iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.

A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For the first time in 2 years I finally found time for mushroom foraging.

Paper towel with 3 types of wild edible mushrooms, pink bottoms, gem puff balls and chanterelles

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm sure the cake decorator thought she was correcting my typo, but I assure you this was supposed to say BRAIN

A sheet cake with sprinkles that says Brian Forever

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I finally got around to posting the HHMI Connectomics Berlin conference snapshots: bryanwjones.com/2026/07/hhmi... Some of ya'll are in here.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Tonight I am watching "The Terminator" for the first time. AMA.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Second concurrent symposias kicking off! I'm attending one highlighting the non-traditonal species for understanding the brain, highlighting work in birds, octopi, deer mice and more!

Photo of a stage with a speaker at a podium and three people at a table

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

First full day of the BRAIN Conference 2026! Started strong with Scholar Spotlights, then BRAIN Director John Ngai insists on a brief story before introducing Michael Yartsev kicks off our first plenary talk! #studyBRAIN 🧪

Photo of the stage at the BRAIN conference with Drs. Yartsev and Ngai

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's finally here! Kicking off the BRAIN Initiative Conference 2026 with the Early Career Event with a panel on career pathways in neuroscience. #studyBRAIN 🧪

Stage with 4 people sitting behind a table and one person standing.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Y'all are making me feel a lot less absent minded

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Y'all uh, ever go to the wrong airport? Asking for me.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've got a new chapter out, Insights Into Retinal Remodeling In Retinal Degenerative Disease: bryanwjones.com/2026/07/insi...

A cartoon figure showing a vertical section through retina with the red, green, and blue cone pathways, the rod pathway and the Müller glia illustrated.

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#Zebrafish for the win! Congrats to Jack Nicholls and this beautiful image of lamination in the zebrafish retina 🐟 🧪 See the rest of the Top 10 here: thenode.biologists.com/results-of-t...

Immunohistochemistry of an 8-day post-fertilisation larval zebrafish retina stained with anti-ChAT in red (star burst amacrine cells), anti-PKCα in green (ON bipolar cells) and grey (photoreceptors), with a DAPI counterstain. The anti-PKCα signal was manually separated into the bipolar and photoreceptor cell regions and coloured in green and grey to highlight the boundary between the two layers. Imaged on a LSM800 confocal microscope.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/07/2026

Huge, important job. Comms and leadership at NIH. Please apply. This is public service. “…responsible for planning, directing, and executing nat’l health and research communication efforts…” Civil service SES position. Please share- this one is important for NIH. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

SHOW US YOUR BRAINS! Enter your beautiful brain images and videos into the Annual BRAIN Initiative Photo and Video Contest! Submission closes soon, and all are eligible to enter! 🧪🧠🎨 www.2026brainconference.com/event/44a17f...

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Photo & Video Contest - 2026 BRAIN Initiative Conference

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Household debate of the day, if you entered the dungeon with one of our dogs and that dog would become a sentient crawler in your party, you taking Hank (big baby brute force idiot) or Loretta (tiny vicious trickster)?

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It slowly becomes more difficult to not post things I shouldn't post.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Quilt soap is both imperfect soap and an imperfect quilt.

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 12/05/2026

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” NIH BRAIN Initiative Director John Ngai argues that the future of neuroscience depends on integration across data types, species, technologies, and communities. 🔗 www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-…

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Giving at talk tomorrow at Women in Neuroscience. Stoked to share all the cool things BRAIN has been supporting. Also peep the very old, but still my favorite, headshot by @bwjones.bsky.social neurowomen.org

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Home | Women in Neuroscience

An inclusive scientific community produces better health outcomes.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Momma for mother's day.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Bridging the gap with invasive imaging: promises and challenges of a new generation of ultrahigh resolution fMRI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Same same but different

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Datta Lab @dattalab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks

Weinreb et al. reveal a hierarchy of timescales in mouse behavior, including low-level syllables and high-level behavioral states. States and syllables are encoded in different brain areas. Prefrontal...

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Dana Foundation @danafoundation.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

In partnership with @fens.org and @ibroorg.bsky.social, the Dana Foundation commissioned a survey of past #BrainAwarenessWeek grantees and applicants to better understand how Brain Awareness Week advances its goals. Read the highlights from the survey in the latest President's Perspective. ⬇️

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Strengthening Trainee Skills Through Brain Awareness Week

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Paula Croxson (she/her) @paulacroxson.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I’m so honoured to be featured in Stories of WIN this month - sharing my career journey and how storytelling changed everything for me! 🧪🎙️

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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Always awesome to work with you and your team Bryan!

Xylazine is a a2-adrenergic agonist typically used in as a sedative and analgesic in veterinary medicine. For some years, xylazine has been reported as an additive to fentanyl on the illicit drug market and has been associated with severe side-effects including severe ulcerations and potential amputations at the sites of injection along with an increased risk of respiratory depression and death. We recently reported that xylazine has modest k-opioid agonist activity in vitro and in vivo and asked if other alpha2-adrenergic agonists had similar off-target activities. To test this hypothesis, we profiled US FDA-approved alpha2-adrenergic agonists at 320 G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) to identify potentially deleterious and/or beneficial off-targets. Although all other tested alpha2-adrenergic agonists were devoid of k opioid agonist activity, each had a distinct pattern of activity at various GPCRs and differential patterns of signaling bias at alpha2-receptor subtypes. These findings suggest potential molecular targets for both side-effects and therapeutic activities among known alpha2-adrenergic agonists.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Off to Sunposium tomorrow. Feel free to message me here, on the meeting app or just say hi if you want to chat about BRAIN or NIH.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The brain oscillates and we should figure out why. Development of new analytics will be key: Cross-population amplitude coupling in high-dimensional oscillatory neural time series www.frontiersin.org/journals/com... #neuroscience

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Frontiers | Cross-population amplitude coupling in high-dimensional oscillatory neural time series

Neural oscillations have long been considered important markers of interaction across brain regions, yet identifying coordinated oscillatory activity from hi...

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Have we reached the point where we should be taking Roko and their basalisk seriously?

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Every year I made niche interest based Valentine's Day cards for my partner. They have ranged widely from video games, tv shows, animals. This year, they are Mat Armstrong.

vday card reads "Lets build our love together, Valentine" features Mat Armstrong and a broken car

vday card reads "I would never dam-age out love"

vday card reads "Oh my days, Valentine I'd go anywhere for you!"

vday card reads "I will always stick with you, Valentine"

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Marco A. Maximo Prado @maximoprado.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

#fluorescencefriday distribution of microglia in the whole brain

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Snowtime quilt. I like the pattern and color way. I tried a garland of neurons around the border, I don't think I like it but too late now. Gift for a 'retiring' colleague.

Blue and grey quilt hangs on a clothes line in a snowy backyard.

Close up of corner of the quilt showing neuron quilted border.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Neuroscience is moving away from a modular view of the brain because the brain is not modular. It is network of murmuring neurons. Great metaphor by @pessoabrain.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o... #neuroscience

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Opinion | What Are We Thinking?

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I have finished my quilt x hardcore patch collection and I am proud.

A series of block printed and embroidered patches that are puns on quilting and hardcore bands

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

“adoption of AI in science presents what seems to be a paradox: an expansion of individual scientists’ impact but a contraction in collective science’s reach, as AI-augmented work moves collectively towards areas richest in data...

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

More patches. I think I'll make like 2 or 3 more.

Black and white patches on a cutting mat, patches are a bunch of puns on hardcore and punk bands plus quilting.

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Marija Kundakovic @kundakoviclab.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm working on a jumpsuit to wear to QuiltCon. I've decided to make patches for hardcore bands but make them quilting related. Today I finished the back patch. My partner thinks it's too niche and the overlap between vegan hardcore and quilting is just me.

Stenciled patch with an iron that says "Seam by seam, block by block pressing it all flat"

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

First quilt of the year, starting with creation and hoping to maintain.

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Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

A @statnews.com exclusive from me: Walter Koroshetz, director of NIH's neurological disorders institute, has been ousted. Yet another example of NIH leadership churn. His departure means that 13 of the agency's 27 divisions will have interim leaders. www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...

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Director of NIH neurological disorders institute is ousted, adding to leadership churn

Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will soon be leaving his role, STAT has learned. His departure

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Happy Christmas from the farm. I am thankful for you.

Photo of a pond with rolling hills behind it. If you squint there are two Canada geese swimming on the pond.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Be like the turtles, close up shop, take a rest and do nothing.

Two turtles under the surface of a frozen pond

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