Deepa Rajan
@DeepaHRajan
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MD/PhD candidate researching the origins of intelligence @WallaceUcsf @UCSF | alum @FulbrightPrgrm @NCBS_Bangalore @VanderbiltU
Joined March 2022
How can a single cell learn without a brain or nervous system? We explore this in my new preprint with @WallaceUcsf! We discovered that central features of learning in single cells can be accounted for by a model based on receptor inactivation 🧵 1/n
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RT @womenpostingws: Women from India, Japan, and Syria who completed their education as physicians in Philadelphia, 1885.
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RT @MBLScience: Exciting news! MBL has received a $2.6M gift from an anonymous donor! This generous support fuels our mission of discovery,…
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RT @trulykaykay: you can visit St. Jude’s Hospital website to send a free Valentine to a child. think about how much that would mean to the…
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RT @fawfulfan: This is absolutely insane. If scientists aren't allowed to use the term "women" or "female" when applying for NSF grants, t…
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I appreciate Darwin's work daily, but it's also important to remember the deep scientific racism present in Darwin's "Descent of Man", which popularized a racial hierarchy with light-skinned humans at the top and dark-skinned, hairy humans at the bottom:
Today in 1868, Charles Darwin began writing his book Descent of Man, which gave us this wisdom: "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
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RT @NTFabiano: It costs $12,690.00 to publish open access at Nature. They are literally uploading a PDF file.
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RT @RachelHollisArt: A bit disconcerting when one of the world's largest moth species is attracted to your headlamp! I felt very privileged…
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RT @hiAndrewQuinn: many of you know I'm a heavy and daily user of the spaced repetition app, Anki what some of you may not know is one of…
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RT @mvalliant306: Poet Mary Oliver died six years ago today. She is one of the writers I return to most often. And this stanza of hers from…
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RT @TrendsCognSci: The metabolic costs of cognition Review by Sharna D. Jamadar (@SharnaJamadar), Anna Behler (@Anna_NeuroSci), Hamish Dee…
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RT @jackcalifano: I don't understand anyone who doesn't see trains as the ultimate form of travel. Huge amount of space, beautiful detailed…
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RT @yoonj_k: HNY! In case you thought 2025 is the year of the snake, it's actually the year of the SQUID🦑Excited to present this new protoc…
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maybe it's because modern science dismisses a lot of field work as "stamp-collecting" because it's not "mechanistic" enough
An important article about the decline of Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology. Extinction of experience among ecologists: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
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RT @NTFabiano: This is the largest study of brain differences across psychiatric conditions. 🧵1/10
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I brought live Stentor cells with me on the train and have regaled a few fellow passengers with tales of this mysterious giant cell that can learn #scicomm
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