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All the posts every put on our website. Blogs, Podcasts, Careers Support, News and all the good stuff that you wouldn’t want to miss. Only made possible thanks to funding from our amazing partners, NIHR, Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society & Race Against Dementia.

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Blog – If I Fall Behind, I’ll Fall Into Torpor

02/06/2026

Dementia Researcher

Dr Tatiana A. Giovannucci imagines a world where researchers must justify their work or face enforced hibernation. It is, quietly, about burnout.

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‘Virtual cells’ aim to turn raw data into predictive models of biology

02/06/2026

Nature Careers Blog

Simulations of biological systems could transform biomedical research, but researchers are still learning how to reproduce life’s complexity without drowning in data.

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Profile – Dr Magdalena Martínez-García, University of California Santa Barbara

01/06/2026

Dementia Researcher

Dr Magdalena Martínez García is a neuroscientist at UC Santa Barbara studying how pregnancy and motherhood reshape women’s brains.

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Podcast – Leaving Academia, Staying in Research

29/05/2026

Dementia Researcher

In this podcast, Dr Ellice Parkinson, Dr Alice Carstairs and Lizzie English on leaving academia without leaving research behind, and why they don’t regret it.

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Profile – Dr Maria Drummond, University of Glasgow

29/05/2026

Dementia Researcher

Dr Maria Drummond is Team Leader at ENRICH Scotland, supporting care home research shaped by staff, residents and people living with dementia.

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Blog – The Trials and Tribulations of Electrophysiology

27/05/2026

Beccy Owen

Beccy Owen blogs on a year spent learning patch-clamp electrophysiology, the broken pipettes, the phantom noise, and the cells worth waiting for.

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Qualitative Data Analysis for PhD Research

27/05/2026

Dementia Researcher

Elizabeth Yardley explains how PhD researchers can judge qualitative analysis with clearer criteria, stronger themes, and less self doubt.

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Profile – Tony O’Flaherty, Home Instead Care

27/05/2026

Dementia Researcher

Tony O’Flaherty: Director of Home Instead, Wandsworth, leading outstanding home care, 85 carers, 82 clients and three dementia cafes.

Research News

Improving dementia care through community-based support

27/05/2026

NIHR

DePEC is improving dementia prevention, diagnosis and care in low resource settings, building tools, training and evidence to support communities worldwide.

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Profile – Jonathan Hoover, Prima Mente

26/05/2026

Dementia Researcher

Jonathan Hoover is a bioinformatics research scientist at Prima Mente, building AI models to explore how brain diseases emerge and progress in cells.

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Thinking about your thesis title

26/05/2026

Nature Careers Blog

Frances Brodsky shows how fiction writing can sharpen scientific writing, using mystery novels to build narrative, focus and perseverance.

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Blog – Unexpected Things Dementia Teaches us About Time

26/05/2026

Dr Sam Moxon

Dr Sam Moxon on what watching his grandfather live with dementia taught him about time, and why our most important moments rarely fit on a trend line.