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The Cajal Club remembers neuroscientist Barbara L. Finlay, whose pioneering research advanced our understanding of brain development, evolution, and the cerebral cortex. We honor her remarkable scientific legacy, mentorship, and friendship. #Neuroscience #Cajal www.cajalclub.org/in-memoriam-...

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In Memoriam: Barbara Finlay

The Cajal Club remembers Barbara L. Finlay, an influential developmental and evolutionary neuroscientist whose pioneering research transformed our understanding of brain evolution and development, and...

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The third and final component of my exhibition at the USC Brain Health Center is now installed! These Plein air paintings were created in Spain at locations where Santiago Ramón y Cajal lived and worked—capturing landscapes and vantage points he would have experienced in his daily life. #Cajal #Art

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Cajal Club @cajalclub.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We are grateful to @joseadserias.bsky.social and the #SantiagoRamónyCajal digital archive for featuring the Cajal Club and highlighting our history—from our founding in 1947 to our continued presence at SfN and FENS. Thank you for helping preserve and share Cajal's enduring legacy. bit.ly/4pKCGGS

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El Cajal Club: historia, evolución y legado en la neurociencia · Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Historia, galardones y expansión internacional del Cajal Club, fundado en 1947 en honor a Santiago Ramón y Cajal por catorce neuroanatomistas en Montreal.

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Cajal Club @cajalclub.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Congratulations to Marina Pavlou & Marie d'Orange, recipients of the International Awards at the 3rd Edition of the #CajalChallengeAccepted Workshop, Barcelona! Awards support outstanding research advancing regenerative neuroscience inspired by Cajal cajalclub.org/news #Cajal #Neuroscience #Science

This is the award announcement for the Cajal's Challenge accepted that features portraits of Dr. Marina Pavlou (top) and Dr. Marie d'Orange (bottom).

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Blue Cerberus bridges my Spectacle Spectacular and Ramón y Cajal (Cajal Inventory) series. Drawing from Greek mythology and contemporary pop culture, it explores the ways vice can disguise itself as virtue. #ArtRepostJuly #Cajal #ContemporaryPainting #GreekMythology #SciArt #Neuroscience #Allegory

Four Butterflies of the soul at the tope edge frame this vibrant, densely layered painting depicting a fantastical garden filled with oversized flowers, butterflies, vines, and silhouetted black branches that weave across the composition. Several human figures emerge from the colorful landscape, including a central woman in a blue dress surrounded by richly patterned foliage and mythic imagery. The dreamlike scene combines lush botanical forms with symbolic references inspired by Greek mythology and contemporary culture, creating a visually immersive environment that contrasts beauty with underlying themes of temptation and vice.

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Darcy Inventory: Inspired by Ishikawa Toyonobu's 1741 woodblock print Girl Hanging Poems on a Cherry Tree, this drawing reimagines Darcy hanging excerpts from Santiago Ramón y Cajal's final 1934 letter to one of his disciples. Pen and ink. #ArtRepostJuly #SciArt #Neuroscience #Cajal #Illustration

Pen-and-ink drawing of a young woman, Darcy, inspired by Ishikawa Toyonobu's 1741 woodblock print Girl Hanging Poems on a Cherry Tree. She stands with her arms raised, appearing to hang handwritten excerpts from one of Santiago Ramón y Cajal's final letters on the branches of a tree. Her kimono-like garment is composed of colorful symbolic patterns, including stars, botanical motifs, and heraldic imagery. Behind her is a large circular form inspired by Cajal's microscopic drawings, while a compass rose and Cajal's signature appear near the bottom of the composition.

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Created as part of my Fulbright España, these ten drawings reinterpret some of Cajal's most influential scientific discoveries - includes his studies of the retina, olfactory bulb, Purkinje cells, pyramidal neurons, hippocampus, Calyces of Held, and regenerating neurons. #Cajal #Neuroscience #SciArt

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Cajal Club @cajalclub.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The Cajal Club was pleased to recognize Professor Zoltán Molnár (University of Oxford) as the 2026 recipient of the Pinckney J. Harman Memorial Lecture during the Cortical Evolution Conference in Bilbao, Spain. #cajal #evolution #cerebralcortex @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is a video that explains the process of creating the wall coverings that feature my illustration of Cajal's drawing for the University of South Carolina's new Brain Health Center. @uofscprovost.bsky.social @uofscnewsy.bsky.social @cncajal-csic.bsky.social @csic.es #Cajal #CajalDrawings

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

On Juneteenth, I am sharing five works I have created over the years featuring Darcy, a person who has profoundly shaped my life and artistic practice. #Juneteenth #Cajal #DrawingoftheDay #portrait_painting #SciComm #SciArt

This is a portrait of a young African American girl juxtaposed with Cajal's developing neurons of a child.

This is a portrait of a young African American girl in a Spanish dress juxtaposed with Cajal's glial cells.

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UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences @ucsfpsych.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Join us in celebrating UCSF neuroscientist and Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child Psychiatry John L.R. Rubenstein, MD, PhD, recipient of the 2026 Gruber Neuroscience Prize for his pioneering discoveries in mammalian forebrain development.

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Cajal Club @cajalclub.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The Cajal Club congratulates John L. R. Rubenstein, recipient of the 2026 Gruber Neuroscience Prize. His groundbreaking research on forebrain development has transformed understanding of cognition, memory, perception, and neurodevelopmental disorders. #Cajal #Cortex #Neurology #Neuroscience #Science

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Cajal Club @cajalclub.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Cajal Club announces the 39th annual Krieg Cortical Kudos Awards 🧠 Honoring outstanding neuroscience across career stages. Nominations open now—deadline Aug 14, 2026. Awards presented at SfN, Washington, DC. Learn more: www.cajalclub.org/nominations-... #Neuroscience #Cajal #Cortex #SfN

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Nominations Call Krieg Cortical Kudos | Cajal Club

The Cajal Club's Krieg Cortical Kudos commend pioneering work in cerebral cortex research, with accolades for seasoned experts (Discoverer), rising stars (Explorer), and new talents (Scholar), fosteri...

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UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping @ucicncm.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

📢 Registration Deadline Extended – Now June 5 Due to high demand, the 2026 CNCM Conference deadline is now June 5. Extra time to finalize abstracts and register. 🔗 cncm.medschool.uci.edu/2026-cncm-co... Secure your spot soon and we look forward to welcoming you to Irvine this August!

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2026 CNCM Conference – UC Irvine Center for Neural Circuit Mapping

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Cajal Club @cajalclub.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A slight change to the early bird registration. Hope to see you there! Cortical Evolution Symposium: advancing research on cortical development, evolution, cellular diversity, behavior & paleoanthropology. Cajal Club: www.cajalclub.org/upcoming-mee... #Cajal #Neuroscience #Evolution #Neurology

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

What does it mean to draw someone who helped map how the cerebral cortex is built? At the Cajal Club Social during SfN in San Diego, I sketched Pasko Rakic as we spoke about his life, his research, and his early love of art. #PaskoRakic #neuroscience #Cajal #SFN #neuroart #SciArt #neurobiology

This is a portrait of Pasko Rakic by Dawn Hunter.

The photo on the left is Dawn Hunter drawing Pasko Rakic, and the photo on the right is the finished portrait of Pasko Rakic posing with the drawing Dawn created of him

Scientific illustration by Pasko Rakic, Specification of Cerebral Cortex Areas, ink on paper

This is a photo of Dawn Hunter with Pasko Rakic and she is holding the drawing she created of him.

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Cajal Club @cajalclub.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Cortical Evolution Symposium: international gathering advancing research on cortical development, evolution, cellular diversity, behavior & paleoanthropology. International scholars, Invited talks + posters. Follow the link for more info: www.cajalclub.org/upcoming-mee... #Neuroscience #Evolution

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Cajal Club @cajalclub.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The Cajal Club proudly presents the 2025 Palay Award to Hongkui Zeng and Ed Lein of the Allen Institute, who led global initiatives to create comprehensive cell type atlases of the mammalian brain, including the first complete mouse & draft human brain cell atlases. #Neuroscience #Cajal #BrainAtlas

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Laura Bundesen @laurabundesen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

If you need anyone to come sit with you while you’re getting any kind of hours long medical treatment - ask an embroiderer. We love a good excuse to just sit and embroider 🥰

A blue hoop holding a canvas partially embroidered with yellow, orange and green thread in an abstract pattern with some beads and sequins too

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I am pleased to share that I have a solo exhibition of my artwork from my Cajal Inventory series in the West Alcove Gallery, Clinical Center, NIH. The exhibition opened January 13, 2025; will run through April 5, 2025. @institutocajal.bsky.social #Cajal #neuroscience #Neuron #SciArt #CellBiology

This is a collage image featuring seven drawings illustrating Cajal and his scientific works, along with a portrait of artist Dawn Hunter. The top row includes a drawing of the Purkinje Cell, an illustration of Cajal's first sketchbook, and a portrait drawing of Cajal. The second row features a title flyer held beneath a framed drawing of Cajal, a photograph of artist Dawn Hunter in a purple blouse, and an illustration of Cajal's retina drawing. The bottom row includes an illustration of Cajal's retinal flow drawing, an illustration of Cajal's photographic self-portrait, and an illustration of Cajal's olfactory drawing.

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy #Valentine’sDay throwback, look at some of my most beloved artworks, starting w/ “Art Department”—my autobiographical blending #metaphor & #symbolism to reflect my journey from art student to faculty. Its reception exceeded expectations, resonating across #AcademicDisciplines. #ArtSchool #Art

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Valentine's day count down continues w/ highlighting a facet of Cajal. Against the wishes of his family, Cajal was resolved to marry Silveria Fañanás García. She was his steadfast companion & her role in his life underscores the profound human element behind his groundbreaking work. #Cajal #SciArt

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The brain is a pattern-seeking machine, shaping identity through memory, perception & experience. Cajal mapped neurons—the “butterflies of the soul”—portraiture maps the inner self, capturing a moment in time that is both personal and universal. #Cajal #NeuroArt #SciArt @institutocajal.bsky.social

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Throwing it back with butterflies, ponies, and pink ladies for Valentine’s Week. 💕🦋🎠 Cajal saw neurons as “butterflies of the soul,” capturing the fleeting beauty of thought itself. Pink impacts the brain in fascinating ways? Baker-Miller Pink has a sedative effect. #SciArt #NeuroArt #Cajal #Art

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Cajal Club @cajalclub.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The 2025 CNCM conference will take place August 18–20, 2025. Jointly sponsored by the CNCM, Cajal Club & Allen Institute for Brain Science, this event will also feature workshops on spatial transcriptomics. )ur largest conference yet! #neuroscience #humanevolution @alleninstitute.bsky.social

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Cajal Club @cajalclub.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Honoring the legacy of those who've shaped neuroscience. The Cajal Club pays tribute to Duane E. Haines, Dennis D.M. O'Leary & Floyd E. Bloom who expanded our understanding and beauty of the brain. www.cajalclub.org/in-memoriam #neuroscience #neuroanatomy #cajal #cortex @salkinstitute.bsky.social

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In-Memoriam | Cajal Club

The Cajal Club remembers and celebrates the lives of extraordinary neuroscientists who have profoundly shaped our understanding of the brain and nervous system. These esteemed individuals, through the...

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Neurohumanities Network (NHN) @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

6/6 Our final event of the year took place in December where Dawn Hunter took us on an inspiring journey into the life and art of Ramón y Cajal Through self-portraits and photography, we saw how Cajal marketed his work and identity @dawnhunter.bsky.social

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Neurohumanities Network (NHN) @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

2/6 In our inaugural seminar, Dr. Alison Christy guided us through a whirlwind tour of the history of disability and taught us her method for research in medical history, and also suggested why knowing our past is so important @oligoclonalband.bsky.social

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Thrilled that my painting Drip has been accepted into ArtFields 2025 Competition! Drip combines simulated drips & real paint elements, merging 2-D surfaces w/ 3-D paint chunks, serving as a metaphor for the body's plasticity & modern reshaping body concepts. #acrylicpainting #contemporaryart #art

This is a painting by artist Dawn Hunter of seven female figures immersed in an environment of dripping paint.

This is an image of the 2025 ArtFields sticker.

This is a detail of Dawn Hunter painting Drip that features legs and feet of female figures.

This is a detail of Dawn Hunter's painting Drip and it features a face of a female figure and her hair has been created out of chunks of paint.

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Neurohumanities Network (NHN) @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

1/7 ⏰ In case you missed it! Dawn Hunter took us on an inspiring journey into the life and art of Ramón y Cajal during our latest NHN Seminar 📚Born in 1852 in a small rural village in Spain, Cajal showed two lifelong passions from an early age: painting and medicine

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Art train! 🚂 Thanks for the tag @dawnhunter.bsky.social and @thepurplelilac.bsky.social I’ll share some #sciart too (scientists, astronomy and marine mammal & invertebrates 🧪) and tag @flyingtrilobite.com and @franzanth.bsky.social

My linocut print ‘Jocelyn Bell and the LGM-1’ showing the young astronomer in dark grey ink holding a sheet of paper, smiling while looking over her shoulder, dressed in a pea coat, cat’s eye glasses and pigtails. Behind her in green is her famous pulsar dataset like a series of horizontal parallel lines, each with an irregular peak in the middle, resembling a mountain range on a topographical map.

My 9.25” x 12.5” Lino block print of a Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The octopus is mostly bluish with red at the top and on its ear-like fins. Its tentacles are brown and all spiralling up close to its body. The dark water around it is blue-black.

My square 8” x 8” print on white washi paper. The upper two thirds are printed as a deep blue-green rectangle with missing unprinted white silhouette of a humpback whale now filled with a linocut print of the humpback in dark blue-grey. The tip of its mouth and tail extend into the white margin space. The bottom third is a grey rectangle with the missing silhouettes of 6 barnacles unprinted in white now filled with linocut C. diadema barnacles with silver striations and orange centres with opercular valves.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 26/11/2024

Art train! 🚃 Thank you for the tag, @dawnhunter.bsky.social Sharing a few of my creations 🧠 🧪 🎨 - exploring #Memory #NeuroArt and #SciArt Now passing the torch to @artologica.net and @daisypatton.bsky.social - you're up next!

An intaglio etching in dusty indigo blue of a silhouette containing magnified and abstracted imagery of neurons under the microscope.

“Tangled Memories”
Intaglio print with soap ground and spitbite
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Two WSU neuroscience undergraduates talking in front of a wall with eight overlapping paintings on blue dyed kozo paper with portraits of a human neuron in black ink and underneath an installation of large hanging neurons

Blue dyed kozo paper with a large portrait of a human neuron in black ink

Untangled Series painted by Kindra Crick

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Art train! 🚂 Thanks for the tag, @neurobatool.bsky.social . Sharing a few of my #BrainArt creations 🎨—exploring #NeuroArt and #SciArt. #Cajal #Neuroscience #Neurology Now passing the torch to @minouette.bsky.social and @kindracrick.com —you're up next!

Illustration of Cajal's pyramidal neurons of a duck by artist Dawn Hunter.

Illustration of Cajal's first sketchbook from Valencia, Spain, circa 1877. This illustration was drawn from direct observation by artist Dawn Hunter. The sketchbook is open to the pages where Cajal drew neurons for the first time, depicting neurons from a pig's brain.

This is a caricature drawing by artist Dawn Hunter of NIH researcher, Ben White's talk at the Instituto Cajal.

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Thank you, Neurohumanities Network, for inviting me to speak on 12/10 @ 7 PM. I will discuss Cajal's legacy share images from the Legado Cajal, Biblioteca Nacional de España & private collections. Register for the event here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Neuroscience #Cajal #SciArt #Neurology

This is a monochromatic portrait of Cajal in pyramidal neurons by artist Dawn Hunter.

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Catch the First Street Gallery exhibition in NYC, juried by April Gornik, featuring 38 artists nationwide—including me! My piece, Velázquez, Paseo del Prado, is a Plein air of Madrid’s Atocha, Cajal’s neighborhood. Show closes Sat., Nov. 23. Hours: 11am-6pm. 🧠🔬🎨 #Pleinair #landscapepainting #SciArt

This is a Plein air landscape painting by Dawn Hunter, featuring a statue of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez on the Paseo del Prado.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 20/11/2024

I don't think the fact that the top 2 positions on Bluesky are held by women gets enough mention.

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Dawn Hunter @dawnhunter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hi all, thank you for your support after Hurricane Helene. Darcy and I are safe and relocated. Repairs on our home begin soon. I found solace finishing Larry Swanson’s Krieg Award, blending themes of Cajal, Wendell Krieg & personal memories. #Cajal #SciArt #Neuroscience @institutocajal.bsky.social

This is a collage photo of Dawn Hunter and Larry Swanson. On the left is Dawn Hunter holding Larry Swanson's Cajal Club Krieg Lifetime Achievement Award, and in the photos on the right, she is presenting the award to him.

This is the certificate that Dawn Hunter created for Larry Swanson's Cajal Club Krieg Lifetime Achievement Award. It is a unique drawing, inspire by newspapers in Madrid published during the late 19th century and early 20th century.

This is a birds eye view of inside the customized award box, featuring the details of pattern, borders and piping. On the right is the customized purple leather case, with Old English lettering - a nod to Krieg's typography in his books. The leather case holds the illustrated certificate.

This is the front cover of the customized box that Dawn Hunter created for Larry Swanson's Cajal Club Krieg Lifetime Achievement Award. It features her original artwork inspired by Cajal's life and research. The top image is an illustration she created for Cajal's first sketchbook from Valencia, while the bottom image is a surreal portrait of Cajal from her handmade sketchbook.

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