Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪
@nicoleackermans.com
Assistant prof neuroscientist studying TBI in headbutters 🐏🐂🐐🪶 at U of Alabama CVN lab. Accepting PhD students!
Science correspondent for DTNS.
I'll happily ID the random bone you found in the woods!
Science correspondent for DTNS.
I'll happily ID the random bone you found in the woods!
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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪
@nicoleackermans.com
· Nov 13
Time for a reintroduction!
I'm an assistant professor at the U of Alabama. I run the Comparative Vertebrate Neurodegeneration Lab (the CoVeN to friends), where our main research focus is modeling chronic TBI in headbutting goats and woodpeckers. 1/...
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I'm an assistant professor at the U of Alabama. I run the Comparative Vertebrate Neurodegeneration Lab (the CoVeN to friends), where our main research focus is modeling chronic TBI in headbutting goats and woodpeckers. 1/...
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The scientist in Pluribus who removed her glove in the BSL4 facility deserves all the blame
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The scientist in Pluribus who removed her glove in the BSL4 facility deserves all the blame
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I had a wonderful time with Kevin and Matt on Audiomunnity talking about my recent brain injury review - we mostly laughed our butts off but managed to talk some immunity as well.
Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! 🧪 🎙️
Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! 🧪 🎙️
This title isn't about the HHS secretary!
This was an amazing conversation about Headbutting (it's related to #immunology, we swear) with @nicoleackermans.com 🧪, who just published a review describing the last 10,000 years of human thought on animals bashing skulls
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This was an amazing conversation about Headbutting (it's related to #immunology, we swear) with @nicoleackermans.com 🧪, who just published a review describing the last 10,000 years of human thought on animals bashing skulls
audiommunity.org/episodes/epi...
Episode 49 - Scratch that itchy worm in your head
YouTube video by Audiommunity
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November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I had a wonderful time with Kevin and Matt on Audiomunnity talking about my recent brain injury review - we mostly laughed our butts off but managed to talk some immunity as well.
Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! 🧪 🎙️
Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! 🧪 🎙️
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A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies.
#neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
#neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis
From two avian neurobiologists, a captivating deep dive into the mechanisms that control avian behavior.The last few decades have produced extensive resear
direct.mit.edu
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies.
#neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
#neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
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The Trump regime’s cuts to NIH grants disrupted more than 380 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants. The cuts disproportionately impacted trials on infectious diseases and minority communities.
Trump slashed spending on clinical trials. The toll is starting to become clear.
Grants for 383 clinical trials were terminated and the funding disruptions affected more than 74,000 trial participants, according to new research.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The Trump regime’s cuts to NIH grants disrupted more than 380 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants. The cuts disproportionately impacted trials on infectious diseases and minority communities.
Stay tuned for the episode 👀 we had a blast!
Excited to be talking to @nicoleackermans.com today about her work on headbutting in animals throughout the centuries! Do you have burning questions about neuroinflammation in bighorn sheep or the differences between woodpeckers and football players? Let us know!
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November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Stay tuned for the episode 👀 we had a blast!
I had the immense joy of educating one my students about the cloaca today. I love teaching biology 😆
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I had the immense joy of educating one my students about the cloaca today. I love teaching biology 😆
So many skilled anatomical illustrators would have done this much better justice. Instead, you send the message that anatomical accuracy is not valued in this journal. @royalsocietypublishing.org
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So many skilled anatomical illustrators would have done this much better justice. Instead, you send the message that anatomical accuracy is not valued in this journal. @royalsocietypublishing.org
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I remember when we could barely get a radio tag on a large seabird. A 60 mg solar powered radio tag is ridiculous. Tech can be so amazing when we use it to understand the world, instead of just to sell ads.
Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarch butterflies and are following their journeys on a cellphone app (and you can too). They are using a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200 (monarchs weigh 500 to 600 milligrams).
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I remember when we could barely get a radio tag on a large seabird. A 60 mg solar powered radio tag is ridiculous. Tech can be so amazing when we use it to understand the world, instead of just to sell ads.
I really want to post for #FluoresenceFriday but my immunos keep failing 😅. My fellow non-model species researchers can commiserate.
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I really want to post for #FluoresenceFriday but my immunos keep failing 😅. My fellow non-model species researchers can commiserate.
In an unlikely team-up, paleontologists worked with lichen and drones to find more dinos! 🧪
We discussed the bone drones on @dtnsshow.bsky.social
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/05/b...
We discussed the bone drones on @dtnsshow.bsky.social
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bone Drones
In an unlikely team-up, paleontologists worked up with lichen and drones to find more dinos! A recent paper published in Current Biology used drones equipped with special sensors to help find dinos…
nicoleackermans.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
In an unlikely team-up, paleontologists worked with lichen and drones to find more dinos! 🧪
We discussed the bone drones on @dtnsshow.bsky.social
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/05/b...
We discussed the bone drones on @dtnsshow.bsky.social
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/05/b...
A Farmer, a Designer and a Dating App Unite to Save Some ‘Gay Sheep’
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Congrats to Ananth on his new paper on croc evolution! 🧪
Our new paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org is out now
We show that modern crocodiles evolved flatter and weaker skulls from domed ancestors to adapt to life in water, trading skull strength for streamlining 🐊
Read here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
#Paleontology #Crocodiles #Evolution
We show that modern crocodiles evolved flatter and weaker skulls from domed ancestors to adapt to life in water, trading skull strength for streamlining 🐊
Read here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
#Paleontology #Crocodiles #Evolution
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Congrats to Ananth on his new paper on croc evolution! 🧪
My lab is performing a TBI biomarker study and needs local participants! Recruiting female athletes or non athletes between 18-35, bonus if you suspect you've had a concussion before. Get in touch! 🧠
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My lab is performing a TBI biomarker study and needs local participants! Recruiting female athletes or non athletes between 18-35, bonus if you suspect you've had a concussion before. Get in touch! 🧠
Playing in the Yellowhammer Roller Rumble this weekend! Alabama's first state wide roller derby tournament! 🛼
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Playing in the Yellowhammer Roller Rumble this weekend! Alabama's first state wide roller derby tournament! 🛼
Ooh! A new paper on woodpecker anatomy states that the birds coordinate muscle contraction and airflow to be more efficient at pecking.
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Imagining these little guys grunting to flex is sending me
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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Imagining these little guys grunting to flex is sending me
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Neuromuscular coordination of movement and breathing forges a hammer-like mechanism for woodpecker drilling
Highlighted Article: Woodpeckers engage a broad suite of muscular recruitment in coordination with respiration to forge a hammer-like mechanism when performing their iconic drilling and tapping behavi...
doi.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Ooh! A new paper on woodpecker anatomy states that the birds coordinate muscle contraction and airflow to be more efficient at pecking.
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Imagining these little guys grunting to flex is sending me
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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Imagining these little guys grunting to flex is sending me
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Forget the 4k vs 8k debate, researchers created an e-ink screen that is the same resolution as your eye. One pixel per photoreceptor! Now that's h-eye resolution! 🧪
Covered for @dtnsshow.bsky.social
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/05/h...
Covered for @dtnsshow.bsky.social
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/05/h...
H-eye Resolution!
Eye-pixels! They’re pixels for your eyes! Allow me to explain In a recent article in the journal Nature, researchers developed a new technology with the smallest pixels ever, in a screen that has t…
nicoleackermans.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Forget the 4k vs 8k debate, researchers created an e-ink screen that is the same resolution as your eye. One pixel per photoreceptor! Now that's h-eye resolution! 🧪
Covered for @dtnsshow.bsky.social
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/05/h...
Covered for @dtnsshow.bsky.social
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/05/h...
This October the Nobel prizes were announced, I broke down the three science prizes in a bit more detail for @dtnsshow.bsky.social.
Do the prizes impact your lives? Do we really need them? 🧪
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/02/t...
Do the prizes impact your lives? Do we really need them? 🧪
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/02/t...
The 2025 Nobel prizes
This October the Nobel prizes were announced. These awards “confer the greatest benefit to human kind”. I broke down the three science prizes in a bit more detail. Physics Awarded to John Clarke, M…
nicoleackermans.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This October the Nobel prizes were announced, I broke down the three science prizes in a bit more detail for @dtnsshow.bsky.social.
Do the prizes impact your lives? Do we really need them? 🧪
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/02/t...
Do the prizes impact your lives? Do we really need them? 🧪
nicoleackermans.com/2025/11/02/t...
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The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10.
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10.
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
Physically in gerrymandered AL, spiritually at the gay club with Mayor Mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Physically in gerrymandered AL, spiritually at the gay club with Mayor Mamdani
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Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Everyone is hope scrolling now
Oh man. I had forgotten what it felt like to hear good news in the US!
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Oh man. I had forgotten what it felt like to hear good news in the US!
At my local food bank, $1 can provide 5 meals. So I gave $10.
Help your local community out since the government won't!
Help your local community out since the government won't!
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
At my local food bank, $1 can provide 5 meals. So I gave $10.
Help your local community out since the government won't!
Help your local community out since the government won't!
I got to hang out with @frogpants.club Scott and Brian on TMS this morning to talk about sheep, woodpeckers, and my beef with engineers! 🎙️
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I got to hang out with @frogpants.club Scott and Brian on TMS this morning to talk about sheep, woodpeckers, and my beef with engineers! 🎙️
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