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Senior Research Fellow Dr Yukun Zhou (@ucleye.bsky.social, @insighteyehub.bsky.social and @uclbrainscience.bsky.social) is using AI and eye imagery to develop early screening for a range of diseases – supported by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Early-Career Award ⬇

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Using retinal images to predict disease across the world
Senior Research Fellow Dr Yukun Zhou (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) – a Wellcome Early-Career Award recipient – is using AI and eye imagery to develop early screening for an array of diseases.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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🏆 Huge congratulations to Dr @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social and the RE-STAR team at @uclpals.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Lionel Hersov Memorial Award from @acamh.bsky.social!
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November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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🎙️ Professor Sir John Hardy’s journey at @uclqsion.bsky.social reshaped Alzheimer’s research. Discover the thrill of gene-hunting and the future of brain science in Episode 5 of Faces of UCL: “The Neuroscience Rockstar”.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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A team involving @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists has, for the first time, directly visualised and quantified the protein clusters believed to trigger Parkinson’s disease.
Parkinson’s breakthrough could unlock treatments for devastating disease
Scientists have developed a groundbreaking new technique to visualise the brain clusters that may trigger Parkinson’s
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November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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A team led by @ucleye.bsky.social scientists has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy – a condition caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina’s blood vessels and a leading cause of sight loss among working-age adults.
Early trigger of diabetic eye disease identified
A team led by UCL scientists has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy – a condition caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina’s blood vessels and a leading cause of sight…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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📻 Tune in to Times Radio to hear Professor Nick Fox (@uclqsion.bsky.social) discussing early onset dementia and what he hopes the new Hilary and Galen Weston Rare Dementia Support Centre at UCL will achieve.
Listen from 57 mins:
Times Radio Drive with Carolyn Quinn | Times Radio | The Times and the Sunday Times
Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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The world’s largest collection of curated eye imaging and linked clinical data is expanding across the country, in an initiative led out of Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and @ucleye.bsky.social.
Transforming UK eye health research by linking national data resources
The world’s largest collection of curated eye imaging and linked clinical data is expanding across the country, in an initiative led out of Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Meet @ucl.ac.uk's neuroscience experts at London/UK @buildsbio.bsky.social Inaugural Symposium on 20 Nov during London Life Science Week! Gain expert insights from our scientists on neurodegenerative diseases and network with key players across life sciences.
Details: bit.ly/3WBzPm4
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by @uclqsion.bsky.social researchers.
New brain atlas offers unprecedented detail in MRI scans
A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by UCL researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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It's #StressAwarenessDay and we're highlighting @uclpals.bsky.social and Anna Freud research which found that schoolchildren who are taught that stress and sadness are normal parts of life are likely to have better mental health.
Intervention that helps pupils normalise everyday emotions leads to better wellbeing
Schoolchildren who are taught that stress and sadness are normal parts of life are likely to have better mental health, finds a new study led by UCL and mental health charity, Anna Freud.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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🔬 These images show forebrain organoids that are grown at the UCL Wray Lab to study dementia. This research focuses on a genetic form of frontotemporal dementia, and the colours confirm that the organoids have developing neurons (neural progenitors).

📸: Sophie Goldsmith, @uclqsion.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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📢 Submissions are open for the 2026 Behaviour Change Conference!
A fantastic opportunity to share your work & connect with delegates worldwide - all working toward a healthier, sustainable world 🌍
🗓 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
👉 ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/conference
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Behaviour Change Conference 2026 - call for abstracts now open, submit by 15 December 2025. Image of conference venue.
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr Becky Appleton, who has been awarded a prestigious NIHR fellowship to investigate which mental health services work best for young people and how to reduce inequalities in access and outcomes.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Next year, a pioneering service at UCL will support thousands of people diagnosed with rare dementia, combining science with emotional support. (£wall) @uclqsion.bsky.social
‘I see people with dementia in their 20s’: first centre for young patients
A pioneering service at University College London will support thousands of people diagnosed decades before old age, combining science with emotional support
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November 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🎧 One for your tea break listen: Professor Dame Uta Frith (UCL ICN) joins BBC Women's Hour to discuss autism diagnosis and stigma. (from 16 mins)
Woman's Hour - Brigitte Macron cyberbullying case, Comedian Laura Smyth, Autism de-diagnosis - BBC Sounds
The French first lady's legal action to tackle alleged online harassment.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Applications open: Inequalities ECR Catalyst Grant 2025/26
Funding of up to £5,000 available for interdisciplinary projects led by early career researchers tackling inequalities in practice.
🗓 Deadline: Friday 28 Nov, 17.00
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Inequalities Early Career Researcher (ECR) Catalyst Grant Call 2025/26
Funding of up to £5,000 is now available for impactful, interdisciplinary projects that specifically support early career researchers. Application deadline: Friday 28 November, 17.00 (GMT).
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October 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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😩 Struggling to stay motivated this Monday morning?
Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) contributes to this article about how to keep going when things get tough.
Start small, keep a log, picture the end result: 17 experts’ top tips on how to stay motivated
Need to psych yourself up for the gym or to blitz your to-do list? Experts including Marie Kondo to Diana Nyad reveal how they keep going when things get tough
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November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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📺 Looking for something to watch this weekend?
Why not join Professor Joseph Devlin (@uclpals.bsky.social) and Jim Al-Khalili to unravel the mystery of how the most complex structure known in the universe - the human brain - came to exist.
Watch now:
BBC Two - Secrets of the Brain, Series 1, Episode 1
Jim Al-Khalili reveals how the staggeringly complex human brain evolved.
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November 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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#ICYMI Some users of popular fitness and calorie counting apps experience shame, disappointment and demotivation, potentially undermining their health and wellbeing, according to a new study led by researchers at @ucl-cbc.bsky.social and Loughborough University.
Emotional strain of fitness and calorie counting apps revealed
Some users of popular fitness and calorie counting apps experience shame, disappointment and demotivation, potentially undermining their health and wellbeing, according to a new study led by…
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October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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🧟This Halloween, explore how eerie experiments and 19th-century neuroscience shaped the darkest corners of gothic literature.
Join @selinawray.bsky.social, @caswell.bsky.social & @drjlange.bsky.social for a spooktacular Brain Stories.
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a black and white photo of frankenstein laying on a bed with his eyes closed
ALT: a black and white photo of frankenstein laying on a bed with his eyes closed
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October 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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A patient with motor neurone disease was able to control a computer just by using his thoughts following the UK’s first Neuralink implant surgery in a study led by @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCLH clinical researchers.
First UK patient uses thought to control computer hours after Neuralink implant
A patient with motor neurone disease was able to control a computer just by using his thoughts following the UK’s first Neuralink implant surgery in a study led by UCL and UCLH clinical researchers.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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🗣️ Professor Paola Giunti (@uclqsion.bsky.social) said: "The earlier you treat the patient, the better the outcome. We don't want our patients to wait for years before having the drug."
Wiltshire patient pleads for life-extending drugs funding
Darren Ashton-Lake lives with Friedreich's Ataxia and wants access to a drug to slow its progress.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🎶 Can music help heal the brain after injury?
This #WorldStrokeDay we speak to Dr Sara Ajina (@uclqsion.bsky.social) about her pioneering trial at UCLH to find out the impact of music therapy.
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For many, music therapy facilitated social connections, which were often challenging for patients with communication difficulties, such as aphasia. These shared musical experiences provided a sense of connection that might be otherwise difficult to achieve.
October 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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To mark #WorldStrokeDay we caught up with Prof David Werring, (@uclqsion.bsky.social) to ask what the most effective strategies are for stroke prevention, how technology is being used to improve diagnosis and treatment, and much more.
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Blood pressure control is probably the most important risk factor to diagnose and treat to prevent first and recurrent strokes. If everybody regularly checked for and treated their blood pressure and the irregular heartbeat of atrial fibrillation from mid-life onwards then many strokes could be prevented.
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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A multiple sclerosis patient in the UK was the first to receive CAR T cell therapy, invented by UCL researchers, in a clinical trial testing whether this personalised treatment can slow or even halt the progression of the disease. @uclqsion.bsky.social
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I hope taking part in the trial means I will never have to experience another relapse and that my MS symptoms will not progress. I know it is still experimental but it offers a scientific rationale which, as a biology teacher, makes sense to me.
October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM