Irene St. A. (she/they)
@IrylethEarly-stage researcher (ESR) of neuroscience, psychology, animal behaviour (BSc MRes) interested in consciousness, cognition, philosophy, psychedelics, arts. 🌈
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Animal welfare issues are often regarded as politically peripheral. To me that is a mistake. These issues are at the core of who we are, what we value, what sort of society we want to live in, and whether we want to live by our professed values or betray them.
As without, so within: how the brain's temporo-spatial alignment to the environment shapes consciousness | Interface Focus royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
Bits from my last hiking above the Ionian coasts. 🌬️✨ #naturelovers #naturephotography #flowerpower #springflowers #bloom #selfcare
Are you curious about how octopus eyes work? Read more here: octonation.com/octopus-vulgar… 📸: Hendrik Heuschkel
In addition to Alan Turing developing the first modern computers, he also ventured in the realm of mathematical biology. Turing patterns explain how patterns can emerge from seemingly homogeneous or random systems. See next (1/3) #Science #Math #Biology
This is one form of consciousness, listening to Jimi Hendrix alone. Yours is another. Cats, cows, lynxes, bats, sparrows, geckos, worms, insects, bacteria… molecules, atoms. Reality is forms of consciousness.
If it were a contest of which organism is cutest, we're still not sure who would win... Photos: Octopus, Credit: Tim Briggs; Axolotl, Credit: Christian Selden
How I feel presenting in lab meetings
Published right before #InternationalWomensDay, a new article by Azeen Ghorayshi from @nytimes discusses the impact of excluding human women (and female animals) from biomedical research. 🧵 nytimes.com/2023/03/07/sci…
1/ A new paper shows that a non-hallucinogenic LSD analogue (shown to not induce psychedelic-like effects in humans) promotes neuroplasticity in mice, potentially showing promise for the treatment of mood disorders: cell.com/cell-reports/f…
Have you heard of #Whalefall? The phenomenon in which the body of a dead whale sinks to the ocean floor and its mass becomes a food source and habitat for a myriad of deep sea creatures. A topic near to my heart, this is one of my new prints available first at #ECCC.
The mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) is a master of disguise. While other octopuses can use their chromatophores for camouflage, the mimic octopus is known to impersonate a variety of different animals, a behavior that is only shared with it's relative the wunderpus.
Visualizing the Biomass of Life 🐷🐦🐞🐌🦌🦩🦜🐁🐠🦀🦔🪸 #biomass #science #poster #art #life #earth #infographic #design #illustration #illustratorsontwitter #scientificillustration #dataviz #data #dataart #dataillustration #infodesign #information #vizscicomm #scicomm #biology
Are you an educator or student? 👩🎓 In the interactive 3D Brain Atlas you can examine many of the brain’s structures from a 360-degree viewpoint and download images of the brain for free. 👇 🧠 neurotorium.org/tool/brain-atl… #brainfood #neuroscience #neurology #psychiatry #brainstudy
Cannabis flower under an electron microscope
A new paper calls on Western scientists to include Indigenous voices when researching psychedelics. scim.ag/1I3
"Pain, though only a small part of sentience, has a special ethical significance. It matters a lot." write @KristinAndrewz and @birchlse in their recent essay via @aeonmag #AnimalWelfare #AnimalCognition #Sentience #AI aeon.co/essays/to-unde…
Have you had a profound experience of love while on a #psychedelic journey? The Love Project invites you to anonymously share your experience in a short survey that explores your personal psychedelic experience. For more information and to participate: psychedeliclove.org/survey-study
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