ampolter.bsky.social
Associate professor in Washington DC. Neuroscientist/mouse psychiatrist
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Sing it with me, elder millennials:
It's like raaaaain
On your fascist parade
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Not sure if it counts as lesser known, I really loved the Azulejo museum when I was there a couple years ago.
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oh my god I have said this at least five times per meeting on every K99 study section I've been on for the last four years.
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Thanks!
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Thanks Andrew!
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Thanks Tim!
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Thanks Maithe!
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KSENIIA PETROVA RELEASED!
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big "proficient in Microsoft excel" on your resume energy
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As a fellow DC resident who went to Montreal over inauguration weekend, an EXCELLENT choice for escaping. And I'm guessing you'll have nicer weather than we did in January!
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Not from Birmingham but lived there for six years for grad school and learned a lot about neuroscience and also yes a little about crime
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Yes-you have no obligation to hire for any given position!
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You are unlikely to have a glut of stellar applicants as a new PI, so put out ads for multiple positions and hire the best people who apply, regardless of position. That said, trainees take more work on your part than techs, so don't overload with postdocs and grad students.
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Have you ever seen the Lizzy Bennet Diaries? It's a youtube project from about ten years ago, a modernized take kindof like this but it was actually pretty good!
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When Elvis asked Richard Nixon to make him a federal agent, Nixon got him a fake badge and sent him on his way. It totally worked. If you think Musk would not have fallen for that, perhaps you underestimate the attraction of a fake badge to people who are high.
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btw in the recently reopened Smithsonian Air& Space exhibit on the space program, Werner Von Braun is mentioned as he should be, in small print, below eye level, and with equal attention given to "Nazi" and "technically very important for the US getting to the moon"
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Wouldn't it be awesome if we could do research to alleviate one of those things?
TOO BAD NOT ANYMORE
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Teaching students is a huge part of it, but beyond that, universities are sites of civilizational production, preservation, and transmission. That requires time and resources for deep, thoughtful research, and it requires some real measure of independence from political and economic power structures