Lavinia Sheets

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wow 🤩

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bring back the old ways

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Your auditory nerves are super resilient! They survive damaging noise exposures and repair synaptic connections (until they don’t) 💥

Does calcium signaling play a role in their survival and repair?

Check out Poster 120.02 (Board K4) today and find out more! 🐟

1-5 pm #SfN2025

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Your brain sends inhibitory signals to your ears to optimize sound detection and protect against loud sounds 👂💥

What happens to sensory cells and behavior when one of the receptors for that signal is absent?

Check out Poster 120.01 (Board K3) to find out 🐟

1-5 pm #Sfn2025

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If I can find it 😅

A large orange cat snoozing under a table in a brightly lit sunroom. The table has a colorful floral oilcloth covering.

sunny autumn #caturday

Copy/paste to a doc before logging back in saved my 🍑 during my last round of reviews

Also saved those docs as back ups in case something glitches before study section (hopefully) reschedules 😬

Lady in an inflatable angler fish costume in her living room on Halloween. There is a jack-o-lantern in the background and cat toys at her feet.

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Best fishes this Halloween 👻

I'm so sorry to see this sad news 😞
Thank you for sharing your tribute to her - Zara was, indeed, fucking awesome ❤️

CID Spooky Social!

Nobody:
Me: here's my playlist for the CID research group's spooky social tomorrow 🎃👻
open.spotify.com/playlist/7vQ...

Beautiful indeed - thank you for sharing 😊

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tfw you see exciting preliminary data on a Friday

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The Auditory System Gordon Research Conference preliminary program is now online!
www.grc.org/auditory-sys...

Mark your calendars, and bring your trainees & fresh data - it's gonna be 🔥

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kickass silver boots⚡

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Sign of how stressed med school departments are: to figure out when and where I'm giving an invited seminar in another department tomorrow, I had to hunt down the talk announcement 👀

DEAFULA - Hollywood Theatre The 50th anniversary of the first feature film performed completely in American Sign Language. DEAFULA was shot in Portland – including scenes at the Pittock Mansion – and tells the […]

The @hollywoodtheatre.org in Portland is screening Deafula this weekend, a ground-breaking feature film in ASL (which was also shot in Portland). There are screenings this Sat & Sun: hollywoodtheatre.org/show/deafula/

#a11y #accessibility #ASL #Portland #PDX #Halloween

Kitten wearing a witch's hat and a bow tie with a small jack-o-lantern. Text says "It's October 1st. It's spooky time" From @cattosbeingcattos instragram

Cloud gate sculpture (the bean) in Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois

View of the Chicago skyline from the Lurie Garden

The Chicago skyline from the waterfront at night

Two people look out over the Chicago river at the city at night

Seeing some upsetting pics of downtown Chicago this evening 🙁
I was just there yesterday after college visits with my kiddo—crowds of people enjoying the beautiful weather in Millennium Park during the day and vibing on the waterfront at night ✨

And by weird, I mean upsetting 😞

The series of emails I exchanged with the second year graduate student in my lab last Friday felt like whiplash 😣

Pink and white roses on a sunny day at Peninsula Park in Portland OR in early September 2025

my hometown 💚