Saskia de Vries
🏳️🌈🧠🔬🚴♀️ Neuroscientist. Associate Director of Data and Outreach at Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Focused on how we do Science in the Open. She/her.
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- We said goodbye to our sweet pup Hobbes yesterday. We miss him so much.
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- If you’re at #Cosyne2025 come check out some of the work from the Allen Institute.
- We're going to be at the @cosynemeeting.bsky.social! We'd love to meet you at our #Cosyne2025 posters, talks, and workshops. Some highlights below. 👇🧵
- How many authenticator apps does one person need?
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- Fielding good ice breaker questions for the start of my course tomorrow Last semester we did “if you were a potato how would you like to be prepared for a meal and why” Taking new suggestions
- What’s your mundane superpower? Mine is accurately pinching a teaspoon of salt.
- Applications to SWDB 2025 are due February 1st! Tell all your grad student and postdoc friends to apply!
- Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...
- I biked 2250 miles this year. 591 was for recreation, the rest was commuting and errands. Compare this to 2951 miles that I drove (half of our shared car’s mileage, probably overestimating my share of the miles)
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View full threadMy running stats aren’t impressive - only 105 miles. But I did manage to run in 7 different cities: Seattle, Lisbon, Paris, Kigali, Woods Hole, Friday Harbor, and Chicago.
- Spotify managed to shuffle my running playlist such that one song was played every time I ran, leaving me with P!nk’s “Raise you glass” as my top played song, despite it not being remotely close to my favorite song. But the # plays matches my # runs exactly. Obviously I need a new running playlist!
- Don’t applaud my low carbon footprint too fast, though. I also flew 56,453 miles.
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- I am still not over Celine Dion’s performance at the Paris Olympics.
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- This was such a fun conversation on open science and collaboration! Thanks @grimalkina.bsky.social and @analog-ashley.bsky.social for having me on the podcast! 🧠🧪
- "Hope is other people" Our newest Change, Technically is about open science but it's also about distributed collaboration and how we get to the science of the future ❤️🚀 Featuring the amazing @sejdevries.bsky.social from the Allen Institute! www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
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- - lab culture and values - what’s going well
- Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...
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- This is mine too!
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- Evergreen tweet: whenever 🇺🇸 plays 🇳🇱 in soccer I never know which part of my identity to root for. Turns out I root for the part of me that is us a former goalie. Especially today!
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- Durkan Speedway strikes again
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- We don’t need a “solution” to a fabricated “problem”
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- And since when have they had a healthy conversation about trans people?
- Time to bring over a thread from when I read Case Vanderwolf’s autobiography. Notice already strong “brain from inside out” vibes… 😉 #neuroskyence
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- A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through. 1/n
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- Check out these open positions! The neuro community at UW is amazing and I benefit from having awesome scientists and collaborators across the lake!
- NBIO is hiring. You should come work with us. apply.interfolio.com/155882
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- Can you add me to this list please? Thanks!
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- Last year I taught a graduate seminar, "Computational neuroscience in practice", which invited experimental neuroscientists to think computationally about their data. Reflecting on it, the class helped me better appreciate the inherent challenges of this enterprise.
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- Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education. openstax.org/details/book...
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- Is anyone planning on running for Strauss’ seat when he’s up for reelection? I’m interested in helping whoever does.
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- They are gorgeous! I don’t like when they hammer on my chimney, but otherwise love them.
- Just put together the beginnings of a systems & behavior neuro starter pack (focus on rodent work) - obviously a lot of people missing, and most included are in my own little bubble, so if you want to be added do reply here! go.bsky.app/Hxpe53oat://did:plc:d2huhi4cub57pczayu4piml6/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lamyw62hes2n
- I’d love to be added!
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- I’d love to be on it!
- Defenseless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. W.H. Auden
- There is a unique joy when you get asked to provide a reference for someone you think the world of.
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- Absolutely, yes!
- Here’s 9 The British Museum The Louvre The Pergamon The Air and Space Museum The Vasa Museum NYC Met Museum of Flight Porsche Museum Toyota Museum of Science and Industry
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- I once spent a wonderful day going through Tuner watercolors in their collection.
- Van Gogh Museum Mass MOCA The Tate - specifically the Turner wing.
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- But will you send me money?
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