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

https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/islesar1
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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....
journals.sagepub.com
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The Legend of Bill (2025)
December 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Final window
‘Skating by Moonlight’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Definitely time to deploy this.
December 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Compassion, community, and Christmas: a humanist perspective. humanists.uk/2023/12/21/h...
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This is what sand looks like under a microscope. Amazing.
December 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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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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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 23
‘Visits’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1951)
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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📢 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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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22
Durham Cathedral
Artist: SRBadmin
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 21

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 20
‘Winter Sunrise’
Artist: SR Badmin
December 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Got an early Christmas present! 😊🤓
December 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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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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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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 19

‘December’ (1955)
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder
December 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 18

‘Trafalgar Square’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
December 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
📢 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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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❤️
December 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Down the right alley, from the right angle, York rewards you with collaged history.
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 17
‘Winter Pastoral’
Artist: SR Badmin
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If you are vaguely interested in Complexity in Mental Health then I recommend this meeting simply because Erice is stunning 😍
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
www.complexitymentalhealth.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 16
‘First Snow’
Artist: Rowland Hilder
December 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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🚨 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...
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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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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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 15
‘Christmas Time’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
December 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM