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Nature
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Obituary: Gladys Mae West (1930-2026) mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
go.nature.com/4jWMeM8
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
https://go.nature.com/4jWMeM8
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Neugin
4 days ago
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. A long time ago when the world was new, seven little boys were once accustomed to bringing each evening their
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This 1999 interview of bell hooks on Speaking Freely couldn't be more relevant. She covers love, facism, imperialism and anti-intellecualism in America. Highly recommend giving this a watch.
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Speaking Freely: Bell Hooks
YouTube video by Freedom Forum
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PhD interview season is in full swing. Here's 15 things I wish I'd known:
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Things I Wish I’d Known Before My PhD Interviews
Practical advice from someone who's been through it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/melaninmyelin/p/things-i-wish-id-known-before-my?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&shareImageVariant=overlay&r=4r3e7n
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Neugin
2 months ago
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. A boy about 10 years old was playing one day near the river, shooting at a mark with his bow and arrows until
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Neugin
2 months ago
My inner thoughts in any social situation
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And this is why Batman will always be my favorite hero. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect | npj Mental Health Research
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Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect - npj Mental Health Research
npj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
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Attending
#SfN25
was such a meaningful experience. I’m grateful for the opportunity and I learned so much, connected with thoughtful people, and left with new clarity for the work ahead. See you next year in DC!
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The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT
3 months ago
Heard at
#SfN25
from
@earlkmiller.bsky.social
: Cognition and consciousness emerge from the dynamic organization of the cortex produced by traveling brain waves performing analog computations.
picower.mit.edu/news/brain-w...
#neuroscience
#consciousness
#cognition
@mitbcs.bsky.social
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Brain waves’ analog organization of cortex enables cognition and consciousness, MIT professor proposes at SfN
On neuroscience’s big stage Nov. 15, MIT Professor Earl K. Miller proposed that thought and consciousness emerge from the fast and flexible organization of the cortex produced by the analog computatio...
https://picower.mit.edu/news/brain-waves-analog-organization-cortex-enables-cognition-and-consciousness-mit-professor
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Kicked off Day 1 with "The Mindful Taster: Transforming Wine Appreciation from Sensory Experience to Mastery." Nicolas Quillé spoke on the intersection of neuroscience and sensory experience and offered a unique perspective on wine, mastery, and mindfulness.
#SfN25
#neuroscience
#society
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Hello
#SanDiego
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3 months ago
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"You got to make your own worlds, you got to write yourself in." - Octavia Butler
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Meade Krosby
3 months ago
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
https://www.science.org/content/article/rosalind-franklin-and-damage-gender-harassment
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Christen Rexing, PhD, MPH
3 months ago
Happy Friday!
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Neugin
3 months ago
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
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Wendy Xin
3 months ago
If you are attending
#SfN25
, please join
@amygleichman.bsky.social
and I on Monday at 9PM for a casual social gathering to discuss all things non-neuronal! Date: Monday, Nov 17th Time: 9PM till close Location: The Smoking Gun SD, 555 Market St. All welcome, please free to spread the word!
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Lynda Carter
3 months ago
I see this little argument about Wonder Woman being brunette… Reminder! Wonder Woman is within all of us, and sometimes, she has blonde hair like Sabrina Carpenter! 💫
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The PS2 had some of the most ground-breaking games as well as a massive library. Shadow of the Collosus, Grand Theft Auto 3, Final Fantasy XI, Silent Hill 2, Okami, Viewtiful Joe, to name a few.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
3 months ago
Analysis of menstrual blood might hold clues to a woman’s reproductive health. it is unique in that it may contain biomarkers that reflect the state of a uterus. It is different from blood drawn from a vein. I hope to see where this goes.
#Pinks
🧪
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?
Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/oct/27/menstrual-period-blood-testing-womens-health
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Eric Topol
3 months ago
What happens to our immune system with aging, reducing vaccine response? Our memory T cells undergo a dramatic shift resulting in dysregulated B cell antibody production
@alleninstitute.org
@nature.com
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Multi-omic profiling reveals age-related immune dynamics in healthy adults - Nature
This multi-omic longitudinal analysis of the healthy human peripheral immune system constructs the Human Immune Health Atlas and assembles data on immune cell composition and state changes w...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09686-5
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Neugin
3 months ago
Unclench your jaw. Relax your brow. Go get a drink of water. See if you've taken your meds Eat something. Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing. Because you do. You're a wonderful person. And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through
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What does it mean to protect your interior world in a culture that treats openness as obligation? Read more in my latest Substack:
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Still Waters Run Deep
Privacy as Privilege
https://open.substack.com/pub/melaninmyelin/p/still-waters-run-deep?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4r3e7n
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Carl Zimmer
4 months ago
Today my
@nytimes.com
colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link:
nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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STAT
4 months ago
Why promising women’s health companies die so often. No matter how innovative, women’s health startups can’t overcome the system.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/02/w...
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Why promising women's health companies die so often
No matter how innovative, women’s health startups can’t overcome the system.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/02/womens-health-innovation-startups-investment-hurdles-research/
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Ian Kremer
4 months ago
The Heart of It: 'Forgetful Friends' unites seniors with Alzheimer's through song
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#Alzheimers
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#music
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The Heart of It: 'Forgetful Friends' unites seniors with Alzheimer's through song
YouTube video by WUSA9
https://youtu.be/DnQj943EnnQ?si=5wnGdSsjcy-_8-ov
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Back in the Midwest for a few days. Didn't think it could get any cornier.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
4 months ago
Integrative multiomic analysis links TDP-43-driven splicing defects to cascading proteomic disruption of ALS/FTD pathways
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679403v1
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Ian Kremer
4 months ago
Could your urine predict your dementia risk?
theconversation.com/could-your-u...
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#Alzheimers
#dementia
#geriatrics
#nephrology
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Could your urine predict your dementia risk?
Leaky kidney filters linked to higher dementia risk.
https://theconversation.com/could-your-urine-predict-your-dementia-risk-265262
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Mychal Threets
4 months ago
Please kindly vote for your favorite library card design for the
@pbs.org
kids library card design contest 😁 And leave your graphic novel recommendations for myself and
@arthurpbs.bsky.social
’s Marc Brown! 🤩
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Solicitation is up for the NSF GRFP! Deadline for Life Sciences updated to November 10th.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/grfp-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship-program
4 months ago
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Ian Kremer
4 months ago
Special Report: “Living With Dementia: Learning from Cultural Narratives of Aging Societies"
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@hastingscenter.bsky.social
#Alzheimers
#dementia
#ethics
#gerontology
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Neugin
4 months ago
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
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Taylor
4 months ago
women being blamed for autism is very 2025 and also very 1692
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Neugin
4 months ago
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. First day of fall
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Eric Topol
4 months ago
The revolution in the approach to Alzheimer’s disease for emerging prevention and new treatments, a 3-part series
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Carly 🌼
4 months ago
"It's not who you are underneath, but how you ✨serve✨ that defines you" - Batman Begins, 2005. or something like that 💅🏻
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Carly 🌼
4 months ago
Gotta keep on keeping on ✨
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Neugin
4 months ago
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I completely agree. Equity, leadership, and inclusion programs often present the illusion of change, but in reality, they function as a form of institutional self-preservation. They give the appearance of progress while leaving underlying power structures untouched.
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Dana Foundation
4 months ago
The UnRavelled Outreach Program is a new creative initiative, supported in part by the Dana Foundation, that extends the impact of the new play, Unravelled, beyond the stage. Learn more about the outreach efforts and where to see the play on tour.
#neurosociety
#neuroarts
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UnRavelled Outreach: Neuroscience, Art, and the Poetry of Caregiving
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STAT
4 months ago
New research could aid efforts to identify biomarkers of CTE before symptoms emerge, so that protective measures can be adopted
www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/c...
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Repeated head trauma causes brain changes in young athletes before CTE symptoms
New research could aid efforts to identify biomarkers of CTE before symptoms emerge, so that protective measures can be adopted
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/cte-latest-research-boston-university-neuron-damage/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=bluesky_organic&utm_medium=social
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"Bookstores remind me that there are good things in this world." ~ Vincent van Gogh
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Mychal Threets
4 months ago
Sophia Forchas was shot in the head during the school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. She is still alive ❤️🩹 Sophia Forchas is a miracle! Praying for you, your physical and mental health, your family, your doctors, your nurses 💛
gofundme.com/f/support-sophia-and-the-forchas-family-recover
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Donate to Support Sophia, and the Forchas Family recover, organized by Michelle Erickson
On August 27th 2025, our community was shattered by a heartbreaking s… Michelle Erickson needs your support for Support Sophia, and the Forchas Family recover
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sophia-and-the-forchas-family-recover
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Women in Neuroscience UK
5 months ago
🧠✨ Women in Neuroscience History: The Pioneers Who Changed Everything Incredible stories of 11 women who revolutionized brain science, often against impossible odds. Meet trailblazers of sleep research, memory science, neuroplasticity, and neurosurgery — from Maria Manasseina to May-Britt Moser 🧠
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Two hangings aren't a coincidence. Mind the company you keep. Stay together. Travel in groups. Let people know where you’re going & when you’ll be back. Make yourself visible. Stay in well lit areas. Trust your instincts. Stay alert. Stay safe.
#blacksky
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Dana Foundation
5 months ago
🧠
@ibroorg.bsky.social
and
@fens.org
have opened applications for 2026
#BrainAwarenessWeek
grants. Each year, IBRO and FENS support community engagement and outreach activities around the world with the goal of promoting awareness of
#brainscience
and the impact it has on our daily lives.
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Open Call: Brain Awareness Week Grants with IBRO and FENS
https://dana.org/article/open-call-brain-awareness-week-grants-with-ibro-and-fens/
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