Sarah Faber

@sciencebanshee.bsky.social

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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.

Image of Steve Buschemi with a hastily scribbled on Cordovan hat, and 'Música/banda' t-shirt
Image of Steve Buschemi with a hastily scribbled on Breton striped shirt, moustache, and beret
A photo of a slide that says "AAHH, A SNAKE: Head over to the colab notebook and we'll play in python" Accompanying the text is a sick illustration of a snake rendered in bold lime green with a forked burgundy tongue. The style is unapologetic in its use of straight lines, drawing clear influence from the abstract expressionists of the 20th century. The snake is also hissing. You can tell because there is text that reads 'Hissssssssssss' right next to it.
A slide from a presentation that reads "What is data hygiene? And why does it matter?" with an accompanying photo from Ali Brosh's "Hyperbole and a half" of the artist triumphantly screaming 'CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!'
Me and my father wearing flower crowns and posing elegantly for the camera
My hand holding a fan in front of my poster. You should stop by and chat about exploring complexity in the social brain!
A photo of my frowning face in front of an academic poster that reads 'exploring complexity in the social brain'. You should drop by!
Image of former prime minister Justin Trudeau saying "We don't want to be here" at a press conference with ministers Mélanie Joly and Dominic LeBlanc in the background
Two small watercolour paintings of jellyfish, one blue and green, the other shades of red. I had a fun time with all the various arms and tentacles
A screen with a talk title side 'the neutral bases of prediction in music and speech' and my legs in the aforementioned fancy pyjamas. They're a dark blue silk with a vivid pattern of monkeys, birds leaves, butterflies, and flowers
An image from a word document. The heading reads "And now: The Paper!" followed by "Humans are social creatures. Even scientists."
A lunch spread (on a Marimekko tablecloth) including two karjalanpiirakkat with egg butter, a cup of tea, a can of raspberry soda, and a rye bread salmon sandwich
A screaming llama standing majestically in a field with some stone foundations in the background
The video is a 3 Dimensional scatter plot with the points emerging every second. The points describe music data related to the song Disco Funk Therapy by the band Zieferblat
A 3-d scatter plot that's currently a mess of asterisks connected by a dotted line. The title is "The Musicfold" and the axes are labelled Dimension 1-Dimension 3
Two photos of actors Karl Urban and Cate Blanchett. In the first photos, they're their (heroic) characters in Lord of the Rings. In the second, we see their (villainous) characters from Thor: Ragnarok
A google Canada search that reads "How to fight a skeet"
A photo of a concerned-looking Céline Dion on the telephone. Perhaps calling French Canadian Jesus to ask about this here hockey game
The "epic handshake meme" showing two muscly arms with hands clasped in a tender embrace. One arm reads "Trans nerds", the other arm reads "cis nerds", at the clasped hands, there is a caption reading "Being hilarious in the replies"
A gif of villainess Cruella de Vil laughing while reading a newspaper in her sumptuously-appointed boudoir
Screenshot of a tweet by Sarah Osment (@sm_osment) that reads "today i asked my class to come up with a pair of terms that share a denotative meaning but whose connotative meanings differ and one student offered BUTT DIAL and BOOTY CALL anyway that student's the professor now"
A photo of Canada Post permanent stamps that depict cans of maple syrup. The stamps are in the shapes of the cans!!
A handful of mini eggs partially crushed in a marble mortar and pestle
Photo of a freezer drawer with a bag labelled "Emergency Scones"
An Easter card (that reads 'Happy Easter') and an envelope addressed to Dr and Mr Sarah and Adam Faber
A pan of rolls fresh out of the oven and glistening (you hear me, GLISTENING) with butter
Image from the film "The Life Aquatic" where the main character (the explorer, Steve Zissou) is seated on a stage and answering questions. He is asked "What would be the scientific purpose of killing it?" to which he responds "Revenge"
A tin of small saffron-pistachio cookies (they are DELICIOUS). The tin says 'Iran: Iran has a long history of scholarship that has created a rich culture of art, literature, poetry, music, cuisine, and architecture.'
A pie chart with a single variable, "it". The title of the chart is "Things you love to see"
Close up of my thumbs playing the ascending major theme from Nine Inch Nails' 'Closer' on a kalimba (thumb piano)
comments from a block of code that reads "Lord protect this script and all who dwell within this script, forever and ever, amen."
A two-panel comic of a goose (from Untitled Goose Game). In the first panel, the goose has its head thrown back with the caption *inhales*. In the second panel, the goose has its head forward, eyes an all-seeing, glowing red. Its beak is open forming the terrible "HONK". All tremble in fear and reverence.
A photo of my new glasses. They're round and have a titanium frame with tortoiseshell lining. I think they're snazzy
A small watercolour painting of ocean waves rendered in various shades/washes of indigo and ultramarine blue with white highlights. I'm pretty pleased with it!
Image of a cat wearing a wizard hat (it's actually a party hat, but we're pretending) with a photoshop wand casting a cloud of colourful scribbles with the caption "WOOSH. YOU HAVE My love and support"
A slide that reads "Why is time important?" with a photo of Captain Jean-Luc Picard with open arms. The slide has bullet points that read: Much of human behaviour relies on time Time is a growing area of interest in (cognitive) neuroscience (Calhoun et al., 2014-now; Sporns et al., 2021-now; Faskowitz et al., 2022) As well as the limitations of canonical networks (Uddin et al., 2019; me et al., 2025)
A navy ball cap with Cyrillic text that reads 'glupaya kanadskaya ptitsa-volk'
Me, looking amazing in my new coat. It's a duffel coat with a faux fur collar, toggles, and patterned with ribbons and floral motifs that your Eastern European granny would love.
An image of the three plastics from Mean Girls in Regina's convertible
A meme from the Simpsons of Lisa yelling at Ralph on television. The Finnish flag is over Lisa and the American flag is over Ralph. Bart's hand is in the foreground with the caption 'you can actually pinpoint the second when his heart rips in half'
A screenshot of the word "yeasty" from the Merriam-Webster "Your 2026 Word" gif-divination-thing
A photo of me (a lady with long hair and glasses) wearing a Finnish hockey jersey with the finest crest in the entire league: a lion wearing a crown and stabbing itself in the face with a sword
A photo of a framed tea towel with a hand-written recipe for strawberry squares on it. In the foreground is my sister's arm/hand holding up a pan of strawberry squares
A giant moose head with glowing red eyes and smoke coming out of the nostrils
A photo of a woman (me) with glasses and long hair grinning with a bear head over my left shoulder. The bear (Denise) also seems to be grinning. We're having a great time
A tweet from @shantique on July 26, 2018 that reads, "Please y'all. Stop using Cohen's "Hallelujah" at candle light vigils unless it is a vigil for a once beautiful and innately sexual relationship dying a slow death. If it is...carry on."
A chart I have made showing my ability to cope with stressors over my proximity to a Vietnamese restaurant. The line describes a perfect 45 degree slope up. The x axis (Proximity to a Vietnamese restaurant) labels read: Seated inside, Nearby, a pleasant walk away, an annoying bus ride away, very far indeed The y axis (Ability to cope with stressors) labels read: Does stress even exist?, well, decent, *nervous fake laughter, someone is getting stabbed
My hand holding a Karjalanpiiraka (a Karelian hand pie, a rich rice pudding inside an unleavened crimped rye crust) before it's baked.
The same tableau as the previous photo, but now I have the outside sides of the dough folded over the filling
A wooden cuttng board with a knife, a bowl of flour, and a rolling pin. In the background is a tea towel-covered baking sheet and a pot of the white substance from the first photo. It's lumpy! My hands are in the shot holding a disc of dough. There is a blob of filling in the middle of it
A pot on a stove with a thick white substance in it (in the photo, the substance is supporting a wooden spoon standing straight up out of the pot)
An illustration of an insect in a bed (I assume it's from The Metamorphoses - either this is a man-sized bug, or a bug-sized bed) with the text "Oh Hell Yes. Oh Fuck Yes."
Two trays of mini chocolate bars sitting on ice sorted by type with parsley between them. Between the trays is an empty tea mug and a scale. The Rankins is playing at an absolutely ear-shattering volume in the background
Adam in our apartment entryway decorated to look like a fish market. We have scallops, clans, lobster... Drop down!
A slide showing a bunch of illustrated brains arranged in two circles with a bunch of lines connecting the different brains. It's very messy-looking and there is zalgo text over the plot that reads "Be not afraid". I think it will be reassuring!
A llama standing in a grassy clearing screaming in a very human, very "WHAT THE FUCKKKK" way
Cover of the book Colour: A natural history of the palette by Victoria Finlay
A photo of me looking enterprisingly at a cookie the size of my face. I'm holding it close to my face for scale and it's absolutely lousy with milk and dark chocolate chunks and bits of coarse sugar and sea salt. I am pleased to report it tastes exactly how it looks
An image of a bird repeated three times, beak open in what could be rage, excitement, or despair with "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" repeated across the entire background
An image of Thomas the Tank Engine with a frowny face and the caption "Thomas has never seen such bullshit before"