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Kevin Wright

@kevinmawright.bsky.social

Neuroscientist: Dystroglycan, synapses, retina development/function (not necessarily in that order) Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at OHSU. Opinions are my own.

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Who could have imagined the pathological liar would have lied?!? Especially after he offered absolutely no details about how he would do this!?!?

03.08.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

SATAN: And all you have to do in return is bring me one farmers market pierog.

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: You fool, you’ve got a deal!

03.08.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 731    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
02.08.2025 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I had to delay the purchase of a new computer from Zeiss for our microscope because they weren’t shipping machines with windows 11 (which is required to be networked at my institution). now the same machine is going to cost me $1500 more because of tariffs.

Your tax dollars at work!

02.08.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Figgy pudding?

02.08.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited for next month's job report, which will likely show eleventy million new jobs created

01.08.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Def. fits w/ my experience. My first R01 renewal went A0 (16th% unfunded), A1 (19th% unfunded), new proposal A0 (17th% unfunded), new proposal A1 (9th% funded). The funded "new proposal" is very much a continuation of the original grant

31.07.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

31.07.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Targeting Tmem63b and Piezo2 in C-fiber low threshold mechanoreceptor: limitation of Vglut3-IRES-Cre https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.26.666969v1

31.07.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dude had more retractions with his name on them (6!) than I had publications when I applied for faculty positions.

31.07.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Spoiler alert: the "what they are doing in response" part is exactly what you think.

Nothing.

They're hoping Texas backs down (they won't).

This is what the Democratic party is so unpopular. They won't even fight.

31.07.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This 91 yr old man is one of the most powerful elected officials in our country. Might be time for age limits....

31.07.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah, I certainly wouldn't expect the same level of increase from the house.

31.07.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe some good news? Now we just have to figure out how to keep the administration from using pocket rescissions from illegally gutting congressionally approved appropriations.

31.07.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Flexible updating of reward and punishment contingencies by VTA GABA neurons In dynamic environments where stimuli predicting reward or punishment unexpectedly change, it is critical to flexibly update behavior while preserving…

New lab paper by @merridee.bsky.social identifying a novel role for VTA GABA neurons in behavioral flexibility

GABA, but not dopamine, neuron activation correlates with behavior when cues unexpectedly shift from predicting punishment to predicting reward www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

31.07.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
31.07.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m curious about the $15.5 million APC outlier πŸ€”

31.07.2025 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Your tax dollars.

31.07.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A California Gerrymander Based On The 2024 Election Results Where Dems Are 52-0

30.07.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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O Great Khan Pritzker, i have seen visions of the future

30.07.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1153    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 15

Guess you finally figured out how to fund the lab!

30.07.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perfect blunt (force trauma) rotation.

30.07.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 347    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

sell them for pennies on the dollar to fund the lab?

30.07.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is amazing.

30.07.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like musk's 3rd party lasted about 3 Scaramuccis.

30.07.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The people running our gov't are dumber than a bag of hammers. They're pushing crypto/AI everything (which is incredibly energy intensive), while cutting energy production under the assumption we can drill our way out of it.

Also, could someone PLEASE tell these guys about batteries?

30.07.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh hell yes

30.07.2025 04:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing a white shirt and a mask says magnets how do they work ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and a mask says magnets how do they work
30.07.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, this feels like a β€œwe didn’t think anyone would notice, but we got caught” response

30.07.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What the almighty fuck?!?! There is no way this is legal.

30.07.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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