Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Have you ever had a fresh one? The things we get in stores in the US pale in comparison. 000
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 20/07/2026In Seattle, delivery drivers park in the bike lanes next to the wide open loading zones. Somehow I don’t think this is about a lack of space for professional delivery drivers to legally do their job. 121
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? 120
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Very exciting work from a great team of scientists, led by @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social. Check it out! 060
Reposted by Saskia de Vriesallen institute @alleninstitute.org · 02/03/2026Going 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 0116
Reposted by Saskia de VriesMark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 03/06/2025URGENT: 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. 4225253
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 21/05/2025We said goodbye to our sweet pup Hobbes yesterday. We miss him so much. 513808
Reposted by Saskia de VriesAbby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 15/05/2025I 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 241189247
Reposted by Saskia de VriesDavid Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Another 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...science.orgTrump officials take steps toward a radically different NSFEfforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress 15407310
Reposted by Saskia de VriesSophie @sophiefrommars.bsky.social · 10/05/2025if 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 115068
Reposted by Saskia de VriesNima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Last 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?...youtu.beOpening remarks Karel Svoboda & Nima DehghaniYouTube video by Allen Institute 093
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 27/03/2025If you’re at #Cosyne2025 come check out some of the work from the Allen Institute. 071
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 24/03/2025How many authenticator apps does one person need? 230
Reposted by Saskia de VriesAnn 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 316179574183
Reposted by Saskia de VriesAnna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 08/03/2025My 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. 2316
Reposted by Saskia de VriesKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/03/2025The 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. 21827299
Reposted by Saskia de VriesJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/02/2025I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically. 19719163
Reposted by Saskia de VriesRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025On this list: Spokane Not on this list: Seattle 1924442
Reposted by Saskia de VriesThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Over 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/42Wifxrbit.ly‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding fluxTen trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans. 110460
Reposted by Saskia de VriesSherrilyn 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...open.substack.comDemocracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?Yes. And You Can Too. 721398400
Reposted by Saskia de VriesAlt 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. 🧪 710033
Reposted by Saskia de VriesAlt 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. 1249
Reposted by Saskia de VriesAndré K. Isaacs @drdre4000.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Just 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 40412213
Reposted by Saskia de VriesMike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The 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...blog.archive.orgEnd of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs 4803277912104
Reposted by Saskia de VriesLin Tian, PhD @lintianphd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Registration 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 🔬🧠 23717
Reposted by Saskia de VriesMarcus Ghosh @marcusghosh.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Join us in Zambia for the third TReND-CaMinA course: computational neuroscience & machine learning in Africa. 📆Applications open until 15.01. 🧠🧪 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/ 12721
Reposted by Saskia de VriesTakaki Komiyama @takakikomiyama.bsky.social · 07/01/2025663 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...biorxiv.orgTargeted stimulation of motor cortex neural ensembles drives learned movementsDuring 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... 19927
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 06/01/2025What’s your mundane superpower? Mine is accurately pinching a teaspoon of salt. 040
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Applications to SWDB 2025 are due February 1st! Tell all your grad student and postdoc friends to apply! 054
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Spotify managed to shuffle my running playlist such that one song was played every time I ran, leaving me with P!nk’s “Raise you glass” as my top played song, despite it not being remotely close to my favorite song. But the # plays matches my # runs exactly. Obviously I need a new running playlist! 010
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 01/01/2025My running stats aren’t impressive - only 105 miles. But I did manage to run in 7 different cities: Seattle, Lisbon, Paris, Kigali, Woods Hole, Friday Harbor, and Chicago. 110
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Don’t applaud my low carbon footprint too fast, though. I also flew 56,453 miles. 100
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 01/01/2025I 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) 1120
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 24/12/2024I am still not over Celine Dion’s performance at the Paris Olympics. 030
Reposted by Saskia de VriesLuke Sjulson @lukesjulson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Neuroscience 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 🧵youtube.comNeuroscience methods - YouTubeNanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici... 19437215
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 10/12/2024This 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! 🧠🧪 1103
Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Applications 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...alleninstitute.orgSummer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2025The 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. 04418
Reposted by Saskia de Vriessam @samveep.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I 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 👇motherjones.comThis Supreme Court case could change everything for trans rightsUS v. Skrmetti could slow the wave of anti-trans laws—or tell policymakers it's "open season." 16861506