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This inspires me a little bit. Not for the music, but because it reminded me that someone in the neighborhood called me out for not learning Spanish (not for lack of trying, but I’m shy and finding speaking partners to drive vocabulary and fluency requires talking to people 😅).

#LanguageLearning #PracticarEspañol #introvert flipboard.com/@rollingstone/tv

Rolling Stone - William Vaillancourt · Bad Bunny Reacts to Backlash Over Spanish Super Bowl Halftime Show: 'You Have Four Months to Learn'By Rolling Stone - William Vaillancourt

The leaves on the bushes (which we keep at around 6 feet high) in the front of our home are starting to disappear and the #introvert in me is getting antsy. Time to rethink them and replace with something that stays leafy and green year round.

I took this pic through an office window at the end of a wonderful, though demanding week, being the full time carer of an elderly family member on holiday. Cannot tell you how much it resonates! Made me smile big and wide. It’s okay to both have a nice time and to want to scream afterwards. #introvert #carer #family

I usually don’t share anything online unless I’ve ruminated on it over and over and over again until words lose their shape. But it’s occurred to me that it’s not the healthiest attitude. (What a shocker, right?)

I’d like to grow out of it, and what better way to make sure I stick to it than a public commitment? So I hereby challenge myself to share one random neuro factoid a day for 365 days. That seems like a good number.

No polishing, no checking and re-checking and digging through 20 papers until I’m sure that’s the consensus. And most importantly, finding a way to get rid of that pressure in my chest that makes me think my whole life will collapse if I’m *whispers* wrong.

So here goes nothing.

Day 1: synapses don’t just go in the direction axon -> dendrite, but they can also be between dendrite -> soma, dendrite -> dendrite, and even axon -> axon, among others. Might seem trivial, but I remember casually mentioning this in a conversation with a physicist and it completely blew their mind. *small nod to domain expertise*

And because community activities are usually more fun, if anyone else wants to do a similar sharing challenge, feel free to use the hashtag #ShyButSharing365