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Dr Becky Carlyle on what a PI loses when a postdoc leaves, and the record keeping, offboarding and reframing that keep a lab going without them.
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- Returning to My Roots: Visiting a Memory Café
Jacqui Kerr spent an afternoon at a rural Alzheimer Scotland memory café. Tea, shortbread, and a sharp reminder of why research delivery matters.
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Dr Emma Law on what the FDA clearance of the pTau217 blood test means for dementia research, from recruitment and trial design to where PET imaging…
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Dr Ajantha Abey shares six more PhD habits worth starting early, covering notes, ideas, networks, conferences, side projects and life after the PhD.
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Dr Connor Richardson looks at what we know about dementia risk in LGBT people, why the evidence is so thin, and what LGBT dementia research needs…
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Getting a grant funded starts with knowing what the panel wants. Louise Serpell shares advice from the review board, summary to interview.
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Beccy Owen spent months dreading her first seminar. Preparing for it turned out to be the most useful thing she did all year. Here's what she…
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