Morgan (AskANeuroscientist)

@askaneuroscientist.bsky.social

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Neuro Ph.D. Student, science communicator, proud woman in STEM, avid crafter, amateur crossword puzzle maker💗💜💙🏳️‍🌈

Two people, the person receiving the Ph.D. And her mentor, in doctoral robes taking a selfie
Photo of the back of a shawl around a dress form, shawl reaches about halfway down the back. It’s an ombré grey to black
Photo of the album cover for quote Garth Brooks …. In the life of Chris Gaines end quote with a photo of a young emo Garth brooks
A photo of the poster’s lap with a laptop and white cat on her lap. A black cat is sleeping on top of the couch beside her.
Photo of an old man in front of a computer. The man is giving a thumbs up but his face says please unalive me now
Meme of a young woman helping an elderly woman with a walker. The old woman says quote you know, microscopes didn’t always have a tile scan feature, people had to be their own tile scanner end quote. The young woman says quite sure grandma, let’s get you to bed end quote
Screenshot of the page where you type out Bluesky posts. I’ve typed “ew” using at least 20 “w”s and a box popped up that says “are you writing in polish” with the option to add a translation
Screenshot of an email saying quote unfortunately based on the results of the online assessment that you have completed, we will not be advancing your application to the next step end quote and more info about retaking the assessment in a year
Cover of the T-Pain album on top of the covers, it’s a painting of T-Pain holding a rose in his mouth in front of a sunset
A crowd of women carrying signs that are shaped like flowers and say women’s rights, no war, save Gaza, cese el fuego, fair rate structure, cultura, respect, free and Palestine
Photo of a black backpack with a cardboard sign that says quote free snacks, water, and pads! Just ask smiley face to help me continue doing this, donate Venmo to at ask a neuroscientist end quote
Meme where the first panel is a guy really excitedly reaching for a ball that says quote graduating end quote and the second panel is the same guy sweating and being held back by a pink monster that says quote a new project that would be really freaking cool but would also take like two more years of my life end quote
Photo of a computer screen with a hella long job description, im so sorry for not typing all of it. But basically the FBI in Arizona put out a job posting for “education/teaching expertise”
An edit of the meme “then you haven’t known the triumph and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high-school football” but instead of high school football it says “trying to publish your first paper”
Screenshot showing that the movie Face Off starring Nicolas Cage and John Travolta came out June 1997
screenshot of paper going into great detail on how to care appropriately for your rats
screenshot of a paper saying that the rat colony is fed with quote table scraps supplied daily from a large hotel, thus insuring them a variety of nutritious food. In the case of animals used for experimental purposes, this diet was supplemented by whole milk and occasionally by other substances such as uncooked liver and greens end quote
Woman with pink hair standing in front of an empty conference room
Woman behind laptop smiling and talking
A man standing at the front of a large room with lots of people giving a talk using his laptop instead of a big screen
A screenshot from the website mentioned saying the stats for Oklahoma. The NIH awards funding 148 million dollars. Jobs supported 2,490. Economic activity supported 426 million dollars
Photo of a plate with breakfast potatoes, a sausage, and a yogurt parfait
Picture of Morgan on a plane. She is knitting something, no one knows what yet!
gif that says quote if you build it they will come end quote and the gif is a bunch of seals flip flopping across a floor, field, ocean, new york city, and dropping out of an airplane.
Photo of a stack of papers with quote science communication 101: finding your personal style of scicomm end quote written at the top
A photo of the outside of a building with the tiniest patch of snow you’ve ever seen
Video of ask a neuroscientist saying she was afraid to download rednote but she did it anyways because she’s an advocate for using social medias for science communication and actually rednote ended up being lit
Photo of a purple mug that says “in my stitching era” with embroidery floss inside of the mug
A picture of a paragraph in a textbook that states quote the concept that a released chemical could act as a transmitter was introduced by the British physician George Oliver and his colleague Edward Albert Schaefer, who in 1894 reported that the injection of an adrenal glad extract increases blood pressure parenthesis Sir Henry Dale claimed that Oliver discovered this by injecting the extract into his own son end parenthesis end quote
A bathroom full of shredded tissue paper with a very guilty looking cat in the corner
Image of 12 rat brain slices with some parts glowing green
Screenshot of a professional development workshop description. Important take-away is that Morgan (the person who posted this) will be speaking on communicating your science to non-scientists and finding where you can thrive in the science communication space
Screenshot of an email saying that the winter brain conference is looking for school outreach volunteers. The name of the school and time of visit is blurred for safety reasons.
Screenshot of ask a neuroscientist’s feed showing she has exactly 69 posts currently
Leonardo decal rip from the great gatsby raising a glass in a toast
Embroidered ghost holding a mug wearing a Santa hat
Screenshot of Brennan Lee Mulligan saying he’ll never not think about birds ever again
Tattoos of a Darwin fish and a phylogenetic tree with the words “I think” written above
Tortoise shell cat cuddling with human
Picture of epithelial cells under a microscope, forming the shape of a heart. I took this picture on Valentine’s Day!
Screenshot of search bar showing there’s no results for “grad school starter pack”