Selina Wray
@selinawray.bsky.social
Prof of Molecular Neuroscience
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Alzheimer’s disease & stem cell models
Barnsley lass
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Alzheimer’s disease & stem cell models
Barnsley lass
Wonderful Annual Address lecture from Prof Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu this evening 🧬 🧠
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wonderful Annual Address lecture from Prof Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu this evening 🧬 🧠
Cold weather done right
November 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Cold weather done right
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👟 Meet Joe Gregory — England walking footballer and Parkinson’s research champion. He’s taken part in a whopping 12 research projects at @uclqsion.bsky.social and other universities to help find better treatments.
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“I stopped saying no to things” Joe Gregory on Parkinson’s, football and taking part in research
Why is research participation important? We speak to Joe Gregory, England walking footballer and Parkinson’s research advocate, about why he got involved with research at UCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
👟 Meet Joe Gregory — England walking footballer and Parkinson’s research champion. He’s taken part in a whopping 12 research projects at @uclqsion.bsky.social and other universities to help find better treatments.
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Under close supervision this morning 🦊
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Under close supervision this morning 🦊
I am very excited to be speaking at this meeting! Submit your abstracts and come join us!
Excited to announce, the 93rd Biochemical Society Harden Conference will be on "Endosomal-lysosomal network dysfunction in neurodegeneration". Come and join us in early September on the beautiful south coast of England. Lots of speaker slots available from submitted abstracts!
November 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I am very excited to be speaking at this meeting! Submit your abstracts and come join us!
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Congratulations to Professor Sir John Hardy ( @uclqsion.bsky.social, @ukdri.ac.uk), who has been named on Esquire’s Better Men List 2025 for his groundbreaking research into Alzheimer’s disease! www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Congratulations to Professor Sir John Hardy ( @uclqsion.bsky.social, @ukdri.ac.uk), who has been named on Esquire’s Better Men List 2025 for his groundbreaking research into Alzheimer’s disease! www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
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This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
We’re recruiting an institute director, take a look!
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November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We’re recruiting an institute director, take a look!
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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I have thoroughly enjoyed writing for @pet-bionews.bsky.social the last 6 weeks as part of their BioNews writing scheme!
This week I had the pleasure of reviewing a seminar on the ethics of organoid and chimaera research 🧠🧫.
See the link below to read!
www.progress.org.uk/event-review...
This week I had the pleasure of reviewing a seminar on the ethics of organoid and chimaera research 🧠🧫.
See the link below to read!
www.progress.org.uk/event-review...
Event Review: HDBI Ethics Seminar – Ethics of human brain organoids and human-animal chimaeras | PET
Professor John Evans discusses investigations into the US public's opinion on the use of human brain organoids and human-animal chimaeras in research.
www.progress.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I have thoroughly enjoyed writing for @pet-bionews.bsky.social the last 6 weeks as part of their BioNews writing scheme!
This week I had the pleasure of reviewing a seminar on the ethics of organoid and chimaera research 🧠🧫.
See the link below to read!
www.progress.org.uk/event-review...
This week I had the pleasure of reviewing a seminar on the ethics of organoid and chimaera research 🧠🧫.
See the link below to read!
www.progress.org.uk/event-review...
Patkrun with my mate this morning 🥰
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Patkrun with my mate this morning 🥰
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Congratulations to Professor Sarah Tabrizi @ucl-hd.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social on earning the @britishneuro.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience Award, for excellence and leadership in UK neuroscience and recognising her transformative impact on Huntington's disease research
Pioneering UCL Huntington’s researcher wins major neuroscience award
Professor Sarah Tabrizi, Director of the UCL Huntington’s Disease Centre, has been awarded the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience Award for 2025, the assoc...
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Congratulations to Professor Sarah Tabrizi @ucl-hd.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social on earning the @britishneuro.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience Award, for excellence and leadership in UK neuroscience and recognising her transformative impact on Huntington's disease research
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Today the UK government has released a strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods.
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/n...
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/n...
Animal testing to be phased out faster as UK unveils roadmap for alternative methods
New plan backs researchers to seize on new and developing opportunities to phase out animal tests with specific commitments for the coming years.
www.gov.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Today the UK government has released a strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods.
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/n...
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/n...
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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
🎙️ 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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A pleasure to give the career keynote talk at the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social awards last night… and to take the 🐭 shoes for an outing too 😍
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A pleasure to give the career keynote talk at the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social awards last night… and to take the 🐭 shoes for an outing too 😍
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Finally it’s here! 🌟⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I’m sooo excited to share our latest article led by Steve Hill and Isabel Bravo-Ferrer
1- How does the vasculature communicate with astrocytes?
2- Is this communication dependent to what happens in the body.
3- Is it relevant to human diseases?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I’m sooo excited to share our latest article led by Steve Hill and Isabel Bravo-Ferrer
1- How does the vasculature communicate with astrocytes?
2- Is this communication dependent to what happens in the body.
3- Is it relevant to human diseases?
Fig. 1: Establishment of methods to identify astrocyte endfoot proteins. | Nature Communications
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Finally it’s here! 🌟⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I’m sooo excited to share our latest article led by Steve Hill and Isabel Bravo-Ferrer
1- How does the vasculature communicate with astrocytes?
2- Is this communication dependent to what happens in the body.
3- Is it relevant to human diseases?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I’m sooo excited to share our latest article led by Steve Hill and Isabel Bravo-Ferrer
1- How does the vasculature communicate with astrocytes?
2- Is this communication dependent to what happens in the body.
3- Is it relevant to human diseases?
Look at these beautiful organoids grown by @sophie0g.bsky.social ! Who needs fireworks when we can look down the microscope at these stunners 😎
🔬 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
📸: Sophie Goldsmith, @uclqsion.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Look at these beautiful organoids grown by @sophie0g.bsky.social ! Who needs fireworks when we can look down the microscope at these stunners 😎
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Was out yesterday, so I left the lights & classic FM on so the fireworks didn’t stress him/make him jump with his dodgy ticker. Came home to find he’d moved himself to the dark room and was looking mad AF about having to listen to 4h of the radio 🙃
November 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Was out yesterday, so I left the lights & classic FM on so the fireworks didn’t stress him/make him jump with his dodgy ticker. Came home to find he’d moved himself to the dark room and was looking mad AF about having to listen to 4h of the radio 🙃
A wonderful article on the new rare dementia support Centre at UCL. This will make such a huge difference to those with young onset and atypical forms of dementia.
‘I see people with dementia in their 20s’: first centre for young patients
www.thetimes.com/article/7bc1...
‘I see people with dementia in their 20s’: first centre for young patients
www.thetimes.com/article/7bc1...
‘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
www.thetimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A wonderful article on the new rare dementia support Centre at UCL. This will make such a huge difference to those with young onset and atypical forms of dementia.
‘I see people with dementia in their 20s’: first centre for young patients
www.thetimes.com/article/7bc1...
‘I see people with dementia in their 20s’: first centre for young patients
www.thetimes.com/article/7bc1...
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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.
🎃 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/51e18001
@uclqsion.bsky.social
Join @selinawray.bsky.social, @caswell.bsky.social & @drjlange.bsky.social for a spooktacular Brain Stories.
🎃 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/51e18001
@uclqsion.bsky.social
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
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🧟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.
🎃 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/51e18001
@uclqsion.bsky.social
Join @selinawray.bsky.social, @caswell.bsky.social & @drjlange.bsky.social for a spooktacular Brain Stories.
🎃 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/51e18001
@uclqsion.bsky.social
In the mood for something sciency and spooky? How about the Halloween special of @uclbrainstories.bsky.social - where me and @caswell.bsky.social talk to @drjlange.bsky.social on some of the gothic stories in neuroscience! 👻 🧠 🎃 💀🧟♂️
spotify.link/2lHT9pLQRXb
spotify.link/2lHT9pLQRXb
Episode 23- Jenny Lange on the gothic history of neuroscience, a Halloween special
spotify.link
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In the mood for something sciency and spooky? How about the Halloween special of @uclbrainstories.bsky.social - where me and @caswell.bsky.social talk to @drjlange.bsky.social on some of the gothic stories in neuroscience! 👻 🧠 🎃 💀🧟♂️
spotify.link/2lHT9pLQRXb
spotify.link/2lHT9pLQRXb
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Today with Gates Ventures we’re launching the Dementia Frontiers Fund, a game-changing initiative uniting experts from across the world to solve the most urgent and complex questions in dementia research.
Find out more here: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/research/for...
Find out more here: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/research/for...
Dementia Frontiers Fund: Information for researchers - Alzheimer's Research UK
A bold, ambitious initiative empowering researchers to tackle three of the most urgent and complex questions in dementia.
www.alzheimersresearchuk.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today with Gates Ventures we’re launching the Dementia Frontiers Fund, a game-changing initiative uniting experts from across the world to solve the most urgent and complex questions in dementia research.
Find out more here: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/research/for...
Find out more here: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/research/for...