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Cartoon of students in a lecture hall watching a video with a gorilla in the middle of a crowd. One student has a thought bubble that says "What gorilla?"

Spotlight: How do you miss a gorilla in the room? How do you decide to skip the big party so you can study for an exam? These seem like different questions but they are both tied to Attention & Executive function. Learn about it in Ch 19 from author Kevin Wilson!

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My 79-year-old wife was just accepted into Oxford. My job now is to figure out how to support her — financially and emotionally. My wife got into Oxford at 79. She's exhilarated but also nervous. I'm not sure how to answer, "Will I even be around long enough to finish a degree?"

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Why You Should Use This Open Access Textbook for Neuroscience Learning <p>College education, including tuition and textbook costs, is simply too expensive. That is why Elizabeth J. Kirby, an associate professor at Ohio State University, and Christine Charvet, an assistan...

Are you frustrated with the cost of college textbooks?

@thekirbylab.bsky.social and @cjcharvet.bsky.social detail the creation of an open-access textbook, "Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience" and how to implement it into your curriculum.

Read on Neuronline: bit.ly/3D7hnvD

Former Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah to join faculty at Colby College Shah will teach courses in public health and crisis communications, and will also help Colby design and implement a full public health curriculum.

Shah will teach courses in public health and crisis communications, and will also help Colby design and implement a full public health curriculum:

What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before Study is based on 20,860 sketches drawn by children over 5 decades

What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

I recently archived nearly 4000. If someone really needs something hopefully they’ll try me again! It felt amazing and I’ve been keeping it sorted ever since. I needed the clean slate.

Rat behavioral neuroscientists! Colby College is looking for a Visiting Assistant Professor to replace me while I'm doing admin work. Position is for up to 3 years. Great resources, amazing lab space, wonderful students and colleagues. Happy to answer questions. apply.interfolio.com/154806

Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality The unreasonable effectiveness of aesthetics in science

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YouTube video by OpenStax Explaining immunohistochemistry and fluorescence microscopy (An OpenStax resource)

Spotlight: Need to explain what you mean when you say you "stained the brains"? Our video on Immunohistochemistry by @neuro-vac.bsky.social and Noah Sandstrom explains the basic concept of immunolabeling to students and shows it in action. youtu.be/yuCLc017YsE #neuroscience #openneuroscience

Redirect Twitter Share to Bluesky With this extension, you can easily share from websites to Bluesky. Just click on the current Twitter (X) share button on the page, and the extension will redirect you to post on Bluesky.

Someone has created a browser extension (Firefox and Chrome supported) that changes Twitter share buttons on third-party websites so they share on Bluesky instead...

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Peer writing fellows support Colby College students Colby College trains students to work as writing fellows who support faculty members in writing-intensive courses.

Colby College trains students to work as writing fellows who support faculty members in writing-intensive courses. Students are more confident and competent in writing, plus more aware of other peer learning supports & writing services offered. #edusky www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

This is us! We're an educational resource with a bsky account. Content will be all about open educational resources in neuro, including but not limited to this book. #neuroscience #neuroskyence #openneuroscience #openscience