Sydney Wyatt

1 month ago | thetransmitter.org | Sydney Wyatt |Charles Piller |Calli McMurray |Angie Voyles Askham

I learned about the Stand Up for Science movement through one of my classmates. She told me that they needed people to spread the message. I’m trying to start doing that in Florida, which is where I grew up. There’s a lot of pent-up energy, but people don’t know how to move forward right now. Protesting is a way to let that out and to find a community of other people who also need to do that. I was born in China, but I was adopted by my family, and we’re Argentinian.

2 months ago | thetransmitter.org | Sydney Wyatt |Claudia Lopez Lloreda |Angie Voyles Askham |Stephen Maren

Reporting fellowThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Learning, Circuits, Cognitive neuroscience, Connectivity, Memory, Sensory perception, Sensory systems, Systems neuroscience, Vision Mice have poor vision, but they still instinctively run or freeze if they see a potential threat, such as the shadow of a looming predator. They can override these instincts, though, if they learn over time that a perceived threat is harmless.

Jan 24, 2025 | thetransmitter.org | Sydney Wyatt |Emily Willingham |Anne West |Angie Voyles Askham

When Floyd Bloom was in high school in the early 1950s, he took an aptitude test, and the results suggested he would excel at jobs in communication, such as journalism or advertising. But that was not what his family envisioned for him. His father, who had wanted to be a doctor himself and who revered the profession, pushed for medical school.

Aug 12, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Sneha Khedkar |Jill Adams |Kenneth Harris |Sydney Wyatt

Sneha Khedkar is a freelance science journalist based out of Bengaluru, India. She writes about health and life sciences. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Knowable Magazine, New Scientist and The Scientist, among other publications. She completed an M.Sc. in biochemistry at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, after which she was a research fellow studying stem cells in the skin. Her website is https://www.snehakhedkar.com/.

Aug 9, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Sydney Wyatt |Angie Voyles Askham |Sarah DeWeerdt |Steve Ramirez

Contributing writerThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Neuroanatomy, Evolution, Vision As a boy, Harvey Karten attended the Manhattan Talmudical Academy, a boarding school in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. He didn’t much like the all-boys academy, according to Joe Karten, Harvey’s eldest son, and he especially disdained the religion courses, where he had to study long swaths of text.