ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

#introduction
Hi everyone,
I am Nila. I am a neuroscientist & currently a Postdoc in Rainer Friedrich's lab at FMI. I study the circuit of the olfactory bulb in the adult zebrafish using a connectomic approach. Recently I have been a bit sidetracked by telencephalic temptations...

I am here to keep up to date and exchange with the scientific community. But I love to have my mind blown by anything nature. So, I am hoping to learn many fun facts outside of my horizons (& to see many beautiful images as well).
I am a first-gen academic which has sometimes been a struggle (mostly in my mind). Topics of open access, social mobility & justice are important to me, and I do have to learn a lot there.
Parenting 3 little humans doesn't leave much energy for hobbies but running is my lifeline.

me: kids, I remember when soap came in a bar

soap: *from living room* it was ONE TIME, and I was in a very bad place

Ever had sex while camping?

It’s fucking in tents!

@ScottSoCal @LizardSF https://giphy.com/gifs/mlxlN37Do4nIY

A Modest Proposal

@MariaHill

As a super liberal who is surrounded by super liberals, not one time has anyone ever identified gas stoves as our next hill to do battle.
We’re all still caught up with disenfranchised voters and the right to our bodily privacy etc.

The year is 2072, civilization has been wiped out. Only small pockets of humanity remain. But in the dark back kitchen of a former Olive Garden® the Never-Ending Pasta Bowls® are bubbling over with Ravioli, Penne and Stuffed Shells.

I'd feel hella awkward tagging Neil Gaiman to tell him I read his book. But just every other author I enjoy, I quietly check to see if they're on mastodon because I want to give a fist bump. No luck yet!
Is there an author index somewhere?

#bookstodon #authors

No, America, I'm not mad.
More completely disappointed.

#thinkingcap

I kinda liked it better when racists were ashamed and stayed in the closet.

I don’t know about you all, but every time I see a picture of #GeorgeSantos, I get *serial killer vibes*.

I know, I know. It’s just my own prejudices and biases… But yeah, serial killer all the way… 😬🤷🏻‍♀️

#USPolitics #Politics #humor #SerialKillerVibes

“Daddy what is this cable?”

“Oh that’s called a parallel cable. A DB-25 if I remember correctly.”

“What do you use it for?”

“Literally nothing.”

“Are you going to throw it away then?”

“Absolutely not.”

I’m old enough to remember the first TED talk.
It was most excellent.

Day 15 #ArtJanuaryCalendar, oil on canvas, #boots and #wine #artist #ArtistsOfMastodon #MastoArt #cowboys