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Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 1h

I received this emergency alert while the ground was shaking. If it's like this, people have no time to prepare.

Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 1h

Why is it like this for weeks now?! Another earthquake. 🫨

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · Aug 28

Researchers confirm that PKMzeta, a so-called 'memory molecule,' working with another, KIBRA, is critical to making memories encoded in the strengths of synapses last a long time [via Scientific American] 🧪🧠

www.scientificamerican.com/article/brai...

#memory #neuroscience #neurons #synapses

Brain Scientists Finally Discover the Glue that Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime

A long-running research endeavor reveals key chemical players that cement memories in place—and still more have yet to be discovered

www.scientificamerican.com

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Sep 12

twitter is like the internet version of when they make public benches really uncomfortable so people can't sleep on them

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Sep 6

It’s also just how *all of physics* works
www.sciencefocus.com/news/everyth...

Yes, everything in physics is completely made up – that’s the whole point

A physicist's task is to constantly create equations that keep up with our observations of physical phenomena.

www.sciencefocus.com

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · Jun 18

Happy Pride Month, sorry not sorry your mom ate celery while nursing you

A Not Safe For Work Wikipedia article about lesbianism in history, reading: In the medieval Arab world, lesbianism was considered to be caused by heat generated in a woman's labia, which could be alleviated by friction against another woman's genitalia. Medieval Arabic medical texts considered lesbianism to be inborn. For instance, Masawaiyh reported:

“Lesbianism results when a nursing woman eats celery, rocket, melilot leaves and the flowers of a bitter orange tree. When she eats these plants and suckles her child, they will affect the labia of her suckling and generate an itch which the suckling will carry through her future life.”

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's not mind over body; the mind arises from the body: "The body is essential to the mind." [via Quanta Magazine] 🧪🧠

www.quantamagazine.org/how-our-long...

#neuroscience #vagus #nerve #conduit #body #brain #mind

How Our Longest Nerve Orchestrates the Mind-Body Connection | Quanta Magazine

Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure and fear.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · Aug 28

I have a soft spot for pure behavioural experiments that are just really well-thought out. I think one of the most elegant/beautiful ever was the scrub jay caching task for episodic-like memory:

www.nature.com/articles/26216

Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays - Nature

Nature - Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays

www.nature.com

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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · Nov 27

An eloquent description of what it was like to experience the one-child policy as a child. The grief of parents who wanted more children and the grief of being told that someone can have another child - their living child will not live long.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A moment that changed me: at seven, I saw the truth of China’s one-child policy – and felt my parents’ pain

When a classmate said she’d be allowed a brother or sister, I realised what it meant: she might die young. It was a sudden insight into tragedy and trauma

www.theguardian.com

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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · Sep 1

Misogyny Makes You Stupid

great from @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
www.wonkette.com/p/misogyny-m...

Misogyny Makes You Stupid

Fact-checking the fact-checkers who fact-check the fact-checkers who fact-check the fact-checkers who fact-check the

www.wonkette.com

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Samir Shah @samirshah.bsky.social · Sep 2

Really good article on where #neuralnetwork s are not really neural and how some some researchers are attempting to blend with principles of #neuroscience.

www.economist.com/science-and-...

AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns

The challenge for neuroscientists is how to test them

www.economist.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 8h

"The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be"

– Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer.

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

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Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 23h

In the past few weeks, the Philippines has been having big earthquakes. Please pray for my country 🙏 Salute to the nurses and health workers in this time of calamities.

Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 2d

Another big earthquake hit my country. 7.6! I heard there will be "The Big One". oh lord help

Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 12d

7.0 earthquake woke me up.

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Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 23h

Did you talk about consciousness with them?

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Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 2d

Another big earthquake hit my country. 7.6! I heard there will be "The Big One". oh lord help

Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 12d

7.0 earthquake woke me up.

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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · Aug 29

I always found this one remarkable - using nuclear bomb testing in the 1960s and the resulting increasing in C14 isotope in the atmosphere to show that neurogenesis continues in the adult human brain. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Dynamics of hippocampal neurogenesis in adult humans

Adult-born hippocampal neurons are important for cognitive plasticity in rodents. There is evidence for hippocampal neurogenesis in adult humans, although whether its extent is sufficient to have func...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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carl24k @carl24k.bsky.social · Sep 3

"The companies promoting #generativeai. programs claim that they will unleash creativity. In essence, they are saying that art can be all inspiration and no perspiration—but these things cannot be easily separated." -Ted Chiang
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

www.newyorker.com

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 4d

Why does every story about Nobel prize winners receiving the call involve them being woken in the middle of the night? Do the Nobel people not understand how time zones work or is it a deliberate strategy to generate fun stories about confused winners...?

Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 5d

We are all Dr. Brunkow 😴
“Dr. Brunkow said she did not expect to win a Nobel Prize. ‘My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep,’“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 6d

Really great post and hard to argue with his main reasons.

The longer I'm in neuroscience, the less surprising the big new papers are to me, when the opposite should be true

PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 6d

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

Why I left academia and neuroscience

Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.

mikexcohen.substack.com

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Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 7d

In this era of social media, few engagements with real people is far more important than getting hundreds of likes and comments. You shouldn't even worry about getting ratioed because they're bots or not real people. Dead internet theory is right.

Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 8d

The new PM of #Japan recommended the book "Hitler's Election Strategy". This is really bad.

Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 8d

You know I really support countries to have women leaders who will go down in history. However, #Japan just elected its first female PM who is into anti-immigration. This is what I hate about Japan's patriarchy; they will only allow women to lead if it still benefits the old systems.

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Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 8d

Here in Southeast Asia, we have balete trees. They're gorgeous and creepy. We called this "Lunok" in Hiligaynon language. They're everywhere in our school campus.

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Anjiólina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 9d

I'm too poor to finish my academic journey :/ growing up in the slums was a shot in the head. living in a third world country without neuroscience of my choice is another murder. I'm not giving up but i'm hurt. #neuroskyence

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