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Brad Walters

@bradleywalters.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist, dad, eternal student

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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Still don't have bluesky in my state, so VPNing in. I'd like to blame that extra activation energy as my reason 4 being absent, but the bigger culprit has been grant writing. Several foundation grants (and a couple federal just in case the government ever functions again)
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Needs a bit of work, but not bad for our first attempt on the new lightsheet microscope... #FluorescenceFriday (again on a Saturday 🙃)
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Upon reflection, I think this is actually from mouse, not rat. This is what I get for using an image file where the filename was coded for blinded counting 🙃
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Again a bit late for #FluorescenceFriday, but here's a decent image of anterior crista from a rat inner ear. The long projections in magenta are stereocilia, which, on crista hair cells, are likely the longest microvilli made by any cells in mammals. They help with balance, movement, and vision.
4 panels show different proteins in an inner ear organ that helps us regulate vision and other muscle movements by sensing how our head moves. In yellow is beta spectrin which is localized in the apical surfaces of the sensory cells, in green is myosin 7a which is expressed throughout the cytoplasm of the sensory cells, in magenta is actin which is most prominent in the stereocilia which are very elongated microvilli-like structures, and the 4th panel merges all of the colors together for a more complete image of the crista.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A good article... www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%... I think there's much more to it than scientists needing to communicate better, but these points are definitely valid and so I will try to communicate them by sharing...
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
What's the Vegas line on Ghislaine Maxwell getting a pardon; then naming a bunch of names (which'll be touted as the Epstein files), and then only drumpf's enemies being named? I know a trifecta should be long odds, but I feel like I should have to pay out at least 5:1 if this doesn't happen.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Superman movie is out. Haven't gotten a chance to see it yet, but it did inspire me to look at some of my collection which is usually hidden in boxes around the house, including this gem...
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Just a dinosaur enjoying the sunrise.
A heron on the beach looking out at the ocean
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Uri Manor @manorlaboratory.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Interview: How a Hearing-Loss Grant Got Cut in the Fight Over DEI
“It felt like the floor dropped out,” researcher Uri Manor said after the sudden suspension of his lab’s award.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Thanks for posting. I left a (perhaps too long) comment. I hope a human reads them and they make a difference.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Here is a good link to watch the meeting and COMMENT www.fda.gov/news-events/...
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Why don't you make like a tree and slowly grow while helping others around you grow too.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
We live in such exciting times! Ai performing surgery! I mean my insurance company's ai will never approve it, but it's so fun to think about.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Forgot to link the source: www.dc.com/blog/2017/08...
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
A favorite poster of mine, originally from 1949, but seems timely as there seems to be some questions about superman online these days...
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Hydrangeas looking pretty good in the back garden...likely need more water and more acid.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Got some new books for bedtime reading with the kids. I believe tonight we start book 2 of Fart Quest (having already rapaciously devoured book 1 in this soon to be literary classic series)
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I feel this so much all the time...
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Wish I was in the DC area to attend this... nasawatch.com/congress/con...
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." Excerpts, the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, et al. July 1776.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone..." "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance."
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them."
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I believe it was the video where drumpf was saying he'd like to deport us citizens. I was reposting so I guess the original poster took it down
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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I really don't know how to respond to this. I think I've written and then deleted at least a dozen posts, but I guess the only thing to say is WTF?
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Republicans: we need politicians who'll run government like a business!! Mamdani: if elected, NYC will start a small chain of grocery stores Republicans: Terrorist! Deport him!!!
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
From my back garden...
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Got an old Leica microscope working again in the lab (with a $50 objective bought on ebay). Can you tell which image is from the $50 objective (and $16,000 camera) versus the one taken on the $600,000 confocal microscope?
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Might be the algorithm, or more likely just how online social media works, wholehearted agreement or vehement disagreement motivates commenting more than "meh, don't have a strong opinion about that"
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Best mascot ever!
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Mr. Musk, I believe this will be MUCH more effective if YOU call my senator and representative. Thx.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Just ordered a refurbished computer with a mid level gpu. Going to do some machine learning at home. And if that fails then maybe my kids will use it for video games.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
A day late for #FluorescenceFriday but here is a video from what we've been working on lately, looking at synapses and axonal "coats" (orange). The presynaptic components are teal and the postsynaptic glutamate receptors are shown in white.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
To anyone questioning why we still need DEI programs in 2025, may I remind you that several states STILL have a paid holiday TODAY for their workers for confederate memorial day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confede...
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Confederate Memorial Day - Wikipedia
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
Tennis Balls xkcd.com/3080
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I know I usually post "aerial" views, but here's a side view of auditory cells from a section of a mouse temporal bone. The hair cells are labeled (green) with a Myo7a antibody and the nuclei of inner hair cells and supporting cells (magenta) are labeled with a GATA3 antibody. #FluorescenceFriday
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Dude, where do you get your comics? I see so many books you post that would cost way more than 5 or 10 dollars at my local shop, and probably not even that cheap on ebay.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Well, I admit that I disagree with the new health secretary on many things, but on removing artificial dyes from food, we are in agreement, and since this is likely to be the only "win" I expect to see healthpolicywise for a while, then let's celebrate it www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/f...
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FDA to phase out dyes used in Flamin' Hot Cheetos, Skittles and other snacks
The FDA is phasing out the use of petroleum-based synthetic dyes in food and drinks.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Putting Easter chocolate to good use by combining it with soy, chilis, salt and spices on an 8lb brisket.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I think the lesson is once you're in the cross hairs you are going to be fired upon. Columbia capitulated and the admin didn't give back their funding. So if u r punished either way, you may as well fight back.
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Been extra busy lately. More pics will be forthcoming. But here is one for #FluorescenceFriday (more auditory hair cells in mouse cochlea but also inner & outer sulcus & spiral limbus)
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I am 6'3, 224 lbs (well 219 @the moment). The other day, I was depressed to discover that means I must have the same physique as POTUS. Today I am feeling extra flattered... www.latintimes.com/chatgpt-decl...
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Eagles Nation @phleaglesnation.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Howie Roseman says the #Eagles won't even scout players who have ever been violent with women: “I won’t even watch them. I don't even want to talk. I can't go 'He’s really good, he did it 10 years ago and he learned from it.” It just doesn't work for us." #FlyEaglesFly (🎥: The McShay Show)
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Brad Walters @bradleywalters.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This.
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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Big win for the First Amendment and journalism today in Mississippi as a judge dismissed a former public official's defamation lawsuit over reporting that went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.
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Judge tosses former Miss. governor’s suit against Pulitzer-winning reporter
Former governor Phil Bryant had sued Mississippi Today for defamation over reports linking him and NFL star Brett Favre to a $77 million welfare fund scandal.
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