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Kristin Barry, PhD 🦻+ 🧠
@actuallydrbarry.bsky.social
Auditory neuroscientist. http://tinyurl.com/TEDTalkKristin

@natureportfolio.nature.com's bestie

1st Gen. She/her. Migraineur. 🏳️‍🌈
Just peeking out to see how everyone is doing.
August 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I don't know if this is what people meant by turning to industry for support during these difficult funding times but I know #NewEnglandBiolabs has my marker needs sorted.

Thanks besties. ❤️
July 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Tuesday.
June 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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"Never before in human history has there been a more urgent need to understand living systems & how they interact with each other and the environment" Check out this blog from the 'wild frontiers of model organisms' symposium, inc on the importance of TREC's approach of taking the lab to the field
Biology beyond conventional model organisms – a whole new world | EMBL
An EMBL | EMBO symposium explored the ‘wild frontiers’ of model organisms, from phytoplankton to sea anemones, waterstriders, roundworms, and more.
www.embl.org
June 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Hey Australia, we paying any attention?
May 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Hey @natureportfolio.nature.com so we besties now right?
May 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I was interviewed for this article!
Nature Careers spoke to scientists about their tattoos, which include scientific images to mark career accomplishments and illustrate research passions. #Academicsky 🧪
Science on our sleeves: the research that inspires our tattoos
Inked scientists choose scientific images to mark career accomplishments and illustrate their research passion.
go.nature.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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In vivo reconstruction of Duvernoy's postmortem vasculature images

- Fast, high-res imaging: Whole-brain 0.35 mm MRI in <7 min at 7 T
- Vessel-type specific podt-processing: Capturing large leptomeningeal, pial, and intracortical meso-veins

PDF: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
March 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Today I'm delivering an open science lecture for our master students. These kind of lectures are one of the most enjoyable parts of my job
March 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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I can’t believe this needs to be said.

TransGENIC mice

are not

TransGENDER mice
March 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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What emotions does music express? Through 3 experiments with association tasks & context-based activities with 5000+ participants & 600+ affect terms, we report structures that differ from music-induced emotions such as romantic, in love, free, & festive #musicscience doi.org/10.1371/jour...
January 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Same feels Bernie.
January 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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MagLOV!

MagLOV is a fluorescent protein you can "turn off" with a handheld magnet, engineered by @mariaingaramo.bsky.social.

We think/hope we can use it to turn arbitrary proteins (including drugs!) on and off in opaque creatures (including humans!).

bsky.app/profile/addg...
November 22, 2024 at 12:06 AM
🚨New paper published!🚨

Our findings (@theauditorylab.bsky.social) suggest that auditory input deprivation alone does not affect cognition in middle-age.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroscience #hearing #science #neurosky
Conductive hearing loss does not affect spatial learning and memory in middle-aged guinea pigs - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Conductive hearing loss does not affect spatial learning and memory in middle-aged guinea pigs
www.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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You’re telling me this life crisis is mid?
January 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Just a PSA for iced coffee (Aussie for coffee with ice cream) orders this summer: you can order ice cream flavours other than vanilla. People really be out there getting chocolate or coffee ice cream in their iced coffee.
December 30, 2024 at 7:30 AM
May your holidays be as restful and spoilt as my chihuahua who sleeps twenty hours a day and gets away with stealing whole slices of ham from my plate.
December 25, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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December 24, 2024 at 2:51 AM
I wish gladwrap worked as well as parafilm.
December 24, 2024 at 2:51 AM
A useful daily reminder.
December 17, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Thanks #ans2024 for the early career presenter prize.

And big congrats to Kady Braack (also from the @theauditorylab.bsky.social!) for winning best PhD student presentation.

Thanks to everyone at the @theauditorylab.bsky.social for helping us prep such well received talks. 😊
December 4, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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Excellent plenary lecture 🧠🧲 at Australasian Neuroscience Society meeting in Perth today by A/Prof Jenny Rodger #ANS2024 #neuroscience #brainstimulation
December 3, 2024 at 6:05 AM
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Excellent talk from PhD student Kady Braack on cochlear implant induced fibrosis. #ANS2024 #neuroscience
December 4, 2024 at 9:51 AM