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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 7h

Students asking for MORE in person experiences - more campus-based classrooms, more outreach - and LESS screen time 🫶🏼 Many are aware of what excessive tech does to our brains, economy, democracy - and say they vastly prefer to do things, go places, get involved and connect. 🎨🧠🤓 Kids are alright 💚

Students engaged in learning about neuroscience and brains

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 12h

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What a relief 🚨 Just changed out a “smart,” chatty smoke/CO detector for the dumbest one I could find 😅 Never going back 🤗

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PSU Party in the Park 😎 #neuroscienceclub #brains #art #teaching #outreach 🧠🎨🌈💚🤓 @ Portland State

Students learning about clubs and club activities in the gorgeous South Park Blocks at Portland State

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#nwnoggin 🎨🧠🌈💚🤓 Back in the classroom #brains #art #action and #allvolunteer 😍👉🏼 nwnoggin.org

Students learning about the electrical nature of information flow in neurons and muscle

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine if we had invested in science all the money we've invested in science fiction.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From a discussion of updating a department website...

A photo with baby Yoda and adult Yoda with the caption "Could it be time for a new photo?"

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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My grandparents survived the terrible abuse of the Federal Indian Boarding School Era. That trauma wasn't isolated to the past—it was carried down through my family all the way to me. And there are so many families like my own across Indian Country.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We are thrilled to launch The State of Neuroscience in Latin America, a special report in which we spoke with nearly 50 researchers across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay to capture the highs and lows of doing neuroscience research in Latin America. Explore now: bit.ly/4zGjlvn

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is not something you say if you actually like education or children

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Welcome back!! 😍 #fallterm @ Portland State University #art #brains #brainawareness #outreach #teaching #research 🤓 Northwest Noggin 🎨🧠🌈💚😎👉🏻 nwnoggin.org

Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State - hallway by office and outreach in public schools

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#caute 👀 JOIN US June 25-July 23, 2027 in #chile for more #art #brains #squid #giantaxons 🎨🧠🦑⚡️🌈💚 LEARN MORE 🤓👉🏼 vikingsabroad.pdx.edu/_portal/tds-...

Arpillera reading Caute (caution): depiction of billionaires destroying NIH and NSF

Graffiti in Valpo with dates of Cerebrarte program: June 25-July 23, 2027

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Thank you!” 😃 “My heart sank when I first saw ‘AI’ in your talk title, because we get so much AI boosterism at my college…but learning how brains actually learn is extremely valuable information…” 🧠🤓💚 “Making art was fantastic…a breath of fresh air “ 🎨😃 LEARN MORE 😎👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

RCCA/ATEA conference attendees make brain cells out of pipe cleaners, using their own brains and not AI 😃

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“It was AMAZING! Thank you for sharing this incredible experience with our students!...Thanks for taking time out of your conference visit to come teach our students about their brains...” -Principal, University Middle School, Memphis TN 🧠🎨🌈💚🥰 LEARN MORE 🤓👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

NW Noggin and University of Memphis volunteers making pipe cleaner brain cells with 7th graders at University Middle School in Memphis, TN

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!

Screenshot of a scientific journal paywall

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#noggineering 🎨🧠🤓 Anyone want to sponsor this artwork @ Portland State? 😍

Parking garage turned into retinal circuitry 👀🧠🎨😉

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😍🧠🙌🏼👐🏼🫶🏼🥰💚

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“They claim the current regulations are hindering the kinds of human subject research they’d like to do, specifically taking aim at informed consent requirements. They want to…’reduce administrative burden on investigators, institutions, and institutional review boards.’” 🤯😡🤬 NO 🛑

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19/09/2026

Light of Memory, ink painting on yupo, features a pyramidal neuron layered over a hand-written quote about the shaky nature of memory artologica.etsy.com/listing/4528... #sciart Analog! With cursive writing, even.

ink painting in purple, blue and gray with neuron and half-visible text

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thank you!!! 🎨🧠😍🎉 Awesome questions from 100 middle schoolers in Memphis 😃😃👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin... Thank you teachers, students, staff and outreach volunteers from University of Memphis 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🧠💚🤓🎉 #nwnoggin #brainawareness #goplaces #allvolunteer 💪🏼

Noggin/U Memphis outreach volunteers and middle school students 😃

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thank you 😍🎉!! Thank you Rural Community College & American Technical Education Associations for a night of learning, art making and fun 🎨🧠🌈💚😃 Using our own brains vs. AI 🧠🎨🤓👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

People making pipe cleaner neurons and learning about AI and the brain

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Starting soon 🤓 AI and the Brain 🤖👀🧠💪🏼😎👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#memphis 💚 TODAY (9/16) AI and the Brain 🧠💪🏼🤖👀🤓👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

Statue of Ida B Wells overlooking downtown Memphis 💚

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

JOIN US TODAY (9/16) 😍🎉! "AI & the Brain" 😃🧠💪🏼🤖👀 NW Noggin keynote @ Rural Community College Association/American Technical Education Association conference in Senatobia, Mississippi 🤓 TOMORROW we’ll join UMemphis for outreach 😍👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin... Explore brains & make art! 💚

UMemphis tiger with Noggin sticker in mouth

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I, personally, would never want Ms. Rachel to be disappointed in me.

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

JOIN US THIS WEEK for "AI & the Brain" 😃🧠💪🏼🤖👀 NW Noggin keynote @ Rural Community College Association/American Technical Education Association conference in Senatobia, Mississippi 🤓 PLUS we’ll join UMemphis for outreach in public schools 😍👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin... Explore brains & make art! 💚

Students examining brains and making art - more details at https://nwnoggin.org/

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Packing for Mississippi 😅 #brains #art #makethings #goplaces #nwnoggin 🎨🧠😍 LEARN MORE 🌈💚😎👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Adios #googlechrome 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 Hola @duckduckgo.com 👏🦆 Installed ad & AI-free 💪🏼😅 Little by little 🤓 @newsfromgoogle.bsky.social #googlebeevil 🙄

Bye bye Google: Chrome now in the trash; Duck Duck Go installed AI-free 😍

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So very stupid

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Remember: every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous their products are, you help them raise more investment capital, which is a key input for their business (hooking up statistical engines to money-furnaces): peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-...

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026

So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."

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Laura Bundesen @laurabundesen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Finished and I couldn’t resist adding some bling to the background. An experiment that worked 😉 8x10 ‘Be Brilliant’ fabric and sequins in the kinusaiga style. Hard to capture all the bling in a photograph #SciArt #FiberArt #kinusaiga

A kinusaiga (tucked fabric) brain of many colors with a background of randomly spaced tiny sequins. In the middle of the brain we see the words ‘Be Brilliant’

Same brain as the first photo but from a side view to catch the shine of the sequins

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

JOIN US 😃🧠🤖👀🎉 NW Noggin presents the keynote on "AI and the Brain" at the Rural Community College Association/American Technical Education Association conference this week! 🤓 Examine noggins and make art! 💚 PLUS we'll join UMemphis for outreach in public schools 😍👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

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Opening Keynote
Your Brain Learns What Your Brain Does

Al is changing education. But what happens when we stop doing the thinking ourselves? This opening keynote takes a closer look at how Al systems learn patterns compared with how our brains learn through experience, trial and error, and making things ourselves. Explore where Al can strengthen research and education, where reliance on it can get in the way of learning, creativity, skill-building, and innovation, and what neuroscience tells us about keeping our brains engaged. Bring your curiosity, creativity, and your own brain.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026

Universities are subsidizing internal AI tools that are, from the perspective of the humanities, enabling cheating & cognitive outsourcing. The cost in resources is certainly an issue, but the fact that these tools undermine the work we ask students to do is ridiculous www.umass.edu/it/genai/pla...

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GenAI Platform : UMass Amherst Information Technology : UMass Amherst

The UMass GenAI platform is an intuitive and user-friendly platform designed to provide the UMass community with equitable access to leading generative AI models, including OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic...

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