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Nicole F. Wong

@strontiumpup.bsky.social
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Patcher of neurons ORCID: 0000-0002-1596-8669

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pretty sure you’d just be collecting a bunch of garbage 😂
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Does anyone else pretend that they’re signing autographs when they’re labeling tubes? Oh, only me… cool, cool, cool…
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Before tonight I had never see a championship. Last time the Knicks won one was 1973. My grandfather let my dad stay up late to watch them win on a 19’ black and white tv. This win has been a long time coming. LETS GO KNICKS! 💙🧡💙🧡
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🧡💙🧡💙🧡😭😭😭💙🧡💙🧡💙
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I’m amazed that Taylor swift healed MSG after Trump stank it all up. Is there anything she can’t do?
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Hope for understanding from my neighbors in celtics nation. 🙏🏻
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The way I just screamed at my TV LETS GO KNICKS! 💙🧡
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Taking circadian rhythm into consideration really means researchers screw up their own circadian rhythm, eh? 🫩
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
That’s because you use a harp to immobilize your slices
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Wow, my h-index moved from 3 to 4! Really moving up in the world 😂
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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a blurred image of a roller coaster with purple lights on the tracks
Alt: a blurred image of a man who fainted while on a zipline
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
New year, more of the same 😭😭😭
“Your 2026 word: mid”
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Lab conversation of the day: How to convince our PI to raise chickens, so I can get a cat.
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
👀 you’ve peaked my interest, who’s out here being sus?
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
lol I know what a ghost writer is, I was trying to say it’s not a thing in our field
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Ghost rider?
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
That’s not a thing either!
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
That’s not a thing
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
In the anime Dragon Ball Z there exists a hyperbolic time chamber, where time is skewed so a year in the chamber would be equivalent to a day spent outside the chamber. I think I’ll need a hyperbolic time chamber to finish all the experiments and writing I need to finish by the end of the year…
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a cartoon character with a blue shirt and orange pants is standing in front of rocks
Alt: Goku from dragon ball z, powering up
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Testing out new toys we got from SfN. Thanks @proteintech.bsky.social and Echo!
Graduate student Masha demonstrating the power of protein tech’s mighty handheld microscope next to Echo’s mini wooden microscopeA petal of a Christmas cactus taken under echo’s wooden microscope
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
If you’re at #sfn25 you definitely don’t want to miss this nanosymposium on cilia, tomorrow from 1-4pm! Come learn about neuronal cilia, they do some pretty cool stuff!
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Wow, when they said it was raining they meant it was RAINing
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I don’t know why I thought a morning flight was a good idea 🫩
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Our resident artist hard-at-work drawing dinosaurs for @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social
Grad student Rommy Sierra showing off her “lab-o-saurus” comics. First panel: dinosaur dressed in proper PPEs, holding a beaker with mysterious liquids, with a thought bubble that says “gee, I hope this doesn’t cause an explosion that leads us to extinction…” panel 2: dinosaur with short arms at a laptop with a thought bubble that says “I can’t actually reach my computer. Panel 3: dinosaur presenting research on “why we should care about comets” with two dinosaurs in the audience saying “I don’t think this benefits us financially”. Panel 4: dinosaur claws ripped through gloves, following panel shows a dinosaur wearing ripped gloves that says “I hate when this happens… PPE is important”
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Wait a second, the marathon isn’t till tomorrow! I got up for nothing!
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
My cousin is about to start the nyc marathon, I guess it’s time to get out of bed…
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
😳
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Thanks @mpfneuro.bsky.social for inviting me out! Had a blast spending the day talking about neuronal cilia!
Title screen “ Homeostatic maintenance of neocortical excitation-inhibition balance by ciliary neuropeptidergic signaling”
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
👀
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Mr. Bumblebee doing the hard work so I don’t have to
Eastern Bumblebee pollenating a lime tree flower.
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
RIP, you served the culture rig honorable
Broken pipe connector from air table
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
6 months later, just like riding a bike.
Successful L2/3 neuron patch recording.
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Legos for adults
Two postdocs building an adjustable 4 post open frame server rack
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I bitterly complained when my cousins made me get up so early, but I get it now. It was so serene to hear the bamboo as the wind blew.
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Totally worth getting up at 5 to avoid the crowds
Arashiyama bamboo forest with no people
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
😮 well jokes on them because im using it to watch the last of us
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Apparently there are some countries that like respect their academics and researchers or something
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Eduroam at the airport is wild
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I fixed the Koehler illumination of the teaching scope at the musée d'histoire des sciences in Geneva. Nice to know my skills can be applicable outside the lab.
Teaching microscope at musée d'histoire des sciences in Geneva
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This view never gets old!
Mountains of les diablerets, Switzerland
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
You best believe a 6 hr time difference wasn’t going to stop me from watching the Knicks punch their ticket to the eastern conference finals! 😱😱😱
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Finally, an emoji for academics 🫩🫩🫩
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Do y’all remember when Trumps immigration policy was just a wall? Yeah, good times.
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I keep getting asked whether I would consider leaving the states and my answer is no. It took four generations of hardship for my family to make it into this country. I can’t just run from the fight now.
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Dan Leman @dpleman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thrilled to share work from my PhD is now online as a preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We show prey capture learning requires V1, enhances V1b tuning to behavior, and induces persistent plasticity in firing rates and spines, gated by homeostatic, rather than Hebbian processes. Read more:
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Rapid prey capture learning drives a slow resetting of network activity in rodent binocular visual cortex
Neocortical neurons possess stable firing rate set points to which they faithfully return when perturbed. These set points are established early and are stable through adulthood, suggesting they are i...
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Nah, I can’t afford hopes anymore. They’re more expensive than eggs!
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I finally figured out what I should use my Thor labs snack box for!
Thor Labs snack box that says “I reused this lab snacks box for Nicole’s hopes + dreams” An empty lab snacks box, absent of any hopes or dreams.
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Yes, and he came with snacks!
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hulk’d straight through my gloves
Hand wearing blue glove with a giant gash through the back of hand
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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I’m not sure why anyone buys an industrial pump when a fish pump does just as well. Just as powerful at a fraction of the price.
A fish pump attached to a collection canister
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