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Spitfire, PhD

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Neuroscientist Stella’s mom and professional photographer 🐶 Scuba diver 🤿 Views: mine 🧿

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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mark your calendar for a virtual workshop on NAMs for studying basic mechanisms of brain aging and AD/ADRD, September 10-11, 2026. #organoids #ipscs #aging #Alzheimers www.nia.nih.gov/research/blo...
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Join Us September 10-11 for a Virtual Workshop on Novel Alternative Methods (NAMs) in Basic Mechanisms of Brain Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
Learn about a virtual workshop from NIA, part of the National Institutes of Health, about the opportunities for using Novel Alternative Methods in research on brain aging and dementia.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Novel Alternative Methods (NAMs) in Basic Mechanisms of Brain Aging and AD/ADRD Virtual Workshop - September 10-11, 2026 www.nia.nih.gov/research/wor...
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Novel Alternative Methods (NAMs) in Basic Mechanisms of Brain Aging and AD/ADRD
NIA will host a workshop about how novel alternative methods (NAMs) can advance research on age-related neurodegenerative diseases.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Trying to find a time for 6 scientists (across multiple time zones) to hop on a call…over the summer:
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Yesterday we had sunny 80 degree weather, a tornado warning, torrential downpour, and power outage. Today? Snow.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Had to spend a half hour in the basement comforting my 70lb house T-Rex because she was scared of the sky boomies 🤣
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
TIL: Naked mole rats are also called “Sand Puppies.” Just…no.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Stella is taking applications for new parents because we had the audacity to give her a bath.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I don’t understand how she’s 2 already 😭
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Stella’s quest to haul off the biggest stick to chew continues
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
It’s 3am, I haven’t slept despite trying every method under the sun, and all I want is to pluck this blob of anxiety-ridden electrified meat out of my skull and punt it into the lake behind the house.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I hate this disease.
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Eric Dane, "Grey's Anatomy" star diagnosed with ALS, dies at 53
In April 2025, Eric Dane announced he had been diagnosed​ with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Stella checking in for weighted blanket duty
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Can’t believe that little bean on the left is now the 67lb moose on the right 😭 Time needs to slow down.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
“Count your days, mom 😒.” -Stella
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Watching her stories
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
If I get mysteriously murdered in my sleep, the culprit is Stella. Motive? It’s -12° outside with an extreme wind warning, and I made her wear her snood to keep her ears warm and protected.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
❤️
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
You’ll never convince me that bully breeds aren’t the biggest babies. Poor Stella just jumped on the couch while staring toward the front door, and was shaking so hard her teeth were chattering. The culprit? Big bad scary snow plow 😭
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If you have cried over the Krebs cycle, you may be entitled to compensation
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Sunday/Monday scaries are hitting hard and this girl just knows. So lucky she picked me to be her mama.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
👀
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
👀 We’ll see how long I can last on here this time before it/life becomes too much again.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Stella got stung by a bee on her paw this morning so she’s been cosplaying as the Pixar lamp all day. First pic she’s definitely saying “Count your fucking days, mom. Better sleep with one eye open tonight.”
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Oof, that was ugly but it’s a start - told my therapist my goal was to get one 30min ride in before our next appointment. The judgmental side eye from my new workout buddy didn’t help though 👀 If anyone needs me I’ll be worshipping the cold floor for awhile.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
If anyone needs tree removal services, just let me know. Stella will gladly do it for free 🤣
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Clonidine + Trazadone + Gabapentin: 100 Stella: 0 and high AF
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🪱
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Love having Black Hill Regional Park as our new back yard. Trail entrance is about 1/4 mile from the house and we have a lake view 🥰
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Packing to move this week and always love rediscovering things. I wish I could go back to being 21 again when my biggest concerns were: 1) Get grades good enough to get into grad school 2) Beat Purdue (and UK) 🏀 #hoohoohoo
Red adidas Indiana University basketball jersey with #40 in white
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Touching grass is not enough I need to walk down a misty forest trail and right into a spider-web at face height
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Zoomies on our long line walk this morning
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
When life gets to be too much I always go back to old dive footage. The ocean is truly my happy place where I can be truly present and nothing else exists. Tidbit: moray eels and spiny lobsters are my biggest sea creature “NOPEs”
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
If not fren, why fren shaped?
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
UPDATE: they released the entire season, I thought they only released the first 3 episodes. 😍😍😍😍
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Everything sucks but at least I have 3 new episodes of The Bear to watch.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Stella and I both snuggled up on the couch having a case of the Sunday scaries (Sunday is her bath day and as for me…everything might as well be on fire).
Grey and tan dog wrapped in an Avengerw blanket
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Going into Friday at 34 six months into 2025 be like:
Lyrics saying “I’ve got eyelids heavy enough to break diamonds, You pray for sound and I pray for silence.”
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Timehop gives me the sads today. Would much rather be diving in Key Largo than here *gestures widely at everything*
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The tick situation in Maryland is so out of control that I’m about 0.2 seconds away from adopting a possum. We pulled maybe 3-4 off of Stella all of last year. This year? There’s at least one every fucking walk and that’s after spraying/wiping her down with dog-safe repellant.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
😭
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
When Stella senses I’m stressed, she’ll sit down and just lean her whole body in to me. ❤️
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Stella just spent the last hour snoozing on top of me with her elbow jammed in my diaphragm. Best hour ever. Dogs are the best.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
At 65lbs, I present to you the best, heaviest, and most expensive weighted blanket I’ve got ❤️
Grey and tan dog sleeping and covered in blankets
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This lil guy was maybe the size of my thumb nail
Tiny tiny toad in some mulch
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Grandfather passed away at the young age of 95 this past Wednesday morning. Not how I hoped my next trip “back home” would be but I hope he’s up there somewhere smoking his pipe, drinking a pint and having some great craic. ❤️
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It’s been awhile, but today I just got to sit and be a sponge soaking up awesome science. I didn’t realize how much I needed that.
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Seeing her happy gives me life 🩷
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Spitfire, PhD @spitfirephd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Saw this lil guy on our walk yesterday and had no idea what it was. Eastern eyed click beatle.
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