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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 13d

Beautiful and inspiring work showing how hormones and social context come together! Big behavior and neuroimaging data! I’m in awe 🤩

eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 14d

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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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 14d

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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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Sep 4

"lmao"
~ Darwin. Probably.

Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 🐜 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

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Aug 13

call me shallow but this is why i never can bring myself to side with Reed, other than to play through that ending at least once 🤣

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Aug 13

what have you built? i’m on my second play through of both and i can’t bring myself to do anything other than insisting on bringing swords and knives to every fight in a technofascist dystopia 🫨

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Aug 13

is this your first PL playthrough?

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Aug 12

Everybody's transgender, especially the nuclei from my transgender brain cells in my transgender mice. Everybody's transgender.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · Aug 7

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.

Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.

And that's saying a lot.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · Jul 24

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 🧵

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jul 25

thank you for this!

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jul 25

Good lord, the soundtrack to Clair Obscur is beyond phenomenal. One of the best, if not the best, video game scoring I’ve heard.

Screenshot of album art for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 soundtrack. Track currently playing is “Nos Vies En Lumière” from the recent bonus edition of the video game soundtrack.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jul 25

thank you! i’ll let you know 🖤

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jul 25

we’ll chat more this weekend but i’m planning to send in a couple apps next month despite being really early. the current situation isn’t exactly normal so 🤷🏻‍♀️

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jul 25

Not sure what they mean by lead researcher but…

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Lead researcher position : Sensory regulation of behavior and energy homeostasis. - Lille, France job with French National Institute for Health Research (INSERM) | 12840083

Research position leading to a permanent position at Inserm (equivalent to Associate professor).

www.nature.com

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jul 25

🖤 same!

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jul 25

both

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jul 20

Please, like he doesn't already live there.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · Jul 19

Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Jul 10

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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Zach Graves
CO-CHAIR

Zach Graves is executive director at the Foundation for American Innovation, as well as an ex officio member of the board. Previously he was head of policy at FAI, and managed the policy team. His research and writing focuses on the intersection of technology and governance issues, including work to strengthen science and technology expertise and capacity in Congress. Before joining FAI, he was director of the R Street Institute's technology and innovation policy program. Prior to that, he worked at the Cato Institute as manager of new media.

He is currently a fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. He is a member of the Polaris Council, a science and technology advisory board for the Government Accountability Office. He is a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Artificial Intelligence Task Force. In addition, he is a board member of the Institute for Progress.

He holds an MA in aesthetics and politics from the California Institute of the Arts, and a BA in philosophy from the University of California at Davis.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jun 25

consider this: when i presented the number to some members who had been in local NYC politics for longer, i was worried the number was big and they responded with “honey, that’s a rounding error.”

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jun 25

yes! let’s talk how i arrived at the numbers (i did the math for Zohran’s $65 million number)

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jun 25

y’all, the nyc mayoral primary was just the beginning.

we ain’t fuckin’ done.
we just gettin’ started.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jun 25

make philly cover gender affirming care.

it’s not expensive. billionaires are expensive.

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · Jun 23

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. 🧵

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · Jun 17

Abolish I.C.E.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 17

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.

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