🤔 What are YOUR thoughts on #AnimalResearch ?

🐭 FENS CARE is calling all ECRs to send their insights on animal experiments in #BrainResearch and have a chance to be featured in European Journal of Neuroscience and #FENS2024

⚠️ Only one week left to apply!

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Fascinating debate on the relative urgency for green neuroscience vs open neuroscience going on right now at #BNAMembersMeeting2024 !

This interactive session will explore the principles of effective data visualisation and allow participants to better design and evaluate data visualisations in a range of contexts.

Register now to attend: bna.org.uk/mediacentre/ev…

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🧪 Antibody Specificity: A strong case for third-party testing

An estimated 20-30% of scientists could be using commercial #antibodies in their protein studies that don’t work as advertised, potentially skewing results. 11/13 elifesciences.org/articles/93329…

This is a terrifying development, seeing our government celebrate spending a fortune on an ineffectual and cruel policy which is gleefully in breach of international law and human rights conventions.
All I can say is - register to vote, and get your photo ID ready.

There's such a backlog in the English courts that it can take three or four years to get a date for rape and grievous bodily harm trials. But all of a sudden, 150 judges have been freed to hear Rwanda deportation cases.

2 days to go till our Members' Meeting!

Register now to experience our research talks and sessions, as well as connect with the international neuroscience community.

The meeting is free to attend for BNA members. Register here: bna.org.uk/mediacentre/ev…

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This week in ‘Science without anguish’: The high cost of fear in research sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/the-high-…

Thanks to Alice White, PhD for illustrations

Big thanks to everyone who tweeted at #EMH2024 today!

‣ 45 people
‣ Sent 273 tweets
‣ Making 15.7m hashtag impressions

Great work from Douglas Badenoch taking this #BeyondTheRoom

Fab Twitter thread here: twitter.com/Mental_Elf/sta…

Video interviews here: youtube.com/watch?v=kLflNc…

Wasn’t expecting to be doing a poetry writing exercise but that was really good! The Binks Hub Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh #EMH2024

Such an interesting format for a conference session- 3 minute “provocations” followed by panel discussion. Here Stephen Lawrie discusses evaluation for complex interventions #EMH2024

Some really impressive examples of co-development of research with young people #EMH2024

Really looking forward to the day’s programme- not my usual field so loads to learn

I promise I’ll stop going on about cherry blossom soon but it’s just so lovely 🥰

After the last talk of the day- our keynote lecture 🤗
What a day with 370 delegates, 24 speakers, 53 poster presenters and art-science exhibition!
We hope to bring to you a bigger and better Neuroscience day 2025!🧠

See you next year! 😊

#EdNeuroDay #neuroscience

Wow- genuinely inspiring talk from Iain Campbell, Ph.D. on the ketogenic diet for bipolar disorder #EdNeuroDay

Finally got to see our awesome Cajal Embroidery hanging up 😍

Our first #edneuroday as co-directors and what a start 😊

If you’re headed to Neuroscience Day 🧠Edinburgh Neuroscience today, come and find our table to hear about what SIDB and Patrick Wild Centre do and find out about our PhD programme. #edneuroday

Delighted to launch 'Science Without Anguish': what I’ve learned from years of handling the emotional ups and downs of research life. Perhaps parts of it will work for you?
This week: why I'm writing it, what topics I will cover and source material.
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