Rachel Barr
@drrachelbarr.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, author of How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend 📚🧠 https://linktr.ee/drrachelbarr
The gall, the audacity, the gumption! 🤌✨ I learned about the 17th and 18th c. era of Romanticism yesterday. But I can impulsively initiate 21st century Romantic Resurgence within that time, I have that right. I wrote about it: substack.com/@drrachelbar...
How to Build a Romantic Resurgence
A manual for the rationally exhausted
substack.com
Narrowly avoiding civilisational collapse by sliding into a Romantic resurgence is, theoretically, possible. Like, that is real. I am choosing to acknowledge that as a real possibility
New Substack essay just dropped, making the case for human creativity 🖤🧠 Read here: open.substack.com/pub/drrachel...
See you this afternoon! (And by ‘you’ I mean the 2 other humans besides my firefighter that will attend why did I agree to do this oh god).
Wayhay! How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend is book of the day 📖 Cheers @nextbigideaclub open.substack.com/pub/nextbigi...
One of the worst offending AI enshitifications in my day-to-day is that academic journals now need CONSTANT reassurance that I am, indeed, a human. Am I?! For even I am no longer certain.
Jane Goodall is gone, but her courage leads us forward. She taught us to see ourselves in other species, to act with care, and to hope. Rest in wild peace, Dr. Goodall 🖤
Union negotiations continue… my co-pawthor demands payment. Should I pay in tuna, cardboard, or butt pats (tribunal likely)? 🐟 📖 (Also, How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend is out now in hardback, ebook, & audiobook) 📖🧠
Do you think it’s weird if I leave this in my neighbour’s mailbox?
I wrote a feature for Big Think on consciousness, check it out: bigthink.com/neuropsych/c...
What the stages of sleep reveal about consciousness
"Ordinary dreams are, perhaps, the clearest articulation of what it is like to be," writes neuroscientist Rachel Barr.
bigthink.com
Microdosing delight to combat stress; interesting concept, backed by neuroscience. Was a pleasure to comment on the very excellent work of @drrachelbarr.bsky.social on how the experience of delight can tune down our stress response. @brainandmindcentre.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/he...
As we stress more than ever, is it time to ‘microdose delight’?
Our brains are not built to handle the daily threats modern humans face. But there’s a trick that may help them.
smh.com.au
Okay Luigi Mangione, Chris Martin… we’re one character away from a functional CEO Justice League.
B&N members! Just a note to let you know you can get 25% of your preorder today and tomorrow: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-mak...
🧠 The greatest threats we face online are the very features of human cognition we often refuse to confront – the biases, emotional shortcuts, and gut reactions that pull us into the noise. 🧠 But we can learn to direct our minds with intention.
It’s official! Preorder now (it really does help me out a lot when you do!) geni.us/kJRb 📚🧠 #neuroscience #philosophy #mentalhealth
