Dear Neuroscience: What happens when "Home" is both everywhere and nowhere?

How does growing up as a “Third Culture Kid” and balancing clashing cultures influence our behaviours, decisions, and relationships as adults?

What aspects of neuroanatomy and physiology might relate to the lived experiences of “Third Culture Individuals”? 

Join as we explore these questions and more, at the next session of Dear Neuroscience! Resident neuroscientist Dr. Taun will draw and sing an introduction to relevant neuroanatomy topics, and then we’ll have an open conversation and AMA session with guest panelist Annie Yu Wenmiao, entrepreneur and host of Low to Grow Podcast.

ALL ARE WELCOME!

Key Info

Date: Saturday 20 September

Time: 3pm to 4:30pm

Host: Dr. Taun

Guest Panelist: Annie Yu Wenmiao

Tickets: Solidarity sliding scale*

Pricing info for Dear Neuroscience

• "At Cost" = £5

• Subsidised = £3

• Solidarity = £10

ESEA Heritage Month offer!

As part of our ESEA Heritage Month celebrations, we're offering a 10% discount on any food bought all day on 20 September, if you register for both this event and Chapunk Hour presents Chai Rituals.

Just show your registration confirmation for both events when you pay for your meal!

Meet our host, Dr. Taun

Dr. Danbee “Tauntaun” Kim (they/them) is a queer Korean-American field neuroscientist, community organiser, and storyteller. They nurture joyfully coordinated and evolving communities that build trust, harness insights, and engage meaningfully through clear communication and beautiful story-telling. Their research focuses on studying how multi-cellular biological systems have developed so many ways to navigate the unknown, including things we don’t even know we don’t know.

They are the guardian of two twin cats named Ramiro and Minima, and they aggressively befriend dogs, horses, goats, sheep, birds, pigs, and more, wherever they go. Tauntaun loves to learn while cooking, dancing, drawing, and playing music with friends.

To learn more, please visit danbeekim.org.

Meet our guest panelist, Annie Yu Wenmiao

Annie Yu (Wenmiao) is a human-centric, Forbes Under30 listed entrepreneur focused on translating scientific innovations into marketing leading products. After co-founding Quantum Dice in her last term at the University of Oxford, she has since raised venture capital funding from an international consortium, alongside building the global quantum technologies industry.

Her entrepreneurship journey ran alongside her own mental health awareness journey which showed her the value of learning from inspiring people who turned challenges into motivation for growth. This motivated her to launch the #LowtoGrowPodcast in her downtime, available on Spotify, Apple and YouTube. To learn more, visit http://www.lowtogrow.com/.

Instagram and TikTok: @lowtogrowpodcast

What is 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 this knowledge to our daily lives.

Dear Neuroscience is a playful and interactive learning experience that can help you study your own nervous system, make more informed choices in daily life, and share your questions and ideas for neuroscience research.

* Our Solidarity Sliding Scale system

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: