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Kevin Wright

@kevinmawright.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist: Dystroglycan, synapses, retina development/function (not necessarily in that order) Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at OHSU. Opinions are my own.

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 16h
This brings the number of Nobel Prize winners that I have shared an elevator with up to at least 10!
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 17h
A: Fuck this guy, no one asked him B: They should do both. Because no one in the trump administration is going to abide by any ethics laws.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Foghorn Leghorn: I Say Boy, That's Funny
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That is a crime against commas
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Basketball Players Shocked Agree
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just found out my university downgraded us from 5TB of onedrive storage to 100GB because of cost structures. We easily generate that much data in a week. JFC.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Sure Jan
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“what are you complaining about? Gas is only two dollars a gallon in the Metaverse.”
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wouldn’t be surprised if we saw the president have a stroke on live tv between now and the midterms.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Shai Hulud Sandworm Emerges in Dune
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Politics is just MadLibs now
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
literally anyone else.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Autonomous Command. Isn’t that a bit of an oxymoron?
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction: Big Brain
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow, all these dividends added up will equal $0
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man was the Attorney General of Missouri, and he can't even be bothered to get the basic facts correct before accusing someone of perjury.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So….nothing?
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Kimberly Beatty @beattylab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please share: OHSU is hiring an Assistant Prof. in the Dept. of Chemical Physiology & Biochemistry. We are looking for a chemical biologist who will apply novel chemical tools in physiological systems. Apply online: www.ohsu.edu/human-resour... (Job # 2026-41667).
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Michel Cayouette @michelcayouette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a postdoc looking for opportunities to present your latest results, apply to our Early-Career Scientists Seminar Series (ECS3) to get invited to our Institute, all expenses paid. A unique opportunity! Apply here: www.ircm.qc.ca/en/ecs3
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wow, just imagine if you were in a position to do anything about that!
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎵 one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn’t the same 🎶 🙄🙄🙄
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just the dumbest shit. The rest of the world is going to pass us by on so many technological fronts because these morons are obsessed with undoing anything Obama or Biden did. Especially stupid when gas prices are near record highs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/c...
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Gift Article)
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“President’s agenda”? It has been clear to everyone paying attention that trump’s agenda only has items: revenge and self-enrichment. On those two items, republicans in congress have definitely delivered
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m just so tired of this bullshit
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just in case you thought you were having a rough day
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Bluesky User Surprised Fascists Won’t Fund His R01
CAMBRIDGE, MA—Molecular biologist and social media influencer Dr.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump might not be able to negotiate anything for rare earth elements, but at least we’re getting pandas? #somuchwinning
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is how it should be framed all day, every day. The average person really cannot comprehend a couple of billion dollars. But 1 million per hour? That shit is CRAZY.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DHS voter fraud claims were all bullshit? Considered me shocked!
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a lot to say about this, and other folks are saying most of it. I just want to focus on one thing: the claim about the relationship between universities and "the real world."
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Meike van der Heijden @meikeesther.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New Preprint: Competitive Olivocerebellar Input Selection Promotes Resilient Circuit Formation -- Join the ride for some developmental neuroscience, stay for some pretty pictures. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Competitive Olivocerebellar Input Selection Promotes Resilient Circuit Formation
Many neural circuits undergo competitive input selection, a process in which supernumerary connections compete for innervation territory on target cells. This process can create atypical circuits when...
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh. Ok.
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's a shame no chemist ever came up with the idea to say "I'm working on something that might kill all of humanity, so please give me several billion dollars so I can stop myself" That feels like something that should've been right up our alley
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I used to think that academics were bad about updating their website photos. These are from the Senate Appropriations Committee...
Outdated photos of Senators Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell from the Senate Appropriations Committee website.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I fully expect at least 2-3 of these “amazing deals” for farmers and red states per day until the midterms. And of course none of them will ever happen.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Suddenly very nervous for my flight into IAD next week 😬
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Patrick Kerstein @patrickkerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A new paper came out this week from our lab in @devbiol.bsky.social. This was work I started as a post-doc with @kevinmawright.bsky.social. Here, we investigated the role of Gbx2 and Robo receptors in dendrite stratification of amacrine cells in the retina. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yikes. At least our current political and military leaders are rational and well-informed individuals. 😬 www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I went to Allegheny for my undergrad (many, many years ago!) It was a fantastic place then, and I'm sure it still is!
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They’re about to learn that biology is way fucking harder than “AI will cure all diseases”. Or kill us all first.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Scott out here just stating the obvious: that he is too stupid to do his job.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
if they actually gave a fuck about toxic emissions, they wouldn’t have just eliminated EPA regulations on emissions from power plants.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
we’re gonna spend our scientific money on studying water vapor. Great.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Kelso Reacts with 'BURN!'
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Man, I hope I can fucking retire before this becomes widespread. Probably not, unless I win the lottery 😭
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Daniel Levy as David Rose: Mhmm...Mkay.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mike Johnson sending the House home to avoid a vote on Pete Hegseth’s impeachment is a cowardly disgrace…and another reminder why these anti-democratic, pro-war, pro-Trump, Epstein file coverup enablers and Republican failures need to be sent home permanently.
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