Hector Caruncho
@HCaruncho
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Reading, traveling, neuroscientist, mental health, dog lover, Deportivo, Oilers, Galician history and folk music
Joined May 2019
We lost a true pioneer in the field of neuroscience and neuropharmacology, Dr. Floyd Bloom. Words can hardly capture the enormity of his contributions. His work was essential to our understanding of how neurotransmission works and how it influences mental disorders. Floyd’s
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Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research
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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use
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Paul McCartney playing with The Beatles in the background is the most beautiful thing you'll see today.
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Paul McCartney in Manchester tonight was magnificent. To hear that back catalogue sung (and really well) with such utter enthusiasm by an 82 year old for 2 hours and 40 minutes was staggering.
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Esto es una maravilla! Posiblemente el flashmob más increíble de la Oda a la Alegría de Beethoven realizado por la Orquesta Filarmónica de Nuremberg y el Coro Hans-Sachs frente a la Iglesia de San Lorenzo en Nuremberg, Alemania:
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We lost a superhero 35 years ago today. Fernando Martin was a Spanish star and only 27 years young when he died suddenly on December 3, 1989. It was a life changing experience for the country and for me. I think about it daily. Hala Madrid 🇪🇸🏀⚽️
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Check out our work on Tumoroid‐On‐a‐Plate (ToP): Physiologically Relevant Cancer Model Generation and Therapeutic Screening. Fruitful collaboration with @HCaruncho and Patrick Walter from @UVicScience.
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This study introduces the Tumoroid-on-a-Plate device, an open-surface microfluidic-integrated culture plate for creating 3D tumor models, replicating the complexity of glioblastoma and pancreatic...
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Pleased to share our new paper implicating #interleukin 10 in perturbed #brain #microcirculation and #cognitiveimpairment in mouse model of type 1 diabetes. Congrats to the team @uvic, @sharmasorabh88, @UVicMedSciences, @NatMetabolism,
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Nature Metabolism - Interleukin-10 promotes the formation of microcirculatory defects in the brain associated with cognitive impairment in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes.
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Más imágenes de las auroras boreales dadas en Costa da Morte. Estas fotos las ha tomado Ana García. Espectacular😱🤩
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Join us in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to study synapse stability and astrocyte-synapse crosstalk! #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs #postdoc 🔬🧠🧐 👇
We’re hiring a postdoc! The #SwayneLab (@dr_swayne) is looking for a candidate to investigate cellular mechanisms underlying dendritic spine stability. View the full job posting here: https://t.co/UHm3AvxmCJ
#Neurojobs
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UVic, @UTokyo_News_en and @kek_en have signed an MoU to promote the Hyper-Kamiokande international physics research project. 7 Canadian institutions are participating in this program to elucidate the Grand Unified Theory and the evolution of the universe. https://t.co/pZqJHL23JW
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I don't cry easily, but as the dad of a teenage son with autism, ADHD & anxiety issues, watching Tim Walz's 17-year-old son(who has a non-verbal learning disorder, ADHD & anxiety disorder)standing up, crying & pointing to the stage telling everyone "that's my dad" just gutted me
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If you’re choosing a research group to join, pay just as much - if not more - attention to the culture and mentoring style in the group than the research. You can succeed in lots of research areas or projects, but it’s tough to succeed in an unsupportive environment.
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📢 Faculty job 📢 We @YaleNeuro are hiring tenure-track faculty members! We seek candidates in #neuroscience at large who will join a richly collaborative community that strives to foster an inclusive research environment. Deadline Oct. 15. Please share! https://t.co/GtCOKPRkNG
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Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists #PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science
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I would title this game “A tale of two Connors”. Let’s go Oilers!
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