Dr. Ali Barry
@aliibarry.bsky.social
chaotically postdocing • UniWien & UTDallas, previously UniOxford | pain, proteomics, multi-omics & open science | chronic migraines | raised on unceded Algonquin, Anishinabek territory | she/they 🌈🍉
There are so many unbelievably cool ML models we could be developing further to better our planet and instead universities and agencies seem happy to throw money at shitty models built on stolen data under the guise of false efficiencies and fast profit
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
There are so many unbelievably cool ML models we could be developing further to better our planet and instead universities and agencies seem happy to throw money at shitty models built on stolen data under the guise of false efficiencies and fast profit
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60 years in ballet. DPhil viva passed at 78.
Congratulations to Rosamund Snow Scholar Jeremy Leslie-Spinks, whose research tackles why clinician-patient communication fails elite dancers facing career-ending injury.
🩰 www.phc.ox.ac.uk/blog/ballet-...
Congratulations to Rosamund Snow Scholar Jeremy Leslie-Spinks, whose research tackles why clinician-patient communication fails elite dancers facing career-ending injury.
🩰 www.phc.ox.ac.uk/blog/ballet-...
From ballet to DPhil: completing a doctorate at 78
After a 60-year career in professional ballet, a Rosamund Snow Scholar shares their experience of completing an Oxford DPhil at 78, researching how clinicians communicate with elite dancers facing car...
www.phc.ox.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
60 years in ballet. DPhil viva passed at 78.
Congratulations to Rosamund Snow Scholar Jeremy Leslie-Spinks, whose research tackles why clinician-patient communication fails elite dancers facing career-ending injury.
🩰 www.phc.ox.ac.uk/blog/ballet-...
Congratulations to Rosamund Snow Scholar Jeremy Leslie-Spinks, whose research tackles why clinician-patient communication fails elite dancers facing career-ending injury.
🩰 www.phc.ox.ac.uk/blog/ballet-...
How do I tell my brain that if it didn't spend time pretending it was a kaleidoscope on the regular it would have more energy for other things?
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
How do I tell my brain that if it didn't spend time pretending it was a kaleidoscope on the regular it would have more energy for other things?
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We're probably due for a #PainResearch feed update, any requests re. inclusion criteria?
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📌🧪 Welcome to the Pain Research feed for any and all pain-related research
Anyone can post here using #PainResearch. Alt Text + CamelCase required.
Anyone can post here using #PainResearch. Alt Text + CamelCase required.
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
We're probably due for a #PainResearch feed update, any requests re. inclusion criteria?
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Less than one week to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Less than one week to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM
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I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it.
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it.
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
Thankful to the palace gardeners who built a perfectly sectioned 800 m running track
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Thankful to the palace gardeners who built a perfectly sectioned 800 m running track
We're probably due for a #PainResearch feed update, any requests re. inclusion criteria?
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
📌🧪 Welcome to the Pain Research feed for any and all pain-related research
Anyone can post here using #PainResearch. Alt Text + CamelCase required.
Anyone can post here using #PainResearch. Alt Text + CamelCase required.
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
We're probably due for a #PainResearch feed update, any requests re. inclusion criteria?
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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"We're making unprecedented investments in nation building projects."
The nation we're building:
The nation we're building:
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
"We're making unprecedented investments in nation building projects."
The nation we're building:
The nation we're building:
How do I win the autistic bicycle points?
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
How do I win the autistic bicycle points?
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Have you been wondering what the role is of non-neuronal cells in modulating sensory neuron activity? Check out this review from @psalmotoxin.bsky.social et al. in @sfnjournals.bsky.social’s #JNeurosci, one of this week’s #EditorsPick papers chosen by @rpseal.bsky.social bit.ly/3XEp2rE #PRF
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Have you been wondering what the role is of non-neuronal cells in modulating sensory neuron activity? Check out this review from @psalmotoxin.bsky.social et al. in @sfnjournals.bsky.social’s #JNeurosci, one of this week’s #EditorsPick papers chosen by @rpseal.bsky.social bit.ly/3XEp2rE #PRF
This is actually my gender
"The mob object to a lady cyclist wearing socks. She flies for refuge into a café."
-The Illustrated Police News, 1897
-The Illustrated Police News, 1897
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is actually my gender
Mostly just angry it took this long
The EU's highest court has ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany
Same-sex marriage should be recognised in bloc - EU court
The EU's highest court has ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Ge...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Mostly just angry it took this long
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Oh hey, it's my auras in photo form
I've been "enjoying" scintillating scotomas more often recently. They're difficult to describe, and images online don't really capture it. But the first thing I thought when I saw them was "I should make a shader of this" – so here's a demo, it's pretty close: meetar.github.io/scotoma/
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Oh hey, it's my auras in photo form
Officially running spike season!
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Officially running spike season!
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Ive seen this work from Prof Liqun Luo’s presented a few times now and its stunning and heroic.
Nature research paper: Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering cell-surface combinatorial code
go.nature.com/3MbCoZT
go.nature.com/3MbCoZT
Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering cell-surface combinatorial code - Nature
In Drosophila, changing the expression of a small set of cell-surface proteins in just one type of olfactory neuron rewires its connections almost entirely to a new postsynaptic partner neuron type, altering the fly’s odour response and courtship behaviour.
go.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Ive seen this work from Prof Liqun Luo’s presented a few times now and its stunning and heroic.
Whispering this to myself on repeat as I chase anxiety meds with espresso
Accidentally had fully caffeinated coffee at like 930 and here’s the thing: i had a fantastic night. Are we sure this isn’t a better way to live? What if “sleep hygiene” stuff is just a psyop to make us weaker and sadder?
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Whispering this to myself on repeat as I chase anxiety meds with espresso
unclear if I'm actually qualified as a bioinformatician or if I just figured out when to restart a computer
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
unclear if I'm actually qualified as a bioinformatician or if I just figured out when to restart a computer
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Read my scoop overnight from Kyiv, where US army secretary Dan Driscoll’s brief meeting (he was running late after calls with Vance) with European ambassadors at the US ambassador’s residence in Podil left one feeling “nauseated” and others “shocked.” W/ @henryjfoy.ft.com
on.ft.com/43GWpxI
on.ft.com/43GWpxI
Trump envoys issue ultimatum to Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thursday
Hardline message over US-Russia plan at volatile meeting in Kyiv sparks alarm among European allies
on.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Read my scoop overnight from Kyiv, where US army secretary Dan Driscoll’s brief meeting (he was running late after calls with Vance) with European ambassadors at the US ambassador’s residence in Podil left one feeling “nauseated” and others “shocked.” W/ @henryjfoy.ft.com
on.ft.com/43GWpxI
on.ft.com/43GWpxI
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
goodlaw.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
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If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
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What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.