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Meme of “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back”. Luke Skywalker says “I’m not chronically sleep deprived”. Yoda (labeled “Permanent Daylight Saving Time”) says “You will be”.

Multiple studies show permanent DST perpetually decreases sleep duration. Restore permanent Standard Time, aligned to longitude/sun, for natural health!

People discovering noggins and making art at New Year celebrations

We’re celebrating New Year, one of the largest and most important cultural festivals in our city and in several Southeast Asian countries, while making art and examining noggins 🤓

Check the link for details 🥳👉🏻 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

Brain with flags

Happy New Year 🎊😍🎉!!

JOIN US SATURDAY (4/25) @ Glenhaven Park, 7900 NE Siskiyou St, PDX, OR 97213 😃👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

#brains #art #celebration 🎨🧠🌈💚🤓🎉 #nwnoggin 🤗

Northwest Noggin volunteers at school

So much fun 🎨🧠💚🌈🤓🎉!

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#nwnoggin #outreach #teaching #neuroscience #brains #art #brainawareness #goplaces #allvolunteer 🤗

NW Noggin volunteers

THANK YOU!!!

Wonderful afternoon with the 3rd grade at King Elementary in Vancouver Public Schools 🎨🧠🌈💚🤓🎉!!!

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#nwnoggin #outreach #teaching #neuroscience #brains #art #brainawareness #goplaces #allvolunteer 🤗

@nwnoggin.bsky.social check this out!

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Students asking questions: How much does sleep really affect the brain? How much of the brain can you live without? What parts of the brain do you need the most? What are the best fruits and vegetables to support brain health? How much of the brain do we actually use? How many minutes of cell phone use is safe for the brain? What is the strangest thing you have ever learned about the brain? What is the most important thing you should do to keep your brain healthy? What’s the best diet for a healthy brain? What part of your brain makes you a “lefty” or a “righty”?

Awesome questions 🧠👀🤓🎉

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#brainawareness but #allvolunteer #nwnoggin 🎨🧠🌈💚😃👉🏼 nwnoggin.org

Noggin volunteers

Students learning about the brain

Students learning about the brain

Students learning about the brain

THANK YOU Jack and Jill! 😍

And thank you Noggin volunteers - an awesome afternoon of exploring noggins, crafting cells, delivering a few shocks and discussing everyone's terrific questions.

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#nwnoggin #goplaces #listen #brainawareness 🎨🧠🌈💚🤓🎉!

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Brains in spring foliage

Dog in front of the North Portland Library

TODAY 🎨🧠🌈💚🤓🎉!

#nwnoggin @ Jack and Jill 😃👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

#brainawareness #outreach #goplaces #allvolunteer 🤗

Northwest Noggin volunteers

Thank you 🎨🧠🌈💚🤓🎉!!

GREAT questions and discussions @ Jefferson High School #portlandoregon 🫏🌹

#nwnoggin 🧠🎨 GO PLACES 😎 ALL VOLUNTEER 🤗

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Scenes from Jefferson - students and volunteers examining noggins

TODAY 🤓🎉!

#art #brains #outreach #nwnoggin #allvolunteer @ Jefferson High School 🎨🧠🌈💚😎👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

#portlandoregon 🌹

Linocut print ‘Feynman Diagram Bauhaus’ is a hand-carved and printed variable edition on cream-coloured Japanese washi paper, 8" by 10" with a jumble of Feynman diagrams and coloured shapes with a Bauhaus feel. Shapes include circles, rings, triangles, stripes, semicircles and irregular semicircles under wiggly lines. Colours are tints of fuchsia, blue-green, blue, yellow and purple with Feynman diagrams in black lines.

April 14 has been designated World Quantum Day in honour of Planck’s Constant which can be rounded to h~ 4.14×10−15 eV·s (and some folks write April 14 as 4/14*). 🧪🐡🎢 Planck’s constant comes up a lot in quantum mechanics; for instance a photon’s energy is h times its frequency). 🧵

Students examining noggins

#goplaces #allvolunteer 🎨🧠💚🤓

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Flowers 🌸🌸

#spring 🌸💚

Excerpts from new paper in PNAS: Municipal water fluoridation, adolescent 1Q, and cognition across the life course: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study "We find no evidence that community water fluoridation is associated with lower adolescent 1Q or cognition later in life."

#sciencematters 🧠
#researchmatters 🤓

“"We find no evidence that community water fluoridation is associated with lower adolescent 1Q or cognition later in life…” 🪥😁

Paper from @pnas.org 😎

Red azalea flowers and green, veined leaves

Deer on the move

Northern Giant Horsetail (Equisetum braunii)

Pink rhododendron flowers

#spring 😍

Details about opioids, over image of a poppy flower

#opioids 🧠

#nwnoggin #brainawareness #teaching #art #goplaces #listen #learn #allvolunteer 🤓👉🏻 nwnoggin.org

Dog on Columbia riverfront

Fog and trees over the city

#weekend 💚

Tongue Point from the Riverwalk

#astoriaoregon 💚

Details on lecture speakers, plus an image of the Three Sisters mountains in central Oregon, with three 3d printed brains arranged in the foreground

Mark your calendars! 😍

THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 6pm, Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture, Sisters, Oregon 😃

#free 🥳

Discover the neuroscience of brain plasticity & the circumstances and behaviors that foster adaptation to changing environments.

LEARN MORE 🎨🧠🤓👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/adapta...

1. Photo with child learning about the brain and the following text: April 8, 2026 In the morning, I was in a shelter teaching displaced children the neuroscience of their own emotions. We talked about how the brain responds to stress. We explored the pink 3D brain model. We learned how to manage stress with some techniques.

2. Photo of urban area in Lebanon being struck by bombing, with text: Two hours later, Lebanon was hit by one of the most intense Israeli airstrike campaigns to date: more than 100 strikes in just 10 minutes across densely populated residential areas, killing over 250 individuals — including children

Text: On a day when regional ceasefire news briefly sparked a flicker of hope, it was met with an unimaginably vicious reality. Like a devil saying don't get hopeful with an evil smirk. As an educator and a researcher, I keep asking myself: What kind of therapy and an educational approach does a developing brain require to process this level of active terror?

Text: We talk a lot about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. But there is no "Post" here. The trauma is continuous. It is the deafening sounds, the trembling walls, and the raw images flooding their phones. In a world where we talk a lot about brain health and protection - I would really like to bring your attention to what Israel is doing to the brains of children in the region. We'll keep saying education is hope. But it's particularly challenging when they keep bombing everywhere.

Reposted 💔💔

Please check out @neuro_chem on Instagram

He does incredible neuroscience outreach in Lebanon, currently with children in shelters whose families were displaced by Israeli bombing. The US government (including many Democratic reps in Oregon) continue to fund these atrocities 💔

It often seems like there has been little progress in fighting back against The Regime’s war on science, but this is a major victory.

The proposed cap of 15% for indirect costs for NIH funding has been defeated in court.

Doesn’t mean they won’t try again, but this is worth celebrating.

Human brain hemisphere with dopamine pathways illustrated

#teaching 🎨🧠💚🤓🎉!

#interdisciplinaryneuroscience #psychopharmacology class #springterm @ Portland State 😎

#nwnoggin #dopamine #outreach #goplaces #art 💚

The molecular structure of ketamine, along with a painted plaster model of a human brain

The molecular structure of ketamine, along with a painted plaster model of a human brain

#teaching 🎨🧠💚🤓🎉!

#interdisciplinaryneuroscience #psychopharmacology class #springterm @ Portland State 😎

Scenes from outreach, and a list of where we’ll be this spring as volunteers in classrooms, youth correctional facilities, public celebrations & more 😍 Complete schedule here: https://nwnoggin.org/events/

Spring outreach 🎨🧠💚🌸🤓

#nwnoggin #brainawareness #allvolunteer #allyearlong 😎👉🏼 nwnoggin.org

Northwest Noggin volunteers in Portland public schools

Coronal section of human brain indicating location of the insular cortex; photos of outreach

NEW POST 🦴🧠😍🎉!

“…the challenge of recovery wasn’t just physical, it was neurological. Even after the swelling went down and my bone began to heal, walking no longer felt automatic…” -Bee Conn, Interdisciplinary Neuroscience @ PSU

Break a bone, retrain a brain

MORE 🤓👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/2026/03/02/b...

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