Kristina Visscher
@visscherlab.bsky.social
Interested in neuroscience, brain dynamics, and plasticity of complex networks. Especially plasticity of long range connections important for visual processing. Especially in older brains.
Professor, UAB Neurobiology sites.uab.edu/kmv/
Professor, UAB Neurobiology sites.uab.edu/kmv/
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
🛟SAVE OUR BOOKS📚
Nov 20 1-4pm show up 6030 Monitcello Drive Montgomery 36117
www.facebook.com/share/1CzGpi...
All info here
www.readfreelyalabama.org/apls?utm_cam...
🪧Show up
🗣️Speak
📤Email
❌SAY NO TO CENSORSHIP❌
Share often!!
@indivisible.org
@michaelindivisible.bsky.social
@alreporter.com
@al.com
Nov 20 1-4pm show up 6030 Monitcello Drive Montgomery 36117
www.facebook.com/share/1CzGpi...
All info here
www.readfreelyalabama.org/apls?utm_cam...
🪧Show up
🗣️Speak
❌SAY NO TO CENSORSHIP❌
Share often!!
@indivisible.org
@michaelindivisible.bsky.social
@alreporter.com
@al.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🛟SAVE OUR BOOKS📚
Nov 20 1-4pm show up 6030 Monitcello Drive Montgomery 36117
www.facebook.com/share/1CzGpi...
All info here
www.readfreelyalabama.org/apls?utm_cam...
🪧Show up
🗣️Speak
📤Email
❌SAY NO TO CENSORSHIP❌
Share often!!
@indivisible.org
@michaelindivisible.bsky.social
@alreporter.com
@al.com
Nov 20 1-4pm show up 6030 Monitcello Drive Montgomery 36117
www.facebook.com/share/1CzGpi...
All info here
www.readfreelyalabama.org/apls?utm_cam...
🪧Show up
🗣️Speak
❌SAY NO TO CENSORSHIP❌
Share often!!
@indivisible.org
@michaelindivisible.bsky.social
@alreporter.com
@al.com
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
Great research needs support.
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum helps you develop the skills to effectively share why neuroscience matters with policymakers, funders, and the broader community.
Learn more and add to your itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dz53
#neurosky #neuroskyence
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum helps you develop the skills to effectively share why neuroscience matters with policymakers, funders, and the broader community.
Learn more and add to your itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dz53
#neurosky #neuroskyence
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Great research needs support.
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum helps you develop the skills to effectively share why neuroscience matters with policymakers, funders, and the broader community.
Learn more and add to your itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dz53
#neurosky #neuroskyence
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum helps you develop the skills to effectively share why neuroscience matters with policymakers, funders, and the broader community.
Learn more and add to your itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dz53
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
❤️🔥Hey everyone this is happening SAT Nov 15 @ 10:45am❤️🔥
🪧Please join us for a FUN "Signs of Fascism" event!!🪧
🚩We will be holding our "Signs of Fascism"
🏟️Come line the sidewalks near Protective Stadium
Sign up & join the fun!
UAB home game Sat
forms.gle/a5kAMgNbkZ5T...
@indivisiblewestal.bsky.social
🪧Please join us for a FUN "Signs of Fascism" event!!🪧
🚩We will be holding our "Signs of Fascism"
🏟️Come line the sidewalks near Protective Stadium
Sign up & join the fun!
UAB home game Sat
forms.gle/a5kAMgNbkZ5T...
@indivisiblewestal.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
❤️🔥Hey everyone this is happening SAT Nov 15 @ 10:45am❤️🔥
🪧Please join us for a FUN "Signs of Fascism" event!!🪧
🚩We will be holding our "Signs of Fascism"
🏟️Come line the sidewalks near Protective Stadium
Sign up & join the fun!
UAB home game Sat
forms.gle/a5kAMgNbkZ5T...
@indivisiblewestal.bsky.social
🪧Please join us for a FUN "Signs of Fascism" event!!🪧
🚩We will be holding our "Signs of Fascism"
🏟️Come line the sidewalks near Protective Stadium
Sign up & join the fun!
UAB home game Sat
forms.gle/a5kAMgNbkZ5T...
@indivisiblewestal.bsky.social
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
Leave room for creative wonder in your #SfN25 schedule!
Visit the Art of Neuroscience booth to see original works by independent neuroscience artists.
🔗 vist.ly/4dqs8
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Visit the Art of Neuroscience booth to see original works by independent neuroscience artists.
🔗 vist.ly/4dqs8
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Art of Neuroscience
Art of Neuroscience
www.sfn.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Leave room for creative wonder in your #SfN25 schedule!
Visit the Art of Neuroscience booth to see original works by independent neuroscience artists.
🔗 vist.ly/4dqs8
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Visit the Art of Neuroscience booth to see original works by independent neuroscience artists.
🔗 vist.ly/4dqs8
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
Good news.
Faculty expressing their concerns seems to be having effects.
If you are in academia, make sure your administration knows your views on the compact.
Faculty expressing their concerns seems to be having effects.
If you are in academia, make sure your administration knows your views on the compact.
UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact
Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.
www.wunc.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Good news.
Faculty expressing their concerns seems to be having effects.
If you are in academia, make sure your administration knows your views on the compact.
Faculty expressing their concerns seems to be having effects.
If you are in academia, make sure your administration knows your views on the compact.
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Hey, Alabama researchers!! Here's an opportunity to share your story!
SfN and its partners are seeking impacted researchers in Louisiana, Texas, West Virginia, **Alabama**, and North Carolina to join a non-partisan media campaign. Media training provided, anonymity can be arranged: advocacy@sfn.org
SfN and its partners are seeking impacted researchers in Louisiana, Texas, West Virginia, **Alabama**, and North Carolina to join a non-partisan media campaign. Media training provided, anonymity can be arranged: advocacy@sfn.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Hey, Alabama researchers!! Here's an opportunity to share your story!
SfN and its partners are seeking impacted researchers in Louisiana, Texas, West Virginia, **Alabama**, and North Carolina to join a non-partisan media campaign. Media training provided, anonymity can be arranged: advocacy@sfn.org
SfN and its partners are seeking impacted researchers in Louisiana, Texas, West Virginia, **Alabama**, and North Carolina to join a non-partisan media campaign. Media training provided, anonymity can be arranged: advocacy@sfn.org
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
SfN 2025 Art of Neuroscience
Full list of Exhibitors
artologica.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
⚛️WELCOME TO SCIENCE & HEALTH MONDAYS⚛️
🧒Children & SNAP
❤️🔥SNAP: medicine for food insecurity
✂️Cutting SNAP means empty refrigerators & lunch bags, skipped meds & parents going w/out meals so kids can eat
🥪Keeping children well fed is 1️⃣ impt step in keeping them healthy
www.facebook.com/share/v/1AWb...
🧒Children & SNAP
❤️🔥SNAP: medicine for food insecurity
✂️Cutting SNAP means empty refrigerators & lunch bags, skipped meds & parents going w/out meals so kids can eat
🥪Keeping children well fed is 1️⃣ impt step in keeping them healthy
www.facebook.com/share/v/1AWb...
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
⚛️WELCOME TO SCIENCE & HEALTH MONDAYS⚛️
🧒Children & SNAP
❤️🔥SNAP: medicine for food insecurity
✂️Cutting SNAP means empty refrigerators & lunch bags, skipped meds & parents going w/out meals so kids can eat
🥪Keeping children well fed is 1️⃣ impt step in keeping them healthy
www.facebook.com/share/v/1AWb...
🧒Children & SNAP
❤️🔥SNAP: medicine for food insecurity
✂️Cutting SNAP means empty refrigerators & lunch bags, skipped meds & parents going w/out meals so kids can eat
🥪Keeping children well fed is 1️⃣ impt step in keeping them healthy
www.facebook.com/share/v/1AWb...
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
The worst thing about the book is that it creates the impression that this hypercompetitive, no respect for rules or others, approach to science is normal or desirable.
21/41
21/41
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The worst thing about the book is that it creates the impression that this hypercompetitive, no respect for rules or others, approach to science is normal or desirable.
21/41
21/41
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
Please help spread the word to all who will be in San Diego on Sunday, Nov. 16th. As part of SFN, SFN's scicomm arm is sponsoring an event.
It's me, Shrek Chalasani (Salk), Kumar Narayanan (UIowa) and the brainfacts.org team. Short talks; trivia; lots of fun. Join us!
It's free. Register here.
It's me, Shrek Chalasani (Salk), Kumar Narayanan (UIowa) and the brainfacts.org team. Short talks; trivia; lots of fun. Join us!
It's free. Register here.
Dive into the depths of the brain with neuroscientists from across the country at Little Bird Brewing on Sunday, November 16th from 6:30pm to 9pm.
BrainFacts LIVE: Decoding Disorders
Eventbrite - BrainFacts LIVE: Decoding Disorders - Sunday, November 16, 2025 at Little Bird Brewing, San Diego, CA. Find event and ticket information.
www.eventbrite.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Please help spread the word to all who will be in San Diego on Sunday, Nov. 16th. As part of SFN, SFN's scicomm arm is sponsoring an event.
It's me, Shrek Chalasani (Salk), Kumar Narayanan (UIowa) and the brainfacts.org team. Short talks; trivia; lots of fun. Join us!
It's free. Register here.
It's me, Shrek Chalasani (Salk), Kumar Narayanan (UIowa) and the brainfacts.org team. Short talks; trivia; lots of fun. Join us!
It's free. Register here.
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
Help fund our mission and the NEURAL Conference by making a gift to the Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars www.givecampus.com/s/7wfqnm
@flubinlab.bsky.social
@flubinlab.bsky.social
Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars
Join me and make a gift to Dr. Lubin and the Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars
www.givecampus.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Help fund our mission and the NEURAL Conference by making a gift to the Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars www.givecampus.com/s/7wfqnm
@flubinlab.bsky.social
@flubinlab.bsky.social
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
Two Democrats romped to wins over Republican incumbents in elections to the Georgia Public Service Commission on Tuesday, delivering the largest statewide margins of victory by Democrats in more than 20 years. https://to.pbs.org/3XfjOCu
Georgia Democrats win big over GOP incumbents in 2 statewide utility regulator races
Two Democrats romped to wins over Republican incumbents in elections to the Georgia Public Service Commission on Tuesday, delivering the largest statewide margins of victory by Democrats in more than 20 years.
www.pbs.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Two Democrats romped to wins over Republican incumbents in elections to the Georgia Public Service Commission on Tuesday, delivering the largest statewide margins of victory by Democrats in more than 20 years. https://to.pbs.org/3XfjOCu
Apparently you have to be a conservative celebrity to get through the healthcare gauntlet. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Dilbert creator taps Trump to get cancer drug. Others wish they could, too
Like many Americans, Scott Adams had insurance problems. But unlike most people he has powerful friends on social media, and when he asked President Trump for help, he got the cancer drug he needed.
www.npr.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Apparently you have to be a conservative celebrity to get through the healthcare gauntlet. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
Over the weekend, the UAB CNC Neuroscience For All team partnered with Bare Hands, Inc. to provide "A Feast for the Senses", hands on neuroscience activities at the 23rd Annual Día de los Muertos! 💐💀 Looks like they had a great time learning about brain activity and senses!
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Over the weekend, the UAB CNC Neuroscience For All team partnered with Bare Hands, Inc. to provide "A Feast for the Senses", hands on neuroscience activities at the 23rd Annual Día de los Muertos! 💐💀 Looks like they had a great time learning about brain activity and senses!
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
The academic job market is doing something very good:
A lot of searches are *NO* longer asking for reference letters until applicants make the short list.
This makes is easier to apply for jobs, reduces the letter writing load for faculty, and makes the review process easier for committee members.
A lot of searches are *NO* longer asking for reference letters until applicants make the short list.
This makes is easier to apply for jobs, reduces the letter writing load for faculty, and makes the review process easier for committee members.
Dear academics
We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists.
This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by…
*checks notes*
…every other industry on earth.
We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists.
This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by…
*checks notes*
…every other industry on earth.
Who is for abolishing grad app letters of rec at the point of application? Would it be so bad if letters were requested AFTER candidates were shortlisted? If we do this at UCSD who will join us?
November 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The academic job market is doing something very good:
A lot of searches are *NO* longer asking for reference letters until applicants make the short list.
This makes is easier to apply for jobs, reduces the letter writing load for faculty, and makes the review process easier for committee members.
A lot of searches are *NO* longer asking for reference letters until applicants make the short list.
This makes is easier to apply for jobs, reduces the letter writing load for faculty, and makes the review process easier for committee members.
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
I’ve had a lot of fun in my life telling Youths who were too young to remember it about the time Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face, which might be a fun treat for you too today if you know any teenagers
the part where the guy who got shot had to apologize to Cheney is the 2000s in a nutshell
the part where the guy who got shot had to apologize to Cheney is the 2000s in a nutshell
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’ve had a lot of fun in my life telling Youths who were too young to remember it about the time Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face, which might be a fun treat for you too today if you know any teenagers
the part where the guy who got shot had to apologize to Cheney is the 2000s in a nutshell
the part where the guy who got shot had to apologize to Cheney is the 2000s in a nutshell
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
Neat sale item from Surplus Shed for you #visionscience and #optics folks - their FluxOptic device gives you a lens/mirror with adjustable focal lengths. Looks super-cool for all kinds of demos! www.surplusshed.com/pages/item/F...
FluxOptic™
<p>Finally after years of work, production of our patented FluxOptic™ device is complete. Create it into an adjustable lens or mirror with a wide focal length range<strong> without g...
www.surplusshed.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Neat sale item from Surplus Shed for you #visionscience and #optics folks - their FluxOptic device gives you a lens/mirror with adjustable focal lengths. Looks super-cool for all kinds of demos! www.surplusshed.com/pages/item/F...
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
New Bayesian *Meta-Analysis* of Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation! Open-access 👇Thread! Buckle up
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
New Bayesian *Meta-Analysis* of Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation! Open-access 👇Thread! Buckle up
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it.
Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!
Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!
I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it.
Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!
Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism.
NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support.
Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support.
Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
May 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism.
NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support.
Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support.
Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
Reposted by Kristina Visscher
The final session of UAB Brain Chats for this year is THIS Saturday at 11AM! 😃 Join this free, educational event at Avondale Library to discuss the highly requested topic, “Hope After Head Injury, The Road to Recovery” presented by Dr. Rachel Teranishi! 🧠
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The final session of UAB Brain Chats for this year is THIS Saturday at 11AM! 😃 Join this free, educational event at Avondale Library to discuss the highly requested topic, “Hope After Head Injury, The Road to Recovery” presented by Dr. Rachel Teranishi! 🧠