Getting all fucked up on tea and gilding the jellyfish
Sarah Faber
@sciencebanshee.bsky.social
The internet's friendliest banshee, PhD. The Werner Herzog of dynamic systems neuroscience. Occasional Gàidhlig, constant shouting. Researching how the brain adapts to neurodegeneration using music. She/her.
Happy my Birthday, everyone!! Be the menace you want to see in the world.
I've been doing a lot of this lately and it's been Great
Kurt Vonnegut man
It doesn't have to be a dark and stormy night for some #MusicScience ...but you do you:
Participate in a study about scary music! 🦇💀 📝 Anonymous online survey (20–30 min) 👥 Open to adults and adolescents over 15 years 🔤 Good English skills required 🎧 Please wear headphones! ♫ Listen to music clips, answer questions. Participate here: link.webropol.com/s/mapping-sc... #musicscience
It occurs to me this stimulus presentation code I've been fighting with is exactly the type of teachable moment grad school is made of and I should, in my generosity, bequeath it to the brilliant young minds of the lab
Hat tips and genteel curtsies to @sbarolo.bsky.social! In the words of Lizzie B, '...one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.' and you provide ample quantities of both, my friend.
Tomorrow is "Shoutout the Person Who Gave You a Bluesky Invite Code" Day. It was a cool time for cool people to drag other cool people here.
I have a joke about Cassandra, but you'd never believe it
I have different jokes about Scylla and Charybdis, and have to choose one of them.
📣 REGISTRATION IS OPEN 📣 Our 7th annual #BlackInNeuroWeek is coming soon 🧠 From July 27th to August 2nd, we have an ✨AMAZING✨ week of events planned for you all, free and open to the public 🤗 Don’t miss out! Register for #BINW26 here ⤵️ events.zoom.us/ev/AgaErvpe_... #BlackInSTEM #Neuroskyence 🧪
The proper channel to communicate to the govt is through your MLA's constituency office that's closed to in person visits, phone forwarded to voicemail, email that returns a form letter, Province House that now bars most people entry, or via public statements that are ignored Ave legislated thru
Statement on Protester Incident in Annapolis Valley news.novascotia.ca/en/2026/07/1...
Wow, the Canadian soccer players are built like Greek statues* *have been shat all over by birds
0/2 on the football today, hajmo Bosno!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a5B...
Dubioza kolektiv "U.S.A." (Official video)
YouTube video by Dubioza kolektiv
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Guy Ritchie's Amadeus in theaters everywhere this December
Y’ALL heard of this Mozart guy? Good at the piano
After spending a week in a record-breaking heatwave, my stability (the urge to stab) was, indeed, at an all-time high! Fucken embarrassing decision by our leaders.
Canada will not hit carbon emission reduction targets set under the Trudeau government, Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a video posted to YouTube. He argued that downgrading the country’s climate-change ambitions is necessary for global stability and national unity.
I have learned two very important pieces of information today: 1. the football starts at 10.00 in Vancouver 2. my upstairs neighbours are Brazilian
PYTHON, YOU LIME-FACED SONOFABITCH, WHERE ARE MY VARIABLES. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING? ORIENT MY GODDAMN OBJECTS, YOU SCALE-ASS FUCK.
In my defence, I am achingly jet-lagged and the scones d'urgence seemed like a good idea at the time
Leo: You will do 6 impossible things before breakfast, 5 improbable things before lunch and finish up with 8923 stupid things before dinner.
In honour of Victor Hugo, I spent the weekend in Paris being misérable
A suspiciously murder-free Swedish midsommar ...so far
On a rogue bus in France where the driver is staging a one-man formula one around traffic. Allons-y, tabarnaaaaaaaac
Behold! My poster! Come see me at 0474 to hear way more about bagpipe music than you ever thought possible. Or don't. I'm not the cops. #OHBM2026
Just brought my most-used trousers back from the brink YET AGAIN with the magic of stubbornness and hand sewing. I AM ALL-POWERFUL.
Oh thank Christ, something to point at when asked about the national AI strategy. It's bad and its proponents should feel bad!
We all hate it. thewalrus.ca/canada-ai-pl...