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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 2h

CHECK YOUR ZOOM SETTINGS 👀 The default Zoom settings @ Portland State STILL allow Zoom AI to scrape and steal content from course Canvas sites and share all the data with unidentified third parties 😵‍💫 NO CHANGES YET (and it’s been almost two weeks since PSU was informed) 🙄

Check your Zoom settings:

It’s been almost *two weeks* since this was brought to PSU’s attention. A “fix” is expected after this Tuesday. The situation potentially undermines a required syllabus statement that promises respect for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Acceptable Use Policies.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 3h

They are scared (as they should be) LFG

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 3h

How do you write alt text for art, when meaning and significance depend on who views the work? We bring our own brains to this ambiguous world, but AI companies want exact, one size fits all, unchanging descriptions. There’s such joy and inspiration in discovering what each of us sees 🧠😍

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 6h

Dumped Amazon permanently in 2024 - don’t miss them and never looked back 🤗

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Thank you!! 😍 Huge thanks to all the students, staff and teachers at Kellogg Middle School for such fascinating questions, art making and enthusiasm - Brandan we had a blast! LEARN MORE 🚙🎨🧠🌈💚🤓💨👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/event/64820/

Kids examining noggins and asking questions about brains

Noggin volunteers and students crafting pipe cleaner brain cells

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“What are thoughts? How do we form thoughts? Does brain size relate to how smart you are? How do blind people imagine objects? Why do we feel emotions? Is the brain blue? Is the adult brain smaller because they lack imagination?” 😅 LEARN MORE 🧠🎨🫶🏼💚🤓👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/64820/

Students making pipe cleaner brain cells

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

TODAY (10/15) 😍🎉 #nwnoggin #brainawareness @ Portland Public Schools! 🤓👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/event/64820/ 🚙🎨🧠🌈💚💨 GREAT QUESTIONS: "Why do we need social connections? What is the right amount of sleep? Why do people hallucinate if they don't get enough sleep? Why do some brains want power over others?" 👀

Students examining noggins and asking questions about brains and neuroscience research

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Time to bring back the classics I guess.

Screenshot of scene from the old game Oregon Trail. There is a green graphic on a black background. The graphic is of an ox pulling a wagon and below it is says YOU HAVE LISTENED TO RFK Jr.

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Somebody told their AI agent to do their work for them 😅

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

theguardian.com

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

How many $23 airport whiskeys did this guy from the Epstein files consume before the show - or is this just David Brooks sober? 🙄

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

rollingstone.com

CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Says that guy in the Epstein files? 🤔🙄

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Same 😵‍💫😵‍💫 #useyourownbrain 🧠🧠🧠🧠💚💚💚💚🤓🤓🤓🤓

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

La neurona 🎨🧠😍 Metal neuron by artist Darrin Lane (project for Perception course @ Portland State 🤓

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just discussed ethics and ethical failures in research, including dehumanization, with undergraduates. This is an appalling decision by HHS/CDC and intentionally harmful to children and families 😡💔

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

Thank you!! 🧠🎶🌈💚🎉🤓 Beatles & The Brain with PDX Youth Philharmonic Musical Director David Hattner 😎👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/event/music-... A great time exploring impacts of substances on Beatles music, from amphetamine era to the psychedelic trippery of “I am the Walrus” 😅 Excited to collaborate again 💚

Audience listening to our presentation; NW Noggin brain items in foreground

Images from the Beatles and the Brain presentation

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

TONIGHT 🎶💊🧠🤓🎉!! The Beatles and the Brain: Music and discussion with David Hattner, Musical Director of the Portland Youth Philharmonic 😎👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/event/music-... #nwnoggin #brainawareness #neuroscience #teaching #outreach #goplaces #allvolunteer 🎨🧠🌈💚😃

Paul McCartney, R. Crumb detail, cannabinoids,...

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 09/10/2026

The #NobelPeacePrize for 2026 goes to a person who with exceptional courage and integrity has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order. This year’s laureate Navi Pillay has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Excited to see that we’re replacing new housing with chatbots that tell you to kill yourself

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

THIS FRIDAY! 🌈😍 How do substances influence creative work? We’ll explore the impacts of drugs (e.g., Preludin, cannabis, psychedelics) on the musical journey of The Beatles with David Hattner, Musical Director of the Portland Youth Philharmonic! LEARN MORE 🎶🧠💊🔬🤓👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/event/music-...

Yellow 3d printed brain with the text: We all live in a yellow submarine

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Ana Dorrego Rivas @adorrego.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Indecisive mitral cells or weeping willows? 🧠🌳🔬🧪

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

THANK YOU!!!! What a wonderful day in Portland Public Schools 😍 Fantastic questions from 4th graders, terrific art plus great deep discussions about the neuroscience of memory, sleep and more! 😃 Check out our morning 😃👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin... #nwnoggin #goplaces #allvolunteer 🚙🎨🧠🌈💚💨

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“What are brain chemicals made of? What causes sleep walking? If you split the brain down the middle, would you be two people?” 🤓 MORE GREAT QUESTIONS 😍👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin... #nwnoggin #outreach #art #brainawareness #goplaces #allvolunteer 🚙🧠🎨🌈💚😎💨

Kids learning about electric nature of information flow in neurons and muscles with the human to human interface from backyard brains

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sunnyside! 😍 GREAT QUESTIONS 🫶🏼 “Why do we sleep? Why do people use stereotypes? Why are dreams so weird? What are dreams for?” LEARN MORE 🎨🧠🌈💚🤓👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

TODAY 🚙🧠🎨😃💨!! #nwnoggin @ Sunnyside in Portland Public Schools 😍🥳 GREAT QUESTIONS 😃👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin... #outreach #goplaces #brainawareness #art #brains #allvolunteer 🌈🫶🏼💚🤓

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the prize for their work that helps researchers understand how specific cell types contribute to behaviors like learning, fear, addiction and movement.”

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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 · 04/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

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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