Elizabeth Head, Ph.D.

Please build the community by checking out the people in my "With a Little Help From My Friends..." Starter Pack 7 and giving them a boost toward 20,000 Bluesky followers. If you're really in the giving spirit, please repost too. go.bsky.app/RbZ4Q8j

Congratulations to the US Men's Hockey team and to the Canadian Men's Hockey Team - both are stellar - love this post from @mark-carney.bsky.social !!!

Omg

When the forces of racism feel empowered, they weaken our country, our communities, and our morality. We stand up, we lift each other up, we fight for dignity, decency, equality. Please rise up with these fierce advocates in my “You can’t un-post racism.” Starter Pack #2. go.bsky.app/HCYwvXA

"Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime." ~ Albert Einstein

As empathy helps us learn to slow down and meet our loved ones at their pace, we just might give them not only better support but also greater happiness. This can be a kindness to them and to ourselves.

#Alzheimers #dementia #kindness #happiness #empathy #quote

Gasps

A color portrait photograph of Dr. Ingeborg Hochmair, an Austrian electrical engineer and co-inventor of the first microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant. She has shoulder-length light hair streaked with gray, parted slightly off-center. She has warm blue eyes, a gentle smile, and fair skin with subtle freckles. She wears a black velvet blazer or top with a delicate silver chain necklace. The background is softly blurred, showing an indoor setting with large windows and natural daylight, creating a bright, modern professional atmosphere. She looks directly at the camera with a confident, approachable expression.

Ingeborg Hochmair was born #OTD in 1953.

Dr. Hochmair (w/husband, Erwin) designed/developed the first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant restoring useful hearing to those with severe/profound deafness. #wow

1st woman in Austria to receive a PhD in electrical engineering. #WomenInSTEM

Yes!!!

Especially in such troubled times we need to link arms with fierce advocates for the most vulnerable among us. I hope you will find new friends or old in my "Fearless" Starter Pack #6 and
give this pack a boost to help build our community. go.bsky.app/DXxofgo

Very exciting study!!

APOE4

We need to know more about how best to communicate genetic risk for #AlzheimersDisease and #ApoE. Please circulate this survey that is on the #POPPED website so we can get as many opinions as possible...
popped.org.uk/apoe4/

BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.

Oh no.

Congratulations!!!!

I really like this photo - nicely done!

Well done. *nods wisely*

It is the guns.

Like ripping off a bandaid.

I'm glad folks are speaking up - the word has a dreadful meaning and insulting to all people with and without disabilities. But this especially hurts our friends with #Downsyndrome.

And we wonder why most Nobel prize winners are men (and this is not to reduce their accomplishments). I'd love for this to change and for Dr. Bell's story to be an inspiration.

Skyline of Madison, WI

🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence

text of a letter from a man, whose with is living with dementia, thanking the hair stylist for treating her so well

A woman with dementia adored her haircut. Her husband's letter to the stylist is everything.

#Alzheimers #dementia #kindness #Thanksgiving

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

#sciencematters

Ty!

Need to find a way to translate this!

Shingles vaccine most promising common drug to potentially prevent Alzheimer’s  - research A new study has identified three existing medications that could be repurposed to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s disease.  The research funded by Alzheimer’s Society and led by the University of Exeter,...

Shingles vaccine most promising common drug to potentially prevent Alzheimer’s  news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... by @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

#Alzheimers #dementia #shingles #vaccines

Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr Miguel Montez) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Wellcome Trust project led by Dr Miguel Montez and hosted within the Dodd Group at the John Innes Centre.

📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project.

This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes

📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...

PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social

This. This is how you honor our veterans.