Ashley Juavinett, PhD
@ashleyjuavinett
Neuroscientist, educator, author of SO YOU WANT TO BE A NEUROSCIENTIST? (Columbia, 2020) & MIND OVER MATTER (Princeton TBD) // professor at ucsd // co-host of www.changetechnically.fyi // www.ashleyjuavinett.com // newsletter at graymatter.ghost.io
I have an announcement I’ve cloned myself AND have integrated my genome with that of a dire wolf and in doing so have created this creature We have the same eyes and passion for peanut butter it’s unbelievable
Entertaining to watch VS code try to guess what the next chapter of my book is To my delight it has been wrong every time
I'm so upset no one told me data visualizations like this were allowed did they generate this in python or
TODAY IS CAT'S BOOK RELEASE DAY! 📙 💫 The Psychology of Software Teams is aliiiiiiiiiive! I have a lot of days as a proud wife, but this is a top one. @grimalkina.bsky.social has worked for years on this book, from breakfast nooks at beautiful lakefront cabins to our sunny home in San Diego.
On our last Change, Technically episode, I worked with @grimalkina.bsky.social to develop a plan to learn how to skateboard… but realistically, didn’t know how it would go. But guess what WE BOARDIN’ NOW BABY*
How you approach teaching directly impacts how your students feel in the classroom, especially those who are already questioning their belonging. Please don't pass your bad feelings on. (From link.springer.com/article/10.1...)
Oh, honey. (Quote from psychologist and biofeedback pioneer Thomas Budzynski, from this 1971 NYT piece which contains pure gold: www.nytimes.com/1971/09/12/a...)
Half a century before we had scikit-learn we were running factor analysis on IBM mainframe computers. 🤯 Left: IBM 7090 with several particle physicists who ALSO did very cool stuff with it Right: screenshot from 1961 paper about muscle tone and anxiety (jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...)
I wonder what the wellness influencers would talk about if we had ended up with "animalic" and "organic" nervous system distinctions. Hard to choose one as being "better" eh? (from archive.org/details/invo...)
Ok I wanted to join you so I made a mezcal cocktail with whatever juice was in my fridge, let’s call it The First Week of January
One of my amazing colleagues collected some of the ducks and gave them a pool party to celebrate spring break. She even gave them "discipline-based education research" themed pool floats that read "INTO THE DBER WATER."
By the end of the quarter, there were 50 ducks hanging out on our floor. At one point, they joined the fight for science. On the bottom, they collectively hid a message: "Have a great spring break eighth floor H&SS friends!"
There are a few things I'm proud of this year, and on this list is the fact that I pranked everyone on my office floor by leaving a new rubber duck around for each day of the Winter quarter. 🐤 Some of the ducks were metaphysical. One was encased in ice. All were discreet.
you will be visited by your gay aunts and their cute dog
I created a new profile pic for my wife so you can all start treating her with some goddamn respect (this is what you expect software engineers to look like, right?)
look as soon as i had the vision it had to happen thank you for your contributions
I want science communication to contain narrative. I want it to be honest and insightful. I want it to be in and for our community. We did all of this at our SASSY "Little Lab of Horrors" event this week and I am so, so proud of our storytellers and the work we put into this.
Someone came into my house, stole my big and tiny lego mansions, and sold them for parts
Update: we did it and Cat enjoyed it; don’t let her tell you otherwise
Did you miss the chance to pitch your story for our last SASSY science storytelling event? I have good news for you — we are doing it again. The theme is LITTLE LAB OF HORRORS and we invite you to interpret it loosely, we just ask that it is your real story to tell and has some tie-in to science.
@adriennelaf.bsky.social, as wise as ever (from March @theatlantic.com — evermore relevant)
A confident Tom, even in 1997 ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/i...