Colm Cunningham

Researches microglia, astrocytes and inflammation in delirium and dementia

[American Delirium Society @AmerDelirium]

ADS is proud to support the 21st @EDA_delirium Association Annual Conference 🎉, to be held on November 5 and 6, 2026 🗓️, at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴. The meeting is organized by @aldringoghelse, Leiv Otto Watne, and the Oslo Delirium Research Group. An optional Pathophysiology Day is offered on November 4.

The program covers delirium research and clinical practice across disciplines 🧠🔬.

For additional information, please click here. https://t.co/JOmLHI3yZx

#Delirium #EDA2026 #DeliriumResearch

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

@SierraLabAch @AgEInves Yippee! A new grant always feels like a lifeline

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

@SierraLabAch @TepavcevicVanja @markcnewry Thanks Amanda, hope you're doing well?

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

Thrilled to have our paper with @markcnewry out in BRAIN. https://t.co/jg6O7IZzcT We show that CSF1R inhibition to deplete proliferating microglia in APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer's actually increases hyper excitability in hippocampal circuits https://t.co/MSdZTrTI2q

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

Looking at my own kids' school work I do not think digital learning is better than textbooks and copybooks. Quite the opposite. It is all so fragmented and non-linear that I can't see how it benefits students.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

A beautifully written case for why physical textbooks are so much better for learning than the online distractions that have replaced them.

From Sophie Winkleman and @drdavidajames

https://t.co/Jpmd5tJ9nm

[Tom Chivers @TomChivers]

reading this Uta Frith interview in TES. It's so important on the expansion of autism diagnoses to include almost anyone, many of whom would be better described as having social anxiety. This bit in particular on masking seems really insightful https://t.co/fi8bv8FCZK

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

Universities are meant to model openness and critical thinking. Yet many academics remain silent about injustice within their own institutions. This new article from ecrLife examines two entrenched mechanisms that may be helping sustain that culture.
https://t.co/ZG4fefT5nx

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

We wrote this review in which we attempt to bring together neuromonitoring, risk factor, biomarker and experimental studies supporting a brain energy disruption account of #delirium @Age_and_Ageing doi: 10.1093/ageing/afag024. With @jgordonboyd & Laidlaw Scholar Meher Sabharwal

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

@Education_Ire Teaching science through experiment is a positive development but launching in at 40% contribution to the final mark is crazy. We don't even give it 40% in University degrees with access to cutting edge facilities.

[Irish Times Education @IrishTimesEdu_]

Component of science exams in Leaving Certificate risk student safety, report finds https://t.co/OHLjtiUxmB

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

This is the best description I have seen so far on why AI-generated music won't eclipse human music. Nick Cave on AI, Awe, and the Splendor of Our Human Limitations https://t.co/swx7lcUjPJ via @mariapopova

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

Important RCT for delirium treatment with signs of efficacy despite small n.

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

@modonnellDL Dublin, nurse of such bitter dreams

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

@modonnellDL Room not quite empty

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

Excited to be in Cairns for Australian delirium Association conference but, my God, quite the journey! Straight to bed.

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

@AerLingus "your call is important to us" Also Aerlingus "your wait time is 38 to 45 minutes"

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

@AerLingus Your customer support is truly awful. Please employ some people to support your customers if 'your call is important to us"

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

@modonnellDL Horsechimes

[Colm Cunningham @Cunningham_Colm]

Good God. Please make it stop. Literally revising works of art to bring them into line with our modern sensibilities. Did we even agree what those sensibilities are? The rolling stones and holy bible better watch out.

[Tim Crowley @timcrowley_]

Penguin has announced major revisions to a new edition of George Orwell's '1984'.
'The novel requires updating, in line with progressive sensibilities', said a consultant for 'Anti-Exclusionary Minds', a group engaged by Penguin to moderate Orwell's critique of totalitarianism.

[Mark Cunningham @markcnewry]

Congratulations to PhD candidate @Futureneuro_ie Harry Frost and post-doc Hugh Delaney on winning best poster presentation (as Gaeilge) and Clayton Neuroscience prize respectively at the @TCINeuroscience anniversary symposium @TCDPhysiology