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We are delighted to introduce our new curator this week, Professor Jennifer L. Martin. Prof. Martin is Director of the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery – GRIDD (formerly Eskitis Institute) at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Jenny...
We hope you enjoyed Brain Awareness Week and our tree excellence curators! We’re heading over to Belgium now, to meet our new curator, Dr. César A. Urbina-Blanco. Dr. César A. Urbina-Blanco (@Cesapo) is a...
Our last curator for Brain Awareness Week is Marina Picciotto (@MarinaP63). Marina is a Professor in Psychiatry, Deputy Chair for Basic Science and Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology at Yale University. Her lab studies the...
For our second Brain Awareness Week curator, we’re excited to have Mo Costandi (@mocost), freelance science writer based in London, UK. Mo trained as a molecular and developmental neurobiologist and now works as a freelance...
For our first Brain Awareness Week curator, we’re excited to welcome Sophie Scott (@sophiescott), Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL in London, UK. Sophie studies the neurobiology of speech perception and the evolution of...
Every year the Dana Foundation (@dana_fdn) coordinates the Brain Awareness Week, BAW – a week long global awareness campaign for everything related to the brain. Here at Real Scientists we decided to bring in...
In mid-January we were joined by Dan Gillis (@DrDanielGillis), Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science, at the University of Guelph, Canada. Amongst the many fascinating topics that Dan covered during the week, we really enjoyed...
This week we’re happy to welcome Nancy Miorelli (@SciBugs) to Real Scientists! Nancy is a Guide and Science Communicator at the Maquipucuna Reserve and Ecolodge in Quito, Ecuador. We asked Nancy our usual set...
This week has seen some more intense discussions and more off-topic conversations than usual. Some of it has left some of our followers angry or frustrated and we would like to address this before...