Marc Sommer
What is the brain?
Personal account, all views my own. Reposts meant as informative and not implying endorsement.
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- We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings. Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C... You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
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- Something that unsettles me here lately is that I have to look elsewhere for any sense of what’s happening in Ukraine, and what’s happening in Ukraine is very bad indeed.
- week 4? 5? of riding the stationary bike every weekday i'm finally getting over how boring and tiring it is and simply pedaling. listening to music while pedaling, writing dumb things in my phone while pedaling. closing my eyes, do nothing but pedaling. 15 minutes? flew by, let's do another 15
- me listening to Vince Guaraldi Trio all week
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- Today I'd like to honor the memory of my mentor and friend, Roger Tsien, born 1952 February 1. Today would have been Roger's 74th birthday. Most know Roger for his 2008 Chemistry Nobel Prize with Shimomura and Chalfie. Roger made GFP into the versatile imaging method it is now.
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- it's like SUPER cold for North Carolina today but I went to the farmer's market and on the way back I saw people 10+ years my senior, which is saying something, holding up NO ICE protest signs and I said hey fantastic job it's cold and they said "not as cold as in Minneapolis" blessed people
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- my favorite Catherine O'Hara performances were in For Your Consideration as the lead of a Christopher Guest comedy about chasing recognition, and as the voice of Judith, a rude needy monster in Where the Wild Things Are :'(
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- how can journals be charging extra for color figures in the year of our lord 2026
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- Excited to share our open-access work exploring a different approach to treating multiple sclerosis: inducing antigen-specific immune tolerance rather than broadly suppressing the immune system. Pub: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Substack: go.unc.edu/SStStiepelMS
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- It’s on ☃️
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- Just finished a marathon study section, engaged and tired. Enormous respect for my fellow reviewers. Infinite gratitude for our amazing SRO. Might get an NINC tattoo later. Greatest grant review system in the world. Hope it never dies.
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- Good news from NIH! Michael Chiang has apparently been reappointed as Director of the National Eye Institute www.nei.nih.gov/about/our-mi...
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- This week has been a roller coaster..but I’ll take the wins! 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Won’t entirely celebrate until I see a NoA as the A0 R01 score was 10% and it didn’t get funded.
- Remembering Krishna Shenoy, who died 3 years ago today. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
