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neuro-vac.bsky.social
Neuroscientist @ Williams College
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submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Our preprint of my PhD’s work in @gisellavetere.bsky.social lab is finally out on BiorXiv: doi.org/10.1101/2024..., and I’m so excited to share it! If you’ve ever wondered about reconciling engram manipulation experiments and neuronal activity during encoding, you’re on the right thread! 1/14

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

UCLA☀️ summer #neuroscience research internship applications are now open for 2025!

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: We're running a "Last 50 Days" campaign pressuring President Biden to cancel student debt for older Americans—folks in their 60s+ and 70s+ who are running out of time. These borrowers shouldn't die with student loans. Biden and Harris must take action before Trump takes office.

submitted 95 days ago • 11 comments

"The commitment to capitalist exploitation that powered much of European colonization persists in science and continues to cost lives [important to] not only think about who does science and how, but also whether all people have a right to the fruits of science." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Spotlight: Need to explain what you mean when you say you "stained the brains"? Our video on Immunohistochemistry by @neuro-vac.bsky.social and Noah Sandstrom explains the basic concept of immunolabeling to students and shows it in action. youtu.be/yuCLc017YsE #neuroscience #openneuroscience

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

☀️ Looking to get paid & gain valuable research experience this summer? Or know undergrads that could benefit? REUs are ~6-8 weeks summer programs for undergrads and are very helpful for post-grad jobs & grad or professional schools! See our REU database to learn more! ➡️ cientificolatino.com/reu

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Notes from the underground, dark roast from No. 6 Depot

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

buff.ly/4dHXtmS Challenging the neutrality myth in #climatescience and #activism: the always-excellent @katharinehayhoe.com et al on the need for scientists to speak out about their results and how they affect society. Science is never neutral.

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"Unless the past and the future are made part of the present by memory and intention there [is] in human terms, no road, nowhere to go" -Shevek in "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

You got undergrads? We have summer programs! Please post, repost, and share. Applications opened early, now on the NSF ETAP portal. Neuroscience in Ann Arbor! YES, PLEASE!

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Do you teach neuroscience? Here’s a list I’ve compiled of mostly free online neuroscience textbooks, simulations and datasets you can use for your course! If I’m missing something, let me know so I can add it! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 100 days ago • 24 comments

Woman and dog, 1935 by US artist Christina Malman

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Illustration : Britta Young Quote from “The Dispossessed,” by Ursula Leguin.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education. openstax.org/details/book...

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Want to join of a community of Latinx/a/o Scholars broadly throughout academia? Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! Shout out to @larrylafountain.bsky.social for bringing us together! go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr

submitted 107 days ago • 94 comments