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Ingrid Olson

@ingridsbrain

Neuroscientist, obsessed with neural white matter and plasticity, lover of all things Michigan related, #uofm

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I've done cognitive training studies. I 100% do not believe these effects (for reasons obvious to anyone who knows this literature).

10.02.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lawn darts? It gets better. The best part of my elementary school was Show-and-Tell. We were all jealous of the kids who brought in their Christmas cross bows. Every few years there would be a hunting related injury - a lost eye, a shot-off toe.

08.02.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Twin cities resident here.  Why is the NY Times using their resources to interview and write this article where rural people are bashing the Twin Cities.  We are under invasion by ice agents.  There was another shooting last night.  People are getting dragged out of their houses.  US citizens are being detained.  They are pulling people over indiscriminately just because they look a certain way.   There is so much bad stuff happening and the news is not even capturing the full extent.  Please spend more resources covering this.  Not interviewing people who do not understand what is happening.  What is happening here is terrifying and needs to be the front page of every newspaper.  National news does not seem to be getting it.   All NY Times resources in Mn need to be spent on documenting the brutal behavior of the Feds.  People need to understand what could be coming to them.

Here in the Twin Cities I feel like we have been completely abandoned by government.  Local governments are unable to stop the brutalisation of their residents.   It is traumatic and it is institutional betrayal.

Twin cities resident here. Why is the NY Times using their resources to interview and write this article where rural people are bashing the Twin Cities. We are under invasion by ice agents. There was another shooting last night. People are getting dragged out of their houses. US citizens are being detained. They are pulling people over indiscriminately just because they look a certain way. There is so much bad stuff happening and the news is not even capturing the full extent. Please spend more resources covering this. Not interviewing people who do not understand what is happening. What is happening here is terrifying and needs to be the front page of every newspaper. National news does not seem to be getting it. All NY Times resources in Mn need to be spent on documenting the brutal behavior of the Feds. People need to understand what could be coming to them. Here in the Twin Cities I feel like we have been completely abandoned by government. Local governments are unable to stop the brutalisation of their residents. It is traumatic and it is institutional betrayal.

Read your comment section, NYT.

15.01.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 1725 πŸ” 443 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 17

Also, making us completely redo our syllabi and all readings with little to no support. But hey, we have the Calm app now!

10.10.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The 2025 Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Single Cell Analysis Meetings are here. This is the longest running single cell meeting, started in 2009. Please register and send an abstract!

with
streetslab.berkeley.edu
β€ͺ@saukaspengler.bsky.social‬

meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

25.08.2025 14:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pattern separation and pattern completion in early childhood | PNAS Pattern separation, or distinguishing similar experiences from one another, and pattern completion, in which components of an experience prompt ret...

Great paper by @noranewcombe.bsky.social et al. on Pattern separation and pattern completion in early childhood. Predict that autistic children would have trouble with holistic, not with detail episodic memory (according to WCC hypothesis).
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

19.03.2025 11:50 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing work by Dr. Yin Wang, Jamie Reilly, Haroon Popal, and others. The scale of this work is breathtaking.

13.03.2025 23:16 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This resonated with me because I just had to fill out a BS travel request. Took 20 minutes. Some staffer then had to spend 20 minutes reviewing it. Such a waste of time and energy.

08.03.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Standing up for science in Philly!

07.03.2025 19:00 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

Chicago is one of my favorite cities! Congratulations!

22.02.2025 02:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is how it’s done.

21.02.2025 23:43 πŸ‘ 76963 πŸ” 10906 πŸ’¬ 2752 πŸ“Œ 545

Neuroscientists at UC Davis, Yale, and UC San Diego, go down the hall and ask that they stand up for your profession.

10.02.2025 20:16 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH.

GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.

Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

08.02.2025 01:24 πŸ‘ 706 πŸ” 379 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 22

Goes without saying for scientists:

This means Musk and his kids have access to grant applications, study section reports, internal scoring, RPPRs. The core of the best ideas in US science. Will they steal those ideas?

#scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth πŸ§ͺπŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬

05.02.2025 20:18 πŸ‘ 295 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 10

Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

05.02.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 3529 πŸ” 1601 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 31
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Paramus, NJ

05.02.2025 19:33 πŸ‘ 3518 πŸ” 558 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 18
A split image from Fox News Channel. On the left, Trump in a suit and blue tie is speaking at a podium with a microphone. On the right, two images show extensive destruction and rubble in what appears to be a war-torn area, the Gaza Strip. The text at the bottom reads, 'Trump says US will β€˜take over’ Gaza Strip and rebuild it to stabilize Middle East.

A split image from Fox News Channel. On the left, Trump in a suit and blue tie is speaking at a podium with a microphone. On the right, two images show extensive destruction and rubble in what appears to be a war-torn area, the Gaza Strip. The text at the bottom reads, 'Trump says US will β€˜take over’ Gaza Strip and rebuild it to stabilize Middle East.

That protest voteΒ isn’tΒ working out so well.

05.02.2025 22:30 πŸ‘ 4945 πŸ” 423 πŸ’¬ 406 πŸ“Œ 53
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This is only the beginning.

27.01.2025 15:05 πŸ‘ 994 πŸ” 375 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 60
Letter reading, "Dear agency employees,
We are taking steps to close all agency DEIA offices and end all DEIA-related contracts 
in accordance with President Trump’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive 
Orders and Actions.
These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in 
shameful discrimination. 
We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to 
DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days. 
There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information. However, 
failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Janet Petro"

Letter reading, "Dear agency employees, We are taking steps to close all agency DEIA offices and end all DEIA-related contracts in accordance with President Trump’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions. These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination. We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days. There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information. However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Janet Petro"

Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. πŸ”­

22.01.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 4064 πŸ” 1766 πŸ’¬ 632 πŸ“Œ 1083
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Trump hits NIH with β€˜devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

β€œThe impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

22.01.2025 23:28 πŸ‘ 1022 πŸ” 726 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 128

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

22.01.2025 20:46 πŸ‘ 12267 πŸ” 4987 πŸ’¬ 586 πŸ“Œ 1165
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was β€˜a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences

I think pretty much everyone who might be concerned in UK science (plus interested newspaper readers like me, who have been following the story which goes back months) will understand what this is about. But for info: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

21.01.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you look much slimmer in powder blue

05.02.2024 21:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Are the costs are hidden? Seneca talked about gifts and favors as a sort of debt. To think otherwise is naive (it does make you wonder about universities and their relationships to billionaire donors).

11.01.2024 22:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My recent paper in Economic Journal:
In the Econ job market men and women are recommended differently: letters for women stress hard work, those for men more likely highlight brilliance. This affects job placement.
Link to Paper: t.co/HUieaMuERd
With Giovanni Facchini and Markus Eberhardt

27.10.2023 09:07 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5

Interesting how the Great Lakes States are pulling away from the rest of the Midwest.

08.11.2023 16:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
PhD Program PhD Program Overview The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience has four areas of specialization: Our doctoral training in Clinical Psycholog...

The Olson lab at Temple University is looking for new PhD students interested in doing research on the human cerebellum in affective and motivational states with clinical translation. If you know of anyone applying to grad school interested in this topic, please send them my way!

08.11.2023 16:03 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans - Nature Human Behaviour Kolibius et al. show that individual neurons in the human hippocampus code for particular episodic memories.

Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans.

The neurons don't code for a particular element in the episode (e.g., concept or time). They code for the conjunction of the different elements.

#neuroscience #psychology #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

05.10.2023 16:22 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Sometimes people hear that I work on the cerebellum, then contact me because they don't know how to interpret their unexpected findings. I just want to say "thank you". I'm grateful that folks are starting to pay attention to this structure! Also, I run a cerebellum journal club so reach out!

07.10.2023 18:42 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Mapping information flow between the inferotemporal and prefrontal cortices via neural oscillations in memory retrieval and maintenance
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#neuroscience

26.09.2023 19:24 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0