Professor Aikaterini Fotopoulou (KatLab) has won the ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize for her outstanding contributions to promoting equality and diversity in the brain sciences. 👏 ALBA Network FENS Kavli Network buff.ly/uiozRrq

🎓 Professor Angela Davis, eminent American political activist, philosopher and author, who received an honorary Doctorate in Letters

Congratulations to our newly elected Board members: 🎉 Sandhya Koushika, Jatin Nagpal, and Ibukun Akinrinade 🎉 Chair-Elect: Bita Moghaddam Thank you to everyone who joined the ALBA General Assembly 2025! 💙 We’re grateful for your energy and insights. Onward in our mission for

Learn how to plan, write, and publish your scientific paper. Perfect for ECRs new to publishing or looking to sharpen their skills Led by Dr. Kate Baker, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Brain and Neuroscience Advances FREE for BNA Members and £15 for Non-Members bna.org.uk/events/ems-eve…

Honoured and delighted to join the board of directors at ALBA Network. I look forward to contributing to the ALBA mission to promote equity and inclusion in neuroscience. APC Microbiome Ireland UCC Pharmacology UCC Pharmacy School UCC Medicine & Health UCC Research

Great opportunity! 🧠

And I did manage to get a pic! So thrilled to see Reading being foregrounded by the 2026 Year of Reading Bridget Phillipson National Literacy Trust Department for Education The Reading Agency

The Lords Science and Technology Committee will take evidence from Lord Vallance of Balham, Minister of State for Science in DSIT, at 10am on 15th July, as the final session in our inquiry on financing and scaling UK science and technology. Further info: committees.parliament.uk/event/24854/fo…

Science, science, science!

Brilliant to welcome Emmanuel Macron to Imperial College London today 🇬🇧🇫🇷 UK-France tech collaboration is bringing millions of pounds in investment to the UK, delivering jobs and helping British companies win major French contracts. 📸credit: Thomas Angus, Imperial College London

When I spoke about living and succeeding with dyslexia so many people wrote in with stories of why they hide it. Reading this Telegraph article shows why.

The emergence of NeuroAI: bridging neuroscience and artificial intelligence — a Comment article by Sadra Sadeh & Claudia Clopath ClopathLab nature.com/articles/s4158…

“Through writing, advocacy, and lived experience, Brenda has brought neuroscience closer to everyone.” We are honoured to launch the Brenda Walker Award for #Neuroscience Communication and name Brenda as its first recipient. tinyurl.com/yc8apysy #ScienceCommunication

Very happy to be in such great company, shortlisted for the The Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize with 'Our Brains, Our Selves'

I was happy to give a more technical talk on how we might create an AI at RLC-2025 and AGI-2025 (video below). The Oak Architecture: A Vision of Super-Intelligence from Experience As AI has become a huge industry, to an extent it has lost its way. What is needed to get us back on

📣 Applications are open for the ALBA-CHS Travel Awards to the FENS Forum 2026! Supported by the Chica & Heinz Schaller Foundation (CHS), these #grants enable early-career brain science researchers from #underrepresented backgrounds to attend #FENS2026 in Barcelona 🧠🇪🇸 ✈️

Excellent opportunity to get a grant to attend the FENS Forum in Barcelona! FENS - APPLY!

🔔 Nominations are open! ALBA Network and Elsevier invite nominations for the 2026 ALBA–Elsevier Award Lecture in #BrainSciences. 🏆 The recipient will deliver a Special Lecture at #FENS2026 in Barcelona! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 October. 👉 loom.ly/5Vj7q_E

This year’s chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1965 to parents who were refugees from Palestine. When we spoke to him he shared his story: “I grew up in a very humble home, we were a dozen of us in one room, sharing it with the cattle that we used to

Israeli forces are said to have dropped more explosives on Gaza than fell on London, Dresden and Hamburg combined in the Second World War. The level of destruction is hard to fathom as is the humanitarian suffering. Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Secunder Kermani looks at the