simón(e) 🌑
@simonedsun.bsky.social
hormones \\ neurons \\ genes \\ pdoc @tollkuhn lab \\ hanna gray fellow @hhmi \\ sr fellow @appliedtrans \\ transsexual ándrógýne \\ queering the anthrocatastrophocene \\ alien behind sén \\ simonesun.com \\ () optional, e is not
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Jeffrey Epstein justified his evil actions with "science"
Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women
Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically
Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women
Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Jeffrey Epstein justified his evil actions with "science"
Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women
Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically
Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women
Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
we can make a better world.
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
we can make a better world.
Zara was an inspiration.
Rest now, @weinberz.witchlab.org
We carry on your legacy, a love for biology, SERMs, public transit, academic publishing anarchy… You gifted us with power to speak and be our truth, to be unapologetic in realizing our visions of a better future.
Rest now, @weinberz.witchlab.org
We carry on your legacy, a love for biology, SERMs, public transit, academic publishing anarchy… You gifted us with power to speak and be our truth, to be unapologetic in realizing our visions of a better future.
November 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Zara was an inspiration.
Rest now, @weinberz.witchlab.org
We carry on your legacy, a love for biology, SERMs, public transit, academic publishing anarchy… You gifted us with power to speak and be our truth, to be unapologetic in realizing our visions of a better future.
Rest now, @weinberz.witchlab.org
We carry on your legacy, a love for biology, SERMs, public transit, academic publishing anarchy… You gifted us with power to speak and be our truth, to be unapologetic in realizing our visions of a better future.
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Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.
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Zara Weinberg was a brilliant, loving, and beautiful woman. She inspired everyone who she interacted with, and always strived to make the world a better place for everyone. Tho the world is a little less bright today without her, her memory will always be a blessing.
She was truly one of the best.
She was truly one of the best.
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Zara Weinberg was a brilliant, loving, and beautiful woman. She inspired everyone who she interacted with, and always strived to make the world a better place for everyone. Tho the world is a little less bright today without her, her memory will always be a blessing.
She was truly one of the best.
She was truly one of the best.
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Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
I cannot overstate how much my experience of my experimental results is my internal scientist going "WOAH" and my internal transsexual going "DUH."
October 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I cannot overstate how much my experience of my experimental results is my internal scientist going "WOAH" and my internal transsexual going "DUH."
the insanity of simultaneous
hope and hopelessness
too much and not enough
hope and hopelessness
too much and not enough
October 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
the insanity of simultaneous
hope and hopelessness
too much and not enough
hope and hopelessness
too much and not enough
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There are no words for what Miss Major has done for us. Rest easy.
Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.
Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.
www.ebar.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
There are no words for what Miss Major has done for us. Rest easy.
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Beautiful and inspiring work showing how hormones and social context come together! Big behavior and neuroimaging data! I’m in awe 🤩
Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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September 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Beautiful and inspiring work showing how hormones and social context come together! Big behavior and neuroimaging data! I’m in awe 🤩
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Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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"lmao"
~ Darwin. Probably.
~ Darwin. Probably.
🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
www.nature.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"lmao"
~ Darwin. Probably.
~ Darwin. Probably.
Everybody's transgender, especially the nuclei from my transgender brain cells in my transgender mice. Everybody's transgender.
August 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Everybody's transgender, especially the nuclei from my transgender brain cells in my transgender mice. Everybody's transgender.
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A good explainer on the EO. @kgandersen.bsky.social takes apart the key points.
His main point is exactly right. And we’ll add: politicizing science grants like this will — flatly — kill American science. Science, like business, is choked off by corruption.
His main point is exactly right. And we’ll add: politicizing science grants like this will — flatly — kill American science. Science, like business, is choked off by corruption.
Just to give the TL;DR on this one:
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
August 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A good explainer on the EO. @kgandersen.bsky.social takes apart the key points.
His main point is exactly right. And we’ll add: politicizing science grants like this will — flatly — kill American science. Science, like business, is choked off by corruption.
His main point is exactly right. And we’ll add: politicizing science grants like this will — flatly — kill American science. Science, like business, is choked off by corruption.
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With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
July 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
Good lord, the soundtrack to Clair Obscur is beyond phenomenal. One of the best, if not the best, video game scoring I’ve heard.
July 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Good lord, the soundtrack to Clair Obscur is beyond phenomenal. One of the best, if not the best, video game scoring I’ve heard.
Please, like he doesn't already live there.
Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran
July 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Please, like he doesn't already live there.
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To understand why US science is currently being destroyed, take a close look at this:
The "Abundance 2025" conference is being held in Sept.
It is FILLED with rightwing money.
Most notably the "Foundation for American Innovation," which is funded by billionaires that wish to privatize science.
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The "Abundance 2025" conference is being held in Sept.
It is FILLED with rightwing money.
Most notably the "Foundation for American Innovation," which is funded by billionaires that wish to privatize science.
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July 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
To understand why US science is currently being destroyed, take a close look at this:
The "Abundance 2025" conference is being held in Sept.
It is FILLED with rightwing money.
Most notably the "Foundation for American Innovation," which is funded by billionaires that wish to privatize science.
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The "Abundance 2025" conference is being held in Sept.
It is FILLED with rightwing money.
Most notably the "Foundation for American Innovation," which is funded by billionaires that wish to privatize science.
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y’all, the nyc mayoral primary was just the beginning.
we ain’t fuckin’ done.
we just gettin’ started.
we ain’t fuckin’ done.
we just gettin’ started.
June 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
y’all, the nyc mayoral primary was just the beginning.
we ain’t fuckin’ done.
we just gettin’ started.
we ain’t fuckin’ done.
we just gettin’ started.
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Thrilled to announce I'll be starting my own neuro-theory lab, as an Assistant Professor at @yaleneuro.bsky.social @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this Fall!
My group will study offline learning in the sleeping brain: how neural activity self-organizes during sleep and the computations it performs. 🧵
My group will study offline learning in the sleeping brain: how neural activity self-organizes during sleep and the computations it performs. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Thrilled to announce I'll be starting my own neuro-theory lab, as an Assistant Professor at @yaleneuro.bsky.social @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this Fall!
My group will study offline learning in the sleeping brain: how neural activity self-organizes during sleep and the computations it performs. 🧵
My group will study offline learning in the sleeping brain: how neural activity self-organizes during sleep and the computations it performs. 🧵
Abolish I.C.E.
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
June 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Abolish I.C.E.