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Saskia de Vries

@sejdevries.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈🧠🔬🚴‍♀️ Neuroscientist. Director of Data and Outreach at Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Focused on how we do Science in the Open. She/her.

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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
@seattledot.bsky.social is this your preferred method for addressing these issues? I’ve been using Find It Fix It with zero response on these same issues. Would you prefer the public blast?
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Very exciting work from a great team of scientists, led by @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social. Check it out!
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 02/03/2026
Going to #COSYNE2026? Don't miss our tutorial on our open neural dynamics data resources. 🗓️ March 12, 9:15-10:15am 🧑‍🏫 Presented by @sejdevries.bsky.social 🔗 More info: www.cosyne.org/tutorials @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We said goodbye to our sweet pup Hobbes yesterday. We miss him so much.
A very loved dog being held by his moms on his last adventure to the beach.
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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason
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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
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Sophie @sophiefrommars.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
if a man wanted free reign to attack women he wouldn't try to be seen as a trans woman he would try to be seen as, say it with me class a police officer
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Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Last month, we organized #ODIN2025 @alleninstitute.org (along w Karel, Saskia @sejdevries.bsky.social , David & Satra) with the theme "Integrating Scales & Modalities". See the videos📣👇 Full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🎥 Speaker: alleninstitute.org/odin-symposi... youtu.be/N1IMki0RnIc?...
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Opening remarks Karel Svoboda & Nima Dehghani
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you’re at #Cosyne2025 come check out some of the work from the Allen Institute.
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
How many authenticator apps does one person need?
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” ― Bette Davis Happy International Women's Day
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Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
My speech from #Chicago #StandUpforScience rally today. I wanted to write something that was about why I support science, not as a scientist myself, but as a citizen. This is dedicated to a dear relative, an arborist for the #NationalParkService. 🧵Photos from the rally in Chicago today by Mike Yen.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The temptation to duck & cover & hope the attack passes over us can be strong. But ultimately, they'll come back around for all of us. They are out to destroy the American university, which they view as a threat. So we might as well stand up, speak out, & fight back while we still have the chance.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/02/2025
I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
On this list: Spokane Not on this list: Seattle
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/42Wifxr
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‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux
Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“I have come to wonder whether these expressions of despair and surrender are really masking an irrational longing for a magical way out of this nightmare - a hope that some deus ex machina will swoop down and spare us what we are facing.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“It’s important to see the big picture... [The cut in indirect costs] came directly from a Project 2025 proposal that was explicitly designed to “reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.” This whole piece by @sbagen.bsky.social is excellent. 🧪
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“More generally, this new effort is a direct attack on universities—independent institutions that provide a location for developing ideas and information that do not accord with, and often promote dissent from, the goals of the current Trump regime.” ☝️☝️☝️ That one sentence all scientists must read.
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André K. Isaacs @drdre4000.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Lin Tian, PhD @lintianphd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Registration for the 2025 @mpfneuro.bsky.social Neurotechniques Course closes this Wednesday! Co-directed by Ryohei Yasuda & @denisejcai.bsky.social and led by an amazing team of experts, this hands-on course is a great opportunity to learn cutting-edge methods in neuroscience 🔬🧠
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Marcus Ghosh @marcusghosh.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Join us in Zambia for the third TReND-CaMinA course: computational neuroscience & machine learning in Africa. 📆Applications open until 15.01. 🧠🧪 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/
A poster advertising the TREND CAMINA summer school.
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Takaki Komiyama @takakikomiyama.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Targeted stimulation of motor cortex neural ensembles drives learned movements
During the execution of learned motor skills, the neural population in the layer 2/3 (L2/3) of the primary motor cortex (M1) expresses a reproducible spatiotemporal activity pattern. It is debated whe...
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Applications to SWDB 2025 are due February 1st! Tell all your grad student and postdoc friends to apply!
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I biked 2250 miles this year. 591 was for recreation, the rest was commuting and errands. Compare this to 2951 miles that I drove (half of our shared car’s mileage, probably overestimating my share of the miles)
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I am still not over Celine Dion’s performance at the Paris Olympics.
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Luke Sjulson @lukesjulson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵
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Neuroscience methods - YouTube
Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This was such a fun conversation on open science and collaboration! Thanks @grimalkina.bsky.social and @analog-ashley.bsky.social for having me on the podcast! 🧠🧪
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...
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Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2025
The Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive, project-based residential course with a focus on the neurobiology of sensory processing, coding, and neural population dynamics.
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sam @samveep.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I don't think a lot of cis people, queer or not, realize that this SCOTUS case on healthcare this week affects us all, not just our trans siblings. Because at the core of this is a severe question: Can you ban healthcare? @msjpauly.bsky.social has an amazing legal breakdown to read on this 👇
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This Supreme Court case could change everything for trans rights
US v. Skrmetti could slow the wave of anti-trans laws—or tell policymakers it's "open season."
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Evergreen tweet: whenever 🇺🇸 plays 🇳🇱 in soccer I never know which part of my identity to root for. Turns out I root for the part of me that is us a former goalie. Especially today!
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is due soon! #NativesInSTEM #BlackInMicro #BlackInSTEM #IndigenizeSTEM #LatinoInSTEM (not sure if that last one is the right tag) #BIPOCinSTEM
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/11/2024
If you are a trans person in Illinois arrested, harassed, or discriminated against for using a public bathroom, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Check out these open positions! The neuro community at UW is amazing and I benefit from having awesome scientists and collaborators across the lake!
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Defenseless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. W.H. Auden
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
There is a unique joy when you get asked to provide a reference for someone you think the world of.
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Van Gogh Museum Mass MOCA The Tate - specifically the Turner wing.
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Amy Orsborn @neuroamyo.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
Come be my colleague! UW ECE has multiple openings for tenure-track faculty at both the assistant and associate level. It's a great, collaborative place with a very inclusive definition of electrical & computer engineering. apply.interfolio.com/156207 apply.interfolio.com/156210
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
This is why no matter what people say about shared authorship, everyone will fight for first-first author!
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
@dyfbrain.bsky.social and I are talking about our data platform and metadata schema. Come by and chat! Posters AA11 and AA12. #SfN2024
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
I’ll be at the Allen Institute booth (#1301) this afternoon (2-3pm) to talk to anyone about Allen Brain Observatory data and our Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about either of these things, come by for a chat! #SfN2024
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
people who’ve given birth, can i get a fact check?
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
AMAZING news. Writing to NHTSA to say thank you right now. I think a surge of comments saying YES PLEASE will help to counterbalance the inevitable whining from auto manufacturers.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 20/06/2024
We're counting down the days until TReND's workshop in Rwanda! @sejdevries.bsky.social is part of an Allen Institute team making the journey to CMU Africa. Alongside others, she'll be showing students how to use our open science resources. More about TReND-CaMinA: trendinafrica.org/trend-camina...
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QueersInScience @queersinscience.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Mar 31 is Trans Day of Visibility: to celebrate & recognise trans & gender diverse experiences & achievements. We want to share your thoughts, stories, perspectives, & experiences on anything related to being trans & gender diverse in STEMM! Tell us here: forms.gle/rUsCiXTTZkJo...
Have your say for Trans Day of Visibility!
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