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Dr. Overheard SfN

@overheardsfn

14 days

i’m the neuroscience lady whistledown

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2 years

#SfN22

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5 years

Kid: *screaming for pancakes* Mom: "Let's be quiet honey, some people might be hungover." SfN recommended hotel breakfast area. #SfN19

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2 years

And that’s a wrap! Thank you to all my little birdies, you know who you are.👂 #SfN22 Get home safe, don’t spread Covid, pay post-docs and student workers a living wage, and stop building new “student” housing that we cannot afford to live in #FairUCNow #UAWstrike

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5 years

White man: "I’m not an expert on mouse vision, but I think you're wrong about this.” Non-white PI: "I’m not wrong, I would know, I'm an expert on mouse vision." #SfN19

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2 years

“Yeah, I’m still testing positive, but shhhh…don’t tell anyone” said at full volume w/ no mask in the poster hall Good thing they didn’t tell anyone #SfN22

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2 years

“I am not leaving this conference until I have at least FIVE free tote bags” #SfN22

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2 years

“Of the top 5 worst places to be hungover, three of them are SfN” #SfN22

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2 years

"What's the most important thing to do at SfN?" Person 1: "Lecture by Nobel Prize winner Ardem Patapounian" Person 2: "Get a free t-shirt from ThorLabs" #SfN22

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2 years

Poster presenter to a group of people: “Can I stage a photo where you guys are looking, like, really interested in my poster?” (Request successful) #SfN22

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5 years

"My wife will kill me for making her wait longer.” Dr. Eric Kandel to a group of students while being stopped for photographs. #SfN19

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2 years

Man not wearing a mask: I believe in the immune system. Man wearing a mask: I believe in helping the immune system. In the poster hall earlier #SfN22

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5 years

“Do you have a question?” Speaker interrupting a guy who got up during the question period to talk about his own work at length. #SfN19

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5 years

“If the PhD doesn’t kill me, the diabetes will.” Dunkin’ Donuts line. #SfN19

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2 years

"I am treating my marriage like a lab. We have weekly meetings scheduled on Google calendar to discuss how we can make progress" #SfN22

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2 years

Grad student: "Hi! So I'm a neuroscientist” Exhibitor: "Really? No way!" At exhibitor booths #SfN22

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2 years

It’s now Dr.Overheard to you! 🥳

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2 years

“If you’re not here at SfN, people think you’re dead.” #SfN22

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5 years

“This is why science is so hard... Everyone does so much shit that it’s hard to figure out what shit you’re supposed to do.” #SfN19

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5 years

“We’ve been treating the brain like a waffle, when in reality... it’s actually spaghetti.” - @okaysteve #SfN19

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2 years

“I have the honor of being the first person to present after lunch. I’ll try to be interesting so you don’t fall asleep. If you could all stare at me as hard as possible so I don’t fall asleep, we should be all set.” #SfN22

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5 years

“Stroke is, like, really bad for the brain.” #SfN19

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2 years

“Remember, your PhD is your boyfriend now.” #SfN22

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2 years

Aaaaaand we’re BACK! Send in the best and most absurd comments you overheard 👀🦻

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5 years

Two girls to a guy standing in a long queue: “Excuse me, what is this queue for?” Guy: “Dunno, just saw it forming and joined. It must be something cool. Look how long it is.” *two girls joined the queue* Thor Labs exhibit. #SfN19

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5 years

“In the regular world, I’m like a 6... With neuroscientists, I’m like a 9... I love it here.” #SfN19

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2 years

“We were all in grad school, you can’t use that as an excuse for being depressed” #SfN22

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5 years

“Hmm, I don't think you're measuring postpartum anxiety correctly." Guy grad student who doesn't study postpartum disorders, female animal behavior, or hormones... at a female undergrad student’s poster. #SfN19

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5 years

Old white man to young female researcher presenting her poster, pointing at her references: “Did you read this paper?” Her: “Yes, that’s why it’s right here.” Him: *continues to explain the concept in the paper* Her: *points to the exact thing in her introduction* #SfN19

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2 years

Woman: *sitting on the steps eating a pretzel* Gen Z: Are you just out here chilling? Woman: um, yes. Gen Z: sick.

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2 years

“I see so many people with long tubes — there must have been an architecture convention” At the airport. Maybe we should start carrying around big cardboard neurons instead #SfN22

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5 years

"I'm already tired of SfN and it hasn't even started yet.” #SfN19

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“Things have really changed now. Undergrads no longer appreciate being compared to monkeys.” #SfN22

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2 years

Come get your: #SfN22

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2 years

“FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE COMMENT YOUR CODE” #SfN22

Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

@SfNtweets

2 years

Big takeaway from the NDP Workshop: comment your code! @analog_ashley 📍Room 31 #SfN22

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5 years

(sarcastic) “Siri, who is Eric Kandel?” #SfN19

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One woman to another, in the airport security line: “I feel like I know you, are you a neuroscientist?” #SfN19

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2 years

Vendor: “Sure, the pens are free, we just need your credit card info...” Attendee: “Ha, joke's on you, I'm a post-doc” #SfN22

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2 years

Panelist: “Say what you will about academia, takeover by Elon Musk is unlikely” Audience: laughs #SfN

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5 years

Me: “The more I drink, the less likely I’m going to any posters tomorrow.” #SfN19

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2 years

“Ok listen, if I couldn’t work with anyone who ever hit on me I wouldn’t have a job” #SfN22

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5 years

“The line to get a Thor Labs t-shirt is longer than the line to get into the Bears game.” #SfN19

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Fan Wang showing a video of mouse whisking: “Ignore that piece of poop. I didn’t notice that.” #SfN19

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2 years

"Is 'can I scan your badge' the new pick up line of the season?" #SfN22

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2 years

Shoutout to all the confused but helpful flight attendants this week

Ashley Marquardt

@aemarquardt

2 years

Lots of Baltimore SfNers on my flight with @SydneyEAshton this morning, with many poster tubes in tow… causing our flight attendants to wish us luck in our “fishing tournament” here in SD Anyway here’s hoping I catch the big bass 🎣

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2 years

Treasure hunt #SfN22

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11 days

dearest gentle reader, it is with a full heart that i depart chicago. this sfn will not be my last. until one of you discovers my true identity, yours truly.

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5 years

“I’m glad I work with mice. Their testicles are much smaller.” #SfN19

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5 years

“This diagram is way too complex for any of you to comprehend.” Sunday morning talk. #SfN19

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2 years

Man: I wish I were pregnant so I wouldn’t be hungover right now Pregnant Woman: You don’t have to be pregnant to not be hungover right now . . . I wish I were hungover right now #SfN22

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“We talked about Huberman in Ethics class” #SfN24 #sfn2024

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2 years

Post-doc: “I’m ten years older than you so…” Grad student: “No no, you don’t understand, I watched Shrek last summer.” #SfN22

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Person 1: “I’m trying to educate you” Person 2: “I’ve published a paper on this” Person 1: “It’s basic biology” Late last night #SfN22

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2 years

i don’t want to hear anyone ANYONE call Journal of Neuroscience low-tier or i’ll paint gun your poster

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2 years

Nice of Elon to wait until #SfN22 was over to blow up twitter.

Nickole Moon

@neuronickole

2 years

In the case @Twitter goes the way of Vine... At least I had an SfN where I understood what @overheardsfn was tweeting about 👌

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2 years

I guess we’ll revive the @ overheardsfn insta account if we have to. But this implosion is probably good for my thesis. See ya next year! #SfN22

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2 years

NO COLA, NO CONTRACT. Tying UC wages to cost of living (COLA) is NECESSARY and would set a precedent for grad students and post-docs across the country. #FairUCNow #UAWonStrike

UCSC4COLA

@payusmoreucsc

2 years

A COLA win for us will deliver a lesson to millions of workers across the state who are also squeezed between the bosses’ wage suppression and the landlords’ rent hikes: You can fight, and you can win.

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5 years

"I had fries for lunch, it was the healthiest thing there.” #SfN19

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“You’ve left us with an intolerable cliffhanger.” The beginning of a question following a talk. #SfN19

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5 years

“I have 53 posters on my itinerary this morning.” “That’s a lot.” #SfN19

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2 years

"Oh great, there's no place to store luggage" "Just go to FedEx and ship it to yourself for later today" #SfN22

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5 years

doesn’t matter; attended conference #SfN19

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11 months

sorry i spent the whole conference protesting in DC

Danielle Adank, M.S.

@femmein_STEM

11 months

You here brah? @overheardsfn

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2 years

"I have yet to check out all the exhibitionists" #SfN22

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2 years

“LUKE YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN MANIFOLDS!” “I DON’T UNDERSTAND I HAVE TO LEAVE!” #SfN22

Luke Sjulson

@lukesjulson

2 years

Drunkenly stumbling back to my #SfN2022 hotel last night, I was accosted by two colleagues who were like LUKE YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN #MANIFOLDS ! So we sat down in a pizza place, and when I started they were both like I DON’T UNDERSTAND I HAVE TO LEAVE and left me there

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5 years

The thalamus has never been the new anything, so the amygdala cannot qualify for this status. #shotsfired

Limbic Friction

@CousinAmygdala

5 years

“The amygdala is the new thalamus” @overheardsfn #overheardSfN #SfN19

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11 months

“You know how rich women often carry a little dog in their purse ? That’s me to [PI].” #SfN2023

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2 years

Guys, there are 23k people here 👀

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5 years

“It’s like American Ninja Warrior with suitcases walking these aisles!” Poster aisle. #SfN19

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“I don’t take anyone’s contact information at this conference because I’ll never see you again so what’s the point.” On the shuttle. #SfN19

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5 years

(looks at the mini symposium schedule and sees a talk about the lizard brain) "Mine just tells me when I'm hungry, happy, or horny.” #SfN19

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2 years

“You can just resubmit your grant; you don’t need to change the workings of the government.” 🤔 #SfN22

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2 years

"And I told him, well if you don't wanna do a threesome..." In the poster hall #SfN22

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5 years

That’s it for @overheardsfn (physically) in Chicago! Keep sending submissions; will post while traveling. You can follow me at @dvwz where I post less reckless hashtag content.

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2 years

"Attention, if you left your poster or suit at the security checkpoint, please return to find your items" #SfN22

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5 years

"When we first met I really hated you guys, but you're actually really nice!" On a shuttle. #SfN19

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5 years

(Attendee looks at a time-frequency spectrogram on a poster.) (sarcastically) “Why isn’t the color axis in jet?” #SfN19

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2 years

@Ologies Our new preferred name is “poster nerds”

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Faculty member: “People just want to work from home because they don’t want to work” #SfN22

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“I love my kids and all but whatever you do, don’t have kids!” #SfN22

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2 years

Man: I wish I were pregnant so I wouldn’t be hungover right now Pregnant Woman: You don’t have to be pregnant to not be hungover right now . . . I wish I were hungover right now #SfN22

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5 years

“I can tell that you started your PhD. You got skinny.” BCI posters. #SfN19

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5 years

OMG 🤬

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“Socially awkward people get to dance too! They don’t look good when they’re doing it.” Outside the Hyatt Regency Ballroom last night. #SfN19

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4 years

SAY THIS WITH ME ABOLISH ICE

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5 years

(at International Brain Research Organization social) “IBRO, do you even bro?” #SfN19

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2 years

“Once you find out how much divorce really costs, you’ll learn to love your spouse.” 😬 #SfN22

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2 years

“So have you always had a cookie aversion or is that newly developed?” #SfN22

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5 years

Will you be at #SfN ? Keep your ears peeled... and DM this account with any spicy eavesdrops. #SfN19

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12 days

OMG

Caroline Nettekoven 🧠

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12 days

I see your SfN pigeon and I raise you an SfN bat @overheardsfn

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2 years

Poster presenter: "Right? It's always the boys!" #SfN22

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2 years

I’ll just leave this here…

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2 years

Panelist: “Say what you will about academia, takeover by Elon Musk is unlikely” Audience: laughs #SfN

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3 years

🔥🔬

Francis Shue

@sunflowrbunny

3 years

#SfN21 is now FFFN21 (Fyrefest for Neuroscience). Press F to pay respects. #F

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2 years

Watch out for those rodent boys

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5 years

Need examples of every one of these, thanks 😂

Anita Devineni

@BrainsExplained

5 years

By popular demand (i.e. one person commenting on Twitter), I made an SFN bingo card for those of you heading to #SfN19 this week

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“Everyone likes salt-crusted fish, but nobody likes salt-crusted condensers..” Giant Synapse Pre-Meeting #SfN19

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2 years

Do we need a little blue check? (Yes votes can be cast by cash or check)

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5 years

Editorial note: I’m at my own lab dinner, so don’t send any typical male behavior for a couple hours. PLEASE.

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5 years

Kiersten Ruda

@RudamntaryNeuro

5 years

“I went to the workshop on imposter syndrome... and was immediately turned away” @overheardsfn #SfN19

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2 years

“I judge the quality of coffee places based on whether they have different latte sizes” (if they do, run away) #SfN22

Amy Orsborn, PhD 👩‍🔬🐵

@neuroamyo

2 years

Coffee-relates crimes are continuing. The smallest latte the cafe in my hotel will sell is 16oz. What is going on, San Diego?

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postdoc ads should really stop asking for candidates to be “motivated” … because that’s what the money is for … right? … the money? inflation-adjusted?

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