Masud Husain
@masudhusain.bsky.social
Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow, New College, Oxford. Editor-in-Chief, Brain
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Masud Husain
@masudhusain.bsky.social
· Oct 4
Still a bit stunned but delighted to receive this from @royalsociety.org
Nice to have made this cut with OUR BRAINS, OUR SELVES in the Financial Times Best Books of 2025 list.
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Nice to have made this cut with OUR BRAINS, OUR SELVES in the Financial Times Best Books of 2025 list.
This turned out to be a really stimulating interview on the University of Oxfords' CortexCast podcast series on what patients with brain disorders reveal about our selves
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/season-3-epi...
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/season-3-epi...
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This turned out to be a really stimulating interview on the University of Oxfords' CortexCast podcast series on what patients with brain disorders reveal about our selves
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/season-3-epi...
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/season-3-epi...
The current environment is making it near impossible to run clinical trials in the UK.
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
October 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The current environment is making it near impossible to run clinical trials in the UK.
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Still a bit stunned but delighted to receive this from @royalsociety.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Still a bit stunned but delighted to receive this from @royalsociety.org
Reposted by Masud Husain
We're very happy to announce that the winner of this year’s Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is ‘Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain’ by debut author, clinical neurologist and neuroscientist Masud Husain. #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We're very happy to announce that the winner of this year’s Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is ‘Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain’ by debut author, clinical neurologist and neuroscientist Masud Husain. #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
This one made me smile.
The cover of the September issue of @brain1878.bsky.social depicts Hume and Sartre in animated conversation, accompanying a new essay on mental imagery by Margherita Arcangeli and Paolo Bartolomeo
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The cover of the September issue of @brain1878.bsky.social depicts Hume and Sartre in animated conversation, accompanying a new essay on mental imagery by Margherita Arcangeli and Paolo Bartolomeo
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
September 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This one made me smile.
The cover of the September issue of @brain1878.bsky.social depicts Hume and Sartre in animated conversation, accompanying a new essay on mental imagery by Margherita Arcangeli and Paolo Bartolomeo
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
The cover of the September issue of @brain1878.bsky.social depicts Hume and Sartre in animated conversation, accompanying a new essay on mental imagery by Margherita Arcangeli and Paolo Bartolomeo
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
There's greed and then there's Springer Nature greed.
No wonder some people are smiling!
No wonder some people are smiling!
August 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
There's greed and then there's Springer Nature greed.
No wonder some people are smiling!
No wonder some people are smiling!
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To my astonishment, my new book Vanished has been shortlisted for the Royal Society’s Trivedi Science Book Prize.
Thankful to all the roarsome people who helped make it happen, from the Royal Society and judges to many beloveds.
Roaring! 🐯
#Extinction
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians
Thankful to all the roarsome people who helped make it happen, from the Royal Society and judges to many beloveds.
Roaring! 🐯
#Extinction
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians
We are very happy to announce the six titles shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, which celebrates the best popular science writing from across the globe. #SciBooks
royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...
royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...
August 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
To my astonishment, my new book Vanished has been shortlisted for the Royal Society’s Trivedi Science Book Prize.
Thankful to all the roarsome people who helped make it happen, from the Royal Society and judges to many beloveds.
Roaring! 🐯
#Extinction
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians
Thankful to all the roarsome people who helped make it happen, from the Royal Society and judges to many beloveds.
Roaring! 🐯
#Extinction
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians
Very happy to be in such great company, shortlisted for the
@royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize with 'Our Brains, Our Selves' published by @canongate.co.uk
@royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize with 'Our Brains, Our Selves' published by @canongate.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Very happy to be in such great company, shortlisted for the
@royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize with 'Our Brains, Our Selves' published by @canongate.co.uk
@royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize with 'Our Brains, Our Selves' published by @canongate.co.uk
Latest edition of @brain1878.bsky.social includes a new paper on General Paresis of the Insane and an accompanying editorial, explaining why it and neurosyphilis still remain conditions which we can't afford to forget
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
August 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Latest edition of @brain1878.bsky.social includes a new paper on General Paresis of the Insane and an accompanying editorial, explaining why it and neurosyphilis still remain conditions which we can't afford to forget
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Reposted by Masud Husain
Our Dementia Research Oxford Seminar series recommences on Sept 11th with Prof Martin Turner on 'Advancing therapy development in ALS'. 12 Noon on Zoom us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@masudhusain.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
@masudhusain.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Our Dementia Research Oxford Seminar series recommences on Sept 11th with Prof Martin Turner on 'Advancing therapy development in ALS'. 12 Noon on Zoom us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@masudhusain.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
@masudhusain.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
July issue of @brain1878.bsky.social includes an article on AI-based tools for urgent decision-making for thrombectomy in acute #stroke. Unlike the White Rabbit, we don't want to be late!
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
July 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
July issue of @brain1878.bsky.social includes an article on AI-based tools for urgent decision-making for thrombectomy in acute #stroke. Unlike the White Rabbit, we don't want to be late!
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Very pleased to see 'Our Brains, Our Selves' made it into the
@financialtimes.com best of this year's science books
www.ft.com/content/0f0b...
@financialtimes.com best of this year's science books
www.ft.com/content/0f0b...
June 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Very pleased to see 'Our Brains, Our Selves' made it into the
@financialtimes.com best of this year's science books
www.ft.com/content/0f0b...
@financialtimes.com best of this year's science books
www.ft.com/content/0f0b...
This month's issue of @brain1878.bsky.social contains two fascinating essays - runners up from last year's competition, as well as a fantastic range of articles from anti-NMDAR encephalitis, through to stroke and neurodegenerative diseases.
academic.oup.com/brain/issue/...
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Volume 148 Issue 6 | Brain | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Guarantors of Brain. Provides researchers and clinicians with original contributions in neurology by publishing a wide range of original studies in neurological science, in...
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June 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This month's issue of @brain1878.bsky.social contains two fascinating essays - runners up from last year's competition, as well as a fantastic range of articles from anti-NMDAR encephalitis, through to stroke and neurodegenerative diseases.
academic.oup.com/brain/issue/...
academic.oup.com/brain/issue/...
I'm planning to write an editorial in @brain1878.bsky.social entitled "If patients only knew".
It's about obstacles that slow down or prevent people from participating in clinical studies and the pace of initiating #ClinicalTrials. If you have experience or comments please message me and repost.
It's about obstacles that slow down or prevent people from participating in clinical studies and the pace of initiating #ClinicalTrials. If you have experience or comments please message me and repost.
May 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'm planning to write an editorial in @brain1878.bsky.social entitled "If patients only knew".
It's about obstacles that slow down or prevent people from participating in clinical studies and the pace of initiating #ClinicalTrials. If you have experience or comments please message me and repost.
It's about obstacles that slow down or prevent people from participating in clinical studies and the pace of initiating #ClinicalTrials. If you have experience or comments please message me and repost.
Reposted by Masud Husain
"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
May 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Had a wonderful time at the International Dublin Literature Festival #IDLF discussing my new book 'Our Brains, Our Selves' with Shauna Bowers from the Irish Times, and having some fantastic conversations with a lot of people curious about brains and their disorders.
May 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Had a wonderful time at the International Dublin Literature Festival #IDLF discussing my new book 'Our Brains, Our Selves' with Shauna Bowers from the Irish Times, and having some fantastic conversations with a lot of people curious about brains and their disorders.
Interesting discussion tonight on How to Hack your Brain to improve learning at Oxford Biohacking Society with my neuroscience colleagues bstaresina.bsky.social and vineytj.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Interesting discussion tonight on How to Hack your Brain to improve learning at Oxford Biohacking Society with my neuroscience colleagues bstaresina.bsky.social and vineytj.bsky.social
Reposted by Masud Husain
Absolutely spellbinding talk from @masudhusain.bsky.social on the neuroscience of apathy - what a great start to the final day of #BNA2025. Off to order the book now 👍
April 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Absolutely spellbinding talk from @masudhusain.bsky.social on the neuroscience of apathy - what a great start to the final day of #BNA2025. Off to order the book now 👍
Reposted by Masud Husain
Needless bureaucracy and “bullshit jobs” are preventing academics from fulfilling their core creative responsibilities and making clinical research an “impossible task”, a leading neuroscientist has warned. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
‘Mountain of small things’ killing academia, warns Oxford scholar
Overly cautious institutions pushing ‘bullshit jobs’ on their staff ‘destroying academia from within’, says neuroscientist
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Needless bureaucracy and “bullshit jobs” are preventing academics from fulfilling their core creative responsibilities and making clinical research an “impossible task”, a leading neuroscientist has warned. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Reposted by Masud Husain
On Sunday 11 May at Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival, hear from @masudhusain.bsky.social on 'Our Brains: Our Selves'
@oxexppsy.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
On Sunday 11 May at Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival, hear from @masudhusain.bsky.social on 'Our Brains: Our Selves'
@oxexppsy.bsky.social
If you happen to be in central Oxford on Sat 5th April and you're interested in the relationship between brains and selves, I'm speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival
April 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
If you happen to be in central Oxford on Sat 5th April and you're interested in the relationship between brains and selves, I'm speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival
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Here is a chance to make your voice heard within the university and reduce the administrative burden.
At @ox.ac.uk it's time for the staff survey. Here's my answer to: "What is the main thing the University could do to help you to progress your career?"
Please repost and respond similarly to the survey if you agree. It's the only way to get our points across!
Please repost and respond similarly to the survey if you agree. It's the only way to get our points across!
April 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here is a chance to make your voice heard within the university and reduce the administrative burden.
At @ox.ac.uk it's time for the staff survey. Here's my answer to: "What is the main thing the University could do to help you to progress your career?"
Please repost and respond similarly to the survey if you agree. It's the only way to get our points across!
Please repost and respond similarly to the survey if you agree. It's the only way to get our points across!
April 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
At @ox.ac.uk it's time for the staff survey. Here's my answer to: "What is the main thing the University could do to help you to progress your career?"
Please repost and respond similarly to the survey if you agree. It's the only way to get our points across!
Please repost and respond similarly to the survey if you agree. It's the only way to get our points across!
Reposted by Masud Husain
It's not just clinical research either!
Thank goodness people are waking up to the fact that there is a crisis for clinical research in the UK @financialtimes.com High on the list are the bureaucratic processes that have become an obstacle to getting things done
March 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It's not just clinical research either!