Paper resubmitted and now I return from my brief stint of peaceful mornings to suppressing heart palpitations as I furiously check my emails immediately upon waking up every day… 😑

Last week I left my Postdoc in the McColl Lab Edinburgh lab at UK Dementia Research Institute after >5 wonderful years of genuinely engaging science 🥼 I’ve been so lucky to work with and learn from amazing colleagues, many within the UK Dementia Research Institute and Alzheimer's Research UK networks I have been part of 🧠 On to new adventures! 🇨🇦

Delighted to see this work led by Mike Daniels now published eLife - the journal. Cst7 one of most conserved genes altered in disease model-induced #microglia, deleting it does some interesting/unanticipated things in Alzheimer’s model brain doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Immunotherapies for Alzheimer’s disease, well written review hard to grumble with any of these thoughts and predictions science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This is big news!

I sat on the desk next to @R_Montacute whilst both doing our PhDs The University of Manchester and am stoked to see this! We need more scientific process in Westminster and @R_Montacute is the real deal! She spent a whole PhD trying to make the world a better place and we need her in politics!!

If you didn’t notice… Dementia Researcher has a new account on X. Dementia Researcher

One of the most toxic things about academia was the concept of academic work drifting into being a hobby. Now, having left academia, I can proudly say that academic work has literally become a hobby…

Having been one of the ECRs “Dining at the table of defeat” many times. Was this comment really necessary? Shouldn’t public engagement be something open for all to try and learn without being mocked for not winning awards?

Move half way across the world away from all friends and family… …End up living *on the same floor* as ‘Michelle Daniels’ 😲

Jasmin Paris Jasmin Paris finished loop five of the #BM100 in 59:58:21.

Finally a pedestrian safety measure so reliable you’d bet your house on it 🧱™️

Fantastic to see this kind of peer publishing model being adopted!! 👏👏👏 I hope that this work gets as constructive (or better) feedback from peers and dissemination to the community as with standard (deeply economically and arguably morally flawed) publishing formats.

The English call it “Squash”, the Scots call it “Diluting juice”, the Canadians call it… 🤢

TREM1 disrupts myeloid bioenergetics and cognitive function in aging and Alzheimer disease mouse models | Nature Neuroscience nature.com/articles/s4159…

This work (the meaning of the data, what implications they have for the field and beyond) came up in pretty much every meeting for about 3 years. Fantastic to see it out! Huge congrats to Anirudh Patir and Jack Barrington for massive effort in driving this!