Kindra Crick 🧩🧠🧬

@K_Crick

Working at the intersection of art and neuroscience. Exploring sleep, memory, and perception.

Represented by Waterstone Gallery
Active on IG & BSk

🌌 linktr.ee/K_Crick Joined September 2010

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Kindra Crick 🧩🧠🧬 @K_Crick Sep 5

Nocturnal Worlds, my show at Waterstone Gallery, opens Oct 1

For >year, I’ve recorded my brainwaves while asleep & kept a sleep diary

I transformed nighttime data of deep sleep, dreams & insomnia into paintings and prints to explore the mysterious inner world of sleep.

#sciart

Kindra Crick 🧩🧠🧬 @K_Crick Oct 7

Nobel Prize winner, Karl Deisseroth, said he was inspired by Francis Crick’s original call for precision targeting of neurons in a Scientific American called "Thinking about the Brain" and kept a copy of the original 1979 issue on his desk.

stanfordmag.org/contents/new-l…

stanfordmag.org New Light on the Brain By combining genetics with fiber optics, Karl Deisseroth has given researchers a powerful tool with which to probe our most enigmatic organ.

Salk Institute @salkinstitute Oct 5

Today's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine began with a question about pond algae.

Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel wanted to understand how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled green alga, swims toward light. The answer was channelrhodopsin, a protein that opens a tiny channel when struck by blue light. Karl Deisseroth then placed that protein into brain cells, giving scientists a way to switch specific neurons on and off with a flash of light.

The result is optogenetics, a tool that has transformed how researchers map the brain and study which circuits drive behavior and disease. It is also opening new paths toward treatment, including early work on restoring vision.

Decades ago, Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, a longtime member of Salk's faculty, imagined exactly this. He proposed that the ideal way to turn neurons on and off would be light, while admitting the idea seemed "rather far-fetched." Today, that far-fetched idea earned a Nobel Prize.

No one studying algae set out to change neuroscience, but that’s the power of foundational science. A curious question about how life works can become the basis for tools and therapies no one could have predicted. It's why Salk scientists, from plant biologists to neuroscientists, keep reaching across disciplines to ask those questions.

Congratulations to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel!

#NobelPrize #Optogenetics #FoundationalScience #Neuroscience #PlantBiology

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Kindra Crick 🧩🧠🧬 @K_Crick Dec 31, 2024

“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, the flying cloud, the frosty light, the year is dying in the night
- ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, ring, happy bells, across the snow, the year is going
- let him go...”

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Kindra Crick 🧩🧠🧬 @K_Crick Dec 19, 2024

Health data from millions of Americans shows that people on western edges of a timezone ( later sunrise) get less sleep every night than people on the eastern edges, and have significantly higher rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart attacks 📈👇

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Nate Silver Verified account @NateSilver538 Dec 19, 2024

What part of the article is poorly argued? So far, you've just misrepresented it and waved your arms around and said "we must have 430am summer sunrises because Science!' when clearly the vast majority of the human population doesn't prefer this.
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Kindra Crick 🧩🧠🧬 @K_Crick Dec 5, 2024

Ramaswamy & @elonmusk are considering ending #DaylightSavingTime w/
@DOGE

Question is, will they choose the healthier Permanent Standard Time option that Arizona & Hawaii have been on for decades.

Or, recreate the failed Permanent Daylight Saving disaster the US tried in 1974?

Officer Lew Verified account @officer_Lew Dec 3, 2024

BREAKING🚨: Musk, Ramaswamy considering ending daylight savings time as a part of the @DOGE program
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