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Prof Marc Busche @ukdri.ac.uk explains why #dementia therapies must target specific tau species. Full podcast now available.

Listen - pod.fo/e/39f6de
Watch - youtu.be/f66gmO3_-Vg

Painting of a black and white cat and a brown cat amongst a plant with pink flowers

'Two cats amongst hellebores' by Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021) #WomensArt

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Painting of a park landscape with a row of bare trees in the foreground in front of a pond under a pinky blue sunset or dawn

Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter known for her observations of the streets and parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart

🌳✨ Urban Tree Festival
9–17 May 2026

OPEN CALL FOR EVENTS IS LIVE ✨🌳

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Research Showcase - Dr Sarah Faber - Music, Mathematics and the Ageing Brain Research Showcase - Dr Sarah Faber - Music, Mathematics and the Ageing Brain

What can music tell us about the ageing brain. Join Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social for this Research Showcase on computational neuroscience and adaptation.

communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/res...

Print featuring a calm lake or pond at sunrise or sunset with three ducks, on the shore is a silhouette of three trees, all under a golden sky

Contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt

Your brain thinks your cat is a baby.
Science says that’s…completely reasonable.

#CatScience #ScienceOfCats #Neuroscience
#BrainScience #PsychologyFacts
#ScienceCommunication #SciComm
#CatsOfInstagram #CatLovers
#CatParents #DidYouKnow
#FunScience #NerdyButCute

Over 125 years ago, Cécile & Oskar Vogt began assembling an extensive collection of brain histological sections and related documents. Katrin Amunts explores how digitizing these materials will create a valuable resource for modern neuroscience. shorturl.at/RaMw8

Vermorgen et al. examine tau aggregation in astrocytes in brains from middle-aged adults. They show that ARTAG (ageing-related tau astrogliopathy) is not restricted to elderly brains and is associated with neurodegenerative pathology. shorturl.at/NEYWB

Painting with a wooded landscape in summer with wild flowers and a small summer house

Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) US painter who worked in the American Impressionist style, and whose mentor was Claude Monet #womensart

This hasn’t aged well..

Print with abstract theme, oval and circular forms, resembling simplified eye shapes, in colours of orange and white

Genesis, 1969
Lithograph by UK artist Barbara Hepworth, born on this day in 1903 #WomensArt

The January 2026 issue of Brain is now online! academic.oup.com/brain/issue/...

Yes, it's become completely normal for this terrible man to say and do terrible things, and the governments of the world just ignore it.

Happy birthday! 🎂

to a better year🥂✨

Some tips to help keep your pets safe:

🐈 Keep pets indoors during fireworks
🐶 Create a quiet, secure space where they feel protected
🐦 Close windows and curtains, and play soft music or white noise
🐱 Make sure pets are wearing ID tags or are microchipped, just in case

#Animals #NYE #NewYearsEve

Brain art with colored dots in the gray matter.

Splash of color in the gray matter :)
#brainart

Painting of two sitting foxes with noses touching tails crossed, their bodies twisted forming the shape of a heart in the gap between them, against a gold background

'Love Foxes' by Jackie Morris, artist, author and illustrator who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt

Painting with a view to a winter park landscape with small figures and trees under a blue.sky

Emma Haworth, contemporary UK painter #WomensArt #BoxingDay

Three images, the top is of an elderly white man holding a blue knitted item, the second and third showing small penguins in colourful sweaters

A few years ago...Australia’s oldest man knitted tiny sweaters for penguins injured in oil spills.....
( Just ths once.... #MensArt ;) )

Painting of a stylised hare leaping over frosty ground under a red sun and pink winter sky

Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist, photographer, writer and award-winning illustrator #WomensArt #Solstice
#December21st #ArtAdvent

Blue painted circle over waved horizontal line on a cream background

Georgia O'Keeffe,
You Are The Sun, 1977
#Womensart #Solstice

i hope they know about paper mills, for whom this is a popular topic

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Good news! 🎉 While we’ve yet to see detail on finance & numbers, this is a major win for common sense & for the thousands who’ll now be able to access vocational training, work placements & higher education - congrats to all who campaigned for it #Erasmus @europeanmovement.co.uk @bestforbritain.org

Painting featuring a park scene of winter trees in snow under a dark blue sky

Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter known for her observations of the streets and parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart

Four images of Indian women creating crochet covers for elephants in a sandy landscape

Local women crochet/knit woolly PJs for rescued vulnerable, ill and formally abused elephants to shield them from the nighttime cold, Elephant Conservation Care Center, India #UnravellingWomensArt

Although new Alzheimer's disease therapies reduce amyloid plaques, they have not led to major clinical improvements. Pini et al. suggest that changes in brain connectivity may offer a more sensitive and biologically meaningful marker of disease modification. tinyurl.com/32975se3

White matter changes in Alzheimer's disease: contributor, consequence or co-pathology?

New scientific commentary by Julia Neitzel tinyurl.com/3x5ezsrc