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Matt Sutterer

@mjsutterer.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist; Midwestern expat; he/him; These are just, like, my opinions, man.

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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Best star trek crew, wrong answers only
The crew of “Galaxy Quest”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I had a T-shirt of this one growing up. Still cracks me up.
The Far Side cartoon in black and white. Cartoon shows a jeep with a man and a woman in safari gear inside. The jeep is  in the middle of a savanna surrounded by lions. One of the lions is next to the jeep on its hind legs using a bent coat hanger to pick the car door lock. Cartoon caption below reads “Drive, George, drive! This one’s got a coat hanger!”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I’ll definitely get rescued, but might lose my sanity in the process.
The cast of the TV show Farscape
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Without downloading any new pictures, what is your energy going into 2025?
Picture of racoon wearing pink glitter crown and an apron, smoking a cigarette, and holding a martini with the caption “It's
been fun but I’m gonna go have an
existential crisis now”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
@labxnas.bsky.social used to have a program called “Two Scientists Walk Into A Bar” where they worked with area bars to host a couple of scientists & just let folks come ask questions. Similar idea of meeting folks out in the community.
Two people behind a high table, one woman with black hair and glasses, one man with blond hair and glasses, next to a sign that reads “We are scientists; Ask us anything!” A third man with dark hair and beard is leaning at the table, poised to ask a question.
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Most of my AI bluesky roast results weren’t very good, but would consider using this tag for my bio.
Screen shot from blueskyroast.com with the following quote “A Midwestern dad joke wrapped in a lab coat, with a side of existential dread.”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I see your turkey and raise you a brie and apricot ice cream turkey.
Brown glazed ice cream cake shaped like a turkey complete turn ribbons on fake drumsticksHalf cut brown glazed ice cream cake shaped like a turkey complete turn ribbons on fake drumsticks. Layers of interior ice cream can be seen.
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Love that DiGiorno encourages the lie we tell ourselves-that we’ll definitely have a slice of pizza with a sensible side salad and not eat half the pizza in one sitting.
Image from back of DiGiorno pizza box showing a slice of pizza with a side salad.
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Not getting into Chicago for SfN until tomorrow because of a friend’s wedding tonight, but wearing my brain cuff links in honor of the meeting (and I don’t get to wear these often)
Picture of my arm wearing a light blue shirt with a silver brain cuff link.
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Who’s gonna be the next mayor of NYC? Wrong answers only
Image of “Vincent Adultman” from BoJack Horseman. Clearly two kids in a trench coat with a broom for one hand
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Set of four screens from X-Men ‘97 showing Magneto talking to the X-Men. Captioning is:

Magneto: Listen up fives
A ten is speaking.
Ororo, can we talk, one ten to another?
Ororo (aka Storm): I'm an eleven, but continue
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Back in my day Bluesky was all furries and Alfs and bears and everything was “What’s Hot”; none of that newfangled GIFs and video nonsense.
Celebrating 10M users
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Matt Sutterer
@mjsutterer.bsky.social
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Yes, but you're missing the Gillette Razor-like attitude of that achievement.
Edited Onion headline (originally "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades") now marked up as "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Eight Photons"
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Post a meme made by you
Blue pon

Blue PowerPoint slide with black header text reads:
 “How to create a Brain ppt
• Design straight from Powerpoint '99
• Classic horrible font
• What are the key features?
• Weird content nobody wants to learn
• Lots of weird terminology to confuse
• Clashing colours to make life difficult for those with visual difficulties

(Clip art picture of cartoon brain with question mark) caption reads: Brain picture”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
New #SfN24 shirt just dropped
Screenshot of x.com account “Shirts that go hard” showing a white T-shirt with a picture of a brain having its gyri and sulci (wrinkles) smoothed out by an iron. Shirt caption is “Life isn’t as rough when brain is smooth”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Not sure about the exact dimensions, but Stanley actually has that market covered as well…
Screenshot of Amazon product page of green Stanley “Tough to tip Admiral’s Mug”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
What’s your sign?
Painted Wooden sign featuring a lady wearing a tiger for a hat labeled “Dysfunctional Grace” with the following bullets:

• Curiosities
• Vintage
Taxiderny
• Postmortem
Antiques

• Oddities
• Fossils
• Skulls
• Dead People
Things

Slogan: “The Only Shop In Ybor, Where Death And Dysfunction Dance in A Graceful Ballet.”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 10/07/2024
“Were-wolverine the vote” is the one I want, but this is one I feel.
Red, white, and blue I voted 2024 sticker showing a stick figure with a non-plussed expression waving an American flag.
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie
Screen cap of WikiHow article titled “How to Achieve Your Dreams” 

Step 1) Lower Your Expectations. Maybe, your new dream can be having $14 in your checking account? That seems achievable for you.

Photo shows person giving a thumbs up while a thought bubble shows that person with their hand on their head is despair.
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
There’s not enough blaseball on that chart. (RIV Blaseball)
Screenshot of the blaseball map from the end of the Expansion Era.
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 19/05/2024
Steve Buscemi in Spy Kids 2 with the all time great line of “Do you think God stays in heaven because He, too, lives in fear of what He’s created?”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
I mean how many rats do any of us need, really?
Apocryphal screen grab from Dr. Who with companion Clara Oswald (played by Jenna Coleman) asking “Is four a lot?” And the 12th Doctor (played by Peter Capaldi)  answering “Depends on the context. Dollars? No. Murders? Yes.”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Thousands of graduate students crying out as they’re forced to go back to the old frustrating ways of coding.
Parody of O’Reilly programming book with Kitten on the front titled “Essential Changing Stuff and Seeing What Happens”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
Truly the academic equivalent of:
Medieval tapestry with dismembered bodies with a figure pointing and the text “HAST ThOV TRIED A MYNDEVINESS WEBINAR?”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
This skeet inspired by getting to use this meme in a chat about meeting planning
Image of the character of Lenard Snart (aka Captain Cold, played by Wentworth Miller) from CW TV Shows Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow with the caption: MAKE THE PLAN, EXECUTE THE PLAN
EXPECT THE PLAN TO GO OFF THE RAILS,
THROW AWAY THE PLAN
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
I still think this would be a good title.
Picture of Facebook memory from Mar 27, 2012:
Free title idea/bad puns for all you affective neuroscience folks: "Set magnets to fun! BOLDly exploring positive emotion recognition using MRI"
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
You’ve been murdered, who do you want on the case?
Data and Geordi from Star Trek: The Next Generation dressed up as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively.
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
If Dr. Doom can be gender-neutral, so can you.
Comic panel showing man and Doctor Doom who is holding a horn. Man is shouting “Do Not Toot It!” Doctor Doom replies “Fool! Doom toots as he pleases!”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
Like sure it’s literal nonsense, but is this any more interpretable? From: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Figure showing cell signaling pathway full of abbreviations (from figure 2 of linked paper)
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
We used to do real science. From: psycnet.apa.org/record/1996-...
Figure 1 from Overmann et al. 1996 paper. Caption reads: “Photograph of human-sized radial arm maze. The 4-year-old subject in the picture is searching for rewards while all eight arms are open. The white table in the foreground is the console from which the entrance doors to each arm could be opened and closed.”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
It always annoyed me doing my PhD in Iowa that West Liberty, IA is in fact located to the east of North Liberty, IA
Google map screenshot of Iowa showing the town of North Liberty, and to the east of it, the town of West Liberty
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Ah yes, nothing quite gives you that dopamine rush like losing your arm in a Technicolor portal.
Screenshot of sponsored Instagram post for “dopamine land”. Picture shows smiling woman in a black t-shirt sticking her arm into a colorful void/illusion.
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
When science meets science fiction.
Screenshot of skeet and reply. Skeet from scientist Eiko Fried quoting article about National Institute of Mental Health (abbreviated as NIMH) funding in schizophrenia research. Reply from science fiction author Adrian Tchaikovsky “Wait…there’s a real NIMH?”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
We appreciate your continued patience during this period of budgetary uncertainty.
Image of magic 8 ball answer “reply hazy. Try again later.”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
I'm an extremely honest thinker who isn't beholden to anyone and has a lot of hands-on life experience at a quirkily wide array of activities.
Photo of character of Kendall Roy from the TV Show Succession wearing pink shirt and brown pants, over the ear headphones and sunglasses
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
It was pretty common among a certain generation of scientists to use comic sans, and while most have transitioned away, there are those who still observe the old ways.
Modified PowerPoint side with blue background with title How to create a Brain ppt. bullet points indicate design straight from PowerPoint 1999, classic horrible font, and a cartoon brain picture.
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Mel Brooks as President Skroob in “Spaceballs”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
“Don’t Turd On Me” is now what I’m going to think every time I see one of those yellow “no step on snek” flags.
Color pencil drawing of state of Minnesota at a 45 degree angle with geese pooping on it from above and a box at the bottom with the phrase “Don’t Turd on Me!” and a picture of an ear of corn.
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Also honorable mentions to tater-tot hot dish (F340) and a photo of a dog (F156) both of which would be excellent Minnesota state flags.
Flag of Minnesota with seal replaced with tater-tot hot dishPhoto of dog on green grass
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Awww i liked laser loon. I’ll take mosquito republic
Proposed Minnesota flag submission F59 with red star and white background and giant mosquito with words “Minnesota Republic” in red
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
When those Sunday scaries hit after falling back…
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
I have a Screaming Goat desk toy that comes in handy for those moments. www.amazon.com/The-Screamin...
Picture of goat toy and book labeled "Screaming Goats-A pocket guide"
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
a fictional character you’d give an invite code to
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
He goes by many names.
Image of green man from 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" with caption "[internally] Green Man is saving your life right now, bro"
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
Marc Summers is just going neighborhood to neighborhood now, huh?
Email subject line that says “FREE: Slime!”
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 01/08/2023
reskeet with an iconic fictional band
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Matt Sutterer @mjsutterer.bsky.social · 30/07/2023
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally
New York Times article with headline “How to Feel Alive Again” blocked by pop-up stating “you’ve reached your limit of free articles”
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