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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

This doesn't look good, folks
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Illuminating lecture by Sandi Toksvig on bias in the history and evolution of information encoding and documentation.
youtu.be/UG6Ier4UC_8?...

Neuroscience

Neuronal axons are shown using the brainbow technique:

#neuroscience by Ryo Egawa

Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability. A new antioxidant material neutralizes brain-damaging molecules in mice, boosting recovery—offering hope for treatment. A materials science engineer explains: #BrainInjury #Neuroscience https://buff.ly/3F0Mkln

Betty Wright Harris’s explosive career Hayley Bennett tells the story of a Black chemist who studied energetic materials - and ways to detect them

Did you take a #DoomscrollBreak today?
I'll be taking mine shortly after posting this.

How can one not admire Dr. Betty Harris, a leading expert on explosives, environmental remediation and hazardous waste treatment?
#BHM #WomenInStem #Chemistry
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/bett...
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1/27/1941 — b. Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer, professor. Influential astronomy theoretician; profound impact on the study of the evolution of stars, galaxies and the universe. “Evolution of Galaxies and its Significance for Cosmology”(1966) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #OTD

I eat cookies for breakfast because they have eggs in them.

Whackadoo hair? Check. Ready to enter my mad-scientist phase? Checkzilla.

YouTube video by intro…101 intro to neurotransmitter clean up and dopamine pathways 101 - context for dopamine detox trend

A psychiatrist on YouTube asked "should you detox your dopamine?" I thought it was a strange question, but if he's asking it, I figured some kind of protocol must be making the rounds on sm. Before you attempt to manipulate any of your neurochemicals, please watch this.
youtu.be/61Z0Klbyicc?...

Whew! After a rigorous and challenging two months of study and writing exams, I have officially crossed the threshold from PsyD student to PsyD candidate! 💃🤸‍♀️🥳

Reminder to those who need it:

1. You can mute the name of the current president and/or anyone else you don't want to constantly hear about here

2. You can mute/block/unfollow accounts that impinge on your calm

3. Social media doesn't have to be a doom scroll, curate your feed to make you happy

Planet parade info! ⤵️🔭🧪

(If you're in the S. Hemisphere, read NW for SW and reverse the Moon emojis 🙂)

With a lot of tough things happening in the world riggr now, the misinformation that stars are dead when you wish on them feels very mean spirited 🥺 luckily, I looked into it and worked out that the stars we wish on are very much alive 🌟 🧪🔭

It’s impossible to build a comprehensive taxonomy of paranormal, pseudoscientific, fringe, & conspiratorial claims (etc!). It’s a vast ecosystem in constant roiling motion, subdividing, mutating, hybridizing, speciating… umbrella categories (“alternative medicine”) are useful but hand-wavingly broad

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Entering hermit mode for comps exam prep. May not emerge until Feb. Sincerest apologies, as I may not be here to follow back until then.

Wishing you all safety and cheer throughout the holidays and all the best in the new year!

Die Hard 6: Old Habits is about a gal who returns to social media after a long hiatus and scrolls for hours instead of not doing that.

Next time I’m asked how my thesis is coming along I’m just going show this picture.

Misogyny isnt just about a hatred of women but about sowing fear into them. It’s about planting a seed of distrust inside their minds so that they believe themselves to be less than what they are. It cuts away at their dreams.

"This is important because algorithms may up-rank news articles associated with outrage, even if a user intended to express outrage toward the article for containing misinformation."

Our outrage over social media posts helps misinformation spread, study phys.org/news/2024-11...

You get 20 extra characters on Bluesky which is great because it means, when you copy your old tweets into Bluesky you can always add “THUS SPOKE THE LICH!” to the end and it will still fit.

While our bodies seem static, our cells are constantly changing shape or on the move during tissue homeostasis or wound repair & even more dramatically during embryonic development, during events like gastrulation. Defining how cellular machines mediate these events is a key task for our field 1/n

An extremely round, tiny bird with buffy belly, grey back, white cheek, black cap and tiny black beak. Bird is perched on a nearly vertical bare branch that crosses the frame from top to bottom.

Around here you can make a good guess about the temperature by looking at the chickadee enfloofenation level #birds #borb

I deleted my Twitter account in 2016 because it was becoming an increasingly unsafe place back then. Grateful to @rose.bsky.team and @jay.bsky.team for prioritizing safety here on bsky.

Such a great experience leading a group of amazing scientists with the intention of true collaboration. No BS, no power struggles, just people who want to share their love for learning and exploration. I have caught myself smiling to myself, thinking about all of the impactful work we're doing.

Thanks so much for assembling this list!

Mary Tyler Moore accidentally nailed a perfect trick shot in *The Dick Van Dyke Show* (1962)—on the FIRST take.

It was supposed to be done by a pro, but she shocked everyone and pulled it off herself. Absolute legend. 🎱✨

#ClassicTV #FunFacts

Reminder that your favorite local indie bookstores make a lot of their yearly income during the holiday season.

Go shop local today. ❤️

Resting-state alpha reactivity is reduced in Parkinson disease and associated with gait variability