Me and my poster at #182 at #ADPD2026 in Copenhagen! I'm having a great time! 😁

Neurodegeneration and the Social Environment: Sex-Specific Impacts on Neural Ageing and Immune Function in Drosophila melanogaster at Teesside University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Neurodegeneration and the Social Environment: Sex-Specific Impacts on Neural Ageing and Immune Function in Drosophila melanogaster at Teesside University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🧠🪰 Funded PhD: Neurodegeneration × social environment - discover sex‑specific brain ageing in Drosophila. Teesside × Leeds 🔬🧬✨ ⏳ Just ~3 weeks until it’s due (7 Jan)! Apply 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhD #Neuroscience #Drosophila #Ageing #Parkinsons #Alzheimers#NeuroAgeing

📣I had a chat with Teesside Postgraduate Society about my research and being a researcher!

I was honoured to be asked and they did a great job. For my 1st podcast experience, it was great. 🙂

Thank you to everyone involved! Click the link to listen! 👂

open.spotify.com/episode/4kI5...

Today is the 1st day of the PhD conference on drug development for AD (PhD4AD) in Heraklion in Crete at FORTH. This conference has been organised by our PhD students in the TClock4AD consortium.

It's been great so far! Organisation is well done and talks really interesting and well-presented!

PhD4AD PhD Conference on Drug Development for AD (PhD4AD). 5th-7th of November 2025 in Heraklion, Greece.

PhD Conference on Drug Development for Alzheimer Disease (PhD4AD). 5th-7th of November 2025 in Heraklion, Greece.

Registration is now open—reserve your spot today!

Website: site.unibo.it/tclock4ad/en...

Big thanks to @clarahowcroft.bsky.social y.social, @toraks.bsky.social ks.bsky.social, @dpdoupe.bsky.social for organising the first NE Fly Meeting! It was inspiring to see the Northern Drosophila community come together with such warmth and energy. Here’s to more science, support, and shared ideas!

Thanks for coming, Ines and bringing your group! It was great having you there and I look forward to meeting again!

Thank you @clarahowcroft.bsky.social, @toraks.bsky.social and David Dupe for getting the Northern Drosophila community together and organising the first NE fly meeting. We had a wonderful time, thanks for creating such a lovely, supportive and enthusiastic spirit. See you soon!

It was a lovely first Fly North(East) meeting, diverse and supportive. Thank you all for sharing your science and the enthusiasm in strengthening our community. Thank you @gensocuk.bsky.social for the sponsorship that made it possible.

We hosted the first North East Fly Meeting today! It was great to connect with people from all over as well as the local universities. A great learning and networking opportunity for us all! Sometimes it's just great to talk flies with all fly people! @clarahowcroft.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social

Featuring our keynote speaker @amandabretman.bsky.social and many members of northern fly groups @poppi62.bsky.social, @natsansor.bsky.social, @vincentcroset.bsky.social, @exdrososcientia.bsky.social, @wolfhuette.bsky.social, @stuartwigby.bsky.social, Marisa Merino, Alistair McGregor, Rebecca Clark.

It is already tomorrow, our first Fly North(East) England meeting at Northumbria University Newcastle! Co-organized with @toraks.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social. Looking forward to a day of bulding bridges and discussing how to nurture our network.

Thrilled to be awarded the RGS-IBG Small Research Grant! Looking forward to some summer #fieldwork in the North York Moors to study the often overlooked shallow #peatland areas of our uplands and the many benefits they provide!

#RGSgrants #RGS_IBG #peat #soilscience

Investigating the roles of mtDNA mutations in ageing and disease at Teesside University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Investigating the roles of mtDNA mutations in ageing and disease at Teesside University, listed on FindAPhD.com

✳️ I am recruiting for a fully funded BBSRC NEEDL PhD!

✴️ Create Drosophila (fruit fly) models to study mtDNA mutations in ageing & disease at Teesside Uni!

✅ With Newcastle Uni researchers Prof. Laura Greaves & Dr. James Stewart ! 🤝

📅 Due 12noon on 31st March

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

What is the nature of cache memory in Parids? A comment on Chettih et al. 2024 - Animal Cognition Recent findings by Chettih et al. (Cell 187: 1922–1935, 2024) from electrophysiological recordings in the hippocampus of black-capped chickadees shed light on the debate about how food-hoarding Parids...

Further musings about how food-hoarding titmice and chickadees remember the locations of their caches....
link.springer.com/10.1007/s100...

We’re recruiting a PhD student, come and work with us @newcastleuni.bsky.social!

This exciting interdisciplinary project applies the quantum formalism to model experimental observations of human emotional memory performance. #physics #psychology #emotions #neuroscience #quantum #quantumformalism

Yay! I'm very excited that my ballot has been received in Pennsylvania! My 18yo son's too! It's a great feeling to vote! 😁❤️

This is what 50 looks like! 😀

Me at my 50th birthday party on the 5th of October - which was my actual birthday. 🥳🍾🎉

Me and my poster at the NeuroFly Conference!

I was so busy there, and same since I got back, so a long delay, but here we are!

Mitochondria and Parkinson’s in a Drosophila model!

Photo by Simona 🙂❤️ - an Instagram friend I met in person there 🙂

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,489,383, toraks.bsky.social ‪@toraks.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 13, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,489,383!

Who else is going to @neurofly2024.bsky.social ? I'll be there all week and my poster is on Tuesday - mine's #45 (PD & mitos) & Ishrak's is #89 (AD & circadian rhythms) - he's doing his PhD with me. Looking forward to seeing everyone & their science soon! 🙂#NeuroFly2024

20 years ago, I graduated with my PhD! 🎉🥳
My defense was 13th of Nov 2003, but I went to the Duke graduation ceremonies May 2004
I refreshed my lipstick & a newspaper man asked if he could use my picture! 😀
Madeleine Albright's picture & Duke basketball players are smaller! 😲

Join us for @pintofscience.bsky.social Darlington tonight! 🍻😊

There are still some tickets!

pintofscience.co.uk/event/health...

Tuesday 14th May - Prof John S. Young, Dr Tora Smulders-Srinivasan, Dr Marc Moore

#teessideuni #Pint24 #DarlingtonPint #PintOfScience

Healthcare Heroes Come and quench your thirst for knowledge at Darlington's first Pint of Science event! <br /> <br /> The Healthcare Heroes evening will be themed on 'Our Body'.

I'm doing @pintofscience.bsky.social 🍻on 14 May in Darlington!

Excited to do the 1st event in Darlington - the venue is near the National Horizons Centre where I do my research, so that makes sense!

See details of my talk & the others & book tickets:
pintofscience.co.uk/event/health...

#pint24

In person event Tora's FameLab UK 3 minute research video Here's the video of my in person 3 minute scientific research presentation for the FameLab North East Regional Final event!The event happened on 13 April 202...

I didn't win, but it was fun - everybody was great - and the winner Zoe Bell was amazing, so I'm happy she won! 😍

Video below by my 13 year old son who supported me on the day - he apologizes for the shaking, but apparently he was nervous for me. Very sweet! ❤️

youtu.be/X2fhBeGBT4M?...

I made it to the FameLab North East Regional Final using this video talking about my scientific research!

It's tomorrow 13th April at Teesside! I hope it goes well 🙂

I thought I'd share this, since it's an okay non-scientific summary of my research 🙂

youtu.be/duZWazRxRMk?...