Make it Brain, PhD🧠

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

Making figures doesn’t have to be miserable

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

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

CONGRATSSSSS THIS IS AMAZINGGG

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

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

And she’s got the bug! 🥰🧠

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!

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.

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! 🌱

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

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

Lolol when you open an email to find you in it

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Ah okay, same news. Was worried you’d heard about more.

As someone involved, what have you heard?

Alright yall, buckle up. We’ve got 4.5 hours of tornado watch 🫡

Good morning brilliant science activists! Yesterday was a tough day with the cloture/CR vote. I know many of us are feeling a lot of negative emotions (sorry, it’s the clinical psychologist in me, I had to). We have a big, long, hairy fight ahead of us. It’s SO important to take care of yourself, and really soak in any joy where you can find it. Celebration and joy are acts of resistance. The point of the barrage of EO’s, change, mayhem is to overwhelm opposition into silence. To make any opposers feel powerless. But we are NOT powerless. This type of authoritarianism is predicated on passive acceptance of a majority of the population—not active support. There are a LOT of active resisters! Resistance can be big and small. You can tap out when you need a second to catch your breath, and tap back in when you’re ready. If you feel hopeless today, I have a reservoir of hope you can tap into. Be mad, be sad, but don’t be hopeless. Because as long as we stand up together, as long as we resist and fight together, there is ALWAYS hope ❤️

Sharing my morning SUFS Discord announcement with everyone, because I think we all need to be reminded that when we stand up together, there is ALWAYS hope.

#standupforscience
#scienceeqdemocracy

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.