Nivedita Sarveswaran

@neuroniv.bsky.social

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Postdoc in pain genetics & nociceptor biology @TheCIMR | via @biokent @UCLQSIoN @YaleMed | 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇱🇰

Close up view of cake with creamy yellow icing, sprinkled with green lime zest.
View through a stone window with ornate edges, revealing a sunlit garden below.
A monastery with domes and towers by a still river under a cloudy sky at dusk.
Grilled octopus tentacles on creamy white mashed potatoes, garnished with chopped pistachios and parsley, drizzled with green sauce on a black oval plate.
Bright lilac ovals followed by green streaks like shooting stars on a black backdrop with dimmer green and blue spots.
Professor speaks to a crowd of faculty at a pub “Life in academia can be thankless”
A pile of dishes toppled over in a glass cabinet, kept from falling and breaking only by the thin door being shut.
Base of creamy risotto with sliced glassy onions and fennel, green parsley stirred through. Topped with cubed pancetta, tiny thyme leaves and ground black pepper.
Brass bottle opener with Cambridge University crest carved on top.
Chef sees rat cooking in Ratatouille movie playing on laptop. Ratatouille recipe from cookbook open on table, courgette on chopping board. Eggplant and red bell pepper in large bowl.
Phase contrast image of ND7/23 cells, with 3-pointed “star-like” cells with a bright outline, and larger, dimmer cells with big circular nuclei.
A cobblestone street lined with terracotta planters on the floor and green shutters along the stone building fronts.
Kitten on a stone doorstep in Mallorca
3 reposts of @christlet’s post in quick succession: “Historians of science agree that the postdoc was invented just after the Western blot, as even the inventor wouldn't want to run one”
Tweet from @MatthewBurnsid7: the secret to writing is writing. look, i'm not happy about it either.
Highlighted text from Santiago Ramon y Cajal’s ‘Advice for a Young Investigator’: "A well-chosen word can save an enormous amount of thought," because to name is to classify, to establish ideal affiliations-analogous relationships between little-known phenomena, and to identify the general idea or principle wherein they lie latent, like the tree within its seed.
Neurons cultured in a dish.
Vanilla and raspberry sponge cake with icing, dried rose petals and raspberries on top.
First page of the Introduction in Santiago Ramon y Cajal’s book ‘Advice for a Young Investigator’ with highlighted text: “major sources of knowledge include observation, experiment, and reasoning by induction and deduction … for the last hundred years the natural sciences have abandoned completely the Aristotelian principles of intuition, inspiration, and dogmatism.”
Two books on lap - Free Agents by Kevin Mitchell, and Advice for a Young Investigator by Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Screen capture of the character Inigo Montoya from the movie Princess Bride with quote and caption: “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Remember Inigo Montoya: 1. Polite greeting 2. Name 3. Relevant personal link 4. Manage expectations
A plate of chips next to a watercolour sketch of an old brick doorway
Sheet of stickers for tubes labelled “HA”
Two panels of a cartoon man, first arms crossed looking frustrated, second throws his arms in the air shouting “I guess!”
Two squares of chocolate cake with cream and cherry filling on a plate.
Pack of TimTam chocolate biscuits
Zebra striped ribbon pin on lanyard to raise awareness for rare disease patients.
Tweet by @AlexAndBooks_ “If you’re overthinking, write. If you’re underthinking, read.”
A broken layer of cake
Recipe book ‘Pulp’ by Abra Berens.
Pile of recipe books
Bacterial colonies on agar plates
WiFi password for the old Cambridge Union Bar - Stephen WiFry
Book cover for The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist, a plain pastel green background.