Victoria Sayo Turner
@VS_Turner
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PhD @UCSF, formerly peripatetic, now parked in SF. 🌈 🧪🧠🔬
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2014
What a rush giving a talk on my research in front of 200 people! Thanks to everyone who helped me prep, loaned me a VR headset to practice, and listened to me practice once an hour while on the road.
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Really interesting ideas and problems to solve - looking forward to the next evening with neurotech-obsessed folks 🙌.
A record attendance Wednesday night for our latest tFUS Society presentation: “Brain Stimulation and Mindfulness”. Thanks everyone for coming! . @leozaroff, @mhough, and I are building the most technical neurotech community in the SF bay. Comment below if you’d like our slides 🫡
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🎉 Finishing up two weeks at #Neurohackademy 💻✨In our project, we took a dive into publicly available EEG data for classifying behavioral state with ML/DL techniques. Big thanks to everyone involved #neurohackademy2024
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Wrapping up an incredible first week at #Neurohackademy at the University of Washington! 🚀🧠 Looking forward to breakout sessions and and hacking next week. @neurohackademy #Neurohackademy2024 #eScienceInstitute
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RT @joespring: You can see some pretty cool predictions about bird migrations using BirdCast by @CornellBirds. @VS_Turner shares how the to….
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A reimagined tool called BirdCast is helping birders, scientists and even farmers
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RT @joespring: Cool gallery and interview with a neuroscientist turned artist on his gold leaf paintings of the brain. @AAASMassMedia fello….
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Artist Greg Dunn creates breathtaking renderings of neurons and their surrounding anatomy
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Arriving at #JNS2023 in Sendai! 🧠 Thrilled to be presenting my poster Thurs on my latest work. A big thank you to @SfNtweets Neuroscience Scholars Program for travel funding. #NSPeeps
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RT @SmithsonianMag: An estimated half of all coral has died since the 1950s, partially due to extreme temperatures that stress the animals….
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The heat-resistant organism in antler coral may help it adapt as ocean temperatures increase
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RT @SmithsonianMag: Few animals captivate the human imagination like orcas.
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The apex predators also surge onto shorelines to capture seals and engage in mysterious greeting ceremonies
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Guess who! .Honored to spend a summer writing at @SmithsonianMag as an @AAASMassMedia Fellow. Every scientific finding has a story waiting to be told.
Victoria Sayo Turner will be writing for @SmithsonianMag! @VS_Turner is a Neuroscience PhD student at @UCSF and follow along as she uses her background to introduce and explain interesting #SciComm topics this summer!. Learn more:
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RT @jeremy_biane: New paper🧵(incl. unpublished data!). Few things grab the attention of a bunch of 6-year-olds faster than the melody of an….
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Check out this new lab from Sama Ahmed at UW! For anyone who has wondered how the brain gets us to combine complex tasks at the same time (and sometimes falters).
Hey yall - my lab is hiring ! . We're looking for a research tech to work on the neurobiology of multitasking in Drosophila ! . 🧠x🪰 = 🔥. please RT. job ad:
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What a blast being invited to attend #comscicon22 😎 Thanks to incredible speakers like @gserratomarks and @maddie_sofia for planting the flag 🚩 on inclusive and inspiring science communication for all of us in grad school.
Aaaaand Day 3 is over! We are sad that #ComSciCon22 is coming to an end, but so excited about the connections it created! Thank you to all of our #ComSciCon attendees, guests, speakers, and organizers!
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Excited to share my new review in #CurrOpinNeurobiol with @itsROsulli and @mazen_kheirbek! We review recent work integrating vCA1 into a network that associates salient stimuli with internal drives to support behavioral selection. 🔓Open access link 👉
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RT @storiesofwin: 📢We are looking for new volunteers to help us interview women in neuroscience for our stories of WiN project. If you are….
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Such an honor to meet an amazing group of diverse scientists! Hope to see everyone at a conference soon. Thanks to the hosts for bringing us to Salt Lake City and the mountains 🏔 @UUNeurobiology.
Wrapping up an awesome 2022 Rising Stars in Neuroscience symposium. Such an honor to be able to host this group of stars and share our neuroscience community at Utah! Thanks for the amazing effort from all the stars, @UUNeurobiology faculty mentors and students hosts!
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