Karen Wilcox, PhD (she, her) @kswilcox@qoto.org
Neuroscientist, Epilepsy Research, Mom, Wife, adopter of dogs, hiker, LGBTQ+ Ally
Joined Nov 2022
Karen Wilcox, PhD (she, her)
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Please join me for my very first #AskMeAnything on the #GratefulDeadSub Reddit this Fri. Mar. 24 at 7pm. I'll be talking about my 50 years of loving #GratefulDead, my friendships with #DavidCrosby and the #Beat Generation, and even more embarrassing stuff! #music #deadheads https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/11wh0vz/hello_everyone_its_me_steve_silberman_ill_be_back/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=4
congrats to the #UofU Women;s basketball team! sweet 16 here we come! #MarchMadness #UUtah
Karen Wilcox, PhD (she, her)
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Karen Wilcox, PhD (she, her)
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#channelopathies #sodiumchannels
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RT @DasmachineNU
Interesting preprint on #SCN1A #SCN2A and #SCN8A poison exons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.12.523654v1 #ionchannels #epilepsy
https://twitter.com/DasmachineNU/status/1634544943346638848
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How has the railroad industry fought off safety regulations and antitrust enforcement for so long?
I’ll give you a hint:
The industry has spent $646 million on federal lobbying over the past 20 years.
Always follow the money.
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RT @russpoldrack
This is a nice example of a high profile journal @NatureNeuro publishing an important failure to replicate several earlier high impact papers. Nice to see that the tide is turning on publication of important null results in neuroscience! https://twitter.com/SoulaMarisol/status/1632780245177597965
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I'm not sure if people realize that Twitter collapsing will mean no more articles in newspapers that are just a collection of people tweeting about a particular topic as though that's what everyone's saying.
Twitter becoming irrelevant is going to be so awesome you have no idea
Glad to report they backed off and will move it to a 'study' of the need. sheesh.
Time to toot. #Utah peeps. The Utah state legislature is trying to sneak in a bill (introduced on a saturday afternoon days before the close of the session) to ban EDI initiatives on public colleges and universities. So if you live in #utah, join me in writing to the Governor and our legislators and tell them to vote no on #SB0283. https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0283.html
@SesameSquirrel @ernmander@floss.social welcome!
@BWJones yes! That is gold!
@WesElyMD ah. this sentence was confusing "we found brain swelling due to decreased blood flow and heightened activity in microglial cells, the so-called white matter in brains that support the neurons that transmit thoughts and help store information"
@BWJones thanks for posting that here!!!!
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@Ekinnajay @WesElyMD great question
@WesElyMD great article- horrifically frightening. Microglia aren’t the “white matter” but I will be searching out those articles as we study the effects of infection in the CNS- and especially the innate immune response as I relates to seizures.
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The Haunting Brain Science of Long COVID:
Matt (24 years old): “I feel like I’m underwater. When you talk to me, I can hear you, but my doesn’t understand words. I can’t comprehend what you’re saying. I have no intellectual capacity to digest data.”
In this piece I wrote for STAT, I use science to raise awareness of a growing public health nightmare hiding in plain sight - Neuro-Long COVID. I unpack 20 relevant medical articles.
Check it out & stay safe.
@BWJones LIkely not going to be a keen recruitment tool......again. as per usual.
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RT @Accountable_US
NEW: Since the Insurrection, Fortune 500 companies have given $36.3 million to members of the Sedition Caucus — with @ATT, @HomeDepot, and @LockheedMartin among the top corporate contributors during the 2022 election cycle.
More via @thehill: https://thehill.com/lobbying/3852515-corporate-america-donated-36m-to-election-objectors-in-2022-election-analysis/
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And based on what's happened the past 48 hours on Twitter... think forward
Imagine - say - Washington Post revealed abuse of workers at a Tesla plant in Shanghai
What would happen?
Would it be dealt with fairly? Now I really doubt it. The reporter(s) would get blocked, and links to the story flagged.
Twitter is no longer a reliable and predictable place for news and the first take on the news.
Neuroscientist, Epilepsy Research, Mom, Wife, adopter of dogs, hiker, LGBTQ+ Ally
Joined Nov 2022
