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Assistant Professor | Dept of Functional Genomics | Center for Neurogenomics & Cognitive Research (CNCR) | Amsterdam NL

MSCA, NWO Veni & XS, AUMC fellow

Stressing out, one day at a time | she/her

https://tinyurl.com/RigaLab-NoC

Keywords: #neuroscience #ephys #stress #locuscoeruleus #synapse

Interested in neuromodulation of the stress response. Particularly invested in #openscience, dialogue & equity

If you're on BlueSky and want to bridge to Mastodon, follow @ap.brid.gy

That's it. Nothing to install, no terms of service to sign, no complicated garbage. If you want to stop, just block @ap.brid.gy

Details here: https://fed.brid.gy/docs

If you want to bridge your account to BlueSky, simply follow this account: @bsky.brid.gy

Why am I encouraging this? Because when BlueSky inevitably goes bad, people there will have friends in the Fediverse to help them move here.

Bridgy Fed

Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

Having an "ñ" in my surname means constantly being gaslit by online forms that tell me my name can't contain special characters only to then tell me that my password must contain special characters, three emojis and a valid chess move.
You know the kind of experiment that has a lot of steps and it's scary because there are a lot of things that can go wrong but if it works OH-BOY-if-it-works? That's the experiment I am doing right now

Science talks drawn in real time!

I spent the last 2 days at a local conference on tropical environmental & sustainability science, cartooning every talk as it happened (except my own!)

It was an interesting challenge, and even more interesting was that it improved my focus and helped me stay engaged

#SciArt #SciComm #sciencecartoons #academia

IMAGINE how much more progress we could do if all the #Neuroscience labs worldwide collaborated instead of competed…
@mick and gosh your rig is tidy
The equal parts of existential dread and excitement while writing a grant

Does democratizing science necessitate public ownership of research infrastructure?

Thinking of eg cloud compute and code.

Locus coeruleus neuromelanin accumulation and dissipation across the lifespan https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.17.562814v1?med=mas

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"when will Bluesky add muting words"

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