Dr. Meow

My endothelial cell cultures that have been listening to Taylor Swift nonstop:

23.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Astrocytic PIEZO activation by heartbeat sound promotes extracellular matrix and maturation in human brain organoids Heartbeat sound is one of the first rhythmic stimuli encountered by the developing human brain, yet its biological role has remained unexplored. Here we show that heartbeat sound promotes structural a...

"Here we show that heartbeat sound promotes structural and functional maturation of human cortical organoids with a physiological astrocyte-to-neuron ratio." 🤯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

22.10.2025 16:44 — 👍 26    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2

Scientific objectivity is a myth – cultural values and beliefs always influence science and the people who do it Cultural ideas are inextricably entwined with the people who do science, the questions they ask, the assumptions they hold and the conclusions they land on.

Scientific objectivity is a myth – cultural values and beliefs always influence science and the people who do it.

theconversation.com/scientific-o...

30.09.2025 19:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The Edinburgh participants at dinner at VasCog!

18.09.2025 05:49 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Esto es súper esclarecedor:
Los hombres sin pareja se consideran una crisis grave, pero las mujeres sin pareja se consideran una traición egoísta, porque los hombres emparejados acceden al trabajo gratis de su pareja (en el hogar y familia) y eso les permite ascender socioeconómicamente.

15.06.2025 13:15 — 👍 243    🔁 156    💬 5    📌 12

A poster for the upcoming Queer Data Showcase. The event is hosted by Mystika Glamoor and is happening at Cabaret Bar, Pleasance in Edinburgh on 5 June 2025.

Edinburgh is hosting a QUEER DATA SHOWCASE! ✨

We’re inviting artists, academics, activists and anyone who works with – or is interested in – queer data to share their ideas.

📢 The Call for Presenters is live!

www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s... #data #AI #tech #LGBTQ #queer #edinburgh

21.02.2025 09:07 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations to this absolute force of a woman for this 🎉👏 can't wait to hear about the exciting science she'll be doing (and hear her go on about lipids for hours on end) 💖

12.02.2025 09:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was thrilled to receive this news—I’ve been awarded the #MSCAPostdoctoralFellowship for my project, PHOS-SVD! Extremely grateful for the support of @annawilliamslab.bsky.social, @nadlerlab.bsky.social and my colleagues for their feedback. Excited to begin the journey into membrane lipid research!

10.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Daniel Ruiz-Gabarre | Twitter | Linktree Welcome! Please, feel free to contact me through any of these means, let's chat!

Hey Erik! I’d love to be added to the feed, I’m a Postdoc at the university of Edinburgh ☺️
Here’s my linktree with my website/researchgate/linkedin if that’s useful! linktr.ee/tomavitamina...

24.11.2024 00:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A picture of me (a dark-haired white-looking man wearing a navy coat and a mustard yellow beanie) in the Southbridge of Edinburgh, where you can see the ground covered in snow and the old town behind me.

A picture of Calton hill and the old town of Edinburgh beneath it, covered in snow, while snow falls.

A picture of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with St Giles Cathedral covered in snow.

I was already high-key obsessed with Edinburgh but seeing it under snow has been simply magical ✨❄️

23.11.2024 22:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Foto de mí con un abrigo negro

Foto de la portada de mi tesis doctoral: Ajuste psicosocial en mujeres y personas no binarias queer

Foto de @tomavitamina (Daniel Ruiz Gabarre) y yo dando una charla descojonadas "ciencia objetiva y otros animales mitológicos"

Foto de la primera diapositiva de mi charla "Locas, frígidas y desviadas: salud mental en mujeres y personas no binarias LBTA"

Me presento para las nuevas como yo en esta nuestra comunidad✨ soy investigadora y profe precaria en psicología y mi misión en la vida es queerizar la ciencia, mamarrachear la academia y hablar sobre sáficas. Hasta ahora no me han echado de la universidad pero podría pasar en cualquier momento

20.11.2024 12:51 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

La mejor persona en cualquier red social (y maravillosa la foto en la que estamos desorinadas en mitad de una charla ❤️‍🩹)

20.11.2024 21:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Probablemente el mejor cumplido que me han hecho en la vida pienso usar supernova en mi currículum de aquí en adelante ✨☄️❤️‍🩹

19.11.2024 16:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Alicia Tamarit y yo en el Paraninfo de la Universidad de Zaragoza, sentadas en sillas en medio de la sala, dándonos la mano y sonriendo. Detrás de nosotres se ve la mesa de la sala y un proyector con la presentación de nuestra charla: “Ciencia objetiva y otros animales mitológicos”.

Por supuesto, infinitas gracias y amor para mi highlight personal, mi otra Frida, mi persona favorita y casi-siamesa esta conferencia y la persona más importante en haber pisado esta sala desde Einstein @aliciatamarit.bsky.social. El activismo es verdaderamente las amigas que hicimos en el camino 🫂

19.11.2024 10:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Mesa de presentación en el Paraninfo de Zaragoza con tres personas en ella actuando de portavoces para la apertura del acto (Ángela Alcalá, Rosa Bolea y yo mismo). Frente a la mesa hay un cartel con el logo y nombre de la Universidad de Zaragoza y detrás de nosotres un proyector con la imagen de la Conferencia PRISMA.

Foto del Paraninfo de la Universidad de Zaragoza durante la sesión open mic que finaliza el primer día de conferencia. Se ve gente repartida en los asientos en forma de anfiteatro atendiendo a la persona que está en el frente, girada hacia detrás para mirar a Lea demás.

Un grupo de gente de pie en varios niveles en los escalones del anfiteatro del Para info de la Universidad de Zaragoza.

Un grupo de gente en la sala polivalente del colegio mayor Pedro Cerbuna en Zaragoza. La sala llena de gente miran hacia un pequeño escenario donde 6 personas presentan la mesa redonda “Una mirada queer desde el análisis de conducta”.

El corazón lleno un año más después de la #ConferenciaPRISMA2024 - siempre es un placer ver lo bonito que es todo al organizar espacios seguros donde todo el mundo puede ser elle misme y abrazamos la diversidad de esta manera ❤️‍🩹🫂

19.11.2024 10:18 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

A room with a screen hanging from the ceiling with the title “Mental health in Acafemia - Triggers, tips & support available”, by Dr. Daniel Ruiz Gabarre. Below it, on a speaker stand, it’s me: a young dark-haired man with a beard, a dark green shirt and round glasses.

A room with a screen hanging from the ceiling. On it you can see the title “Expectations: mine, yours, theirs” and a picture of Taylor Swift in a graduation outfit and Beyoncé wearing a black suit, sunglasses and a black cowboy hat. A green circular arrow points from Taylor to herself and another bidirectional arrow points between her and Beyoncé. A set of purple arrows point from the top down on both of them. Below it, on a speaker stand, it’s me: a young dark-haired man with a beard, a dark green shirt and round glasses.

I also got to deliver a talk on mental health in Academia (and how we can try and manage ours) - and to no one’s surprise, make it about Taylor Swift, again. So happy to see people at Edinburgh Neuroscience are creating this very necessary spaces and elated to be a part of it! ❤️‍🩹🫂

08.10.2024 21:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such a pleasure to participate today in this panel where I got to share some insights into all those other things we get during a PhD apart from the more obvious technical skills. Thank you so much to @garyfalliagouna.bsky.social for brilliantly chairing and to the rest of the speakers! ❤️‍🩹

08.10.2024 21:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It was a great pleasure to chair the Transferable Skills session at the Autumn School for PhD students, organized by Edinburgh Neuroscience today! Thank you to Dr. James O'Malley, Dr. Manuela Marescotti, @tomavitamina.bsky.social @cathyabbott.bsky.social, Dr. Marja Main for an insightful discussion.

08.10.2024 18:33 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSZ7...

23.09.2024 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

UoE Institute for Regeneration & Repair on Instagram: "💊 Do patients with Brain MS and Spinal Cord MS need different therapies? Or are we just targeting everything in the same way? As part of our lo... 14 likes, 0 comments - edinuni_irr on July 19, 2024: "💊 Do patients with Brain MS and Spinal Cord MS need different therapies? Or are we just targeting everything in the same way? As part of our loo...

As part of our summer campaign, we took a look into skin and spinal cord health. We asked members of the Williams Group to share their research into Multiple Sclerosis and how the spinal cord is involved in this work.
www.instagram.com/p/C9mQTxGsAnX/

15.08.2024 14:11 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A picture from Martina Morchio posing in front of the sea, with what looks like a fishing port behind her, under sunset lightning.

Also want to include our lovely Martina, who is as much a Williams lab postdoc but couldn't be here for the group picture! 🤩

19.09.2024 15:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Where all the magic happens 👩‍🔬

19.09.2024 11:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A picture of me with Rebecca Smith, Garyfallia Gouna and Rana Fetit, three of the other postdocs at the Williams lab. We are all wearing our lab coats in the lab, with two long benches full of chemicals and lab tools.

Kicking off our Bluesky accounts with a cute little photo for Postdoc Appreciation Week at the @annawilliamslab.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹
#NPAW2024 #LovePostdocs
@rebeccakssmith.bsky.social @garyfalliagouna.bsky.social

19.09.2024 11:14 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1