Dr Michele V
@micheleveldsman.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, former academic, freelancer and founder
https://www.phd-2b.com/
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It really would help all of us if Trump clips came with an automatic Jennifer Coolidge voice filter.
October 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It really would help all of us if Trump clips came with an automatic Jennifer Coolidge voice filter.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Neuroscientists: which films do a pretty decent job in being scientifically accurate when it comes to the brain (including sci fi grounded in neuroscience)? I’m making a watchlist!
September 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Neuroscientists: which films do a pretty decent job in being scientifically accurate when it comes to the brain (including sci fi grounded in neuroscience)? I’m making a watchlist!
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OMG! i love it 😍
An @abeba.bsky.social tweet turned into a protest banner artwork at BCU MA graduate show. Brilliant!
August 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
OMG! i love it 😍
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Oh, build a *big* Dyson sphere, why didn’t I think of that? Please take all of my money
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Oh, build a *big* Dyson sphere, why didn’t I think of that? Please take all of my money
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Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
June 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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Correct. This was an easy test for media outlets and many of them failed horribly. No need to give them yet another chance.
I think a good rule of thumb is if your preferred source of news referred to yesterday's protest as "tens of thousands" and not "millions", you need to find a different news source.
June 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Correct. This was an easy test for media outlets and many of them failed horribly. No need to give them yet another chance.
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how the fuck is it possible to be this bad at drinking coffee
June 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
how the fuck is it possible to be this bad at drinking coffee
Looking for a very specific person to speak to - please reach out in your networks.
1. Background in developmental psych/neuroscience
2. Open science advocate (good knowledge of the problems/scene)
3. Interested in exploring jobs/ projects outside of academia and/or translational neuroscience
1. Background in developmental psych/neuroscience
2. Open science advocate (good knowledge of the problems/scene)
3. Interested in exploring jobs/ projects outside of academia and/or translational neuroscience
a cat holding a sign that says help
ALT: a cat holding a sign that says help
media.tenor.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Looking for a very specific person to speak to - please reach out in your networks.
1. Background in developmental psych/neuroscience
2. Open science advocate (good knowledge of the problems/scene)
3. Interested in exploring jobs/ projects outside of academia and/or translational neuroscience
1. Background in developmental psych/neuroscience
2. Open science advocate (good knowledge of the problems/scene)
3. Interested in exploring jobs/ projects outside of academia and/or translational neuroscience
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You know the old joke. What do you call 9 polite Germans having a nice dinner with a Nazi? A Nazi and nine people who create the feeling of safe harbor for far-right elements who unabashedly or in coded language express antisemitic sentiments.
March 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
You know the old joke. What do you call 9 polite Germans having a nice dinner with a Nazi? A Nazi and nine people who create the feeling of safe harbor for far-right elements who unabashedly or in coded language express antisemitic sentiments.
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Excited to share on my first post on Bluesky our new paper in NHB examine the innate and developing aspects of the wiring of the visual system. Congratulations to @emilykubota.bsky.social and the baby MRI team on this important work
The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ
White matter connections of human ventral temporal cortex are organized by cytoarchitecture, eccentricity and category-selectivity from birth
Nature Human Behaviour - Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category and eccentricity from birth, and also...
rdcu.be
March 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Excited to share on my first post on Bluesky our new paper in NHB examine the innate and developing aspects of the wiring of the visual system. Congratulations to @emilykubota.bsky.social and the baby MRI team on this important work
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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
Over on LinkedIn, we have reached peak LinkedIn. Moments away from it becoming “L” or something
February 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Over on LinkedIn, we have reached peak LinkedIn. Moments away from it becoming “L” or something
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We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
This might be the most satisfying thing I have ever seen 🤣
February 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This might be the most satisfying thing I have ever seen 🤣
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ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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Please welcome @jonroiser.bsky.social to Blue Sky! I am sure he would fit right in on some nice neuroscience, computational psychiatry, and psychology start packs! #neuroskyence #psychscisky
January 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Please welcome @jonroiser.bsky.social to Blue Sky! I am sure he would fit right in on some nice neuroscience, computational psychiatry, and psychology start packs! #neuroskyence #psychscisky
Please take 30 seconds to sign this petition if you don’t want the UK to go the way of the US, and share, share, share
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
January 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Please take 30 seconds to sign this petition if you don’t want the UK to go the way of the US, and share, share, share
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Ignore the review, but check out the comments on the YouTube review of the Tesla Model Y.
youtu.be/pgvEnDkNUfg?...
youtu.be/pgvEnDkNUfg?...
New Tesla Model Y: What have they done?
YouTube video by carwow
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Ignore the review, but check out the comments on the YouTube review of the Tesla Model Y.
youtu.be/pgvEnDkNUfg?...
youtu.be/pgvEnDkNUfg?...