A former banker. Currently a postgraduate student in Conflict Resolution. Humanitarian. Interested in politics, neuroscience, learning, reading & working out
#Peaceoperations need to develop engagement with host countries & communities - 1 of 22 recommendations from #VCAF20
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Strategic Communications is key to bolster support with key stakeholders at local level, which is a Key priority of the Action for #Peacekeeping #A4P+
Experts agree that anxiety is reaching near-epidemic levels among young people, with as many as 1 in 8 children, and 25% of teens, contending with diagnosable anxiety disorders https://t.co/orUlQjxH2B
2⃣0⃣2⃣1⃣: We banned nuclear weapons! This is the good news you've been waiting for.
Today on 22 January nuclear weapons become illegal under international law.
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Here’s our latest summary of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine based off the FDA briefing document.
Created by
@sciencesouf, @_emmarosewest, @ChidiAkusobi and I , all PhD students at @harvardmed
See below for the infographics and share widely!
Knowledge is power.
Inspired by recent comments by @harari_yuval imploring scientists to engage the public.
@ChidiAkusobi, @sciencesouf and myself answered most asked questions about the FDA briefing on Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial in a few slides.
“Oh comforting solitude, how favorable thou art to original thought!”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal died on this day in 1934, leaving us the birth of neuroscience and his life-tested wisdom on the ideal conditions for creative breakthrough: https://t.co/GOTIrzBfSq
Scientists in the #MucidaLab (@danmucida) have identified a novel gut-brain circuit controlled by the microbes inside the intestines, revealing a remarkable degree of communication between our nervous system and the microbiota. https://t.co/bSTKv69mE2
"Why is it so hard for some to acknowledge that ancient non-European civilisations... could create intricate structures?
... it boils down to profound racism and a feeling of white superiority that emanates from the rotting corpse of colonialism."
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Network neuroscience isn’t simply a new way to study the brain. It's a way to get closer to the brain’s essence, how it truly works. https://t.co/tEAQSLWR3y
“One early hypothesis about the condition was that the sufferers fetishized the stump because it resembled a phallus,” explains Moheb Costandi...
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this is a story, years in the making, about a wild idea to treat Parkinson's, made possible with cold emails, versatile stem cells, and transporting brain matter through Manhattan traffic https://t.co/r3kzLJABOK
Freud was a pioneering neuroscientist
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Before his rise to fame as the founder of psychoanalysis, he trained as a neurologist. He was an early advocate of the neuron doctrine, and his work on the lamprey nervous system was cited by Santiago Ramón y Cajal