Matt Jacobs

Neuroscience graduate student, occasional writer of nonsense, full-time dad.

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

https://t.co/UhiNugseJ7

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

Now it is time to sit in a hammock and think about tomorrow's experiments!

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

I have passed my qualifying examinations!

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

Having done 130+ hours of writing this past week, I am now sanguinely rehabilitating my favorite useless old laptop. Surely this so called "sleep" is a myth...

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

I submitted my research proposal to my qualifying exam committee today!

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

@DaFeldheim Ominous. Very ominous.

[Uri Manor @manorlaboratory]

Congrats to @OgataAlana on this important study. Many asked how much spike protein gets into circulation after vaccination. Turns out to average ~30-40 pg/mL for a few days then disappears.

FYI: This is ~100,000x less than used in our paper (4 ug/mL).

https://t.co/k5AChClhI5

[Uri Manor @manorlaboratory]

This is the best explanation so far about how/why our study doesn’t say what too many people fear it says.

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

@manorlaboratory @LeoAndrade1974 #3 so cool!

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

After about a million rejections, it finally happened. I won the opportunity to spend money on full price items bundled with stuff I don't need and will have to try to resell later! Wooo! #NeweggShuffle

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

Excellent gift from @kim_euiseok and written by the phenomenal @analog_ashley! Looking forward to the read!

[Santa Cruz County @sccounty]

The Regional Stay at Home Order has been triggered for Santa Cruz County. Additional restrictions on travel, commerce, operations and more in effect beginning Friday for a minimum of three weeks. Stay safe, everyone. #WearAMask https://t.co/cW2QRPbBtZ

[Fiji @FijiSc]

Look what I’m now capable of!!!

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

This.

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

Some days your experiments fail, some days they work. Sometimes you spend 17 months and 5 days working out kinks in a pipeline before you get the confirmation you were looking for.

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

@Happy_Biologist @stemdiv @moefeliu @Sefini @yuliannita123 @NeedhiBhalla @Jordan_D_Ward Great job and congrats Oscar!

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

Inject virus and then do wide field calcium imaging of visual cortex through the skull, simple right?

[Joe Ecker @JoeEcker]

It’s a great pleasure to work with such an amazingly collaborative group of neuroscientists, computational and molecular biologists in the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network. This is just the first fruit of the BICCN effort. https://t.co/TYb51OV7oZ

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

After much stress and learning a lot about writing, I have finally submitted my NSF GRFP application!

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

Some time ago I wrote a short piece focused on 'voluntary vaccines' which advocates for mandatory vaccinations and may hold some new validity in the light of the current pandemic and the evolving situation. My rhetoric is a bit fiery, blame that on youth. https://t.co/rZAhv78L2l

[Matt Jacobs @OccThinking]

If and when a vaccine is found for SARS-CoV-2 we do not yet know what antibody persistence will look like. Will we need annual boosters? This may lead to the next phase of social disobedience beyond anti-maksing, anti-vaxxing, or even vax apathy.