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Paula Kuokkanen
@paulakuokkanen.bsky.social
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computational neuroscientist studying single cells' signals in the field potential & EEG, #auditory system, #barnowl PI @humboldtuni.bsky.social Berlin | alumnus: jyu.fi , @univofmaryland.bsky.social knitter | sour-dough baker | swimmer | she/her/hän
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Paula Kuokkanen @paulakuokkanen.bsky.social · Jun 28
Delighted to have our newest paper out in #Jneurosci ! We looked at how much a single cell contributes to an auditory-evoked EEG signal. Big thanks to my co-authors Ira Kraemer, Christine Köppl, Catherine Carr and Richard Kempter (all not in Bsky). Here’s how: (1/13)
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · Jun 27
#JNeurosci: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2qzyacanl3gck4zou547d34y" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@paulakuokkanen.bsky.social et al. isolated scalp signals from single neurons in the 1st processing stage of the barn owl auditory pathway, finding that single neurons' contributions to the scalp signal were unexpectedly large, and time-locked to the 2nd peak.
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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d
Taqwa was the only member of her family in the building who survived the bombing.
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Taqwa khaled @taqwasuh.bsky.social · 1d
Two years of genocide💔💔

I lost my six children the youngest, Ibrahim, was only four months old😭

I lost my mother, my father, and my six siblings
And we are still suffering

Don’t leave us
speak about us
We are not just numbers💔

gofund.me/b4901a75
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d
On October 7, as we face the unfaceable horror of two straight years of this, if we think about how impossible it feels to witness, to struggle against, to internalize, imagine surviving it. With a wounded child, living amongst the rubble, unable to afford basic medical treatment.
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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 4d
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Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!!
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 4d
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The most prestigious medical journal in the world, @nejm.org, finally published papers on Gaza’s health catastrophe, describing to the horrors.
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
I'm sad they had to be written.
I'm glad the silence wall is breaking.
#SilenceIsComplicity
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 5d
When war and genocide goes on for literal years, it can be easy to forget the lives that people lived before this horror started. Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social has been trying to imagine rebuilding her life as an architect.
Your help are an investment in rebuild a woman and an architect
My name is Alaa, and I hold a Master’s degree in Architecture.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 6d
Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...
20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call
Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...
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Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · 6d
LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza homes; military intercepts last flotilla boat
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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 6d
New #EatLancet report is out! What does it state? I've watched the livestream so you don't have to. Here's a summary of the findings
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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems
The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...
www.thelancet.com
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Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · 7d
Initial list of the activists and politicians abducted by the Israeli navy on board the Global Sumud Flotilla:

🇸🇪 Greta Thunberg – climate activist
🇿🇦 Mandla Mandela – grandson of Nelson Mandela
🇧🇷 Luizianne Lins – Brazilian congresswoman
🇵🇰 Mushtaq Ahmad Khan – ex-senator.. 🧵1/3👇🏻
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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 11d
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Nesma. Nesma and her husband ran a small thrift store before this. She is now displaced to the South with her three children, Muhammad, 3, Alma, 2 and a baby just two months old. She is also with her parents and sister who has cerebral palsy.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d
Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d
Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 7d
Dr. Jane Goodall has died. What a profound loss.

I once worked with her briefly, the two of us lobbying the Environment Commissioner for a wildlife trafficking action plan.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · Aug 28
House Republicans sent a letter Wednesday asking Wikipedia to reveal the identities of editors it claims have an anti-Israel "bias." It coincides with a similar effort by the far-right Heritage Foundation to "identify and target Wikipedia editors."

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GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel | Common Dreams
The effort furthers the goals of the Heritage Foundation, which has launched a plan to "identify and target Wikipedia editors" using a number of underhanded tactics.
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 19d
Everything is very heavy, extremely heavy on me, endless responsibilities in this ap hard times, I appreciate every single support I appreciate every repost. In this time on my life I supposed to be software engineer and endless ambitions but this world just unfair
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 22d
Here is Jamal from Gaza whose family lost everything and he is trying with all his might to rebuild their lives and help them with the crazy costs in Gaza and travel outside Gaza when the crossings open. I hope you support us. Your little support, even if it is $5

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Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!
Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...
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Paula Kuokkanen @paulakuokkanen.bsky.social · 12d
Schon vor 1,5 Wochen erledigt, und hat sich sofort geloht - COVID im familiären Umkreis und ich konnte mittel-relaxed mithelfen 😷
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 12d
Can you help Soad today? She needs food and shelter and clothes for her and her son Omar. 💔
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Paula Kuokkanen @paulakuokkanen.bsky.social · 13d
💡 bin voll da reingefallen 😂 und leider hätte es mich aber nicht so sehr gewundert dass so gewarnt wird..
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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 15d
“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.”

What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC
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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 22d
🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨

We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:

⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling

If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
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2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 15d
💉 Nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine

A new trial tested a nasal vaccine that combines two components to boost immunity against Omicron. It was safe, well tolerated, and triggered strong antibody protection in humans.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #COVID19 🧪 #Vaccines
Intranasal vaccine combining adenovirus and trimeric subunit protein provides superior immunity against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant - Nature Biomedical Engineering
A combination of adenovirus-vectored and subunit protein intranasal vaccine enhances immune response against SARS-CoV-2 variants in animal models and humans.
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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 15d
Using statistical and machine-learning algorithms, they can determine which features of cardiac output waveforms correlate with absolute blood loss. This is a clever use of machine learning to design sensors that normally don't start beeping until it's too late. 🩺 🧪 source.washu.edu/2025/09/trac...
Tracking deadly and unpredictable postpartum hemorrhage
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are developing a wearable device that aims to track blood loss in pregnant women during delivery, with support from a $2.8 million grant from the Nati...
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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 15d
Visual cognition and attention people, can anyone help me track down a copy of the classic Neisser & Becklen video? I can't find it on Youtube.

@irahyman.bsky.social ?
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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 16d
S-CCS Lab PhD Position

3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...

Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de

Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
Fully funded PhD position via imprs-is A mobile EEG/EyeTracking setup EEG system photographed with backlight and glowing electrodes
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