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Prof Anthony Isles
@profantisles.bsky.social
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#Neuroscience 🧠 | #ImprintedGenes 🧬 | #preclinical models 🐭🧫| MURIDAE lead @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social | Cardiff University | posting in a personal capacity, mostly about science

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Prof Anthony Isles @profantisles.bsky.social · 26d
Brief overview of our symposium at the @britishneuro.bsky.social Festival of Neuroscience meeting earlier this year, looking at work linked to the @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social @mrcharwell.bsky.social
#BNA2025 🧠🐭🧬

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The UK National Mouse Genetics Network: Translating genetic findings using preclinical mouse models to better understand neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders - Sevda T....
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rowhoop.bsky.social
The Legend of Bill (2025)
December 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Final window
‘Skating by Moonlight’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Aerial view in a very limited, almost monochrome palette. We are looking down on a pond at midnight in bright moonlight. The figures and skaters on the pond are in silhouette as are the winter trees surrounding it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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mattwall.bsky.social
Definitely time to deploy this.
December 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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humanists.uk
Compassion, community, and Christmas: a humanist perspective. humanists.uk/2023/12/21/h...
‘Christmas day is military in its planning, and a full roast will be served at 3pm precisely, we toast the living and the dead, followed by sofa snoozing, board games, and being with my family, as many as we can squeeze in. For us, that’s what Christmas is all about: family. Four generations of our extended clan being noisy and feasting.’
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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levparikian.bsky.social
This is what sand looks like under a microscope. Amazing.
Licorice allsorts, up close.
December 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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profantisles.bsky.social
If you want to learn more about #MURIDAE project and @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social @mrcharwell.bsky.social to which this position is linked, please read this brief overview of our symposium at the @britishneuro.bsky.social Festival of Neuroscience
#BNA2025 🧠🐭🧬

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 23
‘Visits’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1951)
View looking down on a suburban house and garden at dusk on a snowy winter’s evening. A family of five arrive at the front door of a cheerful, illuminated and decorated house at Christmas time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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profantisles.bsky.social
📢 Job Alert 📢
Post-doc position at #LancasterUniversity working on the #MURIDAE project @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social
Working with #genetic #preclinical models for #schizophrenia 🧠🧬🐭

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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW471/s...
Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University
An opportunity for an academic position as a Senior Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22
Durham Cathedral
Artist: SRBadmin
A view through trees to the city of Durham in the distance under light snow. The trees frame the distant centre point, which is the cathedral
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 21

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)
This illustration was originally the front cover picture of the ladybird book. Two herons and clusters of other birds stand around a partially frozen lake under a yellow winter sky
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 20
‘Winter Sunrise’
Artist: SR Badmin
A very delicate, finely-detailed mixed-media illustration looking down through winter trees passed a herd of deer towards a wooded valley and golden winter sunrise
December 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Got an early Christmas present! 😊🤓
December 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
profantisles.bsky.social
If you want to learn more about #MURIDAE project and @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social @mrcharwell.bsky.social to which this position is linked, please read this brief overview of our symposium at the @britishneuro.bsky.social Festival of Neuroscience
#BNA2025 🧠🐭🧬

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 19

‘December’ (1955)
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder
A view along a snowy driveway is framed by evergreens and holly. The winding driveway leads to a large red brick house set before a yellow winter sky
December 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 18

‘Trafalgar Square’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
A crowd of people are gathered around the illuminated Christmas tree at dusk in Central London. The sky itself is the star of the show, lit with a pinky purple glow that suggests city neon.
December 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
profantisles.bsky.social
📢 Job Alert 📢
Post-doc position at #LancasterUniversity working on the #MURIDAE project @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social
Working with #genetic #preclinical models for #schizophrenia 🧠🧬🐭

Please repost!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW471/s...
Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University
An opportunity for an academic position as a Senior Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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humanists.uk
Musician Kirsty MacColl died #onthisday in 2000. It's difficult to believe it's been 25 years. We were proud to conduct her humanist funeral, in accordance with her wishes. This Christmas marks the third year without Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl, but still, their voices live on❤️
I'll see you baby when the clans rise again, women and men united in the struggle in this free world. Kirsty Maccoll. Musician and humanist.
December 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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lemoustier.bsky.social
Down the right alley, from the right angle, York rewards you with collaged history.
Photo of a series of upper parts of buildings and chimneys, all close together and looking layered. In the distance is the golden sunset-lit tower of York Minster, echoed in the foreground by a church window. The sky is blue.
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 17
‘Winter Pastoral’
Artist: SR Badmin
Finally detailed mixed media illustration of a country scene under the light snow. The scene looks down beyond a gate towards a lightly wooded Valley. In the mid ground herd of deer run past watched in the foreground by a cock pheasant
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
profantisles.bsky.social
If you are vaguely interested in Complexity in Mental Health then I recommend this meeting simply because Erice is stunning 😍
igorbranchi.bsky.social Igor Branchi @igorbranchi.bsky.social · 11d
Happy to share that IBRO @ibroorg.bsky.social supports the school 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗛 🧠
📌 Erice, Sicily, Italy
📅 26 April–1 May 2026

IBRO TRAVEL GRANTS avaiable for early career researchers interested in the #complexity of #brain and #mind

Registration
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December 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 16
‘First Snow’
Artist: Rowland Hilder
Sparse, very painterly watercolour showing a wide flat landscape dotted with winter elms and ploughed fields dusted with snow
December 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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techwontsave.us
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨

Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Bracket showing the 32 names in the Worst Person in Tech 2025
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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dulaclab.bsky.social
New paper alert!!...🤩 Led by @blogeman.bsky.social, we identify how cell type-specific hormonal responses in the hypothalamus tunes parenting behavior in males and females 🐭🧠🍼. Highlights in thread 👇 1/6

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Cell Type-Specific Hormonal Signaling Configures Hypothalamic Circuits for Parenting
Parenting behavior emerges from hormonally sensitive circuits, but how distinct circuit components are affected by, and contribute to, sex and state dependent changes in infant caregiving remains uncl...
www.biorxiv.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 15
‘Christmas Time’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
A scene like a Christmas card featuring a view to a snow-covered village church, with a frozen pond, holly, robin and children pulling sleds
December 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM