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Rebecca Horne
@rebeccasky.bsky.social
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Art director @thetransmitter.bsky.social, Artist @rebeccahornephotography.com
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Lush art by @Merijn Hos for today's essay about the importance of primates in neuroscience by Cory Miller, J. Anthony Movshon, Doris Tsao: www.thetransmitter.org/policy/witho... for @thetransmitter.bsky.social #sciart
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Clear cut illustration from Alonso Guzmán Barone: A searchable online repository can restore trust in federally funded basic science: Check out U.S. Public Research Benefits: publicusaresearchbenefits.com via @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Sci-Fi art by Jun Cen for The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory: Bifurcations can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to novel functions. By Xiao-Jing Wang for @thetransmitter.bsky.social #sciart
Ice turns to water in a cascading waterfall
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Neuroscience needs worms! Spirited art by Kathleen Fu for today's essay by Ed Boyden and Konrad Kording: Whole-brain, bottom-up neuroscience: Applying new tools to entire brains, starting with C. elegans, offers the opportunity to uncover how molecules work together via @thetransmitter.bsky.social
a mechanical worm made out of various imaging techniques and shapes.
October 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Fresh collage by Lucie Wimetz featuring Patricia Bath and Herman Branson: Black In Neuro is launching a new program to help historically Black colleges and universities advance neuroscience research and education. By @jheannellejohnson.bsky.social for @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Patricia Bath and Herman Branson portraits with buildings from various historically black colleges, a microscope and brain imaging.
September 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Juicy art @ Ariel Davis for today's essay: Should neuroscientists ‘vibe code’? @ Ben Dichter
lnkd.in/dxcKG6Rf from @thetransmitter.bsky.social Transmitter. A classic editor vs AD dilemma: I wanted vibes and they wanted code. We met in the middle: www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca... #Sciart
August 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Impressionistic art by Enigmatriz: Babies, bees and bots: On the hunt for markers of consciousness to truly understand consciousness, we need new methods to measure it and detect it in other intelligent systems. Tim Bayne for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes... #sciart
August 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Splendid illustration by Eoin Ryan for today's essay @thetransmitter.bsky.social: Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective by Karl Farrow and Katja Reinhard: www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur... #sciart
Fish, bird and insect connected by fine lines on a colorful horizontal pattern of rectangles reminiscent of genetic sequencing.
July 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I love the wobbly lines in Daniel Barreto's art for Ben Dichter's essay: "Neuroscience’s open-data revolution is just getting started" Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science and reduce costs via @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
Colorful columns made of stacked data wheels on a bright blue background surround researchers, who are selecting some of the data.
July 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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@thetransmitter.bsky.social We sometimes get art made by scientists-shout out to Matthew Van De Poll his in today's news: It shows Drosophila on a ball, with waves of color hitting it. "Drosophila, like vertebrates, filter sensory information during sleep" www.thetransmitter.org/sleep/drosop...
July 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Popping photo art by Margeaux Walter for Ashley Juavinett's How to teach this paper: ‘Neurotoxic reactive astrocytes are induced by activated microglia' Liddelow and collaborators identified the factors that transform astrocytes from their helpful to harmful. thetransmitter.bsky.social #sciart
July 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Lovely portraits from Jillian Clark for today's profile of Diego Bohórquez: His theories around the neuropod have challenged the boundaries of classic ideas regarding gut-brain communication: www.thetransmitter.org/gut-brain/th... By Sydney Wyatt for @thetransmitter.bsky.social
The scientist makes eye contact in front of a dark blue wall that has a historical anatomy drawing on it.
June 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I felt honored to create the art for this important story by Claudia Lopez Lloreda: NIH cuts quash $323 million for neuroscience research and training
Via @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-... #sciart
Narrow strips of a 100 dollar bill arranged horizontally on cobalt blue background, Franklin's eyes confront the viewer.
June 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Conceptual still life I whipped up for today's news about pseudoreplication by Lauren Schenkman for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: Sounding the alarm on pseudoreplication: Q&A with Constantinos Eleftheriou and Peter Kind: www.thetransmitter.org/pseudoreplic... #sciart
3 overlapping versions of a single blue cube on gray background.
June 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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So happy with this gorgeous and informative graphic on cortical layers created by Ramin Rahni for Laurentius Huber's essay: www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm... via @thetransmitter.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Beautiful brain art from Ada Zejun Shen for Dan Goodman's essay "Neuroscience needs to empower early-career researchers, not fund moon shots" #sciart from @thetransmitter.bsky.social : www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...
May 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Congrats to artist Adrià Voltà, chosen by AI-AP for his smart and voluptuous illustration highlighting the focus of @thetransmitter.bsky.social essay–by conjuring the delicate shape of a brain from the pages of a book. www.thetransmitter.org/books/open-a... #sciart
An open book floating on a bold cobalt background with its pages curving upwards to create a brain-like shape.
May 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Structured illo from Julien Posture for the latest @thetransmitter.bsky.social This paper changed my life series: Marino Pagan recalls a decision-making study from four titans in the field: www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c... #sciart
May 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Lush portraits by @xdonavon.bsky.social for today's profile @thetransmitter.bsky.social How pragmatism and passion drive Fred Volkmar: www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/how... Words by Claudia Wallis #sciart
Fred Volkmar wearing a deep blue button down shirt, in front of a wall of certificates in his office, with light from a window on his face.
May 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Lovely illo by Sunnu Rebecca Choi for timely essay from Lynn Waterhouse for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: CDC autism prevalence numbers warrant attention—but not in the way RFK Jr. proposes www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/cdc...
May 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Stylish & smart illo by Julien Posture for today's article @thetransmitter.bsky.social from Shane Liddelow: This paper changed my life: A game-changing cell culture method transformed the study of astrocytes www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c... #sciart
Astrocytes grow flower-like, upwards, out of a petri dish. Creating a frame around the edges of are images similar to those in found in scientific papers: graphs, charts, and clusters.
April 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Ibrahim Rayintakath's luscious illustration was honored by Communication Arts! This art underwent many versions beforehand. The final composition uses a circle to capture the idea of the umwelt of an animal. Full art and the essay @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/defining-rep...
April 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Engaging illo by Mari Fouz for Avram Holmes' essay: To make a meaningful contribution to neuroscience, fMRI must break out of its silo. from @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm... #sciart
Three corrugated steel silos are seen on a shelf. The middle silo’s top is lifted halfway open by a hand. fMRI brain images escape the open silo top.
April 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Art for @thetransmitter.bsky.social's funding and firing news comes together fast. A combined effort by Anya Sahni, myself & Sam Schuman for Sydney Wyatt's story: Coding error caused layoffs at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/newl...
A giant hand holding an office stamp hovers over a paper, in front of a background populated with X's.
April 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I love Mackenzie Calle's photos for today's excellent story: Releasing the Hydra with Rafael Yuste by Brady Huggett and Shaena Montanari. www.thetransmitter.org/neural-netwo...
Thanks to Rafael Yuste and his team, who gamely opened the lab to us
Dr. Yuste leans against a bench in his lab--a side light provides a splash of red color that contrasts against the light blue of Yuste's collared shirt.
April 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM