Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 4hGreetings from the "Alzheimer room" at the LMU Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in München This is the very room where Dr. Alois Alzheimer had his microscopy and brain anatomy laboratory setup and, one can argue, where a biological foundation for a brain disorder was first discovered 0112
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“Your Nervous System Needs This” Psilocybin microdosing business in Amsterdam is quite vivacious 112
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Leave the lab for a couple of days to go to the Ashton Shakespeare festival and this emerges on the lab board 🤨 1100
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 16/08/2026also the art scene not too far from the harbor is wild and worth checking 110
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Stumbled upon wild plum trees on my walk/hike the other day and of course went back and picked several kilos of ripe plums. So far I have made pickled plums, compote with rosemary, and plum infused vodka. Other ideas? 3121
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Tis that time of the year when one does not need water or electrolytes on hikes 1100
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 07/08/2026You are giving him too much credit. Our beloved molecule was already ruined in 2003 when the movie DOPAMINE (subheading "chemistry or chemical" 🤮) was released with much hoopla at Sundance 181
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Magical walk on the beech during a super low tide. I met a squadron of pelicans but they flew away before I could take their picture 😊 1190
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 06/07/2026DHA/omega3 maxing with the maximum amount of clotted cream a scone can handle (why one cannot find proper clotted cream in US continues to dumbfound me) 051
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 25/05/2026My first attempt at Oyster Rockefeller and it was delicious Oregon Netarts Bay oysters using a modified Mellisa Clark @nytimes.com recipe 1110
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 28/04/2026“world number one” player named Trump is beaten by an Iranian. What are the odds…😂 130
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Again my problem is that American taxpayers are underwriting this mess Many working Americans don’t even have health insurance (Israelis have very good and mostly free healthcare) and instead we are paying so much for death and destruction and not solving anything 000
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 20/04/2026They are not and neither are many other factions. And I am all for any country fighting against aggressors. But I am against this 👇 especially when Americans don’t have health insurance, biomedical research is being axed etc while our tax dollars go to pay these contractors… 020
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Meanwhile stock up on Dubai Chocolate products if you like it. The pistachio for them comes mostly from Iran Pistachios btw are indigenous to the Iranian plateau with archaeological evidence of consumption dating back to +6500 BC I grew up driving by pistachio fields and no fruit is more beautiful 0170
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I know, right? I feel like I should now start a sleep maxing podcast 😂 120
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Iran rolling out Persian carpets - instead of polyester red carpet - when Eisenhower visited Tehran in 1959 (and no worries that rugs were harmed as properly made Persian rugs thrive under foot traffic) 091
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I don’t know but it is beautiful. Here js another humble scene from Mowlavi (Rumi) station with tiles + Rumi verses 😍 110
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Random Tehran metro stations I guess when you design things for a few thousand years, you get good at it 2301
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Classic example of Iranian grit and intentionality: Sharif Uni may have been bombed but that is no excuse to stop class! Math professor in his bombed office yesterday giving his scheduled lecture online for the randomized algorithm course 0327
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Thanks. I guess the AI database they use doesn’t have the location of synagogues? Let’s hope they have that info now as there are some ancient beauties in urban areas all over Iran. Here is a picture of the Yusef Abad neighborhood synagogue in Tehran that so far has not been hit کنیسه یوسف آباد 011
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Timeline cleanser Tehran yesterday Pictures taken from one of the main entrances of the Grand Bazaar in central Tehran The area has been used for trade for over a thousand years but the current structure dates back to the 17th century Photo credit @hajnooeedin 03410
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Synagogues in Iran are being bombed by Israel on Passover I guess the aim is to destroy the Iranian/Persian civilization? (There are still about 100 synagogues in Iran) 2101
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 05/04/2026One reason many justifiably worry about use of a nuclear weapon on Tehran (city of 10 million) is that the Israelis have been openly talking about it (eg 👇) 0197
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 05/04/2026The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant 👇 has been bombed four times so far. Tehran is over 1000 km away but a radioactive fallout will pretty much abolish life in Gulf nations 32522
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 04/04/2026A woman and her house in Tehran Photo credit: Maryam Saeedpoor 1103
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Tehran today. “Because Tehran lives on. Because Iran wasn’t born in a day” Via fellow Tehrani @arashtehran.bsky.social 1174
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Wonderful conference - one of the absolutely best @sirsofficial.bsky.social meetings I have attended And seeing the incredible art after the conference did not disappoint: breathtaking photographs by (Iranian) Mojgan Razzaghi and beautifully curated exhibits of (Portland raised) Mark Rothko 061
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Dah!!! Only if we had not fired our own experts instead of relying on Bibi (Via @barakravid.bsky.social ) 170
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Timeline cleanser Gorgeous Iranian tile work in Shiraz from Qajar prior (1800s-1925ish) 2454
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Thank you for your thoughtful replies I asked because I find that more and more people here, in their comfortable suburban existence, are justifying and/or ignoring killing of innocent people whose only crime is to have unelected cruel leaders 120
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Kharg Island is home to the ruins of one of the oldest Christian monasteries, a medieval Portuguese fort, and ancient tombs Thank you Alex Shams (U Chicago for this post) PS: while the island is Iran's primary energy export terminal, there are five others 0104
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Heartbreaking My mom and sister (circa 1968?) in Aali Qapu, one of the sites hit today 0221
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The picture above was from our yard ~2 years ago and this is typical of trees/leaves pic emerging from a nearby neighborhood in Tehran today 😞 160
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Correct….but the persimmons and figs are so much sweeter in Tehran Breaks my heart that all those trees are likely covered by oil soot 😔 150
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Agree and everyone must read this new book: The Myth of Red Texas ⬇️ 020
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Speaking of ground troops, time for a geography lesson🤓 The magnificent Iranian plateau is super rugged with massive northeast & southwest running mountain ranges with both ice and (rare) salt glaciers but also two expansive salt deserts (one being one of the hottest spots on earth) 2327199
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Timeline cleanser Handsome street cats of Tehran Circa 2023 0394
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 25/02/2026This, of course, is not surprising. What is surprising is lack of mention of his other Columbia colleagues who accompanied him to Epstein initiated events AND how factions at Columbia neuroscience continued to woo Epstein (eg ⬇️) long AFTER his first conviction of procuring a child for prostitution 2113
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 07/02/2026TGIF friends. Hope next week is better than this wretched week 2281
Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I wonder how much the media is hyping this as “storm of the century.” I lived in the burgh for 13 yrs and personally shoveled 12”+ snow dumps multiple times, and haha did not complain because it was MUCH LESS than the 2’+ nor’easter dumps in New Haven ps: hello from PNW 50+ degree coast line 330