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tajfisher.bsky.social

Ph.D. student in Neuroscience at McGill University Birds, cats, brains

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"How disruptive would it be if GitHub started deleting repositories, or Google Scholar started hiding certain papers in response to U.S. government demands?" https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/ Most people with some interest […]

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 8 days ago • 1909 comments

For the sake of all the moms in New England, they really should have pushed All-Star weekend a couple days so the ladies could see Al Horford play tonight

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 390 comments

Best review Kendrick could ask for

submitted 13 days ago • 246 comments

When "meritocracy" requires removing evidence of successful women and minorities, it's just sexist white supremacy. Anyone still saying this is about meritocracy is just lying.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

My 8th grade teacher (who taught me to diagram tf out of a sentence) criticized us for watching Survivor and other reality TV shows. She said we would lose our sense of what's real and what isn't. Now a reality TV star and internet fascists are destroying the government. Good call, Mrs. Tully.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

aaaand now it all makes sense

submitted 18 days ago • 152 comments

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed., by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n... 1/2

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

🧪 If I were Canadian PM I would immediately: 1. Create a new $15B science fund 2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada 3. Immediate permanent residency 4. Citizenship after 2 years Overnight a science superpower

submitted 22 days ago • 1297 comments

This RFK Jr hearing shows that lawyers think they can just do any other job because they're lawyers. That also means the lawyers questioning him don't understand that medical doctors and chemical engineers aren't scientists. Scientists get very specific years of training and decades of experience

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Reading: The Untold Mystery of Rogue RA by @malte.the100.ci 'Rogue RA flits from lab to lab under the guise of an assistant, embedding themself just long enough to wreak havoc, before vanishing into the academic ether' www.the100.ci/2024/12/18/r...

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

Myelin consists of many miniscule layers of smooth membrane, making it highly reflective. This lets you image it with #microscopy without any staining - left shows reflections of RGB lasers from brainstem myelin lit up like a disco ball, right is the same region with a fluorescent dye. #neuroskyence

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

How anti-vaccine activists try to mislead, chapter #6758. Dr. Simone Gold posted a tweet suggesting a legal win for the anti-vaccine side (see screenshot). 1/4

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

FYI Entomologists, this dude has had 30+ papers retracted, some of them on ectoparasites/lice. 🧵🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 67 days ago • 7 comments

Little SNAFU on the microscope the other day during calibration (see the Quality monitor says Good). I'd like to say I knew exactly what was wrong and fixed it, but actually I just turned everything off and on and it was fixed somehow lol pretty much sums up grad school

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Here's a weird type of microscopy - interference reflection microscopy (IRM)! Oligodendrocyte membranes are so smooth and reflective, you can see them without needing a dye by just bouncing laser light off of them (shown in blue, with cell body and processes in red). #neuroskyence #microscopyMonday

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

These are a couple of glia (non-neuron brain cells). The lattice-like red stuff comes from a specialized cell that produces myelin, a substance that wraps around neurons to support them. This oligodendrocyte is hoping to find an axon to wrap but alas, there is none to be found. #SciArt #neuroscience

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

This slightly-botched tissue slice shows embryonic nervous system development. A blue DNA dye labels all cell nuclei, while neurons are green and sites where new ones are being produced are red. This pic was stitched from 100+ images, which is where that nasty grid comes from. #sciArt #neuroscience

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment