Wobbologist
@wobbologist.bsky.social
queer, HoH, dancer researcher: neuromechanics, anatomy, behaviour, marine biology DEI author and educator (DM for collabs or speaking engagements) Any nongendered pronouns 🏳️⚧️ 🦈 🧠
To all the new grad students: find your support resources, early! If you're in a union, actually read your contract. (Some limit things like reporting problems to 30 days.) Use these people and resources. With that being said, most uni setups are to protect the uni and not the students.
Above all, enjoy your time! When the fit is right grad school can be amazing. You get a set 5+ years to dig into stem topics that interests you and drives your enthusiasm. You can be immersed in research, outreach, mentorship, teaching, and so many different experiences! Find what you love!
To all the new grad students: find your support resources, early! If you're in a union, actually read your contract. (Some limit things like reporting problems to 30 days.) Use these people and resources. With that being said, most uni setups are to protect the uni and not the students.
As someone who has a terrible record for keeping indoor plants alive, please suggest plants that I can successfully grow indoors. Farmers markets are going to disappear soon and I'd love to get some seeds or such started :) Thinking, maybe, tomatoes and jalapenos? What else? (herbs I can grow :).)
Reading about recent Uni news while still going through some turmoil in academia keeps sending me deep in thought... Thinking about what I experienced the last 6 years, still experiencing, experiences people have shared with me, that uni's protect themselves...and where does that leave the future?
“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.
Prominent climate scientist argues it's time to ditch the 'myth of neutrality' | CBC Radio
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bob McDonald about the polarization of science and why she thinks scientists should stop pretending to be neutral when it's our planet at risk.
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🧪Another open-access paper from our lab came out a while ago but I forgot to post a link, so here it is. Ossification of the pectoral fin skeleton of a phylogenetically basal stem lungfish. Based on the same material as my very first paper, from 1989! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ossification of the pectoral fin of Glyptolepis groenlandica: implications for the evolution of the lungfish appendicular skeleton - Developmental Biology Advances
Developmental Biology Advances - Lungfishes are commonly considered to be the sister group to tetrapods. They appeared around 415 million years ago, then rapidly evolved, diversified and spread....
link.springer.com
I have been doing more time consuming cooking over the past month that a few friends are teasing that I'm running a small restaurant from home and my roommate is trying to figure out how to legally sell the food 😂 I need a problem to be resolved so I can close this at-home restaurant 😅
The OMB grants rule isn’t final yet, but they want to enact it Oct 1! It would let political appointees override peer review & cancel research midstream. We made the comments, now we need to call Congress and let them know what effect this will have scientific research. io.aibs.org/omb-action
Me the last 24hrs: posts about shark facts, pro inclusion, tagged as a co-author in a neurodiversity paper, and donating blo0d Random big shark account I've never directly interacted with before: blocked me Feels like a great example of why we need pro-diversity and less toxicity... 🙃
About 50% do not complete their program and a majority of that is due to lab and university related problems, NOT the ability of the person. There's a reason academia is nicknamed the "ivory tower". We need to do better at protecting those who are capable and are intentionally pushed out/removed.
The pretty ivory towers won’t save us. It’s already happening. 👀🥺
Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 2mo agoAmeaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Me: going in to donate "Power reds" (aka a larger rbc donation) Nurse looks at my tattoos and piercings (some gauged), smiles, and asks if I'm ok with an 18 gauge needle Me: Yes, yes I am lol 😅 (Though there are people w/ tattoos and piercings that don't like needles and/or blood.)
According to the NSF, only 1.8% of women in the US hold a PhD So, when you see them represented on tv or see extra toxicity and problems in the work place we should both extra cheer (tv) AND stand up to defend them (toxicity). We need to help create solutions and support going forward!
According to the NSF, only 1.8% of women in the US hold a PhD So, when you see them represented on tv or see extra toxicity and problems in the work place we should both extra cheer (tv) AND stand up to defend them (toxicity). We need to help create solutions and support going forward!
This paper shares perspectives from myself, @taorminalepore.bsky.social, @chronictox.bsky.social, @neurocait.bsky.social, @wobbologist.bsky.social, @arielsteele.bsky.social, @schulzscience.bsky.social, @sarahknutie.bsky.social, @noahwithfish.bsky.social + others. go.bsky.app/1hJWgm
Dyk: The lateral line picks up mechanosensation vibrational stimuli ...but... It's not the only mechanosensation based receptor in #chondrichthyans! There are also other cell types that pick up pressure and stretch that are also mechanosensory stimuli! #sharks #rays #skates #chimaeras 🦈
Dyk: The lateral line picks up mechanosensation vibrational stimuli ...but... It's not the only mechanosensation based receptor in #chondrichthyans! There are also other cell types that pick up pressure and stretch that are also mechanosensory stimuli! #sharks #rays #skates #chimaeras 🦈
Having continuing problems from over a year ago makes it hard to recover Yet last night, I was nerding out with a friend and we both, excitedly, went down a rabbit hole of a new med and the sodium channel interaction Soooo...yeah...I don't think I can fully burnout from something I love this much
⏳️ Only 42 days left to submit your abstract for #ABL2026! Share your research with our global, free and fully online animal behaviour community. Don't miss the opportunity to present your work! 📅 Abstract submission deadline: 6 September 2026 Send it now! https:// ablaoc.sciencesconf.org/
The session "Urban Stressors and Adaption" is chaired by @helenanorman.bsky.social who also introduces their research on sleep in fish as a first speaker 🐟💤
gofund.me/c5befa919 Erica is a wonderful person and any help is appreciated. 🙏 Some have asked about a Venmo address. You may Venmo Erica @Erica-Smith-Dance
Donate to Help Erica and Her Daughter Start Their New Life, organized by Dallas Radcliffe
As you may have heard: Erica has been on an arduous journey for seve… Dallas Radcliffe needs your support for Help Erica and Her Daughter Start Their New Life
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gofund.me/c5befa919 Erica is a wonderful person and any help is appreciated. 🙏 Some have asked about a Venmo address. You may Venmo Erica @Erica-Smith-Dance
Donate to Help Erica and Her Daughter Start Their New Life, organized by Dallas Radcliffe
As you may have heard: Erica has been on an arduous journey for seve… Dallas Radcliffe needs your support for Help Erica and Her Daughter Start Their New Life
gofund.me
I've been going down some serious rabbit holes of #neuroplasticity this past week with #proprioception themed in. (I'll share the 2nd rabbit hole topic later.) If you also geek out about this please drop papers you've enjoyed! One that I found this week: www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum...
Frontiers | The effect of neuro-enhancement technology on proprioception in patients with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
ObjectiveTo investigate whether the neural augmentation technique can induce improvement of proprioceptive performance in Anterior cruciate ligament reconstr...
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It's been a very long 6 months but I can say that I am also grateful for a lot of things. I was forced into new situations, leaned on friends, and kept enthusiasm for the things I love. Today is a day where a song is on repeat. This one always moves my soul 💜 What's a song that moves you?
A cool paper looking at how different textures are explored! 🧪 #neuro #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence #touch #somatosensation #haptics #SensorimotorControl
Anton Sobinov@ansobinov.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhen we touch a surface, we do not just passively receive information, we actively shape the interaction. In our new preprint, we investigated how forces, vibrations, and movements during active exploration of a texture relate to its perceived hardness, slipperiness, and roughness.
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