Jamie #CeaseFireNow 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Mutual aid organizer, street medic, neuroscience and domestic violence researcher Follow my scicomm podcast @plainenglishsci.bsky.social pronouns: they/them

[Jamie #CeaseFireNow 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @thatbrass]

🎉Today our paper on single vector CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing 🧠🧬 and marker gene expression is available on @biorxivpreprint! This is my 1st lead author paper in @BryanCopits lab, and was a collaboration with @Meaghan_Creed's lab! Check out the tweetorial!
https://t.co/HC8zGJG3d0

[Jamie #CeaseFireNow 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @thatbrass]

https://t.co/aoLOvAfwxj

Check out this podcast episode from “Ouch! Talking Pain with USASP”! I got to be on a panel with 3 other amazing science podcasters to talk about the “behind the scenes” process of making a science pod!
@vinestreetvic @lab_seal @MattSherrerMD

[InPlainEnglish @PlainEnglishSci]

https://t.co/K7siXl39ev
Last April the All of Us group made a splash for using the UMAP algorithm to group genomes of their study participants by race. Here I talk with
@KordingLab, Will Lima & @BankOnJake
about what UMAP is and whether/when scientists should use it.

[Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) @IwriteOK]

people will dissect the CEO shooter's online presence for years but the question of "what radicalized him" has a pretty obvious answer

he posted X-rays of his back surgery
he read multiple books about chronic back pain
he shot a health insurance CEO

he was radicalized by pain

[Jamie #CeaseFireNow 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @thatbrass]

#ScienceTwitter

[InPlainEnglish @PlainEnglishSci]

TOMORROW In Plain English is resurrecting the debate about the All of Us project and their use of UMAP, an algorithm that reduces complex data to 2D. Join us to learn why this mathematical model sparked discourse, & how scientists can better analyze & communicate large data sets.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

There’s basically a media blackout on this story. Genocide isn’t newsworthy?

[Jamie #CeaseFireNow 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @thatbrass]

They say that their source is Psychology Today, and yet they provide no links, article titles, anything that could allow one to trace where they got this “scientific discovery”.

As a neuroscientist—brains are waaaay more complex than that, please don’t fall for pseudoscience.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨SHOCKING NEWS: MALE & FEMALE BRAINS ARE … WAIT FOR IT … DIFFERENT!

Scientists have just discovered what the rest of us intrinsically know: men's and women’s brains work differently, even down to the neurons.

Scientists can even identify a brain as male or female with 90% accuracy just by studying the way it is shaped.

Men’s brains are organized in ways that boost skills like spatial reasoning, which helps them navigate spaces and understand physical layouts.

In women, brain areas connected to self-reflection and memory are more active, which may explain why women are more likely to experience strong emotions and engage in deep self-reflection.

Another key difference is how men and women respond to rewards and form habits.

Men’s brains have more direct pathways for building habits and learning from cues, while women’s brains are tuned for activities like understanding others’ perspectives and reflecting on their own emotions.

This study shows that even on a neuron level, men and women’s brains are wired differently, influencing their thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Source: Psychology Today

[InPlainEnglish @PlainEnglishSci]

https://t.co/iOCgCNtv0M In the 50s, babies born a month early struggled to breathe. Now viability is 26 weeks. How did this happen? Listen to Dr. Dr. Abada recount how her grandfather helped discover a treatment that reduced infant mortality &helped premature infants breathe.

[InPlainEnglish @PlainEnglishSci]

Hey y'all. I know we're all feeling a lot after the election, so I wanted to share a small clip of this week's upcoming episode to give everyone a bit of hope and positivity. I hope you take a listen, and I'll see you on Tuesday with the full interview. Take care of each other <3

[Jamie #CeaseFireNow 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @thatbrass]

@wentzpilledxo @evomek “We're always sleeping in, and sleeping
For the wrong team” like come on

[Jamie #CeaseFireNow 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @thatbrass]

Just voted to protect reproductive rights in Missouri! #Yeson3
Also, vote #NoOn7 to prevent the state from banning ranked choice voting

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules

[ReproducibiliTea @ReproducibiliT]

New Episode of the ReproducibiliTea Podcast!

Will Ngiam is joined by Jamie Moffa, a doctoral student in systems neuroscience. Jamie has been thinking and working in the science communication space, especially via the @PlainEnglishSci podcast.

https://t.co/teWWicvOth

[InPlainEnglish @PlainEnglishSci]

It was so fun to record this podcast with Will! We cover so much about scientific #rigor, how to evaluate and improve our #SciComm efforts, and how to combat disinformation posing as science. Check it out!

[Jamie #CeaseFireNow 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @thatbrass]

@DavidBartram_ 5

[Morgan MacNeil @morganxmacneil]

I so enjoyed the opportunity to interview Mick while attending NAPS 2024. His work, both academically and musically, is truly inspiring👏🏻

[Jamie #CeaseFireNow 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @thatbrass]

@JustinTPickett “Veil of darkness” is the theory that cops can’t racially profile if they can’t see the driver (e.g. if it’s dark out). It seems simplistic but it controls for potential racial differences in driving behavior and includes multiple kinds of stops, not just speeding.

[Jamie #CeaseFireNow 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @thatbrass]

@JustinTPickett if you’re looking for a very large scale, thorough investigation of racial bias in traffic stops, I recommend this paper that used the “veil of darkness” approach and showed discrepancies in traffic stops between black and white drivers. https://t.co/fJgnkz8pas

[Jamie #CeaseFireNow 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @thatbrass]

@IwriteOK Agreed. Like I don’t want or need to be “completely independent” based on my veggie garden. I do it because:
-it’s fun/growing things from seeds is cool
-distraction from more complicated life stuff
-satisfaction of making food with something I grew in my own yard

[Aidan Kohn-Murphy @AidanKohnMurphy]

Chappell Roan said some Dem politicians are pushing transphobic rhetoric and the party took it as a suggestion

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

I’ve been scared to speak up more about Gaza. I feel unburdened to share I’ve been targeted & disparaged, as a Black woman physician, by nefarious forces within medicine, because of my pro-humanity stance, but NO MORE. I CANNOT be more scared than Palestinians in this moment.