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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 5h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 8h

#outreach #nwnoggin 🤓

LEARN MORE 🎨🧠💚😍👉🏼 nwnoggin.org

#brains #art #education #teaching #learning #joy #curiosity #goplaces #allvolunteer 😎

Students examining specimens and pipe cleaner brain cells and asking their own questions 🤓

Students and noggin volunteers examining specimens and asking their own questions 🤓

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 12h

Hold the date! 🎉!!

SATURDAY MARCH 7 is #nogginfest 26 😍👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

Make art! Enjoy music! Discover research! Ask questions! Hold BRAINS! 😃

The largest student-run, accessible, FREE, all ages, public celebration of music, art, research & neuroscience in the Pacific Northwest! 😉

Scenes from NogginFest 2025, and details on date/location:

Saturday, March 7
Leaven Community Center
Portland, Oregon

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 1d

#portlandoregon 💚
#cityofbrains #art 🎨🧠🤓

LEARN MORE 😍👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/2025/10/03/p...

Ceiling mural of the hippocampus at Portland State University

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 3d

Why/How do we dream?
Why do we stay still when sleeping?
How does lucid dreaming happen?
Can neurons be different sizes?
Why does the brain exist?
How do we learn?
What do different brain parts do? Can we live without it?

GREAT questions 🎨🧠👏🤓

LEARN MORE 😎👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

4th graders approaching noggin specimens and pipe cleaner brain cells with **many** questions 😍

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 4d

Clearly! 🥴🙄🐸

Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 4d

We 💚💚 #outreach 😍🎉

THANK YOU #nwnoggin volunteers 🎨🧠💚😃

And thank you Asa, Jeremy & curious 4th graders! Had a GREAT time making art, examining brains, discussing questions, delivering shocks (😅) & exploring community w/beach balls & yarn!

LEARN MORE 🤗👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

Noggin volunteers and 4th graders in Portland public schools 😃

4th graders wearing neuron hats and holding pipe cleaner neurons

4th grader very surprised to be holding and examining a noggin - the questions then poured forth!

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 5d

"Make the proof" colloquial phrase that means fabrication of data

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 5d

TODAY 🎨🧠💚🤓🎉!!

#nwnoggin #outreach in Portland Public Schools 😃👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

#brains #art #teaching #learning #neuroscience #goplaces #allvolunteer 🤗

Students learning about the electrical nature of information flow in neurons and muscle using the Human to Human interface from Backyard Brains 🤓

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 8d

NEW POST 🎨🧠💚🤓🎉!!

“When the image is new, the world is new.” –Gaston Bachelard

Check out the new student mural of the #hippocampus @portlandstate.bsky.social 😍👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/2025/10/03/p...

Placemaking @ Portland State with Interdisciplinary Neuroscience and #nwnoggin 😎

Students from the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Association at PSU painting a mural of the hippocampus 🤓

The human brain, with arrows and text indicating the location of the hippocampus 🤓

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 9d

Late tonight, a federal judge issued a sweeping new order prohibiting the president from deploying any National Guard forces—from any state or DC—to Oregon.

The president cannot keep playing whack-a-mole with different states’ Guard units to get around court orders and the rule of law.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9d

I believe that we are many,
And I believe that they are few.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 9d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 9d

This week 🧠🎨😃💚

#nwnoggin #art #brains #questions #neuroscience @ Portland Public Schools 🤓👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

#goplaces #sharestories #makeart #askquestions #allvolunteer 😉

Kids examining specimens and asking their own questions about the brain and brain research 😎

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9d

That's assault

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The anti-ICE protester, 19, was hurling insults but standing still when she was sprayed.

www.oregonlive.com

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14d

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14d

Sending thoughts & prayers to the war-ravaged city of Portland, Oregon now under siege from attack by Antifa & other domestic terrorists. Take solace in dear leader's words: "Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen." (and "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL"). Let the healing begin...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15d

Kudos to the state of Oregon for immediately fighting back against Trump’s authoritarianism.

Tyranny is only possible when we submit to it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/oregon-sues-trump-administration-deployment-national-guard-troops-port-rcna234307

Oregon sues Trump administration over deployment of National Guard troops to Portland

The suit comes a day after Trump announced he was authorizing the guard to use "full force" in Portland.

www.nbcnews.com

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 16d

#santiagoramonycajal #hippocampus 🎨🧠🔥

#nwnoggin + Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Association @ Portland State University 🎨🧠🤓💚

German shepherd with new hippocampus mural at Portland State University 🤓

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 17d

@npr.org 🙄🙄🙄 @opb.org can you let them know? 🙃

Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 17d

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 17d

Where is the opposition to ALL of this? 👀🤬🤬

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17d

This. Where are their voices?

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 17d

Would be great to see today statements denouncing the invasion of Portland by:
- All Dem govs
- All Dems AGs
- Senate and House Dems
We have to denounce, attack, challenge immediately and defend the American people from this dangerous man.

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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 17d

#portlandoregon 💚🍩💚