Register now for the International Workshop on Chondrichthyan Development and Genomics 22-25 October 2024. Registration is free but workshop is capped at 60. armi.org.au/international-…

Congratulations to Federica Lorenzi from The ICR for winning our #ResearchIsBeautiful image campaign - #CCAM edition. Read more about the story behind the bright heart made of cells and how Federica's work is improving the lives of young patients⬇️

I have a new open access article out: '"Deaf people are one, as they say": articulating 'deaf space' and deaf-hearing communication in a Ugandan market.' doi.org/10.1017/S00474… Please read and share! Language in Society Cambridge University Press - Academic SOAS Department Of Anthropology

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "‘Deaf people are one, as they say’: Articulating ‘deaf space’ and deaf-hearing communication in a Ugandan market" by Julia Modern doi.org/10.1017/S00474… #DeafSpace #SignLanguage #LanguageCommunities

Morphogens in the evolution of size, shape and patterning In this Review, Lewis Mosby, Amy Bowen and Zena Hadjivasiliou The Francis Crick Institute @UCL explore how morphogen-mediated patterning evolve and how theory and experiment can be interwoven to bring new perspectives: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

Splicing proteins play a key role outside the nucleus - in axons and dendrites during neuronal maturation and neurodegeneration. Yet, we don't know what they are doing in these non-nuclear compartments. Want to crack this important question with us? (1/2)

Apply now for the KCL MRC DTP programme, a fully funded #PhD studentship King's College London. The project is supervised by Rachel Moore Corinne Houart Houart Lab along with co-supervisor Juan Burrone Lab 🔗 kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/invest…

Interested in Neurodevelopmental disorders and mitochondrial contributions to their pathologies? Apply to do a PhD with Corinne's lab! The project is a continuation of my PhD and I would thrilled to see my science baby be taken over by someone as excited about FOXG1 as I am 😍

.Rachel Reeves if you want a #Budget24 that supports disabled people into work, invest in services, invest in accessible housing: Disabled people living in accessible homes are 4 times more likely to be employed. Read DPCG’s pre-budget statement here: inclusionlondon.org.uk/news/pre-budge…

Inclusion London's Julia Modern said the “modest increases in some budgets for essential services like the NHS and housing” are welcome, but “there is nothing in the budget to address the huge rates of poverty among disabled people. Instead, our social security is being eroded”.

✨️Happy Holidays from the Houart lab✨️ Image taken by @DanaFd

DWP is using a sleight of hand in its disability benefit cuts impact assessment: Actual increase in poverty is closer to 400,000, not the 250,000 in the impact assessment. Quick thread explaining why. 🧵1/7

#DisabilityPovertyCampaignGroup data in the Guardian this morning: theguardian.com/politics/2025/… The #Labour government's planned cuts to social security for Disabled people are wrong, and the public know it. Write to your MP to tell them to speak up: inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-and-…

Front page today in the Guardian: Dozens of Labour MPs risk losing majorities over welfare cuts. Almost 200 #Labour MPs have more constituents on PIP than the size of their majority. Data by our Julia Modern Julia Modern Read: theguardian.com/politics/2025/… Sign: inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-and-…

Seeing lots of MPs claiming 90% of people receiving PIP will be unaffected by the #Labour government cuts. The Office for Budget Responsibility's official report shows that 52% of people awarded PIP after a recent reassessment wouldn't meet the new requirements

looking at a very large number of people losing PIP, and then regaining it after an appeals process - which we know is highly traumatic. Again, to argue these people are unaffected is, in the most generous interpretation, misleading. The OBR also describes their forecast that

'only' 800,000 people overall will lose PIP as 'a highly uncertain judgement' because predicting behavioural changes is necessarily inexact. This figure should absolutely not be used to reassure MPs that the impact is small - it won't be. We'll keep fighting the misinformation

I welcomed experts to Parliament tonight to bust myths on the cuts to disability benefits. MPs are being told changes to employment support will offset any harm. This is a false equivalency - these are the biggest cuts since George Osborne. I will vote against these cuts.

New article! Are you interested in how Disabled people use different kinds of language to argue for the right to access resources? Have a read of my newest article about a land case in Uganda. Available open access: cambridge.org/core/journals/… AfricanStudiesUK Cambridge University Press - Academic SOAS Department Of Anthropology

Here's me talking about why MPs should still vote against the universal credit bill today