March Madness: 😼 vs 🎅🏻

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Grant proposal: make these metal lids not break and cut my fingers.

I got a one-month subscription to Peacock. Now that the Olympics are over, I’m reminded why I don’t normally have a subscription. There’s really not much I want to see.

Chances are you have not heard her name, but Marcelle Lapicque may have been the first Black woman neuroscientist in Europe. By @avaskham.bsky.social, @rebeccasky.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/history-of-n...

I spent 45 minutes today trying to get AI removed from MS Office.

I stand with Denmark. 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

Maybe right now is not the best time for me to be catching up on S2 of Andor. It seems way too real.

Somehow, chicory coffee is only delicious in Louisiana.

My kids’ school: “Okay, I know that diarrhea and vomiting diseases are going around, so let’s have a winter party where everyone brings a dessert they made in their unsanitary kitchens!”

Hear me out: Dr Pepper Zero with a splash of coffee.

Have you read our Fall 2025 Newsletter yet?! myemail.constantcontact.com/The-Latest-N...

Having reviewed faculty evaluations recently, I can attest to this being what everyone wanted to write.

Starting class at 10 am today with this. youtu.be/Xpn_2pOyPh8?...

The only king in Lexington is @rexchapman.bsky.social #NoKings

Psst .... We back today 😼

Once, Amazon was like Target: good quality for an affordable price. Then, Amazon was like Walmart: okay quality but cheap and convenient. Now, Amazon is like Dollar General: everything’s trash and all the junk keeps you from finding what you want.

This year’s #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering how the immune system distinguishes friend from foe. https://scim.ag/3Wt5rdi

I don’t understand why people are putting down Taylor, one of the greatest songwriters of our time. I mean, “Fire & Rain,” “Carolina in My Mind,” “Sweet Baby James”? Dude is a legend.

The Kentucky Lantern has filed an appeal with the state Office of the Attorney General seeking records from the University of Kentucky related to the departure of the president of the now disbanded University Senate. @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/30/k...

WE ARE... hiring! Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

No, Mind Flayers don't exist. They've never existed. Why do you ask?

This is big news!

A band that does country music covers of The Smiths: The Wessons.

Appropriately, the bridge from Cincy back to Kentucky is beautiful.

Camping, star gazing and flying kites in West Virginia this past weekend.

Kentucky Gov William Goebel was assassinated for this.

I've been not reading mainstream #comicbooks for few years. What's hot for summer 2025? The new Superman and Krypto titles look good, and I think I'll pick up some Ultimate Spider-Man and Fantastic Four. Anything else I should have on my radar?

I was looking through the list of names of the Popes (confirming that yes, there was a Pope Mark who didn’t coach basketball) when I discovered that Pope Hilarious held the papacy in the 460’s. Pope Hilarious!

My colleague at @ukybiology.bsky.social , Pete Mirabito @petemirabito.bsky.social was featured along with his horse retirement farm on the Kentucky Derby coverage: www.lex18.com/sports/kentu...

I’m not generally in favor of media consolidation, but I wouldn’t be sad if some of the minor streaming services merged. I’m not paying for Paramount+, Peacock, and Apple+ separately, but I might go for a combo if I didn’t have to switch between platforms on my TV.

See how NIH funding supports talented graduate students, the essential partners driving scientific discovery and addressing Kentucky’s health challenges. Learn more: www.research.uky.edu/news/how-nih...

Influencers are just paparazzi for themselves.

It looks like we need to step up our production, @ukybiology.bsky.social

Way too many people hear “language model” and think the algorithm understands language. It does not. It reduces letters to numbers and looks for patterns in the numbers. That’s all it does. That’s all it can do. It does not derive meaning; it does not extrapolate consequences.

I'm going to start submitting fake student testimonies for my evaluations at UK. If the bosses say its okay for them, then it's okay for me, too. #UKY

Charlie Harper Exhibit at the Headley-Whitney Museum in Lexington! Yay!

Please join us on Thursday, April 17th in THM 116 at 2:00pm for our seminar featuring Dr. Valerie Peters of Eastern Kentucky University.

Last week in Intro to Neuroscience Techniques at the University of Kentucky, we used immunofluorescence to look at glial cells in a mouse brain. This week, cell culture! #neuroscience #uky

The University of Kentucky says the Department of Homeland Security has revoked F-1 visas for a “small number” of international graduate students. From @weku.bsky.social

Saying it “threatens academic freedom,” Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has issued a veto to a Republican-backed bill that some Kentucky professors warned would erode academic tenure at the state’s public universities and colleges. @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/26/b...

Dear everybody: stop saying "changes your brain chemistry." Depending what you mean by this phrase, it's either so insignificant that it can be accomplished by simply existing or so profound that it impossibly alters the laws of physics.

FINAL: Kentucky 84, Illinois 75. The Wildcats are going to the Sweet 16. Story from Milwaukee: www.kentucky.com/sports/colle...

My first Bluesky post from a fan of sayeth.itch.io/the-saints-t... and my other games!

Staten Island looks like chibi Kentucky.

Aww, yeah! I just put a pledge in on #Shadowdark Western Reaches Kickstarter. It's the setting expansion for my favorite TTRPG: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha...

Recalibrating Olfactory Neuroscience Odorant concentrations in natural regimes rarely exceed a few parts per billion, while most experimental studies investigating olfactory coding and behavior exceed these concentrations by several orders of magnitude. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

"Scientists have to organize, they have to protest, they have to make their case to the public. They must never give in." Quote from Paul Nurse (2001 Nobel) from upcoming interview in @annualreviews.bsky.social with him and Bruce Alberts (former President NAS). @standupforscience.bsky.social‬ today

I'm opposed to All-Purpose Flour. There are some things you just shouldn't use flour for.

We have a massive academic base on Bluesky, we can lobby unis to quit X. The French are leading on this, others can do it too. 3 more French unis quit Twitter: Université Paris-Saclay @univparissaclay.bsky.social Université PSL @psl-univ.bsky.social Sorbonne Université @sorbonne-universite.fr