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Make it Brain, PhD🧠

@keschoonover1.bsky.social

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Just trying to understand working memory in schizophrenia one postmortem micrograph at a time. I also collect human brains. Asst Prof. WVU➡️UAB➡️Pitt➡️UAB. she/her, opinions mine.

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Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hi yall! I’m Dr. Kirsten Schoonover. I love pups, fish tanks, DSPAN Alums, flowy skirts, fluorescence, and measuring synaptic structures. Just trying to make postmortem research more representative, replicable, and rigorous. Show me your pretty cells!

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Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · May 21

It’s a beautiful day on UAB’s campus 💚

Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · May 21

One of the best parts about working in a hospital system in the south is the Waffle House on campus

Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 30

Sometimes when I’m stressed and can’t sleep I like to imagine myself with Wolverine claws slashing through all of my problems.

It helps.

a man in a wolverine costume is holding a vacuum cleaner in his hands

ALT: a man in a wolverine costume is holding a vacuum cleaner in his hands

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Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 23

When science looks like food: meet Mr. Axon Avocado with a mitochondria “pit”

Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 18

I will never get tired of looking at semi-thins 😍

Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 15

It’s true that I haven’t seen a case study like this. But most people with SZ experience more auditory hallucinations. Could simply be a rarity issue? But there is a lot of visual cortex disruption in SZ, so who’s to say!

Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 14

Making figures doesn’t have to be miserable

Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 14

Making new figures. Would you organize by cell type across hippocampal subregions or group all cell types within each region?

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Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 13

Hot sauce and ranch is NOT THE SAME as sriracha and ranch and yall caNNOT tell me different

Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 10

CONGRATSSSSS THIS IS AMAZINGGG

Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 8

I wasn’t planning on going but maybe I make trip just because 😂

Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 7

I love some good wordplay. Doesn’t hurt that I can belt this shit too 🥰

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Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 7

And she’s got the bug! 🥰🧠

Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Apr 6

My grad student got to see her first fresh postmortem human brain yesterday! Bonus, in true brain collection form, it was a late night dissection. Proud of this little badass group of women!

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Mar 27

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

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Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · Mar 26

Dear salesman at my door peddling lawn and garden services, I'm sorry but that's my load-bearing emotional support hobby and I will not be outsourcing it! 🌱

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The Onion @theonion.com · Mar 26

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

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Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Mar 25

Lolol when you open an email to find you in it

Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Mar 21

Things that make me auto follow an account after only seeing one post for 1200 Alex

In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · Mar 21

An unexpected visit from a water sausage

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 20

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Mar 20

Not sure that Trump understands the US can't do great science with only ideological conservatives and tech bros. There's just not enough talent.

That's one reason why the NIH diversity push was so important: it expanded the talent pool to look like America.

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Make it Brain, PhD🧠 @keschoonover1.bsky.social · Mar 20

The number of times I am disappointed by the search results of “biscuits near me”

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Mar 19

Shared without comment.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Mar 18

This is Summit. He doesn't know why he would simply sit when he can boing instead. 13/10

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · Mar 18

I have been saying this for weeks:

“The only possible way for American institutions to survive this administration is for them to collectively bargain, like unions, and to come to one another’s defense.” Imagine if all the universities united and took a stand rather than complying with Yahtzees.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Mar 17

I wrote about the only way to survive the attack on academia and the mainstream media

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Trump’s Assault Demands a United Front

The president’s strategy for attacking the media and academia is to divide and conquer. There’s a solution to that.

www.vanityfair.com

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