Luca Mezossy-Dona
@LuluBigbrain
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Science communicator by profession; psychologist by education; interdisciplinary thinker by nature. MS Clin.Neuroscience @UniofOxford MA Psych @univofstandrews
Oxford UK
Joined September 2019
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Say cheese! 📸 Today, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the Sun "smiling." Seen in ultraviolet light, these dark patches on the Sun are known as coronal holes and are regions where fast solar wind gushes out into space.
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🤏THIS close to getting an Ever to Excel tattoo on my forehead. #stoxbridge #saintsforever
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theguardian.com
Latest Guardian University Guide shows leading trio are in league of their own for undergraduate courses
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Time to consider the researcher as a factor to control in strict lab studies? https://t.co/746UM75fgq
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This is cool but what's really cool (although kinda makes sense) is that VR can downregulate the DMN. More argument for VR as #therapytech
https://t.co/xbcTulQsBK
technologyreview.com
On key metrics, a VR experience elicited a response indistinguishable from subjects who took medium doses of LSD or magic mushrooms.
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In Kyiv a woman knocked down a Russian drone from a balcony with a jar of cucumbers. How did they expect to occupy this country?
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Her work was sine qua non to delineating the structure of DNA - but June Lindsey was overlooked for being a woman. Decades old discrimination still ripples today. Time for the tables to turn. Time for more representation & #WomeninScience
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Usually drugs for somatic illness are repurposed as psychiatric medication, but looks like it can work the other way around too 💊 https://t.co/vNOITxdrrY
nature.com
Nature - Fluvoxamine is both inexpensive and highly effective at preventing mild COVID-19 from turning severe.
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sad that no science Nobels went to women this year, but at least my lady friends and I swept ~all~ Clinical Neuro Class prizes (which is basically the same, just without the 💸) https://t.co/20zwR4rrX8
psych.ox.ac.uk
Congratulations to our MSc in Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience, Class of 2020/21 for successfully completing the course. This MSc was first launched in October 2019 and is run jointly with the...
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But there is no glass ceiling..? https://t.co/wR6IFzvaiQ
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casual modelling of the beginning of life https://t.co/0EN9wl7ifq
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Maybe someone else can make this work in practice...
nature.com
Nature - Understanding cognitive control can help your working life, says David Badre.
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Let us stimulate your brain for #BSW21
British Science Week begins today! 🔬 👩🏻🔬🥼 Celebrate with us by participating in our #brainstimulation 🧠 study, which is looking for volunteers who experience low mood. Find out more via the link below. #BWS21
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As long as male sex is viewed as the #medicalstandard, half of the population will be at risk for inaccurate diagnosis & treatment. This is #lifeanddeath stuff. It truly blows my mind that any scientist would need convincing to just be scientific... https://t.co/BiMrtTl0Y6
nature.com
Nature Neuroscience - Mandates to include both sexes are a critical step toward improving the translational value of preclinical research, but they will not succeed without intentional, large-scale...
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Give this woman a Nobel Prize. https://t.co/KQrjyvI2ez UPenn "told me that they’d had a meeting and concluded that I was not of faculty quality,” she said. ”When I told them I was leaving, they laughed at me and said, ‘BioNTech doesn’t even have a website.’”
wired.com
For decades, Katalin Karikó's work into mRNA therapeutics was overlooked by her colleagues. Now it's at the heart of the two leading coronavirus vaccines
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Things we can learn from sociopaths about relationships 💕 https://t.co/Zm7HvTgi0H
nytimes.com
As a wife and a mother, I have learned how to tell the truth. Which is why I always know when my husband is lying.
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Artist, #Hundertwasser was against straight lines, claiming walking on them prevents us from using our ability to #balance. How poetic that an invention supposed to make our lives easier leads to our ~fall~ A metaphor for #modernlife ? https://t.co/GAUhMGVp0J
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Breaking News: Astronomers have found a potential sign of life in the clouds of Venus, a planet long overlooked in the search for extraterrestrial life. https://t.co/UmA0cWxX6M
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“Researchers should stop telling women what they should feel sexually and start asking them what they do feel sexually,” In memory of Shere Hite, #feminist and a pioneer of normalising #femalesexuality and my personal #icon
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