Nurunisa
@nneyzi.bsky.social
Research Associate at HMS Neurobiology
Inner ear mechanotransduction explorer 👩🔬
Investigating how we hear 🎶
Istanbul roots 🌍 Travels🏺
Inner ear mechanotransduction explorer 👩🔬
Investigating how we hear 🎶
Istanbul roots 🌍 Travels🏺
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Nurunisa
@nneyzi.bsky.social
· May 22
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S.Eliot
Did you know this is the world’s longest suspension bridge. It is spanning dardanelles in Turkey. We crossed the hellespont over it back in 2023, a year after it was built- the first bridge here, i think, since Xerxes’ pontoon bridges.
October 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Did you know this is the world’s longest suspension bridge. It is spanning dardanelles in Turkey. We crossed the hellespont over it back in 2023, a year after it was built- the first bridge here, i think, since Xerxes’ pontoon bridges.
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
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‘The novel’s final sentence is its least declamatory, pure cotton wool. “For there she was.”’
David Trotter on 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter on 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter · Unconditional Looking: Mrs Dalloway’s Demons
Virginia Woolf admired Jane Austen above all for her ability to grasp the exceptional moment – ‘in which all the...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
‘The novel’s final sentence is its least declamatory, pure cotton wool. “For there she was.”’
David Trotter on 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter on 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
i did not know about this imaginary novel at all. “keraban the inflexible” by jules verne- about the turkish tobacco merchant taking a guest home to uskudar for dinner - angry at the new tax he needs to pay to cross the bosphorus!
October 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
i did not know about this imaginary novel at all. “keraban the inflexible” by jules verne- about the turkish tobacco merchant taking a guest home to uskudar for dinner - angry at the new tax he needs to pay to cross the bosphorus!
“When Abraham arrives in the promised land from his native city of Ur, a Philistine king is already there to meet him.”
‘The theme of exile guides the utilitarian design of the new show. Around a hundred archaeological finds from Gaza are laid out in a ground-floor bunker space, complete with strip lights, cold grey-blue walls and chilly steel benches.’
@josephinequinn.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@josephinequinn.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’
This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“When Abraham arrives in the promised land from his native city of Ur, a Philistine king is already there to meet him.”
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Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.
Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks
Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.
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October 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.
Sound by friction (stridulation) ! Spiny lobsters have lost the large claws (chelae) of true lobsters. Instead, they rely on long antennae for defense and sensing. When the antennae move, a pad-like plectrum at the base rubs against a ridged file on the head producing a scary underwater sound!
August 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Sound by friction (stridulation) ! Spiny lobsters have lost the large claws (chelae) of true lobsters. Instead, they rely on long antennae for defense and sensing. When the antennae move, a pad-like plectrum at the base rubs against a ridged file on the head producing a scary underwater sound!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.”
“The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.”
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.”
“The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.”
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In her short career as an ornithological illustrator, Elizabeth Gould (1804 - 1841) produced over 650 lithographic plates, a significant contribution to the natural history of birds. Picture Curator Katherine Marshall uncovers her story on our blog: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/blog/2025/07...
Inimitable hand | Royal Society
During Elizabeth Gould's brief career as an ornithological illustrator, she made a significant contribution to the natural history of birds, as Katherine Marshall discovers.
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August 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
In her short career as an ornithological illustrator, Elizabeth Gould (1804 - 1841) produced over 650 lithographic plates, a significant contribution to the natural history of birds. Picture Curator Katherine Marshall uncovers her story on our blog: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/blog/2025/07...
Gobeklitepe vs. Stonehenge
July 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Gobeklitepe vs. Stonehenge
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These women are performing a festival chore: specifically, they’re perfuming clothes and fabric that they’ve placed on a stool and suspended above smoking wood. The one on the left is pouring
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July 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
These women are performing a festival chore: specifically, they’re perfuming clothes and fabric that they’ve placed on a stool and suspended above smoking wood. The one on the left is pouring
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Thoughts from our own Tom Rapoport on the role of basic science in curing disease. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/rev...
“Revolutionary Science Comes from Unexpected Angles”
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July 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thoughts from our own Tom Rapoport on the role of basic science in curing disease. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/rev...
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New Science story about multi-year funding and it potential catastrophic consequences
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Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite
Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards
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July 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
New Science story about multi-year funding and it potential catastrophic consequences
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Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior
Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
“This isn’t making Israel safer”
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Mandy Patinkin Insists Gaza War Is ‘Endangering the Jewish Population’ in Impassioned Plea for Peace
YouTube video by TheWrap
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July 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“This isn’t making Israel safer”
www.youtube.com/shorts/ESpYF...
www.youtube.com/shorts/ESpYF...
“When an occupying power creates a coercive environment by, for instance, withholding food, and that coercive environment leaves no choice to the civilian population but to move, then this can amount to the war crime of forced displacement,” said Janina Dill
Far-right Israeli politicians and settlers discuss luxury ‘Gaza riviera’ plan
Legal experts say scheme to annex territory and forcibly displace Palestinians is tantamount to ethnic cleansing
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“When an occupying power creates a coercive environment by, for instance, withholding food, and that coercive environment leaves no choice to the civilian population but to move, then this can amount to the war crime of forced displacement,” said Janina Dill
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Given everything that’s happened to science this year, riding in the Pan Mass Challenge and committing to raising $4k for research felt like the least I could do.
Check out my story about why this is so important to me & if you’re able, chip in a little. Every bit counts -> profile.pmc.org/JF0546
Check out my story about why this is so important to me & if you’re able, chip in a little. Every bit counts -> profile.pmc.org/JF0546
June 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Given everything that’s happened to science this year, riding in the Pan Mass Challenge and committing to raising $4k for research felt like the least I could do.
Check out my story about why this is so important to me & if you’re able, chip in a little. Every bit counts -> profile.pmc.org/JF0546
Check out my story about why this is so important to me & if you’re able, chip in a little. Every bit counts -> profile.pmc.org/JF0546