Cristina Legido-Quigley

Trends I've noticed in my underground commute in London,
men with red socks, many people reading books, women with blue hair

Yale study challenges notion that aging means decline, finds many older adults improve over time Aging in later life is often portrayed as a steady slide toward physical and cognitive decline. But a new study by scientists at Yale University suggests an

Yale study challenges notion that aging means decline, finds many older adults improve over time ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

#Alzheimers #dementia #aging #geriatrics #gerontology #health

Memory Cards As my mom's caregiver for Alzheimer's, I am sharing a free downloadable printable pdf of memory cards you can hand out to people in tricky situations. This is a discreet way of letting someone know yo...

I created a free pdf of a memory companion discreet card for your loved ones with a medical condition. As my moms caregiver for Alzheimer’s, I find these incredibly useful. English & Spanish! No strings attached, just a daughter that cares ♡ #caregiver #alzheimers
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It's #WhiskersWednesday and Titi finally likes a toy, on close inspection it is filled with catnip

Rosalía gana el premio BRIT Internacional y canta ‘Berghain’ junto a Björk: “Sigamos celebrando la música diferente, los idiomas diferentes” La catalana convirtió el escenario en el famoso club berlinés y montó su propia rave junto a un grupo de bailarines

“Sigamos celebrando la música diferente, los idiomas diferentes”. Rosalía gana el premio BRIT Internacional y canta ‘Berghain’ junto a Björk

Inside the incredible, infuriating quest to explain consciousness Will brain science deliver answers about consciousness or hit another wall?

Why does being awake and alive, being yourself, feel like anything at all, and where does this singular sense of awareness come from in the brain?

Eunice Foote, climate change, and the Matilda Effect The birth of modern science was hostile to women’s participation. The world’s major academies of science were founded in the 17th century: the Royal Society of London (1662), the Paris Académie Roy…

Margaret W. Rossiter coined the term “Matilda effect” to describe the bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists. Some cases illustrating the Matilda effect include Eunice Foote, Rosalind Franklin, & Jocelyn Bell Burnell
#Womeninstem
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A formal, black-and-white portrait photograph of Marjory Stephenson, a British biochemist and one of the first two female Fellows of the Royal Society, taken in April 1945. The image shows Stephenson seated and turned slightly to the viewer's left, looking directly at the camera. She wears dark, round-rimmed glasses, a black dress, and a strand of pearls. Her hair is styled back off her face. The portrait uses soft lighting and a blurred background, common to the photographic style of the time. The photo was taken by Walter Stoneman for the National Portrait Gallery.

Marjory Stephenson was born #OTD in 1885

+ Helped establish modern microbial biochemistry
+ Wrote foundational textbook 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 (1930), shaping the discipline for decades
+ Co-founded, Society for General Microbiology
+ 1 of the first 2 women Fellows, Royal Society, 1945

#WomenInSTEM

😂 too funny not to share, we need a cat catching an invisible spider

I had many awkward questions and comments as have a long career, maybe: can you make your voice less high pitch? after a keynote presentation

This is one for all the #WomeninSTEM. If you are happy to, could you share some of the more awkward and unusual questions you have been asked? The ones your male colleagues would never be asked.

I'm running an event @helmholtz.de with the awesome Michelle Browne for #IDWAGIS

Professional portrait of atmospheric scientist Susan Solomon. She has short, tousled gray hair, wears large round dark-framed glasses, and is smiling gently. She is dressed in a textured navy-blue blazer over a black top, with a bright multicolored floral/paisley scarf tied at the neck. Her arms are crossed confidently in front of her chest. She wears a silver watch on her left wrist. The background shows a softly blurred indoor space with warm architectural tones.

Atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon was born #OTD in 1956.

Solomon, working with colleagues at NOAA, proposed/confirmed the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole, chlorofluorocarbons. She led the Nat'l Ozone Expedition to Antarctica to collect evidence & was the only woman on the team. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

News in Proteomics Research blog post | Super fast targeted proteomics on an ion trap for IBD monitoring! proteomicsnews.blogs...

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#proteomics #prot-other

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Pretty cool

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we call my cat's purr "the motorbike"
#caturday #cats

I was convinced today is #caturday

Happy 2026!!!
A colder than usual dip in Sitges Barcelona, 4C 🥶 sunny

Taking the fifth #Xmas #cats

Interesting, in my lab we measure near 1000 lipids in blood CSF brain, & we have found that many fats are needed for a healthy brain. Plenty genes that are risk of dementia make proteins that need to interact with fats, to me it makes sense

playful mood two months since adoption, more & more trusting, picking up a drama #caturday #catsofbluesky #whiskerswednesday

cat resting on bed with Liberty print handmade collar

Looking very pleased with her Liberty's collar made by Lorraine at MoogyandPooch

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.

Suspense !

Our new #GWAS with MS #proteomics paper has been scheduled for publication in Nature Genetics on 27 November 2025 at 10:00 (London time) and will be available at the following URL: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠 Los científicos han descubierto que el cerebro no envejece de forma lineal, sino que cambia de rumbo cuatro veces a lo largo de la vida. Cada giro marca una edad oculta con consecuencias profundas para nuestra memoria, aprendizaje y salud mental. www.rexmolon.es/rexmolon-pro...

The pursuit of ultrasensitive phosphoproteomics to unravel signalling in rare cells www.nature.com/artic...

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#proteomics #prot-paper

An update of one of our papers has been posted to biorxiv. Stas, Yang, Schultz and Go, "Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease".
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

'Cab in Dean St' by Jonathan Stewardson
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🎵 'A Rainy Night in Soho' by The Pogues
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'A late delivery on Shaftesbury Avenue' by Tushar Sabale
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🎵 'London is the Place for Me' by Lord Kitchener
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This subject came up in the Nobel Minds broadcast (2022) during the conversation at 25:50, note economics Laureate Ben Bernanke’s “puzzlement” as to Why, and the audience’s response to the entire exchange.

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