Rachel Barr

PhD candidate in neuroscience 🧠🔬 Author of How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend📚

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

Greetings, fellow scrollers! Don’t worry, I have no intention of selfie-spamming the feed. Consider this a rare concession to formality. I just thought I’d pop up briefly to introduce myself to the X community. I’m Rachel (the neuroscientist). It’s nice to e-meet you! 🧠 🎀 #science

[Miles Roderick 📦 @miles_rod]

''How To Make Your Brain Your Best Friend' now on paperback! Buy it at @drrachelbarr bio on IG...

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

3) How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend by Rachel Barr

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

The latest release has been pressing down pretty firmly on my cPTSD. So I did what humans do to make sense of the senseless…

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

@Heath_Matheson Just discovered your work today, and, odd though this may seem, wanted to tell you how much I liked this first line. I’m a bit obsessed with first lines, the mechanics of gently easing, OR FORCING a reader into engagement. I rarely find great ones in scholarly lit. So bravo 🤌✨

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

@DrDavidAEvans Well, like… what do you mean permits? (Not to give you the JP infinite semantic regress treatment lol, I just want to understand more clearly what you have in mind).

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

Let me read to you 📖

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

@suppahacka Cheers! 🧠

[Mario Ruiz @suppahacka]

@drrachelbarr For the lazy ones: https://t.co/f3Nr1xpALL

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

@DougTataryn Bro I mean, I think Pink Floyd HIMSELF would be the first to tell you that humans are not lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, OBJECTIVELY speaking 😅 that does not mean we humans do not invent and assign value to ourselves — which is no less real for being visible only to us

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

Let me read to you 📖

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

@BlueWhaleFlys That is absolutely not the Big Think audience 😅 when they first hired me, I had to slightly alter my writing style because I was used to writing for more general audiences. So, slightly more technical (still for non-specialists though)

[Big Think @bigthink]

The illusion of consensus is powerful.

Here’s why Laura Kennedy @LooraKennedy, author of Peak Notions, believes you should fight it.

Read the full article: https://t.co/J9RuTnZABH

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

How is neuroscience reshaping philosophy? Read my article here: https://t.co/dZbmDcEDni

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

@AnSaoranach Yay! I hope you love it 🖤 merry Christmas

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

@MasudHusain Hey Masud! Mentioned Our Brains, Our Selves in the free will section of this feature. Hope you like my framing of David’s story 🧠

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

How is neuroscience reshaping philosophy? Read my article here: https://t.co/dZbmDcEDni

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

@MasudHusain Great piece, Masud 🧠 I actually just wrote David’s case into a feature about free will (citing Our Brains, Our Selves, of course!) I’ll tag you when it’s published.

[Masud Husain @MasudHusain]

On the Neurology of Apathy
https://t.co/Oe0FOVvaIb

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

The hidden cost of digital media 🧠

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

@RomantikKurbaa This is as actually incredibly pleasant, thank you for sharing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr]

Are we getting smarter or dumber? 🧠