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@GriffinWildlife @naturetrektours Good luck 🤞

@BankCambridge @naturetrektours Hopefully.... We're heading out shortly to look for them today... They've been harder here recently because of construction works, (a motorway and a train line), but they are around so fingers crossed! 🤞

Today on the @naturetrektours Wild Sichuan trip we spent the morning travelling to the Tibetan plains around Zoige. With sub-zero temperatures and snow falling, mammals were on show well, hunting the pika on the plains to varying degrees of success... This Tibetan Fox aced it.

@MatthewOates76 Hi Matthew, have they emerged in numbers at Fermyn yet?

I was meeted & greeted by this freshly emerged (and not fully coloured up) Purple Emperor when I arrived in Savernake Forest at 12.30, feeding on something nasty. I went on to count 13 males & one female (being courted) along 3 Oak Hills Drive, = very good.

@Fenlandbirding @Finnature @YouTube Great footage. We spotlighted a few in Poland in April. Awesome birds.

See my Ural Owl experience with @Finnature Finland Oulu-Kuusamo 14th-20th June Ural Owl youtube.com/shorts/ZChanYx… via @YouTube

@nocontextmemes You mean arthropod

Wiseman et al. report that the rapid neurodegeneration observed in MSA is driven by toxic α-synuclein fibrils invading neuronal nuclei, leading to cell death. They propose redefining MSA as a neuronal nuclear and oligodendroglial α-synucleinopathy. tinyurl.com/s9mpyckk

@Arron_banks About as well as your Brexit mate

Does anyone know how the “smash the gangs” policy is going ?

Did you know that the SWDBB relies solely on charitable donations to fund our activities? We have a new Crowdfunding page: crowdfunding.bristol.ac.uk/p/southwestdem… please do share it if you able to.

TSPO PET is used to measure inflammation in dementia, but its cellular basis is unclear. Using PET imaging and post-mortem brain tissue, Wijesinghe et al. show that microglia are the key immune cells driving TSPO PET signal changes. tinyurl.com/mwpxdcc6

@catturd2 Get a job

Never forget - the UK, Canada, and most of Europe chose Ukraine over the USA yesterday. Ukraine is their problem now and enjoy the tariffs.

@ProfRobHoward A timely letter. Amyloid-removal pseudo-atrophy is an interesting suggestion but, as you say, doesn’t account for observed degree of atrophy. Indeed, amyloid-beta is not the only constituent of these plaques. Further post-mortem neuropathological studies are clearly needed.

Just published - our letter in The Lancet Neurology, again asking for open and transparent reporting of data around accelerated brain volume loss with use of amyloid antibodies and for this to be taken seriously until we know more about long-term consequences.

@alehasnaat_ @PolitlcsUK Suicide was decriminalised in 1961 by the Suicide Act 1961. So, I guess it is “allowed in the U.K. now” but that’s not anything to do with the Assisted Dying Bill.

@PolitlcsUK So suicide is allowed in UK now. Fully legit.

🚨 How did well-known politicians vote on the Assisted Dying Bill? For: - Keir Starmer - Rachel Reeves - Rishi Sunak - Richard Tice - Jeremy Hunt - Lee Anderson - Carla Denyer - Oliver Dowden - Mel Stride - Victoria Atkins Against: - Angela Rayner - David Lammy - Wes Streeting - Jonathan Reynolds - Darren Jones - Bridget Phillipson - Kemi Badenoch - Robert Jenrick - Nigel Farage - Priti Patel - Jeremy Corbyn - Diane Abbott - Ed Davey

@calvinrobinson @GeorgeWales13 And you checked your phone quite a lot

@GeorgeWales13 Thank you. No, not at all. I prayed to be used as a vessel by the Holy Spirit. 🙏

My warning to America, delivered at the Trump event 🇺🇸

@crestiesam Serindipity

I took this photo today and thought I was looking at a Siskin, but I’ve had two people who saw the photo tell me they think it could be Serin. I am sure it must be a Siskin but just for extra assurance so I can sleep tonight, can anyone verify for certain?!

Delighted to share our work, out today in @MDJ_Journal ! We highlight alpha-synuclein SAA positivity in PSP and CBS patient CSF samples. This may represent Lewy body co-pathology which can impact on clinical course (1/2) @PSPAssociation @MDC_IoN_UCL …mentdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/md…

@SundaeDivine @lasaristocratas Only that is a monkey and not a chimp

@lasaristocratas Don’t be sad. Here’s a baby chimp for you.

And you wonder why the election is so tight.

@Fenlandbirding Incredible September fall on north Norfolk coast. A three wryneck day for me is a personal record!

4 of these beauties today 😍 1 at Burnham Overy Dunes and 3 on Blakeney Point.

Fantastic work by the brilliant @SidRamanan!

Nature research paper: Fibrin drives thromboinflammation and neuropathology in COVID-19 go.nature.com/3Z2IDDO

Professor Gillian Bates FRS is awarded the Royal Society's Ferrier Medal for her work in understanding the molecular basis of Huntington’s disease and consistently producing highly impactful findings which have moulded the course of this field. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-pri…