Tara Spires-Jones 🌈🔬
@tspiresjones.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. 🧠
Professor at the University of Edinburgh
Current President of the British Neuroscience Association
FENS-Kavli Network Alumna
Mom to 2 teens, a cat, and a rescue dog. 🐈⬛🐕🐾
SciFi/fantasy nut - book recommendations welcome! 👽🚀🛸
Professor at the University of Edinburgh
Current President of the British Neuroscience Association
FENS-Kavli Network Alumna
Mom to 2 teens, a cat, and a rescue dog. 🐈⬛🐕🐾
SciFi/fantasy nut - book recommendations welcome! 👽🚀🛸
Happy Caturday from Nyx
June 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Happy Caturday from Nyx
Microscope, check. Pint, check. It’s time for Edinburgh Pint of Science! If you’re in town join us at Monkey Barrel Comedy 7:30-9:30 latecomers welcome and some tickets left!
May 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Microscope, check. Pint, check. It’s time for Edinburgh Pint of Science! If you’re in town join us at Monkey Barrel Comedy 7:30-9:30 latecomers welcome and some tickets left!
I have absolutely loved my time as President of @britishneuro.bsky.social . And what an epic end giving a speech in the gorgeous Liverpool cathedral under an installation art piece of the sun. Thank you to CEO and buddy Laura Ajram and excellent exec team.
April 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I have absolutely loved my time as President of @britishneuro.bsky.social . And what an epic end giving a speech in the gorgeous Liverpool cathedral under an installation art piece of the sun. Thank you to CEO and buddy Laura Ajram and excellent exec team.
The inspirational prof Julie Williams, @britishneuro.bsky.social president-elect delivering an excellent plenary lectuee
April 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The inspirational prof Julie Williams, @britishneuro.bsky.social president-elect delivering an excellent plenary lectuee
Desert island papers was a very fun session!
April 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Desert island papers was a very fun session!
@braincomms.bsky.social booth at #BNA2025 is busy come say hi!
April 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
@braincomms.bsky.social booth at #BNA2025 is busy come say hi!
Beautiful data from @franzgbb.bsky.social examining the complex relationships between amyloid beta, synaptic hyperactivity and astrocytes
April 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Beautiful data from @franzgbb.bsky.social examining the complex relationships between amyloid beta, synaptic hyperactivity and astrocytes
If you’re at #BNA2025 pop by the Brain booth to meet Masud Husain, editor of Brain and myself, editor of Brain Communications today at 1pm
April 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
If you’re at #BNA2025 pop by the Brain booth to meet Masud Husain, editor of Brain and myself, editor of Brain Communications today at 1pm
Here we go the first plenary about to begin after intro from the amazing chief exec of @britishneuro.bsky.social @laura-ajram.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Here we go the first plenary about to begin after intro from the amazing chief exec of @britishneuro.bsky.social @laura-ajram.bsky.social
Behind the scenes on BBC TV this week 😂🫠
April 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Behind the scenes on BBC TV this week 😂🫠
Learning a lot and loving bumping into so many people at #ADPD2025 great to see @aruk-susank@bsky.social discussing the future of treatments for #Alzheimers
April 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Learning a lot and loving bumping into so many people at #ADPD2025 great to see @aruk-susank@bsky.social discussing the future of treatments for #Alzheimers
Hope you can join us in Liverpool for #BNA2025!!! I'll be charing a panel on the future of treatment for neurological conditions and will have a meet the editor session for @braincomms.bsky.social and looking forward to catching up with colleagues. @britishneuro.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Hope you can join us in Liverpool for #BNA2025!!! I'll be charing a panel on the future of treatment for neurological conditions and will have a meet the editor session for @braincomms.bsky.social and looking forward to catching up with colleagues. @britishneuro.bsky.social
One of the great joys of working for the University of Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social is the gorgeous Firbush retreat in the highlands where we take our neuroscience students in their final year.
March 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
One of the great joys of working for the University of Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social is the gorgeous Firbush retreat in the highlands where we take our neuroscience students in their final year.
Beautiful talk from @mauramalpetti.bsky.social investigating neuroinflammation in front temporal dementia. @braincomms.bsky.social @brain1878.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Beautiful talk from @mauramalpetti.bsky.social investigating neuroinflammation in front temporal dementia. @braincomms.bsky.social @brain1878.bsky.social
Look what arrived in the mail! I’m super proud to have written a very small part of the Hippocampus textbook including showing off some of our synapse images with Richard Morris and team. Need to get him to autograph for me…
February 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Look what arrived in the mail! I’m super proud to have written a very small part of the Hippocampus textbook including showing off some of our synapse images with Richard Morris and team. Need to get him to autograph for me…
Thank you for sending up this fantastic award! Now in pride of place with Joan the cactus @womeninneurouk.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Thank you for sending up this fantastic award! Now in pride of place with Joan the cactus @womeninneurouk.bsky.social
Had to share this amazing electron micrograph. Anyone know what it is? Hint, from human brain tissue
January 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Had to share this amazing electron micrograph. Anyone know what it is? Hint, from human brain tissue
Adventures with Iggy. Lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world.
January 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Adventures with Iggy. Lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world.
Happy New Year! Northern lights putting some sparkle into the first day of 2025
January 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Happy New Year! Northern lights putting some sparkle into the first day of 2025
Happy solstice everyone. Was a wild, windy, sideways sleet kind of day here in Scotland. But the sunset was pretty.
December 21, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Happy solstice everyone. Was a wild, windy, sideways sleet kind of day here in Scotland. But the sunset was pretty.