Completely forgot to promote this wee article we wrote about ARUK 2026! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @britishneuro.bsky.social @alzheimersresearchuk.org #ARUK2026 #ARUKconf2026 @elizabethsimzer.bsky.social @sorayam.bsky.social

I nearly died when @tspiresjones.bsky.social and @janetulloch.bsky.social surprised us with this complete *YEAR LONG* study at our lab meeting. academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

I also had a chance to speak with HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh about our work using flies in dementia research. Everybody loves the flies. 😇😅🥰

Update: I got these cute wee flies in the post with my transgenics! 😍 Fingers crossed the lines work well! 😅

LOVE this paper - have followed it from seeing talks and posters by Ashling, @alexcammack.bsky.social, and @adrianisaacs.bsky.social then the Biorxiv last year. Exquisite use of flies🐝 and human cell models🧠 to find out that neuronal fatty acid saturation is important in the development of ALS/FTD!

Love my colleagues 🥰 They got me these lovely gifts for the birth of my second daughter, Alice

What my #SpotifyWrapped would have had as Number 1 album if this album was on Spotify. Gorgeous and spooky album. Alas, it doesn't count Youtube streams 😆 🖤 Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee 🖤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJi...

Also goodbye and Merry Christmas 🎄 to these plasmids going for injection into #Drosophila eggs all the way in California! Hopefully I’ll get some brand new transgenic flies 🪰 back in early 2025! 👋🥰

Putting these guys to bed now for Xmas/New Year 😴 🥶 🎄 See you in 2025, wee flies! 🪰 #Drosophila

OK fine

Nothing quite like the joy of seeing little colonies in the morning! 🦠 🧫 😍

🤯 Just when you think #Drosophila neurogenetics has run out of ideas, along come Gilad Barnea's lab to show us they can not only visualise pre- and post-synaptic neurons but they can also label post-post-synaptic neurons! THREE orders! 😅 Congrats on a really amazing pre-print!

#nowplaying

Quite cool to see the 2nd chromosome laid out like that. Anyone else ordering hundreds of Bloomington stocks for hare-brained schemes? Just me? 😅 #Drosophila