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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Whether you're in the room or tuning in from across the globe, #BINW25 is for YOU! 🌍 In-person perks: exclusive socials & awards ✨ Online perks: powerful panels & keynotes 💻 Let’s celebrate #5YearsOfBIN, side by side or screen to screen 💛🖤 Register to attend or present a poster at the links below!

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Liz Leininger @ecleininger.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

St. Mary’s College of Maryland (Maryland’s Public Honors College) is hiring an Assist’ Prof of Neuroscience! We seek teacher-scholars who are excited to teach across the curriculum and mentor undergrads in research, within our excellent rodent facility. Apply by 9/12: www.smcm.edu/hr/smcm-job/...

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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience - Office of Human Resources

The Neuroscience Program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland is accepting applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, beginning August 2026. Specifically, we seek applicants w...

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Maxwell Madden @maxwellmadden.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Excited my PhD work in @brianmathur.bsky.social’s lab is now published and available!

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Dr. Aparna Shah 🧠 👩‍🔬 @neuromusings.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Neuroimmunology is advancing rapidly & belongs in undergrad (neuro/bio/immuno etc.) curricula. If you're planning a course or a module, @ecleininger.bsky.social, Sumali Pandey, & I have developed a curriculum using core concepts in neuro. and immunology, & curated resources to help you get started!

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Paul Katz @pkatz.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The Neural Systems & Behavior Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory is going to be looking for a co-director. If you're a faculty member who is interested in helping to organize and run this incredible course, submit a brief statement and your CV at this website. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

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Faculty Opportunities in MBL Courses | Marine Biological Laboratory

MBL courses bring experts in research and industry to offer lectures and serve as course faculty. To build on this incredible convening power and expand our footprint, we are posting this open call fo...

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Grow Beyond Grades @growbeyondgrades.org · 03/02/2025

📢 We’re writing a book! 📖✨ But instead of working in silence, we’re inviting our community to be part of the process. Join our Community Gatherings on Feb. 8 & 15 (11 AM–12 PM ET)! 📚 RSVP here! growbeyondgrades.org/events/08feb...

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Community Gathering - We’re Writing a Book! (Part 1) — Grow Beyond Grades

Did you know that we’re writing a book?!? Rather than toil in silence until we have a final product, we felt our Community Gatherings would be a perfect way to assemble with trusted community, share w...

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 20/11/2024

Calling undergrad neuroscience educators! 🍎🧬 We're now accepting application for a 4-day workshop (July 21-24, 2025) on developing inquiry-based activities using our open #neuroscience data. 🧳 Travel to Seattle, meals, and $1000 stipend included! Apply by Feb. 3: alleninstitute.org/events/neuro...

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David Buck @dbuckedu.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#Ungradingchat A2: Thinking abt our multiple approaches, perhaps it’s critical we acknowledge the wonderful diversity in our community. We know that learning & assessment are contextual. Do what’s best for you & your students! @susandblum.bsky.social explains… growbeyondgrades.org/blog/the-ung...

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The Ungrading Umbrella — Grow Beyond Grades

While there is plenty of variety under the ungrading umbrella, we have more commonalities than differences. We all agree the current system needs to change, and we all recognize the way grading is int...

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Check out this fly boxing away a parasitic wasp who is trying to lay eggs in its abdomen. I've watched a lot of fly behavior, but never seen anything like this. Makes you wonder how much we miss by studying lab organisms in isolation from their natural threats. Vid from: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

After #POD24, I'm really curious about this: to those who are active users of AI and, particularly, those who are promoting AI in the classroom, how are you accounting for the environmental impact of AI? Shouldn't we address the harms before we widely embrace this in education?

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Joseph D. Zak @josephdzak.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

New timeline, so I get to share some of my favorite science images again. 1) Sparsely labeled pyramidal cells in cortex. #neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Debarghya Dutta Banik @ddbanik.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

First try at #FluorescenceFriday on this platform! Mechanosensory fiber network in duodenal villi! #mechanosensation #neuroscience

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Liz Leininger @ecleininger.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Happy to be included in this alternative #assessment starter pack! 6 years at a narrative evaluation-based college forever changed how I think about teaching, learning, and assessment. Now I’m using various modes like #specsgrading and #ungrading in my Neuroscience and First-Year Seminar courses.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

*Lecturer is a "media commentator" with an anti-woke ax to grind and no real qualifications to teach students *Students said content was one-sided, so much for intellectual diversity *This is the vision for higher education

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Dr. Nikki Crowley @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Penn State has an amazing PhD program in #neuroscience! Send passionate students our way - application deadline is December 15th Learn more about the program here: lnkd.in/etcXA-re & check out fee waivers for schools in the Big10 academic alliance here: lnkd.in/eAJkRUS4

information on the Penn State Neuroscience PhD Program. a QR code will take you to neuroscience.psu.edu

Information on Centers focusing on neuroscience at Penn State, a quote from a current PhD student, and contact information for the graduate program director Dr. Sonia Cavigelli (sac34@psu.edu)

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Okay folx I made a neuroethology starter pack. Feel free to suggest additions, including yourself! #neuroskyence go.bsky.app/786g88C

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

After striking out on X, I will try posting an ad for MSc and PhD students here: Our lab is looking for applicants interested in how and why brain anatomy varies within and across bird species. Our ad on Evoldir is here: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... #neuroskyence #evolution #birds

A brain section showing neurons stained black. Their cell bodies and projections are visible.

A purple-pink stained section through a pigeon brain. The cell nuclei are stained purple-pink and vary in density across the tissue.

A 3D reconstruction of the skull of a night parrot. The braincase is semitransparent, showing the reconstructed brain in a slightly darker colour.

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Liz Leininger @ecleininger.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Are you attending your first Society for Neuroscience conference next month? Or any conference for that matter? Check out this guide to attending your first #STEM conference! Advice for trainees AND mentors! 👇👇👇 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Ten simple rules for attending your first conference

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

🤔 Who could've predicted that a univ prez previously known for blocking faculty members from testifying in court and signing amicus briefs b/c they might be deemed "adverse to the state of Florida" might now oversee censorship of dorm room doors in their fancy new gig? www.aaup.org/report/repor...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

There is no doubt “Project 2025” would transform America into a much nastier, much more dangerous, much more hostile place for anyone who dares to deviate from the white Christian patriarchal order. Those are the stakes. More here – please consider subscribing:

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What “Project 2025” Would Do to America

The Right has developed concrete plans to make America into a much nastier place for anyone who dares to deviate from the white Christian patriarchal order. That’s what is on the ballot in November

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Dorothy Whoresnack @friendoflwaxana.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Ladies: before you quit your high paying ad exec job in the city and move in with the handsome charming flannel-wearing Christmas-loving man who runs an adorable small business in your hometown, remember to ask where he was on January 6 👀

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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

The political right: endlessly attacks higher education, casts professors as liberal elites and students as Marxist and antisemitic. Also the political right: why is the public losing confidence in higher education? It must be DEI and lady presidents.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Ben Sasse, runs a university in a state where the government regime has actively muzzled the ability of faculty or students to talk about race and gender. Sasse has done absolutely nothing to defend state suppression of campus speech. And The Atlantic editors did not see this as disqualifying.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

From the print edition:

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beloved Mothra @audleyzdarke.myatproto.social · 14/12/2023

After Roe fell, I recall being *expressly* told that anyone who needed an abortion on medical grounds wouldn't be denied and that assuming they would be was irrational and hysterical. And now there's been two stories in the past week of women being tortured instead of receiving medical care.

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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Academic peeps: Read the report or at least the summary. I thought I already had a sense of how bad it was. It’s even worse.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

We’re about to learn an important lesson about who runs the university, and it ain’t faculty or students

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

As New College of Florida Prof. Amy Reid told us, "The contagion is spreading. It’s not just a Florida problem."

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Liz Leininger @ecleininger.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Rufo getting burned by UT faculty is true, good, and beautiful. There’s not enough aloe vera in Texas www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2...

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Ya’el Courtney, PhD @scienceyael.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

I'm also making available the Statement of Purpose that got me an interview (and later acceptance) in Yale's Neuroscience PhD program! Though both were successful, I think this did a better job diving into the science behind my research experiences. yaelcourtney.com/yale #neuroskyence #scicomm

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Liz Leininger @ecleininger.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Fun fact, the “blinders” he has on is a $150,000 salary in exchange for a fraction of the work that an actual NCF professor does.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

"Ban the books, save the Confederate memorials"—new Florida bill proposes to give DeSantis power to remove and fine any elected official involved in the taking down of Confederate and other historical memorials www.tallahassee.com/story/news/p...

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Liz Leininger @ecleininger.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Hello educators who are attending SfN — come to my poster on Saturday afternoon to find out how CrescentLoom helps students learn neuroscience (even when a hurricane fell between the pre and post test!). Get a rad neuroscience decal while supplies last 🪱✨

Computer displaying research poster with bookshelf in background

Screenshot of crescent loom showing a creature and it’s brain and and electrophysiology trace

Decals with themes like Hebb’s Rule, Brainbow, and Reciprocal Inhibition

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

A thoughtful profile of Robin Witt, a trans woman who left her job at a NASA contractor working towards the first moon landing in fifty years to escape Florida's anti-trans laws.

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Forced Out: Anti-Trans Laws in Florida Forced a Woman to Quit Her Dream Job with NASA

An electrical engineer who contracted with NASA fled Florida after the state passed a flurry of anti-trans laws.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/10/2023

I was born in a refugee camp. People in refugee camps are not there by choice, they are in desperate circumstances, many of them are children, and they are defenseless and vulnerable. Refugee camps should never be a target under any circumstances.

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Israel strikes Gaza’s Jabalya refugee camp | CNN

An Israeli strike on the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza caused many casualties, officials in the enclave said Tuesday.

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Liz Leininger @ecleininger.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

This will be a fantastic virtual panel! "Colleges and Universities as Civic Actors" with Margee Ensign and Jonathan Becker Monday, October 30 || 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT register @ the link www.altliberalarts.org/courses/#mar...

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Lectures + Courses — AltLiberalArts

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Being a conservative “intellectual” is so easy, all you have to do is say stuff like: “sure these ideas may seem correct, but have you noticed that many of the thinkers who developed them are black and/or gay?”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Refuo's blueprint, and the latest Conor Friedersdorf piece in the Atlantic

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Fmr Univ of Florida prez Bernie Machen: "One of the crucial lessons of the Holocaust is to 'Never Forget.'...This is a universal lesson...I personally feel the need for this today as I watch what is happening in Florida and across the country relative to Black history and on LGBTQ & gender studies"

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Never Again

BY BERNIE MACHEN The following is the text of remarks by University of Florida President Emeritus Bernie Machen at a naming celebration for the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies at UF on Sept…

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Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Mark my words. Within 5 years, Natalie Portman is going to deliver this line in a movie trailer.

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