We asked Keaton Patti to force a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of holiday movies and then asked it to write a holiday movie of its own. Then we animated it. Here it is:

After seeing multiple medical professionals down-play the role racism played in the death of #DrSusanMoore, I have been thinking of how to describe the logistics of how racism manifests in medicine. One way is what I will, in this thread, call "cumulative de-prioritization." 1/

Check out the newest paper from the lab of @MattCooperUTK! From the dissertation of Catie Clinard, Ph.D. to the work of annie loewen and others, we found that androgen receptors in the medial amygdala contribute to changes in stress vulnerability 🐹 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Kick-off day for our new collaborative grant from MISTI with Juan Eugenio Iglesias and Polina Golland MIT CSAIL for our project on in vivo MRI-based diagnostics and tracking of dementia, anchored to post-mortem histopathology in the same individuals Fundación CIEN BT-CIEN

United States Department of Health and Human Services: The Quest for Affordable Insulin for ALL - Sign the Petition: chng.it/xT7c6dZ9 via Change.org

Awesome view of brain stem anatomy from web.mit

Birth of a brain cell. Stem cell differentiating into a neuron: #neuroscience

Brain in a dish? Not quite, but still cool! Neurons are the main cells in our brain & spinal cord. They're special because they change their activity in response to stimulation from the environment. This is how we learn... and how cells can play pong! nature.com/articles/d4158…

rats who grow up in environments with more toys/enrichment are better at driving tiny ratmobiles, and are like to drive even when they don't receive a reward (ie fruit loops) smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rat… from sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Would be very grateful if someone could recommend a good scientific illustrator. Have a sketch that needs to be converted to publishable figure. Many thanks in advance!

Look at all the jobs of the Trigeminal Nerve

with evidence that COVID vaccines affect menstrual cycles, important to remember that A LOT of things affect your cycle (stress, getting sick, other medicines)...and that's normal! npr.org/2022/10/02/112… (news article) from journals.lww.com/greenjournal/F… (the scientific paper)

bad hair day alert…but two thumbs up for EEG training @vanderbilt Kennedy Center!

Fetal coronal MRI of face. Thoughts?

I'm writing a paper on perceptual decision making for #gradschool and came across this paper (from another VU student!) which mentions "spaghetti with meatballs" at least 3 times in the first paragraph...been looking for this kind of paper my whole life onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100…

College Cup with Vanderbilt School of Medicine & Vanderbilt MSTP was a big success for the Chapman Dragons! It’s hard to strike a balance between work & wellness in med school, but a little kickball never hurts 💪🏼

Congratulations Dr. Quinde-Zlibut - Ph.D. defended! ⁦LASR Focus on Autism⁩ 💪🏽

Kimberly (Kimmy) Bress (G1) poem, "Observer Box," was published in Tabula Rasa! You can read attached here:

We are excited to share our new work nature, led by Lenka Dohnalová, uncovering a gut-brain pathway that regulates the motivation for #exercise. (1/7) nature.com/articles/s4158…

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