Richard Parsons

Neuroscientist, lecturer, semi-pro musician, husband, dad, dog whisperer. All views are my own. Retweet does not mean endorsement.

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Congratulations to Jing Wang on passing your PhD viva. 😀👍 Dr Jing Wang has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?

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@fesshole Red dwarf fan I presume?

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Welcome to Jingwen Wang, our latest PhD student. Jingwen is on a China Scholarship Council-funded PhD in which she is developing a Drosophila model of NNMT expression as a tool for candidate screening in drug discovery.

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Back home where it all started for me 33 years ago as a bright eyed, eager undergrad. ❤️ (It was Dept. of Biochemistry then). @neurofly2024

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My excellent MSc students Zexuan and Caro with their posters. Fantastic work, they both have bright futures ahead 👍

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@fesshole Damage to the fusiform gyrus

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@Andy91035018 @fesshole Due to problems with the fusiform gyrus

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Last call, Neurofliers!
Go submit abstract 16 June: https://t.co/5hTniBT4bD
Early bird deadline 16 June: https://t.co/11iCPHs7gR
Got travel bursaries for PhD students 16 June:
https://t.co/Lf0QwKAbiI
Don't get left out!
Deadline 16 June, Sunday
🏃🏃‍♂️🏃🏃‍♂️

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The @ParsonsNeuroLab Posse at the KCL IPS Postgraduate Research Symposium 😀👍

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@KouroshHE @KouroshLab Happy birthday!!!

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@MirazRahman I received one also. Not much support being offered by either USS or the University.

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@fesshole You will be waiting another year in that case 😂

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Back “home” today to give the keynote speech at the University of Birmingham School of Biosciences PhD symposium. I spent 10 happy years here doing my undergraduate, PhD and first post-doc position. Even more proud as Anna is doing her PhD here also. #BGRS2023

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@brainsnstyle As a male academic who I hope is active in promoting and supporting women in science, I find what has happened to you offensive, derogatory and shameful. They need calling out.

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Waking the dogs in our local park and came across some science-themed graffiti 😀#graffiti #science

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Not a science post, but this is the weather in Kent at the moment. 😍

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Welcome to the lab Yuecheng Zhang. Yuecheng is studying for a PhD into the role of post translational modification upon the enzymology of nicotinamide N-methyltransferase.

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Parsons neuro lab Christmas lunch!!! 😀😀

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Our latest paper, a collaboration between me and my colleagues Frank Hirth and Paul Facey @SciPhiFacey which describes a molecular link between the accumlation of a protein linked to Parkinson's with the destruction of the connections between neurones https://t.co/3Q3OSWQfpO

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Not every day can be spent doing science. Sometimes, you just have to get up the ladder and repair the damage caused by Storm Eunice.