Fitzsimons Lab, University of Amsterdam

Why Former NFL All-Pros Are Turning to Psychedelics Research into whether drugs like ayahuasca can mitigate the effects of traumatic brain injury is in its infancy. Pro athletes like the Buffalo Bills’ Jordan Poyer are forging ahead anyway.

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interesting story, curious to see it developing

Accelerating impact analysis with Altmetric Learn how Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) uses Altmetric accelerate research impact analysis.

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I am interested in a positive and constructive diacussion about the topic

Yes, of course, but most of them cannot be straighfowardly quantified

I understand the concerns regarding the number of papers as output indicator, but it is something you can messure. How do we quantify other parameters, such as content, impact or quality? Without a clear answer to this question is difficult to move forward. Let’s diascuss this

Important perspective on a fascinating study from the Frisén group, which used machine learning to identify neural progenitors in the adult human brain, a fresh lens on a long-standing debate 💥
Always exciting to see this field evolve, and grateful to be part of it @labsalta.bsky.social

So well deserved, Giorgia!

Hora est 🎓
Last Thursday, I defended my PhD at the University of Amsterdam, @nin-knaw.bsky.social—graduated cum laude ✨ Huge thanks to my amazing supervisor @labsalta.bsky.social, co-promoters Paul Lucassen, Inge Huitinga & @fitzsimonslab.bsky.social. Thanks to all who made the day unforgettable!

Cross‐Analysis of Single‐Cell Transcriptomic Datasets Reveals Conserved Neurogenic Gene Signatures and New Insights Into Neural Stem Cell Aging Here, we reanalyze single-cell RNA sequencing datasets demonstrating hippocampal adult neural stem cell (NSC) heterogeneity to resolve classification inconsistencies and identify conserved gene marke...

What is an adult hippocampal neural stem cell?
In our new collaboration with Evgenia Salta's lab, we propose an operational definition based on conserved gene signatures across seven previous studies, and we use it to understand how NSCs change as they age

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Cross‐Analysis of Single‐Cell Transcriptomic Datasets Reveals Conserved Neurogenic Gene Signatures and New Insights Into Neural Stem Cell Aging Here, we reanalyze single-cell RNA sequencing datasets demonstrating hippocampal adult neural stem cell (NSC) heterogeneity to resolve classification inconsistencies and identify conserved gene marke...

Cross-Analysis of Single-Cell Transcriptomic Datasets Reveals Conserved Neurogenic Gene Signatures and New Insights Into Neural Stem Cell Aging
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CTE is a devastating disease that recieves very little attention from the health community. For these patients, everything starts with a traumatic brain injury

Major European institutes join race to save US science data Nature - As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear.

Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted by US President Donald Trump’s administration

https://go.nature.com/4jnEXnt

The link seems broken…

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