Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪

@nicoleackermans.com

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Assistant prof neuroscientist studying TBI in headbutters 🐏🐂🐐🪶 at U of Alabama CVN lab. Science correspondent for DTNS. I'll happily ID the random bone you found in the woods!

Bathroom sign
Hammerhead shark seen from the side with a googly eye and a gaping mouth
Character in animal crossing sitting amongst plants
Screenshot of an audio wave called H + N science
A stick insect clinging to a pot
Screenshot of bioarchive that says submission confirmation
Holding up an ice cream in front of a river
Goats drawn as crash test dummies
Dr Niki autographing a publication
Big nerdtacular 2026 banner with someone posing behind it
Six kinds of desert wildflowers. White, purple and yellow
A turquoise lizard with a yellow head and a very long tail
A number of cretinoid sheep and goats have already succeeded in learning the labyrinth
A cabin at night with a fire pit
Swamp
Selfie in Derby gear with a counter that says zero
Ebird list screenshot showing black and white warbler, American RedStart, bay breasted warbler and blackpoll warbler
Blade by D'Angelo and Francis. Screenshot of Apple music
Conservation seminar series Mississippi State University April 24th 1:00 p.m. knock on wood! Exploring brain damage in woodpeckers and other head hitters
A group of students in lab coat standing in front of a basilosaurus skeleton in a museum
Druid City Derby skate-a-thon fundraiser. The more laps we skate, the more you donate. Support your local Derby team! Provide one-time or perlap donation
Sunrise on the road
Students standing in an x shape holding streamers that are going to two balloons on either side of the room which represent the eyes
Students presenting auditory system jeopardy
Art poster of a person looking at the sun and burning. It says let the sunshine in your body. The sun, were looking into it
Pink version of the poster above
Too cool for a helmet? Donate your brain! Drawing of a skeleton riding in e-scooter crashing in its brain flying out. Over 2000 Americans dive TBI every year. Biu sa.com
Person pretending to kiss a taxidermy reindeer at the Vienna natural History museum
two sperm whales headbutting from Burslem et al. 2026
figure from a scientific journal of two sperm whales headbutting. Image from Burslem et al. 2026
Scientific publication depicting a woodpecker silhouette with a sphere and a line through it
Pencil sketch of a pig foot skeleton
world map of TBI rates and human development index.
Dr ackermans holding a baby goat in heart pyjamas
A sheet of gold star stickers
painting of jockeys on horses, all in the two legs in front and two legs behind posture
Muybridge series of pictures of a bird in flight
Dr. Ackermanna Dr. Reidenberg at the Alabama Museum of Natural History
Soto memories that's at 6 years ago today and it's a picture of a sheep dissection
Whiteboard with anatomy sucks written. But covered with anatomy fucks
Dr. A selfie at the beach
Dr A in front of a whale shark tank at the Georgia aquarium
A scientific poster about butterfly larva
A scientific poster called curiously Chromatic. On caeallians
A person wearing a blue suit with custom embroidered marine animals
Brendan Latham presents fly ear anatomy
Ananth presents on goat skulls
Sketch of a small shrew
Stephanie Smith and a presentation on shrews
At Audubon gift shop
Biomechanical function if cranial sutures in headbutting goats
Someone demonstrating leg anatomy on their own leg to someone else
Person with rainbow shoes and octopus shirt
Petting therapy dog
Presentation slide with medieval font
A subway car with the message grab Life by the claw
A watercolor station with postcards that say keep SICB weird
Crab hair clip
Person with a shark bag
Twi butter Ant notes