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Professor of Molecular Neuroscience at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Barnsley lass. she/her @wraylabUCL @UCLIoN

London, England
Joined June 2011
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Prof Selina Wray
1 year
Very excited to share our preprint on the role of microglia in Familial British Dementia (FBD). Led by @celarber & in close collaboration with @tammarynlashley Never heard of FBD? Here’s a little thread on FBD and our new findings 🧵
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@SelinaWray
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4 years
Doing a PhD viva today, luckily I had help reading the thesis 😂
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6 months
I feel sorry for all the scientists who have had genuine papers published this week and excitedly tweeting them , but all we’ve been talking about is rat Dck and stemmm cells
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@SelinaWray
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4 years
I’m delighted to be promoted to Professor of Molecular Neuroscience @UCLIoN From growing up in Barnsley on free school meals and in social housing to full Prof at UCL - It’s been quite the journey! Thank you to all my fantastic colleagues & mentors for their support 🤩
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
We were alive at the same time as David Bowie. What an honour 😎 #Glastonbury2020
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@SelinaWray
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2 years
It’s my UCL password change day wish me luck 🙏🏻
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2 years
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@SelinaWray
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3 years
Look at this perfect doggo and their little pal on the Victoria line 😍🥺😍🥺😍🥺😍
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@SelinaWray
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7 years
Sending this to everyone who tells me to *just* CRISPR it ;-)
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3 years
Fb reminding me that 6y ago today I accidentally came to work dressed as my office chair 🤣
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
6 years
I’m absolutely delighted to be the recipient of the 2018 Alzheimer’s Research UK David Hague Early Career Investigator of the Year award. Huge thanks to my mentors, colleagues, collaborators and funders for supporting our research and for being great friends as well as coworkers
@ARUKscientist
Research at ARUK
6 years
Delighted to announce @SelinaWray as the winner of the David Hague Early Career Investigator of the Year Award! Chosen for her contribution to tau biology as well as her dedication to mentorship and public engagement:
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
3 years
Applied for a small grant last year and was put on the “reserve list” for award, which I assumed was just going to be a drawn out rejection. Well turns out they must have found 20k down the back of the sofa because it just got funded! 🤩🤩
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@SelinaWray
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5 months
Delighted to be a recipient of the International Suffrage Science award for Life Sciences 2024 - so special to receive the nomination from previous recipient,the wonderful @MironLab who I greatly respect & admire. I am now the custodian of this beautiful heirloom necklace 😌
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
1 year
Tonight is the #AAIC welcome reception which means it’s the 15th (!!) anniversary of my first and greatest ever selfie with @DrNeuroChic - back when we were both PhD students, now we’re both Profs 🥰 will we recreate it this eve…. Watch this space & don’t stand too close 😂
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@SelinaWray
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4 years
Happy Friday! 🍻😂
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
5 years
Make room. We’re coming and every day I feel more motivated to take up as much space as possible 💪🏻👩🏼‍🔬 Gender equality: 'No room at the top for women scientists' - BBC News
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
16 years ago today was the first day of my PhD and today is my first day as Prof. I feel so lucky to have been able to continue in academia to this stage & I'm excited for the next chapter!
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
2 years
What a day! Tripped at mile 1 and took the skin off both my knees 😭but we persevere… a lot slower than I wanted but the medals the same innit! Thank you so much for all your donations to @AlzResearchUK #ChicagoMarathon
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
No surname needed, like the Barnsley Beyoncé 🤩😂😂
@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Aw and thanks for featuring this in the paper today @ChronOnline 😍
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
6 years
Would have loved to have gone to the US for a postdoc.Being the sole carer for my terminally ill dad meant I couldn’t. Things still turned out OK. Moving is a privilege for those who can/want to, but not a necessity and there are many reasons why some can’t.This is shitty advice.
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
6 years
Very accurate 😂
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
25 days
100km Finished! Grateful to the lovely medical student who popped and taped by blisters at mile 72, and the lovely volunteer who gave me a marmite and crisp sandwich at 88km Other than that not sure I’m ready to talk about it yet 🤣🤣
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
18 years ago today since my lovely mum died 💛a weird feeling that I’m almost at the age where I’ve spent more of my life without her as with her. Anyway, I’m sure she’d be pretty proud of how things turned out :) enjoy this pic of baby Selina - still got them red chubby cheeks!
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
10 months
Wtf does this actually mean 🫠 I’ll be staying here in science, staying woke, and doing what I can to hold doors open to others ✌🏻
@Conservatives
Conservatives
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NEW: Conservatives are safeguarding scientific research from the denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness. @michelledonelan announces plans to depoliticise science at #CPC23
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Lights out for now 🥺pretty heartbreaking.... those incubators have been in continuous operation for 6y since we started the lab. But this is bigger than us, and we’ll be back.... don’t know when but we will be 💪🏻💪🏻
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
I’ll be alone over Xmas thanks to tier 4 which sucks but it is what it is and I’ll be OK. sorry for all the people who have been looking forward to this & had plans ruined, and are struggling - I hope you can find some comfort in knowing it’s the right thing to do 🙏🏻
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
2 years
Had to ask for directions to find a building on main campus today, and was asked in return “oh, are you a 1st year?” Daily dunking of my face in stem cells is working, clearly 🤣🤣
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
2 months
Loving the sustainable name badges at the UCL Neuro symposium - Planted on seeded paper to grow wildflowers afterwards 🌺
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
3 years
Fully trained & ready to vaccinate! Very thorough training from @stjohnambulance - looking forward to getting to work!
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Title added to bio after reading that awful WSJ article. Why are some men so threatened by educated women?
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3 years
Absolutely fuming 🍒 ✂️
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
It’s my birthday!!! 🥳 I might be locked in but my lovely IoN friends have sent me ~30 craft beers and a rainbow cape 🌈 so I’ll still have fun! Not sure what the postman must think of me though 😂
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
2 months
After working in partnership with @AlzResearchUK for many years I’m really delighted to be appointed as one of their ambassadors - I’ll keep doing what I can to enthuse people about research and raise awareness!
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
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I keep thinking I should get a navy blue suit to blend in at work and yet somehow every time I go shopping something like this happens 🤣🤣 🌈
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
First paper of 2021 just out in @CellReports 🤩🥳 Fantastic effort led by @celarber ,organoids from @CEJLovejoy &collaborators incl @tammarynlashley @drcionucl @caoimhe_kerins @anikakmueller @n_willumsen thx to @ARUKnews & @alzheimerssoc for funding!
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
5 years
5yrs ago today my dad died I grew up pretty much in poverty with social housing,free school meals,uniforms etc.All my parents wanted was for me to build a life for myself that was different. I’m happy to have done so, but sad that neither mam or dad really got to see it (1/2)
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
I’ve had to pour myself a gin & tonic to calm myself down a bit. So angry. What a despicable person our PM is.
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
2 years
Done!!
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2 years
20 years ago today my mam died - a milestone and also the transition to me having lived longer without her than I did with her. The older I get, the more I realise how young 46 was. Would love a cuppa and a natter with her but I’ll settle for reminiscing on happy memories 💛
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@SelinaWray
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3 years
The first time I’ve been given a medal for a talk too. So shiny 😍😍
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@SelinaWray
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4 years
Will go back to tweeting about science soon.... but isn’t he gorgeous?! 🥰
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
5 years
someone sent me this a few years ago and every time it pops up it makes me laugh....
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
So good to see these guys! And I love my new mug.... I’m an Okay professor and just look at that tau blot 😍😍
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Just finished my interview with St John's ambulance to be a volunteer vaccinator :) Looking forward to starting the training! 💪💉
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Prof Selina Wray
4 years
It’s International Day of Women and Girls in STEM - let’s hold each other up, champion each other, call out bad behaviour when we see it and remember that ambition is not a bad thing 💪🏻 👩🏼‍🔬
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
3 years
Hello train friend!
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
This is Billy, he’s a cinnamon british shorthair and he’ll be coming to live with me in 2 weeks 😌☺️
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
5 years
Happy Oct4 to all you stem cell scientists out there 😃😃
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
5 years
So it feels fitting that on the anniversary i’m back in Barnsley to speak at the graduation ceremony 😊they would have loved it im sure. Also gonna be the first time I’ve worn my full academic dress (I didn’t go to my PhD graduation) so stand by for photo spam! 👩‍🎓
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
5 years
The latest paper from the lab is out!It’s been great to collaborate with friends at UCL&Gothenburg on this work! Familial Alzheimer’s disease patient-derived neurons reveal distinct mutation-specific effects on amyloid beta | Molecular Psychiatry
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Presenting my PhD work at AAIC 2008 in Chicago,one week after my defense.Grabbed John Hardy for a chat as he walked past & moved to his new lab at UCL in early 2009.11y later I have my own group & just made Prof 🤩not to mention an amazing group of colleagues & friends! #AAIC20
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@alzassociation
Alzheimer's Association
4 years
Have you attended AAIC before? Though we aren’t together in person this year, join us in reflecting on past conference years when we were. Share a photo from a past AAIC with a favorite moment using #AAIC20 . Your photos will be featured on our virtual Twitter wall!
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
I’m in the @yorkshirepost today talking about dementia research, growing up poor, becoming a Prof and how I wish I could tell my mam & dad about it! I could have talked to @ChrisBurn_Post all day! 😂 Do buy a copy :-) and thanks @MartheHR for sending these pics!
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@SelinaWray
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4 years
Shoutout for the new Profs! 🎉🥳🥳
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Prof Selina Wray
2 years
This is so exciting & an incredible day for Alzheimer’s research. It’s far from perfect - modest effects and risks - so lots to do and research still needed - but after so many failures and controversies it’s nice to feel the buzz of optimism again!
@BBCWorld
BBC News (World)
2 years
Alzheimer's drug lecanemab hailed as momentous breakthrough
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@SelinaWray
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2 years
New certificate for the office wall 😌
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Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Very happy for a UCL wide email from the Provost on a Sunday to say that labs can stay open during #Lockdown2 - so much effort went into a safe reopening we are well set up to do this 💪🏻
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
3 years
Little kitchen transformation is complete 😍
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
5 years
“Who wrote the passive aggressive lab sign” was definitely my favourite round of our lab holiday quiz yesterday 😂😂
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
3 years
Two grant applications rejected in a day - both ridiculous long shots and rejection was totally expected - but both with zero feedback due to “high volume of applications”. Like, seriously you’ve sat on that app for 6 months and you’ve not even got a sentence of feedback, sure 🙃
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
First lab cyber pub! Not gonna lie it’s been a tough day and I’ve dealt with it by getting absolutely spangled 🤪I am so grateful for this bunch (and those not pictured) who I know are gonna stick together through this and do what we can to help!
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Prof Selina Wray
5 years
I’m quite an outgoing, confident person but nothing gives me anxiety like breakfast time in the meeting hotel. I need to eat, but I also don’t wanna talk to anyone 😂
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
I have changed my UCL password before the expiry deadline AND picked a new one complex enough that I can keep it for 354 days. Proudest achievement of the year so far 😎
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Prof Selina Wray
3 years
Excited to take on this role as Deputy Director for Partnerships & Communications. Looking forward to working with @MikeHanna18 @HeleneWilson747 and the rest of the leadership team! UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology appoints new Deputy Directors
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
5 months
I am so proud of my friend & colleague @tammarynlashley - the recipient of the inaugural Stuart Pickering-Brown award.A fantastic scientist who embodies the values we remember Stuart for:fairness, positive research culture & importance of supporting ECRs🧡 #ARUKconf24
@ARUK_SusanK
🟧 Susan Kohlhaas 🟧
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So pleased that Professor Tammaryn Lashley has been awarded our inaugural Stuart Pickering Prize. Someone who tirelessly works to understand dementia and to build up the next generation of researchers #ARUKConf24
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
5 years
And our paper just got accepted 🤩🤩 too much excitement for one day! Look forward to sharing it soon!
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Prof Selina Wray
1 year
Huge congratulations my to my dear friend, colleague, mentor and AAIC partner in crime @jmschott - recipient of the Bill Thies award for distinguished service to ISTAART 🎉
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
2 years
I’m delighted to receive a Supporter award for “Outstanding Commitment” from ARUK… although the pleasure is always mine to support this amazing charity!
@AlzResearchUK
Alzheimer's Research UK
2 years
We are delighted to announce the winners of our first-ever Supporter Awards! From amazing fundraising, scientists helping us beyond the lab and dedicated supporter groups and corporate partners - thank you all for your incredible support. 🧡 Meet them👇
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Prof Selina Wray
3 years
Honestly 100% to this….. being featured in @RedMagDaily in 2014 will always be a career highlight for me and a big reason for that is they dressed me in nice clothes and Louboutins and not a lab coat in sight! 💅🏻😂
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@toomanyspectra
Seven Machina Rasmussen
3 years
why don’t scientists get the same media treatment as actors I don’t want to be photographed in front of a telescope I want to be photographed in a 2017 Yves Saint Laurent Oscars gown on a velvet chaise lounge on a rooftop in New York City
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
3 years
Been up north to say goodbye to my friend Stuart. It’s been a hard day but there’s comfort in sharing memories with colleagues & friends.I don’t have many photos,but here we are with @TSpiresJones & Nick Fox doing something he was proud of: representing ARUK. Rest easy 🙏🏻
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Can confirm my eyes are working ok 🙃
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
3 years
We’re all playing with AlphaFold this morning, right? Tau is such a hot mess 😂😍
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Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Imagine being so cruel to hungry kids,I had free school meals, they increased my dependency only in the sense that I continue to be dependent on food to stay alive🙄it meant with the little money they had, my parents didn't have to choose between heating the house & food(1/2)
@Ben_Bradley_32
Ben Bradley
4 years
Gov has lots of responsibilities: supporting the vulnerable, helping people to help themselves, balancing the books. Not as simple as you to make out Marcus. Extending FSM to sch hols passes responsibility for feeding kids away from parents, to the State. It increases dependency.
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Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Grant submitted one week ahead of the deadline 💅🏻 yes, it’s because they extended the deadline by a week last minute, but I’m not letting that ruin my sense of achievement
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Prof Selina Wray
2 years
This image gets everywhere! 😂😍 #ARUKConf22
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Prof Selina Wray
1 month
Seeing two female cabinet members who were on free schools meals and have lived in social housing is massive. I can see myself represented in the people Running the country. Such inspirational women 🙌🏻
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
3 years
39 today 🎉 birthday Barry’s done, staying strong not small with some heavy assed deadlifts 💪🏻💪🏻now time for birthday beers!
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Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Update.... here I am arriving in every Zoom meeting from now on 😂
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
1 year
Ready! ✊🏻 Tomorrow we March for abortion law reform. Because abortion is healthcare and it should be safe, accessible and legal. #TimeToAct
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
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Hi, I'm Selina - an #actuallivingscientist using stem cells to understand dementia. I also #DressLikeAWoman
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Prof Selina Wray
5 years
Amazing.... Coleen Rooney shows how to write a good research abstract 🙌
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Prof Selina Wray
2 years
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@Ed_Pinches
Edward Pinches
2 years
Wise words from Prof @SelinaWray on #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience This hangs proudly on the walls of @AlzResearchUK HQ. To make change in all walks of life, we need everyone to be inspired. #IDWGS
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Prof Selina Wray
5 years
Robed and ready!
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Welcome home Billy! Not a fan of the car journey across London, but a big fan of chasing this parrot 🦜🥰
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
5 years
Job done! What a day running alongside so many friends and supporters of dementia research. Managed to fit in a few birthday 🍻 now it’s time for a cuppa and bed!
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Prof Selina Wray
2 years
8 years after our first meeting, it was a huge pleasure to host another visit to our labs @UCLIoN from the wonderful @edibow to chat all things dementia research @AlzResearchUK 🧡 📸 @MrLloydVaughan
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Prof Selina Wray
3 years
Second jab tomorrow & based on the side effects I had last time, I’ve cleared my diary, booked the day off, planned my takeaways and trash TV and stocked the house with treats. Absolutely buzzing for it tbh 🤣
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
A little update to my title as I pre-record lectures for the new academic year....23 days until I can officially use it, the novelty still hasn’t worn off!
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
Anyway, here is the last #cellfie for a while, from @celarber @ARUKscientist 😍
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
3 years
Off to an 80s themed birthday party dressed as a very successful career woman about to hit the slopes in Val D’isere ⛷
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
I’m so proud of Ellie from my lab who successfully passed her PhD viva today! Ellie is the first person I recruited as a tech in 2011 & stayed for her PhD with me & @isaacs_adrian working on c9orf72 KO iPSC. Congratulations Dr Preza! Can’t wait until we can celebrate f2f!
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
2 years
Ready to open up the first night of ⁦ @pintofscience ⁩ with Frances Wiseman in our ⁦ @NC3Rs ⁩ sponsored session ⁦ @UKDRI ⁩ ⁦ @LonDownS ⁩ ⁦ @UCLIoN #pint22
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
8km into my long Sunday walk and I swear to god when this is all over I’m not walking anywhere unless it ends at a pub 😂
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Prof Selina Wray
4 years
😅 Sir David Attenborough receives Covid-19 vaccine - BBC News
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
2 years
Just home - as amazing as #arukconf22 was, I am no longer used to that level of human interaction and would appreciate it if no one speaks to me for at least 24h while I decompress 🤣🤣
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@SelinaWray
Prof Selina Wray
4 years
We really don’t know how the next few weeks will pan out in terms of restrictions to the lab etc, but as a PI I hope it goes without saying that the health of my lab is more important than any experiment.
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