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Night time and early morning pics; left: Stop sign and one way sign in red light; right: deer walking in morning light

Wake in darkness 😵‍💫

Welcome to ⬆️ sleep deprivation, car accidents, health consequences - thanks to our switch to daylight “savings” *

* NOTE: same amount of daylight; no daylight is ever “saved”🙄

#permanentstandardtime is best for your brain 😴🧠☀️💚

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Betz cell by Kate Bishop

#betzcell 🎨🧠💚🤓

Image by Kate Bishop @ Portland State University 😍

Scenes from NogginFest 2026 - poster session, art making, brains!

Scenes from NogginFest 2026 - art making, examining your ear, research speakers,...

HUGE THANKS to our intrepid undergraduates!!

They put on a fantastic, immersive, eight hour, all volunteer community #NOGGINFEST with art, brains, research speakers, posters and musical acts!!

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Homegrown #brainawareness 😎 #nwnoggin 🎨🧠💚🤓👉🏻 nwnoggin.org

Styrofoam brain hemisphere in downtown Portland 😉

Styrofoam brain with light pole pushing through frontal lobe and the words Phineas Gage 🤓

See you today @ #nogginfest 🎨🧠🎸🌈💚🔥🤓👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

#phineasgage 😉

Giant styrofoam brain hemisphere in Portland’s pioneer square 😉

HAPPENING TODAY!!!! 🎉
#nogginfest 🎸🎨🧠🤓💚

JOIN US #allages #free SATURDAY (3/7), 1-9pm @ Leaven Community Center #portlandoregon 😍

Booths 1–5pm
Poster Session 2–5
Speakers 5– 6:30pm
Music 7–9pm

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Details on NOGGINFEST - happening today! Picture of Allow Me/Umbrella Man statue in Pioneer Square in Portland, OR, with the words: "Take me to NOGGINFEST!!!"; Also a middle school student examining a noggin... SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1:00 - 9:00pm, ALL AGES, FREE!!! LEAVEN COMMUNITY CENTER, 5431 NE 20th Ave, PDX, OR

HAPPENING TODAY!!!! 🎉
#nogginfest 🎸🎨🧠🤓💚

JOIN US #allages #free SATURDAY (3/7), 1-9pm @ Leaven Community Center #portlandoregon 😍

Booths 1–5pm
Poster Session 2–5
Speakers 5– 6:30pm
Music 7–9pm

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A Betz cell (a gigantic pyramidal cell in the primary motor cortex), linking our internal desires with action upon the world. Gorgeous image by Avery Davis, undergraduate at Portland State University

#teaching 🎨🧠💚🔥

Learn about Betz cells and more on Saturday (3/7) @ #nogginfest 🤓👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

Americans trust federal scientists more than RFK, Jr., poll suggests When it comes to health advice, more people trust the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association than they do federal health agencies, according to a new poll

When it comes to health advice, more people trust the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association than they do federal health agencies, according to a new poll

NogginFest brain graphic by Kadi Rae Smith with musical acts listed

Student holding noggin with NogginFest details listed (available at link in post)

#nogginfest 🎸🎨🧠🤓💚🎉!

JOIN US #allages #free SATURDAY MARCH 7, 1-9pm @ Leaven Community Center #portlandoregon 😍

Booths 1–5pm
Poster Session 2–5
Speakers 5– 6:30pm
Music 7–9pm

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Taste receptor in pipe cleaners and wire, under construction 🚧 Taste afferents are arranged like sections of an orange, in taste buds on your tongue, with their tiny microvilli poking out of taste pores for detecting chemicals (tastants) in food.

#tastereceptor 🧠👅🎨🤓

Under construction 🚧 😉

Make your own this Saturday (3/7) @ NOGGINFEST 😎👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

Speakers for NOGGINFEST 2026 Dr. Larry Sherman Messing with the matrix: Novel strategies to repair a damaged brain Hannah Cunningham Rise and Shine: How Morning Light Can Help Sleep Randall Olson Is Consciousness Quantized? Dr. Melissa Papesh Hearing and the Brain JOIN US 😍 #allages #free Make art! Enjoy music! Discover cutting edge research! Ask questions! Hold BRAINS! This is the largest student-run, accessible, FREE, all ages, public celebration of music, art, brain research and interdisciplinary neuroscience in the Pacific Northwest!

QR code for NogginFest

#nogginfest 🎸🎨🧠🤓💚🎉!

JOIN US #allages #free SATURDAY MARCH 7, 1-9pm @ Leaven Community Center #portlandoregon 😍

Booths 1–5pm
Poster Session 2–5
Speakers 5– 6:30pm
Music 7–9pm

LEARN MORE 😎👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

Northwest Noggin volunteers and 6th graders in public school

6th graders exploring noggins

HUGE thanks to everyone for such a spirited day of student inquiry, questions, art making, brain wrangling - a fantastic lunch - and more!

#nwnoggin #outreach @
David Douglas 🚙🧠🎨💚🌈🤓💨👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

#brainawareness all year long #goplaces #allvolunteer 😎

Students learning about electrical transmission of information in neurons and muscles 💪🏼

Students asking questions about brains and brain research 🤓

#learning 😍🎉!

#nwnoggin @ David Douglas Public Schools 😎👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

Go places Ask questions #allvolunteer #outreach ART #brainawareness 🎨🧠💚🤓

Students examining specimens and asking questions about brains and brain research 😃

TODAY (2/26) 🤓🎉!!

#nwnoggin @ David Douglas Public Schools 🚙🧠🎨🌈💚💨

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#brainawareness #goplaces #askquestions #allvolunteer

NOGGINFEST BRAIN FAIR details with picture of Allow Me statue hailing a cab to the event

SATURDAY 3/7 1-9pm 😍🎉

NOGGINFEST 🎸🎨🧠💚🤓

Leaven Community Center, 5431 NE 20th Ave, PDX OR

Make art! Enjoy music! Discover cutting edge research! Ask questions! Hold BRAINS!

HOME GROWN #brainawareness #allvolunteer PEOPLE 😁

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NogginFest Brain Fair poster by Kadi Rae Smith 😍 NogginFest returns March 7 with more brains, music & art Join Northwest Noggin and the PSU Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Association (Neuro Club) for the 9th annual NOGGINFEST — the largest student-run, free, all-ages celebration of music, art, brain research, and interdisciplinary neuroscience in the Pacific Northwest. This year features an expanded Brain Fair and a Society for Neuroscience chapter meeting, with more research speakers, more posters, more brains, more live music, and more art. Don't miss this unique, hands-on celebration of science and creativity. When: Saturday, Mar. 7 | 1-9 p.m. Where: Leaven Community Center, 5431 NE 20th Ave, Portland

Science, research, collaboration, empathy and art matter, and we aim to celebrate it all!

JOIN US @ NOGGINFEST SATURDAY MARCH 7 1-9pm 🙌🏼🎭🧠🎨🥁🎸💚🤓🎉!!!

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Moss covered tree (very neuronal in form) 🎨🧠🤓

Bald eagles flying over the Columbia River 🦅

Bright colorful collection of mosses

Dog looking south #oregon

#weekend 💚

Since I can’t sleep, here’s another hot take: The world would be a better place if everyone‘s science literacy was much better. There should be more emphasis on teaching basic science at all levels in school. Science isn’t just something nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Headine from The Guardian: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office by police investigating the former prince's dealings with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”

Headline from The Korea Herald: Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life for leading insurrection

#respect

Students examining noggins and asking questions about brains #futureneuroscientists 😎

#askquestions 🤓

#brains #art #nwnoggin #goplaces 🧠🎨💚😎

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#brainawareness but #allvolunteer 🤗

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

Students learning about brains with Northwest Noggin volunteers 🤗

#nwnoggin 🎨🧠💚🤓

JOIN US @ #nogginfest Saturday March 7, 1-9pm, Leaven Community Center, #portlandoregon 🌹😍

DETAILS 😎👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep experts urge adoption of permanent standard time to protect public health as Americans prepare to ‘spring forward’ DARIEN, IL — Americans are preparing to “spring forward” on Sunday, March 8, despite evidence that seasonal time changes and living on daylight saving time negatively impact human health and safety. While political discourse continues, data show the majority of Americans (54%) are ready to eliminate the time changes — a stance that aligns with the position of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and strengthens the Coalition for Permanent Standard Time’s call to abolish seasonal time changes and establish permanent standard time nationwide. “When we ‘spring forward’ for daylight saving time, we disrupt our body’s natural rhythm, damaging our sleep quality, mental health, and overall well-being,” said Dr. Karin Johnson, sleep medicine physician and co-chair of the coalition’s steering committee. “Our internal clocks are…

“During Standard Time, the body is more aligned with the sun. This supports physical and mental health. During Daylight Saving Time, the natural cycle is out of sync…”

⚠️ PSA - don’t take health advice from people who snort cocaine off toilet seats.

We are truly living in Idiocracy, and you can thank RFK Jr. for this outbreak.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

3D printed heart with description of descending autonomic regulation

#happyvalentines 🧠💚🤓