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Simen Bruøygard

@simenbruoygard.bsky.social
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🎓PhD candidate in Baden lab 🇬🇧🇳🇴 Norwegian abroad 👁️Obsessed with spatial processing in vision 🧠Neural circuits appreciator 🐟Zebrafish enthusiast 🔬🧪Research question: How do bipolar cells pre-process information?

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Simen Bruøygard @simenbruoygard.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Norway officially has pro-Putin party, run by Russian assets who feature on RT and used to run a Kreml-aligned fascist "Konservative" party. But this this time they are trying under the guise of left wing rhetoric. They openly want Russia to annex Ukraine, and refused to say who their funded was...
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Nytt politisk parti nektar å oppgi kven som betalar for stor kampanje
Ein massiv kampanje mot norske milliardar til Ukraina-krigen pregar T-banen i Oslo. Lars Haltbrekken (SV) ber kommunalministeren svare.
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Simen Bruøygard @simenbruoygard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A disaster.
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Trump says Crimea to ‘stay with Russia’
“Everybody understands that it’s been with them for a long time,” U.S. president says in Time interiew.
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John Whitfield @johnwhitfield.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
UK universities should be advising students and staff travelling to the US on social media use, what border staff are entitled to seize or search, what to do if detained, and how to keep US colleagues safe, says @petraboynton.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
researchprofessionalnews.com
A safety manual for academics visiting America - Research Professional News
Petra Boynton looks at what advice UK universities should give US-bound researchers and students
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Simen Bruøygard @simenbruoygard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Ask yourself why Russia is excluded from the Trump tarrifs
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Well you’ve got to give Trump credit, he’s really lowering prices on the stock market, that’s for sure
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 02/04/2025
Just watched the President's "Liberation Day" speech. Based on this, I can confirm many Americans will be liberated from: - Being able to afford groceries - Much of their retirement savings - Any hope of buying a home As for lower prices? Just the opposite.
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Simen Bruøygard @simenbruoygard.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Watching Trump's speech on tarrifs, it's idiotic madness. Boycott as many American products as you can. You don't need to achieve anywhere close to 100% coverage to be effective. Think twice and pick a non-US alternative if possible. The future is European.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
i am honestly asking -- have any prominent democrats outside of wisconsin even bothered to mention that the presidents money man (musk) is trying to buy the election there? cause imagine george soros handing out checks and gop leadership not making it *the* political issue of the month?
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I realize this is a race to the bottom, but if Trump can have a third term, so can Obama, right?
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Simen Bruøygard @simenbruoygard.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Americans: You are actively losing your democracy. This is what dictators do. There is no guarantee of an election in four years. Protest! Shout in the street! Discuss the implications of this with your brainwashed friends and families. Do anything! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...
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Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking a Third Term in Defiance of Constitution
President Trump, in an interview with NBC News, said there were “methods” that would allow a third term. The 22nd Amendment prohibits a person from being elected to more than two terms as president.
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 22/03/2025
“Peace demonstrators” in the Netherlands falsely claim to represent Ukrainian voices while campaigning against the Ukrainian government and aid for Ukraine.
kyivindependent.com
Exposed: The ‘Stop Zelensky’ protesters sowing Russian disinfo across Europe
On a Sunday afternoon in mid-February, a small but politically charged event took place in the heart of Amsterdam. A group of eight people gathered for a photo-op protest on the city’s Dam Square hol...
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Really exciting to be living in a fascist state! Thank you everyone who voted for this!
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Simen Bruøygard @simenbruoygard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
We are watching Trump make the same mistakes Neville Chamberlain made in 1938 with the Munich Agreement. Russia is in a war time economy that it cannot stop, otherwise it's economy will collapse entirely. US may withdraw from NATO. Bleak times. Here's to hoping for a revival of European strength.
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Simen Bruøygard @simenbruoygard.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Monumental step towards true, America-independent collective security between 🇳🇴🇬🇧 today. The Brits trained our resistance fighters under Nazi occupation, and helped liberating us from tyranny. I'm glad to see the solidarity continue against the current facist threat (on both sides of the Atlantic)
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Joint Statement on Enhanced Defence Cooperation between Norway and the United Kingdom
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Simen Bruøygard @simenbruoygard.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Remember this for when in four-years time Trump is refusing to let go of power.
bbc.co.uk
Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator'
The comments comes as the latest salvo in a public war of words between the US and Ukrainian leaders.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
doomsdayscenario.co
Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
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Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN) @zfinmod.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
ZFIN is now on Bluesky!
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Simen Bruøygard @simenbruoygard.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
When was the last time you updated ImageJ👀
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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 27/01/2025
privacy is a human right.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Lots of folks on the Vision Scientists Starter Pack. Vision scientists: Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/3EWSGiv
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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
And for this #FluorescenceFriday, here’s the sequel. Froglet of the same line from the Sweeney lab.
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Pranav Seth @thebuddhabird93.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Let us all be in awe of the anatomical beauty of #avianretina 🐔 Here is a cross-section of a domestic chick #retina displaying some beautiful #bipolarcell and #doublecone markers. Lets do some #FluorescenceFriday Sample from @neurofishh.bsky.social
Green is an ON BC marker; Red is Double Cone marker and blue is our old friend DAPI 🙃
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Tom Baden @neurofishh.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Early vision Neuroscience community, Vol 1 We are talking eyes, retinas, and some of the more ancestral bits of visual brains. No species restrictions. List is close to full, will start building Vol 2 before too long Addition requests, please see link in the below thread go.bsky.app/BotZr1g
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Kevin Staras @kevinstaras.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Mix neuroscience with the seaside! 4 year PhD programme on the UK's south coast at the University of Sussex. Fantastic community of excellent researchers across the neuro field. Apply now. Please RT.
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WorldWideNeuro @worldwideneuro.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Here is a starter pack for relevant #neuro institutions on BlueSky. go.bsky.app/LMFsego Did we forget anyone?
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Gonzalo Aparicio @gaparicio.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Photoreceptors in the retina of a zebrafish embryo. #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #Microscopy #Retina
Apical view of photoreceptors in a zebrafish embryo retina.
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A cool discussion w/ some colleagues from the #NeuroSky community has triggered a new #ComplexityThoughts 👀 Regardless if you work w/ 🧠 or 🧬🧫, often we attack inverse problems in 🧪 w/ methods hiding tons of assumptions. I write about the case of #ComplexNetworks 👇 open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...
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Webvision @webvision.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Check out a virtual symposium on Astrocytes, Microglia and Neuroinflammation in the eye from Harvard's Dept. of Ophthalmology and Mass Eye and Ear on Dec. 5th and 6th. Check out deets below.
Virtual Symposium on:
Astrocytes, Microglia and
Neuroinflammation in the Eye
December 5th-6th, 2024
10:00 am – 4:30 pm EST
Registration:
https://csavevents.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0jAR4WoRQgK5ucCXbEMTaw
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Nicole CL Noel @nclnoel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
An image of a larval zebrafish retina I acquired while testing antibodies. It's a shame my favourite cells, the photoreceptors, aren't labelled! But the inner retina is very striking, and I like that the lens cells are so apparent. #FluorescenceFriday #sciart
A fluorescent micrograph of a zebrafish larvae retina, showing blue, pink, and yellow labelling across the laminae. Outer retina is on the left, inner retina on the right. The blue labelling is restricted to long cells that span most of the tissue (Müller glia cells), pink is many cells in the inner retina, and yellow is largely limited to the synaptic and photoreceptor layers. On the very right of the image is a half-circle, which is the lens.
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Simen Bruøygard @simenbruoygard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Exciting preprint from @chiarafornetto.bsky.social's research on colour vision in zebrafish! Turns out their spatiotemporal vision is mainly built on R/UV cones, and G/B cones provide supportive functions like background subtraction! 4 cones allows more computation earlier in vision! Have a read!(:
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