Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪
@nicoleackermans.com
Assistant prof neuroscientist studying TBI in headbutters 🐏🐂🐐🪶 at U of Alabama CVN lab.
Science correspondent for DTNS.
I'll happily ID the random bone you found in the woods!
Science correspondent for DTNS.
I'll happily ID the random bone you found in the woods!
I saw a lot of beautiful posters this #SICB2026. Great job on some amazing graphic design!
"Curiously Chromatic" was my personal favorite
"Curiously Chromatic" was my personal favorite
January 7, 2026 at 6:04 PM
I saw a lot of beautiful posters this #SICB2026. Great job on some amazing graphic design!
"Curiously Chromatic" was my personal favorite
"Curiously Chromatic" was my personal favorite
I'm biased but @ananthsrinivas.bsky.social 's talk was so good! I'm a proud PI 🥹. Horns aren't everything, sutures help disperse shock too! #SICB2026
January 6, 2026 at 11:04 PM
I'm biased but @ananthsrinivas.bsky.social 's talk was so good! I'm a proud PI 🥹. Horns aren't everything, sutures help disperse shock too! #SICB2026
The Etruscan shrew is the smallest mammal by mass at 1.2g!!!
It's so smoooolll
It's so smoooolll
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 PM
The Etruscan shrew is the smallest mammal by mass at 1.2g!!!
It's so smoooolll
It's so smoooolll
You're at the club, I'm at the Audubon Nature Center gift shop spending $70 on souvenirs and exploring the hiking trails. We are not the same.
January 6, 2026 at 9:42 PM
You're at the club, I'm at the Audubon Nature Center gift shop spending $70 on souvenirs and exploring the hiking trails. We are not the same.
If you need more headbutting in your life, you don't want to miss Ananth's talk. He's a postdoc in my lab working on the biomechanics of headbutting on skull sutures! 🐐
TODAY 2:45 #SICB2026
@ananthsrinivas.bsky.social
TODAY 2:45 #SICB2026
@ananthsrinivas.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 4:46 PM
If you need more headbutting in your life, you don't want to miss Ananth's talk. He's a postdoc in my lab working on the biomechanics of headbutting on skull sutures! 🐐
TODAY 2:45 #SICB2026
@ananthsrinivas.bsky.social
TODAY 2:45 #SICB2026
@ananthsrinivas.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
More #SICB2026 fashion! Jason Macramder with a fabulous octopus shirt and Marianne DiMarkoTempkin with frog rings and some hand crocheted squids! She's not the only one #KnittingAtSICB
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 AM
More #SICB2026 fashion! Jason Macramder with a fabulous octopus shirt and Marianne DiMarkoTempkin with frog rings and some hand crocheted squids! She's not the only one #KnittingAtSICB
Crab hairclip on Diana Noto, some anonymous shrimp on shrimp action, and incredible duck jacket on Emily Griffith! 🦀 🦐 🦆 #SICB2026
I am envious.
I am envious.
January 5, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Crab hairclip on Diana Noto, some anonymous shrimp on shrimp action, and incredible duck jacket on Emily Griffith! 🦀 🦐 🦆 #SICB2026
I am envious.
I am envious.
If you know #SICB2026, you know the fashion is always unmatched. Starting a photo thread (with permission) because people are missing out, and these fits absolutely SLAY 🧵
L to R: Jill Nash, Sonja Huc, Elias Joseph
L to R: Jill Nash, Sonja Huc, Elias Joseph
January 4, 2026 at 7:28 PM
If you know #SICB2026, you know the fashion is always unmatched. Starting a photo thread (with permission) because people are missing out, and these fits absolutely SLAY 🧵
L to R: Jill Nash, Sonja Huc, Elias Joseph
L to R: Jill Nash, Sonja Huc, Elias Joseph
We learned about two butted-ants from Gregory Pask and how to build "chose your own adventure" lectures. The amount of excitement about science communication in this session is filling my cup ❤️ 🐜
January 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM
We learned about two butted-ants from Gregory Pask and how to build "chose your own adventure" lectures. The amount of excitement about science communication in this session is filling my cup ❤️ 🐜
Look for the horns! 🐐
This is what I look like today. Please come up and say hi! I'm face blind so I may not recognize you and it's not personal. I have stickers 😁
Let's go #SICB26 day 2! Reminder, my presentation is at 2:15!
This is what I look like today. Please come up and say hi! I'm face blind so I may not recognize you and it's not personal. I have stickers 😁
Let's go #SICB26 day 2! Reminder, my presentation is at 2:15!
January 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Look for the horns! 🐐
This is what I look like today. Please come up and say hi! I'm face blind so I may not recognize you and it's not personal. I have stickers 😁
Let's go #SICB26 day 2! Reminder, my presentation is at 2:15!
This is what I look like today. Please come up and say hi! I'm face blind so I may not recognize you and it's not personal. I have stickers 😁
Let's go #SICB26 day 2! Reminder, my presentation is at 2:15!
Last year was my first SICB conference. Everyone was so wonderfully weird and passionate about their research and animal models, I knew I had found my people!
I vowed to be more of my weird self at #SICB2026 so here is me testing that out!
My talk is Sunday at 2:15! & I'll have stickers
I vowed to be more of my weird self at #SICB2026 so here is me testing that out!
My talk is Sunday at 2:15! & I'll have stickers
December 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Last year was my first SICB conference. Everyone was so wonderfully weird and passionate about their research and animal models, I knew I had found my people!
I vowed to be more of my weird self at #SICB2026 so here is me testing that out!
My talk is Sunday at 2:15! & I'll have stickers
I vowed to be more of my weird self at #SICB2026 so here is me testing that out!
My talk is Sunday at 2:15! & I'll have stickers
Cuteness attached
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Cuteness attached