Shruti Muralidhar
@polybiotique.bsky.social
Neuroscientist turned science funder, Amateur cellist, intrepid seamstress, fearless baker, downhill cyclist, Founder+Editor @ indscicomm @biaswatchindia.bsky.social (She/Her)
Pic credit: @bwjones.bsky.social
Pic credit: @bwjones.bsky.social
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
Doing neuroscience in Hawai'i is basically my dream job 🌴☀️
May have aged out by now 🥲
May have aged out by now 🥲
The Department of #Psychology, College of #SocialSciences (CSS), University of Hawai’i at Mānoa is hiring an Assistant Professor in #Neuroscience.
Learn more and apply at: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30707
#academicjobs #assistantprofessor
Learn more and apply at: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30707
#academicjobs #assistantprofessor
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Doing neuroscience in Hawai'i is basically my dream job 🌴☀️
May have aged out by now 🥲
May have aged out by now 🥲
A new sleeping pose, brought to you by Freya of the long legs
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A new sleeping pose, brought to you by Freya of the long legs
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You had a good run. An anonymous fear submitted to deepdarkfears.com/submit - thanks!
Want to pick up some original artwork or a signed book? I'll be at Comic Arts Los Angeles this December 13-14th #cala2025
#comics #deepdarkfears
Want to pick up some original artwork or a signed book? I'll be at Comic Arts Los Angeles this December 13-14th #cala2025
#comics #deepdarkfears
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
You had a good run. An anonymous fear submitted to deepdarkfears.com/submit - thanks!
Want to pick up some original artwork or a signed book? I'll be at Comic Arts Los Angeles this December 13-14th #cala2025
#comics #deepdarkfears
Want to pick up some original artwork or a signed book? I'll be at Comic Arts Los Angeles this December 13-14th #cala2025
#comics #deepdarkfears
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Poetry Comics Month, Day 14
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Poetry Comics Month, Day 14
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boston sent vital assistance following the 1917 halifax harbor explosion (so awful it killed 1700 people), and as thanks, nova scotia has sent us a christmas tree every year. it’s a nice little tradition. this is the first time the boston mayor visited to retrieve it in person
In Canada, Wu helps chop down Boston's Christmas tree
Mayor Michelle Wu spent three days in Nova Scotia, saying she wanted to affirm Boston's relationship with Canada amid antagonism from the Trump administration.
www.boston.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
boston sent vital assistance following the 1917 halifax harbor explosion (so awful it killed 1700 people), and as thanks, nova scotia has sent us a christmas tree every year. it’s a nice little tradition. this is the first time the boston mayor visited to retrieve it in person
Dogs with even the slightest amount of jowls end up with the gooberiest face when they are on their backs. Case in point -
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Dogs with even the slightest amount of jowls end up with the gooberiest face when they are on their backs. Case in point -
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it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
After a year of owning a puppy, this is how I know and recognize my neighbours.
And by neighbours I only mean dogs.
And by neighbours I only mean dogs.
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
After a year of owning a puppy, this is how I know and recognize my neighbours.
And by neighbours I only mean dogs.
And by neighbours I only mean dogs.
Is Toronto/Ontario stuck with cloudy weather cockblocking the aurora? (As per usual 😐😔)
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Is Toronto/Ontario stuck with cloudy weather cockblocking the aurora? (As per usual 😐😔)
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Pardon my suddenly watery eyes, but a long-time regular just stopped in with this.
He'd been reading, found this line, and thought of me, so he wrote it out and brought it in.
"I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller."
📚❤️
He'd been reading, found this line, and thought of me, so he wrote it out and brought it in.
"I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller."
📚❤️
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Pardon my suddenly watery eyes, but a long-time regular just stopped in with this.
He'd been reading, found this line, and thought of me, so he wrote it out and brought it in.
"I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller."
📚❤️
He'd been reading, found this line, and thought of me, so he wrote it out and brought it in.
"I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller."
📚❤️
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CFP 2026 Center for South Asian Studies @uhcsas.bsky.social Spring Symposium
Indigenous Imaginaries of the Commons: Breaks and Continuities in the Historiographies of South Asia and Hawaiʻi
Indigenous Imaginaries of the Commons: Breaks and Continuities in the Historiographies of South Asia and Hawaiʻi
CFP
Call for Papers! In collaboration with Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies we are pleased to announce the call for papers for our 2026 spring symposium. Indigenous Imaginaries of the Common…
southasiasymposium2026.wordpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
CFP 2026 Center for South Asian Studies @uhcsas.bsky.social Spring Symposium
Indigenous Imaginaries of the Commons: Breaks and Continuities in the Historiographies of South Asia and Hawaiʻi
Indigenous Imaginaries of the Commons: Breaks and Continuities in the Historiographies of South Asia and Hawaiʻi
Same feeling as when I found out that Maud Menten was a woman.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Same feeling as when I found out that Maud Menten was a woman.
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Dr. Florence Sabin | Immunologist and educator, born #OTD in 1871.
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Dr. Florence Sabin | Immunologist and educator, born #OTD in 1871.
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
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I think I’m a good traveller because when I’m on the road I (generally) have a low threshold for being delighted by novelty while at the same time having a high capacity for turning lemons into lemonade. If you need someone to tell you why a holiday disappointment is good, actually, I’m your man.
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I think I’m a good traveller because when I’m on the road I (generally) have a low threshold for being delighted by novelty while at the same time having a high capacity for turning lemons into lemonade. If you need someone to tell you why a holiday disappointment is good, actually, I’m your man.
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Granta’s India issue, issue 173, is out, and I am told (I checked, but not all the links) that the pretty darn good selection in it is out of the paywall this weekend only. granta.com/products/gra...
Granta 173: India
For our autumn edition, Granta goes to Modi’s India.
granta.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Granta’s India issue, issue 173, is out, and I am told (I checked, but not all the links) that the pretty darn good selection in it is out of the paywall this weekend only. granta.com/products/gra...
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As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
Listening to music on my morning commute and gonna try to make a list of albums I listen to without skipping songs. Without apologizing for my music taste, I want to see if periods in my life were defined by a particular genre/artist
KT Install - Eye to the Telescope
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
KT Install - Eye to the Telescope
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Listening to music on my morning commute and gonna try to make a list of albums I listen to without skipping songs. Without apologizing for my music taste, I want to see if periods in my life were defined by a particular genre/artist
KT Install - Eye to the Telescope
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
KT Install - Eye to the Telescope
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
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Listen, this GIS-based approach to revising ideas about the Achaemenid Royal Road (550–330 BCE) is a great example of why digital humanities continues to be necessary and transformative within history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis
www.cambridge.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Listen, this GIS-based approach to revising ideas about the Achaemenid Royal Road (550–330 BCE) is a great example of why digital humanities continues to be necessary and transformative within history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Book launch day is here 🚀
How to Change a Memory, in physical and audio form: www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
and here's a preview of one of the book's central themes: memories change and, as a result, we change too🧠.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a...
How to Change a Memory, in physical and audio form: www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
and here's a preview of one of the book's central themes: memories change and, as a result, we change too🧠.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a...
How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
www.amazon.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Book launch day is here 🚀
How to Change a Memory, in physical and audio form: www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
and here's a preview of one of the book's central themes: memories change and, as a result, we change too🧠.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a...
How to Change a Memory, in physical and audio form: www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
and here's a preview of one of the book's central themes: memories change and, as a result, we change too🧠.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a...
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This is phenomenal
Canada's NICE agent greeting Americans disembarking cruise ships is how we mock Trump's dystopianism while making you all feel welcome.
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is phenomenal
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Blue Jays
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Blue Jays
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
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Me putting holds on library books: Ahahaha yes
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Me putting holds on library books: Ahahaha yes
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
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After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 AM
After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.