The Nuanced Neuroscientist, MS
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BA Neuroscience, MA Secondary Science Education, MS Quantitative Bioscience and Engineering. Published J of Neuroscience.
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#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.
Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein
Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein
Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
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July 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.
Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein
Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein
Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
‘Lindbergichthys nudifrons (yellowfin notie)…Novel nesting patterns, groups of nests close to each other, were discernible throughout the video footage; These patterns are thought to have evolved as a form of group predation protection behaviour.‘
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Frontiers | A finding of maintained cryonotothenioid nesting sites in the Western Weddell Sea
The Weddell Sea is one of Earth’s most remote and least studied regions. The region around the Larsen C Ice shelf has been largely inaccessible because of it...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
‘Lindbergichthys nudifrons (yellowfin notie)…Novel nesting patterns, groups of nests close to each other, were discernible throughout the video footage; These patterns are thought to have evolved as a form of group predation protection behaviour.‘
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
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‘A second set of channels (voltage-gated potassium and hyperpolarization-activated) regulated the timing of this rebound. In contrast, another channel (GIRK) interacted with inhibitory dopamine (D2) and GABA (GABAB) receptors to prevent rebound bursting.’
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This Week in The Journal
Exploring a Dopamine Neuron and Striatal Circuit
Strahinja Stojanovic, Christopher Joseph Knowlton, Richard Egger-Mackrodt, Johanna Mankel, Josef Shin et al.
(see article e0361252025)
Dopamine neu...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
‘A second set of channels (voltage-gated potassium and hyperpolarization-activated) regulated the timing of this rebound. In contrast, another channel (GIRK) interacted with inhibitory dopamine (D2) and GABA (GABAB) receptors to prevent rebound bursting.’
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
October 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
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Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
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#luminouspursuit #readwithme part 1
October 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
#luminouspursuit #readwithme part 1
October 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
#stem #neuroscience I didn’t put nuance in my title for nothing. Let’s talk about Chomsky and Skinner, Science and Philosophy.
October 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#stem #neuroscience I didn’t put nuance in my title for nothing. Let’s talk about Chomsky and Skinner, Science and Philosophy.
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I just learned about this amazing program that matches high schoolers interested in STEM with mentors, including many past and present NIH trainees. These types of programs are even more important in this day and age. If you're able to help support it, they have a gofundme.
Donate to Support PATHS: Mentorship Program for STEM High Schoolers, organized by PATHS Mentorship
The Program for Advancing The Health Sciences (PATHS) is a Vi… PATHS Mentorship needs your support for Support PATHS: Mentorship Program for STEM High Schoolers
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October 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I just learned about this amazing program that matches high schoolers interested in STEM with mentors, including many past and present NIH trainees. These types of programs are even more important in this day and age. If you're able to help support it, they have a gofundme.
#luminouspursuit #readwithme part 1
October 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
#luminouspursuit #readwithme part 1
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Wrote a long book that comes out August. It covers from the origins of life at alkaline hydrothermal vents some 4 billion years ago through the Volcker Shock. I'm told pre-orders help, so if that sounds like your thing, buy one, won't you? www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance.
Every year, we are dangerously warping the climate by ...
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May 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Wrote a long book that comes out August. It covers from the origins of life at alkaline hydrothermal vents some 4 billion years ago through the Volcker Shock. I'm told pre-orders help, so if that sounds like your thing, buy one, won't you? www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Checkout my Neuroscience Word Search Book!
I’m looking forward to sharing more puzzle and study guide books focusing on literacy of science soon!
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I’m looking forward to sharing more puzzle and study guide books focusing on literacy of science soon!
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October 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Checkout my Neuroscience Word Search Book!
I’m looking forward to sharing more puzzle and study guide books focusing on literacy of science soon!
a.co/d/5hRFwfq
I’m looking forward to sharing more puzzle and study guide books focusing on literacy of science soon!
a.co/d/5hRFwfq
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Holden Karnofsky of Anthropic/Open Philanthropy calls this shit the "Process for Automating Scientific and Technological Advancement" (PASTA), and he, too, is dreaming of AI space settlements. Here's a snippet from our book, bringing it back down to earth:
August 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Holden Karnofsky of Anthropic/Open Philanthropy calls this shit the "Process for Automating Scientific and Technological Advancement" (PASTA), and he, too, is dreaming of AI space settlements. Here's a snippet from our book, bringing it back down to earth:
‘Policymaking committees should consider giving less weight to food industry–funded studies and include mechanistic and animal studies as well as studies appraising the effect of added sugars on multiple CHD biomarkers and disease development.’
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Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research
This historical analysis uses internal sugar industry documents to describe how the industry sought to influence the scientific debate over the dietary causes of coronary heart disease in the 1950s an...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
‘Policymaking committees should consider giving less weight to food industry–funded studies and include mechanistic and animal studies as well as studies appraising the effect of added sugars on multiple CHD biomarkers and disease development.’
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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