@chantelpratphd.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, author, and science communicator. Dog, horse, bunny, duck and human mom. Girl boss. My 🧠 is curious about others who work differently!
A little weekend listen perhaps?
03.10.2025 21:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This resonates. T minus 60 days ‘til my deadline 🤓
02.10.2025 04:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A graph showing the relationship between arousal and performance increasing linearly
I asked #ChatGPT to create a visual of the Yerkes-Dodson law which it correctly described verbally as “the classic inverted U-shaped curve” then drew this. 🤔
29.09.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our newest paper is out 🧠🧐 #brain #memory #science
13.09.2025 20:59 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0#language is a code for thinking and communicating, but is computer #code also a language? In this week’s episode of Brains for Dinner @andreastocco.com and I geek out on symbolic cognition, skill learning, and #Shakespeare to name a few. Is Python a language and if so are #bilinguals better?
09.09.2025 02:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Calling all scientists, lovers or supporters of science, or folks just trying to make changes in their lives and wondering why they won’t stick. Do you have 5 minutes to help inform my second book—focused on how to partner with your brain to shape change?
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Dear friends and Bluesky 🧠 geeks: it's the weekend, and I want to share that @chantelpratphd.bsky.social and I recorded our second episode of Brains for Dinner. This one is about dance, language, and basal ganglia, and the burning question: why don't ducks dance? open.substack.com/pub/chantelp...
22.08.2025 22:55 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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This was a fun one! #brains #dance #evolution #mating #animals #language #communication
What’s in it for you? Laughs, learning, and possibly even inspiration for great date questions! I hope you’ll join me and my favorite neuroscientist @andreastocco.com for dinner!
04.08.2025 18:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Honestly it’s way more exciting to be surprised like this 😅
15.06.2025 04:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Exciting!!!! My first European translation 💃🏻🧠
13.06.2025 04:14 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What the heck! I am still waiting for my copies…. This is super exciting though!
13.06.2025 04:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Our malleable brain enables us to encode learning and experience in a way that is much more powerful than simply data storage.
@chantelpratphd.bsky.social explores this fascinating, complex superpower:
buff.ly/pqcBzH9
25 years and also just a blink.
15.05.2025 01:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can’t remember the last time I saw a movie that blew my mind like this one did.
27.04.2025 06:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So well said I couldn’t agree more. I can’t remember the last time a movie made me think and feel so much. And I’m sensitive to the “trying too hard” vibe that can make movies feel cheesy or tacky. Instead it just felt brilliant. Full of heart and soul and complexity like a life well lived.
27.04.2025 06:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🥰 Thank you!!!
05.04.2025 11:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just turned 50 in Borneo and did some thinking and writing about what it all means to me.
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#science #power #belonging #obedience
Thankful for my naturally intelligent brain today which can spot Google Maps’ advice as “enshitification” from a mile away (sometimes).
#AI #brain #cognition #intelligence
🧪🧠 #brain #belonging #different #neurodiversity
Theories that are on size fits all don’t fit anyone very well.
Say you’ve been doing neuroscience research for a long time without saying you’ve been doing neuroscience research for a long time. My favorite 🧠 in 1998 and 2021 🥰
#brain #neuroscience
#standupforscience
08.03.2025 01:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#sciencenotsilence
Art credit goes to @andreastocco.com Today — and every day— we stand up for science!
What the duck? #vibes
07.03.2025 00:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My emotional support baby horse and amazing husband @andreastocco.com plus Taylor Swift for the healing moment of today. 🥰
#horses #Swiftie #connection
This is my best attempt to follow Arthur Ashe’s call to “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” #brain #talent #training #recruitment #diversity #intelligence #experience
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Well I guess I can cross having a dinner with Temple Grandin where I can ask her every single question I have about her brain and answer all the questions she has that I have any clue about off of my bucket list! 🙌🧠🤯🧪 What an amazing woman.
#autism #brain #visualthinking #celebratedifferences
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