Dear Neuroscience

Neuroscience studies something inside each of us, something that we all have and use every day. But the learnings from modern neuroscience aren’t often shared in ways that help us apply these learnings to our daily lives. Dear Neuroscience is a playful and interactive learning experience that aims to help anyone study their own nervous system and make more informed choices in their daily lives.

Date: Friday 27 June

Time: 7pm to 8:30pm

Host: Dr. Taun

Guest Panelists: Details coming soon!

Tickets: Solidarity sliding scale*

In each session of the Dear Neuroscience series, Pulse & Pickle’s resident neuroscientist Dr. Taun shares a short lecture, blended with full-body interactive activities, to present their version of a “neuroscience primer”. Dr. Taun’s neuroscience primer is the result of nearly a decade of studying the debates between neuroscientists, and picking out the concepts and observations that neuroscientists have been able to agree on over the last 70 years during the era known as “modern neuroscience”.

After this short lecture, audiences have the opportunity to ask their burning questions about neuroscience to a guest panel of experts – like a live version of a reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session. Guests panelists may include neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, cyberneticists, and more.

For each question, the panelists will share their perspectives – based on their particular areas of expertise within neuroscience – and may flag certain questions for deeper study. Dr. Taun will then research any questions flagged for deeper study and share their findings at a future Dear Neuroscience event.

Topics and perspectives covered in this event series may be classified as: neurobiology, neuroanatomy & physiology, evolutionary neuroscience, comparative neuroscience, systems neuroscience, affective neuroscience, neuroanthropology, ethology, psychology, philosophy, and ecology.

* At Pulse & Pickle, we are trying out a sliding scale pricing system for some of our events, to acknowledge economic inequity and increase the inclusiveness of our events.

Pulse & Pickle is a non-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) that operates a radical cultural centre and community hub on the Walthamstow High Street. We rely on our community to pay fairly, or as much as they can afford, to help us cover our running costs as well as provide affordable and accessible food and cultural experiences.

We also understand that people have different financial experiences and access to resources. We hope to make our events truly accessible to a diverse number of people no matter their financial status.

Dear Neuroscience price information:

• "At Cost" = £5

• Subsidised = £3

• Solidarity = £10

The "At Cost" price covers the cost of delivering this event, with no mark-up included. In order to help us maintain a free-choice sliding scale ticket price system, we encourage those who can to pay the "Solidarity" price. 100% of ticket proceeds help us fulfil our affordable and accessible ethos.

These prices are simply here for your information -- when you register, you will have the option to freely choose how much you pay for a ticket. This includes paying less or nothing at all for those who can’t afford our subsidised prices.

A useful tool for thinking about where you might fall on the solidarity sliding scale is the Green Bottle: