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In 2017, a story of mine won a contest with Writer's Digest. Now graduate students at Napier University in Edinburgh are turning it into a short film! If you can afford to spend your hard-earned cash on art, here's where you can chip in: igg.me/at/theremovals…

The cell bodies of astrocytes, not their end-feet, make up the brain’s last line of defense, a new paper in Cell Reports confirms. The findings flip the standard picture of these “stalwart sentinels” of the brain. By Lauren Schenkman thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/une…

Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) aims to speed up the route from basic research to treatments for profound autism. Scientific director Matthew State shared more about the initiative’s goals and upcoming RFAs in a Q&A with laschenk. thetransmitter.org/spectrum/exped…

The Brain Research International Data Governance & Exchange (BRIDGE) initiative has neuroscientists on four continents breaking down barriers to sharing brain data. Co-investigator Amadi Ihunwo speaks with laschenk about BRIDGE’s work in Africa. thetransmitter.org/qa/sharing-afr…

An “understudied secret in the brain” dampens the brain’s reward response to nicotine in mice. By laschenk thetransmitter.org/addiction/unde…

drag and raunch, dance of the gigantonas, feria de santo Domingo de Guzman #nicaragua #latergram instagram.com/p/r0jhf2ytNd/

Please read this--incredibly moving and eloquent: gawker.com/the-price-of-b…

Overheard on Wall St.: Guy 1: She used to work there. Guy 2: What happened? Guy 3: I think she got pregnant and then she got fired. #yikes

@jrobertlennon right?? which is why we totally don't need feminism.

A special #Ferguson message for white college kids: bit.ly/1oZqzUy

Off Our Meds: Guest Post - lastwordonnothing.com/2014/10/10/gue…

cackling over these short shorts by @jrobertlennon in the Louisville Review

OH: "You look like what would happen if Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe had a baby."

@jrobertlennon I think I blatantly stole that expression from you! And yes, it's a good problem to have.

@jrobertlennon spotted at Central Library

'The numbness grew slowly, by degrees, until it covered the left half of her body.' New writing by Lauren Schenkman granta.com/numb/

@jrobertlennon talking on Marketplace about the tools of the writing trade. We use the same snobby notebook! mktplc.org/1Ek0voS

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