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neurotech designer. mental health clinician. rider of motorcycles and brain waves. community outreach using neuroscience through art and media. #mmiw

[“paula” @paularambles]

one day you're young, hip, and carefree and the next you're in a work call hearing yourself say that “there are a lot of moving pieces”

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

A forest of neurons inside your head, happy #FluorescenceFriday 🔬🧪🧠

[Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @HeyDrDukes]

As scientists, we go to conferences but don’t connect with the local community at all.

Thanks to @jscdavis, #BlackInNeuro will be hosting a Brain Carnival during SfN at a local Chicago church for the community to meet Black scientists, play games & learn about the brain 🧠✨

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

Why numbers are sometimes better than words.

What people think you say when you say “little chance,” “probably not,” or “highly likely.”

[astrocyte your sources @penijean]

@Dave90125 @DataDrivenMD one of my favorite published studies is this one on the hydraulics of jumping spiders

the entire paper is based on analyzing the motion recordings of one single lil queen bc all the other baddies decided jumping for the man was /not/ regal behavior 😂

https://t.co/DyQvT0NWKL

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

My images are part of the NeuroART Exhibition in the @SMUD_MOSAC Museum of Science 😎! Thank you, @UCDavisCNS!

[astrocyte your sources @penijean]

@VoteoutTrudeau @RogerSeheult @glen_jeffe5111 ❤️

https://t.co/mKh2sd6QYM

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

SAG LA Vice President Michelle Hurd explains that “you know those actors when you go ‘oh there’s that guy from that show’, you don’t necessarily know their names… those actors are working class actors who are literally working paycheck to paycheck.”

[astrocyte your sources @penijean]

@uppittynegress

[astrocyte your sources @penijean]

@clairewillett Gadget walked so Kaylee from Firefly could run

[astrocyte your sources @penijean]

@GailSimone Gadget Hackwrench was my introduction to the perpetual struggle of trying to figure out if I want to be *with* somebody or actually BE them

#1stCartoonCrush

[Holoske @holoskeart]

Illustration I made for the Data and Society Research Institute; for a series of lectures about Indigenous Approaches to Technology #nativefuturism

[astrocyte your sources @penijean]

@IWriteAllDay_ was radiant while being interviewed about her book with such love by @TheSlayGawd and surrounded by her emotional support Tauruses at @reparationsclub

the “if people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better” card Never Declines 😂

[Zoé Christenson Wick, PhD @ZoeChristenson]

〰️New preprint alert!〰️

Say hello to PhaSER: an open-source tool that you (yes, you!) can use to perform real-time phase-estimation and phase-specific manipulations. Here we show that PhaSER can directly manipulate the phase-locking of SOM+ interneurons in awake, behaving mice!

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

This is color sorcery 🪄

1) The website is so fun to use
2) The colors come out incredibly every time

[astrocyte your sources @penijean]

@PallaviGunalan #Gudetama is a top tier liddol lad

[astrocyte your sources @penijean]

@DataDrivenMD people getting lumbar punctures to restore their sense of smell post-covid was not on my pandemic bingo card, but when my bestie told me it worked for her 68 year old dad, i hit up google scholar and, boy oh boy, do i have wild news for candle lovers 😂

https://t.co/9zmPiZ3FV4

[Tofupixel (find me on BlueSky - Not active here) @TofuPixel]

miyazaki of studio ghibli, upon seeing an artificial intelligence presentation- "i strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself".

[astrocyte your sources @penijean]

@anitasarkeesian @sesmith this is so relatable 😭

when ppl quote back to me not just my original work I contributed to my industry over the last 15 yrs, but actual SPECIFIC PHRASES I coined, saying “this is how EYE like to think of it”

I pretend I’m flattered instead of enraged so I don’t die of cancer

[astrocyte your sources @penijean]

@RubenLaukkonen the overlap between

using substances to escape
sensory inputs
and
using substances to shift the way we integrate and assign meaning to sensory information

holds so many answers when ppl who’ve been pushed to the brink so generously share their insights

https://t.co/LVMVWUHPtE