Kevin Wright
@kevinmawright.bsky.social
Neuroscientist: Dystroglycan, synapses, retina development/function (not necessarily in that order) Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at OHSU. Opinions are my own.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Out today, we can now multiplex receptor mapping at synapses thanks to a dimeric gold nanoparticle label optimized by Hoyoung that's distinguishable from monomers!
Dimeric gold nanoparticles enable multiplexed labeling in cryoelectron tomography | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Dimeric gold nanoparticles enable multiplexed labeling in cryoelectron tomography | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Out today, we can now multiplex receptor mapping at synapses thanks to a dimeric gold nanoparticle label optimized by Hoyoung that's distinguishable from monomers!
Dimeric gold nanoparticles enable multiplexed labeling in cryoelectron tomography | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Dimeric gold nanoparticles enable multiplexed labeling in cryoelectron tomography | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In case anyone is wondering why gov't spending is higher this year despite all the cuts trump has made....
NEW: ICE had initially planned a limited pilot program to hire bounty hunters and private investigators for immigrant tracking.
The agency has now scrapped that plan and is going all-in, removing the program’s spending cap and offering up to $280M to any given contractor.
From @dell.bsky.social
The agency has now scrapped that plan and is going all-in, removing the program’s spending cap and offering up to $280M to any given contractor.
From @dell.bsky.social
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In case anyone is wondering why gov't spending is higher this year despite all the cuts trump has made....
let me guess.....they're gonna roll it out in 2 weeks?
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
let me guess.....they're gonna roll it out in 2 weeks?
we're supposed to be hosting thanksgiving at our house this year, so of course one of the kids just came down with the flu.
a man in a plaid shirt is smiling and laughing .
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is smiling and laughing .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
we're supposed to be hosting thanksgiving at our house this year, so of course one of the kids just came down with the flu.
Two of the stupidist men alive marveling at making a racist chatbot. What a bunch of pathetic losers.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Two of the stupidist men alive marveling at making a racist chatbot. What a bunch of pathetic losers.
LOL. LMAO even.
Incompetence strikes again! Might be the only thing that saves this country....
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Incompetence strikes again! Might be the only thing that saves this country....
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Judge tosses cases against Comey and James, rules prosecutor appointment unlawful
The decision disqualifying Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney sets back Trump’s efforts to use the Justice Department to target perceived rivals.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
LOL. LMAO even.
Incompetence strikes again! Might be the only thing that saves this country....
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Incompetence strikes again! Might be the only thing that saves this country....
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
The irony of him saying this, while all roided up on T…
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The irony of him saying this, while all roided up on T…
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I will be co-teaching a summer course at Allen Institute on connectomics education please apply. Travel support, new connectomics data sets and learning directly from the scientists who built these datasets. Details here: alleninstitute.org/events/incor...
Incorporating open connectomics data into teaching neuroscience
Learn to analyze open neuroscience data and introduce dry lab modules into your existing classes at the Incorporating Open Connectomics data into...
alleninstitute.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I will be co-teaching a summer course at Allen Institute on connectomics education please apply. Travel support, new connectomics data sets and learning directly from the scientists who built these datasets. Details here: alleninstitute.org/events/incor...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress in 2021 worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later worth around $25,000,000. 😳 Congress is just a giant insider-trading scheme.
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress in 2021 worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later worth around $25,000,000. 😳 Congress is just a giant insider-trading scheme.
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Gatekeeping by demanding expensive technology or approaches is the ancient tactic of the rich laboratory.
My favorite from an @hhmi.org scientist: “the great thing about optogenetics is it keeps the riff raff out of the field.”
Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦♀️
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Gatekeeping by demanding expensive technology or approaches is the ancient tactic of the rich laboratory.
That’s a yes
WELKER: Was this 28 point plan written by Russia?
BESSENT: I have no information on that
BESSENT: I have no information on that
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
That’s a yes
Just a squirrel, eating a mushroom
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Just a squirrel, eating a mushroom
🎶 “you can call me fascist, and fascist when you call me, you can call me Al”🎶
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
🎶 “you can call me fascist, and fascist when you call me, you can call me Al”🎶
I’m rooting for a Mean Girls style Burn Book on her way out…
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I’m rooting for a Mean Girls style Burn Book on her way out…
Huh. Did NOT see that coming
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Huh. Did NOT see that coming
see if you can spot when Citizens United happened
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
see if you can spot when Citizens United happened
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NIH LRP application due date extended to Dec 4th. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-010: Notice of Change in Application Due Date for NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Program
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Change in Application Due Date for NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Program NOT-OD-26-010. OD
grants.nih.gov
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
NIH LRP application due date extended to Dec 4th. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Man. trump is really bad at this economy stuff.
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Man. trump is really bad at this economy stuff.
what the fuck are we even doing here?
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
what the fuck are we even doing here?
Really enjoying Death by Lightning. Matthew Macfadyen is especially good playing Charles Guiteau as the Laura Loomer of the 1880s.
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Really enjoying Death by Lightning. Matthew Macfadyen is especially good playing Charles Guiteau as the Laura Loomer of the 1880s.
So. Can RFK jr be impeached yet?
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
So. Can RFK jr be impeached yet?
Oh come on man. You are not stupid enough to believe what you are saying. I mean, Kilmeade definitely is, but Cassidy knows damn well that this is bullshit.
Cassidy: "If she goes and gets 2 types of shampoo & one is a dollar cheaper, she'll get the cheaper one & the other lowers their price. Once you give her the power of making the decision, she's gonna shop -- that begins to save her money and squeezes waste out of the healthcare system."
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Oh come on man. You are not stupid enough to believe what you are saying. I mean, Kilmeade definitely is, but Cassidy knows damn well that this is bullshit.