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Sci prof. Collector of puns. Occasionally emits #sciart 🇲🇽🌮🧠🪇🫔 AKA AizenmanLab. Doing developmental neurobiology at Brown, posts by Carlos, in personal capacity. Very clever with maracas. https://www.etsy.com/shop/Neurodoodles

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · Nov 12

Sometimes I make science/art. These panels were made from images collected from the Brown Neuro department to mark our 30 year anniversary. At some point I’ll get around to printing them on canvases for display in our conference room.

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 1d

Laika.

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 4d

Some street art.

Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 4d

Like at what point did they decide to chop up these saints into little pieces? These ones all belong to the same guy.

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 4d

This is allegedly Thomas Aquinas’s index finger.

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 5d

Ain’t no picnic…

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 7d

Some textures.

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 11d

I was like “hey do you guys have a microscope I could borrow so I could look at those slides?”

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 11d

This is the lecture hall!

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 11d

The Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio, built in 1637 at the original location of the University of Bologna. The university dates from 1563.

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 11d

Wax anatomical models of the brain and nervous system from the 1850s. From the Collezione delle Cere Anatomiche "Luigi Cattaneo", in Bologna.

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 11d

Original microscope slides with silver-stained brain sections from Camillo Golgi, first revealing the fine structure of neurons.

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 14d

The first time I realized how trivial replacing a toilet seat was, and how happy I was with the result, I was like “I should do this every year!”

Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 16d

OK grant finished and passed on to the grants office, just in time for Rosh Hashanah! Let’s go eat some apples! Shana tova to those who celebrate! Happy 5786!

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 16d

Here are some useful basic neuroscience and computational neuroscience resources, many of them free.

Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you everyone for your suggestions! This turned out to be a very useful resource.

For those interested, you can see a compiled version of the suggestions from this thread here: tinyurl.com/kaz445jh

(The wiki page will be updated as we find more resources.)

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · Jul 16

For trainees entering computational neuroscience or NeuroAI from an engineering background, where do you direct them to learn some neuroscience these days? Books, courses, ...?

And no... I'm not interested in scaring them off with Kandel!

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 16d

But Abraham Lincoln did say this upon first arriving at Gettysburg: “If I ever lived in this place, I’d have a Gettysburg address!”

Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 16d

I hate apocryphal quotes. Like if you have a good sentiment, why falsely attribute it to some random famous person that seems would agree with the sentiment? Just own the thing. And no, Kurt Vonnegut didn’t write that commencement speech.

Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 16d

Tis’ the season!

Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 18d

And physicians too.

Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 19d

I don’t know what I was thinking when I created this some time ago.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 19d

Just a few paintings of the 86 billion #neurons which help generate our every sensation & thought.

Untangled Series
India ink, colored pencil on hand dyed kozo paper

Created using the @alleninstitute.org Cell Type Database for references. Which is open to everyone.

#OpenScienceWeek 🧪 #SciArt

Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 20d

Open science is not just for researchers. Artist @kindracrick.com created these beautiful neuron portraits with inspiration from Ramón y Cajal's drawings and reference images from our Cell Types Database.

#OpenScienceWeek

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · Jul 2

Tenochtitlan, today's Mexico City (1524).

The Spanish referred to it as “The Venice of the New World”.

Perched on an island in Lake Texcoco, Tenochtitlan in 1524 dazzled the Spanish conquistadors—who first arrived under Cortés in 1519—with its grid of causeways, drawbridges and canoe-filled canals. Floating chinampas (man-made gardens) supplied food for over 200,000 residents, while grand pyramids and temples rose above shimmering waters—testament to Aztec engineering before the city became the foundation of today’s Mexico City.

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 21d

The story of Al Seckel is truly bizarre. www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

The Illusionist: Al Seckel Has Left the Country

Al Seckel has left the country. But the world’s greatest collector of optical illusions left some troubles behind.

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 21d

The story about how this collection was assembled by a con-man and fake neuroscientist, Al Seckel, says a lot about the world of "celebrity scientists". Well, at least it's now accessible to everyone.

After bizarre journey, prized history of molecular biology archive finds new home

Science History Institute makes public multimillion-dollar collection, including Rosalind Franklin’s famous DNA image, assembled by fake scientist

www.science.org

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 22d

The Mexican Empire only lasted two years, with Iturbide as emperor. In 1823 he was deposed and that was the start of the long and turbulent history of the Mexican republic. As for Miguel Hidalgo, he was captured by Spanish troops in 1911, executed and his head displayed publicly along w other rebels

Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 22d

That elote dog looks delicious!

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