Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · 2d agoNorthwest Noggin
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Building Networks in Community through #Neuroscience #Teaching #Research #Education #Music #Art 🧠🎨🥁📚🏳️⚧️☮️🏳️🌈 #goplaces #outreach #listen #collaborate #allvolunteer 💚 https://linktr.ee/nwnoggin
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · 2d ago
Brains & art @ Portland State! 😃 Cool neural chalk work under the Cajal hippocampus mural on the 3rd floor skybridge between Cramer & Smith 🎨🧠🌈💚🤓🎉! There's an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor @ PSU 😍👉🏻 www.pdx.edu/psychology/n... Awesome students 🤩🥳 LEARN MORE 😎👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/2025/10/03/p...
“At one point in that Gaza call, Abdulrahman asked a question that continues to echo in my mind: ‘When we are experiencing intense stress and violence in our lives, is there anything we can do – at an individual level – to help protect our brains?’” -Jen Logan MORE 💚👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/2025/05/26/s...
Remember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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“The world is full of compelling things, & nervous systems respond to many without conscious awareness or attention. Yet implicit responses cause changes in our felt sense of ourselves & the world, & influence our behavior…” -Rean Guardian @ Portland State LEARN MORE 🤗 nwnoggin.org/2026/05/25/w...
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago
Comments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
Another killing by ICE today in Maine. The third government killing of a civilian in less than a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Tyrin Johnson.
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
Lindsey Graham was ashamed of what he should have been proud of and proud of what he should have been ashamed of.
"The chaos, the curiosity, the energy! It made me wonder, why does learning by doing feel so much more impactful?" -Sophia Romero @ Portland State University THE POWER OF DOING 🧠🎨🌈💚💪🏼🤓👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/2026/05/20/t... #nwnoggin #neuroscience #brains #art #outreach 😎👉🏻 nwnoggin.org
Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/w...
Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%
AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.
arstechnica.com
“How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal… division is the oldest trick in politics.” Zohran rings in America’s birthday by reminding us our story is one of welcoming immigrants, not excluding everyone who doesn’t look like us. 🇺🇸 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DaVzyL0...
Editorial: It’s time to step up and have your say for science. Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Editorial: It's time to step up and have your say for science
Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter.
arstechnica.com
“AI hallucinations and sycophancy are well-documented and are just some of the risks of relying solely on AI…” —Haile Wells @ Portland State University LEARN MORE 🧠🤓👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/2026/05/15/i... #nwnoggin #neuroscience #art #teaching #outreach 💚
Glad to see this story and coverage of an important paper. www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n... 1/16
NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds
A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.
statnews.com
Your morning coffee is critically endangered go.nature.com/4xVdYHB
Coffee is under threat: how scientists are fighting to save it from extinction
Coffee plants are critically endangered by climate change. Researchers are finding solutions to keep scientists supplied with their favourite discovery fuel.
go.nature.com
Wow, the histologist/neurobiologist/historian of science market must be huge and lucrative. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
Two papers by Max Planck, the legendary Nobel laureate in physics, were retracted by Springer Nature in 2011, likely due to an algorithm flagging the papers for self-plagiarism and copyright infringement. Read on for how stupid it all is. 🧪
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
science.org