Kristin Barry, PhD 🦻+ 🧠

I don't know if this is what people meant by turning to industry for support during these difficult funding times but I know #NewEnglandBiolabs has my marker needs sorted.

Thanks besties. ❤️

Lord of the Rings style font on a Bilbo's birthday party-style sign in a spiral bound sketchbook reads: In all fairness, some of those who wander are definitely lost.

Tuesday.

Biology beyond conventional model organisms – a whole new world | EMBL An EMBL | EMBO symposium explored the ‘wild frontiers’ of model organisms, from phytoplankton to sea anemones, waterstriders, roundworms, and more.

"Never before in human history has there been a more urgent need to understand living systems & how they interact with each other and the environment" Check out this blog from the 'wild frontiers of model organisms' symposium, inc on the importance of TREC's approach of taking the lab to the field

Hey Australia, we paying any attention?

Oopsie. 🤫

Hey @natureportfolio.nature.com so we besties now right?

I was interviewed for this article!

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article) The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In vivo reconstruction of Duvernoy's postmortem vasculature images

- Fast, high-res imaging: Whole-brain 0.35 mm MRI in <7 min at 7 T
- Vessel-type specific podt-processing: Capturing large leptomeningeal, pial, and intracortical meso-veins

PDF: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A contour enhanced funnel plot demonstrating publication bias

The 'datasauraus' plot series, demonstrating the need to visualise data

A slide demonstrating that bar plots can hide important information, such as outliers and skewness

A description of raincloud plots for illustrating mean differences

Today I'm delivering an open science lecture for our master students. These kind of lectures are one of the most enjoyable parts of my job

I can’t believe this needs to be said.

TransGENIC mice

are not

TransGENDER mice

Visualisation of search frequency of 213 affect terms, term similarities and clustering solution for 88 prominent terms, and the terms positioned within the affective circumplex space

What emotions does music express? Through 3 experiments with association tasks & context-based activities with 5000+ participants & 600+ affect terms, we report structures that differ from music-induced emotions such as romantic, in love, free, & festive #musicscience doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Same feels Bernie.

MagLOV!

MagLOV is a fluorescent protein you can "turn off" with a handheld magnet, engineered by @mariaingaramo.bsky.social.

We think/hope we can use it to turn arbitrary proteins (including drugs!) on and off in opaque creatures (including humans!).

bsky.app/profile/addg...

Conductive hearing loss does not affect spatial learning and memory in middle-aged guinea pigs - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Conductive hearing loss does not affect spatial learning and memory in middle-aged guinea pigs

🚨New paper published!🚨

Our findings (@theauditorylab.bsky.social) suggest that auditory input deprivation alone does not affect cognition in middle-age.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroscience #hearing #science #neurosky

You’re telling me this life crisis is mid?

Just a PSA for iced coffee (Aussie for coffee with ice cream) orders this summer: you can order ice cream flavours other than vanilla. People really be out there getting chocolate or coffee ice cream in their iced coffee.

May your holidays be as restful and spoilt as my chihuahua who sleeps twenty hours a day and gets away with stealing whole slices of ham from my plate.

#Christmassky

I wish gladwrap worked as well as parafilm.

Poster that says "have a panic attack. You've earned it."

A useful daily reminder.

PowerPoint slide saying the winner of Ecr presentation group: Dr Kristin Barry

Thanks #ans2024 for the early career presenter prize.

And big congrats to Kady Braack (also from the @theauditorylab.bsky.social!) for winning best PhD student presentation.

Thanks to everyone at the @theauditorylab.bsky.social for helping us prep such well received talks. 😊

Excellent plenary lecture 🧠🧲 at Australasian Neuroscience Society meeting in Perth today by A/Prof Jenny Rodger #ANS2024 #neuroscience #brainstimulation

Excellent talk from PhD student Kady Braack on cochlear implant induced fibrosis. #ANS2024 #neuroscience

An image showing a labelled red and green colored retina on the left hand side with a white circled bipolar cell. On the right hand side, the circled bipolar cell is shown to scale in comparison with a pyramidal neuron from the brain. It is about 1/10th the size, and barely visible.

This is one of my all-time favorite figures. It shows the size comparison between a retinal bipolar cell and a cortical pyramidal cell in a mouse. Scale bars are great and all but sometimes the sizes just don't compute.
Masland. (2012). The Neuronal Organization of the Retina.
🧪 #neuroskyence

Can I be added?

LOTS of starter pack sharing these past few weeks, so I decided to dig into the list of cool packs that I've been using and recommending for a bit now!

First up... SciArt! "The intersection of art + science = winning the internet"

bsky.app/starter-pack...