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Akila Kadambi

@akilakad.bsky.social

brain 🧠 🥼 scientist. Post-doc in Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA and Brain and Creativity Institute, USC, she/her

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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

08.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 4737    🔁 1835    💬 142    📌 83
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For thousands of years, Theravāda Buddhism—an ancient tradition with origins in India—has described what is considered the highest meditative attainment, called nirodha samāpatti, regarded as deeply connected to nirvana/enlightenment.

For the first time, we have been able to use brain imaging...

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15.09.2025 10:53 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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Akila Kadambi is a postdoctoral researcher and fellow at the UCLA-CDU Dana Center for Neuroscience and Society. She sees first-hand the importance of engaging with the local community to help advance neuroscience and benefit society. #neurosociety #neuroscience #research #communityengagement

28.08.2025 15:13 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Like its mythical counterpart, the real-life Hydra possesses remarkable regenerative abilities... but scientists also study this tiny animal's nervous system, even though it doesn't have a brain! 🧠

Researchers have studied Hydra at the MBL for over 100 years! #sciencestartshere

23.04.2025 21:57 — 👍 26    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 4
When Elizabeth Warren Schooled CNBC on the Constitution
YouTube video by NowThis Impact When Elizabeth Warren Schooled CNBC on the Constitution

Wow
youtube.com/shorts/M5o6N...

24.04.2025 15:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good job team America
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

21.04.2025 23:18 — 👍 12985    🔁 4727    💬 221    📌 327
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Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards 2025 Award Recipients - NeuroArts Blueprint The second annual Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards, established by the Renée Fleming Foundation and administered through the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative, will support nine teams of early...

check us out! Excited to be a part of this with amazingly talented @annetenna.bsky.social and amazing mentor @marcoiac.bsky.social. Our foray into music and the brain, to enhance empathy
neuroartsblueprint.org/neuroarts-in... thank you @neuroartsblueprint.bsky.social and @aspeninstitute.bsky.social

16.04.2025 23:30 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

New pub at the British Journal for Philosophy of Science!

"Explaining Mechanism-Task Fit in Neuroscience" (1/x)

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

14.04.2025 17:52 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 1

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