We have an exciting PhD project available with the GW4 DTP investigating the mechanisms of apathy in Parkinson’s Disease! gw4biomed.ac.uk/investigating-…

🚨 PhD opportunity alert 🚨 Project available with 🔬Ellacott Lab🔬 to investigate the role of cannabinoids in circadian timekeeping and feeding ⏰️ at the University of Bristol UoBrisPhysPharmNeuro. Funding through GW4 Studentship 🧠🧑‍🔬 Closes 1st Nov! 🗓 Apply today: gw4biomed.ac.uk/cannabinoids-i…

Presenting some research very close to my heart yesterday 🐭 An insightful, collaborative and very well organised #nc3rs symposium The National Centre for the 3Rs 3RsAtGW4

Pls follow the wonderful clinical team that I am lucky to be a part of 🎄 🤗

Love to see the little fellas 🐭 making the news! We frequently see this behaviour in research during nesting or resource preservation (I have found a couple of 🥜 buried). Pls see the pro in foraging Dr Megan Jackson thoughts here… amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…

This sort of thing really spurs me on during thesis writing season. I love it when people think hanging out with our mice more is as important as I do 🐭 congratulations to my animal welfare inspo Justyna Hinchcliffe for the win 🥇 🍾

#InternationalWomensDay spent teaching impressive female undergrad pharmacologists and learning from my wonderful friend/partner in navigating academia Dr Megan Jackson who consistently inspires her students 💫 🧬 👭

Great to share some of my thesis work at the PP&N Research Showcase yesterday. A lot of helpful feedback on my data and a big boost to be voted best presenter of the day 💫 🤓 (no, not everyone that attended had long brown hair and glasses!)

Everyone who is contributing to in vivo projects should attend this seminar/learn more. I can’t emphasise enough how important the 3Hs (alongside 3Rs) are to yielding reliable, translatable and robust preclinical data.

Gave me a dopamine hit this morning! Congratulations to all authors for your mega efforts on this paper, pleased to have played a part in the histology (my guilty pleasure 🔬 💙)

A pre-clinical neuroscientist walks into a bar… and is welcomed with open arms by a wonderful multi-disciplinary clinical research group 🤗

Some good advice from my friend Dr Grace Pearson 🇺🇦💙🇪🇺 (she/her) ‘writing your thesis is easier in France’ 🇫🇷 🍷 🧀

Modulating networks using DBS is an effective treatment for PD – but which circuits map to improvements in individual symptoms such as tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and axial? A 🧵 about our new paper out now in Nature Communications doi.org/10.1038/s41467… netstim

Started walking, running and playing hockey again in May as part of the challenge below… Exercise really is great for the brain🚶🧠

Look at this beauty! The human brain has around 86 billion neurons, which “talk” to each other using a combination of electrical and chemical signals. The places where neurons connect and communicate with each other are called synapses. Each neuron has anywhere between a few to

What a week at #FENS2024! Some fantastic talks, posters and a little bit of sight seeing 🥸 made all the better by spending the week with my new research group✨ Post-PhD I will be starting a post doc with Psychopharmacology group exploring the psychopharmacology of psychedelics 💊

New Lancet Commission shows modifiable risk factors account for 45% population attributable risk for dementia. There is lots we can do in midlife! Still needing more longitudinal studies on sleep #AAIC24 SIESTA Research Program Healthy Brain Ageing Program, University of Sydney Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Australian Dementia Network - ADNeT

I am taking breaks from thesis writing very seriously indeed.