureportfolio.nature.com Learn more about the
collection: go.nature.com/41S5bI3

Brain metabolomics in dementia and neurological disease

This Collection invites original research using metabolomic platforms to explore the mechanisms of dementia and neurological disease or aid in its diagnosis ...

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Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · Sep 5

I don’t know if it’s overall a good thing or a bad thing for science, but I have to say…the papers I review now are a hell of a lot clearer and easier to read than they were before chatGPT was invented. Which honestly, I don’t mind.

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · Sep 4

For anyone on the neuroscience job market, our ads are up. We are looking for anyone working in systems neuroscience of animals to join us in southern Alberta 🇨🇦
#academicsky #neuroskyence #neuroethology #academicjobs #Canada
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39049/as...

Assistant Professor (Neuroscience, Tenure Track) - Lethbridge (City), Alberta (CA) job with University of Lethbridge | 39049

Assistant Professor (tenure track) of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

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Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · Sep 4

It will never not annoy me that the first Republican government to take a real interest in changing the way science is done were the misinformation, burn it all down Republicans, and not the let's remove government regulations to increase productivity Republicans.

Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · Sep 3

Good news! Although definitely not the end of the fight on this. Hopefully the government will be forced to unfreeze all the research funding while the case works its way up to the Supreme Court. www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/p...

Judge says Trump administration unlawfully blocked $2 billion from Harvard | CNN Politics

A federal judge on Wednesday gave Harvard University a landmark victory in its fight against the Trump administration, siding with the Ivy League school in its effort to restore more than $2 billion i...

www.cnn.com

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ChrisBintener @chrisbintener.bsky.social · Sep 2

Are you interested in the estimated #prevalence of #dementia in Europe? 🇪🇺
The @alzheimereurope.bsky.social website just got an upgrade including interactive graphics, visualising the projections by country: www.alzheimer-europe.org/dementia/pre...

ine chart titled 'Country estimates of people living with dementia (including projections for 2025 & 2050)' showing data for Luxembourg. The x-axis shows age groups (30–59, 60–64, 65–69, 70–74, 75–79, 80–84, 85–89, 90+). The y-axis shows number of people (0–5,000). Three lines represent years: 2018 (blue), 2025 (orange), 2050 (green). Across all age groups, projected numbers rise sharply by 2050, especially from age 70 upwards, peaking around 5,000 in the 90+ group. Source: Dementia in Europe Yearbook 2019.

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Tal Nuriel, PhD @talnuriel.bsky.social · Sep 3

A cool (and potentially paradigm shifting) study from the Liddelow lab

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Astrocytes are connected by gap junctions in large, plastic networks that link brain regions not connected by neurons, a new preprint shows.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...

Astrocyte networks span large swaths of brain

The networks are plastic, connect brain regions that aren’t connected by neurons and may enable long-distance communication between astrocytes, a new preprint shows.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Sep 2

Potential grad students: we have funds for RAs (you would not necessarily need to TA unless that helps you with your career goals). All grad applicants would need to apply through the Graduate School at Howard University. Please get in touch with me before you send in your application!

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